Posted on 05/19/2011 6:36:56 AM PDT by SumProVita
“Since our good country has not yet seen the wisdom in just letting me appoint the next POTUS, I will not be able to anoint President Palin, so we will have to go through the election again. I’m not certain Palin is running, so I am exploring the other candidates. It annoys me no end when someone is mentioned as a candidate and the substance-less posts which amount to little more than name-calling immediately pop up. I have no objection to someone concluding that a candidate is a RINO but give us some reasons for that conclusion.
I don’t know much about Rick Perry but those for him have presented a much more substantive case than those who are against him.
I don’t demand perfection in a candidate but I don’t want someone who is seriously flawed either. “
THANK you....THANK you!!!!! I pretty much agree.
When I first began surfing FreeRepublic (years before I joined), I was impressed with exactly those type of posts.....but I am seeing less and less of them. The open and substantive dialogue I found here was INCREDIBLY superior to what I had observed on all liberal sites. It was superior PRECISELY because it generally allowed for polite examination of policies and people...using FACTS! Sure, there was a bit of that “shoot from the hip” name-calling/stereotyping/emotional sounding off, but overall, responses here seemed much more adult and people learned important information that could be used. There was a sense of researching *together*....and that meant bringing forth all pertinent information. It was awesome!
We need a higher percentage of those type of posts again...
“Demanding nothing less than perfection is a good way to end up with an Obama second term putting the final nail in the coffin of our nation.”
How wise you are!!!!!! This is true indeed.
You believe that the opt out is just as simple as signing a field trip permission slip? Well, isn’t that cute.
He’s running a stealth campaign until most of the first crop burn out. Same basic strategy as Hillary.
Do you know who his opponents were in the primary?
Do you know who his dem opponent was in the general?
I supported him in his gubernatorial run in 2010 (both primary and general) because Kay Two-Names and Carol Four-Names were such awful alternatives that he was the tallest midget in the room. (Sort of like the way I voted for McCain in 2008 after he emerged from a field that started with Guiliani and Huckabee and Romney.) I desperately HOPE that we come up with a better choice in 2012.
He was an Air Force captain who flew a C-130
Now this I did not know. You know this, J?
Yes L, I’ve heard that many times. I’ll put it this way, at least he knows how to salute, unlike Juan Skerry or the current pretender in chief.
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