“But the Tea Party also brought us Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell – two horrible candidates who lost in states that Republicans would almost certainly have won if the Tea Party had thrown its support behind more moderate – more electable — candidates. “
There’s no rule that says if you’re a conservative, that you have to talk about witches or sound like one. Act professional, don’t go around wielding a baseball bat and you’ll even be able to win in NY, just like Bob Turner.
I’m more afraid of a rigged election—ballot box stuffing and that sort of thing than I am anything else...............’
I will vote for the Republican nominee, whoever it is, of course.
I will vote for a TEA partier if one wins the nomination, that’s for sure.
No, Obama can’t win again. It was entirely predictable before he won the first time.
If Bernie’s logic were...logic then Reagan could never have been elected.
John McCain was a perfect example.
We need contrast. We need a strong conservative. Most voters don’t care what your exact politics are if you go on Meet the Press or dine with George Will.
when they see a Republican who talks like a Democrat.. I don’t blame them for voting for a Democrat at that point.
but when they see a Republican who is bold and has a vision, you get an electoral college map that looks like 1984.
“But the Tea Party also brought us Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell – two horrible candidates”
Wrong. In Christine O’Donnell’s case she did not get the support of the RINO establishment including the state Republican party.
In Sharon Angle’s case, Harry Reid, the unions and the dimoKKKRATS in the state of Nevada stole the election. Plus she did not get the full support of the RINOs in the Republican party.
I use to say I'd vote for the GOP candidate but if that is Mittens...it will be the first time I've not voted for a man on supposedly my side to be president. This is what the left is setting up for Mittens to be nominee so everyone of us will stay home. Giving the left the victory.
Not honestly, no.
Of course the whorehouse Left will seek to brand him an extremist, but if he can get to the people and they get to hear him, they will hear someone that sounds like themselves, thinking. That will be hard to beat.
But it's ok to choose an "Obama/Democrat Party Lite" RINO republican like Romney or Huntsman. Yeah, that's the ticket that will win. Just forget about Sarah Palin and the TEA Party. We don't need those "extremists".
Why is it that the Democrats are never castigated for choosing to support a vehement anti American, Muslim, Marxist president like Obama? Why are they never branded as "extremist"?
I will only vote for a true conservative. I will not vote for a moderate. That will only give us more of the same, more bloated government crap that democrats and "republicans" alike have given us for years.
The ONLY way to destroy the beast is to vote in a true believer in small government. But even then, he will have to work with congresscritters who may or may not be receptive to reduction of their pet projects, or who are too scared to cut spending for fear they won't be re-elected.
Here's the controversial part...if the choice is between a rino and Obama, I just might vote for Obama. If he is given two terms he will most certainly destroy the country as we currently know it and we can rebuild it to the framer's ideals.
I don't trust any politician anymore to repeal, reduce and restore. It may very well be that the only way to get back to basics is through another civil war of sorts.
Anyone else thinking along these lines, or am I just a lunatic??? :)
These pundits just miss the entire point. Business as usual does not solve the country’s fundamental issue, that is the size, scope and intrusiveness of government.
Tea Party folks get it and refuse to compromise with those politicians who give us more of the same corrupt and ineffective government.
If this is what Bernie speaks, then he is correct. The status quo cannot be maintained, if it takes Bam and a hard crash to “fix” it, then let’s get it over with.
At least it will be over in time for my kids to still have a chance.
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Quick answer: NO!!!!
He’s finished as a viable candidate in 2012, and he likely knows it. Any of the serious contenders can beat him, even Perry.
That’s why it’s REALLY important that we consider how our candidates will do against Hillary, especially in a debate. On that Cain kicks butt, while Perry will get creamed (and it’s not all his fault, but it doesn’t matter).
Odds right now are 50%.
In other words, if the Republicans nominate a true Conservative - maybe even a Tea Partier - then the Liberal Messiah will be reelected. So the Republicans better pick a nice safe moderate. Was this article written by the Romney campaign?
Sure he can. Have Soros’ $$$ buy some boxes, send out the new and improved ACORN and he’ll be sitting pretty.
Herman Cain will win the Republican nomination, if the field stays as it is, and I’m very much ok with that.
In 2010 Virginia elected an evangelical, and New Jersey elected a pro-lifer as their resspective governors. Formerly purple and blue states. New Jersey!
Though deficits and health care were the biggest issues, and Obama wasn’t on the ballot, jobs will be the issue this time, and the bad news for dems is that Obama will be on the ballot.