Posted on 07/15/2012 12:05:17 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
I think it’s worth asking whether it really is too late to put a conservative on the ballot for president. Look, we all KNOW that O-Zero’s attacks on Romney are complete BS. But Romney has shown he isn’t able to stand up to it. He looks weak and defensive. So, maybe this is an opening for us.
Romney cannot really just drop out of the race. That would be insane. But he could be asked to let the convention make the call about whether he should move forward. Conservatives could ask him to release his delegates to vote their consciences.
If those delegates still want him on the ticket and he gets the votes, then good for him (I guess). But opening the convention would provide an opportunity to really debate the direction of the Republican Party and maybe ... just MAYBE... allow a conservative/ Tea Party/ Constitutionalist/ patriotic/ Christian / non-socialist / free-market insurgency to gain control.
Am I just dreaming? I just think we should not pass up the chance to save America, if we get it.
All you conservatives still think we can change this government in one election, is just dreaming. Just remember that it took the “PROGRESSIVES” over 100 years to put us in where we are at today. I’m not saying it will take us 100 years to turn all of this around, but it’s not going to be overnight. If you all will recall, these “PROGRESSIVES”, both republicans and democrats, despised Reagan, even while they were sucking up to him. It’s going to take elections in the school boards, city councils, state representatives, and yes even our choices for judges. Then it’ll be our choices for representatives and senators, before we can finally defeat these people. The election of ROMNEY will be a start, and we will have to keep his feet in the fire, and also the elections of trully conservative House of Representatives and Senators. Don’t despair, we are on the right track.
All you conservatives still think we can change this government in one election, is just dreaming. Just remember that it took the “PROGRESSIVES” over 100 years to put us in where we are at today. I’m not saying it will take us 100 years to turn all of this around, but it’s not going to be overnight. If you all will recall, these “PROGRESSIVES”, both republicans and democrats, despised Reagan, even while they were sucking up to him. It’s going to take elections in the school boards, city councils, state representatives, and yes even our choices for judges. Then it’ll be our choices for representatives and senators, before we can finally defeat these people. The election of ROMNEY will be a start, and we will have to keep his feet in the fire, and also the elections of trully conservative House of Representatives and Senators. Don’t despair, we are on the right track.
All you conservatives still think we can change this government in one election, is just dreaming. Just remember that it took the “PROGRESSIVES” over 100 years to put us in where we are at today. I’m not saying it will take us 100 years to turn all of this around, but it’s not going to be overnight. If you all will recall, these “PROGRESSIVES”, both republicans and democrats, despised Reagan, even while they were sucking up to him. It’s going to take elections in the school boards, city councils, state representatives, and yes even our choices for judges. Then it’ll be our choices for representatives and senators, before we can finally defeat these people. The election of ROMNEY will be a start, and we will have to keep his feet in the fire, and also the elections of trully conservative House of Representatives and Senators. Don’t despair, we are on the right track.
Give a name of a single prominent elected official who you think would actually abandon the presidency after they won the nomination.
Keeping Romney’s feet to the fire....funny concept.
He loathes conservatives, do you really think he will work with them in congress or belly on up to the bar with dems, like he always has.
The cowardice from "conservatives" beyond is appalling this election cycle.
Please... Just stop for heaven’s sake.
I don't know why you're waiting for that which is easily obtained.
You can read the short version posted as a reply to you or you can read, in depth, at the Washington Post or FactCheck.org the very same: Romney is telling the truth. There is nothing untoward in the documents.
It's all just Obama trying to run away from his record.
Agreed. There are still too many unexploded heads among the purity brigade. But there are a few less since Sarah Palin has said that Condi will make an excellent VP.
It no longer matters who I wanted, or who you wanted, or who anyone wanted. The choice is now A or B - as simple as that. Attaching names to it yields Obama or Romney. No amount of "principle" or indignation will change that. Trying to fabricate anything else is just bull$hit.
Everyone... it is "A" or "B". You must choose one - just one of "A" or "B" - as though your life depends on it. Because, it does.
“Mitt Romney should step down while it’s not too late.”
He is psychologically incapable of stepping down. His view or metaphysical reality pivots on his ascension to POTUS, as it does for a number of his followers.
He will not step down, nor will he assist any other to the office.
Should read:
“His view -of- metaphysical reality pivots on his ascension to POTUS, as it does for a number of his followers.
Please name one politician, of either party past or present, who would step down while in his position. One.
“Please name one politician, of either party past or present, who would step down while in his position. One.”
Nixon and Johnson did effectively just that. They were actually further along, as they were detested and disliked POTUSes, whereas Bishop Willard is merely a detested presumptive nominee. Damn. Either of those guys would be improvements right now.
Anyway, before you spam me again, I have agreed that Bishop Willard is too small to step down or step aside. Every candidate this cycle was that small, save for Perry.
Spam? By responding to a post on a public forum? C'mon man!
And Perry? I liked him a lot. But he wouldn't step down either simply because he may not have measured up as the perfect candidate to some.
My point is... that to get to this point requires incredible perseverance, effort and some good timing. No one, and I mean no one, would step down now short of a disastrous scandal.
Excellent point.
And Reagan was truly great. I find myself thinking that, were he alive, Reagan would vote for Romney because he understood better than anyone that winning in politics is a practical matter, not boolean.
The Constitution is a set of rules for the GOV’T to follow, NOT a set of chains for We the People.
If Change can be made peacably for freedom, greta and fine. If not, there is a thirsty tree.
Zero’s attacks on Mittens AREN’T complete BS, that’s the problem: he’s a genuinely horrible candidate and a horrible person, and 0bama is shooting fish in a barrel. The fact that Zero is just as bad doesn’t make Romney good.
He can’t even give a straight answer to a straight question, he contradicts himself every two days and with the internet, everything he says is recorded.
We MUST get a true conservative as a candidate or we are DOOMED.
Total, complete and utter nonsense.
Is that what you were going for?
It gives alot of credibility to the axiom, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” While Obama is leading us to tyranny I have little hope that Romney has the will or ability to change the path to economic destruction we are on.
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