Posted on 01/05/2012 11:23:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Tea party favorite and pro-life conservative Sarah Palin and her family were viciously attacked to the point she chose not to run.
Congressional Tea Party Caucus leader and constitutional pro-life conservative Michele Bachmann had early promise, but I guess came across as too "shrill" and consequently her numbers driven down to the point she exited.
Successful pro-life conservative Texas Governor Perry hit the race at the top but due to missteps and less than stellar debate performances soon fizzled and is now all but gone.
Pro-life conservative businessman Cain and his famous 9-9-9 plan had promise, but was driven out due to indefensible allegations.
Pro-life Reagan Revolution conservative Newt Gingrich reinvigorated his campaign and soared to the top of the national polls, but was unacceptable to the establishment and apparently also unacceptable to the "true conservatives" among us and his numbers are now plummeting
You'd think "unquestionably" pro-life, pro-family conservative Rick Santorum whose recent surge took him to a tie in Iowa and who's now surging in the national polls might be good enough to stand against Romney for the base, but looks like there are "true conservatives" now attacking HIM as not good enough.
Well, drive them all out and who's left?
Huntsman? Who? Moonbat Paul?
Ideas anyone? Should we all continue attacking the conservatives we don't like until we drive them all out?
Personally, I could easily have lived with Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Newt or Santorum and would be proud to enthusiastically support any of them, warts and all. Any one of them is infinitely better than Obama or Romney.
But if we don't land on one soon and raise him up over Romney, guess who we're going to be stuck with? And it ain't going to be pretty. And if abortionist/statist/progressive Romney (or moonbat Paul) is the one, might as well get used to four more years of Obama. I won't vote for or support either one of those two.
I'd suggest that we all stop trying to tear down the other conservative candidates in the race and instead concentrate on trying to build up our own personal favorites. Who knows? May even discover an acceptable conservative (if not a great conservative) in the bunch. We've never had a perfect conservative yet. Not even the magnificent Ronald Reagan. We and they all have warts.
But we do want to have a candidate with at least an actual CONSERVATIVE record and not an out and out liberal progressive RINO. So let's compare their records and their actual conservative accomplishments but not try to destroy them personally.
God bless and may the best CONSERVATIVE be our nominee.
We don’t have to wonder about Newt or Santorum either. Both have an extremely pro-life voting record.
Gingrich - Santorum 2012 strikes me as the best possible ticket.
Gingrich will shread Obama in debates. Santorum will be a person to shore up the social conservative leg and show that group (us - I’m a moral conservative) that he means business.
Perry, God Bless him, is a good man and a great governor of the Texas. However, he doesn’t have what it takes to be in debates either presidential or vice presidential.
Also, although you have said she stays....I still appeal to you to ban Ann Coulter columns from being posted on Free Republic. She is a Romney shill and has attacked everyone else but him. She needs to be slapped down hard by a “conservative bastion” like FR. This forum has clout. YOU NEED TO USE IT.
One more thing....it is time to start deleting repetitive posts of the same thing. There is one character that keeps posting the same anti-Santorum “fact sheet.” Everytime someone posts something about Santorum, he posts that same blasted stuff. That needs to stop, regardless of who it is against. If someone has heartburn with a candidate, they should put it on their profile page and then refer to it everytime. I get sick of the spam smears....even when it is someone I don’t like.
It's not up to us to coalesce behind one candidate, is it? Rather I think it's up to the individual candidates to drop out. South Carolina looks like it's wide open, now that Governor Perry has decided to compete, since he's the only Evangelical conservative, going against Catholic rivals Gingrich and Santorum.
I'm remaining all in for Newt, praying he can rebound to the top where he belongs. It's a wait and see for me.
Faux is still pounding him, and Rupert Murdoch tweeted support for Santorum, so maybe he won't get shredded by Faux.
What a dilemma for Faux, huh? Heretofore, their boy Romney or Rupert's?
To that, I say, GO SANTORUM! LOL.
Your three are my three. Have you been tracking me?
Now too sure of that....
You might look at Louisiana, North Dakota, and Oklahoma...to name three.
I don't. :-)
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There was some horse trading and Newt gave away something no one really cared about to get it....”
Agreed...but if Newt did this exact same thing today, many conservatives would label him a RINO.
For me, Romney is down at the bottom with Huntsman and The Paulistinian.
But we're likely going to have two SCOTUS appointments in the next POTUS' term. AT WORST Romney would give us another couple of Kennedys. Obama, would appoint a pair that would be clones of Ginz, The Lesbian, and The Wise Latina.
Our country will be destroyed.
-—”A Progressive Republican is more dangerous than a Progressive Democrat in the Presidency.”
So you’re saying a 50% bad candidate is worse than a 100% evil thug? Please explain yourself as I don’t find this logical.
Bless you Jim. Very valid points.
As I see it this election is not about the Presidency as much as it is about the wresting of the GOP from the control of the RINO’S, the country club Republicans, and the DC insiders.
If ANY of the Republicans now in the race win, it’s my belief 2016 will be a rout and the socialists will gain total control for decades.
IOW this presidencial election is NOT the most important in our lifetime. That is said about every election and it has grown very old. 2016 will be the showdown.
The socialists may well be willing to turn things over to RINO’s for one term and gain the long term upperhand.
They stoop to conquer.
Sometimes a boil needs lanced and it’s way past time for the festering boil that is the GOP to get popped.
One would think with the Internet as a tool for the great equalization of information people could look up history and the art of negotiating.
Nope. Yuh just gotta keep tellin em and tellin em in the hopes one day their brain will engage.
My reason no. 8 for supporting Perry is that Perry has already taken on the job-killing EPA. Perry knows that excessive regulations and expensive energy kills economic growth.
“...except Romney is still quite a bit better than Obama.”
Agreed. I’m casting my vote for whomever the GOP nominates. Better to hold my nose on one day in November than bend over for another 4 years.
Obama must be defeated.
“Can’t agree more about the need for the conservative patriot base to rally around whichever anti-Romney stands tallest after South Carolina and Florida. Like you, I think it will be more than obvious who that is, by that point.”
You are correct. Newt, Rick P, or Rick S The one standing tallest after South Carolina is the one to rally behind.
Agreed. Free Republic has clout. Free Republic exposed Dan Rather in real time. They (Libs, Rinos and MEDIA) all closely follow Free Republic to access Conservative/ Tea Party interests.
The Media now knows that Free Republic who supported Bush, exposed Dan Rather in real time will BAN pro-Romney supporters throughout the entire election cycle. This post is shows Jim's commitment to fight off the RINO’s. And yes, Ann Coulter is a fake and her opinion should be labeled as RINO.
President Gingrich - Just sounds Right.
Especially Santorum and here in Iowa there was a group who made robo calls into homes saying Santorum is not pro-life.
I wonder how many FReepers have seen post #120?
Yeah, whatever happened to "going home to Texas to consider if there's a way forward" for his candidacy? Not twelve hours after he made that statement, he was all giddyup to go to South Carolina.
I wondered last night, if he didn't get a phone call from the RINO establishment, begging him to stay in long enough to split the conservative vote in S.C.
With his dismal showing in the polls over the last six months, his awful performances in the debates and on the campaign trail, and his poor fifth place showing in the Iowa caucus, what conceivable reason can he have for continuing on at this point?
Color me highly skeptical.
I agree. I think we need to get a grassroots NO to Romney rumbling into GOP offices across the nation. This means individuals have to start calling and emailing local, regional and national GOP with NO to Romney. We need to also support Santorum as he is rising. I like the Santorum & Gingrich team idea.
I don’t understand how Conservatives don’t understand that the reason the establishment republicans, the insiders in DC, the media and assorted others hate Newt is because of the threat he poses to their status quo. They don’t hate anyone as much as they hate Newt - and they couldn’t care less about his baggage - they care that he will kick ass and change things and throw some light on their cockroach nests... The job for the next Republican president will require a real bastard... Newt is that, and a genuine lover of America, and a conservative with a proven record of getting things done in cesspools...
He needs to decide if he seriously wants this job more than anyone up there, what his reason is, why it’s important to him and get his game on.
Clearly Mitt wants the job and has answered all those questions to himself but Perry hasn’t.
Someone needs to have a talk with him and he can decide if he’s in or out.
Personally, if he stays I say he stays in and working with Santorum and Gingy, The Three Musketeers can then skin MuttoTard and make Mitton Soup out of him.
Then two guys drop out, lends their support and stick it to Barry FauxBama.
One becomes VP and the other gets his pick of an Admin. Job
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