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Conservatives dismayed Mitt Romney quit race

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 All your ~~$$$$$$$$~~ losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it. Joseph Smith, Jr.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-08 04:59|| 2008-02-08 04:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Conservatives will be more dismayed if Hillary or Obama get in and convert 14% of the private sector economy to socialism forever and appoint two or three Ruth Bader-Ginsburg clones to the Supreme Court.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-02-08 05:43|| 2008-02-08 05:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed, I think they'd find Her Thighness, a tad bit more unacceptable than McCain. I think he's a dope, and a spoiled little frat boy, but I'm not going to vote for a loony leftard just to spite him.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-02-08 06:57|| 2008-02-08 06:57|| Front Page Top

#4 no mo uro, it depends if they Donks can get enough votes for closure. After their little destructive rampage over nominees, they'll of course play up to the MSM as victims, but they've made their bed. Let's see if the Senate stays red enough for us to watch SCOTUS members die off in old age without replacements. Considering the unprecedented power grab by the Judiciary for the last forty years, this could be a feature, not a bug. There's no Constitutional basis for the number on the court. So, nine, seven, five members is just as legitimate as any. Downsizing through attrition. Who has the youngest and healthiest?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-08 08:21|| 2008-02-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 "Conservatives" should not have been supporting Romney in the first place. His "conservative" record is exactly two years old. If Rush et al. could have backed, for example, Fred Thompson early on we would not be in this situation.

McCain is not perfect and we are going to have to hold him to his (new) word on the border. But my God he is better than the alternatives. We are at war. We cannot elect the Dhimmis now.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-02-08 09:55|| 2008-02-08 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm afraid the damage will be even more long lasting if McCain is elected. Those who voted for him in the primaries and contributed to his campaign will be encouraged to do the same again eight years from now with another RINO of his ilk. Candidates like Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter will be seen as anachronisms. The shift to the left will become permanent and with time people will get to the point where they no longer know any better. The word "conservative" will come to mean something entirely different from what we think it does now. Nobody will even remember what guys like Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater stood for if the tradition is not carried forward.

Sorry, I just can't support this candidate. I do not trust his judgment. If he'll sell us out to the Mexicans and the Chinese and the Albanians what else will he do?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-02-08 12:51|| 2008-02-08 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, he won't destroy what's left of our military's morale by precipitous withdrawl in defeat from Iraq and Afghanistan, I expect.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-08 13:00|| 2008-02-08 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 LOTP, I have to admit you ahve a point there.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-02-08 17:03|| 2008-02-08 17:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Hell,

I was dismayed when Thompson quit the race.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-08 23:16|| 2008-02-08 23:16|| Front Page Top

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