Posted on 02/07/2008 9:09:39 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
Edited on 02/07/2008 9:24:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Fox news just reported that Mark Halprin [sic], from Time Magazine, has information that Mitt Romney will be ending his campaign sometime today.
Has Fred ever complained about the WTO ruling that killed the Bush corporate tax cuts? Did he vote for PNTR with China? Did he support Hunter’s proposal to eliminate all taxes on US manufacturers?
...How many did you gobble up before you realized you just didn't like the taste of pearls?
“Suspends”
The brokered convention has already occurred.
Hunter who?
“It’s probably true, you could read it in his wife’s face during his speech after Super Tuesday results came in.”
Agreed. I saw the same resignation on Romney’s wife’s face that night. Was hoping that somehow it wouldn’t be the end but the firewall in California never materialized.
I just don’t see McPain doing anything but giving us more of his stubborn medicine of Shamnesty. One sentence he backs away, the very next he goes back to defending it.
It makes my blood boil.
I am too, which why I don't buy all this "we have to vote for McCain to keep Hillary out of office" jazz. The future extends beyond the next presidential term. If conservatives reward the GOP establishment by electing again the trojan horse candidate that we get handed every election cycle, then the take home message continues to be "Who cares what the base thinks? Where else are those toothless hillbillies gonna go?". We need to send a message, even if it means four years of Hillary.
We survived 8 years of Clinton. But you know what? It didn't do us a bit of good after 2000. Before 2000, the GOP-controlled Congress (mostly) did good things. they weren't perfect, but they were a lot better under a DIM President than a Repub. It was when we got a faux-conservative big-government "compassionate conservative" Republican President into office that the spending went through the roof.
What this country needs is a wake-up call of the Hillary or Obama kind. Let the sheeple have two years of the Dems in control of both branches, and they'll remember why they voted Republican back in '94. If we're lucky, we might just get a do-over from the American people, if we get back to our roots and present a solid, united, conservative front. I sincerely believe that a majority of people WANT a conservative in office. Maybe not of the Duncan Hunter/Alan Keyes level of conservatism, but at least of the Fred Thompson/Phil Gramm/Haley Barbour sort. But if we present confusion, if we continue to be just another party of big government and no voice on social issues (which is what the GOP establishment wants us to be, in their vain quest for the "moderate" vote), then we will lose.
Yes, we have the building blocks to move the conservative agenda. But we don't have the PERSONNEL in the right positions to do so. You have to have a conservative President, and a conservative Congress, before you can move the conservative agenda. As it stands, the Republican party is set to nominate the 2nd most liberal guy we had running, who will be extremely lucky if he can beat whichever Dim get's their nomination and who will in all likelihood have no coattails to speak of, even if he DOES win.
I say let the American people, and especially all those so-called "conservatives" out there who didn't support conservative candidates, suffer four years of Hillary. Maybe they'll wake up and remember what their foundational principles were.
I don’t mind that Romney is wealthy. But sending him money is like sending money to Bill Gates. It’s pointless. Romney had enough to self-finance his race, or self-finance and get max contributions from the money people in the GOP. His problem wasn’t money. He spent $30M to try to win FL and it made him less popular.
Another newbie heard from.
From the Constitution Party's website:
CONSTITUTION PARTY 2008 NATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATING CONVENTION APRIL 23-26, 2008, KANSAS CITY MARRIOTT."
To those who say that they trust the beast more than McCain on immigration (or any other dang thing), what is your answer? You going to vote for her? Heaven help us all with thinking like that.
Romney is NO Republican. It’s good riddance to him.! Hugh was an idiot for supporting him and he’s an even bigger idiot for supporting McPain.
I lost all respect for Hugh during this campaign.
I don’t want to revisit the Hunter/Fred wars, frankly. These should have been the arguments between #1 and #2, not between #4 and #8.
So, you went to the guy who was terrible on SoCon issues? And left the guy who was good on them (100% pro-life, against gay marriage, strong on 2nd amendment, etc.), because the "Socon vote" went to the dog-torturer's daddy?
Yeah, that's fake conservative.
Please shut up about Ron Paul. No one wants to hear more about Ron Paul.
He needs to go back to some backwater town and distribute his racist newsletter. Which I hear doesn’t actually name the author of the racist articles.
Let me be the first to name Ron Paul as the author of that crap.
What to so?...Wait for the dust to settle.
And batten down the hatches. We are headed for bad times. If you don’t own a weapon, buy one now.
EXACTLY!
“If DUNCAN HUNTER believes Huckabee can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, more than I would trust the opinion of any of the posters on here.”
I simply disagree with Duncan Hunter on his endorsement of The Huckster. In my mind, he (Huck) is a died in the wool politician first. He is a smooth talker and has all the right lines. He learned well from Slick Willy all the way down to the squint when he’s really try to make a point. He reminds me of a really good used car salesman.
Welll...aren’t you precious! Couldn’t you try really hard and be gracious in your victory? Being obnoxious won’t endear your candidate to everyone, whoever they are!
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