What a sad, pathetic performance. I am a conservative, but this really turns me off. Please conservatives, try to be civil in the coming election, or we are lost!

Sorry, Jones. Nunca jamas, as they say in Mexican. Never again. Be nice is just another way of saying shut up.

As long as women like Ann Barnhardt exist, America still has a chance.

So, tell us, Ann, how do you feel about old Mitt Romney?

Ouch!!

Not keeping Reagan's 11th Commandment(Speak no ill of a fellow Republican)but she speaks for at least 30% of the voters. Maybe there's a candidate out there who can bridge that gap from the right to the middle. Let the primary campaign begin.

Speak no ill of a fellow Republican. I wasn't aware Romney WAS a Republican. Hell, he has a hard time qualifying as a RINO.

I believe it was T. Jefferson, in the Declaration, who pointed out what talking nicely to tyrants gets you.

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Moreover, Ms. Barnhardt is hot.

I rest my case, as it were.

For those who didn't know, Ms Barnhardt learned something of realpolitik after dissing
vocal Muslim fundies last March... the IRS slammed her with an audit.

RINO = soft on gays, guns, and abortion. Mitt is all those things. RINO = favors conservative fiscal policy, but can be induced to vote for more spending for...........the children. Mitt qualifies. RINO = for reduced taxes.........as long as it doesn't add to the deficit. Mitt's there.

Republican does not equal rock-ribbed conservative. There is a part of the Republican Party that favors conservative fiscal policy and strong defense but is more libertarian leaning on social issues.

Unfortunately, we will need all of the above to defeat Obama. I wish it wasn't so. But the math doesn't work out and staying home will ensure four more years of disastrous far left policies.

ABO 2012!

Way to go Ann! Romney has no "grit". No center. No guiding principals. No substance. At the first hint of opposition he will fold like the cheap suit he is.
We are at a time in this country where truely difficult choices will have to be made and damn the torpedoes.

ljones: Is that 'Astroturf' you're wearing? It has a nice grassy/petrochemical base with subtle notes of desperation. I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

If Palin decides not to run, I'd be open to drafting Barnhardt.

Jimmy J:
I've held my nose and voted for RINOs before, and I swore I'd never do it again. Election after election, we keep settling for inferior candidates. Meanwhile, the nation keeps ratcheting ever leftwards. If the Republican leadership knows that we'll keep voting for whoever they throw up, then they have no incentive to change their ways.

Enough is enough. The Republican nominee in 2012 must be an uncompromising conservative. The nation is on the brink of ruin. I will not vote for Romney if he is the Republican nominee, and I am not alone in that.

Barnhardt is exactly right. A Romney nomination will virtually guarantee an Obama victory, and Obamacare will become permanently cemented in place.

"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.

"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors."

He said that TODAY. I could look the other way if he had said it two or three years ago, but he said it TODAY.

That. Is. NOT. Acceptable.

Here's a good acronym for the Republican who is even less than a RINO. DIABLO:

Democrat
In
All
But
Label
Only

The devil is in the details.

Jimmy J:
I don't mean to pile on you, and I apologize if it comes across that way, but you got me all fired up.

The trouble with the Republican leadership is that they have no principles. They just want a seat at the table of power, and the ability to to collect perks and hand out favors. Beyond a certain point, with an omnipotent government, it no longer matters which party is in the majority or minority. It's just kabuki theater. The "conservative" or "right" parties in Europe have been reduced to arguing that they can administer national health care better than their opponents. The notion of repealing it is simply not in the realm of possibility.

I see the Republican Party in the U.S. heading in the same direction.

rickl, You're correct about the old line Repubs. I know the desperation you feel, I feel it too. Romney is not a true conservative and his statement about AGW today sends chills down my spine.

Saw Sarah Palin on Hannity tonight and she seems hell bent on trying to push the National Republican mucky mucks farther to the right. They (the mucky mucks and others like Will, and Krauthammer) still don't get it about the TEA Party and the people we sent to the House in November. At this point she seems not inclined to run, but if she sees the field lacking something she can supply, she might jump in.

I'm hoping someone will step forward who can LEAD on the economy. If we can get spending under control, shrink government (even a tiny bit), and get things moving again. That means drill, drill, drill; more nukes; start lumbering, fishing, and mining again; low corporate rates to bring companies back from China; cut the EPA down to size; and end Obamacare while reforming our tort system, Medicare, and Medicaid. Anyone who can lead on those issues, I will work for and vote for. Even someone who will lead on most of those issues. Obama's policies are all the direct antithesis of my wish list. Thus - ABO.

rickl is exactly right. Mark Steyn has referred to this continuous nudging of the political center ever leftward as something that eventually reduces "conservative" parties to the unenviable position of trying to convince the voters that they will make better stewards of the left wing state than will the actual left wing. What will we have gained in a state of affairs such as that?

Romney does not have a tin ear, a tin ear has the capacity to relay some sound. A deaf man could perceive that even moderate Republicans are calling foul to global warming. A deaf man could perceive that %70 of America is calling foul to global warming and all the other green miasma included. He thinks his support will come from exactly what voting group? Will the audience call an audible at the first debate? I hope so.

Remember George Will and Charles Krauthammer supported Walter Mondale against Reagan. This election is a winner for conservatives. It is ours to lose.

Jewel,

DIABLO it is from now on in.

Everyone else? Spread the word.

DIABLO.

Perfect.

Rinos? Close, but no cigar. Here in Doity Joisey we have come to know them as Republicrats. They put up two or more candidates and whoever wins they are sure to win.

She made me uncomfortable too. Then I realized why. Because she is telling hard cold truths that people don't want to face. She is justifiably angry about those truths. And she is saying it in exactly the way all of us wish we had the B*&&$ to stand up and say it. We have been conditioned to be "politically correct" and "sensitive". We are afraid of the consequences and scrutiny we would face...opposing forces would label us as hysterically ranting angry white racist nutwing conspiracy theorists. But if we all stood up and voiced our thoughts how we felt them, this is exactly what we'd be doing and saying, and then maybe the apathetic and ignorant would take these issues seriously.

As long as women like Ann Barnhardt exist, America still has a chance. Let's speak up America. Go home illegals...BYE BYE......... and our good immigrants and citizens get ready to fight for OUR rights and our Republic!

When Reagan said, "speak no ill of a fellow Republican", he was actually referring to fellow Repubicans. Mitt Romney, nor Newt Gingrich, no longer qualify as "fellow" Republicans! They have traded their principles and are now Democrats in sheeps clothing.
Thia woman is right on point! I want her running Herman Cain's campaign!!

Ditto what BOOMER8 stated ! I love this LADY,ELECT NO MORE POLITICIANS !!!!

I'm so glad she is on YOUR side! LOL! And I thought Michele Bachmann was nuts! And she's a bitch! I hope you move her out into a more public arena! All of America needs to see and hear this insanity!

Insane? Not hardly. And she frightens colonized minds like yours to death. As she should.

See you at the crossroads.