Posted on 10/27/2009 11:42:30 AM PDT by careyb
“I think it is fair to infer from his rhetoric that he would rather people should vote for a democrat than vote for a traitor to the two party system.”
Wow, for a supposedly bright guy, that’s a ridiculously narrow viewpoint. I recently saw Newt’s mouthpiece on Fox implying that any activity outside the parties means stepping outside the political process. As if someone without an R or D next to their name isn’t a politician.
Balderdash! If nothing else, third party candidates can pressure members of the Big Parties to alter their strategies. Can’t Newt see the possibility that third party conservatives snatching away votes from Republicans can be good for Republicans in the long run? Are they that myopic?
As Rush VERY CLEARLY stated today, there was no republican primary for this race.
The republican establishment up there just picked a candidate of their own liking to the exclusion of all other possible republican candidates thereby forcing Doug Hoffman, who IS a republican, to do what he is doing.
"Well, flip, flip, flip ,flip. But on the other hand, flop."
“Now if you think flip, God love you; but some people think flop.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Actually, patriotism specifically refers to abiding by The Ways of Our Fathers, which may or may not mean abiding by The Country. For the things our forefathers believed in went beyond the state. The state is not all there is, however much Roosevelt would like to think it is. To paraphrase a famous wit, I’d hope to have the courage to betray my country if I had to choose between my country and my family/friends/etc.
I heard part of it. He had this snide insidious tone, talking about Dede, and Chris, and I’ll believe he can win when I see it, etc. It did suck.
Yeah, I’m figuring that for many Republicans this is no more than a bout of temporary sanity.
Fact is, conservatives have all the tools to take this country back. If they would only support principled conservatives and no one else, the political dynamics would be completely changed in this country overnight. For the better.
EXACTLY SO!
A course of action I have been espousing on this forum for YEARS now BTW!
Same here. There are times to use a third party- when it is strategically smart, such as this time. But for the most part, the Republican Party has the machine built, so it is to our advantage to try to take it back.
I did like where Davis was reading from Daggett’s campaign literature saying that to say that a vote for Daggett is stealing a vote from the pub insider is the height of arrogance, thinking that somehow the RINO was entitled to the vote in the first place.
Davis has been trying to go big time for as long as I can remember (he’s had the gig at WBAP forever.) All I can figure is that WBAP is a blowtorch through the southwest, reaching several states, and that he got the gig as a favor from Limbaugh to the station.
Perhaps but I like to think it is the beginning of something very much larger than that!
I understand the same thing. He is locally popular, but he has done that by playing more of the populist-right tone. I emphasize ‘playing’. Personally, he strikes me as a Huckabee type who don’t mind big government if it pushes their pet issue de’jour.
What did Mark Davis say or do that was disgusting??
I didn’t listen. I never listen to his show.
He was pretty much a mirror of what Newt was saying. He was a little slicker forming the same thoughts into questions, but the gist was, ‘there is no way Hoffman can win, voting for him is handing it to the democrat, yadda, yadda’.
I will stand by principle.
Party labels are meaningless.
She should be forced to withdraw. At least, that is what Newt says Hoffman should do! Now, since Scozzball is coming in third it's her turn to take a dive (and take Newt with her)!
I didn’t and don’t listen to Mark Davis either and I can tell you why I stopped.
Mark Davis struck me as just one more in a long line of folks who really don’t believe in anything much at all.
I hope and pray that that is so. And work for it...
Mark Davis lost me back when the Da Vinci Code came out, he was talking about how literature like this is destroying America. He dedicated hours to this tripe. His perspective on what is or isn’t important is pretty warped.
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