Posted on 07/17/2012 5:11:59 AM PDT by xzins
Without going to great lengths to establish that there is continuing dissatisfaction with Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for the presidency, let us play the game of "What If". What if the convention were to somehow become open? Who would you want to be the Republican nominee?
If we were to point out that Romney did not win the support of two-thirds of the primary voters, the reply would be that the process is engineered that way. When there are more than two candidates, one shouldn't be surprised to see a candidate polling much more than a third. That is reasonable. However, it doesn't mitigate the fact that most were not Romney supporters.
We will balance this out in the game of "What If" by placing any of the candidates who ran against Mitt marginally off limits. Participants in the game should not pick Pawlenty, Bachman, Johnson, Huntsman, Paul, Gingrich, Cain, Perry, or Santorum. They have all already lost. We will leave the option open, though, because many believe Romney was aided by the GOP-E, by a complicit media in the tank for him, and by an enormous financial advantage. So, if you absolutely must write-in Bachman's name, then go ahead and do it. (We couldn't really stop you, anyway.)
My criteria for a candidate would be that they be a real conservative. This is the complaint most heard about Romney, that he is a lifelong liberal who governed as a liberal. There is good reason for seeing Romney in this light since just weeks ago he came out in favor of gay couples. Moreover, he announced that at the state level those gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. This is not ancient history. This is recent. Folks might say that Romney has changed here or there, that he's converted to this or that, but the gay couple and gay adoption thing is brand new.
It underscore for those of us who don't support the man that he truly is a radical liberal, and that it's liberalism that's in his bloodstream and not anything that is severely conservative.
So, who would you support if the convention were to open up? If you were a delegate and if Romney announced he was stepping down, to which leader would you turn?
For me, it would have to first be a pro-life candidate. Life is a right and not an issue. Life shouldn't be taken except by due process of law, and that only after one has committed a violation that warrants the death penalty. A pre-born child could never commit such a crime, so no due process could ever make it right to take the life of a pre-born child.
Other minimal requirements would be: pro-God, anti-homosexualism, pro-gun, pro-small government, and pro-American exceptionalism. I could add other qualifications to this list, but we'll just shorten it for the sake of this article.
Who?
Let's just offer a few names that have been brought up as possible Vice Presidential nominees (alphabetically): Tom Corbett, Mitch Daniels, Jim DeMint, Susana Martinez, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Rob Portman, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Snyder, and Alan West. Some of these might or might not fit the requirements I've listed above, but they are a starting list. I'm sure there are others who should be considered. Feel free to add other names.
So, vote now. If the Republican Convention were to suddenly open up, if we suddenly found ourselves rid of Mitt, for whom would you vote to be the nominee of the Republican Party?
And Reagan had been a Democrat.
By my standard Ronald Reagan could run for whatever he wanted ~ but by the time his second term had ended it was time to grow up and stick to running Conservative Republicans ~ George probably shouldn't have been run for President ~ turned out all he wanted us to do was look at his buns anyway. Dude is wierd.
Reagan was neither.
Bachmann and Perry were non-factors by the time primary voting rolled around.
Sarah
I vote for Diogenesis. If we’re gonna let nObama waltz to a second term as maximum leader of the soon-to-be third world nation he wants us to be, let’s make sure we put up a totally unelectable buffoon.
Rick Perry
Then you should love this thread. This is the kind of response Romney should be seeing. He should be continually reminded that his support is at best one inch deep and that if he steps off the reservation, that you all are gonna walk.
Instead, what I see is a bunch of otherwise good conservatives spinning endlessly for him.
For example, most avoided the threads when he came out a few weeks ago in favor of gay couples and gay adoption.
They should have had wood piled around a stake ready to light and burn. Instead, they stood to the side wringing their hands or being totally, completely mum.....crickets...
That is certainly not holding him accountable, and it certainly is ALLOWING him and his staff to be decaf.
Yeah, but think about it. We would have her for 16 years.
She has my vote and my prayers.
I agree with you about Goode, so real. But, it’s threads like this that remind others that Mitt was never one of their choices and that they prefer someone else, that they prefer a conservative.
Hogwash
I want Palin....Todd Palin.
He has everything that his lovely bride and mother of his children have. But he has something else. He is Union. He ran in Iditarods which celebrates the human condition. He has raised a great family. He is a businessman. And when they vetted Sarah, he was probably vetted also.
And when the left go after his experience, he can say that Obama didn’t know squat and 4 years later proved it.
Bobby Jindal’s parents were not U.S. Citizens at the time Bobby Jindal was born, consequently Bobby Jindal is not a natural born citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution for eligibility to the Office of the President or Vice President. He may serve in the U.S. Government in other capacities, but not in the two offices specified by the Constitution.
I agree. I, too, like Todd Palin.
One thing I like about him is that when the 2 parties in Alaska became insufferable stooges for big government largesse, it was Todd Palin who became 3rd party. I believe it was the Alaska Independent Party or something like that, and even though he stepped out of it to support his own wife, it was a party that endorsed the Constitution Party candidate once upon a time.
He was willing to dream of an alternative to the one party system that we now have....one party with 2 heads.
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Neither is the son of an ambassador or the son of a foreigner occupier, neither was born on an indian reservation, both were subject to the jurisdiction of the US. There is nothing in the constititution requiring both parents to be citizens, de Vattel was read by our Founders, but not included.
There is not doubt that Bobby Jindal was an anchor baby. His parents were here on student visas, and she was already about 6 months pregnant when they arrived. It had to have been years afterward that they finally received their US citizenship. The clearly could NOT have fulfilled any residency requirement by the time of his birth. Bobby Jindal was born a citizen of the nation of India, the nation to which his parents owed allegiance.
In short, if Bobby Jindal is eligible to the presidency, then so is Anwar al Awlaki’s children who were born anchor babies in the US while he was here studying. I hear he also became a US citizen afer a while. So, is it wise to let Anwar’s kids run for the presidency? How about hypothetically allowing Ahmadinejab of Iran visit the US with one of his wives pregnant and ready to deliver? Should we allow that anchor baby to be eligible for the presidency?
“Natural Born Citizen” MUST mean something different than the phrase preceding it... “citizen”... referring to those who were “citizens” prior to the adoption of the Constitution. After the adoption of the Constitution, “citzen” was no longer acceptable as a standard, and something that had to have been more stringent, “natural born” became the standard.
Jindal is a great governor and probably would be a wonderful senator.
That’s a flat lie, as documented profusely throughout Freerepublic and elsewhere. Even the U.S. Congress and Obama acknowledgeed the two parent requirement when they passed a resolution deeming McCain to be eligible as a natural born citizen with two U.S. Citizen parents. Rubio and Jindal are not natural born citizens by any streetch of the imagination or courtroom pettifogging and obstructions of justice.
Bobby Jindal was born in the United States with natural born citizenship in India, because his parents were citizens of India holding passports from India. Under the laws of India at the time, Bobby Jindal was born with citizenship in India by virtue of jus sanguinis laws of India. Regardless of whether or not Bobby Jindal was born with the right to claim native born U.S. citizenship by jus soli doctrines of U.S. law, he was also born with automatic natural born citizenship in India the Constituttion and its authors disqualified persons born with allegiance to a foreign sovereign. Efforts to falsely pretend anyone born with allegiance to a foreign sovereign is somehow a natural born citizen eligible under the Constituttion to tthe Office of the President and Vice Presideent is subversive of the Constitution and the Republican form of government it mandates.
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