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What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like
Red State ^ | 010612 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 01/06/2012 10:00:48 AM PST by Fred

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To: tacticalogic

You pose some scary “what if’s”. No doubt.

It’s highly unlikely that true conservatives will ever override the evil pro-death policies we now have that - if overturned - would result in such a scenario.

And even if abortions were outlawed, it is unlikely that such a doom and gloom possibility could occur.

But even if this were to come to pass.... It (no more abortions) would turn our country around to recapture the glory and greatness that we once had.

Because, unless and untill we regain our moral footing, we will NEVER have a chance at obtaining the economic balance as we once had.

2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Because this is true, we must focus on first things first. Putting pro-lifers into office takes priority over anything else.

/religous rant off. lol


81 posted on 01/06/2012 4:22:59 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: Pan_Yan

Actually, Daniels, at the last CPAC, wanted a “truce” on the social issues. That means he wanted to run as a candidate why did not give a damn about the continuing American Holocaust of 50+ million sliced, diced and hamburgerized innocent babies and about fudge packing posing as marriage and being subsidized by our taxes. That does not look good EVER, regardless of circumstances. If Daniels likes money so much, then his political future should be limited to matters fiscal and he should have a future only if he does not get in the way of social conservatism in any way by aggression or negligence.


82 posted on 01/06/2012 4:30:21 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m afraid it’s going to take more than predictions of divine economic intervention if we vote for your favored candidate, or divine retribution if we don’t.


83 posted on 01/06/2012 4:31:14 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

lol


84 posted on 01/06/2012 4:56:11 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

lol2u2


85 posted on 01/06/2012 4:59:22 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: BlackElk; milwguy

Well said, BlackElk. And the odd thing is that RINOS/liberal Rs lose. They lose. THEY LOSE!!!! Conservative Rs win.

It’s really quite simple.


86 posted on 01/06/2012 5:02:40 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: david1313

IMHO, Newt is the best choice, but Newt has some “Big Government Conservatism” in him, too. No matter who winds up as the final ‘12 GOP Presidential/Vice Presidential ticket, the majority of voters must be able to vote for it, because another term of Obama will make third world socialism a permanent thing for the entire U.S.!


87 posted on 01/06/2012 5:09:33 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: BlackElk

One word:

BUMP!


88 posted on 01/06/2012 6:33:15 PM PST by Absolutely Nobama (NO COMPROMISE! NO RETREAT! NO SURRENDER! I AM A CONSERVATIVE! CASE CLOSED!)
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To: Utmost Certainty

I’m in this camp:

Santorum ? Why not ?

Gingrich ? Sure!

Perry ? What the heck ?

Mitt Commie ? Not for me, comrade.

RuPaul ? “Not I,” said the Cat in the Hat.

Jon Huntsman ? Really ? I mean, really ?

Jim Robinson made a very, very valid point not to long ago: We the Conservatives should not be tearing down our own. In my humble opinion, we should be attacking the pretenders like Mitt Commie, Jew hater Ron Paul, and whoever that Huntsman dork is. They’re not Conservatives and that makes them part of the problem.


89 posted on 01/06/2012 6:46:01 PM PST by Absolutely Nobama (NO COMPROMISE! NO RETREAT! NO SURRENDER! I AM A CONSERVATIVE! CASE CLOSED!)
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To: Kazan

Jew hater Ron Paul is NOT good on any social issues. Last time I checked, pushing the evil (yes, evil) homosexual agenda and wanting to legalize prostitution are NOT pages out of the Conservative playbook.


90 posted on 01/06/2012 6:48:58 PM PST by Absolutely Nobama (NO COMPROMISE! NO RETREAT! NO SURRENDER! I AM A CONSERVATIVE! CASE CLOSED!)
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To: BlackElk
I have no interest in Mitch Daniels and I remember full well the circumstances leading up to his withdraw. My comment was only a reference to the panicking popularity polls flailing about from candidate to candidate.

Admit it, if a year ago someone posted that Santorum and Gingrich would be hailed on Free Republic as our conservative presidential candidate standard bearers they would have been laughed off the Internet.

If Daniels had stayed in the race this week might have been his week. I'm waiting for the wide eyed galloping FReeper herd to start telling me how conservative Huntsman as Santorum falls to the long knives.

91 posted on 01/06/2012 7:33:31 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
I won't be part of a herd for Huntsman or Romney or Paul. I regard Santorum, Gingrich and Perry as conservatives and sufficiently so to be POTUS, regard Santorum as the best of these and as the current front runner among them but believe that conservatives should coalesce around whichever of the three can deprive Romney and the investment bankers of the nomination.

Since his expressed desire for a truce on social issues, Mitch Daniels is dead to me now and forever. Social issues come first. Its nice that he ran a tight ship in Indiana but money is only money.

92 posted on 01/06/2012 8:12:05 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Fred

Arrrgh. I’m having second thoughts about Santorum.


93 posted on 01/06/2012 8:17:03 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Great post! Great tagline! God bless you and yours.


94 posted on 01/06/2012 8:26:57 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Exactly!


95 posted on 01/06/2012 8:31:13 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: little jeremiah

AND, of course, Poppy Bush wants the Mittwit to be nominated along with Barbara Planned Barrenhood Bush. His Chief of Staff John Sununu the Elder who gave us Swish Souter for SCOTUS has endorsed Romney in New Hampshire and assures us that the Mittwit is a conservative. Well, maybe compared to Chairman Mao or Che Guevara but, so what? He is still a two-faced serial liar and loser who expects to take conservatives for fools on behalf of his investment banker buddies.


96 posted on 01/06/2012 8:37:03 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

If I’m not mistaken, he thinks every drug should be legalized as well.


97 posted on 01/06/2012 10:48:27 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: BlackElk

If they force Mittwit (that’s good) on us, he will lose, and the country will be thrust so deep into the inferno I don’t know how it will be saved. Even if Mittwit won (which he would not), the inferno would only be prevented if there were both an R majority Senate and House and the majority of the Rs had moral compasses and courage.

Fat chance.


98 posted on 01/06/2012 10:51:34 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: BlackElk

By “that’s good” I meant the name for the idiot.


99 posted on 01/06/2012 10:52:13 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: Fred

This election will be a challenge to defeat the entitlement class, unions, tree huggin liberals, socialists, muslims, and marxists. But in the process of choosing the best candidate to defeat them, and the odds are against us, we should not accept another big govt rino socialist.

Sadly, from the looks of things, we are headed down that road, yet again.


100 posted on 01/06/2012 11:47:28 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Constitutional Conservatism is Americanism.)
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