In light of the heated and personal nature of the GOP nominating contest, it may be worthwhile to ask folks to make a pledge:
“I will wholeheartedly support the GOP nominee against Barack Obama. I will contribute financially to the campaign to the extent I am able, contribute my time if I can, and publicly and enthusiastically support the nominee.”
Brad Smith
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh On the not-really-odd Romney/Paul supposed Grand Alliance. http://t.co/hwEmaiTT
PG DeFreese: BBK Prophecy: The Newt Phoenix will rise from Santorum's ashes as the primary fire transforms cheerleaders into realists. #RSRH
Victoria Coates: The question then becomes what is it worth to us to secure Syria's chemical weapons? http://t.co/Uf1rEqIX #rsrh
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh Walp, that was a debate. http://t.co/bZNG4gVl
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh US Government looking to shut down Cindy Sheehan over taxes? http://t.co/kS71ADii
Victoria Coates: Dead Iranian nuclear scientist's wife brags her husband's goal was "the annihilation of Israel." Charming. http://t.co/G2qQc91N #rsrh
Daniel Horowitz: nothing new or particulalry bold with Romney's new "bold" tax plan http://t.co/uCUKk2Lj It's the baseline for any reform #rsrh
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh The only people wondering whether the Occupy movement... http://t.co/wv7wJoSR
Dan Spencer: Scorned by GOP electorate Roemer to go all Nader and continue his Quixotic presidential quest as an Independent. http://t.co/ePvruHMB #RSRH
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh Annnnnnd Wisconsin has not sunk into the earth's mantle. http://t.co/PeL4Vexr
Ehhh..... NO but thanks for the opportunity...
texastaxpayer (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 12:31PM EST (link)“Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.” Sam Houston
I thought so
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 12:53PM EST (link)Texastaxpayer becomes the first to say he’d rather see 4 more years of Obama.
This is where we start to find out who is serious and who’s not.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
Nope I am saying I am a conservative not a republican I don't owe my vote to anybody...
texastaxpayer (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 1:01PM EST (link)Wrap that in your pledge and smoke it…..
“Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.” Sam Houston
In other words
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 1:08PM EST (link)You’d rather have 4 more years of Obama than support the Republican nominee. We get it.
Let’s hope most conservatives don’t agree.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
Actually I don't think you do.... But that's ok considering the boolean logic your employing I doubt you can...
texastaxpayer (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 1:16PM EST (link)Who is this “we” you are referring to? Are there multiple people typing your responses or do you just think there are?
“Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.” Sam Houston
You're doin' it wrong, Brad.
acat (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 1:05PM EST (link)You need to aim this at the Ronbots, Paulistines, Paultards, and Moderate GOP squishies.
They’re the ones most likely to bolt, given historical data, if the GOP nominates a milquetoast candidate.
Mew
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Caveat Suffragator
What makes you think
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 1:12PM EST (link)What makes you think that this isn’t aimed at Ronbots, Paulistines, and squishes, as you call them? It’s aimed at everyone on the right side of the spectrum; at everyone who calls themselves conservative or center right or whatever. My point, exactly, is that everyone needs to remember what the ultimate goal is, and to recognize, unlike TexasTaxpayer, that we can’t let the bitterness of the primary campaign blind us to the bigger picture.
I don’t ask you to pledge your support to Paul, or Gingrich, or Romney, or Santorum, but to the nominee. Because the reality is, whoever that is, he’s the only person who can defeat Obama in the fall.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
To start with, it's here, on Red State ...
acat (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 2:28PM EST (link)where Ronbots are banned on sight.
Mew
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Caveat Suffragator
But
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 2:40PM EST (link)But not squishes! And beyond that, it’s here on Redstate, more than any other site, where I constantly hear pay say outright, or imply, that they will not support the nominee if he is not their preferred candidate.
Where do you star acat? Will you support the nominee, or walk? I’m supporting the nominee.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
That is to say
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 2:42PM EST (link)Where do you *stand,* acat?
Are you in or out? Are you with Texastaxpayer, ready to take your ball and go home, or will support the ultimate nominee?
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
Guess he doesn't read your posts huh Cat...
texastaxpayer (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 2:52PM EST (link)If he did he would realize the peer pressure isn’t necessary. Man this is starting to read like the script to a bad after school special.
“Where do you stand acat? Are you in?”
Stranger Danger….
“Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.” Sam Houston
chicken scratch even harder to read than cat scratch?
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 3:00PM EST (link)but well worth the effort in either case…jury still out on texast’?
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
You know me GC I like to spread my suffering out and truly enjoy it...
texastaxpayer (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 3:09PM EST (link)Can’t be signing no stinking pledges this early…. What would I threaten and bluster about for the next two months…. Lol..
“Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.” Sam Houston
What a disappointment
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 4:35PM EST (link)I kind of expected this, but I thought I’d try. How disappointing that the only response (other than GC) is “no, not gonna do it.”
That’s why I pretty much abandoned RedState some time back. Too often, it reminds me of these guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
Well.. bye.
acat (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 7:49PM EST (link)(yes, I totally stole this from Aaron)
Mew
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Caveat Suffragator
acat, you're a gem...
APA Guy (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 1:48PM EST (link)…and I completely concur with your assessment of this nonsensical drivel.
Pledge support to Romney, a self-admited progressive, Eastern establishment stooge?
NEVER
He may get my vote as the anti-Obama, but never will I sell out and prop up someone of his make and model.
I perfer charming hesitation
dajeeps (Diary) Saturday, January 28th at 11:36PM EST (link)The nominee has to win my vote like everyone else. That means if we nominate a squishy, he has to pledge to grow a pair,,, or sumthin.
…”I would quarrel with both parties and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”
–John Adams
Need some brushing up on Red State Principles
Brad Smith (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 1:32PM EST (link)From the “About” page:
“At RedState, we are conservatives in primaries and Republican in general elections and we aim to win.”
Apparently that “Republican in general elections” stuff has some ways to go.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
We were fed this same bullcrap in '08 Brad.
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 1:40PM EST (link)Support McCain or lose to a Dem. How’d that work out for us? Most of us are not convinced that 4 years of Romeny would be a whole lot different than 4 more years of Obama. Unless we get a small government conservative in the White House. It doesn’t effing matter. This country will continue the slide it’s been in for the past 50 years (minus Reagans eight).
Romney is not and has never been a small government conservative. His politics, when no onme was looking, were very similar to Obambies.
He’ll get my vote, but that’s it.Winning isn’t always more important than principle.
We won’t get this ship turned around until it hits the rocks.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Hitting the rocks is a bad idea.
Brad Smith (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 2:16PM EST (link)Man, I don’t want to hit the rocks. In the 30s we hit the rocks, and got the new deal. In the 60s we hit the rocks and got the Great Society. In ’06 and ’08 we hit the rocks and got Obamacare.
I’m going to venture a guess that there is nobody on this site – nobody – who has more reason to dislike John McCain than I do. I sure wish he’d won.
Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website
i will vote for the republican nominee in the general election whether it is newt or romney
mikeymike143 (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 2:09PM EST (link)and i am a rick santorum guy all the way. but i am also a republcan and i will 100% be voting republican in november. not third party or any other nonsense.
I am the Media Director for Tea Party Fort Lauderdale, America’s Longest Running Tea Party.
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Please click on our TPFL facebook page and ”like” us. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tea-Party-Fort-Lauderdale/187610141278242
I also own the largest anti Ron Paul page for conservatives on Facebook.
"It not about winning here anymore," one Romney staffer told BuzzFeed. "It's about destroying Gingrich — and it's working."'
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 2:55PM EST (link)’nuff said.
“It not about winning here anymore,” one Romney staffer told BuzzFeed. “It’s about destroying Gingrich — and it’s working.”
I’m supposed to get enthusiastic about this a–hole.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
I think it's larger than this VR, its about establishment crushing tea party
Common_Cents (Diary) Sunday, January 29th at 3:04PM EST (link)Gingrich happens to be the current closest supporter of the tea party.
It’s disgusting and scary when the DC establishment shows their fangs.
Gingrich needs to come out immediately and support the precinct project and revive the tea party efforts.
I’m nearly convinced that the parties in DC are less about winning, and more about retaining power in their parties. Not good.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.