I will vote for Rudy if he is the GOP nominee. End of story.
I may prefer Hunter or Thompson, but I will not do anything that would end us up with Hillary or Obama.
And I think Rudy might just make a great president. I do not think he will try to rock the boat on any social issues. He will appoint judges who are conservative.
His main task I believe is to win the war on terror and bring fiscal restraint back to DC. If he does that, alot of conservatives would end up happy.
If my participation were the deciding factor in who got the nod, I would probably pick Hunter. But Rudy does not scare me.
A RAT in the White House does.
Rudy is no better than any rat.
He had the opportunity to appoint over 60 judges as Mayor. Almost none of them were Republicans, not even leftist Republicans like Rooty.
“”I will vote for Rudy if he is the GOP nominee. End of story.
I may prefer Hunter or Thompson, but I will not do anything that would end us up with Hillary or Obama.
And I think Rudy might just make a great president. I do not think he will try to rock the boat on any social issues. He will appoint judges who are conservative.
His main task I believe is to win the war on terror and bring fiscal restraint back to DC. If he does that, alot of conservatives would end up happy.
If my participation were the deciding factor in who got the nod, I would probably pick Hunter.””
That was an interesting trip, an enthusiastic sales pitch for the most liberal candidate as the primary season opens, capped with a single sentence of a, but in my heart my man is the most conservative candidate of the announced candidates so far(Hunter)
It is far too early to be making strong promotions of, and eloquent arguments for voting Giuliani, as better than not voting at all.
We are just starting the primaries, we should be promoting the more conservative candidates and doing everything in our power to bump the most liberal candidate, as conservatives this is what we do in every primary of every election.
In six months we will see what the conversation is about, but right now we should be reinforcing the momentum JR has started, we should not be trying to counter it, that just isn’t conservative.
Keyes:
And why is it that out of the mouths of all our statesmen we hear all these great emotional words, but they won’t speak the simple truths that our Founders—from Washington through Jefferson, to Lincoln and every President—spoke, until we got to our own cowardly times?
We are not going to remain a free people if we insist on being a corrupt and licentious people.
We are not going to remain a free people if we arrogate to ourselves the right to destroy the rights of others. And that’s exactly what we are doing when we embrace the so-called “pro-choice,” the truly pro-abortion agenda.
My friends, I think it’s empty to praise the courage of the men and women who have died in the service of this country’s freedom and its principles, and yet decide that we shall lack the courage to stand up for those principles, many or few, or even alone if we must. Because that is, in fact, the courage that built America.
This nation was not, as some would have us believe, a dream of material progress and prosperity, and great cities and mountains of money. It was not.
I’m glad that we have achieved that prosperity, even though it came at much expense to some of my forebears. But I’ll tell you something—those who toiled in the depths of slavery, they had an understanding of the real dream of American freedom.
It’s the dream of moral dignity that comes from respecting our true moral capacity.
It’s the dream of self-government that comes from respecting the fact that, in the end, freedom is not just a choice, it is not just an opportunity. It can be a burden and a sacrifice and an obligation. And, above all, it is the obligation to respect the truth of our moral identity.
That moral identity can unite us across every line of race and color and creed, so long as we have the courage to stand for it.
And I think you know by now, looking at the Clinton Administration, that if we as Republicans abandon that line of principle, it will surely be abandoned in America.
But I can also tell you this in warning, that if you abandon that line of principle, there are Americans who will fight—few or many, alone if we must—to make sure that it prevails.
And at every point in our history, when we had the choice between right and wrong, in the end this country chose what was right—and we can be grateful for it. And I think we shall do it again, because we know that the real heroes in America are those who, in their families and in their daily lives, respect the truth that we must meet the obligations and sacrifices of freedom before we claim its privileges and benefits.
And that that means, as well, that come what may, even if it means that we must sacrifice in our personal lives, we have to stand where our Founders stood, on the belief that you cannot have the right to do what is wrong, but that if we build self-government on a true adherence to the principles of justice, then we shall hold up a beacon of right and hope for all of humankind to understand the true destiny of mankind.
http://www.keyesarchives.com/speeches/95_02_19focusfamily.htm
I would vote for Rooty if he was dead and Alan Keyes was VP on the ticket. That’s about the only way.