Consider giving to the Fighting Four, for example.

Fred Thompson was right on the issues, but he couldn’t get the job done selling himself to even the Republican electorate.

Conservative candidates have to get up and work. Conservatives in general have to get off our chairs and sell the Right Thing to the people. We’re not entitled to anything. Just getting up and blandly saying what we believe in will not excite anyone but activist conservatives, and we alone won’t elect somebody to be dog catcher, let alone President.

So yes, candidates have to earn your support, but you have to earn from the Party its choice of a candidate you prefer, and you have to earn from the country its choice of the best candidate on the ballot.

I would think that so many would have learned from 2008, with McCain as the candidate, that to try to appeal to a wide variety of voters is a losing position. Isn’t that the Big Tent theory? You can’t have your cake (principles) and eat it too (appeal to everyone). As to the Independents, which are apparently leaving Obama in droves, according to polling information, why were they for him to begin with? Because he promised “hope” and “change”? Did they close their eyes and ears and just go for what looked like the winner? Did they get caught up in the fancy teleprompter rhetoric? Did they falsely believe that he would govern from the center, even after he told everyone exactly what leftist agenda he had in mind? Has he not accomplished their single issues that they voted for him for? Trouble is, no one knows what is in the minds of “Indeoendents” or why they vote for who they vote for. How about we wait for someone who has some solid principles, that isn’t worried about appealing to the masses, has a good track record of sticking to their principles, who has the welfare of the country at heart, rather than their own political power, and then get behind that person in droves. At this point, I am not willing to give anyone a “chance.” They have to earn my support, and it will need to be someone who “stands for something, no matter where he is standing” rather than “being for something depending on where they are standing.” No, Fred Thompson will not run again, even though he would be the best thing that could happen for this country. I pray for someone like him to appear on the scene.

It’s time to speak out and demand principled leaders – not perfect ones – but principled ones.

There’s a reason Pawlenty is always last in the 2012 straw polls, and I argue that it’s his doormat-level appeal.

I don’t know who to support but I know it won’t be one of these mentioned. Maybe if Palin gets in I’ll support her but she is also a bit of a populist which translates to big government but I do think she’s more fiscally conservative than the others. Thompson blew his chance and he won’t try again. He’s just too lazy to put in the effort and drive required. I like Fred and was a huge supporter but he’s done. I can never forget Romney’s Massachusetts’ care, what a debacle. Huckabee was pro amnesty before he was against amnesty and don’t forget he was for a total ban on cigarettes – that’s nanny statism.

I have no doubt we will have some squishy Republican foisted us whether we like it or not.

I think Pawlenty has some real potential and I’m certainly going to hear him out along with all the others.

Seriously, what would Fred do?

So who then is worth watching, that actually appeals to a broad segment of people, including those pesky I’s and Moderate D’s who might be tired of Obama but by the time the election rolls around but not quite ready to go full tilt conservative?

Hucka?
Mitt?

That’s the two leading contenders for 2012 right now, unless there’s someone else who’s about to spring up, but I don’t see them right now.

My post about Kaine, and being a part-time Governor, has nothing to do with any hopefuls.

Heard an interesting theory today. If McCain had “won” the Presidency, being the Globalist. Global Warming supporter, that he is he would have still taken the country in the same direction as Obama, albeit more slowly. The Tea Partiers would have most likely not come out, the Townhalls would not have happened, and, the Conservatives would have been lost for almost ever. I had to agree.

Remember Minnesota is a liberal nanny state who elected a Republican Governor. Just as Romney got elected in Massachusetts. It doesn’t happen because they’re conservative!