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.
5 candidates off the ballot in VA due to a change in proceedure that certain candidates were prepped for... And not others.
“This country cannot survive 4 more years of zero. It will survive a Romney presidency. “
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It cannot survive 4 years of Romney either. If a choice between Obama and Romney, better to have Zero get his second term and the full blame for the country’s financial implosion than have Romney become Hoover II for the Democrats to beat up on for the next four decades.
NOT suggesting a vote for Obama under any circumstances. Just sitting out the top of the ticket if Romney is crammed down our throats as the GOP nominee. Vote for conservative candidates down ticket and then declare war on the GOP establishment that has already declared war on conservatism and libertarianism.
>>Is just as evil as evil can be.
You’ll learn what evil is when you see a President Barack Obama who doesn’t fear another election in action. I only pray that the Dems lose the Senate in this election because we’ve already lost the White House. But if the R’s do gain control of both houses, then it will be very difficult to start a REAL second party because then the elites will tell us to stay the course so we don’t lose Congress in 2014.
My philosophical preference is Bachmann, then Santorum. I can live with Newt, if it's just Newt standing against Romney by the time of the NY primary. If Newt has it in the bag, or it's still a toss up, maybe I'll vote for Bachmann.
It's still early. I think Newt is the best speaker and debater, but he carries a lot of impedimenta.
I’m writing in my cat. He’s far more qualified than any of the other candidates.
To all the hardcore Rombots & Paulbots, bye-bye!
I disagree! Conservatives shouldn’t back anyone until the convention, because the only way they will have any voice at all will be if there is a stalemate, and the party has to choose a dark horse candidate.
The most likely dark horse is Sarah Palin, but there are others who are conservatives.
Right now, the GOP leadership have all committed to Romney, so more than anything else, conservatives have to block him.
Since there are now only two candidates in Virginia, even if you intensely dislike Ron Paul, he should still get your vote, if only to deny Romney a decisive victory.
Paul isn’t going anywhere, so it is a no risk vote.
I already know how evil Obama is. And there’s no way I will vote for someone just as evil.
Ditto here. I'm no fan whatsoever of Romney, but Obama MUST be defeated. If Romney is the guy going forward, so be it.
she’s dead Gibbs
Nobody has ever said the elite are very bright. Here’w the deal, it won’t matter who the activists are, the average voter won’t vote for Romney and if that happens, there will be no down ticket votes either. That means no senate and possibly no house. Not good, but that’s the way it is. The elite really do need to be taken out and horsewhipped. They are creating this disaster and they have no idea just how bad it’s going to be.
NO! Just plain and simply NO! Are we going to have to listen to these posts over and over regarding voting the party line....AGAIN.
It is called INSANITY. You know...doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same bad result....
I will support the nominee unless it is Ron Paul. I can’t go that far. Dude is a kook.
No way I waste precious moments of my life arguing with you.
If the GOP nominates Romney, and he loses to Obama. Daffy Duck could beat Obama!
If the Tea Party movement continues making progress in Congress in 2012 and 2014, that's a different situation as most RINOs will know they don't have a chance in 2016.
It is not just about the offices or president. Until we take our culture back from the progressives we will always be one election away from the death of freedom.
Spare me your brilliance. It hurts my head.
So you will not vote at all if it is Romney or Paul? Not likely it will be Paul, so we are talking Romney. If you do not vote for Romney, you will allow an Obama voter (of which there will be many) to have their vote counted and not negated. It’s simple mathematics - a nonvote by you is a vote for Obama. For all intents and purposes, you will be voting for Obama, no?
Mad? No doubt about it. You're stark raving mad.
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