But even a knife is enough, when you press them hard enough….

Don’t make the mistake of thinking Tancredo isn’t a leader. Reagan wasn’t believed to be a leader even after 6 years as governor of California.

I’m seriously thinking of started a barrage of letters to all of the heavy-weight talk radio hosts to begin plugging Tancredo at every opportunity.

Gingrich unfortunately wears his past political difficulties as the explosives belt of a suicide bomber, and the liberals hold the detonator. As I posted before, he’d make a good Secretary of State, and wouldn’t that heat the Democrats’ hatred to boiling?

Serendipitously, Fred Thompson has been sitting in for Paul Harvey this week, and I’ve been enjoying his commentary immensely.

Ugh, why can’t I get a constitutionalist as a choice?

My thoughts exactly. This nation could use a statesman the caliber of James Madison right now, but I don’t see any on the horizon. While it’s only my personal opinion, I don’t see any GOP candidates whose names invoke excitement with me. Looks like I’ll be voting 3rd party again in ’08.

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Newt was exonerated of those ethics violations, so please quit repeating the MSM/liberal narrative. No wonder they spend so much time manufacturing charges against powerful conservatives – even many of our own will fall into line with their wishes.

I am not a parrot of the left and happen to prefer the elected men and women of our government to walk the straight and narrow. From Newt’s Wiki:

All charges were eventually dropped following an investigation by the Republican-led House Ethics Committee. However, Gingrich admitted to “unintentionally” giving inaccurate information to the House Ethics Committee during the course of the investigation. The committee did not indict him on charges of intentional perjury. The matter was settled when he agreed to reimburse the Committee $300,000 for the cost of prolonging the investigation. The payment was described as a “cost assessment” and not a fine by the Committee.

The Governor of my state, Ohio, admitted to “unintentionally” failing to divulge perks, which led to a misdemeanor conviction on ethics charges for him. Whether either or both of these men simply forgot to divulge pertinent information is debatable, but the stain of their actions remains.

While Gingrich railed against Bill Clinton for his sex escapades he was doing the same thing himself. That is called hypocrisy. Reading Newt’s Wiki brought back several remembrances of him, none of which are good (his attempt to misrepresent the HEC ruling, the attempted coup against him as SotH, his 28% approval rating, the lost seats under his leadership, etc.). He’s not all bad by any means, and he has some very strong traits. However, he also has some very poor character issues in his past, and those alone would preclude me from voting for him.

Newt will be great in 08!

Tancredo? Meh. He’s the epitome of a one-issue candidate

That’s one issue more than the rest of em.

Hee hee.

Sorry. I just enjoyed the same thing and am glad to see others share my mirth.

Gingrich is unelectable. Right now the last thing the GOP needs is a candidate with scandal baggage, and Newt has that. Are we forgetting his ethics violation(s)?

Newt was exonerated of those ethics violations, so please quit repeating the MSM/liberal narrative. No wonder they spend so much time manufacturing charges against powerful conservatives – even many of our own will fall into line with their wishes.

His extramarital affairs are another issue, but can you really think the libs have any chance of effectively running against Newt on that? He should at least get consideration for being on the ticket, and he is clearly the smartest guy in the field. I would love a Romney-Newt ticket.

I like Rudy too, but I’m still waiting to see him take a harder line against lawless open borders and to be a bit more supportive of the 2nd amendment.

Brownback is a non-starter with me for his open-borders advocacy. I’ve put my last two presidential votes on someone who won’t enforce the borders, my ’08 republican primary vote will definitely go to someone who does.

I know this is not a scientific poll, but nevertheless I am greatly encouraged by what it shows about the blogosphere’s opinion of McVain. He’s spent the last 6 years sticking the knife in the back of conservatives and now, at least according to this poll, they are ready to return the favor. Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it, Johnny Boy?

And for the Democrats visiting here: Vote often and as many times as you usually do (Sorry, I forgot, wrong party go here instead ): Tracked to: Hillbilly White Trash Hot Air……

Guiliani/Romney.

Guiliani would make a terrific attorney general, because he has the background, the leadership, and he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him personally. But despite the “America’s Mayor” image from 9/11, which he earned thoroughly, he isn’t a real conservative. I’d hold my nose if he was the VP on a ticket.

Newt Gingrich is a secretary of state perhaps, maybe chief of staff, but the LLL would have a field day with him in a national campaign. They would try to remind us about the ridiculous, failed, “Contract with America”. Of course, the reality is that a good portion of the Contract was accomplished, and in spite of Clinton, who as usual later claimed credit for getting those things accomplished as if they were his idea. But we all know where reality falls on the moonbat scale.

George Allen is a good man, and is marginally acceptable, but I get the impression that the Democrats think so too, and have been clobbering him for months on everything that comes to hand. On a national stage, there may be more negative than positive in the publics mind.

The list should begin and end with Tancredo as far as the Republicans are concerned. Now cue the chorus of “no name recognition”. That election is 25 months from now.

I flat guarantee that less than 10% of the people who frequent HotAir knew the name William Jefferson Blythe Clinton in October 1990. If you did, then you lived in Arkansas or Tennessee. When I first heard that the dufus governor or Arkansas was running for the Democratic nomination, I couldn’t believe it. I’d been stationed at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis for about three years. At the time, Arkansas was the butt of many jokes in the mid-south region. The state had bumper stickers which said “Thank God for Mississippi!”, because the Arkansas public educational system was 49th in the country, ahead of Mississippi.

After his first term as governor, Clinton was popularly voted out because of his failed policies, rising taxes, and continuous scandals (he had immense training in being Slick long before the White House). But two years later he was returned to the Arkansas Statehouse, and in late 1991 he decided to run for President. He had much less name recognition then than Tom Tancredo does now, be assured. Add to this that Clinton’s presidential campaign actually unravelled in early 1992 with bad showings in the early caucuses, as well as the first “Bimbo eruption”. And yet, he somehow managed to turn it around and secure the nomination.

Sorry for the history lesson, the point is simple. Don’t avoid the most qualified conservative because you think he isn’t famous enough yet.

Here’s a ticket for you;

Tom Tancredo

Fred Thompson

Ok, maybe I should have used this link for Sen. Thompson

I always get a kick out of how the left portrays us as not being open-minded. Those folks make me laugh every day.

Pick any conservative candidate and I’ll show you the one who liberals will smear, no matter the accuracy of those.

Campaign on conservatism, sell it, and don’t forget what happened when “foleygate” hit via the MSM. Investigations will find the dirt. Skunk the responsible.

Next election will have everyone in line to vote, no matter what the dhimmicr@ps say or lose this time.

Gingrich is articulate and offers very credible apologies for conservatism. But he comes with too much baggage and, because of his political career, is probably considered too devisive.

BTW, are any of the choices in this poll completely free of any accusations of scandal, past or present? I believe Romney is, but am unsure about the rest.

My ideal ticket? Brownback/Gingrich. Brownback for his foreign policy and Gingrich for his domestic policy and his understanding of how to move Congress. As long as Brownback doesn’t go too far right on social issues he’d be fine. I agree with anti-abortion and anti-embryonic stemcells, but prayer in school and curbing the “adult” nature of music, movies, and television is a bridge too far. Kids can pray if they want already and let the market sort out entertainment. If he can keep from throwing the churches red meat (they’re gonna vote for him anyway) I think he would have a real shot. Plus he’s a real-life honest-to-G_d spending hawk and we really need that right now.

I never saw any analysis of it after it ran… it just sort of disappeared. Now we have another?