Posted on 09/04/2012 9:03:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“If they ever supported 0 then I doubt they were ever conservatives.”
This.
Yeah, I am soooo, stealing that line...!
On October 24, 2008, despite his previous support for the presidential aspirations of Senator John McCain, Fried announced that he had voted for Senator Barack Obama for President by absentee ballot. Fried cited Senator McCain’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate as the principal reason for his decision to vote for Senator Obama. As president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, Obama had published an article Fried wrote criticizing the effects of race-based affirmative action.
In February 2011, Fried testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of President Obama’s health care reform law.
Although he initially supported Republican Mitt Romney, Kmiec “caused a stir” when he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election in a piece on Slate. As he explained in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, “One of the things I kept discovering...was that Obama was sounding more Catholic than most Catholics I know.” The issues that drew Kmiec’s attention were wages, health care, and the cost of the Iraq War.
On July 2, 2009, President Obama nominated Kmiec as Ambassador to Malta.
The laughable premise that these blobs are “conservatives” kills their whole argument. Colin Powell? Please.
What, exactly, has been “conservative” about 0bama that attracts them?
Would it be the divisiveness?
How about 0bamacare?
The slow-burn destruction of our Armed Forces through the cultural infestation of political correctness?
Cap and Trade?
The $850 billion stimulus?
The abysmal economy?
The absence of U.S. leadership during “Arab Spring?”
Obama`s submissive bowing to foreign kings?
The 33 unvetted and unaccountable czars?
0bama`s stance on taxpayer-funded abortion?
The fact large swaths of formerly American territory are now under Mexican drug cartel control on our southern “border?”
They have no standing to call themselves “conservatives.” No self-respecting conservative.. or American, for that matter... would even remotely consider the idea of voting for 0bama.
John Phillips Avlon (born 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator who is currently a senior columnist for Newsweek and the Daily Beast as well as a CNN contributor. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
Avlon wrote the Newsweek cover-story published on February 28, 2011, “A 21st Century Statesman,” after traveling to South Sudan with the actor George Clooney.
Ah.. the 30 pieces of silver... I wonder what other payouts were granted as rewards.
They may be Rinos, but they sure as heck aren't conservatives!
There fixed the B.S.
Anyone who votes against Romney is voting against the country. We have a two party system, that’ just the way it is. You vote for one or the other or you throw your vote away and support Obama.
And the person who mostly closely agrees with the Conservative movement ideals in this election is Romney but to know that you have to actually think about politics not just cling to a childish snit because your candidate of choice did not win the GOP nomination.
85% of something is way better then 100% of nothing as any rational adult mind understand.
I am an attorney and have had many clients literally walk away from a 90% settlement on a case in the hopes for a 100% judgment only to find out later the judgment was worthless as the assets were no longer there or collectibe.
I view those stupid moron clients no different than these ABR types longing for obama for four more years and who were probably in gushing tears over michelle last night.
85% of something is way better then 100% of nothing as any rational adult mind understand.
Mentally deficient lying Ivy Leaguers (they ARE NOT conservatives) who voted for traitorous idiocy once will now vote for traitorous idiocy twice.
My Bad..I try to stay out of the GOP Club but sometimes I’m not paying attention and a post slips through. I’m not a Republican I’m a conservative. Romney may be 85% Republican but I vote for conservatives not Republicans...
Spare us the self serving drivel. Your position is pure sour grapes whining because your personal political opinions cannot be imposed 100% for you the way you feel they should be.
You are merely rationalize your political cowardice and laziness by wrapping it in a fake glaze of sanctimonious “principal”. You sort of “conservative” doesn’t want to have to actually get in the game and move the political ball down the field. You just want to sit on your ass an whine about those who are moving the ball.
If you object to being treated like an idiot, stop acting like one.
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