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.
I like Santorum, he’s a strong conservative, but seriously, does anyone really think he will get the independents? I swore I would not beat down any of the GOP candidates and do the DNC’s work for them, as MANY Freepers have done and I think I have for the most part stuck that promise to myself. I hesitated to even say this about Santorum.
Newt’s IOWA showing might have been better.
He should have enlarged on his debate performances——the reason he rose in the polls.
He should have run ads with his debate clips BEFORE THE CAUCUSES.
I like Santorum, he’s a strong conservative, but seriously, does anyone really think he will get the independents? I swore I would not beat down any of the GOP candidates and do the DNC’s work for them, as MANY Freepers have done and I think I have for the most part stuck with that promise to myself. I hesitated to even say this about Santorum.
Kennedy and Bryer are coming up too. How great would it be to dump those three pieces of garbage (Nino, of course, excluded from that description) and replace them with Thomas/Roberts/Alito?
It was inspiring to see G Dub back down from the TRULY HORRIBLE Harriet Meyers. I think we can twist Mittens’ arm too, but it would be a whole lot better with Santorum/Newt/Perry/Mr. X making the call. Take the Senate and we can get a REAL originalist like Janice Rogers Brown, Miguel Estrada or Charles Pickering.
Romney ...is also a far cry from Obama.
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Kid thems just crocodile tears...
Romney can afford silk hankies...
I will not vote for or support an abortionist/statist for president. Period.
Speaking of age, I just went to look at Santorum’s wiki entry, and his father is an Italian immigrant?
Santorum was born in Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and Butler County, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Aldo Santorum (1923-2011)[6][7] and his wife, Catherine Santorum (née Dughi, born 1918). [7] His father was an Italian immigrant, originally from Riva del Garda, Italy,[6] and his mother is of half-Italian and half-Irish descent.[8][9][10][11]
The problem we have is that we had to small of an inventory. Perhaps we better make larger orders.
But first you have to sell the product or orders aren’t necessary.
I don’t know if you’re from CA, but if you were then you would see the destruction that a RINO executive can do. Arnold’s 2nd term (when he went full-on RINO) was as bad as Brown is. The CA economy took the hit just the same as if Davis had remained. The difference is that the GOP took the blame and has now been reduced to almost total irrelevance in the state.
A Romney victory would sow the seeds of a much larger defeat for the GOP and conservatism.
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media “vet” the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This “election” will be a non-election...featuring the state approved “candidates”-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
FWIW....IMHO..psyops are being used by DC against Flyover Country....
Shoulda, woulda, coulda....Let’s hope Newt is paying attention to lessions learned and applies them going forward.
Boy, exactly my strong feelings about Newt. He has high negatives.
So let him bow out gracefully and run those anti-Myth ads anyway, if he really wants to forward the conservative cause. He's not going to help defeat Romney by sucking votes away from either Santorum or Gingrich in South Carolina.
Agreed because if we support Romney now then we have to support him in 2016. Then what, hope for a real conservative in 2020?
I like Santorum's focus on manufacturing and he's young enough to run on his own in 2016 (if necessary) or 2020.
Of what's left, I'd prefer Perry or Newt. At the rate things are going it'll be Romney by March. It's maddening.
Best post in this thread!
This can be changed at the local level, and can be done in a short period of time, if done on a wide enough scale. I am not sure how things work outside of PA, but there must be similar methods in other states. At the local level, literally at the precinct level you can run or vote for committeeman. This gives a vote at the state Republican party. That in turn controls endorsements at a state and local level, and when the party will endorse. This is a big rub in PA, since the state party would endorse candidates before primary elections. We need new conservative blood in the party and it becomes a very difficult for new blood to enter the fray when the party endorses RINO incumbents before primaries.
Our country is in dire need of new conservatives. There are plenty of capable businessmen, not seeking political power, but willing to serve their country and return to their businesses. The problem is the barrier to entry in the political market, where RINO establishment need to be courted for years to gain higher office. Most businessmen can't be township supervisors or mayors, the graduate to state rep. then state senator, then congressman and so on.
The local level needs to be attacked by the Tea Party to control the state Republican Party. With power at the state level, you become part of the establishment and control elections. Just imagine the cold shoulders, lack of help and endorsements would be like for candidates like Romney or Huntsman when the come to your state.
All battles are won before they are fought.
- Sun Tsu
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