Posted on 11/14/2008 10:43:59 AM PST by Salo
If Obama gives us a repeat history of the 4 years of Jimmy Carter, as I think he will, it will be time in 2012 to throw the bums out. In fact, its already time to throw them out. Sanford would be great but there may be many great candidates. How about Gen. Petraeus for one?
There isn’t a single Republican who isn’t stodgy and boring. We have no one who is charismatic enough to lead the party much less the country. We need youth and charisma plus knowledge to win the White House again. We can’t even control Congress with in fighting. Republicans need to learn that there is no such thing as absolute black or white but infinite shades of black, gray and white. Sometime you have to give to get.
Where the heck was Sanford? If he ran for President, he would have easily won over 50% of the GOP primary and sent Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, and McCain packing after Super Tuesday.
Could he have defeated the False Messiah? Hard to say. Sanford would have had much more grass root support and money than McCain. Plus Sanford’s outside status with DC would make it more difficult for Obama to tie him with Bush. Sanford left Congress when Bush was sworn in. OTOH, the economic crisis made people angry with all Republicans. So Sanford could have been drowned by anti-GOP sentiment.
For the future, I think the GOP should have a by-law forbidding current Senators and US House reps from running for Presidents. Republicans do best when they nominate outsiders from DC.
Sanford didn’t run because he’s not an egotist. He served his 6 year sentence in DC and got out. We’d have had to draft him to run for President. Always remember the ones who really DON’T want to serve are the ones we want as President.
I’ll take it a step further and say no Republican should even be allowed to declare for President. There should be an individual draft movement for each candidate... and they CANNOT be paid by said candidate or fund traced to them (meaning NO Slick Willards).
Gov. Sanford is the real Maverick, from Wikipedia:
In 1994, Sanford entered the Republican primary for the Charleston-based 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. The seat had come open after four-term incumbent Arthur Ravenel gave it up to make an unsuccessful run for governor. Despite having never run for office before, he finished second in a crowded primary behind Van Hipp, Jr, a former George H. W. Bush Administration official. Sanford defeated Hipp in the runoff, and breezed to victory in November. He was reelected twice, both times facing only minor-party opposition.
While in Congress, Sanford was a staunch conservative (he garnered a lifetime rating of 92 from the American Conservative Union), but displayed an occasional independent streak. He often would be one of two members of Congress, along with Ron Paul, voting against bills that otherwise got unanimous support. For example, he voted against a bill that preserved sites linked to the Underground Railroad. He opposed pork barrel projects even when they benefited his own district; in 1997 he voted against a defense appropriations bill that included funds for Charleston’s harbor. Seeing himself as a “citizen-legislator,” he did not run for reelection in 2000, in keeping with a promise to serve only three terms in the House.[2]
Sanford was listed in the House roll as “R-Charleston,” even though he lived on Sullivan’s Island.[3][4][5]
Sanford/Palin or Jidal could be the ticket...I especially like the outside the beltway and “citizen-legislator” flavor of this type of Conservative GOP. Sanford is not hungry for political power and will need to be pulled into a run for the Presidency...much like Reagan.
More important than speaking ability Mark Sanford has the rare aility to truly listen. I know this personally from discussions with him on several occasions.
Mark Sanford is to real for America. We are looking for handouts and B/S. Mark Sanford is well before his time and the one thing that most do not want,he speaks the truth and is to realistic for our make believe country.
Look what a smooth talking Liberal with Zero experience can get you....
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Actually, uh, a liberal, uh, doesn’t, uh, really, uh, wait a minute, uh, I can’t hear myself, uh, I’m glad youre fired up though, uh, sometimes, uh can be, uh, is this Porky Pig syndrome or, uh what is it, uh, it would cost, uh, it would cost about, uh, where is my cocaine?
Hey, some of us Yankees are rabid conservatives and moved south to get away from the liberal mess the north has made. Please don’t label us all the same.
What specific Republican principles does he lack?
It would seem then that Goldwater and Reagan we Jeffersonian Democrat as well.
Huh?
Then don’t patronize threads such as these.
We political junkies can’t help ourselves. :o
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Palin or Sanford, much better choice than McLame or Hominy.
He’s not a liberal statist. That’s why he’s one of our best, if not the best, Governor in the country.
I wasn’t speaking of just Sanford. I was speaking of the party in general. About Palin, well, the “good old boys” in the party did same thing that is done in both parties when it comes to a smart savvy woman who is better equipped to run for president than any man available.
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