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Posted on 01/05/2012 11:23:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Tea party favorite and pro-life conservative Sarah Palin and her family were viciously attacked to the point she chose not to run.
Congressional Tea Party Caucus leader and constitutional pro-life conservative Michele Bachmann had early promise, but I guess came across as too "shrill" and consequently her numbers driven down to the point she exited.
Successful pro-life conservative Texas Governor Perry hit the race at the top but due to missteps and less than stellar debate performances soon fizzled and is now all but gone.
Pro-life conservative businessman Cain and his famous 9-9-9 plan had promise, but was driven out due to indefensible allegations.
Pro-life Reagan Revolution conservative Newt Gingrich reinvigorated his campaign and soared to the top of the national polls, but was unacceptable to the establishment and apparently also unacceptable to the "true conservatives" among us and his numbers are now plummeting
You'd think "unquestionably" pro-life, pro-family conservative Rick Santorum whose recent surge took him to a tie in Iowa and who's now surging in the national polls might be good enough to stand against Romney for the base, but looks like there are "true conservatives" now attacking HIM as not good enough.
Well, drive them all out and who's left?
Huntsman? Who? Moonbat Paul?
Ideas anyone? Should we all continue attacking the conservatives we don't like until we drive them all out?
Personally, I could easily have lived with Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Newt or Santorum and would be proud to enthusiastically support any of them, warts and all. Any one of them is infinitely better than Obama or Romney.
But if we don't land on one soon and raise him up over Romney, guess who we're going to be stuck with? And it ain't going to be pretty. And if abortionist/statist/progressive Romney (or moonbat Paul) is the one, might as well get used to four more years of Obama. I won't vote for or support either one of those two.
I'd suggest that we all stop trying to tear down the other conservative candidates in the race and instead concentrate on trying to build up our own personal favorites. Who knows? May even discover an acceptable conservative (if not a great conservative) in the bunch. We've never had a perfect conservative yet. Not even the magnificent Ronald Reagan. We and they all have warts.
But we do want to have a candidate with at least an actual CONSERVATIVE record and not an out and out liberal progressive RINO. So let's compare their records and their actual conservative accomplishments but not try to destroy them personally.
God bless and may the best CONSERVATIVE be our nominee.
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I think Iowa + New Hampshire + South Carolina is the key.
We should look at the average support of each of the top 3 conservatives ... Gingrich, Perry, and Santorum ... and pick the Free Republic Endorsed candidate based on the highest average.
Then we should go like gang-busters for that candidate in Florida and beyond.
Those 3 will give a feel for a balanced ability: Religious conservatives, traditional conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and independent and/or cross-over conservatives.
If Romney still prevails, then I’ll vote for the most conservative, alternate party candidate or do a write-in. I don’t want some recount committee looking at a blank space for president and deciding I really meant to do _____.
We now know that all of the attacks were orchestrated by Romney’s PACs, but I’m fearful their research was simply reading the pages of Free Republic.
Agree! And at least Romney is attacking Obama.
Word to the people Jim. No go on Paul and Romney. Any of the others are tolerable to great.
I expect Perry and Huntsman to be out after SC. That leaves 4. Big trouble for Romney because Huntsman’s contingent isn’t going to boost him more than a percent. Paul will stagnate or fade. He was a fluke here in Iowa due to the nature of our politics in the GOP. That leaves Santorum and Gingrich to battle for the remaining 55-60% of the vote.
It could go to the end or we could have a brokered convention. I could see a Gingrich-Santorum ticket or vice versa and those two have already said they’d ally against Romney. We conservatives need to funnel it to that end to avoid the other two alternatives.
Who on Fox news said that? Not that I’d know who that ‘who’ is, quit watching that skank of a network in ‘08.
Same problem as last time around: one candidate unifying the left-leaning vote, while a slate of candidates split the right-leaning vote - leaving just the “centrist” standing.
McCain is the history to learn from. Learn quick, lest a repeat.
DING!
Winnah winnah, chicken dinnah!
I didn’t want Romney at all, ever. But now that McSaine endorsed him, I want him even less. Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Huntsman would be 10 times better than Romney and 100 times better than what we have in there now.
Lets concentrate on sending the Kenyan Kommie back to Illinois.
USP Marion, specifically.
I can live with Perry or Santorum, but would not be happy with Newt as the nominee. Newt started his career as a Rockefeller milquetoast Republican...then morphed into a Reagan Republican when it became popular in the 1980s. He compromised with Clinton on certain issues and allowed Clinton to take credit for the legislative victories. He left office under questionable circumstances and his post-office performance has been less than stellar in some cases (the Nancy couch decision along with signing on to the Global Warming hooey, then supporting ultra-leftist Dede Scozzafava). Plus, he’s admitted to supporting amnesty for illegals who committed their crime “25 years ago”. Santorum or Perry for me...although Perry looks like a certain goner soon.
No candidate, including Romney, can clinch the nomination until mid to llate April. I am not ready to draw straws and unite. I won’t spend time trashing other candidates, but I will examine their policies/votes/actions/words/skills/values. Mean while, I will support my top two choices financially and here on FR.
Ms Rice has given no indication she wants to run for national office, and we really don’t know her positions on key issues. Mr. Santorum has put country ahead of family, is a true conservative, and at 52 years old would be an excellent future president.
Gingrich, I believe, is at a point in life where he can leverage his knowledge of DC politics to redirect this nation to its founders principals. He is not afraid to take the fight to Obama (unlike McCain) and has demonstrated true leadership on big issues. I actually think Gingrich would do so well contrasting conservative vs. socialist policy at the top of the ticket that he would have coattails in Senate races.
Gingrich - Santorum 2012
Newt and Rick will beat each other up, and Mitten’s will get the nomination. Leading to another term for Obama.
HG goes to the head of the class. Unfortunately, Santorum's numbers are equally as fake....
I’d turn that around and put Santorum at the top of the ticket, with Newt playing a Cheney-type role. Can you imagine Newt suddenly presiding over the Senate? I can. I think he would relish it.
I really like Condy. I’d take her in a heartbeat. Palin/Rice was my dream ticket.
I like Ryan very much but he does not seek national office. Santorum is already being vetted by socialist war rooms and is clearly willing to take the fight to Obama/Biden.
Gingrich - Santorum 2012
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