After listening to a recent Rush Limbaugh segment where he reads a letter from a conservative friend who is in despair at a Romney Republican ticket, it got me thinking about the dilemma we are in.
We have been told from the beginning by both the mainstream media and Republican establishment that Romney is the “inevitable” candidate—most recently by George H. W. Bush, telling us that we should “know when to fold ‘em.”
As Rush Limbaugh’s friend states, it looks like it is inevitable that conservatives will have to back the Republican establishment that have sat on the sidelines while those of us conservatives—Tea Partiers—have been fighting in the trenches. And it looks like it is inevitable that we will have to back Romney, a candidate who laid the foundation for Obamacare. A guy who doesn’t believe what we believe. A guy who will probably shake the conservative “Etch-a-Sketch” mask if he wins.
Yes, I said if.
We have a President who is a radical, who runs roughshod over Congress. If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, then what is to stop him from running roughshod over their ruling? He has stabbed Israel in the back several times. He is gutting our military. He routinely apologizes to and coddles our enemies.
So, the theory is that in order to stop Obama, we have to back Romney. But as Newt Gingrich has stated, and many others also, a moderate in the form of Bob Dole lost. A moderate in the form of John McCain lost. Will it be different with Romney? I don’t think so.
I have been behind Newt Gingrich from almost the beginning. Newt’s campaign has been “dead” several times per the mainstream media and Republican establishment. Newt was the first and only candidate to come out swinging against Obama’s war on religion with the HHS mandate. He was the first and only candidate to excoriate Obama’s apology to Karzai after the Koran burnings. He was the only candidate to have kept Obama on the ropes with his phony energy policy. In response to Gingrich’s “Drill Here, Drill Now/$2.50 gas” campaign (his attack of Obama’s “anti-Energy” Secretary Steven Chu and deceptive and misleading energy statistics,) Obama gave no less than six “energy” speeches.As we remember, his first and most ludicrous one was where he cited algae as the savior of high energy prices.
While Santorum was talking about the evils of contraception and Romney was talking about how much he liked lakes and trees and cars, Newt Gingrich was coming up with bold solutions.
You may now think that I’m am calling for a third party—a Tea Party ticket—in the form of Newt Gingrich.
No.
I think he should be a part of that ticket, perhaps as Energy Secretary, or even as Vice President.
Newt is the greatest ideas guy. The greatest solutions guy. The greatest get-things-done guy. But for whatever reason, even though he has a huge support base, a large segment of the population will not back him on his own. As to why this is, I don’t know. While Santorum and Romney are playing in the sand box with their Etch-a-Sketches, Gingrich is burning rubber around the country, grinding on Obama’s nerves. Of course, the MSM routinely ignores him, which doesn’t help.
But, after listening to Rush Limbaugh’s monologue, I came to the conclusion that a Newt Gingrich ticket is not going to happen. But I also came to the conclusion that a Romney ticket will hand Obama another term—which is not merely another term but a transformation of this country that will look mild compared to what he has already done. If Obama gets another term, there will be no United States. I’m sure of it, and many other in the Tea Party movement are sure of it also.
Now we have also been told that a third party will hand Obama the election on a silver platter by splitting the vote. This theory’s basis is in the form of what happened with Ross Perot. But Ross Perot with his idiotic charts and rambling speeches was more of an aberration than a candidate.
Before I supported Gingrich, I was behind Sarah Palin. When she announced she would not run for President, like many other Palin supporters, I felt like the wind was knocked out of me. I was literally in tears, and I’m sure I was not alone. America had gathered under the shadow of Mama Grizzly, protecting us from the unjust charges of racism and extremism.
When Sarah Palin announced she was not running for President, Mama Grizzly left us. However, she was not far away, still watching over us, protecting us. We were like a cub foraging on its own for the first time, making it independent and strong.
But it is time for us to return to Mama Grizzly. Not as a cub, but as a member of the pack, co-equal, and supporting her as the leader of this pack—of this army—to save America. To get us working again. To support our soldiers and allies again.
Mama Grizzly, I want you to run on a third party—a Tea Party ticket. Fight for us once again, Mama Grizzly, not as a mother over her cub, but as members of your pack.
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Why would Palin run as a 3rd party, she won’t win and all her votes will go to Obama, although I don’t see how the ineligible Obama can run at all. I think its a bad idea, even though Obama is a usurper they are looking over his Obama care in the Supreme court as if it is legal when its not, so they will probably let Obama run for a second term. My Uncle Waldo is looking for a job, he doesnt know what he is doing either, he sounds like a good candidate to me, it sure beats working and he has a real Birth certificate too, he’s good to go.
Mad You are correct! I love her spunk, but NO! If only R Paul woyld run a s a Republican, I really do not think we are ready yet for a third Party, al;though the Libertariarian Party does make some sense!
A third party candidate only DRAINS votes from the challenger as experienced in past campaigns. Palin doesn NOT have the structure or money in place to make a run, even if she did, she would polarize many Americans. Anti-Palin groups would immediately get organized with feminist movements, you think she’s been demonized enough already–you ain’t seen nothing yet! First, Palin needs more experience in national govt, a stint as Alaska governor gained her ZERO in national politics. Alaska is a HUGE state, but I live in a SMALL county in Fla., there are as many citizens in this COUNTY as the state she represented. She should organize and get a structure in place to make a run for Congress, either House or Senate–Senate preferably, but if she can’t win a seat in her own state, she has ZERO chances as a presidential candidate. Sarah spends too much time repeating or espousing talking points that can be read on any blog–she MUST back up comments with statistics, facts or ideas that work, not talking points.
If she did Obummer would get one more term. She is smarter than to run as a third party.
Has anyone bothered to look into her past? She is the only politician that I know of that actually forced themselves out of office! Alaska had a law that protected the Governor from law suits by paying legal fees for the Governor.
This woman decided that was not right so she had a bill introduced that would make the Governor responsible for their own legal fees. As soon as it passed there was an avalenche of law suits filed against her forcing her to resign her position because her legal fees had reached $500,000.00 and she could not continue remaining in office. DO YOU REALLY THINK THIS KIND OF PERSON SHOULD BE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY? What happens when the going gets tough is she going to quit like she did in Alaska?
For Gods sake people wake the hell up.
I agree with most comments that Palin as a third would boost and help Obama win. I love her but this is a bad idea. OMG (Obama Must Go).
A Sarah Palin or a Ron Paul third-party candidacy would hand the election to Barack Obama, guaranteed. While I disagree with neocon Michael Medved almost all the time, like the proverbial stopped clock that’s right twice a day, his piece about third-party candidates winning the presidency is right on time. See http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/03/drop-the-fantasy-of-a-third-party-candidate-winning-in-2012.html.
The American people won a battle in the 2010 midterm elections, but if Barack Obama wins in 2012, they will lose the war. If he’s elected, he will appoint two Supreme Court justices to replace retiring justices Ginsberg and Kennedy, which will shift the power of the Court dramatically left. When the Court shifts left, the Constitution will become null and void. Obama will rule by legislative fiat, sidestepping Congress at every turn even if the Republicans hold the House and win the Senate.
The men who drafted the Declaration of Independence understood that if they didn’t hang together, the tyrant King would most assuredly hang them separately. Make no mistake, Obama is a tyrant, and if reelected, nothing will restrain him from achieving dictatorial powers. You want to know what Obama will do as a lame duck in a second term, he will dictate what everybody does. It’s time you rub the sleep from your eyes and read the hand writing on the wall.
George Santayana said that “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party could have been stopped had the German electorate put aside their political difference to unite against the Nazi Party in a special election in July 1932. But they didn’t, so the Nazis won 230 seats and became the largest political party in the Reichstag.
Based on the results of that special election, Hitler demanded to be appointed chancellor in control of the state, and within six months, President Hindenburg met his demands. What’s interesting is that the Nazis never captured more than 37 percent of the electorate or gained a majority of seats in the Reichstag. However, with Hitler in the chancellery they were able to consolidate power and take control of the government with relative ease.
Winston Churchill tried to alert his countrymen about the rising tyranny in Germany, but to no avail. He was derided in Parliament and ridiculed by the media. The British people mocked him and ignored his warnings, so they were ill prepared to confront the approaching tyranny when it reached their doorstep, and millions died.
The German people are responsible for the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. They allowed it to happen. Had they recognized the greater evil and put aside their political differences long enough to defeat the Nazis, the deaths of 54 million people and the destruction of Germany could have been avoided. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but will America’s electorate learn from Germany’s mistake?
I’m not telling you what to think; I’m trying to warn you so that you don’t make a horrible mistake and be responsible for reelecting the man who will most assuredly destroy this country. There are no mulligans or do-overs. Like the German electorate, the American electorate has one chance to oust a tyrant or it’s over. John Adams was right: “Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”