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| The American public didn't know about the health of FDR or JFK, big difference. George Will summed up the three GOP front runners this morning pretty succinctly:
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Posted on 01/07/2007 9:51:28 AM PST by kellynla
It wasn't so long ago that conservatives believed that George Bush's presidency would usher in a political realignment that would last for decades. But as the right looks forward to the next election, something close to panic is setting in. Surveying the leading G.O.P. contenders for 2008, direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie pronounces "not a one of them is worthy of support from conservatives." Says Craig Shirley, a public relations executive who represents many conservative groups and who has written a book on the Reagan revolution: "There's anger, there's angst, there's dismay in the conservative movement." Some activists, Shirley adds, have even begun talking quietly among themselves about forming a third party.
All that worry might seem premature, given that the Iowa caucuses are still a year away. But the race for the Republican nomination is already taking a shape that alarms many conservatives, especially the Evangelicals who were so crucial to Bush's re-election in 2004. None of the top three potential Republican candidates considering a bid to succeed Bush has a record that makes the right entirely comfortable. Senator John McCain originally opposed Bush's tax cuts, supports looser immigration policies, voted against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and was an architect of the deal under which Senate Democrats retained their right to filibuster Bush's judicial nominees. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in favor of gun control, abortion rights and same-sex civil unions. And outgoing Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney espoused liberal views on gay rights and abortion when he was running for office in Massachusetts, though he has disavowed them as he has moved into national politics. Many conservatives had high hopes for Virginia's George Allen and Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum--until they lost their Senate re-election races last year.
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Be still, my beating heart...for real! Kelly, I am with you all the way and am praying for this night and day.
No, he ain't running. If "true" conservatives want a candidate, it will either be Brownback or Mike Huckabee.
I still lean towards Newt Gingrich. The man is tough and I believe an honest person. Could he win? I think he could if people in Washington would get behind him. I also believe that he's a no BS politician. The next question is.....will he run?
John Bolton.
"Brownback or Mike Huckabee?"
Who? LOL
Neither will suffice. The '08 nominee must be a warrior for secure borders and the enforcement of our immigration laws, or he will lose.
Because Cheney ain't running and Newt can't elected state-wide in Georgia.
Newt needs to go on the Marine Corps diet! :-]
Personally, I reject Newt for a couple of reasons: One, he's damaged goods, politically, due to his own personal failures. Two, he's driven by polls and focus groups, not principle (I heard him last summer in Des Moines paying lipservice to the global warming myth, even.) Three, he's a pushover for the Left...Bill and Hillary's favorite Republican boy-toy.
like I said, people do change their minds...
and for this country's sake, we better hope he does!!!
He has to jump in quickly since McCain, Romney and Rudy are sucking all the money and organization.
Cheney would have an uphill battle but with a good running mate I think he could pull it off. Cheney is articulate and a fighter. I've always taken more away from his speeches than anything the President has delivered. Those who claim Cheney is running things behind the scenes I think are sorely deluded because I believe if he were running things the perceptions of the White House would be entirely different. He wouldn't have retreated on Iraq as the President has and allowed the Democrats to nationalize the election as they did. I think Brownback is probably the most promising but it depends on how good a speaker he is. I also like Duncan Hunter.
That said, I think the GOP power structure will try to give this nomination to John McCain just as they did to Bob Dole. He is the next in line. I even think the President will come out and endorse McCain before all is said and done. We will have to fight to make sure the nominee is not a liberal sympathizer and also be careful that two many conservatives running at the same time don't dilute the vote and throw the primary to the left.
We need a General.
Dan Quayle. Statesman. House, Senate, Vice President, and private sector (chairman) experience. Die hard conservative. Shrewd thinker (warned fmr Pres. Bush of his election-costing mistakes), and sharp debater (Gore '92). Famed user of the conservative bully pulpit. Still young, 59, but not too young. And now an outsider. Dan is my first choice and, for me, the best choice in 2008.
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| The American public didn't know about the health of FDR or JFK, big difference. George Will summed up the three GOP front runners this morning pretty succinctly:
And correctly figures that there is room for more candidates. |
Newt is delusional if he thinks he can win the presidency because the media will rip him to shreds. As much as I like Cheney, he has no chance of being elected. IMO
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