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To: ansel12
I'm here to support winning. As Bill Buckley put it when asked who he would support in the 1968 presidential election: "I’d be for the most right, viable candidate who could win."

Meaning we should support the most conservative candidate that can win the election. In that case, for president. No, I wasn't supporting Romney per se. I was trying to unseat 0bama.

Too many "conservatives" worked to assure Romney was not elected, and thus they worked for 0bama.

What a waste of effort!

174 posted on 06/16/2014 7:35:56 AM PDT by citizen (There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: citizen

You are not truthful.

Conservatives tried to help Romney (he refused
and in fact OSTRASIZED them).

They voted for the RAT Romney, anyway.

But the carpetbagger RAT decided he was not really interest,
and sent his wife to defend him, over and over
because the RAT Willard ONLY goes after conservatives
(and their children thru surrogates).

Did Romney apologize to Sen. Thompson yet?

Did Romney apologize to the Palin family yet?

Did Romney apologize to the Speaker yet?

Did Romney apologize to the American people who he screwed now thrice?


175 posted on 06/16/2014 7:57:36 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: citizen

“for the most right, viable candidate”

It’s funny that no matter how many times you Romney supporters are asked to sho an example of ‘right’ anything in his actual record, not one of you ever produces an example. Thus, how is it you keep pulling that excuse out?

What ‘right’ in Mitt Romney’s record are you actually basing your support on?

Until you answer that, all you are doing is smokescreening.


176 posted on 06/16/2014 8:27:52 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: citizen
Sorry -- regardless of your intent ("I wasn't supporting Romney per se. I was trying to unseat 0bama"), YOU WERE SUPPORTING ROMNEY PER SE. It is a screaming blaring RED FLAG that Republicans who urged people to vote for Romney in 2012, Republicans who berated and cursed those of us who refused to vote against our own freedom and interests for leftist collectivist Romney, are STILL here denying that Romney was "their" candidate. They voted for him and they urged others to vote for him -- OF COURSE HE WAS "THEIR" CANDIDATE. Their intention was to vote "against" Obama so they claim Romney wasn't their candidate, but ... HE WAS.

Voting "against" is imaginary. The only thing that counts is what you vote FOR. I thought and voted like you -- voting "against" the other guy -- for many decades until I FINALLY figured out that voting "against" was making things worse. It is HIGH TIME to start doing things RIGHT, and that includes voting RIGHT. Voting for Romney was WRONG -- proof if that is in the FACT that so many Republicans, such as yourself, deny that Romney was "their candidate" even though they voted for him and urged others to vote for him.

How long is it going to take you to figure it out?

177 posted on 06/16/2014 8:30:08 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: citizen

This site exists to advance conservative politics.

You are here to counter that goal.

As we can see, no matter when, even outside of actual primaries, you always push the same move to liberalism.


185 posted on 06/16/2014 9:34:48 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: citizen

The authentic quote is supposed to be.

“National Review will support the rightward most viable candidate.”

“At National Review today, there’s an interesting piece of history from Neal Freeman, who was present at the creation of the “Buckley Rule” by William F. himself at an NR meeting in 1964, when the magazine decided to editorially endorse Barry Goldwater over Nelson Rockefeller (who, believe it or not, had support on the magazine’s board). According to Freeman, the exact formulation of the “Buckley Rule” was: “National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.” But Buckley had a somewhat different way of interpreting “viable” than does Rove:

We all knew what “viable” meant in Bill’s lexicon. It meant somebody who saw the world as we did. Somebody who would bring credit to our cause. Somebody who, win or lose, would conservatize the Republican party and the country. It meant somebody like Barry Goldwater.”


210 posted on 06/16/2014 4:14:03 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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