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Rick endorsed Specter / Sarah endorsed McLame. Now, can we move on? (Vanity)
February 24, 2012
| no dems
Posted on 02/24/2012 4:10:10 AM PST by no dems
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To: magritte
Who did Romney endorse over Spector in 2009?Romney endorsed Toomey in 2010. But, of course, Spectre was running as a democRat in 2010, and at that point, Romney knew he had no other choice. He no longer needed Spectre for anything.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:04:59 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: VanDeKoik
Want people to not pick at Santorum? Then learn to put the stick down.
Yes, I should put the stick down because morons should be able to attack one candidate adnausium, while their own guy carries around enough baggage to keep a 747 from taking off. Good call.
Calling Newt a clown because some RINOs in leadership didnt like him anymore is someone I would vote for far above a CLOWN that lost his seat by 18%.
The members of Congress as a whole vote for the speaker. A few RINOs as you address them, can't do it on their own. He pissed off the whole body of majority Republicans to the point, he no longer had support to hold his position.
Compare that to a state where the full body of voters from both parties had a say in it. If that state's body was made up of a majority of registered Republicans, I think you could make a fairly good comparison. That is not the case.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:06:01 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: VanDeKoik
Calling Newt a clown because some RINOs in leadership didnt like him anymore ...The RINO’s did it to garner support from the “middle” Dems. And retain power.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:07:22 AM PST
by
Safetgiver
(I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
To: McGruff
McGruff, who was he running against? Do you remember?
John S. (Stinking) McCain...
Any questions?
I don’t like Romney, but John McCain is unfit to hold any public office, much less the presidency. And I suspect that if he had backed McCain, you’d be here heralding that too, saying he was a jerk to do it.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:09:52 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: no dems
Its called feeling a sense of obligation to return the favor to people who helped put you where you are today Excuse me, but Arlen Specter is not who put Sanctorum in the Senate; the voters of Pennsylvania did. What about his "sense of obligation" to them? And I could care less about Sarah's loyalty to McLain. She betrayed her followers AND herself in doing so. Anytime you have favors being given and returned between old chums, you have the rule of man, not the rule of law.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:10:53 AM PST
by
giotto
To: no dems
I guess Romney couldn’t attack him for his 2008 endorsement mistake, where Santorum endorsed Romney. ;-)
To: DoughtyOne
What this is devolving into, is another election where Im sick of everyone in the race. Which is precisely what the liberal media is after.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:12:11 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Safetgiver
The Republicans were in the majority. They didn’t need moderate Dems. The Republicans held the majority from January 1995, to December 2006.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:13:53 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: The_Victor
Well then, thanks for helping it. /s
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:14:43 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: no dems
I have no problem w/a politician endorsing another politician from the same political party; it happens all the time and doesn't really mean much. As long as Rick's statements about the conditions leading to his endorsement of Specter are truthful, I have no problem w/what he did.
Sarah Palin’s case is somewhat different as she was honor bound to endorse McCain once she accepted the VeeP “slot” on his “ticket.” Had she not done that the media would have immediately questioned why she would have accepted the VeeP nomination from someone she would not endorse.
I often wonder if Sarah ever wishes she had turned McCain down and not taken the Veep nomination. It is my belief that McCain and his campaign staff's micro management of Sarah did significant damage to her future political viability. In fact, given the nefarious actions of the GOP-E that we have seen in this election cycle; one could speculate that they might have deliberately “sandbagged” Sarah just to eliminate her chances for any future high political office. (Do not forget that previous to the 2008 election, Gov Palin had taken on and done great damage to the GOP establishment “insiders” in Alaska.)
To: Ozymandias Ghost
IMO, all Palin had to say was this.
I joined McCain’s team in 2008 to moderate the ticket.
I cannot endorse the man for return to office based on his political views.
I cannot believe how many people think he did a favor for her. In fact, she did a massive favor for him. Without her he gets 30%, if he’s lucky.
She owed him nothing.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:24:52 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: no dems
I have said it many times here... ALL THREE ARE FLAWED... ALL THREE HAVE A PAST THAT CAUSES A DOUBLE FACE PALM... ONE OF THESE TURDS WILL SWIM IN OUR PUNCHBOWL... WHICH ONE CAN TOSS OBAMA OUT OF THAT BOWL? I am coming to the realization that the only guy smart enough to know what to do is newt... and with newt... you never know if he will actually do it... the other two have not and will not embrace the changes needed... newt has been the only one talking about the actual problems and actual solutions... but he is newt... sickening but there it is. I will vote for either newt or santorum... never romney... I SWEAR ON MY SACRED HONOR!
LLS
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:25:28 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
To: DoughtyOne; no dems
The people I want to hold to conservative purity are my fellow Republicans that claim its virtues and myself.
There is little hope of holding politicians, plain office functionaries, to philosophical purity when most can't even be held to their own party platform.
The Democrats have little concern that their candidate will bald-faced lie while running. They take for granted they will get most of what they want later. The galling issue is that many Republican office seekers once elected then go on to try to please and pander to the media instead of their own voters on the Republican side.
Bush ran on a number of hot-button issues, one of which was high federal involvement in secondary education. The proof he was no conservative was that he actaully advanced such legislation once elected. If he was a democrat endorsing something more conservative during a campaign, he would have just ignored it or paid small lip service to it later.
We are going to have to decide who we want in the general election. That is what we are voting for in the primary process by the time it is down to three.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:26:38 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(Newton's New First Law, Repeal and Restore!)
To: DoughtyOne
The members of Congress as a whole vote for the speaker. He pissed off the whole body of majority Republicans to the point, he no longer had support to hold his position. Yep, today we call them the GOP-E and they are backing Romney.
Speaks volumes...
To: KC Burke
The people I want to hold to conservative purity are my fellow Republicans that claim its virtues and myself.
Our government is a reflection of us.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:37:50 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: DoughtyOne
Well then, thanks for helping it. /s I share your frustration. I have to remind myself that the media crossed a boundary in the last election, and went from bias to outright advocacy. We cannot allowing ourselves to be played by the liberal media the way we got played in the last election. Defeating 0bama is the goal, and I need to make sure that's what I focus on.
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posted on
02/24/2012 5:39:32 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: cripplecreek
...our party and candidates as well.
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posted on
02/24/2012 6:44:39 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(Newton's New First Law, Repeal and Restore!)
To: Fresh Wind
Minor correction: The endorsement in question was 2004.
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Yeah; I know. I was thinking ‘04 and typed ‘94. Thanks.
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:35:49 AM PST
by
no dems
(Hold the excitement: A Brokered Convention would give us Mitt RINO-Rom as our nominee; guaranteed.)
To: DoughtyOne
What this is devolving into, is another election where Im sick of everyone in the race.
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You and me both!!!
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:37:32 AM PST
by
no dems
(Hold the excitement: A Brokered Convention would give us Mitt RINO-Rom as our nominee; guaranteed.)
To: no dems
The winds change pretty quickly.
Tim Pawlenty has endorsed Michele Bachmann for reelection to congress.
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:39:11 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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