Posted on 11/08/2013 6:52:38 AM PST by Kaslin
Not since Tom Dewey in 1948 has the GOP nominated a candidate from the urban Northeast.
Whut? Romney doesn’t count?
...I chalk it up to short term memory loss...
And this guy?
Born George Herbert Walker Bush
June 12, 1924 (age 89)
Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.
I will not vote for Mr. Christie if he is the Republican nominee even if Satan himself, horns and tail for all to see, is on the democratic ticket.
...I assume then that you would vote third party, or a write in, two equally useless actions...curious, would you do that just as a feel good measure, to burnish your conservative bona fides...
...I always thought feel good measures were left wing options...
Unless there was a 2/3rds vote of Congress to override his veto, he wasn’t forced.
His support for amnesty, capitulation to the gay lobby and his pandering to Obama after Sandy seals the deal for me.
You may think my vote is akin to a liberal feel good measure, I think it’s principled, and I have no desire to prove any “bona fides” to anyone.
Couldn’t agree more. He is going crash and burn, all because he has the ego the same size as barry.
The madness of it all just gets stranger and stranger.
“Unless there was a 2/3rds vote of Congress to override his veto, he wasn’t forced”
His badmouthing of people justifiably concerned about NSA eavesdropping seals the deal for me. If he’s for amnesty, that’s just icing on the cake. But I don’t think he “capitualted” to gays. 2/3s of the people of NJ wanted him to drop his appeal of the decision that legalized same-sex “marriage.” In that respect, he was merely being a good representative of his constitutents. Had he done otherwise, he would have been, in essence, insubordinate.
Atlantic Seaboard people are selfsatisfied snobs and it shows. Just pull up Commentary and look at all the New Yorkers sneering at Sarah Palin -- they hate her guts and will tell you so -- because of what she represents. She's the apotheosis of Midwestern (her ancestors were from Minnesota) and Western values, and it shows -- and they dislike her for all that, and that shows, too.
Shoot a gun? Ewwww! </pansy>
Called!
Can't-improve-on-that bump.
In the wake of the precipitous decline of values after FDR (maybe after the Roaring Twenties), we've been treated to a succession of presidential candidates who more and more closely resemble a Caligula or a Caracalla.
Politicians aren't running for anything so boring as the constitutionally-bound offices of a federal republic. These guys are all running for the imperial purple and have egos to match.
William F. Buckley pointed out once that it's easy to embarrass a Swiss citizen, simply by asking him to name the last five presidents of the Swiss Confederation. That's because Swiss presidents do their jobs and aren't chasing after notoriety.
Very interesting what Buckley said, and how tragic for us.
I agree, these little men have no interest in anyone imho, other than their own egos and desires. They sicken me and they are perpetuating a sickness on this nation.
Where are the men? Grown men with honor and integrity?
Do they exist anymore?! What barry has done to the office is shameful, aside all the dictator crap he pulls, his petty and smallness reduces everyone and everything around him.
I seem to recall a point in time when folks were pretty sure Mittens would run for governor and then, sooner or later, President. They just weren't sure about which state. Would he run for president as governor of Utah or of Massachusetts?
Might have worked out better, had he chosen Utah ...
“Donut Boy will not beat Thunder Thighs...That’s why liberals will go easy on him and if his butt ends up the republican nominee they will slice and dice his big white @ss into nothing.”
Many of us thought that Cankles would do the same thing to Zero, back in the 2008 primaries. That turned out to be very wrong. Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton. She is harsh, shrill, and has the personality of cat droppings. In short, she has NONE of her husband’s oily charm or innate political skills. Wait until the nutcrakers and ex-wife jokes come out. She’ll even turn off women. In modern political history, Richard Nixon was probably the only POTUS who flunked the personality test and somehow still got elected.
When the GOPe says they hope to one day roll out Christie as their candidate, they mean that literally.
Once Christie gets momentum he’ll be unstoppable. Well, maybe with spike strips.
That attitude ends north of Richmond. You paint with too broad a brush.
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