Posted on 01/25/2008 12:59:01 PM PST by CautiouslyHopeful
With Fred Thompson out of the presidential race, who's a self-respecting conservative to go for? Could it be, maybe, perhaps, a certain Republican-libertarian from Texas?
That's one question perplexing California state Sen. Tom McClintock, possibly the second-most-famous California Republican currently in office after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
McClintock created a stir two months when he endorsed Thompson’s presidential candidacy. Having run for governor, lieutenant governor and state controller, McClintock has shown that while he has not won a statewide contest, he can win GOP primaries, which conservatives tend to dominate. So heading into the Feb. 5 primary, McClintock’s endorsement is seen as important in California.
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That’s my point. We can’t go with Ron Paul because he wants us to lose and retreat back to the US. People who think we can lose this war and continue with our idyllic domestic existence are either naive or stupid.
I don’t care what Paul’s domestic policies are, if we lose this war it won’t matter.
Ron Paul is an idiot!
Concessions always have to be made along the way to get important stuff done. Reagan was excellent at making tangential concessions that did not eviscerate the effectiveness of his stated goal.
Now when you say defend my country is assume your mean the territory within the actual boundaries of the United States. I see nothing in Dr Paul's proposals that say's the United States would be undefended. So you must either be referring to the abstraction called 'national security' or some expected terrorist attack after we remove the main reason the terrorists want to attack us.
OBGYN’s don’t need to run for President, besides the fact that his voice alone is bothersome.
The main reason they want to attack us is that we’re not Muslims who submit to the will of Allah.
How do you propose we remove that reason?
Do you think it better that we are subjugated by our own rapidly expanding and intrusive government?
Before any invading army could reach America, we could sink their ships and shoot down their planes. What we haven’t done is secure our border.
Paul wants to defend America and secure our borders. He also wants to shrink the size, cost, cost, and power of government.
To me, that’s a plan that makes sense.
I agree, but concessions are one thing. Consensus denotes giving up much more in a political context. Just my opinion.
I it wasn’t the Muslims it would be some other boogeyman.
Yes, that's the plan. Wait until our enemy is within our borders and then depend on the cowardly crotch-doctor to run them off. Idiotic
Yes because real threats from people who just don’t like us don’t and can’t exist.
The world is only made of nice people who have misunderstandings.
Tom! We hardly knew ye!! Say it isn't so!!!
Do you really think with the tecnology and intelligence we have we’d not know till they were at our borders? Come on...
and the tagline behind you speaks loudly of your views.
McClintock’s logic is flawless! haha
Well my threat level indicator is a bit lower than your I suppose. Time will tell.
See tagline.
Amazing.
I had converted to the Ron Paul camp from the Thompson camp, and now my local-hero in CA politics is as well.
Just reinforced my decision firmly. Maybe we can have McClintock and Paul start a viable third party and leave the RINOs to die in their native habitat.
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