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.
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 won’t perpetuate the shuffle game any longer.
Will not support Romney or anyone the GOP establishment and MSM push. For the first time in 50 years, I will not vote if it comes down to the status-fixe.
I will NEVER vote for another RINO!
That’s my pledge to my family!
Conservatives have precious few real choices in the GOP primary; Bachmann, Santorum, Perry much less so, Gingrich as a last resort. Romney is a non-starter as are Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman. Then we get egomaniacs such as Donald Trump making noises about running on a third party ticket. Even billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a solid liberal masquerading as a ‘Republican’, mutters about running as an independent. I’m sure he would only do so to help Obama because, whether it was Trump or Bloomberg, we know they would siphon votes from the Republican nominee and, in effect, probably give Obama another term, which would likely be the end of America as we know and love it. So, conservatives look at Newt Gingrich, wince and know that to defeat Obama, we may have to cast our vote for him on November 6th, 2012. It could even come down to voting for the RINO’s RINO, Mitt Romney, to keep Obama out of the White House. Conservatives are sick of ‘holding our nose’ and voting for this election’s designated RINO. However, we’re being pushed into a corner, as it were, and may end up doing just that in order to defeat and remove Barack Obama from power, which is the ultimate goal. I find this frustrating but possibly, inevitable - and I hate it.
Make the pledge? I understand the anxiety.
But making a pledge sounds too much like this: “Dear GOP leaders. Don’t worry, I’ll vote for whoever you nominate, no matter how bad.”
I hate to say it, but four more years of Obama OR the current corrupt RINO idiots will destroy our country. Either one.
I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I sure as hell won’t pledge to support whatever idiot Karl Rove and Co. manage to pull out of the sewer and foist on us.
I’m still hoping that SOMETHING will change, and we’ll get a decent candidate to vote for. But it’s not looking very hopeful at the moment.
I'm not so sure. I recall a president named Nixon who campaigned as a conservative, yet when he got in, he embraced the Great Society, vastly expanded federal intrusion into the economy by creating the EPA and OSHA, started Affirmative Action, appointed the Supreme Court Justice who wrote Roe vs Wade, and tried to push through a guaranteed annual income.
If his track record is anything to go by, President Romney will embrace and expand Obamacare and fill the judiciary with liberals, as he did in Massachusetts.
On the other hand, if Obama is re-elected, he'll be seen as a lame duck as soon as he takes the oath of office.
NO ROMNEY!! NO WAY!!
Those who can’t live with that are welcome to take the exit door. And don’t let it hit you where the good Lord split ya!!
No Romney No way. Policy wise he is little different than Obama and a republican congress won’t oppose him. He will destroy the courts, the military, our social fabric and the conservative movement for years.
At least with Obama there is a chance to fight for our liberty
We have seen the republican establishment frag conservatives... they don’t get my vote....
I’ve voted exclusively GOP my entire voting life, never wavering a single time. Not for Perot, not for anybody.
But if Romney is the nominee, the GOP can just go choke to death. Three years of backstabbing conservatives, backstabbing Palin, backstabbing the Tea Party, backstabbing the grassroots... like I’m going to ‘reward’ these scumbags with my vote? To Hell with the bastards!
get over yourself and your FEAR of the boogeyman...
*if* a representative doesnt show up worthy of voting FOR, then the blame doesnt fall on the citizenry that had a *choice* between piss and vinegar...it lies squarely on the statist gubmint and the media lackeys that have driven the citizen legislator into extinction...
as it stands, the only difference between 'R' and 'D' is that one wants to pretend to be fiscally responsible...
last cycle, i had one name on the ballot to 'choose' from...that wasnt/isnt representation...
I know the Republican Party leadership would love to toss the blame of their failings on us, but the problem is that the leadership does not clearly define enough what Conservatism is, and what we should be doing to make it succeed.
Bush barely scrapes by the likes of Gore.
Bush barely scrapes by the likes of Kerry.
McCain can’t even muster a win over the likes of Obama.
Folks, we’ve got a problem, and it isn’t the electorate.
If we can’t get candidates who can beat some of the worst Leftists our nation has ever seen, by more than a very slim margin, or can’t beat them at all, then we’re doing something terribly wrong.
How about trying Conservatism for a change?
I know it’s novel, but what the hey...
I’m NOT taking the pledge. If the GOP nominates someone like Paul or Romney, they can take their chances.
” P.S. Trump is a brandname and a hairdo “
Read his stands on the isues of the day and get back to me . Anybody who has the balls to bring up the BC issue and attack China is no leftist .
“No Romney No way. Policy wise he is little different than Obama and a republican congress won’t oppose him. He will destroy the courts, the military, our social fabric and the conservative movement for years.”
Exactly. a Romney presidency could very well be WORSE than 4 more years of Obama.
Exactly. All good candidates (including Cain, imo) fishing from the same CONSERVATIVE pond.
Which is why the conservative survivor among them will CRUSH Romney and his political bro, Obama.
[jrg] Ditto
Double-double dittoes to your ditto and double-ditto.
The take over of the R party will begin in earnest for NY right after the 1st of the year. Watch and join.
Testify, Testify...
There is no way in hell I will vote for that M*ssh*le SOB Romney...no way in hell.
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