Posted on 01/29/2008 9:14:31 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
IMHO, a true conservative, Jeb Bush, would have run away with the nomination this year, but for the fact his now rather unpopular brother is in the White House.
Looks like we're in for a shock.
David Duke was a Dem until he switched to Republican because there was a better chance of winning in their open primary that way with so many other Dems on the ballot. Bloomburg pretty much the same reason.
I wonder what Duncan (RNC chair) and his buddies are saying. "The conservative voters will never let Hilary get in, or a Black man either. Don't worry, they'll vote for our RINO."
Is that what they're banking on?
I hope the GOP will enjoy this object lesson in what happens when you abandon conservative principles. Because a Dem is going to win in 2008. Why? Because all the GOP candidates are RINOS on par with Bob Dole.
Jeb...a true conservative?
You say “horsefeathers” then go on to confirm what the column lays out very well, that NO candidate is able to unite the three primary legs of the party.
Evangelicals are voting for their Pastor-in-Chief
Fiscal conservative are supporting their Businessman-in-Chief
National security hawks like the 911 Mayor-in-Chief
And liberals and Independents like their McStain-in-Chief
Thompson only had the conservative base of the party with him, which appears to indeed be only a “fringe” of the party now, rather than the ideological core.
After a family tradition of backstabbing conservatives seen in 41 and 43, one thing we damn sure don’t need is another Bush...
That’s what they have banked on for thirty years now...
2006 might be a glimpse into how bankable that notion is today...
“Republican” is no longer part of my vocabulary. Well, that was the last time.
Now that’s a slap in the face of Bob Dole...
Even Dole was not as bad as our current crop.
Thompson quit, and it's all your fault!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
*sheesh* This guy sounds like my 4-year-old.
It’s important to record history, so that some can learn from history...
At least I can have hope for your four year old.
Bob Dole wasn’t a liberal, and you could at least vote for him in good conscience as a veteran. Having Bob Dole now would be a step up against the rest of the current field.
Amen!
George governed as a conservative in Texas too. He was elected and re-elected on that basis, only to stab conservatives in the back when he was going to run for office no more...
Jeb wasn’t ever in the race. Fred was, and he was the only one with the ability to unite all branches of the party, had it not been so fractured between so many single issue ideologues in the race.
I don’t know how Dole can be legitimately classified as a bonafide RINO. While he wasn’t as Conservative as Jesse Helms, he was in the 90s with his ACU ratings in his final years in the Senate. He was also the first to pioneer an unapologetically pro-life candidacy in his 1974 Senate reelection. He was certainly more Conservative than McCain and I didn’t hesistate supporting him in 1996. These 4 leading RINO asshats today are all degrees of liberal or trending that way, rhetoric aside (since not a single word of their rhetoric matches their records).
Good point, but he didn't get the GOP moving like Reagan could .... make sense?
I’d say your prediction is correct...
People willing to vote for anyone in opposition to any democrat will number 37% to maybe as much as even 45% of the popular vote.
The RINOs have a better chance against Hillary than against Obama I’m afraid. And I consider Obama to be the more dangerous of the two.
Correct... he failed to unite and ignite the party faithful, just as all remaining candidates are doomed to repeat here.
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