Posted on 01/29/2008 9:14:31 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
To paraphrase the phrase by the British “No Conservatives please, we’re Republicans”
If you were right, Tancredo could not have endorsed Romney and Hunter could not have endorsed Huckabee, both of whom are far left of Thompson on almost every issue.
Williams IS right! As you can see from the postings of FR conservatives, including BIG JIM...
Im with you there
A VITAL step in the right direction...
Afraid I do...
Well-stated! I stuck to Fred and voted for him in FL today!
or a Mexican, don't forget that.
Agreed...
This can only be solved state to state by the state Republican Party offices. Same goes for starting the RNC nomination process in liberal strongholds instead of conservative strongholds.
Good show! BRAVO!
Ditto! (You forgot ‘shrill fringe’!)
Take me with you!!
I don’t know if conservatism is dying, and there are very few true conservatives in our country, or if 99% of Americans are asleep or just plain don’t care anymore.
Whatever it is, it doesn’t look good for America.
I am dreading an Obama win.
I disagree with the analysis. Thompson wasn’t ‘too conservative’ to win in South Carolina. He was just a terrible candidate that ran a campaign that was almost a template for how not to do it.
If he was too conservative to win South Carolina, why did the majority of polls between mid-August and mid-October show him with the most support in the state? Did SC suddenly become less conservative between October and January? Did people not realise back then what Fred’s political philosphy was? Both seem unlikely. Instead they looked at the candidate and he didn’t impress them, didn’t convince them that they should vote for him and so they looked at other candidates instead.
Thompson’s woeful 2% in New Hampshire can’t be explained away with ‘oh but they’re all liberals’ when Thompson was out-polling McCain in the state before he’d even declared to run.
California has received a large influx of other states and countries miscreants and rejects who are FAR more liberal than their native California counterparts. So I can sympathize ... however, there is way to much at stake in this election for anyone who cares even a little for their country to be under informed.
Conservative SC nominated McCain? and you think “conservatives” did that?
What you are pointing out here is another huge problem in the electorate...
At this point in history, even Republicans have been trained to vote for the best trained seal and since all candidates were better trained seals than Fred, even Republicans wrongly concluded (like you) that the lesser trained seal was not a serious candidate because he refused to play a trained seal...
So, you end up with trained seals, not leaders.
Thompson was never attacked on his policy statements, which were indeed more detailed and more conservative than anyone else’s.
He was attacked for not being a good trained seal. A valid criticism...for sure. But not a very smart one.
I think over time many people fell for the media’s constant message of “he can’t win so don’t waste your vote”.
JMO.
It is all well and good to analyze a chicken’s guts in detail, but at some point the chicken must be thrown in the pot or the analysts will go hungry.
Conservatism became diluted through many small compromises, each a tiny defeat in its own right, until, at day’s end the the mix had lost its earlier essence, the potency of its tonic gone flat and unpalatable to those in need of a sudded burst.
The whole idea of political conservatism rests on fundamental concepts worth saving; take away the concept or cloak its presence and you’re left with a fading memory.
What” Voters mindless followers of media propaganda? What evidence do you have to support this crazy notion? LOL
Both Bushes failed and betrayed the conservative base that, through the election of Ronald Reagan, gave them the only opportunity to run as Reagan’s successors only to fail miserably and return Democrat Lite RINO Republican traitors back to positions of power they would never have even enjoyed as a minority party had it not been for conservatives like Reagan. As for the other Bush, Jeb; he came out for driver’s licenses for illegals after first opposing them and joined in with his brother, John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Mel Martinez, and the entire RINO infested RNC beltway party apparatus.
I don’t know what the hell is going on in South Carolina, but here in North Carolina we are drowning in a tidal wave of illegal alien parasites, criminals, deadbeats, and freeloaders who are collapsing our social and economic infrastructures at a time in which North Carolinians have suffered immensely from sky high taxes, massive job outsourcing, and over a century of corrupt and despicable Democrat one party governance. Yet the same stupid and repugnant policies peddled by liberals and Democrats is virtually identical to that favored and peddled by Republican RINO idiots like McCain who are ideological brothers of liberals, NOT conservatives.
In the final analysis however, John McCain is not going to be elected President; not because most conservatives find him to be a detestible backstabbing phony liar and traitor, but because simply being a lifelong Washington beltway insider who is the epitome of the entrenched corruption and failure of government will be rejected by most voters on both sides, especially if he goes up against Obama who appeals to many as a fresh new face without the taint of beltway political corruption John McCain himself frequently decries but always exempts himself from. What a phony.
lets just say it: The GOP would rather lose with a Bob Dole than win with a conservative
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