Posted on 12/03/2011 11:16:13 AM PST by JimWayne
I first supported Palin and then Cain. Both have been hounded out. I am NOT SUPPORTING RINO Gingrich. I will now support Bachmann. If they hound her out, it is Ron Paul with whom I vehemently disagree on foreign policy. Sorry, that is how it is.
The other choices we have are the following: Gingrich the Global Warmist, Santorum the ethanol salesman and pork baron, Rick Perry the pro-bailout Governor and Mittens the socialist and abortionist.
At this point Tea Party gaining control of the Congress and Senate is important. If that happens, they can keep Hussein in check. Hussein winning a second term is bad but Mittens is worse for America.
I am open to hearing why I should not prioritize my support to various candidates in this order. I am not supporting any RINOs. I know I am willing to support Ron Paul in protest against the RINOs. You can convince me to not support Paul and abstain, but you cannot convince me to support any RINO.
Never!
We pretty much are left with two choices as conservatives....
If these don’t pan out it’s gotta be third party.
FOUR MORE YEARS!
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ABO - Anybody But Obama
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The only remaining Republicans I’ll support in the primary are, in alphabetical order, Bachman, Paul, and Santorum.
Saying “No RINOS”, yet you’ll support Ron Paul? Really? Ron Paul is RINO in that he’s Libertarian, and hardly conservative outside of some of his fiscal policies.
Bachmann/Santorum 2012
I’m sorry, but Bachmann is a joke. She’s like a Chatty Cathy doll that can only say 5 things. You pull the string and she repeats one of her talking points. Get her off the talking points and she’s a worse gaffe machine than Zero. When she’s on the talking points, she comes off to me as insincere and lacking in depth. And prior to this campaign I had a very high opinion of Michele.
I’m pretty sure who I’m going to be supporting now and the choice won’t be popular among a lot here at FR, but the candidate that I agree with 80% of the time is Ron Paul. The other 20% is a damn tough 20% to swallow, but dammit, we’ve lost freedom here at home. If it takes shaking up our foreign policy to get it back, so be it.
I would never support Ron Paul. I troops deserve better.
Looks like you will be supporting Obama then.
I’m throwing in the towel. There are no other choices. Might as well vote for Obama.
He’s an outspoken pro-lifer. He’s been running some ads here in SC about abortion that are very touching actually.
Fiscal policy is where we’re fscked. We need to get un-fscked FAST. If a few other apple carts are upset in the process of doing that, so be it.
Are you kidding me? Why not vote for Obama, or Romney (which is the functional equivalent of voting for Obama)?
Bachmann has already proven that she’s just on this side of being a nut-job, that she cannot handle serious pressure or criticism, and has no experience in executive office (which is very different from being in Congress, and even then she doesn’t have much experience there).
As for Paul; what are you, nuts? He hits realistic positions about the same way that a stopped clock gets the correct time twice a day.
It sounds like your bottom-line problem is that you have no real grasp of what you mean by the term “RINO” (Romney is a RINO; Perry is not, arguably Gingrich is not, most likely Cain wasn’t) - because, quite frankly, if this were 1980 you would most likely not have voted for Ronald Reagan on the ground that he was a RINO. You seem to be seeking some sort of ideological purity that is (a) self-destructive, and (b) incapable of satisfaction because there is no human-being who can match up to ideological perfection.
Semper Watching!
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You are being very unfair to Bachmann, but I agree that RP is the better choice. In fact, in light of the McCain-Levin Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill, it appears we are inching (lurching?) toward a nearly totalitarian state, someone like RP may be the only choice.
Fiscal policies are what is taking this country down. Paul is the man to fix the problem at hand. Imposing social conservatism through legislation is just as unconstitutional as imposing social liberalism through legislation. Our culture needs to be repaired but not through legislation.
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