Posted on 01/31/2008 10:37:41 AM PST by Delacon
“On the down side, some things can never be put back together again. We may have reached that stage.”
Amen. We now have 60 percent of the population who pay no income tax. For them government programs are nothing but gravy. And the country is being flooded with third worlders who think it is perfectly legitimate to rip off “rich” Americans. They are going to be permitted to vote.
The taxpaying lawabiding Americans who understand how unique and wonderful this country is, and who understand the relationship between the prosperity we enjoy and economic freedom are, I think, now permanently outvoted.
My poor grandchildren.
Yes, it is time for Republicans to rally around Mitt before it is too late.
I trust Mark’s opinion much more than yours, “Antoninus”. Mark Levin is a real person who puts his real reputation on the line and has concluded that Romney is to be trusted enough to see him as better than McCain.
You are a poster who has no direct access to information, who bases his opinion on misinterpreted jokes made to CAMPAIGN DONATION callers, and what he reads on the internet.
Charles, I am not a McCain supporter. I can see his faults even if you can’t Romneys. Niether will ever get a vote from me.
If democrats can get our votes by registering in the RP, then they can certainly get a vote in the democrat party. Put a (D) after their name and they are going to get votes, just as putting an (R) after their name will get them RP votes.
If all the RINOs in our party switched, our party could be conservative again, and the left would be drawn measurably to the right. It would actually be a win win.
One person? I doubt it would change much. All RINOs, it would swampt the left and change things considerably.
Some will say this would leave conservatives as a small base. It wouldn’t. True conservatism when explained and championed and put into practice, will attract many to it’s tenets. Reagan did it.
Happily here also... Thanks papasmurf.
Yes. And we all know it was a cheap trick. But it’s telling that many of the people who are still telling us not to trust Romney have also posted that McCain’s attacks were true — which shows something about how much we should value their opinion.
When there WAS a stronger conservative in the race, their arguments looked like they had merit. Now that they seem to be selling defeat and disaster for our country, we should put THAT fact into the equation when deciding whether to listen to them.
Someone needs to persuade Pyle to get out of the race.
You should use that as a tagline. It seems a fitting description of the persona you have projected here.
Come on. Real world now. We are talking about those who have a chance at actually getting the nomination. It’s too late to play the single-issue perfection game already.
But wouldn’t the prospect of a Clinton or Obama presidency drive enough of the grassroots to the polls for McCain? It wasn’t enough to motivate the base to vote in November 2006 to stop Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker or the Democrats from taking Congress. My sense is it won’t be enough to carry McCain to victory, either.
He's right.
You are ignoring Romney’s history.
Look, you have every right to do so. I’m arguing this academically, you take care.
The kind that knows the law (Mark Levin is a lawyer) and therefore knows that MassResistance is out to lunch on their “legal analysis” about gay marriage, and also knows that Romney is running on a solid conservative platform that deserves a conservative vote in the absense of a candidate who has a stronger track record.
It's hard to understand why some cannot welcome a good man into the conservative movement. Mitt has flipped, in the right direction, but never flopped. He has been totally candid about his past record and only asks people to judge him on his record as governor. To many here want to look back at his stands from 1994 and make that the measure of the man. He is showing his mettle right now as he is spending his own fortune to try to save the party from disaster. He's a patriot in my book and I'm getting sick of all the mud that single issue conservatives are throwing at him.
There are 9 reasons why Huckabee is a terrible choice, perhaps the worst choice, in the nomination race:
1. Soft-on-crime Governor who went on a pardon/commutation spree
2. Pro-instate-tuition for illegal aliens and for other giveaways - his record on immigration stinks
3. Fiscal liberal Tax-and-spender as Governor
4. Dissembled about his record when challenged
5. Not a conservative, hurt conservatives in Ark.
6. Ethics issues, taking public money for private use
7. Flipflopper, on immigration, Cuba and other issues. He thinks we are racists and bigots for wanting our border secure and our laws enforced??
8. An incompetent Jimmy Carteresque boob on foreign policy
9. Will get beaten easily by the Democrats
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/12/huckabees-arkansas-betrayal.html
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Huckabee Caught Lying
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1925943/posts?page=1
Huckabee Begs Arkansas Legislature for Tax Increase in May of 2003:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJW7nXw30A
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee Calls Immigration Reform Legislation Racist, Un-Christian [Update]
http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000718.html
AG questions immigration scholarship bill
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/03/11/News/318458.html
Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor says
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/01/28/News/316347.html
Mike Huckabee disses Americans, Mexicans, promotes illegal immigration
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/005609.html
Dump the Huck He’s not VPOTUS material.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzNiY2M5NzIxZDJlMDUxNzUwYmQ4ZDU5ZDAzY2U3YWU=
Christians Need To Beware Of Mike Huckabee
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071102.html
Huckabee Raised Taxes More Than Clinton
http://www.arkansasleader.com/2007/11/editorialswhos-biggest-tax-raiser.html
Dumond case revisited (Huckabee’s parole of a rapist and later murderer)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933491/posts
Huckabee in his own words
http://www.huckabeefacts.org/
Stephanopoulos nails Huckabee on scholarships for illegal alien students;
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/03/video-stephanopoulos-nails-huckabee-on-scholarships-for-illegal-alien-students/
Vote for Romeny or we’ll shoot this country.
Since we are going to get a ‘deeply flawed candidate’ either way, why not just stick to your principles, even if you lose?
Bad companies go out of business all the time. Bad political parties ought to as well. The market, even of political ideas, will right itself.
He didn't attack Tancredo with negative ads and lies about his record as he did Fred, Rudy, Huckabee and McCain. And, when McCain resorted to the same kind of dirty tricks used against him, Romney throws a snit and starts whining about it. If he gets (god forbid) to be the GOP candidate I would shudder to think what the Dems are going to do to him as there is a LONG documented record of his putting people out of work by downsizing when he was with the Bain Co.
I can just see Bill Clinton every day blasting him while Romney cries about it ... the more I see of Mitt, the more I see "GIRLY MAN"!
VERY good article!
...and yours should be...”I jumped the shark, you can, too”.
Romney tried to get more conservative republicans elected to help him defeat the liberals. His efforts failed because the “republicans” in Mass were too liberal to support any conservatives.
The conservative republicans moved away, the liberals decided they might as well be democrats.
Bravo!
I would like to see more FReepers stick to their principles, rather than their strategy.
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