Today’s Daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows Obama at a reassuring -12, with a mere 2-point lead against a generic Republican amidst a seemingly weak and largely unannounced field.

Folks, he’s beatable. We better nominate the right person.

The pro-Daniels crowd puts up a compromiser who tells us to put up the white flag–literally–on social issues, and they have the gall to say WE would rather re-elect Obama? They are the ones ensuring another 4 years of Obama, NOT US.

As if the $30-something billion dollars in cuts that Boehner compromised on didn’t leave a bad enough taste in our mouths, now we have to support as our standard bearer someone whose claim to fame is more of the same?

I want to keep what I earn; it’s my money, not the government’s.

I want the government to leave me alone, unless I am trying to murder innocent unborn children.

I want murderers to be executed promptly upon the conclusion of their due process.

I want child molesters to be mandated to take chemical or physical castration for the rest of their pathetic lives. I’ll have a heart and let them pick which form of castration.

I want the FairTax with a balanced budget / no income tax amendment so whenever any politican gets the bright idea to raise some more money so he can spend some more money, we will see it black on white on every price tag on every new product or service in America. Hidden taxes = higher taxes.

I want most of all a fighter–a no-nonsense, no-compromise conservative who will take it to Obama respectfully but HARD.

P.S.: Part of me hopes Daniels gets in to split some of the squish vote between him and Romney in the primaries.

This entry started as a comment responding to conteach’s entry, “Statesmen needed in 2012 – Politicians need not apply.”

We need to nominate someone who is BOTH a statesman and a politician. Anyone who throws his or her hat in the ring is by definition a politician. I am in the minority on this, but I don’t think “politician” is a dirty word. I love politicians, because a politician is someone who was democratically elected (or who is trying to be), and that means we live in a society that allows for self-determination. The constitution protects our rights in a democratic republic, and that is one of the best things about America.

Conteach makes the following assertion:

If politicians no longer believe in the infallibility of scripture or that it was a Divine revelation given by our Creator so we would know how to exercise our inalienable rights, then by default they also are free to question the validity of the Constitution that was based on those scriptural principals. In short, if they believe the 2000 year old document is fallible, then by default the 200 year old document based on it is also fallible. Ergo, they may apply it situationally.

I do not believe in God or the infallibility of Scripture, but I do believe our Constitution was based in part on the principles of the Bible. Having said that, anything created by man, including the Constitution, is fallible. Clearly the Constitution as it was drafted was a compromise among men that permitted slavery. That is as fallible as it gets. But it was a vast improvement over the abuses of the monarch (see the Declaration of Independence for details). The Constitution is fallible, but it is the best we have. We need to defend it. If we want to change it (to ensure a balanced budget, for example) we should promote the process to do so, not try to interpret it like a liberal judge to fit our own definitions.

I understand this site’s policy is to vote conservative in the primaries and Republican in the general, and I wholeheartedly agree with that. My concern is that I see a lot of lip service to that from some folks on here, yet if you bring up potential Republican candidate X (or Y or Z) you start seeing flames shoot from your computer monitor from the vitriol worse than you’d ever see them talk about Obama.

Folks, we must work to make our party conservative or we are doomed. We are doomed if we go third party. We are doomed if we stay home on election day in 2012 because our guy didn’t get it. We are even doomed if we promote that view on this site, that somehow it is a wonderful thing to vote Republican in the general UNLESS IT’S ROMNEYHUCKABEEPALIN (etc, etc).

All you Romney haters: are you really going to send Obama to the White House for another 4 years through your slams on him all primary season and then tepid, non-financial “support” during what will definitely be a tough general election? All you Huckabee haters, same question. All you “too polarizing” anti-Palinistas, same question. All you closeted Paulistas, same question (by closeted I do not mean any gay references, I mean less than as vocal as you’d really like to be because of the understandable and correct policy of this site).

Before you say hell yes I will stay home if THAT guy/gal gets the nomination, ask yourself who the unborn children of America would vote for if they had a chance to even draw enough breath to see 18 years and a voting booth. Ask yourself who your grandchildren would vote for if they had a chance to live in a country that didn’t go bankrupt from spending and taxing like no tomorrow. Then after you’ve thought long and hard about that, I DARE you, no I TRIPLE dog dare you, to tell me “conservative in the primary and Republican in the general but not that hayseed from Arkansas hell no or that flip flopper from Massachusetts.”

I don’t like our choices as much as I wish I did, ladies and gentlemen, but start thanking whatever higher power you do or don’t believe in that you even have a choice.

Primary season is upon us. Don’t write anything that the opposition could use in the general. All of our candidates would do a fine job, especially compared to Obama. Don’t bad mouth your least favorites; exercise your keyboarding skills to make your case for who you LIKE.

When commenting, don’t forget to affirm that you are going to vote Republican no matter who we nominate–and none of this “hold my nose” stuff, either. Otherwise, I don’t think you’re really on the right team.