I want a Conservative who can win. IMO, a Conservative woman has a better chance of winning.
As ready as any of them...now there's a ringing endorsement.
She's a Conservative and a Vet. That's my endorsement of her to Conservatives.
As one Freeper said, the reaction to her bland post-SOTU address seemed to be different versions of, "Bless her heart, she did fine."
OK, she's a Conservative and a Vet, but you and/or another Freeper found her post-SOTU address bland. Decisions.
No. What has happened, over and over again, is conservatives getting all excited over someone because they fill a certain niche, expecting that single factor to garner votes, and coming away mystified when the magic failed to work.
You mean when FR rallied around Newt in 2012 to prevent a Romney nomination? That didn't work out too well either, did it?.
Your belief flies in the face of what we already know I believe.
Fixed.
How did Mitt win the middle vote? He's as white as the snow outside my door. Was it the magic underwear?
Maybe many in the middle knew what a catastrophe Obama would be if he was re-elected, and tried to prevent it. But Romney would have been just as bad as Obama, so I stayed home and/or voted third party.
It is. You've managed to miss the real occurrences which fly in the face of your fantasy...
You mean like what happened to West and Cain, which were the examples you used? Remind us again why they weren't nominated.
You don't seem to agree. This isn't the first thread where you've voiced your enthusiasm for identity politics.
You apparently can't tell the difference between enthusiasm for something and acknowledging that it exists.
Does it? Why? I ask sincerely. I'm intrigued.
Assuming you're a woman, isn't that a backwards form of identity politics?/i
Again, pandering doesn't produce results. We've seen it over and over. Some of us even learn from it.
"She's a Conservative and a Vet. That's my endorsement of her to Conservatives."
I thought you said you wanted her because she wears a skirt?
"OK, she's a Conservative and a Vet,"
And a woman! Yay!
" but you and/or another Freeper found her post-SOTU address bland. Decisions."
You're not reading correctly. I said a Freeper described the REACTION---general reaction---to her speech. She came off as bland and boring, and the speech was more mouthed platitudes that anything else.
Also, I have a feeling she would run that damned bread bags thing into the ground pretty quickly.
"You mean when FR rallied around Newt in 2012 to prevent a Romney nomination? That didn't work out too well either, did it?"
What special interest niche did Newt fill?
Your belief flies in the face of what we already know I believe.
"Fixed."
Failure to recognize historical fact is the only thing here that needs fixing, ToT, and that flaw is yours.
"Maybe many in the middle knew what a catastrophe Obama would be if he was re-elected, and tried to prevent it. But Romney would have been just as bad as Obama, so I stayed home and/or voted third party."
Maybe this and maybe that. Maybe a cow will jump over the moon, but we'd do much better to stick to precedence and to facts. Pandering doesn't work.
"You mean like what happened to West and Cain, which were the examples you used? Remind us again why they weren't nominated."
Not the issue.
The issue is the general reaction of blacks to West and Cain. They were mocked, reviled, practically spit upon by their fellow blacks because of their conservatism.
Learn from the past, ToT.
"You apparently can't tell the difference between enthusiasm for something and acknowledging that it exists."
Is that right? You've been pushing a woman candidate for a while now. You seem pretty enthusiastic to me. Go ahead. Nominate a conservative woman for her sex alone, expect other women to flock to her like yourself, and watch her get slapped in the face and dragged through the mud.
"Assuming you're a woman, isn't that a backwards form of identity politics?"
Did the Catherine part tip you off?
You might think that if you can't tell the difference between identity politics and a personal preference.