Look I love Mark..but you are wrong. His statement was not so much that Romney was the best of the two left standing (and by the way there is no way Romney was a better choice than McCain). Read that statement again. Mark says Romney “shares MOST of our conservative principles”. As the AFLAC duck says....HUH? The guy was pro-gay, pro-gun control, pro-big government health care; pro-choice; pro-clamp down on freedom of religious conscientious objection. Other than him being pro-business there is nothing in Romney’s record that is conservative. At least McCain had a decent pro-life and limited government voting record.
“At least McCain had a decent pro-life and limited government voting record.”
I can’t honestly call either of them conservatives. For me, you need all three pillars...I remember McCain stabbing conservatives Republicans in the back on almost every key issue.
We’d have to have a RINO fest and see which one had the biggest horns I guess. But McCain’s backstabbing and serious consideration of Liebermann took the cake for me.
McCain voted for TARP... and TARP had $150Billion in pork attached to it.... there is nothing limited about that or McCain-Feingold or Mc-Cain-Kennedy...
Beck was hitting some strange notes during that speech. I often enjoy Beck but all too often he morphs into the Howard Beal [Network] of the 21st century. Instead of consistency and logic, he plays to the public’s deep emotional frustration with the status quo, sometimes working himself up into a complete tizzy. The next step is for Beck to fall to the floor and convulse like Howard Beal.
Let's be practical. We require a vehicle to take back this nation from the socialists. The Republican Party is turning back to its conservative roots, and it's counterproductive to trash them at this point. In view of US history, it's very unlikely that a third party is going to triumph against the socialists. The most effective strategy is for conservatives to take back the GOP.
The biggest critics of the GOP are often those that have done nothing for the party, exerting zero effort to work within the party on behalf of conservative ideals. Easy to spout off, much more difficult to get in the ring, take the hits and give it your best.
Sure, I've been extremely unhappy with the GOP's failure to abide by conservative principles over the years. But they're the only game in town to defeat the Dems. That's why I thought Hannity was a real jerk to divorce himself from the Republican Party in a very public way [he joined Conservative Party here in NY]. It should have dawned on him and others that to change the GOP you have to be involved in Republican politics and vote in the primaries. At this point, if Hannity and others keep ranting that they are exclusively conservative, rather than conservative Republicans, they are not doing this nation any favors.