What’s changed in this race?
October 23, 2007 · Print This Article
Ok so it’s been nearly two months since Fred Thompson officially entered the race for the Republican nomination and he has been wildly successful. He raised a significant amount of money, much of it in the last month of the quarter, he’s not having to spend a great deal of money having most of what he’s raised still on hand. It is also interesting to note that Romney has been forced to loan his campaign another $8 Million this quarter and he continues to spend nearly every dime he raises.
Rudy is being very patient, he is still the front runner in some polls although most national polls have Fred within the margin of error. He seems to be losing ground in Iowa with Fred now running second and within 6-10 points of Romney there, Romney still holds tightly onto New Hampshire but Fred leads in South Carolina, Georgia, and many other southern states.
All of this brings me to my question, aside from Brownback getting out at what point do the rest of these candidates figure out that they have no chance, I like some of these guys, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, even Huckabee is not too bad, but these guys are not getting anywhere and it’s time for the race for this nomination to begin and these guys need to get behind the top tier candidate that is most closely aligned with their beliefs, In Ron Paul’s case I guess he’ll have to support John Edwards.
Now I have trouble including Romney and McCain in the top tier but Romney is leading in a few early states and McCain is at least running third in most national polls so it’s not too big a stretch. Basically though it’s time for everyone else to bow out gracefully. This race will come down to the two factions of the Republican Party, those that are conservatives and those that are country club Republicans. Conservatives seem to have very few options when it comes to the top tier candidates, while those Republicans find distaste with the conservative majority seem to have many options.
What can’t be denied is the fact that when conservative Republicans articulate conservative principles they win every time, when they play to the middle and the left they lose.
“In Ron Paul’s case I guess he’ll have to support John Edwards.”
Can you back that up or can we expect you to smear anyone as a liberal lefty that does not tow the neocon line?
The fact is Paul is the only real conservative in the Republican party right now. Edwards and Paul are at the opposite end more than any other of these phony Republican candidates.
The fact that you smear him only shows this site is a fraud to be used to elect liberal Republicans and neocons.
Conservativesuperiority.com. Perfect name for a site that supports the necons. Has that nice aryan facist kind of ring to it.
– Yours Truly,
A real conservative
Mike, you’re 100% right, it was unfair of me to compare Ron Paul to John Edwards. However, I don’t know what perverted definition of conservatism you and Ron Paul live under but it is not the same one that the majority of the country lives under.
Judging by your comments I doubt that you are one to define conservatism. You obviously don’t know what conservative is anymore than you know what fascism is. If this site was about fascism I would just delete your comments but I don’t do that because to the vast majority of people in this country Ron Paul (along with many of his supporters) appears so far out of step with the majority of conservatives and thus the majority of people in this country that he is not taken seriously.
I wish you luck Mike, please do some research, educate yourself. Conservatives welcome an honest debate, unfortunately when it comes to the leaders of the modern Democrat party there is no such thing as debate. If you don’t agree with them then you’re wrong, never mind the fact that they haven’t been right about much the last fifty years.