Posted on 10/15/2007 7:56:21 AM PDT by BigAlPro
A liberal Republican is the greater of two evils.
Yup.
Duncan Hunter is the solution.
Stupid statement by the author. The writer is free not to agree, but to pretend to know motivations shows his bias.
First paragraph: great.
Second paragraph: great.
Third paragraph — he loses me.
Let me try putting the question like this, for Dobson-dissers:
1. Is there ANY ISSUE that would cause you not to vote for a GOP candidate?
2. If the answer is “Yes,” then why can you choose that issue, but Dobson can’t choose protecting our most helpless and most innocent Americans as his issue?
If Dobson is so against having a pro-choice candidate, WHY did he torpedoe the only pro-life candidate with a chance to win?(Thompson)
Thank you for pointing out that we go through a primary process before we get to the general election. We work like heck for our candidate in the primary and THEN vote for the Republican. Any Republican is far superior to any Democrat.
Is there ever a time not to vote for the GOP candidate? Absolutely! If the other "electable" candidate would be the better president.
Has that happened in my lifetime? NOT YET!
Doesn’t he say he’d vote third-party? That would almost certainly be a non-viable candidate, but it would be a candidate.
You may have a point but, I think by not answering my question, you miss my point.
Dobson is in favor of an amendment to the constitution that protects unborn children versus turning it back to the states. He probably thinks (and rightly so) that if it is turned back to the states, it will likely remain legal.
As we all know, Fred is in favor of turning it back to the states.
And, one could argue things have been better with gridlock and Republicans losing Congress. Suddenly, there is a lot less spending and Republicans and Bush are suddenly pushing for less spending. Funding for the Iraq war and even abstinence in public schools have continued. So, I see no negative results from the 2006 election except for the fact the Republicans have yet to learn conservatism wins elections.
No amount of demanding that everybody flush their values to support the GOP just so that we can help the GOP beat Hillary with their new, proven winning formula of nominating Liberals - a formula from which they will stray nevermore.
There is a difference between compromising to win, and compromising everything so that someone else can win. I am all for compromise, but I would no more vote for Rudy911 than I would vote for a Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Socialist who hated Israel - just because someone howls about Hillary winning.
Beat your breast, gnash your teeth, howl and cry, moan and demand all you want — Many of us will work for Rudy911’s defeat in 2008, not his coronation.
So, If we get 97% of what we want, thats not enough. Lets help elect Hillary by encouraging third party. I bet Hillary’s people Love Dobson for what he did. He’s a useful Idiot.
Given a Clinton/Guiliani general election we have to choose the best proabortionist. Thanks but no thanks.
It is called "principle" not "pride" that motivates him to take the position he does!
Dittos to your sentiments!
At that point in time, if the Republican Party has nominated Rudy, the party will have left me, I will not have left the party.
I will do everything in my power to make sure Rudy loses, including voting for the qualified Pro-Life candidate.
No more backing up on my principles.
Remember that it was the fiscal Conservatives, not the SoCons, who stayed home in 2006 over the spending - add to that the fact that Independents saw the party as corrupt and scandal-ridden. I think Rudy911 is just the Fiscal Cons’ way of “punishing” the SoCons and Second Amendment folks. Just listen to them on any blog, even FR, and you’ll think that the single greatest problem with America is the “iron grip” the Religious Right has on the GOP.
How better to marginalize the Cultural/Moral/Social/Gun Conservatives than to run an avowed enemy of theirs in the primaries - win the primary - and then win the Presidency?
No. There is far more need to beat Rudy911 than to beat Hillary. There is an entire movement at stake - not just the 2008 election.
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