Posted on 11/28/2009 12:35:32 PM PST by Bob J
I understand most Palin supporters have already handed her the '12 nomination, but a primary can be unpredictable and bruising. My question is, what will you do if for some reason Sarah does not win the '12 pub nomination? Stay home, vote 3rd party or support the nominee (if it is one of todays potential but established candidates)?
This is a "what if" question. If you don't have the capacity to contemplate a Palin primary loss then please find another thread on which to slobber and slander (although I seriously doubt this request will be honored).
Whatta dumb question.
From the same minds that brought you
Dole
McCain
We now have the old - where else ya gonna go mentality setting in again.
Look, it DOES NOT matter what we do, it matter what the likes of STEELE and the Power Brokers in the smokey rooms full of cash do. They had BETTER START listening to the PEOPLE instead of the PUTRID PUNDITS ON TV
We don’t need another RINO - the only time the GOP wins is when they run a Conservative.
A third party would only be successful in securing a Democratic win if the Republican candidate sucks. Why is it always the third party that gets the blame and not the sorry Republican in the race?
Do you actually believe Ronald Reagan would have lost either of his elections if a third party candidate were running?
Tell me with certainty the world events
that will transpire next week.
AMEN!!
WOW such fear of a woman who hasn’t even said she is gonna run. 3 points behind Obama and not a peep about whether she will run. That says all I need to know
She has very few principles. What she has are instincts. And she gets support because there are a lot of people out there that share her instincts. But that's not enough.
Reagan worked out because he had more than instincts. He had a complete political philosophy developed over years. Just read Reagan, In His Own Hand.You'll see that Reagan was already miles ahead of where Palin is now.
Now maybe one day Sarah will be a Reagan. At the moment she's terribly politically immature. She's going to have to work a lot harder trying to understand why she believes what she believes. I don't think she'll do it though. She's too intellectually lazy. That's not the same thing as being stupid. She's not stupid at all. But ideas matter. And the foundation for those ideas matters, too.
This thread is really depressing. I question how seriously I can take people who dislike Obama but won’t vote to get rid of him.
Disgusting!
This is a pretty dumb question. There are too many scenarios to cover at this stage:
1) Palin runs as a conservative, GOP selects a RINO before Super Tuesday and
a) Palin gives up vowing to return in 2016
b) Palin goes 3rd party after the start of primary season
2) Palin drifts away from conservatism to chase after the mythical “independent swing-voter moderate”
3) Palin is driven away from the GOP early enough to force her to go 3rd party before the primaries and
a) GOP runs a conservative
b) GOP runs a RINO
4) Palin decides to become a talk show host and drive the discussion and form policy
...and those are just the first scenarios to pop into my head.
We’re all tired of having our candidate “selected” by the left-wing media and a party that has lost its soul before we even get to vote in the primary, so let’s see who rises to the top before we start annointing them.
I make my fight in the primaries.
I will support the candidate that emerges from the primary.
I may not be happy but I will not throw my vote away on a third party candidate with no chance of winning.
And I never stay home on election day.
Abraham Lincoln was somewhat of a third-party candidate in 1860. I seem to recall him winning that year. Former President Teddy Roosevelt came very close, IIRC, in 1912.
You’d rather have Obamacare and many, many more programs like it I suppose. How badly do you want to get rid of Obama?
Apparently not very badly.
RC2, your strategy is absolutely on target.
It should be promulgated coast-to-coast.
Thanks.
Bob J
Since Nov 28, 1997
Second, I'll probably vote for the Republican candidate, regardless. The alternative will most likely be unacceptable, whether it is Obama or somebody else.
A third-party candidate would have to represent something really substantial, like the 1856 Republican candidate did, to pull votes away from the Whig.
A very important part of this puzzle will be to put some sanity into the primary process, to avoid the year-long circus and to avoid the spectacle of people like me in Illinois. I had the ability to vote early, weeks before the actual primary date. The person I voted for, and the first alternative I had, both dropped out by the actual primary date. That's a bad way to make an important decision; it's like voting in health care change that starts taxing now and providing benefits 3 or 4 years later.
Bottom line; I will vote for the person I consider to be the best candidate at the time. Hopefully, that will be somebody I can agree with, and somebody I can respect when I don't agree with them.
Welcome Back, Dad
"I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around."
~Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan
Don’t help us get rid of him then! I’m sick of people complaining about Obama then refusing to vote.
It is the GOP who doesn't want to win very badly.
Shhhhhh!!! Let’s not allow reality to stand in the way of someome making an ass out of themself
i will hope for a true conservative candidate. however if i do not get one that is exactly what i prefer, i will hold my nose and vote for anyone but the jackass in the office now.
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