Republican Nomination for President

Who would you vote for to run for President from the Republican Party?

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#626
#626
VOLatile said:
He thought we could rid the world of terrorism. Instead, he added trillions to the deficit and many American soldiers were killed trying to find one man, who wasn't even in Afghanistan (when he was finally found). Seems pretty senseless to me. However, Iraq was definitely a bigger mistake.
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Afghanistan is the longest war in American history.
 
#628
#628
Mitt Romney is jumping the shark going after Newt's ethics probe. He needs to figure out how to give someone a reason to vote for him. If conservatives saw a glimmer of hope in his candidacy, he wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
 
#629
#629
GAVol said:
Mitt Romney is jumping the shark going after Newt's ethics probe. He needs to figure out how to give someone a reason to vote for him. If conservatives saw a glimmer of hope in his candidacy, he wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
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Newt is tapping into the frustration by voters and is willing to go after the media and Barry, Mitt is willing to attack Newt, but no one else.
 
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GAVol said:
Mitt Romney is jumping the shark going after Newt's ethics probe. He needs to figure out how to give someone a reason to vote for him. If conservatives saw a glimmer of hope in his candidacy, he wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
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There's more than a grain of truth to this.

And in fact, in my view, this mantra of asking people to vote for you just so as not to vote for the other guy is basically what the GOP offers, in every respect, this year.

None of the GOP candidates is running a campaign based on why they SHOULD be president. Instead, their campaigns seem solely to advertise and have as their mainstays why someone else SHOULD NOT be president.

And that's broken down between attention either on Obama or their fellow nomination seekers. No one seems to be focused on what he would do that makes him worthy.

(I'll give RP some credit on that score, he's better than the rest about it.)

Not sure that approach is what people want right now. They want solutions, they want to know what you'll do to help them, not just more complaining about what everyone else is doing to screw them.
 
#631
#631
This goes towards democrats and republicans alike. No better way to get one of the parties to move your way than to show them youre willing to not vote for them.
 
#632
#632
lawgator1 said:
There's more than a grain of truth to this.

And in fact, in my view, this mantra of asking people to vote for you just so as not to vote for the other guy is basically what the GOP offers, in every respect, this year.

None of the GOP candidates is running a campaign based on why they SHOULD be president. Instead, their campaigns seem solely to advertise and have as their mainstays why someone else SHOULD NOT be president.

And that's broken down between attention either on Obama or their fellow nomination seekers. No one seems to be focused on what he would do that makes him worthy.

(I'll give RP some credit on that score, he's better than the rest about it.)

Not sure that approach is what people want right now. They want solutions, they want to know what you'll do to help them, not just more complaining about what everyone else is doing to screw them.
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Would you rather have them criticizing the opposition or falsely promising the world?
 
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#638
milohimself said:
Whats the difference when it's just lip service and there will be little real change?
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Same stuff we hear every four years: lesser of two evils; they're all the same; is this the best we've got?

Like it or not, Presidential politics is a field position football game. Always has been.
 
#639
#639
Bottom line is if the GOP thinks you will vote for them, more specifically against Obama, then they think they have you in their pocket and are then no longer accountable to you. And that absolutely goes both ways.
 
#641
#641
milohimself said:
Bottom line is if the GOP thinks you will vote for them, more specifically against Obama, then they think they have you in their pocket and are then no longer accountable to you. And that absolutely goes both ways.
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That's just human nature though. As soon as any official or party receives what they interpret as a mandate, they inevitably overreach and voters react in the other direction. It happened in 1980, 1992, 1994, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
 
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#643
GAVol said:
That's just human nature though. As soon as any official or party receives what they interpret as a mandate, they inevitably overreach and voters react in the other direction. It happened in 1980, 1992, 1994, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
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The difference is that the Democratic party is becoming more and more moderate whereas the "base" of the Republican party is becoming increasingly militant and dogmatic.

The Contract on America, followed 15 years later by the Tea Party. The rhetoric from the right has gone past shrill and is now oftentimes borderline seditious.
 
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#644
lawgator1 said:
The difference is that the Democratic party is becoming more and more moderate whereas the "base" of the Republican party is becoming increasingly militant and dogmatic.

The Contract on America, followed 15 years later by the Tea Party. The rhetoric from the right has gone past shrill and is now oftentimes borderline seditious.
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I would have expected nothing less from you.
 
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#647
How else do you explain the race baiting masquerading as "simple commentary," the reference to armed insurrection, the fact that the GOP cannot be controlled by the Speaker, etc., etc.?

Intransigence.
 
#648
#648
lawgator1 said:
How else do you explain the race baiting masquerading as "simple commentary," the reference to armed insurrection, the fact that the GOP cannot be controlled by the Speaker, etc., etc.?

Intransigence.
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ahh, and there you have it folks, it's LG's fallback position that any criticism of Obama must be based on racism

it's gone beyond asinine to just plain pathetic
 
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#649
#649
His posts are a lot better when you read them in the voice of Aunt Bea.
 
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#650
lawgator1 said:
None of the GOP candidates is running a campaign based on why they SHOULD be president. Instead, their campaigns seem solely to advertise and have as their mainstays why someone else SHOULD NOT be president.
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:blink:

In every debate, in every speech they talk about why they want to be president, their view of how America should be governmend and specific policies they will pursue. What about those topics is NOT saying why they should be president?

Since they have opponents, they also talk about why they are a better choice.
 
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