Ok, been some hours away from the tube and away from the puter to cool off and think about Fred’s third place finish. For those of you living under a rock he came away with close to 70,000 votes, 16%. Huckabee had about 130,000 and 30% and the winner McCain close to 145,000 votes and 33%.
If I was going to talk to Fred one on one I would make the case to him that he needs to stay in. I would tell him how much pride and admiration I have for his convictions and positions. I am proud I supported you during your hard fought campaign, and make no bones about it, you have campaigned your heart out.
Going from one townhall to the next while the MSM either completely ignored you or snidely remarked about your age and silly hats. Misinformed voters, who pay little attention to politics until the day they have to vote, sucked it all in and here you are at 3rd. But you passed up Romney and came in a respectable third.
I would ask you to stick around at least until February 4th, if not longer. McCain will NOT take the south, it just won’t happen. If you don’t win you may just gather enough delegates to have a say on who the nominee will be if it comes down to that brokered convention. Just maybe.
Yes, probably daydreaming. Maybe not even smart. But I will be damned if I let the only real conservative out of this bunch just fade away because the pundits demand it.
But if you do decide to bow out then I will move on from trying to get the best conservative the nomination to ensuring a Hillary or Obama doesn’t get into the White House. No matter who the nominee is on the Republican side is. Yes, even a McCain.
A McCain who eight years ago went off on the religious right as intolerant but now has suddenly seen the light enough to garner many of their votes in South Carolina. (and we call Romney a flip-flopper)
While I will not campaign nor support any other Republican candidate during this primary if Fred drops out, once it’s over and the nominee has been chosen then the gloves come off and its time to make sure two of the most dangerous liberals out there do not become President of the United States.
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Yup, RP is a libertarian that even most of the libertarians won’t have naything to do with.
This country girl thinks Fred is going to stay in the race.
I read all that to get to this. I too hope for Fred to stay in. He is the only conservative in the race. Stay Fred Stay. Now sic ’em!
Man everyone needs to chill out. I have a great post at my blo about this very subject. If we as a conservative movement want to get anything, we must vote for the Republican nominee whoever it is. http://stix1972.typepad.com/stix_blog/2008/01/the-3-legs-of-t.html
Would you want a government run by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid with a Socialist in the White House. I do not. That would be disastrous to our country in my opinion.
And Ron Paul is no conservative or Republican, he is a chatlatan useing the Republican Party’s name to get elected. He is a Libertarian nut job that is a racist and bigot. And he does not even preach what he whines about. He has no chance in the Republican Primaries and would never ever get elected President.
And I will support Ferd until he bos out, and then I will support Guilinani unless the MSM and Pundits derail him like they did Fred.
Remember we only had 6 or so states and there are many more, we haven;t even gotten to Super Duper Yuesday, so Fred still has a chance.
Remember do not listen to the MSM, Fox News included. Think for yourself and don’t let anyone pick a candidade for you. This is the Republican Primaries, not the MSM and Pundits.
That is Ron Paul is a Charlatan, and so is Huckabe’s campaign manager Ed Rendell. Rememeber he was the campaign manger for the Little General Ross Perot.
I hope Fred is listing. I sent him a msg on fred08. Don’t quit.
My spouse thinks ‘we’ will be wasting our votes because of no good MSM coverage.
I told her I could think of no better way to ‘waste’ my vote.
Go Fred!
Reagan lost 11 primaries before he his first State victory. Then he was elected President – twice.
Lincoln didn’t win any State primaries, but was the compromise candidate at the convention. He was elected President – twice.
Stay in it, Fred. The honest guy always has a chance.
Things have changed a little since the Reagan presidential run Indy. With press coverage like it is now there is no way Rudy or Frederick of Hollywood can win. It is over for everyone but McCain, Huck and Mitt. Pick one of those guys now or cause votes to go to a second choice that you may or may not want to get your delegate.
In the first twenty or so posts there was a great deal of anxiety about voting for the party’s candidate. I believe that there always is at this point. It will fade as soon as each party’s candidate is not running against other members of their own party. Like wine your angst will mellow with time.
having said that, I think that the worst thing any party member can do is vote straight ticket. how does a party remain consistant if you support someone like W who is the real reason that the party is in such disarry? Vote your values not your party. hopefully those two will match up most of the time.
“Vote your values” Is why I would never cast a vote for a Democrat. They have no values that I agree with.
If Lieberman was running AND Huck was our nominee I would at least consider a Dem. But with the field your side has today no way would I even consider it. The worst of the worst.
I see your BDS is still in good working order. W is not the reason for our party not having a frontrunner. It’s because none of them have captured anyones real attention. W is gone, no one is paying attention to him. Get over it.
He did great things for this country, and I am so glad he was elected twice over your Gore and Kerry….I shudder to think where our country would be with those two.
Agreed, and if I have to pull the lever for someone I do not agree with 100%, like a McCain, I will. I agree with him 60% compared to your sides Socialists whom I agree with 0%.