..the rest of the story...... "I don’t want to go too far. I am still looking."...- McClintock
;-)
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Ron Paul’s newsletter problems would have put him out of the race if he wasn’t such a marginal figure. Ron Paul would never hold up to close scrutiny. Does anyone on this forum really believe that if that happened to one of the major candidates it would not have been page one news.
Always thougth McClintock was a bit weird.
Now I know he is.
SAy it isn’t so, Tom McClintock....
..the rest of the story...... "I don’t want to go too far. I am still looking."...- McClintock
;-)
Whatsa matta, yew? No comprehende, compadre???
Agreed. My heart and brain tells me the same two things. Then there's a third factor -- my gut. Many of my best life's lessons have been that while my brain is an excellent guide, the rare times (and they have been rare) that my gut has warned me that my heart is blind to something and that my brain is missing something, it's turned out the ol' gut was the wiser guide.
My gut has screamed from the very beginning, long before Thompson was on or off the Primary scene, that Romney is a superb bull slinger and joy-talker who is all the more dangerous because he's sincere and thinks he's got God on his side and therefore can do no wrong.
My gut recoiled from the start at Romney; hence applying lessons learned, I've used my brain to investigate more carefully Romney's record. I've concluded that my good ol' dependable gut is probably right again, as it has always been right in the past and I ignore it at my peril. The only other candidate who comes close in the gut-rejection arena is Huckabee.
Golly by that logic you can say that the party is not going to vote for a conservative candidate for POTUS because Thompson never placed higher than 3rd!
Lots of factors, including media portrayal factor into how many votes a candidate gets.
Incidentally, I have a feeling it is the same RINO pushers trying to get us to swallow Rudy McRomney right now and for the same reasons that will more than likely generate the SAME EXACT CONSEQUENCES.
People need to wake up to a few things...
Sorry, forgot the link on the previous:
http://www.carepublic.com/
H. L. Mencken
You are on the Wrong website. You should try the Daily Kos.
That anti-american crap is never going to sell here, even if you dress it up as old-school isolationism.
Unless it was Hillary or another democrat, then it would be buried or written off as a misunderstanding (see her recent 'spade' comment about Obama.)
Based on your racist post about Indians earlier today, I'll have to take that with a grain of salt.
Eh... gold has never been worth ZERO. Not in the entire history of humankind. That alone should say something.
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