Posted on 04/11/2012 8:04:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Notice: Free Republic has been in full rebellion mode since 2008 and will remain in full rebellion mode for the duration!
No more Doles!! No more McCains!! No more RINOS!!
NO ROMNEY!!
Those who cannot stomach rebellion might as well start looking for a new home on the net!!
Those who have ignored my hundreds of posts on this crucial issue or who have doubted me these last three or four years might as well get used to it. FR will never support the abortionist, homosexualist, socialist, mandate loving, constitution trampling liar Mitt Romney.
In case you haven't noticed, a TEA Party rebellion is on and Free Republic signed on years ago. There is no turning back. No more crap from the GOP-e!! They've screwed us for the last time!! Karl Rove and Mitt Romney, et al, loathe conservatism and loathe the tea party and took it upon themselves to use their money and connections to destroy nearly every one of our conservative tea party candidates while pushing their big government RINOS. That makes them the enemy. I will not reward that betrayal by giving them my support or my vote.
FR is and will remain a pro-life, pro-limited government conservative site!!
We are beholden to NO ONE!! We bow to no kings!! We bow to NO RINOS!!
I'd rather fight and die like a man than bend over and be screwed by a RINO!! I refuse to kiss Karl Rove or Mitt Romney's rings!! They can kiss my rosy red ass instead!!
FUMR!! FUGOP!!
Long live the rebellion!!
Hope my message is clear.
I’d rather not “END UP” being stuck between a broken GOP and the DNC. If I have to take Obama for 4 more years in exchange for my party to “get the message” then I’ll take it.
You left out the qualifier, "in my opinion".
Mitt is unpopular, has not been able to win in the primaries even with the aid of FNC and the RINO elite...IMO, there will be more voters than you think who will vote for downticket conservatives...remember, these are LOCAL elections and the Tea Party is still alive.
I think the battle is lost. That’s what I think. The liberals are united, the Republicans are divided, I think we get 4 more years of o bama, a stacked far left Supreme Court, he ditches Biden in 2014-16 and selects a new VP who will win in 2016, and pick more far left Supreme Court justices and we have now seen the demise of the Republic.
Is that pessimistic enough for you?
This is the most puzzling part of the posts here. If we were on this site throughout the primary, we saw exactly how it got to this point. The weak field, the split and infighting among the notRomneys. As soon as one alternative rose, the supporters of the others tore him down again.
I don't feel I was, or we were, manipulated into this; we did it of our own free will. We need stronger candidates and more unity to avoid this in the future; but I don't think we have that even on here.
thanks for your posts...
Yet Newt says he would not say no if asked.
You can't seem to accept that he doesn't expect to be asked to begin with.
He can afford to be gracious in his comments.
Don't be so politically naive.
I agree 100% with your statement.
Wrong again, genius. The conservatives were consolidating on a meaningful conservative candidate (like Gingrich) early on.
You didn’t seriously think we didn’t know Santorum was the GOPe guy staying in just long enough to prevent the above from happening? The other “half-baked” ones got out plenty long ago.
Just because we couldn’t do anything about it doesn’t mean we are buying your bull****.
Do what you want. But why did you include me on this reply post?
sam, the GOP-E absolutely in promoting Romney and “selecting” him, even when only half of the states have held their primaries.
They are DC Beltway crowd beating the drum for Romney as the inevitable nominee, therefore all resistance must cease.
The people have consistently voted against Romney, yet we are being told everyday that resisitance is futile—he is the one.
So the question remains: If Romney is not getting the majority of primary votes why is he being coronated, and what are we going to do about it?
Newt is the face of this rebellion.Before the afternoon of April 10th, maybe Santorum could have been that face, but for unknown reasons, he has negated all of his hard work and bowed out.
Newt is the last conservative standing, so I am rebelling with him.
I’m sorry he is not perfect, but he is a darn sight beeter than either Romney or Obama.
I am reading your ping at “my comments”.
I read this as I have read other statements of Newts in the past in which IMO he’s saying if he’s NOT the POTUS, which is the job he seeks then he’s a citizen. He’s said in past statements as I read them before that he’s not interested in being the guy the POTUS such as Romney would be that is ignored, and would be there to catch the fallout for the idiot making the decisions.
Seen it before. Newt is right on the mark. He’s either POTUS, or to “H” with it. Let Romney sink, or swim. I applaud his attitude.
I think he’s absolutely right. Been in a few positions in my life I had to make the decision too. It’s either me making the decisions, or I’m outta here. I had no intention of being the fall guy for some other persons inadequacies, and BS. Why open oneself up to such BS?
Sam, I understand the problem. Gingrich isn't my favorite candidate either, but he's the last one left standing.
Got a better alternative? I don't.
Also consider that Gingrich really had no choice. If he raises questions now about his willingness to support the eventual Republican nominee, he's destroying whatever chance he has left of winning the Republican nomination. Unlike the modern Tea Party movement which has gotten away with “bad boy” behavior, Gingrich knows what it's like to be portrayed as a “take my marbles and go home” crybaby. That tactic was used by Bill Clinton against him quite effectively.
I suppose something could go horrifically left-wing at the convention, so extreme that Gingrich gets talked into running a third-party bid, but with millions of dollars of debt, I don't see it. My guess is that Gingrich is out for good after the convention and at most he can be talked into running for something in 2014 after a devastating nationwide 2012 Republican bloodbath for which Romney gets blamed.
Newt Gingrich supported Dede Scozzafava, after all, rather than a third party conservative candidate that, under New York state election laws, was actually a viable third party campaign. I didn't blame Santorum for backing Specter (though I can't see me being willing to do that) and I refuse to blame Gingrich for party loyalty. People in top political roles like Santorum and Gingrich don't have the freedom we have — especially those of us who are not using our real names on the internet.
Obviously, I could be wrong. If any of the Republican candidates would go third-party, Gingrich and Paul are the only ones I could see doing it — and there's no way I'm voting for Ron Paul based on his anti-Israel and isolationist positions. Those are just as much no-go positions for me as Romney's views on abortion.
I've taken way too much time on national politics over the last few days, especially since Santorum dropped out. In less than five hours, articles of impeachment are going to be considered against our mayor, following the firing of the city administrator and a bunch of other city officials, and I need to get back to local politics where what I do makes a much bigger difference than here.
>>>>>" I think people are kidding themselves about who Newt really is. I am not happy to say it."
If nothing changes, nothing changes. We seem unable to unite on anyone or anything - even to defeat our common opponent. Until this changes, being effective in the nation's politics is futile.
And he's going to win all the delegates in the upcoming states and Santorum's delegates are going to swing his way? Right? Because that's what it is going to take.
Ooooookay! Santorum has been a secret Romney agent all along?!
Sure, I'll play your silly little game.
Then all of the social conservatives who supported Santorum were....fools? dupes?
I see. So really we don't need primaries, we just need a smokey backroom with people as smart as you to pick the right conservative candidate before the primaries start.
Wait. That's what the GOPe did for their boy Romney! Isn't that what we're against?
This is 2012. I can assure you the democrats were quite fanatically liberal in 1992. The current republican party with Boehner, Ryan, etc. is NOT more liberal than the democrats 20 years ago.
Sadly, that is what we are faced with. As I said,
I will not do anything to help Obama in any way win this election. I will exert all of my energies to his defeat at the ballot box...and I believe we can. I am constrained to do this for my kids and grandkids so they can carry on the fight in the future. They may not have that chance with Obama in another four years. Plain and simple.
Each must decide for themselves, but I have made my decision based on the reasons I outlined.
America at the Crossroads
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Mitt has already agreed to pay off Santorums campaign debts as long as he keeps his delegates from Newt. It is the way it works.
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