Posted on 01/05/2012 11:23:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Tea party favorite and pro-life conservative Sarah Palin and her family were viciously attacked to the point she chose not to run.
Congressional Tea Party Caucus leader and constitutional pro-life conservative Michele Bachmann had early promise, but I guess came across as too "shrill" and consequently her numbers driven down to the point she exited.
Successful pro-life conservative Texas Governor Perry hit the race at the top but due to missteps and less than stellar debate performances soon fizzled and is now all but gone.
Pro-life conservative businessman Cain and his famous 9-9-9 plan had promise, but was driven out due to indefensible allegations.
Pro-life Reagan Revolution conservative Newt Gingrich reinvigorated his campaign and soared to the top of the national polls, but was unacceptable to the establishment and apparently also unacceptable to the "true conservatives" among us and his numbers are now plummeting
You'd think "unquestionably" pro-life, pro-family conservative Rick Santorum whose recent surge took him to a tie in Iowa and who's now surging in the national polls might be good enough to stand against Romney for the base, but looks like there are "true conservatives" now attacking HIM as not good enough.
Well, drive them all out and who's left?
Huntsman? Who? Moonbat Paul?
Ideas anyone? Should we all continue attacking the conservatives we don't like until we drive them all out?
Personally, I could easily have lived with Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Newt or Santorum and would be proud to enthusiastically support any of them, warts and all. Any one of them is infinitely better than Obama or Romney.
But if we don't land on one soon and raise him up over Romney, guess who we're going to be stuck with? And it ain't going to be pretty. And if abortionist/statist/progressive Romney (or moonbat Paul) is the one, might as well get used to four more years of Obama. I won't vote for or support either one of those two.
I'd suggest that we all stop trying to tear down the other conservative candidates in the race and instead concentrate on trying to build up our own personal favorites. Who knows? May even discover an acceptable conservative (if not a great conservative) in the bunch. We've never had a perfect conservative yet. Not even the magnificent Ronald Reagan. We and they all have warts.
But we do want to have a candidate with at least an actual CONSERVATIVE record and not an out and out liberal progressive RINO. So let's compare their records and their actual conservative accomplishments but not try to destroy them personally.
God bless and may the best CONSERVATIVE be our nominee.
Well of course not. Mitt is neither Conservative nor a Republican.
Newt’s the best choice for what needs to be done now.
JMHO
No no no.....lol......don’t tell me what the lying sack of liberal is FOR. Tell me what he’s done when he’s had power that makes him better than Obama.
Take your time. I’m patient.
Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.
No worries, and yeah, I can tell you can’t stand him. ;-)
Mitt will be the media's chosen candidate and maybe throw in Paul running as a third party spoiler.
Obama will be re-elected and the country will completely be down the toilet.
Anyone even slightly resembling a conservative elected to the office will face a wall of opposition from the media, the elected left and members of their own party. It's useless.
My vote for president hasn't counted since Regan. Being in California it doesn't matter since my states electorial votes always go to the Dems.
My goal is to make as much money while I still can and go and F.O. to somewhere tropical.
Our founding fathers were all ex-pats from mother England. I'm doing the same and getting the hell outta Dodge...
Four weeks late, my FRiend. The day this website joined Romney and the GOP-E in taking down Newt (AMNESTY DAY) was the day we gave the nomination to Romney.
“it might mean another 4 yrs of 0failure... if so, then the American people haven’t learned and deserve more ‘change’”
then you’ll get change that lasts a lifetime: 2 or 3 more liberal Supremes.
Is no vote a vote for Obama?
Sorry Jim. You lost me on that. I'd vote Moonbat or Mittens to get Obama out of office. As bad as both of them are they are not even close to Obama. Santorum's Iowa speech grabbed my heart. I'm supporting him.
At this point Santorum seems to be a good choice. Everyone all along wondered why he couldn’t get recognized becaue he was a solid guy. The media fawned, then tore into everyone else, and took them out, and left him alone.
I don’t see any huge negatives or big surprises with him yet. Am I missing something?
That took significant character on your part to admit, FRiend. I am impressed.
We’ll see what SC does with Paul. And we’ll see what VA does with him, too.
I’ve actually been a Santorum fan all along, but I would have settled for anyone except Romney or Ron Paul.
I’ve been admonishing posters not to fall for the media trick of instigating a circular firing squad among the Republican field. I don’t see Newt accepting second place to Santorum, even though Gingrich did say that he was willing to combine with Santorum to knock out Romney. I just don’t see Gingrich playing the role that Huckabee played with McCain and then sitting back and waiting to see if Santorum would offer him a VP slot.
I’m afraid that Palin is looking for a VP slot with Romney.
omg. i hadn't thought of that. lol! Pelosi's worst nightmare.
Laughable, old boy. Apparently getting played like fools is the conservative moto, these days....Oh Bachman, darn. Oh Cain!...darn....Oh Perry...Darn, Oh Newt....darn. Oh Santorum.....pifffff. You'll get Mitt.....and be happy about it. Pontification on this forum doesn't change a darn thing......
A vote for Romney (who still thinks his Masscare is a success) is hypocritical if you’re voting for the defeat of Obamacare.
Renew America while we still have some of it.
" That's where I am. I started out wanting an “outsider”, but after thinking about it, the politicians would probably just run rings around them.
I have always preferred to look at a candidate's record vs his rhetoric. Perry and Santorum are going to have to show me a lot more going forward, or Newt it is. No matter where these 2 are in their hearts, I'm thinking Newt is more likely to be able to “git er done”.
Still intend to watch him or them like a hawk. Just don't trust politicians period.
The crap of cutting down conservatives has been getting to me lately in a big way, even here on FR.
People need to quit being herded by the stinking MSM (including FOX) and Rino elite.
Keep showing the way Boss.
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