Posted on 02/01/2012 2:20:44 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
Santorum is toast. No way he can beat Obama. Right now, he’s standing in the way of the only guy who *can* beat Zero.
Mrs. Prince of Space
Instead of obsessing over defeating Romney, take a clue from your own tagline and start thinking about defeating Hillary.
Looks like the Wallbuilder folks are behind Newt. If all of us here were intellectually honest, we would love a candidate with the fire and credentials of Newt, but without all the personal baggage, that is like a repellent to many female voters. I have gotten over it, but it took me awhile, I must admit.
I thought that the democrat governor had only one victory?
I thought that the democrat governor had only one victory?
NOT a chance.
Mr. Vanity Run has no intention of dropping out. In fact, he's running attack ads in Nevada and Colorado against Gingrich, NOT the front runner Romney!
WHY IS THAT?
Sorry friend. I did that last time. If nothing changes, nothing changes! I refuse to be forced to stay on the GOP e plantation and eat the garbage they are shoving down my throat. Now is the time to take a stand. If NOT in the primary, when?
Because that's who they want to be the nominee.
It is time for rick Santorum to pull out sand endorse Gingrich. He should have done it before Tuesday. whoever is advising the Grinch should be fired.
When I said “defeating Hillary”, I was not being sarcastic. Look at Obama’s recent poll numbers. We have more to worry about than beating him at this point in time.
Whether the Paulites or the Santorumites know or not, believe it or not, want it to be or not, this much is sure. At this point they are allies of Mitt the Minimal. The article is basically right. Armies that go into battle uncoordinated and without means of communication between them lose.
In this case, if Gingrich -however flawed he may be - loses, conservatives lose. And if Mitt faces Obama’s army of Orcs he will lose, and we will lose. However, inept, effete, and out-of-touch John Kerry was, Mitt is more so. He doesn’t know how to speak to ordinary people. He doesn’t know how to speak to conservatives. The reason? Simple. He isn’t a conservative, and ordinary people are not on his radar, only their votes are.
Mitt and the GOP elite, whether consciously or not, are out to create a rival plantation of slightly duller sheen to the Dem’s plantation. But they are amateurs at plantation building. The Dems have been doing it for a couple of centuries.
This article made me feel a lot better.
Newt can still win, but he will need us to consolidate our support behind him now.
[ Romney is not a Ronald Reagan no matter how much he tries to sound like him in the debates. ]
Romney is almost exactly channeling Juan McLaim.. NOT Ronaldus Maximus..
He is a Juan McLaim clone..
Good post. Romney worked very hard to front load the primaries so he would look good and as you pointed out has only won 2 so far.
Rush's advice to "focus on Obama" today, is one thing, but if America is to be brought back from the brink of disaster, then "We, the People" must have a standard by which to measure both him and the opponent we allow to represent us in November.
That standard is the Constitution of the United States.
By the Founders' formula, "the People's" written Constitution was the anchor of our liberties, binding government to the "People's" limitations on its power.
Obama's philosophy, in effect, undoes all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leaves the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," allow me to include here excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."
The Fall opponent must understand and be able to contrast and explain the foundations of the competing ideas of 2012, pointing out how Obama's ideas depart from those that made America a place of freedom and opportunity. If that opportunity is missed, then liberty, as Americans have known it for over 200 years, may be lost to another and counterfeit set of ideas.
In our focus on "Obama," we must be careful not to choose another carefully-selected candidate who meets the "good ole' boy" Washington Establishment criteria of either Party.
Rather, through the process, we must select a "People's" Constitutional advocate who has immersed himself in a study of the history of civilization and of America's unique ideas. Such a candidate was Reagan. He had studied the Founders ideas of liberty enough to be able to examine issues by the light of the Constitutional principle involved.
"Focusing on Obama," to be useful and worthwhile, must put him under the light of the Constitution's protections for liberty.
So, too, must the candidate who will face him in Fall 2012 be measured by his understanding of, his proven track record of working to conserve, and ability to articulate the underlying ideas of the Constitution. Simply being a beneficiary of "the Blessings of Liberty" is not enough!
Get your head out of your butt. We are fighting for control of the Republican party and the role conservatives will play. And whether we even STAY in the GOP. It won’t matter WHAT the Dems do if the elitists win.
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