Posted on 03/18/2012 7:18:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“If we are sick of being managed by liberal technocrats, we’re not going to be thrilled merely to replace their rule with that of moderately conservative technocrats.”
The government role is NOT to manage the free citizens, who can manage themselves. We have to impose to the government to stick to its constitutional obligations: insuring the national security and peace inside and outside, and leave the people free to enjoy their lives and pursue the happiness.
I don’t want any technocrats, liberal, moderate or otherwise, to “manage” me.
Simply put, as I have many times, the GOP will not nominate someone with only House experience for the top spot.
We just have the wrong ex-Governor in the race.
No, it’s not in the name. Plenty of Gingrich acolytes have distorted the name to disrespect and marginalize Santorum, then didn’t like when I returned in kind. You haven’t done that, so neither will I. My point is different and addresses nominatibility rather than suitability. Do I see the one I think best by temperment and experience in this group? No, nor is she likely to rescue us. My second choice is Santorum, given the others. No pressure or name-calling (there’s been plenty) will sway me from this conclusion, nor do I expect those who support Newt to be pressured out of it. If it were Santorum vs Romney alone, you wouldn’t find 50% of Santorum supporters going for Romney, but we’d be praying for another choice at the convention.
Also chiseled in stone...
“All politics is local”
(Tip O’Neill)
Until Newt won the House for the GOP by nationalizing the election with The Contract For America...
That was O’neill’s opinion, I have pointed out historical fact. Kemp would have been a better candidate than Dole. Hell, I was a Buchanan delegate. He would have been also.
Newt is a dynamic guy and a fine speaker, but won’t be the nominee.
And it wasn’t only a Tip O’Neill saying...it was accepted as a demonstrated truism until Newt upset the “can’t be done, has never been done” applecart.
The Contract With America...
The what with the who, you say?
That’s crazy!
No unheard of thing like that can blast the GOP from permanent minority status.
Not to mention, the minority leader for years and years and years, ol’ Bob Michael of IL, is a fixture who will be carried out of the Chamber on a guerney and not a day sooner.
What has been will always be.
What?
Oh yeah, that’s right.
Never mind.
A Tea Party grassroots movement of average citizens against government excess and gross failure to perform its rightful duties??
Don’t make me laugh.
That’ll never fly.
It never has...well, not since the original one against the Brits.
Bye.
Gotta go DO some stuff.
First move...put down the keyboard.
But first...who is Sarah Palin? She a somebody, who used to be a nobody, because she lived and worked in AK?
Gotta look into that phenomenon a little more.
Millions of people hang on her every word?
Impossible.
Newt’s candidacy does not quite measure up to the importance of the other two. Newt is running because he cannot conceive a government that is not better for his presence.
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