I never said kissing your ass at noon on mainstreet was on my bucket list. I said I'd do it if Sarah Palin is elected president. I'm not thinking about the stakes, I'm thinking about the odds.
Odds are in my favor.
Well, this one took a turn towards kissing a**es, but let me bring up an interesting point that is in regards to the Republican Party.
Whenever a candidate on the Republican side campaigns on a truly conservative message, they get elected to President. Think back to the winners and losers to see it that statement is true. Now, in honesty, I specifically said "campaigns" on conservatism, so while G.W. Bush wasn't really conservative (at least from my standpoint), he campaigned as such. Remember his comments during the debates with regard to tax money really being the people's money, not the government's.
McCain was nowhere close to being conservative, and Romney weakened and went moderate, so why should Republicans, especially conservative ones, vote for "Democrat-light."
With all that said, an anyone say that Sarah Palin is moderate? I don't think so.
What people need to remember is this statement, "The mainstream media and liberal Democrats lie," so don't place your trust in the veracity of their words about the intelligence and competence of any Republican candidate.
Whenever a candidate on the Republican side campaigns on a truly conservative message, they get elected to President. Think back to the winners and losers to see it that statement is true. Now, in honesty, I specifically said "campaigns" on conservatism, so while G.W. Bush wasn't really conservative (at least from my standpoint), he campaigned as such. Remember his comments during the debates with regard to tax money really being the people's money, not the government's.
McCain was nowhere close to being conservative, and Romney weakened and went moderate, so why should Republicans, especially conservative ones, vote for "Democrat-light."
With all that said, an anyone say that Sarah Palin is moderate? I don't think so.
What people need to remember is this statement, "The mainstream media and liberal Democrats lie," so don't place your trust in the veracity of their words about the intelligence and competence of any Republican candidate.
Exactamundo!
The reason McCain go as many votes as he did was specifically Palin. Anyone else and it wouldn't have been close race at all. It's the only thing he did right with his entire campaign and still made it a nail biter for awhile.
Ditto for Romney picking Ryan. I will admit that it was a gutsy move for Romney to make picking someone so young. I liked the fact that he picked someone his opposition hated. They hate Ryan because he's a numbers crunching machine, but it brought even more economic credibility which he really wasn't short on to begin with. He was "piling on with economic prowess" and should have won. The mistake in each election was underestimating how many conservatives would just stay home rather than vote for "democrat light". I think they (the GOP) are slowly coming around but I don't know if they are going to make it before they go the way of the whigs. The old guard sure do have their heels dug in.
Hold on - if your theory is that conservative voters just want someone who is conservative and they are tired of moderates like McCain and Romney, how do you explain their primary victories? If conservative voters just want someone who's conservative and will turn out in droves to vote for someone who runs a "conservative" campaign, why didn't Huckabee win in 2008? Why didn't anyone other than Romney win in 2012? I mean, McCain and Romney were the most moderate candidates in their respective primary fields, and they both won easily.
That line of thinking makes no sense whatsoever.
That line of thinking makes no sense whatsoever.
It's because their own party actively works against them during the primaries. Look at what they did to Ron Paul. If an actual conservative does manage to nab the nomination we'll see people beat feet to the polls just like they did with Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was a gun grabbing, abortion believing pragmatist who raised taxes, didn't attend church, and allowed his schedule to be arrange around his horoscope. It's pointless to talk about who Sarah Palin will be when nobody can even remember who Ronald Reagan was.
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