Posted on 12/09/2007 5:12:49 PM PST by jveritas
1. Tancredo
2. Hunter
3. Thompson
4. Romney (holding my nose by now)
5. Paul (really holding nose...brain-hurting by this time)
6. McCain (hellooo 3d Party)
7. Rudy (actually moves up in my poll...scary)
8. Hucksterbee (really bad being behind Guleeani...scarier)
My Rank:
1- Duncan!!! (Everything is great)
2- Romney (Executive experience big time)
3- McCain (War Hero)
4- Huck (love the pro-life stance)
5- Thompson (hate his pro-life stance)
6- Guiliani (WOT great)
7- Ron Paul (Don’t give him time of day)
8- Tancredo (Never considered him or studied his issues)
I actually felt the 2004 election was the most important of our lifetime. You didn’t?
Old Democrat canard. No, he wouldn't. He'd cause GOP conservatives to stay home, throwing the election to the Dems. Which was the whole idea, when the MSM were telling us that lie the first time around, eight years ago.
Reason #2 is the MSM will absolutely try and destroy any Republican except McCain.
Another Democratic journopolemicist's lie. Look what they did with Bob Dole in 1996. In the spring and summer of 1995, Clinton took his Chinese reptile money -- the Chinese intelligence-agency money he and Hillary took from John Huang, Johnny Chung, Ted Soeung [sp?], and the Riadys -- and gave it to Dickie Morris, the toe-sucker, to mount a major market-testing, focus-group, and advertising campaign in third- and fourth-tier markets, "under the radar" (example: Jackson, Mississippi). This was when he and Morris developed the themes and voter intelligence that would get him re-elected in the teeth of the GOP sweep of Congress.
Meanwhile, MSM drones like Jonathan Alter, writing in Newsweek, were telling the GOP delegates-to-be that they just had to nominate Dole, in order for the Republican Party ever to be taken seriously again.
The MSM's line, coming out of the hate-a-thon they started against Republicans after the '94 win, was that the GOP, having swept both houses of Congress, was somehow becoming irrelevant and falling off the map of the known, respectable world by becoming dingbats who <snort!> actually reflected the will of the People! Talk about irresponsible......!
So, in order to get back into the good graces of the MSM, the GOP had to show that they were really serious people after all by nominating someone with gravitas, someone with dignity. Someone named Bob Dole.
Why Dole? Because Clinton and Morris's test-marketing work with likely voters had shown that old, acerbic Bob Dole was their best possible matchup in a contest for reelection.
So that's what Alter told Republican readers. Think he didn't know about Tricky Dickie's polling and marketing information? Fat chance he didn't.
And so, of course, as soon as the GOP nominated Dole, the MSM tore into him, and Clinton crushed him like an empty beer can.
So much for gravitas.
Why does that idea amuse you?
I’m almost as positive as you are.
When the Michigan primary comes around, I’ll be at the polls for Thompson.
As I do every general election, I will be voting against America’s Enemy Number Two, without regard to whom i might seem to be voting for.
But I hope that’s Thompson, too.
Support the nominee no matter what, because somebody who is conservative only 50% of the time is more dependable than somebody who is conservative only 0% of the time.
Many FREEPERS will be jumping out of windows...lol.
Why does that idea amuse you?
Are you that serious that you can’t tell a joke around here. Good grief. You must be on anti-depressants for sure or should be...
Go Rudy, Go
“I read on here and on the wiki entry for FR that Bush supporters were purged at some point during the 2000 presidential election, but then the site did a 180 and supported him.”
Must have missed that.
I will not stay home. I will never again vote for anyone but a Republican.
The two headed snake has finally brought us to the point where there will be no lesser of the two evils we are offered.
So who cares?
It is good news indeed.
Personally, I believe Fred to be by far, our best candidate but we'll see.
There are many attempts to portray FReepers are raving wackjobs and while we have our contingent, it is not nearly the majority. THat is why those who make such attempts look so foolish. Of course, most of them are no longer permitted to post here, so it makes them feel better to think that we are all insane : )
For most of the remaining choices I will vote for em, but thats it. No money, no volunteering. Just can’t get enthusiastic about, Romney, Huckabee, McCain, or Guiliani.
I don’t think Huckabee is disdained by Free Republic. He simply isn’t the first choice. Gov. Huckabee and Capitol Offense, his band, have been lauded on Free Republic in the past.
The truth, though, is that Huck is a too compassionate conservative.
Thompson, Hunter, and Tancredo are more conservative, and that’s the issue.
Thompson didn’t get the Nat’l Right to Life endorsement over Huckabee for nothing.
Hunter 0. Hunter is done. The money will now start to dry up. Too bad he would probably be the best choice. TV doesn't like him and you cannot win in TVLand if the box doesn't like you.
You idiot.
It's just the opposite. I'm fighting for our Constitution by backing conservatives and those who support conservative principles. It appears you're willing to surrender your principles for the sake of winning one battle. You, my friend, are taking the coward's way out.
I'm sure you'll make a fine, upstanding Socialist some day.
Your NON vote IS a vote for the SOCIALIST.....If you don’t like the way our system works, go find a better one, or change it. Guess you don’t like the way America works.
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