Posted on 02/01/2008 11:08:49 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
“The key is to remember that Ronald Reagan put together a coalition of disparate groups who together swelled into a majority: A patriotic assembly of social conservatives, defense hawks, and small-government fiscal conservatives. Those elements of the electorate are all still out there but we lack a leader with the skill and vision to call them together.”
Reagan also had the good fortune to follow Carter, probably the most ineffective president in history. Reagan also got plenty of Democrats to cross over for him. I’m playing Devils Advocate here, but it seems that if a candidate reaches out to the various factions, then the “True Believers” from his own faction turn on him.
McCain / Vincente Fox '08.
"We don't need no Stinkin' Borders!"
Cheers!
I prefer the latter!
Is this supposed to make sense? What does this have to do with primaries elections?
I agree to a point...Just remember this is the same Republican party that brought us: Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, GHWB abd GWB which also yielded Reaganomics, supply side economics, peace and prosperity, and some terrific Supreme Court choices...It is that this year is just a lousy year for the candidates the Party has presented..Too many candidates and the primary vote was fractured..
Also too many RINO’s with phony messages and NO REAL SOLUTIONS to our country’s problems...
We as a country are on the verge of voting for a woman, or a black, or a Bob Dole type, or a lying flip-flopper...Both parties are screwing the American public and we are paying the price..As for The Rep party, i would like to see a draft movement..Let the Party know we STILL are not satisfied and we want a Winner, not some arrogant ancient wuss or flip flopper or RINO....
The delegates should REVOLT, throw some chairs around, demonstrate and get down and dirty cause we aren’t putting up with this BS anymore...the delegates may have to do some tonsillectomies without anesthesia...so be it...
Any of the candidates now running can give a speech...if they were to say : “ We will screw the public every day!’, that will be the first TRUE comment we have heard during this long primary process...get ready...man the barricades, cause’ it’s coming...Send a message to the Party loud and clear—we have had it up to here...
The problem is having stupid Iowa and NH lead the pack. How about starting in South Carolina, then Florida, then Texas? True Conservative states. NH has become a liberal bastion, and Iowans are just retards (anyone who watched the caucuses on C-SPAN quickly realized that)
Dang that was good Hinckley !
#129...Excellent point
Hard to argue with anything but the strategy for dealing with the matter.
All true
Self-imposed disaster and still, some refuse to accept resposnsibility... at FR... The rest of the country is not even as strong as Freepers.
Republicans aren’t running the show, RINOs are. It’s a conservative house. RINOs are the guest...
Keep up!
“The delegates should REVOLT”
A VERY interesting notion...
The RNC “directs” the party so long as we let it.
But these decisions are actually in the hands of the state parties... Start there.
SC and Florida sure got it wrong this time around... Look at the list in the column again and start there...
one thing?? what is that one thing?? Di Curly tell you what that one thing was?
Why didn't you say that to begin with?
That is what I said --the independnts were running the show in states that are a lot more liberal than where I come from!
That's why you made no sense. Keep up!
Hi. Please tell me what you are addressing. Do you want me to read this article?
Oh, I see. Had to be away. I had tried to read the article, but got held up at the fairly ignorant dissing of thoughtful and perspicacious Huckabee supporters.
Too bad.
, the only option is a 3rd party
If McCain is the Republican nominee, the only option is a 2nd party. And that's only an option if a Ross Perot steps forward to crystalize the thing fast enough to get on the ballot in enough states to have a run at winning the Electoral College.Preferably all the red and purple ones, preferably all of the states. Even then it'd be a long shot. I don't consider third parties a sensible option - but as I said, any party that can nominate John McCain is not functioning as a party that sensible American patriots can vote for.
I've been wondering who McCain most resembles as a national candidate. Bob Dole had some similarities, but he wasn't advocating that Mexico coopt the sovereignty of the US over the Southwest and California in a reversal of the historical verdict of the Mexican War. He very much resembles John Kerry, lacking only the surrenderism. But I think that if he is indeed nominated for POTUS, by the time the MSM and the Democratic Party are through with him his national public image will most resemble that of Vice Admiral James Stockdale. The ex-POW who, asked to allow his name to be uses as a placeholder for Ross Perot's eventual VP nominee, was left on the ballot and learned only the week beforehand that he would be participating in the VP debate on national TV with Quayle and Gore. And who came out looking like a doddering, irrelevant old fool (indeed the Admiral died of Alzheimer's Disease nine years later - and Alzheimer's will make anyone a doddering old fool).
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