We're being manipulated, because we expect perfection, and the Washington insiders know that. Our most conservative candidates will be taken out one at a time - by us - because they're using our own litmus tests against us.
In the end, right before election day, Romney will be on top, and the Republican base will vote for him. The rest will have been taken out because of too many "flaws."
It'll be our own fault for being so stupid!
No, the rest won't be taken out because of too many 'flaws' - just those who are too far off the conservative reservation to be given serious consideration. And that includes Romney, who is by far, the very worst of the lot.
In reading your posts on this thread, you seem to be exhibiting a very high tolerance for RINO-like behavior on the part of our candidates. That says to me, that your standards are out of step with those of most mainstream conservatives, who are frankly fed up, and at the boiling point about state of our field.
You complain about "them" using our own litmus tests against us. Well, we'd better be applying a litmus test to these candidates, or we're going to wind up with a president who's no different than any other DC elitist.
If any candidate doesn't make the cut, screw 'em. Out they go. We can't afford to run another Dole, GHWB, McCain. Not this time.
Just reading your post tells me who the too stupid one really is here. So, I should just support your guy, Mitt right now.
I am finished with the Socialist Republican Party pretending to be what it isn’t.
Newt has been a bag of SH*T for several years, I and many here will not vote for another McCain RINO scumbag POS. I will let the voters reap the harvest they have sown.
YOu are being manipulated, not me. I haven’t taken out anyone, I didn’t like him from day one, or Myth Romney, I used to refer to Newt as Duh Newt.
I'm going to suggest something very radical here that will probably get me in deep trouble with the GOP commissars on FR.
If the GOP attempts to force Romney as the candidate, I am not going to vote for him.
In fact, I am going to one up things and vote against every Republican on the ballot.
It's become abundantly clear that the Democrat Party is controlled by Marxists and that the GOP establishment, clinging to what power it has left, defending and enabling the Democrats at every turn, is the biggest obstacle to re-establishing genuine liberty and freedom in this country. Continuing to prop up the GOP establishment, directly or indirectly, with votes and money is no better than offering bailouts to zombie financial institutions or keeping alive dead religious institutions. At some point, enough is enough; put the dying horse out of its misery and start fresh.
If Romney is the GOP nominee, I'm going to write in Rand Paul. Or Tom McClintock. Or Jim Thompson. Or, if I'm really mad, I'll bubble in Obama on my ballot.
It's long past time to stop enabling the establishment of both parties. If the GOP keeps getting in the way of bringing down the Democrats, then the GOP needs to go. Period.
If that means sparking a massive, system-wide shock by opening fire on what's left of the GOP, then so be it.