It would be great if Cruz, or Palin, or a real limited government Constitutional-type Christian conservative got the Republican nomination. It would also be great if I won the lottery. I ain't plannin' on either one.
The GOP will probably nominate (ha ha) a Democrat-lite Republican, again. I believe that numbers are very strong in legitimate voters in America toward a limited government mood, really a stand on taking back freedoms and cutting back the Federal Government, but with deep prejudices against Democrat as well as Republican stereotypes. An "Independent" can be that bridge, and his best allies will be conservative Republicans. If the Republican party throws off the mantle of the limited government party, then it will be time for a "third" party.
Maybe it's time for one anyway. How a political party could expect intelligent people to stick with it when its nominees held the same big-government values as the opposition party ... well, people are smart enough to know a load of crap when they see it, and the choice between big government pile 1 and big government pile 2 seems invisible only to the MSM.
I have no doubt the GOP elite are hoping for Jeb or Mitt to be nominatd in 2016.
That is one reason why it really irritates me to read all the Rick Perry is a RINO posts. He’s not a RINO he is a strong states rights guy and we need to get back to that. He is also a proponent of cutting the size of government.
If you will notice all of the GOP elites are missing in action in defending Rick Perry on this insane indictment out in Texas. Where’s the outrage from Reince Priebus? He is the head of the RNC. Not a peep that I know of. They know Rick is not a RINO.
We need to keep Perry and Cruz as possibles for 2016 to counter the likely GOP elite candidates.
Finny, I agree with you, all the way.
Conservatives running on the Republican ticket is a ticket to nowhere’s-ville.
Primaried out and spent, the conservative candidates divide their own conservative base among themselves, and then comes the late, Big Money, being timed and released by the Establishment to crush the leading conservative(s) candidate(s), resulting in the $$$RINO win.
As for Rick, his bono fidis as a conservative has already some wobbly history in Texas, having wondered off the conservative reservation on Guardasil for girls through the schools, his donor friendly connections to the manufacturer, and then
the Mexican highway “corridor” controversy and the not very conservative private land gobble it would entail.
Both of these events were legislatve, bypassing the screaming electorate. To his redeeming credit Rick was responsive to the public outcry and both moves for big government died forthwith.
Rick is now hurt by his own campaign connections and consultation with the Mississippi Mafia figure, Haley Barbour and Company as his prominent advisers. Barbour is the viscious RINO dirty tricks artist now proven to be the enemy of conservatives and conservatives. Perry and Barbour both use southern charm and bravado, alternating between their similar,”Aw shucks”, “humble me, religious style.
Palling around with thug Barbour, in any fashion, is not a conservative thing to do.
What “conservative” does that?