Posted on 02/07/2008 10:29:29 AM PST by Dane
Zot me if you wish, but after all the vitriol towards me on FR, the last two GOP candidates left are McCain and Huckabee, the irony was too good to pass up.
JMO, but a lot of Freepers acted like the left with their stern demand that every person must adhere to a 110% litmus test.
With now McCain's sealing up the nomination and blaming everyone else and their dog, maybe you all should look at yourselves, despite the claims of 20 million listeners or being a top web site, the results are in and your brand of conservatism is not selling where it counts, the GOP primaries.
What if McCain goes really crazy while in office?
Perhaps you should change your handle to NeverOutofStyle!...........
I think we will need a couple of “bouncers” tonight!
How stupid do you have to be to list Romney (a RINO) in the same class as Fred Thompson (a true Conservative?)
Romney was only slightly better than McCain anyway. The party was hosed when Hunter and Thompson dropped out.
Your basic premise is right, though. We were too fractured to rally around a good candidate so we were handed a bad one by all of the blue states.
Yay team.
Rush doesn’t have all the votes. It was the American voter the struck. You have been suckered.
What happened to your big old bouncer friend? Haven’t seen him around the Lounge for a while.
“Conservatism is not a passing fad or fashion that goes in and out of style as zeitgeist winds may blow”
True...
But it HAS been succsessfully rebranded by our opponents on the left, and in the MSM. And as the Reagan Conservatives have aged, thier are fewer of us who remember what “PROPOGANDA” really is.
The media has succsessfully turned the word “Conservative” into hate-word, along with “Christian”.
They have pigeon-holed anyone supporting a “Conservative” agenda as a Bible-thumping hick living in a trailer, driving a pickup with a Confederate flag on it, while looking for blacks to run down on the way to the NASCAR race...
Of ALL of the nominees this year, JUST ONE, Mitt Romney, had the ability to deliver a message in a way that the MSM could actually filter through to the Sheeple, but our own own “Identity Politics” killed him...
In a large part, WE created this mess....
Sour grapes do not make a good political diet, Mark.
Like I stated, maybe you all should look at your sales tactics, for your failure, and not to blame everyone else and their dog, for your bitterness.
I’m waiting for him to return my call, and I have asked him to bring da boys!
I'll give him this: He's extremely talented and entertaining, however, because he sought a 4-F draft deferment from Vietnam due of a minor cyst on his butt, he'll never have my respect.
Let us just wait and see how long it takes for him to turn towards his true positions.
Instead of “an” in your FR name it should be “op”.
“Rush and the conservative punditry picked the wrong horse. They decided to make a conservative savior out of a flip-flopping Massachusetts liberal while tar and feathering a far more conservative candidate in Mike Huckabee.”
This is complete nonsense. Rush and all picked no one for months, and merely discussed the positions of various candidates. Then, they began to speak favorably of Fred (remember him?) for weeks until he dropped out. Only then did they begin to speak most favorably of Romney, and a few days before Super Tuesday, several said they would vote for him.
They spoke favorably of Romney for a couple of weeks or less. They hardly pick him as their candidate, but settled on him the final week or so before Super Tuesday.
Huckabee could most accurately be described as a Christian Socialist, hardly a conservative.
Remember, illegal immigrants are our chance to make up for slavery?
That was worth reading for the laugh I got!
Where it went wrong is that A said "Unite around Hunter!," B said "Unite around Thompson!," and HH said "Unite around Romney!"
We saw the need to unite. We just couldn't do it.
If you let others define you in their terms, then you have chance of espousing your own ideals. You have lost the war before the first battle has begun.......
I’ve got a home for sale in So Cal! Home of MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANY of your buds.
Ya wanna buy it?
If you let others define you in their terms, then you have NO chance of espousing your own ideals. You have lost the war before the first battle has begun.......
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