Posted on 06/03/2004 4:47:27 PM PDT by Big Daddy Paul
Hayworth/Watts good and intelligent men. Electable? Doubtful.
By all means feel free to enlighten us.
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Why do you think Powell is a Liberal?
A Watts/Keyes or a Jeff/Cosby :)
As fast as Eric Cantor is shooting up the Party ladder we may have an all-Virginia ticket in 2008!
me
I would love to spend a year in Provence, with NO TV and a high speed internet connection so that I could get to FR.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
U.S. Congressman
Paul Ryan
Serving Wisconsin's 1st District
Here's one reason:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138770/posts
IF the GOP picks up a few Senate seats in this year's election (particularly in the South), and brings its total to 54, 55, or 56, Frist could end up being a hero -- meaningful tax reform (income, capital gains, and inheritance taxes); "entitlements" cuts; and of course getting more judicial nominees through (especially a Supreme Court nominee, should President Bush be re-elected, and should there be a vacancy soon after the election).
If, on the other hand, the Senate remains closely divided (and of course if, God forbid, the Dems take the majority), you can forget Frist.
He has already announced that he won't seek re-election to his seat in 2006. Whether this is for the purpose of gearing up for an all-out and unencumbered run for the White House in 2008, or because he really wants to leave politics, I don't know, and probably he doesn't either. Let's see how strong his position is after the new Senate is sworn in next January.
I agree with you - Tom Tancredo.
Not no, but h*LL no!! He's not even particularly well liked in Texas. We just really had no choice last election for governor.
yeah, I was thinking that I would love for Rudy to run. I don't agree with his stand on abortion and he kind of has a not too clean past with his marriage but I do admire how he got tough on crime in New York and how he stood with his fellow New Yorkers after 911. I think he is a loyal American and wouldn't sell us out to the Europeans the way John the Weinie would. Oh and I like how he told the Saudi prince what he could do with his check to 10 million after the prince made a remark that we brought the attack on ourselves due to our foreign policy. That took guts on Rudy's part!!
Welcome alive, FReeper!
I think his first comments were along the lines that he would give it consideration... McCain's all over the place on every issue, so it's easy to paint him as a conservative or pro-life just by selecting certain comments before certain audiences.
McCain was also for letting South Carolinians decide the status of the Confederate flag until after the Primary and then he repented before the liberal media about how he really hated the flag and was "weak" because he couldn't come out against it in order to win conservative votes. But I'm supposed to trust his word that he's pro-life, when all of the evidence points elsewhere!
The guy's a shill and will do/say anything to gain/retain power and I have to question someone's commitment to conservatism or common sense if they would even consider supporting him (not that you have said that you do, just making a general observation).
This isn't about Warren Rudman
That's utterly ridiculous... it IS about the kind of people who McCain would appoint to positions of power that would have a MAJOR influence over the kind of judges that would legislate from the bench. Obviously, to slap conservatives in the face with Rudman shows McCain does not consider conservative judges an important issue and more likely is because he identifies with Rudman and his liberal activist positions.
Could someone post that picture again with McCain and Cindy wearing the Hillary! campaign caps?
This is about John McCain, political mavarick
What tripe (this isn't aimed at you; McCain likes to paint himself as a "political maverick"). A true " maverick" would be Zell Miller, but the media paints him as a "conservative". McCain votes with the Dems on fundamental issues... Political maverick... more like media whore! royal pain in the arse
If anything I think this is what many people including some "conservatives" find attractive about McCain; they just like being for the "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", Give 'Em Hell persona (no wonder O'Reilly loves him so). I think conservatives should support steady, stable Constitutionalists, not wild-eyed, manical Demagogues.
I still contend, if you support people like Guiliani and Powell, your more of a moderate-centrist, then a conservative.
See, I knew you were a good guy!
My feeling is my senator, who is a good man by most counts, would be beatable by a populist Dem front runner. Frist has been in a very tight spot as SML, and the Dems have locked down the Senate business for the most part. If we can increase the margin and he can show some muscle, you may be right, but I think he's simply feed up with the 'no can do' attitude that prevades much of the discourse in the Senate. No easy answers on that one...
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