Posted on 10/16/2011 5:07:27 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
October 16th, 2011
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, R-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): 2012 Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.; Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
The only “person” (I think he may be a mutant) I will not vote for is Romney.
If Perry is the nom I will vote for him.
Will the Perry folks vote for Cain if he is the nom?
I’m counting on it. (Maine is in the lawsuit)
They were going on vacation so he tied the dog in a crate to the roof of his station wagon. Of course, the dog was terrified and pooped all over the roof.
He thought this was a funny anecdote. I was horrified.
On the other hand, Rick Perry shot a coyote dead to DEFEND his dog.
I think that pretty much tells you all you need to know about comparing those two.
And that dog story will reappear in the general election if Romney is the nominee. Fair warning, all!
This might be the reason we don't get a chance of electing a true conservative that's not in the political crowd......MONEY
I received a letter from Friends of Herman Cain (from Atlanta not DC) asking for help in fundraising......as much as I hate to contribute this early I am doing so. I would hate to think big money chose our candidate again......PLEASE contribute if you like Cain....he needs it
For all our disagreements with Fox and some of their stances on issues I for one will take them any day over the others. We will never find or have the perfect network. We can’t even agree on this site on many issues and we are all self professed conservatives. Yep, Fox makes me mad sometimes,, but I’ve come to realize there are some folks that just don’t agree with everything I say or think 100% of the time. Let’s be happy with them. At least we have some voice on Fox. We have zero on any of the others.
I am well-aware that there are GOP people who are lining their own pockets and look down on the grass roots as ignorant of “how things really work.” Good examples of this are Bill Kristol, Senator Grassley, Senator Lugar, Senator McConnell, Steve Schmidt, Senator McCain, and a host of others.
Yes, I know about the country class stuff. I know the theory, and subscribe to most of it.
But I am NOT going to vote for Obama to cause some sort of a complete break-down in order to show everyone what’s going on. I am 63 years old. My husband is working overseas because he couldn’t find a job here. I have 3 grandchildren who are in their early teens.
I am not willing to destroy this country just to prove a point, which is what will happen if Obama is re-elected.
So you can preach your idea all you want. I am not going along with it, because the short explanation for it would be DOOM.
Why do you think this is the ONLY thread I post on? I refuse to get into those destructive arguments, which I am now coming close to with mewzilla!
How’s the laig?
If Romney gets the nomination, those of you who pull the lever for Romney will be voting FOR more and bigger government, more statism, government-controlled health care, government controls on energy production and use in the name of global warming, and the forced acceptance of open homosexuality in our military and civilian lives.
No matter how you rationalize it, THAT is what you will be voting for.
Fish writes: I too will also support Romney if need be, although not happily. And hope that the GOP doesn’t do this again.
Why on EARTH would the GOP stop doing it when they know darned well that you will vote for their guy even when you'd rather not? The only, the only way to get the GOP to stop doing this is to REJECT STATIST REPUBLICANS. Only when the statists lose -- ONLY WHEN THEY LOSE -- will they stop doing the damage they do. But the GOP establishment knows that Republicans like you will vote for Romney out of PURE FEAR.
The Democrat party and Obama are symptoms of the ailment, not the ailment itself. Our REAL enemy is STATISM.
Please be brave, have courage, and do the hard, scary, frightening thing: reject Romney under any and all circumstances, because if you vote for him, you will be voting FOR all the things that you stand against, and you'll be doing it because of fear. Fear is a great warning mechanism, but a very poor guide for making important, long-term choices.
The faint-hearted will vote for Romney, and if he won, it would be a coward's victory. If Romney won, things would get worse -- Congress would go left, the GOP would come to represent all the "gentler" statism that Romney embodies, and limited government Americans would be demoralized and disheartened to the point of extreme cynicism and apathy at the polls, they would lose all faith in our political system. All the things you hate about Obama would continue unabated under Romney, with Repbublican party SUPPORT because your vote told the GOP that you WANTED Romney.
If Obama wins, he'll be loathed even more than he is now because most Americans will have voted against him. Congress will move hard right. And MOST IMPORTANT, the GOP will grow stronger as the one hope American voters have as the party that stands for limited government, getting government out of our hair, leaving us the hell alone.
Romney would effectively kill the Republican party. If you vote for him, THAT is what you will be voting for.
Please rethink your decision on how you'll vote if he won the nomination.
Good question. In most all of DC and the many state capitals, democrats and Republicans are involved in crony capitalism at some level. Too much for any of them though, and Sarah is right to call anyone on it, including Perry. But, it is hardly solo to Rick Perry.
Sigh... That was why I was so for Sarah, and now have no one I’m for like I was for her.
I will vote, however. I spent too many years in service to our country overseas and not being able to vote. In any case, I will decide by the time of our primary in late February. Until then I can the see good and bad in all of these Republican candidates. Eventually, I will vote whoever, in my own mind, has the best good to bad ratio.
I have not attacked anyone, just offered a reminder as to the consequences of certain behavior.
Actually, I was referring to the temper tantrums seen whenever anybody questioned President Bush's brilliant political strategy of never answering the Democrat lies, whenever anybody pointed out the fallacy of equating Sarah Palin with Ronald Reagan, whenever anybody criticizes Perry, whenever anybody criticizes Romney, whenever anybody criticizes Cain, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...
Sometimes I see more civility and reasoned debate on sports forums.
Sounds great except for one thing....4 more years of Obama and his SCOTUS and Federal Court appointments.
When Obama gets to add 2 new rabid abortion supporters to SCOTUS, you will have helped enable him...which is your right.
I have to admit I had a little run-in with the Oregon Country Club. We have our version of Romney running for Wu’s seat and the Party has said I need to stop my writing to keep from embarrassing our candidate. They say my writing could be tied to him and make him a racist.
Basically I was told to quit writing or drop my position as Chairman of my two towns. That is what the CC gets you and why we need to defeat them.
Pray for America
Yes, I did, just now. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
There is some truth in what he says. However, I think there’s more from a danger in the democrat party. All the aspects Codevilla mentions are found fully in the democrats, and to a much lesser extent to the Republicans.
In any case, it is up to us to purge RINO thought from our party. Why? Just so conservatives can win? No. It is because conservatism is correct, true, and American.
If there is a lack of difference between the two parties, then it speaks of our indifference as people who need to keep delligent of their freedoms, rather than a failure of those we sent to DC.
Hey Bray,
If you look around for things like “The Constitution Party” and “The Taxpayers Party” as well as TEAparty activists, you should be able to garner quite a few enthusiastic helpers.
They just need to be convinced of the need to abandon third party pipe dreams and re-populate (and infiltrate) the party.
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