Posted on 03/30/2012 5:23:23 AM PDT by true believer forever
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is expected to endorse Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney before Wisconsin's GOP primary next Tuesday, according to media reports.
Ryan would be the latest in a string of high-profile endorsements for Romney this week, as party leaders have increasingly coalesced around the former Massachusetts governor's campaign. The Wisconsin lawmaker would join popular freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and former president George H. W. Bush in signaling support for Romney this week.
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How did they set it up? Anyone could have entered the race. Some did and were eliminated during the voting process and others chose not to even get in the race.
I don’t fault him at this point, but if he and other big names would have come out many months sooner, and endorsed a conservative, we wouldn’t be in this shape. The GOP pushed Romney from day one, while it’s the GOP who should have been pushed. I’m certainly not investing money in Romney or the GOP. I can find better use for it.
As I said with Rubio, he really went out on a limb. (eye roll) He didn’t endorse someone when his endorsement had a chance of making an impact when all the candidates had a choice. He waited until Romney seems inevitable and then picks him.
I have to admit, I'm fresh out of gracious defeats.
But I've got a barrel full of going third party and/or destroying the GOP, if for no other reason than to not let the GOP-E think they can get away with playing this game again.
And people, spare me the "then you're just voting for OBAMA!!!!!" garbage. As far as I can see, there is little substantive difference between Obama and Romney. If you want me to vote for your candidate, then you're going to have to do better than cheap theatrical scare tactics about another four years of Obama, because four years of Romney would be about the same.
*** Well, folks, I hope you will all be happy under the Obama regime. ***
Some people aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy. I suspect a year or two into the new Obama admin, these folks will gleefully proclaim that they wrote in... (Palin, Santorum, Gingrich). They “stayed true” to their beliefs.
Then they’ll get ready for the evening brown out, as electricity will be in short supply due to the cut back of the coal industry. And they’ll plug in their government authorized electric vehicle, hoping the power comes back in time for them to get enough of a charge to go to work.
Enjoy!
You'll get betrayed by Walker too, not just Ryan and Priebus.
If we really want to win the Fall election we need to have a PURGE NOW in the ranks of significant Republican professionals.
It’s almost like some people want 0bama to win another term.
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
And you can add Boehner and Cantor, who are looking to save parts of Obamacare! If I could, I'd photoshop a picture of Boehner and Ruth Bader Ginsburg under a chuppah
Before anyone suggests that we could nominate someone conservative after a single Romney term, I just want to go on the record for calling them an idiot now.
*Applause*
Of course they do. You asked what has happened and that is what has happened so far.
“When Palin endorses Romney, I’ll sit back and watch more freeper heads explode. Then I will crawl over broken glass to vote against Obama.”
This is the day I have been waiting on for a long time. And it will come. It is going to be so much fun sitting back and reading all the threads with Freepers calling Palin a RINO. Good times.
And there are enough true conservatives left in this country to pull that off? If that were so, we wouldn't be in the predicament we're in now.
How did they set it up?
From the outset, Romney was touted as "the frontrunner" and "likely nominee". In the very first debates it was all Romney all the time with his hour-long rebuttals every time his name was mentioned. The media was all about his money and organization that the others lacked. It was from all sides and continues to be.
Pair that with Romney's negative brutal attacks on the other candidates and you come up with a "frontrunner" eventually. And what a shame! I'd kill for Perry, Bachman, or Cain to still be in the race.
Ditto. And how can people expect weak sister Boehner to draw a line in the sand, when they can’t hold one themselves.
No more Sacred Honor around here? When I think of those freezing soldiers with bleeding feet at Valley Forge and see the lack of courage and determination around me, I can’t help but ask, “What have we become?” Don’t we owe something to the memory of those soldiers? Don’t we owe the dead GIs on Omaha Beach? Don’t we owe our fellow Americans serving in Afghanistan?
What gutless wonders we are!
Don't get down about it. We're all in the same boat. It just means that we need to start thinking about transferring our energy and activism away from the Republican Party and its various organs, and toward non-partisan but highly ideological conservative activism.
I keep asking the question, should Romney be elected, how much better than Obama do you think he will be? Hello! Romney is a LIBERAL.
But it doesn’t matter. The Obama machine will crush Romney in November and then he will become dictator.
It’s not a matter of me whining and complaining. I’m facing reality. This is what will happen. We should have faced this reality a long time ago. Now it’s too late.
They are real conservatives. When Bachmann and King and Poe vote with Boehner, do you give up on them too?
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