Posted on 01/22/2012 11:04:47 AM PST by I still care
No. Perry.
LOL.. I sense a political cartoon in there... picture a talking head seated next to Rove, he says "The republican base is revolting" and Rove says "They certainly are!"
That is what I HATE about those fools. They stick their finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, then jump aboard.
WE THE PEOPLE will decide. Red State has lost all of their “credentials”. They can piss off, as well as the lamestream media.
Let me give a couple of other meaningless bits of logic ... No Democratic candidate has won the GOP nomination ... or, Ford sells more F-150's than Chevy, Toyota, and Dodge combined.
Let me cast my rune sticks and I'll tell you who will win.
GO NEWT!!!
I recall in 2008 saying he was probably the best qualified candidate but I just never felt comfortable with him. I still don't, I don't like narcissists and I don't want to have to vote for him, but he apparently is law abiding and reasonably decent. Sharp business practices, maybe, but no personality disorder.
Correct...
http://www.exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2012/01/gingrich-beats-media-in-south-carolina.html
“The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since. “
Agree - he NAILED IT. We will BRING THIS PARTY TO ITS KNEES, even if we have to do it with a somewhat-flawed candidate. The Establishment gave us their ‘perfect’ candidate in 2008, NOW IT’S OUR TURN!!!
And yes, perhaps if the Republicans in the House had gone toe-to-toe with Obama, starting in the 2010 Lame Duck session, and through these budget exercises, we might have deferred a bit more to them...maybe. But we got to see their formula for victory in 2008 and it got us in the mess that we’re in.
It was Perry I believe
Here’s my 2 cents worth:
In 2008 I supported romney in the MN caucus. I thought he was a good man, an experienced man in business and in governing. I jknew he had a reputation of vacillating/flip flopping on issues that I considered as important to me, but I overlooked them as he was running for office in left of liberal Massachusetts. I figured that as a Mormon, Romney was likely really a pro-lifer asn was trying to deflect that issue in the liberal and “moderate” GOP areas.
Now we come to 2012 and he’s running again. I noticed that over and over again we were told that Mitt Romney was the only one who could actually defeat Obama because he was more moderate; and also we really should think of him as a conservative to moderate man. In the meanwhile our field of candidates were comprised of Mitt plus Ron Paul, a libertarian, and a whole bunch of conservatives with a lot of similarities in their issues and platforms.
As the campaign progressed, I notice one-by-one the GOP conservatives are being eliminated either by the main stream media floating all sorts of rumors and charges that cannot be verified; or by splitting the vote up so much that Mitt Romney seems to be sailing across calm seas.
During the past 6 months I was eagerly watching the frontrunners. Secretly I was hoping that Mitt would somehow show some enthusiasm for defeating Obama - not just for his own sake but the sake of our beloved USA. It has been a rare spark of energy that Mitt has been able to muster when he’s speaking up against Obama’s policies on energy, nat’; security, the budget process, the illegal immigration mess, etc. You name it, Obama has botched it.
Now we come to this past week, and the Annointed One has tabled the Keystone Oil Pipe line from Alberta to Houston purely to satify his enviro lobby. The Obamamonster cares not for our energy, for our middle class which is suffering, or for the central part of the country whoch would have benefitted highly with these jobs!!!!!! And who raised the subject matter? I believe it was Newt, not Romney.Newt was also the one who raised the question of Obama’s admin causing Catholic Charities to have to close their Adoption Services because of the new regulations. They also have refused to allow a conscience clause to proceed regarding alortion and birth control drugs.
Now I ask you - has Romney, supposedly a faithful Mormon, raised these questions at all, or has he only responded after Newt or Rick raised them?
The answer to Newt’s success in SC yesterday was that he is willing to take all these issues to Obama regardless of whether the debate moderator asks these questions or not. Romney’s biggest problem is that he comes across as always the patrician gentleman; never with a warrior’s heart. In fact, he seems even less willing to fight for his beliefs than George W. Bush was. One thing I will not be able to tolerate in a GOP candidate is a willingness to be treated as a doormat by the MSM! NEVER AGAIN!!!
So, this is why I would have a difficult time voting for Mitt if he is the nominee. I would feel like I did in 2008 - like it was a hopeless case.
“They want a conservative fighter because most conservatives look back at Ford, Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush, and McCain and see only the ones taking a conservative path against the Democrats actually winning.”
This is also a CRITICAL point:
Ford - RINO (loses)
Reagan - Conservative (wins, twice)
Bush (1988) - Conservative (No New Taxes), wins
Bush (1992) - RINO (gave us higher taxes after all), loses
Dole - RINO, never trusted by the base, loses
Bush (2000) - Conservative (while running), no so much after - wins
Bush (2004) - Conservative enough (while running), RINO after - wins
McCain - RINO, all the way - loses
So, how did the RINOs do and how did the Conservatives do?
And we’re STILL supposed to believe that we need Romney because he’s “electable”. This isn’t very hard to figure out...
Mitt didn’t win Iowa after all, while the NH GOP primary only had 47% registered Republicans voting in it. Lots of “indies” and cross-over Dems.
The revolution is at hand
“I don’t get the whole SC thing...isn’t that where Lindsey Graham keeps getting elected?”
Yea, it’s upsetting. Graham rode in to the Senate on the coattails of Clinton’s impeachment. He seemed a decent conservative and through everything he had into the impeachment process.
Then he gets in the Senate and goes hard-left. Now it’s VERY difficult to remove him. It’s not much different here in Texas with Governor Perry. He is far from being a conservative - there are many, many, much more conservative and still electable politicians here - but it is next to impossible to remove him. I’m just hoping that President Newt will give Perry a cabinet post or something, so that we can be done with him, once and for all.
“.isn’t that where Lindsey Graham keeps getting elected?”
Yeah, he is the rino’s next heir apparent after Romney goes down.
as for SC going for Lindsey - kind of at a loss to explain that - no primary challenger I guess.
What you said!!! YES!
The “hick rubes” of SC are a great deal of retirees and a big chunk of that is military. South Carolina is a huge tell into the way the South is going to go. No candidate wins without the South.
Now you understand where we Upstate South Carolinians are coming from.
“Mr. Breen, I paid for this microphone!”
We are dealing with another variable unfamiar with past elections. It’s called a SuperPac! We will see if we the people can withstand the massive brainwashing techniques funded by billions of dollars of SuperPacs. We have an unconventional war on our hands. South Carolina was a good win against the media mind control. Let’s keep it rolling!
Our problem here in SC is that we have open primaries, and Lindsay is liberal enough to pull Democrat votes along with those stupid enough to vote for any incumbent with an "R" next to their name.
Add to that a State Republican Party that is corrupt enough to support Lindsay at primary time.
During the last primary, we had a decent candidate, Buddy Witherspoon, who got no traction. In the general, the Democrat candidate was actually more conservative than Lindsay, so Democrats voted for Pansy in droves.
With the system we have here, I am afraid we are stuck with him, unless he and Barney Frank decide to get married, and Lindsay becomes a stay at home wife.
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