Posted on 12/24/2011 2:43:58 PM PST by neverdem
Be thankful that the season of Obama media vetting of Republican presidential candidates is coming to a close as Republican voters in the primary states at long last get to have their say on who the nominee will be.
The last eight months of media focus on each of the "not-Romneys" has been like watching the picadors in a bullfight wound the bull with their lances before the brave matador steps into the ring to face the dying bull.
But already there's talk of third party campaigns if certain candidates' egos get bruised by voter rejection in the primary season.
All of us who are committed to the defeat of Barack Obama cannot let this happen. Candidates for the Republican nomination for President must pledge now to support the nominee chosen by the voters in upcoming primary elections. Failure to take the pledge should be a factor when Republican primary voters make their choice.
A second term for Obama would do unthinkable harm to this country. I know because I'm already living in Obama's second term.
I live in California, a former "golden state" now mired in bloated government, rising debt (despite a balanced budget amendment to the state constitution), higher taxes, 12% unemployment, with productive people and their businesses fleeing the state. California is awash in illegal aliens, failing schools, and pot hole filled roads.
Don't let California's present be your state's future.
Our incumbent president faces the voters having in just three years championed policies that more than doubled the annual federal deficit, added more than $4 trillion to the government's debt, nearly doubled the unemployment rate, and doubled the price of gasoline.
Based on this record of accomplishment, Obama went on 60 Minutes to claim with a straight face that he is the fourth best President in American history! To protect Obama from his Hugo Chavez moment, 60 Minutes edited out the claim in the on-air version of the interview.
To restore an America of opportunity and prosperity, not to mention humility, Obama must go.
But Obama will be re-elected if candidates rejected by primary voters, or self appointed billionaire blowhards, launch third party bids.
The first to threaten a third party run this week was libertarian Gary Johnson (who?). Wikipedia says Johnson was a two term governor of New Mexico.
Johnson advocates a 23% national sales tax, marijuana legalization, gay marriage, and an open border with Mexico. Johnson charges that "the Republican Party hung me out to dry" after he appeared on only two of the televised debates. Based on his platform, he got more time than he should have.
Johnson is not the threat. The threat is a third party run by Ron Paul, Mike Bloomberg, or Donald Trump. I'm not really worried about the billionaires either; they are most likely bluster and self promotion. I'm worried about a third party Ron Paul campaign re-electing Barack Obama.
Glenn Beck has said that should Newt Gingrich get the Republican nomination, Beck would back Ron Paul as a third party candidate. Glenn: Please reconsider.
According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published this week, Ron Paul is within 5 points of Obama in a hypothetical November matchup between the two. But if Paul doesn't get the Republican nomination and makes a third party run, Obama will be re-elected when the conservative, right of center majority splits its vote between Paul and the Republican nominee.
What part of "Vote for Perot, Elect Clinton" do you not understand?
I've been down this road before. In 1992. I supported Perot. I was wrong. I won't get fooled again.
Any of the declared candidates for the Republican nomination are preferable to Obama. The choice of Republican voters in the coming primary season should be honored. Ron Paul and all the aspiring presidential hopefuls should pledge to support the nominee.
While I will personally vote in the primary for the candidate I think the most qualified and conservative, I will support the candidate who wins the Republican nomination, whether it be Paul, Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, or even Governor Johnson.
Meanwhile, the Tea Party movement needs to complete its takeover of the GOP. This is no time to be wasting resources on a new conservative party.
I was always a member of NY's Conservative Party when I lived in NY, until Fred Thompson had his name in the GOP primary in 2008. I changed my registration at the October deadline in 2007. I wound up voting for Romney because Thompson already dropped out.
If Romney gets elected, and I hope Romney doesn't get the nomination, and the GOP has both houses of the next Congress, there can be no repeats of GWB's No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D! We're broke!
P.S. Trump is a brandname and a hairdo. I can't see Bloomberg taking votes from the right, only from the ignorant moderates and independents. Bloomberg, currently registered as an independent, was a lifelong, hardcore lefty before he became a RINO.
After Virginia...
Not Romney. Under no circumstances.
Yawn. Always with the threat of this “this is no time for a 3rd party, the moment is too crucial!”
If Romney gets anointed the nomination, there will no longer be any room to pretend that any real difference exists between the two halves of the Republicrat cartel.
So will I unless it's Paul or Romney.
So will I unless it’s Paul or Romney.
Ditto
This country cannot survive 4 more years of zero. It will survive a Romney presidency.
Yes... I’m getting tired of holding my nose while I vote. All that happens is that the country moves to the Left at 45 mph instead of 55 mph.
Nope, not Romney, not EVER!
Besides a Romney nomination is just a guarantee of 4 more years of 0bama anyway.
Nope, not EVER!
But like good little lemmings, we'll follow in lock step and vote for whatever candidate the media props up for us. Then we'll whine and threaten to either sit home or vote for a third party candidate and in either case that is the same thing as pulling the lever for Obama.
In the end Republican voters will put Obama back in office and have no one to blame for it but themselves. So go ahead, stay home...vote for that third party candidate! You might as well just switch parties and send the DNC a big fat donation, because in the end your supporting them anyway.
The democrats aren’t the only plantation owners in town.
Other than mitt, newt and paul, i will support any gop nominee.
Amnesty must be stopped
There's where I'm coming from.
? Why? Did gingrich just fall off the patato truck? was he born last night? Gingrich’s fault, no one else’s.
Nope, not this time.
Not only did MA get $50 abortions, mandated RomneyCare which btw came with the public option, liberal judges/gay marriages galore, a billion dollars or so in new government fees, and huge business tax increases BUT also a single term gov who spent most of the time out of state/running for another office.
Your confidence teeters on faith via bu!!sh!t.
Romney certainly hasn't a past to prove that he would be any better than 0bama, all he has shown is he is willing to continue what 0bama has started by his actions as governor and his rhetoric as a candidate.
Because we’re not letting the GOP Establishment do this kind of stuff any more.
Read Jim Rob’s thread about the sudden interest in cross-referencing addresses, not just signatures, for the FIRST TIME EVER by a VA team that is backing Mitt Romney.
No more of this. We have to draw the line somewhere and say, “This far, no further!’ That is what many of us are doing this time around. No more wagging the dog.
I hereby pledge to support the nominee as long as he’s not an abortionist, gay rights advocating, Reagan denying, socialist healthcare pushing, mandate loving, gun grabbing, liberal judge appointing, two-faced, flip-flopping, lying RINO hypocrite or a whacko drug-pushing isolationist.
That leaves Gingrich, Bachmann, Perry or Santorum. Huntsman? Who?
Doesn’t matter. If it’s down to Romney vs. Obama in the general election, it makes no effective difference which one of them wins. Both of them are phony puppet candidates who will lead the country in the same direction at the same rate—one of them will appear more palatable to Democrats, the other more palatable to Republicans.
I’ll do my part to conscientiously abstain from propping up the illusion of choice and perpetuate the shuffle game.
Ditto
No Obama, Paul, or Romney
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