Posted on 02/05/2012 5:12:53 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
February 5th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum; Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-VA; former Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Govs. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., and Deval Patrick, D-Mass.; Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gingrich; former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
THIS WEEK (ABC): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Govs. Martin O'Malley, D-Md., and Bob McDonnell, R-Va.; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Dick Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
Glad to see you did not leave us! Always look forward to your comments.
Well, that's a little different story than your assertion that they have no ideas.
The GOP candidate is going to have to break through the smog of lies and you may think Romney has that ability.
I don't know why you think I'm a Mittens supporter. However the House Republicans and the GOP in general need to combat the lies and coverup of the RATagandists instead of making nice with the enemies
At Bain, or at any other corporation, is it the CEO’s obligation to maintain jobs in the US or to do well by his shareholders? Just wondering.
That’s a totally irrelevant question. We’re asking who is electable. And someone who engaged in that kind of business practice will lose many votes, as Carly Fiorina proved in California when she lost the Senate race. Once it’s pointed out and demonstrated in political ads, that activity will inspire much hate in voters.
God bless you both - now, do you think there’s any way to convince Santorum supporters of this wisdom? (RP-bots are beyond reason) If Newt had Rick’s votes and support, we could beat Mittens.
Great post,we are making incremental progress,doesn’t happen over night.
When the MSM tells me that Romney is a ‘true’ conservative, I know we are done. With that and the lies, it spells doom. DOOM, I tell you,!
Doom
They bought companies borrowed against the assets, doled out big bucks of working capital to shareholders and then slowly watched as the companies they had just bought slowly went out of business under the debt burden when they could not pay the debt back.Dirty pool,not capitalism something else.
Sorry to make it personal but what is a fellow to do?
I'm citing you for PWD.
Yes, I hope if Romney is the nominee that we unify in voting for neither Romney nor Obama for president while voting for conservatives in Congress. The best strategy going forward in that scenario would be to put in as much gridlock as possible, or even enough of a Republican congress to push Obama the way Newt pushed Clinton in the '90s. In this scenario, we are also likely to put more Republicans in Congress in 2014. Then we will get another chance to nominate a conservative for President in 2016.
The damage that someone as liberal as Romney would do to the party is enormous. His economic policies inparticular are EXTREMELY liberal and those are ones that he hasn't flip-flopped on at all. He likes Romneycare, his tax policy is said by the WSJ to be similar to Obama's, I'm pretty sure part of that is him letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those making $200,000 or more, he believes in the status quo for the safety net/welfare state, he believes in class warfare (although unlike Obama he dislikes the poor as much as he does the rich), he likes increases in the minimum wage, he wouldn't back up Kasich on the anti-union vote, etc. Couple that with the fact that he's probably just lying about his positions on the social issues and will put in liberal Supreme Court justices.
How exactly does having this guy in office with an "R" next to his name help conservatives AT ALL? If he's popular, the party and the public will continue to push more and more RINO candidates on us, having the proof that they get votes. Which means our party will be taken over from within by liberals. If he's unpopular, then he gets voted out of office in 2016 and we get another far-left Democrat who will bring with him his own version of the 1994 Contract with America revolution except in liberal Democrat form. Romney as President is absolute POISON for the conservative agenda either in the short-term and the long-term. If he's the nominee the ONLY sensible option for conservatives is to vote in gridlock and try again for a better candidate in 2016.
I believe this site should stick around if Romney is the nominee and that the site should endorse the idea of voting anybody but Obamney (either of the two) for President while backing Republican House and Senate candidates. Note that I understand the need for RINOs in congress sometimes, because half a loaf is better than nothing in those very liberal districts, but having a RINO as president is a completely different story. The presidency is too important in both his power and as the defining figure in our party to put someone like Romney who doesn't come close to representing our party's values in the role.
Then you don't have principles apparently. Do you think it's good for ANYONE to be President as long as they put an "R" after their name? Do you realize that if everyone had your attitude, it would be entirely possible for far-left liberals to completely take over our party from top to bottom? As for me I don't believe in "my party, right or wrong" other than I believe in "my country, right or wrong."
My question is how much of a RINO do they have to be for you to NOT vote for them? If any of the below were the Republican nominee for president (if they switched parties in some cases), and assuming they DID NOT change their positions from what they currently are, which ones would you NOT vote for as a Republican president or are they ALL preferable to Obama or whoever else the Democrats put up?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Scott Brown
Dede Scozzafava
Arlen Specter
Lincoln Chafee
Hilary Clinton
Joe Manchin
Joseph Lieberman
Evan Bayh
Jack Abramoff
George Clooney
George Soros
Barack Obama (if he loses this year and runs 8 years later as a Republican)
“What was it that Reagan said? I didn’t leave the republican party ... the republican party left me.”
Change the ‘republican’ to ‘democrat’ and you have it. H had been a long thime -D!
“Then you don’t have principles apparently.”
My ‘principles’ are to keep the 0 out of the Oval Office.
The personalization of politics gets cheap and shallow at a certain point. We should be in this game because we support either liberal or conservative values. There’s no point in replacing Obama if you’re going to replace him with someone who has the same values and principles. Most importantly, making Obama Lite the leader of your party means you may not have a party that supports conservative values anymore a few years down the road, and even worse, probably fewer and fewer members of your party who believe in conservative values.
You know what? I see that you just got to Free Republic in 2010.
I live in one of the most conservative areas of the country. The people around here are weighing their choices and talking about who will be the best candidate. They are not acting like complete vulgarians and insulting everyone who disagrees with them, nor are they insulting the candidates.
I have been a poster here since 1998. I lived through the Florida recount and demonstrated on the steps of the state capitol here. I KNOW how conservative I am.
I do not know any conservatives like you and some of the others here who think it is the height of political discussion to just blather “Mitt is a liberal” and then call people names.
You guys act like the OWS people. What’s next, are you going to paint vulgar pictures of Romney on subway station walls?
There is a reason I am rarely here. People like you are unpleasant, unproductive, and frankly, you give the conservative movement a bad name.
ROFLOL
BO was right...Some have been voted off the island.
That hillbuzz comes up with some funny and witty stuff. I know they liked Sarah Palin. Guess they like Newt Gingrich too!!!
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