Is that supposed to be scarier than a picture of a victorious McCain, Giuliani, etc.?
McCain won in New Hampshire because a lot of "independents" decided to vote for him instead of Obama.
Frankly I think we need to change the rules on primaries and only allow people who register to vote Republican at least 60 days before the election to have a say in who the Republican Party can pick to run in the general elections.
I for one am damned sick and tired of our primaries being decided by people who can't even decide which party they want to belong to until they walk into the voting booth.
Only idiots don’t show up to vote. I doubt there are many in this forum that stupid.
I won’t stay home on election day, as there are always other things on the ballot. But if Rudy or Ronnie would happen to get the nomination, I’d either vote third party or just not vote for Prez at all. (Anyone else, I could hold my nose and pull the lever.)
For all big-government neo-cons who expect old-school conservatives to sell out their interests so the party can do business as usual:
Hillary won't win unless she promises to do what the Powers That Be tell her to do...and once she makes that promise her Presidency will result in few substantive policy changes from the Bush Administration. More social liberalism, perhaps, but virtually no difference in economic or foreign policy.
If I want to affect Federal Government policy in the future, I'll buy up lots of stock in Goldman Sachs and cast my votes in their shareholder elections. No point in getting excited over figurehead beauty contests - might as well go straight to the real power source. ;)
There is only one candidate though that will cause me to not vote R and that is the Huckster. Four years of Jimmuh Cahter Jr would kill the Republican party for at least 20 years. I will never vote for Huck.
The other 3 stooges I will hold my nose and vote.
But, I am still praying that America wakes up and realizes that there is a candidate out there that can save this country. I plan on voting for Fred Super Tuesday, and I hope enough people get thier heads out of the anal orifices and vote for him too.
I realize that those whose minds are closed to voting for anyone other than ____________ (you fill it in), and who will either stay home or write in the name of who they want, will not listen to me or anyone else.
So I address my remarks to others who lurk or whose minds are not closed on the subject.
As Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter have stated, there is no greater, more dire issue than national security. It trumps everything. That’s where I’m coming from.
Second would be the Supreme Court, and I have no doubt those two men would agree with that.
Third would be moral/social issues.
Fourth would be the economy and the American way of life (freedom and opportunity).
I’m only going to address the ultimate issue - national security.
The only candidates I want are either Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson.
For the sake of national security - which is for ALL the marbles in the survival and viability of our nation and includes the welfare of our Armed Forces - I will vote for Rudy, Romney or McCain in the General if that’s all that stands between America and Hillary or B. Hussein.
Any Republican President that we would elect would be able to attract a top notch national security team. It would not be McCain alone, for those who worry about McCain’s fitness. And were he to exhibit unfitness to command while in office, I have no doubt that those closest to him would intervene. The Republicans have a very deep bench in national security talent and experience.
Rudy and Romney would need good help as well, and they would get it.
Two final points:
On domestic issues my belief is that the likely scenario is mostly a stalemate. Your ideas (some of you) that a President not to your liking could get in there and suddenly do x, y and z and presto, all would change for the worse, are off base given the realities.
I know some are worried that some Repub Presidents would give away the store to the Dems. I don’t see that happening as the Dems are so extremely Leftist and full of hate that fear can’t come to fruition. Meanwhile, conservatives have already stopped bad legislation such as McCain-Kennedy, and they torpedoed Dubai Ports and Harriet Miers. They can do so again.
Lastly, I didn’t say what I would do about Huckabee and Paul. Paul won’t get the GOP nomination, mercifully. If Huckabee were to get it by some “miracle”, and I don’t rule it out, the jury is still out and the book is still open on whether or not Huckabee could convince me to vote for him. Right now I could NOT do it.
But if the Republican masses and/ or the convention choose Huckabee, our party and our country would appear - to me - just about lost. The only question I would have is, what is there left to salvage, what scrap left to hold onto, and what could I do about it?
You are exactly right. Unfortuantley, we have alot of “all or nothing” types around here.
It looks like we're heading into one hell of a recession. Whichever candidate is elected in the next cycle will most likely get blamed for it.
I should vote for the Democrat to ensure that a Democrat is in office when the recession happens so that the sheeple will once again be led to believe that the Republicans are the party of good government and a great economy.
Thanks for helping me make my decision.
The candidates aren’t as much as the problem as are your friends, colleagues, etc. who don’t vote their values. A vote for Democrats is a vote for illegal immigration, the NEA, NAACP, LULAC, ACLU. Provides political cover for the anti-Christian haters, the radical “teachers” and their unions, homosexuals, abusers, pornographers, criminals, the welfare staters, secularists, Islamofascists/terrorists, and Political “Correctness”
They are the ones who need your help, not the wacko third parties that will serve only to more of the problem in power.
Lots of 'me-me-me-me', though....
No Party owns my support, they have to earn it.
i voted my heart in the primary (Thompson). I will now vote for the R nominee over Hillary, Obama or Edwards.
It’s not a matter of teaching any one a lesson, it’s a matter of no longer wanting to be associated with the GOP. I am not leaving the GOP, the GOP is leaving me.
I am not staying home. I will vote. I just won’t vote for McCain, Huckabee, or Giuliani for the top spot. Why should I be complicit in the election of pro-amnesty candidates whether they be Rep or Dem. If amnesty is granted to the 12 to 20 million illegals, the country is finished as we know it. Amnesty is forever.
Right on the money, Justice!
One should always go with the lesser evil and any Republican candidate will be just fine, versus any alternative.
Is this just another "Vote for any Republican regardless" thread"?
Is this a vote for McCain because he's a Republican?
Remember recent stories like this below that occurred as recent as 2006?
Sen. John McCain gave a big thumbs up last night to demonstrators planning to march across the Brooklyn Bridge today in support of comprehensive immigration reform. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607852/posts
Would anyone in their right mind support someone like this?