Posted on 04/11/2012 8:04:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Your silence will then get us 4 more years of BO, MO and Eric Holder, not to mention the rest of the commie clan and any Supreme Court justices appointed.
This country will be unrecognizable.
FR is not anti-anything. FR is a pro-conservative website.
Excellent, well reasoned post.
I hear you—it’s a long shot, but what other shot do conservatives have?
I am not ready to throw in the towel and have Romney forced on me.
That’s what rebelllion is all about.
If we worried about the odds, America would never have been born.
That’s why we have to rid ourselves of the parasites in the GOP and Democrats.
The only answer is a third party and it’s entirely possible due to the internet and the speed that news travels back and forth.
Not being an elitist in academia I can’t tell you how many Republicans are going to sit this one out simply because they have no choice. I can, however, tell you that my guess is about 6 out of 10 of the people in my circle hate Romney and will vote for an iron fence post if they were given the choice between Romney and the post.
With that said, there are many millions who, at the drop of a hat, would donate for a third party candidate and take it upon themselves to have many one-on-one with their friends and neighbors.
It’s very, very possible for a new party to rise in full strength within a few months.
Gingrich would have been a good candidate for the GOP, flawed, but good. However, he would not be a good candidate for a new third party.
“He would not say no.”
So what? Wouldn’t you like to be VP with a strong chance of being elected POTUS later?
So you would not vote for Mittens yet you’d be his VP? What kind of a hypocritical ideological whore are you? If this election is so damn important you won’t vote for him yet you’d put your political career in front of the country to be his VP because it’s good for you? Really?
BTTT!
So the people who know him well, think he is pro-life even though his words, actions and governance say differently.
So those facts are not an issue because “well he is just a politician”.
Sorry, for you and your friends, I do not vote for liberals, and I certainly do not vote for people who promote abortion.
You do what you need to do, I will not vote for Romney.
I will not stand before God Almighty and say “yea I voted for a guy who promotes abortion but he wasn’t as bad as BHO, so it was ok”.
Ditto. I have tried, but can't say it any better than you just did.
“Agreed. But in order to make an impact with that protest vote, we have to have a sufficient volume of people coalescing around the third party ... or it will go unnoticed. We need name recognition whether that be an individual, or a party, or “NUTS!” if need be. And we need a fair number of people committed to following through with it. I wager we’ll all wait to see what rolls out for a bit yet. We have the possibility of a contested convention and an independent candidate appearing on the scene. But the time to define a solid contingency plan is decidedly now.” - so_real
Precisely right. I’m not the person to know exactly what the strategy should be at this point, but that is to be decided (quickly) and to have a plan A and a plan B - with a core group ready to take action on it - is only smart. I presume Newt and/or a contested convention falls within plan A. Plan B needs to take shape around a conservative third party movement.
I voted for Newt today (early Indiana) whether is is the longest of long shots or not.
O is one big secret!
Obama State Department set to cede oil-rich Alaska islands to Russia....
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.
And then what happens? You deny Mitt the 1144. We go to convention and the GOP nominates someone else you will find unacceptable (e.g, Jeb, Christie, etc.) That will pretty much put us back to square one — no “true” conservative.
However, like Newt, I wouldn't expect to be asked to begin with either.
My earlier posts all say about the same:
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Hey there metmom, as well as anyone else that may care to chime in.
The choice is to vote a write in. Keep the % votes for whoever wins low, less of a claimed ‘mandate’.
Also, VOTE DOWN TICKET!
It’s critical to claim the senate and keep the house, as well as put as many conservatives in there as we can.
Just my 2 cents
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Vote a third person / write in, will keep total vote % lower for the winner, less of a claim to a ‘mandate’.
Vote downticket, House and Senate are IMPORTANT.
And above all, as you have noted, PRAY and fast, and TRUST in the Lord.
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Romeny will NOT win. Can not win. He is Obama lite anyway. The GOP knows it. We are so close to a one-party system and here are people arguing about which socialist to elect.
Really? A Repub socialist is better than a Dem socialist? My vote will go to neither.
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I do NOT recall Jim Rob saying “Stay Home”.
But voting FOR Romney is out. Vote someone else. Deny the winner, ANY winner a plurality, a majority, a mandate. Vote for the Constitution Party Candidate. Write in Sarah.
VOTE DOWN TICKET. This is indeed a fight. Deny them Congress. Fight for the White House. Newt is still VERY VIABLE.
Pray. Alot, without ceasing, as it were.
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In any case, Newt is head and shoulders above Romney, who is ideologically identical to Obama, except that he’s white.
The bottom line is the best people, the most conservative people that most of us were asking, requesting, begging to run, said they would not run. There were a number of people we could have been energized to rally around. They are not running. Through this entire process, seeing what we are seeing, possibly feeling what we are feeling, and none of them have changed their minds and decided to jump in. If they are seeing what we are, and feeling what we are feeling, and they are still not jumping in to give folks a conservative alternative that can get the votes and win in November because they energize the conservative base, well, that says something too.
Yep. And if Santorum had thrown his support behind Gingrich from the beginning, then we wouldn't have a Romney problem to worry about. As it is, even if Santorum could commit his 280+ delegates to Gingrich, Romney's still ahead because Romney benefitted form Gingrich and Santorum splitting the vote in winner-take-all states.
So the reality is that the GOPe consolidated on their boy Romney, and we flitted away the conservative majority advantage in the primary by having a bunch of charlatans half-running.
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