Posted on 02/04/2008 7:20:15 PM PST by Brian_Baldwin
California Republicans gave us Ronald Reagan. California Republicans gave us a Governor who, in Reagan, made history. But where are these same Republicans today? Will you be willing to count your vote as history in the making - tomorrow? Because, the reality is the race has come down to McCain and Romney.
But I am worried. After all, many of my fellow Republicans not only gave us a man of history in Ronald Reagan, but they have also given our Nation another Republican Governor named Arnold.
Every vote counts. Today, in retrospect, do fellow Republicans of our Great State accept Arnold as anything like a Reagan, or for that matter, even a Republican?
When Arnold was running for Governor, he sounded at that time very much like John McCain today. And many, including myself, made a terrible mistake. Today, I do not even recognize that same Arnold. What a huge disappointment.
Arnold endorsed John McCain.
I am voting for Mitt Romney in tomorrows California Republican Primary.
What can I do to convince you to vote for Romney? Because, this is the time and the place when it is going to count. If you are a conservative, and thinking of voting for Huckabee – I want to honestly request you consider this. That you can make history, you can best server the voice of the conservative wing of our Party, by voting for Mitt Romney at this time. Because, it will all be decided tomorrow. That is the reality.
It is going to be McCain, or it is going to be Romney. Whoever the Republicans choose in this State, our State, California, that is going to be decisive. There is no way around the numbers, there is California, and there is Georgia.
This is the last two minutes of the Super Bowl, my friends.
John McCain likes to use the term “my friends”. I love John McCain. But I want to make history for the conservative wing of my Party. The way to make history in this case, at this moment, is to vote for Mitt Romney. As pompous as it sounds, this is not a partisan appeal. It is a fact. Conservatives can now have a chance, in California, to make history – I know those who have already decided for Romney will be there tomorrow. For those who are not voting for McCain but considering someone other than Romney, I want you to consider that you can actually be a part of something historical. You can do this by voting for Mitt Romney in California.
The Democrats, the liberals, and their friends in the media, are trying to work McCain’s head right now. The way politics works, well everyone who should know, knows that it is a very malicious mêlée and there are very high stakes involved. Right now, the Democrats, the liberals, and their friends in the media, want McCain to win in California. And while they want this outcome, they are also working and going to try to get to McCain’s head. What they want McCain to do is, they want to convince John McCain that the conservatives are his nemesis, and they want to, slowly, in their own way, convince McCain and feed a hatred in him against conservatives. That it was the conservatives who schemed a McCain loss to Bush, and today they are working with the “right wing talk shows” to destroy McCain.
You see, the left wants McCain to win in California. And then, they want to get to his head, and make him think, “you see, I can win without them, without the conservatives” …
But you see, in the General Election, McCain cannot win – he cannot win without the conservatives of the Republican Party. Not without their vote.
And so, what the left wants, is for McCain to win in California. And take the nomination. And then, they believe they can screw with his head. And make McCain do a terrible mistake. The mistake will be when McCain says something attacking the conservatives in a clear, emotional driven, message. That McCain will say or do this very stupid mistake.
In fact, they are counting on it.
And once McCain does that, then he has lost the General election.
Because McCain cannot win the Presidency of the United States without Republicans, without the conservatives.
And that is why I want you to vote for Mitt Romney.
I want you to stop this agenda of the left wing.
I want you to make history. I am no one. But I can see what they are trying to do. I want you to think about it.
Mitt Romney is not Ronald Reagan. But I want you to understand. He is not Arnold, either. You can have the insight to see.
Everyone, for a long time, has been of the mind set that they need to find someone to give a big ovation to. But then, over time, we start to feel that there is no one worthwhile for a standing ovation. I mean, it can feel pretty good, to stand up and give someone a big ovation. For some, it might even make them feel free. But that is not freedom. You see Democrats, and they really give Obama these big ovations – you even see the same in the Hillary Clinton supporters. But think about it. Sure, sometimes Republicans can’t be like Democrats. Nice claps, cheers – but no one to really give this big ol’ crazy ovation. I mean, in some ways, the Democratic Party is really cult. But, you see, you should not let these big ovations get you down. Because, no, you are not like them. We are not a cult. Not like them. A Coca Cola machine is not magic. It is a machine. It was made by humans, the human mind. The Democrats live in a magic mind set. To them, a big Coca Cola machine comes before them, and they think it’s magic. But, you understand, there is a machine there, and it is us who can make the machine.
No politician is going to be someone who you might stand and, literally, foolishly, throw all of your ovations to. But you can make history. It isn’t magic. But if you use consideration, and thought, and look at the two minute warning in a very real way, you actually can make a difference just so long as you are in the game. Don’t drop out of the game. The football is about to be handed to you, California.
I am.....!
You’re just hurting the Conservative movement. Frankly, if you knew the man as well as I did (I’ve known him since 1994) you’d be jumping in here and standing with me against him.
Good night, all. I look forward to catching up tomorrow.
And, one more plea to all of you who vote tomorrow: VOTE FOR MITT!
We’ll keep it going on the 12th...promise!
Proof ? Evidence ? You and I have been over this before and I refuted that point. The party was competitive well into the '90s. 4 seats short of tying the rodents in one legislative body (call that dead ?), winning several statewide offices (Gov, Lt Gov, Treasurer, Exec Council), competitive in half the House races (winning 3 of the 10 seats throughout the '90s), competitive for the Senate. After 16 years of deliberate and gross mismanagement by liberal RINOs, they turned the state into a rodent bastion on par with a post-Reconstruction southern state.
Answer the question first. List all the Republicans Romney elected in MA. You folks describe him as such a great leader, well great leaders help elect others of their party to offices in their state. So now please list all those reems of Republicans your great leader helped elect in Massachusetts during his time as Governor.
If you say Romney = Clinton that is as bad as the wackjob leftists that blame everything on Bush. You are comparing a serial rapist, adulterer white trash impeached narcissistic ex-president to the very accomplished Mitt Romney with zero personal skeletons in his closet.
You really think you have brought even 1 person over to your side with this over the top lunacy ? A calm rational approach will work better because there is plenty in Romney’s records for a conservative to be concerned about. But thinking Romney is like the Clintons is not one of them.
Romney balanced the state budget every year he was governor. He also took over with a big deficit, and left with a surplus - with a Democratic legislature. He did not raise income taxes or corporate taxes.
How do you think these Democrats got elected in the first place ? Because of the GOP’s decision to go to the left instead of the right. Did you know when JFK got elected to the Senate in 1952 he was more Conservative than the incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr ? My point exactly that moving leftward always destroys the GOP. Romney is the epitome and end result of what happens when liberal RINOs have the reigns of power, they kill or cripple the party.
You acknowledge he is a failure, yet you support him. Explain how that makes any sense ?
What military has “Romeny” (sic) led or served in ?
You’re a liberal shill.
You have too many students, Kennedy worshippers, illegal immigrants, guilty white liberals, over educated derelicts and inner city folks for a Republican to ever win a seat in Congress or the Senate. Add to that a fondness for killing babies and anti religious atmosphere and you have a very hostile atmosphere for conservatives.
None of that is Romney’s fault.
You mouthed,”You’re supporting a liberal. You’re a fool, and you’re no Conservative.”
Well, call me a “fool” if it makes you feel like a man.
By the way I carried water for Goldwater in ‘64 and we even got actor Ronald Reagan to come addess our campaign in Vallejo, Calif. I have been and supported a Conservative ever since......only to be called a “fool”, by someone whose postings border on incoherent.
Your credentials, please, sonny.
So did Michael Dukakis and Howard Dean. Are we going to give them the Republican Presidential nomination now ?
Voting for Romney sends a strong message to liberals in the media bubble and let’s the Cain Mutiny know that “no se puede.”
You are just a malconent that needs to read “How to win friends and influence people”
I am as passionate a Reagan conservative as you will find in MA and on FR.
It’s a lost cause because half-wits like you kept voting for liberal RINOs to lead the party until it finally and completely died. And now you want a leader who did that to the state party to do it to the entire country. Hell, no !
And now you’re carrying the water for a liberal. Tell me, did you support George Christopher in ‘66 against Reagan ?
I don’t acknowledge that he is a failure. I acknowledge that he has failings because, Lord knows, you point them all out all the time.
He’s not perfect but he’s still in and he is so different than McCain.
It isn’t an either/or ! You have the ability to say NO to both candidates ! Why don’t you ?
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