Posted on 06/05/2011 3:07:31 PM PDT by bimboeruption
I think you’re right and she is too.
Regardless, the strategery works right now rather well.
No one in the political Establishment on either side of the aisle presently has any clue how the Tea Party *movement* actually is going to impact the primaries or the general. Will they coalesce around a newcomer? Split the vote? Effectively create a third party?
Whaaaa! It’s so confusing!
All good.
Probably so.
RINOs somehow always float to the top.
Anyone who looks for power, doesn’t deserve it.
Really?
Continue to vote the party line and you will continue to get what the party has given you for the last two decades.
No thanks. I have voted third party three times in a row, can't see not doing it again if I don't like what I see.
Just call me immature and self destructive....but at least I don't have to spend my life getting herded around by a Border Collie.
I was actually very encouraged with what Sarah said because if the GOP doesn’t back a good candidate, our country will go down regardless of who gets elected (assuming 3rd party won’t win). Let it go down on Obama’s watch and he goes down in history as the failure he is, and both parties will be dead in their present state. After that We the People, new party or greatly improved GOP, fix our country. I would rather us be spared the big time crash and burn by electing someone who will finally start to do the right things, but lots of people are in denial still. Better prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
I was actually very encouraged with what Sarah said because if the GOP doesn’t back a good candidate, our country will go down regardless of who gets elected (assuming 3rd party won’t win). Let it go down on Obama’s watch and he goes down in history as the failure he is, and both parties will be dead in their present state. After that We the People, new party or greatly improved GOP, fix our country. I would rather us be spared the big time crash and burn by electing someone who will finally start to do the right things, but lots of people are in denial still. Better prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
“And, as I said, not to worry. Romney, no way, no how, will be the nominee. That is all.”
I hope you are right , but who would have thought that McCain or Dole would have ever got the nomination. Remember we here at FR are speaking in an echo chamber that leans very very far to the right. Truth be told I doubt the powers that be in the Republican party really care for us a whole lot. I also don’t believe your average Republican voter has the same intensity that is found here. In other words it’s all very much up in the air and when the dust settles we may very well have Romney as the Republican candidate leaving all of us here at FR with a very serious decision to make. I made such a decision in 08 with McCain and have not been happy about it ever since.
Kremer does not speak for me or the Tea Party here in Southwest Ohio!
There’s a lot of truth in what you are saying. But I think it’s also true that a whole lot has changed since 2008. The old gig is up.
As far as I can see, Romney right now is cruising simply on name recognition and his connections with big-money donors. As soon as someone becomes a true alternative, I think he’s done for.
Recently I’ve begun to feel confident that a strong conservative candidate is going to emerge and take off. Could be Palin. Could be Cain. Or someone else. But the fog is going to lift sooner rather than later.
This is not going to be politics as usual this time around.
Kremer does not speak for me.
I went fishing rather than vote for McCain or Obama in 2008.
I can go fishing in November 2012, if the GOP puts up Romney, Gingrich or any of the old white-haired ‘moderate’ go-along-to-get-along elite Pubbies.
A ‘neither’ vote is just as valid as a vote for someone just because they got on the ticket.
P.S. I thought both McCain and Dole were totally predictable as nominees. There simply was no one alternate candidate around whom conservatives coalesced. Without that, their vote gets split and the “name” guy gets nominated.
That has less chance of happening this time around. I hope.
If you honestly believe that a McCain administration would have been as or more damaging to the nation and the world than this Obama administration, well, just dayum.
We’ll have to agree to disagree (big-time) on that.
I think you are right about Romney. Can’t we all just get along, nice guy ain’t gonna be the ticket this trip.
Watch him, listen to the tone of his voice, not his scripted words. The guy has no “fire in the belly” to fight to save America, somehow he thinks its his turn.
Get real. Ronald Reagan is dead and not coming back. You are on a path to bringing 0 back for another four years to completely destroy this country. Let the process play out (I’m talking to you, conservatives, in general) and do what you can to get a good candidate nominated. If the best you can produce is a Rino, that’s still better than the fascist pig currently in the WH.
--- No, it would likely be someone much more damaging, like David Souter.
You can't be serious. "Much more damaging"? Get back with me on that in about twenty years.
Israel would not have been told to return to its pre-1967 borders, for starters.
---Not legislative.
"Not legislative" is not relevant to the point, which stands, that President McCain would have never in a million years thrown Israel under a bus. That matters.
Kevin Jennings would not be something called a “Safe School Czar,” for starters.
---No argument there, but do we know what McCain's position on education is?
Whatever McCain's position is on education, he doesn't feel strongly enough about it to be in-your-face to the GOP base. Pushing homosexuality in schools was not where McCain would have decided to spend his political capital.
Obamacare would not be the law of the land, for starters.
--- It wouldn't be called Obamacare, but I'll bet there would still be a Romneycare-like law on the books now.
Do you honestly believe the millions of people who vehemently rejected socialized medicine would not have rejected it regardless of its cute political name?
Your fellow Patriots are not that dumb or that dupe-able. And unlike Obama, McCain would have had to fight his base tooth and nail to pull a McCaincare trick. No way We The People would have stood for that and no way McCain The Republican would have gone against the base in such a major way.
And P.S. The Rats would not have “let” McCain pass a Romneycare-type bill because they would not want a Republican president to get “credit” for the crown jewel of Socialism, socialized medicine.
They would have hemmed and stalled and preserved the issue for their next campaign.
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