You know what the biggest problem was in the ‘08 election cycle for President ? We didn’t have the best and brightest running. Fred Thompson was the only legitimate candidate with a claim to being Conservative. Duncan Hunter also had legitimacy, but he wasn’t going to win a general election. The other candidates were absolute losers and phonies. Huckster and Slick Willard, two failed left-wing Governors who murdered their state Republican parties. Giuliani, a law and order liberal. Ron Paul, a moonbat. McCain, well, you know what he is.
We should’ve had top calibre name Conservatives of accomplishment. Gov. Mark Sanford of SC, Haley Barbour, Jeff Sessions, Dave Heineman, Tom Coburn, Don Carcieri, Jim DeMint, etc. We didn’t have leaders running, we had people of enormous, indeed GINORMOUS egos that had next to zero credibility. With Thompson’s withdrawal, we were left with an awful (best of the worst) nominee with McCain, essentially precisely how John Kerry got the nod with the Dems in ‘04. But at least the difference between Kerry and McCain was that the former actually went after his opponent. McCain couldn’t stop attacking people who dared criticize the False Messiah on the GOP side. And when it appeared he might actually win right after he chose Gov. Palin, he sabotaged himself and the campaign so the media would be nice to him again. The whole thing was sick, dysfunctional and a NON-election. I didn’t even cast a vote in the primary because there was no one to vote for who was qualified and accomplished to be President. None.
I cast a vote for McCain in November (although my state was never in doubt, it went against the False Messiah as though he was George McGovern), but mainly because I was voting for Palin, who was more qualified to be President than any of the other 3 running for Pres and VP. Sadly, she was too green to have run this past year for the top job, but now is poised to be the singlemost qualified Conservative to run in 2012 now.
Ron Paul was a giant among pygmies. Moonbat? i suppose you were one of those who used that term as Paul constantly, and presciently, warned that the Fed and the federal government, through its spending policies, was setting the stage for a financial crisis.
Hunter was a big government Republican who supported the prescription drugs boondogle, no child left behind, the bailout, and just about every pork barrel barrel spending program ever proposed.
This statement is an example of what I am talking about. We are never going to agree on who is the brightest and best. There is no such thing as consensus.
I've been involved in the political process for many years. I've had to come to accept that there are those I respect for some reason or another choose to support a candidate in the caucus process that I would not consider supporting.
Then the next election cycle comes around and there's a new alignment. All of a sudden that person that I thought was nuts for supporting the candidate they chose to support before was now supporting the same candidate I was supporting.
These cycles go on and on. It is becoming very worrisome now because I have never seen Republicans so fractured.
I am all for duking it out in a primary but then we must come together if we're ever going to have a chance to take back our country.
I am not optimistic for many reasons but Republican behavior is one of the reasons.
Some of consider losing winning. I consider losing losing and we may never be able to recapture what we've lost.
Gov. Mark Sanford of SC
No way! South Carolina has the third highest unemployment in the country. Why would you want someone like that in a time with economic hardship? He can’t even get his RED state in order. Forget him!!!!!