Posted on 12/24/2011 2:43:58 PM PST by neverdem
Be thankful that the season of Obama media vetting of Republican presidential candidates is coming to a close as Republican voters in the primary states at long last get to have their say on who the nominee will be.
The last eight months of media focus on each of the "not-Romneys" has been like watching the picadors in a bullfight wound the bull with their lances before the brave matador steps into the ring to face the dying bull.
But already there's talk of third party campaigns if certain candidates' egos get bruised by voter rejection in the primary season.
All of us who are committed to the defeat of Barack Obama cannot let this happen. Candidates for the Republican nomination for President must pledge now to support the nominee chosen by the voters in upcoming primary elections. Failure to take the pledge should be a factor when Republican primary voters make their choice.
A second term for Obama would do unthinkable harm to this country. I know because I'm already living in Obama's second term.
I live in California, a former "golden state" now mired in bloated government, rising debt (despite a balanced budget amendment to the state constitution), higher taxes, 12% unemployment, with productive people and their businesses fleeing the state. California is awash in illegal aliens, failing schools, and pot hole filled roads.
Don't let California's present be your state's future.
Our incumbent president faces the voters having in just three years championed policies that more than doubled the annual federal deficit, added more than $4 trillion to the government's debt, nearly doubled the unemployment rate, and doubled the price of gasoline.
Based on this record of accomplishment, Obama went on 60 Minutes to claim with a straight face that he is the fourth best President in American history! To protect Obama from his Hugo Chavez moment, 60 Minutes edited out the claim in the on-air version of the interview.
To restore an America of opportunity and prosperity, not to mention humility, Obama must go.
But Obama will be re-elected if candidates rejected by primary voters, or self appointed billionaire blowhards, launch third party bids.
The first to threaten a third party run this week was libertarian Gary Johnson (who?). Wikipedia says Johnson was a two term governor of New Mexico.
Johnson advocates a 23% national sales tax, marijuana legalization, gay marriage, and an open border with Mexico. Johnson charges that "the Republican Party hung me out to dry" after he appeared on only two of the televised debates. Based on his platform, he got more time than he should have.
Johnson is not the threat. The threat is a third party run by Ron Paul, Mike Bloomberg, or Donald Trump. I'm not really worried about the billionaires either; they are most likely bluster and self promotion. I'm worried about a third party Ron Paul campaign re-electing Barack Obama.
Glenn Beck has said that should Newt Gingrich get the Republican nomination, Beck would back Ron Paul as a third party candidate. Glenn: Please reconsider.
According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published this week, Ron Paul is within 5 points of Obama in a hypothetical November matchup between the two. But if Paul doesn't get the Republican nomination and makes a third party run, Obama will be re-elected when the conservative, right of center majority splits its vote between Paul and the Republican nominee.
What part of "Vote for Perot, Elect Clinton" do you not understand?
I've been down this road before. In 1992. I supported Perot. I was wrong. I won't get fooled again.
Any of the declared candidates for the Republican nomination are preferable to Obama. The choice of Republican voters in the coming primary season should be honored. Ron Paul and all the aspiring presidential hopefuls should pledge to support the nominee.
While I will personally vote in the primary for the candidate I think the most qualified and conservative, I will support the candidate who wins the Republican nomination, whether it be Paul, Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, or even Governor Johnson.
Sounds like Mittens is taking a page out of Bozo's book. That's exactly the crap Bozo pulled in Chicagoland.
Aren't totalitarians just more fun? Great headlines, bodies in the streets, giant statues and megalomaniac public projects, giant scandals and graft, nuclear wars -- they're the newspaperman's friend.
We were supporting Cain but now supporting Gingrich, Santorum, or Bachmann.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
>>It will survive a Romney presidency.
>> Your confidence teeters on faith via bu!!sh!t.
You’re right. It is faith. Obama is driven by something evil to destroy America. He loathes the majority of the people in this country, the Constitution, free enterprise, and basically every thing good.
Romney is a socialist tool, but he isn’t evil. If the Democrat choice was different, I’d say that its time to end the GOP and start building a new party for 2016, but Obama must go! We can’t handle a nuclear Iran, $10 gas, and 50% unemployment. We’ll all be working on collective farms and sending our grain to the city to feed Party Members by 2016 if he wins.
If we hold our noses and vote Romney (when the GOPgives him the nomination), and stay ANGRY, we can start forming our new party in January 2013. But we have to stay mad...mad as hell! Perhaps the humiliation of voting for Romney will fuel our anger. The elites will think they’ve sated us by having Romney win, but that’s when we strike back!
I don’t want to vote for him, but the GOP is spiking all the other candidates, one by one, and for that, they deserve to go the way of the Whigs. I don’t think there’s any doubt that they are the other side of the Republicrat coin. Regardless of the outcome of this election, it is time to radically change the “two” party system in this country.
Never Willard. Never RuPaul.
...I'll be respectful, when do we get serious about a third party. Every election cycle I can remember in abstinence of substance abuse it's the SOS. Sorry, I've had enough of these two "one party" sideshow tents. I'll bank on getting the Congress back to conservative. If that fails, I'm going to pack it in.
I will not vote for another RINO. Period. The establishment GOP can rot with their liberal lite Joe Isuzu Romney types.
I will write in, vote 3rd Party, or cast no vote before voting for the “lessers of evil” liberal.
That lying racist crackpot Paul can never win the primaries but of course I would not vote him.
NOPE, my friend! Weird Willard's evil personified. Period. Next.
It’d be easier to gain traction for forming a 3rd party if Obama gets reelected (which he will anyway if Romney gets the nom).
Everything can be repealed later, except amnesty.
That’s why we need Bachmann or Santorum. No to Newt and his lunatic amnesty plan
I would like someone to take a poll of all the candidates in the race. A non-binding poll of course, with the top two vote getters being put up again with no other choice except for NV..no vote. Let’s see what people really want, and what they will accept.
Reagan would have agreed with ya. Oh...wait!
Yup. Both Romney and Obama are empty vessels, which arguably makes them the worst kind of evil.
Just a few :
Trump :
Pro Life
Pro Capital Punishment
For smaller government
Do Away with Dept. Of Education
Opposes Gun Control
Thinks that legal immigration should be difficult and illegal immigration should be impossible .
Maintains that Israel is our best friend.
Not in favor of same sex marriage.
No , he is not a Conservative , but neither are Gingrich or Romney . If I had to classify him I’d say moderate to right leaning populist . I think he’d kick ass and certainly would upset the status quo . If Repubs would get some balls and not be afraid of voting 3rd party I daresay Trump would have a chance to win . Lots of fed up Dems and Indies out there + if it is Romney , well , you get the picture .
>>It’d be easier to gain traction for forming a 3rd party if Obama gets reelected (which he will anyway if Romney gets the nom).
It will easier to gain traction for forming a 2nd country if Obama gets re-elected. If Obama wins, the GOP elites will join with the liberal elites and will blame the “bitter clingers” for the loss. They’ll claim that “we” betrayed “them” and FoxNews, Hannity, Boortz, and Rush will be glad to join in. They’ll claim that conservatism is dead because we failed to elect a Republican versus the weakest and lamest Democrat ever.
Win or lose, the GOP has to be destroyed.
Even (cough) Mitt.
Within a year into an Obama second term, I suspect that FR, Fox, Rush, and any other dissent will be completely illegal.
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Wrong. A man who can say these things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU
Is just as evil as evil can be.
“It will easier to gain traction for forming a 2nd country if Obama gets re-elected.”
That sounds like an even better idea.
I’m going to write-in LTC Terrence Lakin for the primary and likely the general election.
Reciprocity requires that Romney and Paul supporters refuse to support anyone other than their preferred set of candidates. This approach guarantees that the GOP coalition will disintegrate.
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