Family, GOD and Country - Nothing More and Nothing Less - I'm Standing My Ground
By Loadmaster Posted in 2008 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Hannity tells his listerners that "your not going to get everything you want from any candidate" and I bought into that initially but NOT anymore.
As a true conservative, I will not and cannot lower my standards/requirements for the most highest position in the world. Governor, Mayor, School Board and maybe city council but NOT the President of the Free World.
I've even stopped telling everyone AOBH (any one but Hillary). When does an individual decide to make a stand? We are at a critical time in history and failure is not an option. I cannot watch this party move to the left just because we need to beat Hillary. My opinion is, Hillary will beat herself (with Bill's help).
I ask my fellow conservative to "take a stand". We are still early in this primary process and any thing can happen. I will support the GOP candidate but in my most humble opinion the 2 governors and the mayor all have problems that WE must tolerate just because they seem more "electable" against the Clinton machine.
I will refer back to Rush for his/my definition of the "conservative".
you said: "I will support the GOP candidate but in my most humble opinion the 2 governors and the mayor all have problems that WE must tolerate just because they seem more "electable" against the Clinton machine"
so you are saying you WILL support the Republican and we MUST tolerate the 2 govs and the mayor. Ok, nothing wrong with toleration but not sure what STAND you are taking.
Molon Labe!
I fully intend to vote for the Republican candidate, but it would be nice not to vote for the lesser of two evils for once in my lifetime. I want to see the size, scope, and power of the national government retract, not merely grow in a way more palatable to certain members of the Republican party. I don't want to hear my candidate echo the words of the socialist left in proclaiming that we need to get more medical care to more people, through the federal government of course, or that we need to subsidize some pet industry. I want the next President to humbly tell the American people that he doesn't know how to run our lives better than us, that he does realize that he is our servent not our nanny or our ruler, and that it is time for us to roll back the layers of government that are currently smothering our society. Is that really too much to ask for?
Governor, Mayor, School Board and maybe city council but NOT the President of the Free World.
WHAT?! That is the most important place to NOT lower your standards! As far as I'm concerned, they are as important as, if not more important than, the President on virtually everything but the war.
If people would elect only state and local politicians who had the guts to defy federal court rulings ("sitting out" for the ones who didn't), the rulings would be no more (and people would get the message that courts can't make law). But most voters have settled for less, or they have unnecessarily maintained an unrealistic hope of changing the courts.
Conservative voters should actually scrutinize the statements, actions, and positions of governors and state legislators (and state judges where applicable) and some other local offices MORE closely since they are harder to locate and come by. Where we can't fid the answers, we should ask these people what they will and will not do.
Elected officials in local and state offices and even in Congress can usually do MORE than the President. To vote as if the reverse were true to me is foolish.
And you want a splintered Conservative base. You don't have the right to decide who is and is not a Conservative. I am voting for Romney, and I consider him the only true Conservative. Now, I am willing to go along with the rest of the base, but not if its only if your guy wins. Therefore, by my definition, you are not a Conservative. McCain is gave use McCain-Fiengold and has an immigration problem. Thompson was a lobyist for Planned Parenthood.
Those in glass houses, should not throw stones. No one is perfect, and there is no perfect candidate. We have primaries so that we as Republicans/Conservatives can come to a consenses. But, if you say, your way, or the highway, and everyone else says the same thing, then you have just decided that no Republican will ever be elected president again.
Becareful what you wish for, you just might get it.