Posted on 01/02/2012 5:07:19 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Some are sanguine about the Mitt Romney's chances of wrapping up the nomination if he wins Iowa and New Hampshire—but Joe Scarborough's prediction in such case was sanguinary.
On Morning Joe today, Scarborough predicted "there will be blood" among conservatives if they see Romney cruising to the nomination.
View the video here.
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Anyone who observed 2010 knows that the Tea Party did not fail. The Tea Party Continues its advocacy. The Tea Party is not solely responsible for giving you precisely the presidential candidate that you wanted. Not every "member" of the Tea Party would have been satisfied with Sarah Palin as a candidate. The Tea Party stood for lower taxes, less government, and adherence to the Constitution. Electing a particular candidate is one approach to that. Influencing candidates is another. Remember that Ronald Reagan was a Democrat. He was influenced by people and events to move in a different direction.
All I know is Halperin is a liberal jerk!
Lately, I have stopped posting against the candidates running this time.
After some soul searching, there are none of them anywhere near as awful and destructive as that thing in the WH. It isn’t even just about Obama. It is his Constitution circumventing czars, judges, cabinet appointees, SCOTUS picks, gay promoters, crony socialists, and downright criminals that surround him.
I can’t in good conscience sit back and pretend that 5 years from now there will be much left to save if this cabal of communists don’t get ousted this time. If it does not happen there will only be one way left to get rid of them, and people really don’t want that to happen.
I am not on fire for any of the GOP field, but I will not sit back and give it all up allowing Obama to continue because I am in a snit.
We had a chance early to to get behind a conservative that was running, instead will abused the ones that did enter the race. Blaming the Tea Party(people who are a number of groups only united by the original intent) is downright stupid. When folks showed up for those events, it was not because they came to support a candidate, they came to stand up, speak out, and let the government know they were not going to sit back quietly anymore. For some, it was the first time they ever participated in anything like that.
I was proud of all of us.
“Wrong Joe, there will be blood if zero gets elected for another 4 years.”
... If Obama ISN’T elected there will be blood.
YUP!
True democracy is impossible now because the vast majority of the voting public are easily distracted by pretty shiny objects.
I went to the Ron Paul web site and after reading what he believes in saw that he looks more constitutional to me than any one else i have heard.
I am getting a little sick of this particular complaint.
By the time my primary rolled around in 2008, the candidates available were (1)McCain. (2)Romney. (3)Huckabee.
And I freely admit that I voted for Romney as marginally the most conservative of that sorry trio.
But I was left with that choice because millions of GOP voters thought those three were better than the other candidates who began the campaign. Not because their brains were nullified by Karl Rove's Secret Thought Control Ray.
If you want a conservative to win the nomination, you have to get out and talk to your moderate and uncommitted Republican friends.
And if you don't have any moderate and uncommitted Republican friends.....if you spend your entire political life in the FR hothouse......then you are part of the problem.
I think that is what I would have to do if I were in VA.
The only thing Scarborough could ever predict is that Mika will make a fool of herself at some point in a show that nobody watches.
see my post 13
While, yes we got da guns, I don’t think that will solve anything.
Reality will hit us next fall and it will be too late.
I’m afraid the train is too far down the track...
Maybe that is what is supposed to happen. I have no faith that any politician is going to keep that from happening.
YEP.
Lately, I have stopped posting against the candidates running this time.
After some soul searching, there are none of them anywhere near as awful and destructive as that thing in the WH. It isn’t even just about Obama. It is his Constitution circumventing czars, judges, cabinet appointees, SCOTUS picks, gay promoters, crony socialists, and downright criminals that surround him.
It won’t matter if conservatives are upset unless we can find a way to rally around one single candiddate, in which case Romney is toast. I wish we could have an on-line conservative convention where we choose the conservative who will carry the conservative banner. Romney benefits from the conservative vote being spread over several candidates. If we were united, Romney would be running in the back of the line.
I totally agree.
And one more thing...those candidates got in the trenches and actually RAN. It seems a lot of people around here forget that you have to get IN the arena to be considered.
What???? When did Palin announce she was running?
Oh, she didn't. She play the media game instead. How do get behind a person who isn't running?
Regarding this field, it’s time for Palin supporters to make sure they own everything around it…so, naturally, we get everything under it
This example may be a bit of a stretch, but I think it has merit. Think back four years and recall how the democrats hailed Obama as a new messiah. Something funny was going on at a deeply emotional level, and just because it left conservatives cold doesn't mean it wasn't happening. Stop to think about what it means to be a modern democrat. On any issue touching race, you will have spent the last two decades kowtowing to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the other race hustlers. Now along comes Obama. Joe Biden perhaps put it best, in a line that would have driven any Republican out of public life, when he referred to Obama as clean and articulate. But he had a point. For democrats, Obama meant that you don't have to grovel to Al Sharpton anymore. It was liberation, to the point of euphoria.
On my optimistic days, I have to believe there is still a political market within the democratic party for a politician who is willing to be honest about fiscal and social issues, including entitlements. There must also be pragmatic democrats who understand that the current leadership of the party systematically drives away anyone who is both honest and informed. Dishonesty, ignorance, and stupidity are not good places for the party to be, long term, but that pretty much sums up the current democrat strategic posture. The paralyzing factor on the democrat side is the special interest issues veto, which is ruthlessly applied. But if the dam breaks, big changes are possible.
I have long thought school choice was likely to be the wedge issue that would allow a reform democrat to emerge. In most major cities, poor black parents are the biggest constituency for real school choice. They know perfectly well that their kids are being sacrificed to union greed, and they have abundant examples of private and parochial schools to demonstrate what is possible if they could afford it. Nor have I given up on Social Security reform; 401(k)'s are not a foreign concept to the younger generation of liberals. Healthcare ... well, let's see if Wyden can get some traction, especially amoung younger, well-educated liberals who may not be attracted to third-rate, bureaucratic, rationed medicine, but whose tribal indoctrination makes it difficult to accept anything proposed by a Republican.
The opening is there. Whether anyone will step through is another question.
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