[stm]

Paging Mr. Tom Tancredo.....Tom please pick up on the white phone....Tom Tancredo, the white phone.

http://tancredo4prez.blogspot.com/

[mad puppy]

The LA Slimes talking about Conservatives? Beware!

[loreldan]

"There's absolutely no contender that is a bona fide conservative,"

That's because conservatives took themselves out of the race this past November. They stayed home to protest Bush, and because of that their main promoters like Santorum and Allen lost.

[EagleUSA]

It's just the LA Slimes selling liberalism and its "virtues" again....nothing new.

[kinoxi]

But even those who admire Brownback, and especially his Senate leadership opposing abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research, question the viability of his candidacy.

I thought it was embryonic stem cell research that's opposed. Must've been an honest oversight. /s

[NormsRevenge]

squishes? :-?

[rbookward]

Obligatory reference to Duncan Hunter. He needs to make more noise and get noticed in a Good Way.

[Dog Gone]

Brownback isn't going to get any traction. He'll drop out after the South Carolina primary, if not sooner.

If I had to guess, it's going to end up being a Guiliani/Romney ticket or vice versa.

[proudofthesouth]

Two contenders:

John Cox

http://www.cox2008.com/cox/

Duncan Hunter

http://peacethroughstrengthpac.com/Home.aspx

[Ben Ficklin]

Cultural conservatives looking for Mr. Goodbar

[timer]

McCain, Guliani and Romney are all out, as are Brownback and Hagel. Duncan Hunter looks good, but what about Haley Barbour of MS? He was just honored as america's best governor as he did a super job cleaning up after katrina(vs LA/New Orleans).

Has anyone even THOUGHT of him running for the presidency? Jeb does NOT want the job but a southern governor like Barbour echoes GWB, also a southern governor before becoming president.

Be as it may : divided we fall, united we stand. We CAN NOT afford hillary and her ilk, it would tear this country to pieces. Republican UNITY is all that stands between US and chaos.

[airborne]

The LA Times writes a story like this, totally ignoring (on purpose, IMO) a bona fide conservative right in their own back yard!

DUNCAN HUNTER is that man!

http://www.issues2002.org/CA/Duncan_Hunter.htm

[NRA2BFree]

We DO have REAL conservatives running for President. One is Duncan Hunter and another one is Tom Tancredo. I wish they would join together as a team. I would prefer it to be Hunter/Tancredo, but if it's Tancredo/Hunter, I would still be delighted!!!

[Popocatapetl]

The truth is that there most likely will never be a "conservative candidate."

The reason being that what it takes to be President demands far more than the very limited concept of conservatism, as a philosophy. That is, conservatism is not broad enough in its scope to define a presidency.

Look at the very word "republican" versus the word "conservative". Republican is a system of government, that is, a republican-democracy. It is a grand, sweeping philosophy that encompasses all of our nation.

Conservative, however, is not a system, it is a mode of operation. Do they conservatives want a President who governs by what amounts to "gridlock", only allowing change that is modest and, well, "conservative?"

Alternatively, conservatives often define themselves as what liberals are not. This is issue-oriented politics, and while it is good for that issue, it does not run the country. If a candidate said that he was a "conservative" because he wanted to end all abortions, and, oh yes, also abolish the armed forces, I doubt that he would be very acceptable.

So the bottom line is that there almost *can't* be a conservative candidate. No matter who is found, they will always be found wanting as far as conservatives are concerned.

If they are doing something different from what conservatives want on an issue, or if they are settling for "half a loaf" as all they can get from the process, or if they are not addressing themselves to *all* the issues that various conservatives are concerned with, they can be seen as "failing".

Pat Buchanan will say they are not conservatives, because they are not isolationists. Pat Robertson will say they are not conservatives, because they do not go to church enough.

There really is no way it can happen. So it's time to redefine what exactly conservatives and republicans want in their candidates, an overarching philosophy that by itself is not offensive, and *generally* is in tune with what conservatives want.

[oldbrowser]

"There's absolutely no contender that is a bona fide conservative," said K.B. Forbes, who has worked for a number of conservative candidates and causes since the 1990s. "We have insiders, squishes and moderates running for president."

The times is trying to partition us into harmless boxes. By separating "moderates" from "conservatives" from "insiders" from "squishes"(whatever that is) they employ a "divide and conquer" strategy that worked so well in 2006.

They had us running around calling each other "RINO", and now we are on the outside looking in during a crucial time .

In order to govern you have to have a majority, and if you have a majority you need the whole right side of the spectrum from moderate to conservative.

[KoRn]

[OPS4]

Senator Domenici has served New Mexico since 1972 when he became the first Republican in New Mexico in 38 years to be elected to the United States Senate. In 2002, Senator Domenici was elected to serve his sixth full six-year term in the Senate. Currently, Senator Domenici serves as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.To learn more about Senator Domenici, please visit his official website.

[Phlap]

They cite growing tensions between economic and religious conservatives, as well as fallout from the war in Iraq, which a growing number of Republicans consider a mistake.

But it was not a mistake. That "growing number of Republicans" are the ones who are wrong. Thank God for George W. Bush.

[leprechaun9]

I overheard an interesting suggestion yesterday - the team of Gingrich & Bolton!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Duncan Hunter. There, fixed it.