Posted on 12/01/2009 8:51:22 PM PST by rabscuttle385
I can only hope. But my political calculus machine puts Sara at < 20% chance.
I pray she proves me wrong — I look for the tipping point that obama got when Kennedy endorsed him (my take is that is when he began his slide into the presidency).
But if need be, I will vote against Communism ad Socialism, even if it isn’t perfect, as opposed to many here who would elect Stalin if his (ostensibly Conservative) opponent wasn’t Pure.
Mike Pence (as I remember) spearheaded that GREAT Republican “sit-in” back a couple years ago, when the dems were ready to run off to “vacation”.....without voting on..was it amnesty???
I’m gettin’ old and can’t keep up with the daily assault on us by this administration and Bush’s attack on us via amnesty a couple of summers back...
Mike Pence and many other Republicans stood their ground in CONGRESS, while the dems grabbed their water-wings and ran off to vacation—the Republicans gained a great deal of respect that week, as I remember it.
Mike Pence MAY have made a name for himself, then...but no one seems to remember it.....GAD!
Keep him in mind....and research him...he may not be “soiled” yet.
Please please please NOT ANOTHER RINO!
All I know is what I have seen, and what I have seen is a woman who would wrestle a bear that threatens her child. There’s a lot of Irish there. Like another Irishman—Andy Jackson.
No. I like Jeb, or did, but no.
We've had too many would-be presidents who look at it as a position, and another entry on their resume.
If you want to be president, you don't send out your proxies while you fine-tune your opinions and polish your suntan and try to stay out of the line of fire. Not this time. If you want to lead, lead. Get into the fight, not in 2011, but now while it can still make a difference, while we're trying to stop this runaway trainwreck.
If you can't fight now, then I won't trust you to fight once you're safely in the White House. We've had too many compromises and bipartisan giveaways, and I won't believe anyone is committed to principle who can't be bothered to stand up and be counted, now.
If you're not on the short list of people who came out to fight when we were trying to stop the health takeover, and the car company takeover, and the bank takeover, and energy industry takeover, and the communications industry takeover, if none of this was important enough for you to come out and show your face, then don't bother to come knocking come primary season. I'll have made up my mind long before then.
I kinda like this fellow: http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/
You confuse vetting with the final result. Once you have done all you can to ensure a True Conservative as the candidate, then it is time to put on your big boy pants and do what makes sense, not what makes your n^ts warm. This is what is Grown Ups call "compromise."
As I said, your vote for obama worked out exactly as you wanted. What more could you possibly want?
Thanks — from small seeds do mighty oaks spring.
I’ll do my work and, if he is the real deal, I’ll work to make him the Conservative obama (as it were).
I've had enough of the Bush dynasty.
NO MORE.
No you aren't. You and 55.5 million others voted obama into office. You should be doing your victory dance.
I am thinking of the eastern Establishment that has dominated the country since the Civil War. In 1870, the State of New York alone had more wealth than the whole former Confederacy.
If not, there is always a Communist to vote for, like you did last time. Easy-peasy indeed.
It is like "zero tolerance" rules -- zero thinking.
Jebs not a bad conservative. But I agree with previous posters, our party and country took a beating from his brother. After that dufus, we just can’t make anymore bumper stickers with that name on them.
I pray she proves me wrong
FD, you seem very sincere about your hope for a conservative leader who can unseat Obama. I really do think you mean it, and aren't just shilling for your favorite dark horse candidate.
That being said, it seems to me that you may be paying more attention to what media pundits and professional politicos are saying, rather than taking the pulse of the people.
There is a pulse of electricity flowing through the center-right electorate now that hasn't been seen in most of our lives. Sarah Palin is the powerhouse that is pumping that voltage through our hearts and minds.
She is being attacked on an unprecedented scale by the left and the RINO establishment because she is their greatest threat, and is the one person they fear above all others.
That alone should inform you of just how important this one person is to our nation's future.
As I have said over and over on this thread -- we have to deal with the system we have, not the one we want. If we could get JR nominated or draft Rush or Sean, well and good. In the absence of that, we have to mold the candidate selection processes to our will as much as we can, then LIVE WITH THE RESULT. And adjust our sights and goals accordingly.
No more Bushes, no more Clintons.
>>Maybe it will sink in at some point.<<
When Health Care “reform” passes and costs you every paycheck (and kneecaps Medicare) AND when obama signs away our sovereignty at Copenhagen, it should be YOU who lets it sink in. Let it sink in nice and slow.
It ain’t cryin’ — it is pointing out that you and your ilk gave us this commie and you are responsible for all he does.
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