Posted on 01/05/2012 11:23:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Tea party favorite and pro-life conservative Sarah Palin and her family were viciously attacked to the point she chose not to run.
Congressional Tea Party Caucus leader and constitutional pro-life conservative Michele Bachmann had early promise, but I guess came across as too "shrill" and consequently her numbers driven down to the point she exited.
Successful pro-life conservative Texas Governor Perry hit the race at the top but due to missteps and less than stellar debate performances soon fizzled and is now all but gone.
Pro-life conservative businessman Cain and his famous 9-9-9 plan had promise, but was driven out due to indefensible allegations.
Pro-life Reagan Revolution conservative Newt Gingrich reinvigorated his campaign and soared to the top of the national polls, but was unacceptable to the establishment and apparently also unacceptable to the "true conservatives" among us and his numbers are now plummeting
You'd think "unquestionably" pro-life, pro-family conservative Rick Santorum whose recent surge took him to a tie in Iowa and who's now surging in the national polls might be good enough to stand against Romney for the base, but looks like there are "true conservatives" now attacking HIM as not good enough.
Well, drive them all out and who's left?
Huntsman? Who? Moonbat Paul?
Ideas anyone? Should we all continue attacking the conservatives we don't like until we drive them all out?
Personally, I could easily have lived with Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Newt or Santorum and would be proud to enthusiastically support any of them, warts and all. Any one of them is infinitely better than Obama or Romney.
But if we don't land on one soon and raise him up over Romney, guess who we're going to be stuck with? And it ain't going to be pretty. And if abortionist/statist/progressive Romney (or moonbat Paul) is the one, might as well get used to four more years of Obama. I won't vote for or support either one of those two.
I'd suggest that we all stop trying to tear down the other conservative candidates in the race and instead concentrate on trying to build up our own personal favorites. Who knows? May even discover an acceptable conservative (if not a great conservative) in the bunch. We've never had a perfect conservative yet. Not even the magnificent Ronald Reagan. We and they all have warts.
But we do want to have a candidate with at least an actual CONSERVATIVE record and not an out and out liberal progressive RINO. So let's compare their records and their actual conservative accomplishments but not try to destroy them personally.
God bless and may the best CONSERVATIVE be our nominee.
It really would be nice for some people here to refresh their memories on Santorum. It was no mistake that he lost his last election by 18%.
I don't like that he owns a home and lives in VA but still claims PA as his residence...and took money from the PA school district to school his children who lived in VA. He was sued by the PA school district! IMO, that is a typical politician!
Santorum is better than Mitt.
Well, Santorum is a hell of a man and candidate. I’d prefer Sarah Palin myself, but this guy is a tireless whirlwind, and a solid conservative. He fights relentlessly for what’s right. Bob
Please do and then read his memoirs when you get a chance. His life story is incredible and is probably nothing close to what you imagine.
If his father Pietro was naturalized while Aldo was stil a minor
he would have been included with his father...
Either way...
I think Ricks dad would have been an American citizen BEFORE he was born...
While the still dead Barak Obama (Sr) is not yet...
and we dont know about George Romney...
**Should we all continue attacking the conservatives we don’t like until we drive them all out?**
No, but do keep pointing out their strong points and how they all could work together in a strong Republican nucleus in the U. S. A.
I said that three months ago. It was the only thing I could see that would beat Obama and REPRESENT us!
I was rude to a lot of people this primary season and saw myself getting really angry. It was sorta psychotic in a way. Reading Jim’s thread, I recognized some behavior in myself that I really didn’t like. I lost the vision of what this primary was about. I forgot that Romney and Obama are the enemy and not Governor Perry and even more so Governor Perry’s supporters. So although, I would have come to this conclusion on my own eventually, you can blame Jim for it happening so quickly. :-) I have seen this written a few times tonight and I really, really like it.....”Go Perry, Go Newt, Go Santorum!” Because quite frankly all of us will get behind of these good folks in the end. Thank you so much for your post.
Soory but I don’t want romneycare any more than I want obamacare.
Who is Buddy Roemer?
I wasn’t referring to anyone in particular, just the nastiness I’m seeing. Sorry if you took it personally.
Palin could come back in the South Carolina Primary and win it with write in votes. Hell, there would be Romney,Paul,Santorum,Huntsman,Newt,Perry,and Palin ....thats 7. 100 percent divided by 7 is less than 15. Could she get 18 to 20 percent write-ins?......
I mean Santorum is a Conservative. He ain’t that bad. Palin though would light it up like a SuperNova.
Palin would be a dream come true.
NOT voting for Romney if he is left vs Obama is indefensible. Creating a 3rd party candidate because one doesn’t like Romney is also indefensible when one considers what Obama has done over the past week to weaken/purposely destroy this nation:
* allow Iran to trade weaponry with Venez and likely set up a base and then deny it
* impeachable offense to purposely weaken our military
* impeachable offense to put Cordrey (don’t care if I misspelled his name; he’s a pukebag commie from my state) in place with seated Senate
* lied countless times and day in day out purposely lies to the American public, treats our troops as his pawns, and makes our lives miserable because he simply hates us, as does Mooshelle
Can you say Romney would do this? If so, then don’t vote for him; if not, then do.
I hope and pray it’s Santorum. But I will vote for Romney if he’s left standing...whether or not it is because the GOP teamed with the MSM purposely paved the way for Romney.
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Thanks for the link.
And thank you for your reply.
Ya know, I was seeing myself get upset and angry at some of the posts on the Perry threads. I had to get taken off the Ping list really fast because it was just not in my blood to be so upset or angry over a post or fifty or five hundred LOL so I prayed about it a LOT.
And a lot of times I’d start out a response and knew it sounded pissy or angry and that’s not how I wanted to come off. Mostly I just wanted to question the intense hatred of Perry by some of the posts on the Perry threads. That’s how I read a lot of the anti comments, as hatred. Not good ole fashioned joking around or an eye roll comment but deep intense hatred.
You’re right that we’ll get behind these good folks in the end ( Go Perry Go Newt Go Santorum ).
I’ve always liked Perry first. Then Cain secondly ( we know what happened with that ) and then really started looking at Santorum and Newtster too.
And I realized that either of the 3 , warts an all like JimRob said, were fine people and I’d tap the screen for either of them.
In fact either yesterday or the day before , I had RICK RICK NEWT ( not in that particular order I think ) in my tagline.
Now I am just being funny or trying to be funny with my newest tag line LOL
God Bless Ya ~
I’ll have to do a little digging to see what the law was at that time.
That is, by far, the most awesome anti-Romney rant I have ever heard or witnessed. Everyone ought to watch it. I just posted it to every Romney related thread I could find on my Facebook news feed.
Thanks for posting it!
Great assessment, exactly agrees with mine.
I totally, and unequivocally agree. I just watched the video and was completely blown away by this woman's blistering, double-barreled take down of Romney.
Everyone ought to watch it. Especially those who think he's a better alternative than Obama.
Here's the link again for those who missed it upthread: Barnhardt-RomneyGoHome 1.flv - YouTube
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