WTF..WE'RE ALL WONDERING REPUBLICAN PARTY: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?
Posted on 03/08/2014 5:44:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
And yet … the straw poll — is rigged.
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It always has been, yet the media spews the results like they are predictors. ...I recall that libertarians at CPAC a few years ago pushed the vote so much that Ron Paul was the winner, and I suspect that’s what has happened each of the past two CPACs when Rand came in first.
As to topic: I watched Sarah’s keynote speech live and she was on fire! She actually had me cheering out loud as I watched on TV. ....Don’t see her as POTUS, but she would be a great Sec. of Interior or Energy.
Last reply be me to you as I have seen your comments on other threads and I don’t consider you a rational person to have discourse with, but you and your ilk are dooming your fellow countrymen to the same abysmal existence we have had for the past 5 years under Dem rule. You get the government you deserve. Good nite.
I will bet that most of the 3 million people would take an "impure" republican over a liberal like Romney any day.
The real purists are the liberals in the republican party who abandoned candidates like Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia.
Politically naive is foisting a left wing liberal candidate on a conservative base.
Politically naive is thinking that you can bully, browbeat, guilt-trip, and blackmail people into voting for a distasteful candidate.
Foolish is trying to do that over and over again, and then blaming the voters, when you don't succeed.
In all my years on Free Republic, I have never seen a purist. Not once.
On the other hand, I have seen many who accuse others of being purists for declining to vote for more statism.
The GOP didn't ask me to compromise my principles when it asked me to vote for Romney. It asked me to abandon them.
Poor ol' flaglady is totally in the dark.
LOL. So you're saying all those people are supporting Cruz and Paul only because Palin hasn't officially announced?
I never really thought of Drudge as a hangout for liberal Democrats.
But are you an Extremely Extremely More Extreme Conservative than Romney?
“Certainly even they must recognize she’s a savant and not an idiot.”
Right after her speech some pasty-faced boy-anchor on FOX news ridiculed Palin and was disgustingly dismissive of her.
Sarah Palin makes me smile and feel good about the country we once had.
WTF..WE'RE ALL WONDERING REPUBLICAN PARTY: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?
Because you KNOW and have proof that 3 million of the base won't vote for liberal republicans.
That's irrational.
/johnny
On Grey Jarret of Fox News trashing, mocking, laughing at Sarah last night on Fox after Sarah finished?
I hope everybody that calls Sarah a friend will let fox know that you are outraged
I am asking for a public apology
Greg Jarret
Who is doing this to her? Looks and speech-wise, We need Maggie Thatcher-type cred and class. This act could take her right out'o'the picture.
A beautiful, poweful woman and no one around her can figure this out?
No, I’m not saying that at all. I think people’s votes in these polls reflect their individual forecasts of the likely near-term future. Few of them think (at this point) that Sarah will run. I believe the poll votes would shift dramatically in Palin’s favor if there were strong evidence that she was planning to.
Agree. I rarely find fault with Gov Palin, but her procrastination in the 2012 primary was a huge error. The longer she waited, the more out of control the process became, which only benefited the establishment GOP.
I honestly believe she intended to run, but the field filled up fast, and that altered the dynamics in lots of weird ways. I really believe it's one of the few times in her life that she was indecisive.
In hindsight, I'm sure she sees that those dynamics would have probably shifted in her favor, had she declared by early summer.
I disagree. Palin, if she announces, will be fighting for the conservative wing. Cruz and Paul already have their supporters locked. Palin may pick some support up from the Perry or Huckabee or Santorum supporters should any of those men not run, or run and drop out. But she's trailing the big two right now and an announcement won't change that.
Oh please....no one's running yet, and no one's got supporters "locked up". This time next year, we'll still be about a year and a half away from election day, so it's still waaaay to early to be talking real baseball.
A whole lot is going to happen between now and the start of the real horse race. We've got a midterm election to focus on first. That's a lot more important (and forecast-able) than the 2016 presidential election.
Lastly - do not underestimate Sarah Palin. She's proven the doubters, natterers, and naysayers wrong on too many occasions to count.
Romney lost because when people who like big government handing them goodies have a choice between a real Democrat and Democrat-lite, they pick the real ‘rat every time.
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