Posted on 04/09/2012 8:06:05 AM PDT by mitchell001
Since Newt Gingrich is talking teamwork and cooperation with Romney & Santorum to defeat Obama, would Jim Robinson and conservative Free Republic people join me in accepting and pushing a Romney-Gingrich ticket. Frankly, I bristle at the mention of Romney-Nicki Halley or other RINO tickets. Personally, Romney would be very smart to put conservatives at the table of his campaign and administration team. Newt is so passionate about Big Ideas, reform and he knows how to push the levers of Congress. Mitt Romney can be a good president, however, with Newt on his team, Mitt Romney could be a great president. We need Gingrich's brains and political skill on the ticket and in the administration.
Things are going to get very interesting around here when/if Mitt gets the nod, however the substantial female has yet to yodel.
I see a 3rd party groundswell very possible, led by someone very powerfully conservative.
If the GOP nominates Mitt it needs to die a swift death.
Thanks for posting this analysis,very enlightening.Of course many won’t listen.
The election of 1852 marked the beginning of the end for the Whigs. The deaths of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster that year severely weakened the party. The Compromise of 1850 fractured the Whigs along pro- and anti-slavery lines, with the anti-slavery faction having enough power to deny Fillmore the party's nomination in 1852. The Whig Party's 1852 convention in New York City saw the historic meeting between Alvan E. Bovay and The New York Tribune's Horace Greeley, a meeting which led to correspondence between the men as the early Republican Party meetings in 1854 began to take place. Attempting to repeat their earlier successes, the Whigs nominated popular General Winfield Scott, who lost decisively to the Democrats' Franklin Pierce. The Democrats won the election by a large margin: Pierce won 27 of the 31 states including Scott's home state of Virginia. Whig Representative Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio was particularly distraught by the defeat, exclaiming, "We are slain. The party is dead—dead—dead!" Increasingly politicians realized that the party was a loser. Abraham Lincoln, its Illinois leader, for example, ceased his Whig activities and attended to his law business.Will history repeat itself in 2012?
FUMR and the RINOs you rode in on!!
“Will history repeat itself in 2012?”
2013.
There only difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat Party is the $$$ price tag.
Whatever new conservative party that rises from the ashes of the Republican party had better make sure they keep all the RINOs out. The Romneys, McConnells and weepers can butt out!
In it's wildest dream (or our nightmare) the RNC - despite it's heavy-handedness and clumsiness; could not come close to matching the evil that so defines the Obama-Holder policical machine. OMG. . .not even close; on RNC's best day.
Nor; and most importantly; are any Repubs - RINO's or otherwise - competing against Obama/Holder; for the distinction of remaking America is such a heinous image as what these radicals are attempting per their 'refashioning' the face of America.
That is why the DNC and MSM both want Romney. The Dems can attack him on homosexuality, while the religious right can attack him for being Mormon.
This is also the idiocy of the GOP leadership. They pushed Romney as the most electable candidate, when in reality is fairly unelectable with strong opposition from both sides. He should still win the presidency due to the economy, but it will be much closer than if the idiotic country club GOP leadership didn’t select Romney.
But yes, should conservatives repeat what happend with John McCain, and not come out to vote or vote 3rd party, then yes we get another 4 years of Obama.
I guarantee that a 2nd Obama administration will be FAR more permanently damaging to the structure of American law and society than anything he did in the first term (except Obamacare, which is catastrophic for us).
The old joke is that the Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a workable plan to do it in three stages.
It’s amazing how often these days that joke fits what we’re seeing.
That could be our only & last hope. We need to unite on choosing PALIN/WEST or PALIN/A REAL CONSERVATIVE.
Taking back the GOP is a hopeless cause. Too many states keep voting in the old dogs & they keep poisoning the well. We need to start from scratch with a new party & kill the present GOP that keeps enslaving us.They are clamping down on the newly elected Tea Party members & the whole bunch of them have to be thrown out.. but since they keep getting voted back in - a new party is our only choice, as I see it.
2012 is the time to start - so we need a real discussion on how we are going to do this. Maybe it needs a special thread instead of hashing over the candidates running now.
We can't forgot that Ron Paul has delegates that he will throw to Romney in order to get his son in on the act.
SO!! who is our idea man to get this started? We don't have any time to waste!!!!
I can think of something far more damaging: A conservative movement that has become so bereft of principle that it will support the most liberal governor in history, Mitt Romney. Now THAT is dangerous!
and Lindsay Graham!
Agreed. At first they will be disdainful, then the ones who have not openly shifted to the Democrats will want in. Just as the voodoo Republicans slithered into the Reagan administration when it was ascendant.
U left out possible CW II
I don't disagree that a 2nd term of Zero would be destructive. I just want to add that RINOmney at the helm of the Republican Party would be damaging as well.
Some of the following is borrowed from FReepers who posted thoughts. I took them to write out my own thoughts. I apologize to them that I didn't save their names to credit them here:
This quote by Hamilton says where I've come down after a lot of soul searching ...
“If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures.”
It is a terrible situation for the Republicans to find themselves in this year. Unfortunately, some of them in the primaries just listen to what candidates say and not look at what they've done when in office.
I intend to vote for conservatives, as always, wherever I find them. Willard is not one of them.
My contention is that if the GOP holds the Oval Office and at least one body of Congress, we will be in a much better position to fight the elite and the Country Club network.
I would rather not take five steps back for one step forward.
Just my opinion FWIW. (not much)
Without a conservative at the top of the ticket.....there’s nothing left in 2016 for Jebby anyway. The Union will not survive the ongoing raping . You’d think they’d have figured that out by now.
What were the results: Clinton then Obama. Do you see a pattern?
Remember when we all thought it couldn't get worse than Clinton?
Well, if we vote for Mitt, IT WILL GET WORST THAN OBAMA. The next Obama has already been picked by Soros and friends.
Take a stand now while you still have a vote. No Mitt. No more retreat!
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