Posted on 02/11/2007 6:00:59 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
It boggles the mind.
First of all, it's only a few months after the 2006 elections ended, and we're already on the move towards the 2008 elections. I'm sorry, but doesn't Bush have two years left? A lot can change until then.
Secondly, let's look at some of the current frontrunners for the GOP.
Mitt Romney. John McCain. Rudy Giuliani.
Romney has flip-flopped on positions many times, so I wouldn't give him my vote. John McCain, despite his strong conservative rating from the ACU (lifetime of 83), he is partially responsibility for the travesty of McCain-Feingold, aka CFR. He is also a supporter of amnesty. Sorry.
Giuliani, although strong on national defense, is a devout Leftist. Pro-abortion. Pro-gun control. Pro-homosexual rights. He embraces illegal immigration. It stuns me that he has as large a following on Free Republic as he does.
There are far better candidates out there. Tom Tancredo (lifetime rating of 99). Sam Brownback (lifetime rating of 95). Duncan Hunter (lifetime rating of 92).
So why?
Why are so many going to hold their noses and compromise their beliefs? Name recognition? Why? It bewilders me.
We have Pro-Life candidates in Hunter, Brownback, and Tancredo. We have anti-illegal immigration and Pro-border control candidates in Hunter and Tancredo (this is where Brownback slips up; support for a guest worker program? Voted yes on allowing illegals access to Social Security? No thanks.). We have pro-second amendment candidates in all three (NRA gave Hunter an A+, and both Brownback and Tancredo an A). All three are supportive of the War on Terror.
So please. Tell me. Why not vote for any of these three (particularly Tancredo and Hunter; Brownback's position on immigration irks me)? Why not?
Who cares about name recognition at this point? It's 2007. November 2008 is a long way away. A lot can change between now and then.
I refuse to compromise on MY beliefs in this matter. I will not vote for a candidate who is socially no different from the socialists on the Left. Hanging up your hat at this point is akin to giving up.
Don't.
Vote for Hunter. Vote for Tancredo. Get the word out.
I do believe that one can take "electability" into account, but...it must not be considered more important than principle, otherwise you end up losing everything you were trying to achieve in the first place.
File that thought in your memory for after the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Won't be many jokes then.
I grok "Lizard Queen" as another interesting epithet for Beastwoman, but whom do you mean by "Cthulhu" (sp?)?
McCain?
Actually, they're not even that consistent. Many, if not most, of them have said that they won't vote for McCain.
John Ellis Bush.
I'm done "holding my nose" to vote for the lesser of two evils. This is why globalist elites keep getting voted into office. If I don't see any honorable R candidates next time around, I will vote for a third party candidate.
That will be news to Ike Skelton (D) of Missouri.
Well, I'm f'ing worried that so many (even though, a minority - witness the earlier poll n FR) on "our" side are already making the races so personal and trying to PUSH liberal RINO filth upon us.
because it may seem easier than building your guy up.
How CAN you miss what we true Conservatives have been saying all along?
LOOK, READ, COMPREHEND.
There are links to the issues stated/voted on by OUR candidates in this very thread.
So he's now ranking member, but has held the leadership position on the most powerful committee so he is more than just 'another bench warmer'. And, frankly, we now need Hunter in the White House to tell Skelton and the rest of them how it's going to be done.
Why do you need to be reminded over and over and over?
When was a Mayor elected as POTUS?
When was a Women elected as POTUS?
When was a 70 year old elected as POTUS?
When was a Mormon elected as POTUS?
When was a half-Black man elected as POTUS?
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[EEE] Perhaps because FReepers care more about our nation's defense and limiting the size of government than about social issues a President has little control over and that Congressional Republicans did nothing to advance?
Congress did little to advance the idea of limited government, either, as George Will pointed out in an essay in which he primly pronounced Goldwaterism dead on the operating-room table.
The MSM is promoting Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and McCain because they think they could get social legislation passed (gun control, socialized medicine) that would kill off what's left of conservativism.
A liberal like Rudy Giuliani who understands defense and how to administer is called a 50's liberal, or sometimes is a.k.a. a NeoCon. He isn't a conservative of any description.
A liberal in charge of the GOP allows the MSM to split the conservatives off from the RNC and give them a Democrat in the White House. That's the play that is being made now.
Then you get down to the "Am I going to cast a vote, or make a gesture?" issue.
How about Hunter?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782605/posts
I think after you learn about Hunter you will change your tagline "Vote For Hunter" instead of "Vote For Rudy". The tide is rising for the "Patriot With The Big "R". Welcome aboard.
Don't speak for the majority of us here on FR, goofball (look at the results of the previous FR poll on this matter).
If that's ALL we care about (how can a true conservative just flippantly set aside two of our most important issues, the protection of innocent LIFE, and our 2nd Amendment RIGHTS), we might as well turn Dem and vote for men like Tester and Webb.
It HAS always been, and SHOULD always BE, about MORE than just security and fiscal matters.
Otherwise, we are no better than our DOMESTIC ENEMIES, the liberal demonRATS, and I would submit (and have submitted on MANY occasions)...
The liberal RINOs amongst us.
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