Posted on 05/09/2008 2:58:08 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This is the reason that no one will take Hillary as VP.
Too much of a chance for an “accident”.
The existance of the dhimmirat party is what is keeping most people from voting for a conservative non-GOP party.
As it stands, not voting GOP gets you a dhim.
Perhaps Hillary can do the country the biggest service ever done and fracture the dhimmirats to the point that they can’t be a viable opponent in 2012, and we can right flank McCain.
GWB got the most, numerically, votes ever counted for a president in the history of the country.
Kerry got more than any other presidential candidate had ever gotten previously as well, but Bush got even more.
Now, were you questioning the fact of the numerical count or that Bush was running as a conservative.
The VP pick is alfready in. McCain is picking Fred Thompson as his VP. He’s clean, articulate and he will bring in the Conservative vote.
I would like to se Haley Barbour as McCain’s choice but I don’t think that is going to happen.
Well he’s already endoresed the witch for POTUS so I don’t see why he wouldn’t pick her and frankly there isn’t a dimes worth of difference between them politically.
I really hope your information is solid.
Fred was my pick for the pres.
There have been a few competitive third party Presidents in the past. Teddy Roosevelt, was elected under the Bull Moose party. Ross Perot may have gone far, had he not been such a crack pot. But that is not the blame of the third party concept, the timing and the people involved were just wrong.
The timing has to be right and America has to be fed up with a broken system.
There is no such thing as a “Recipe for failure”. There is only the fear of change or a new direction.
Enough “Marginalized” voters can make a majority. The GOP started in this very way. Before them were the Wigs. The history of this party has never been final.
I don’t believe in the “First Last Always” mantra. I do believe in the U.S. Military and that is who I am voting for come November.
The very thought of Barry bending over for the Islamic jihad is enough to make me think that every other issue pales in comparison.
I would not have a problem with Fred but that is mere speculation and wild speculation imo. I will likely write Fred in when I go to vote in the GE.
why do you guys want a real conservative to go down with mccain? I’d rather see him and rino rat sink together not get a good conservative soiled by him. Just remember we did have Chaney as vp look where it got us.
We are not Europe or Israel.
We have only two parties. There are other trivial wannabe’s but they are not really of any real significance. In the Presidential race there are three choices.... Republican, Democrat or trash your vote.
We have strong voices in the legislative houses. Consider Rick Santorum, a strong well principled conservtive. He was turned out. To be elected, the President must have very broad appeal and that includes some to the left of center.
When you look realistically at the spectrum of political opinion, pure conservatives don’t have enough votes to prevail. They have no choice but to be a part of the Republican effort because that effort most nearly represents their thought. Otherwise, they are out of the process.
There is a strong tendency here for FReepers to consider Republicans wimps and clueless when the real reason is that there is just not enough votes in the Senate to prevail. Frist had control but could not satisfy FReepers because he lacked the votes. It was not because he didn’t want to pass bills, he just didn’t have the votes. The same is true in spades with Dingy Harry, except he is all tied up everytime he brings something too pqrtizen to the floor.
Thoughts of a third party are at present just dreaming because there is no chance of success at the Presidential level. None, zero, nada.
The decision in November will be to do what’s best for the country even though it doesn’t meet the highest most pure definition of best, or elect a Marxist Obama. If you don’t vote for McCain and Obama is elected.......your fault.
Fortunately, there is considerable time left. There will be a convention and there will be some sugar and some honey added. What seems very bitter or perhaps sour will be made palatable and perhaps even very good.
Last I checked, Ann was pushing for Hillary to win. No sarcasm involved here. Ann is all about Ann. She could care less about the collateral damage to conservatism that her self-promotion causes.
You're good! Sarcasm is at it's best when there's some truth hiding beneath it! LOL I half expect to see someone say this...seriesly!!
And apparently Coulter is just stupid enough to think that a) McCain would offer, and b) Clinton would accept.
McCain needs to pick Eric, the goofball on the Survivor show.
Last night he gave up the immunity necklace (which would have kept him in the Final Four) in search of ‘redemption’ and was promptly voted out of the game by the four women who’d conspired to get him to make that suicidal move.
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I am too, but I will say this about McCain - he is working long and hard to try and get me to change my mind.
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