The 2008 national election will likely be a bloodbath with no viable conservative candidate evident at this time.

Anyone else having trouble getting the poll on their blog?

I look forward to seeing the results of this poll.

A better question you could ask is how dead set we are against the ones we found unacceptable.

Here is a hint: Hell will freeze over before I vote to send a dog over to put out a fire on several of your favorite RINO candidates, much less to vote for them as candidates for ANY office, and if the GOP puts them forward, I will write in candidates of a CONSERVATIVE nature.

I will always remember that the GOP didn't stand behind some of my favorite Conservatives, yet they run and gush over some of these RINOS that would no doubt be much more comfortable with a (D) after their name!
Here are some RINOS I won't vote for no matter what - McCain, Newt Gingrich, Rudi Guiliani, Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Arlen Spectre, Dr. Frist, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Robert or Libby Dole, and a few more.
ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THE DIMS IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO TURN IRAQ INTO ANOTHER VIETNAM.
ANYONE who undercuts ISRAEL and does ANYTHING to validate the Palestinian TERRORISTS like Hizbollah, Hamas, Fatah, or Al-Reuters, and AP, or CAIR, etc.
Anyone who votes to help the UN and does NOT vote to get us OUT of the UN.

ANYONE WHO VOTES FOR AMNESTY AND ENTITLEMENTS TO ILLEGALS, when BOUNTY REWARDS would get them to go home, easily! quickly! efficiently!

Cut off that ANCHOR BABY LAW!

I'll be looking for men and women of INTEGRITY and PATRIOTISM.
If you want to call that COWBOYISM, then so be it.

But if they aren't absolutely DESPISED by the likes of HANOI JOHN and TOADY CHAPPAQUIDDICK KENNEDY, ALCEE HASTINGS and WILLIAM JEFFERSON, then you are barking up the wrong tree.

But I will have write-ins ready for my votes - so you can count the votes YOU LOST, THAT YOU USED TO HAVE, for Reagan, for GWB, for Tom DeLay.

When HANOI JOHN WHO SHOULD BE ON TRIAL FOR TREASON WILL CONSIDER A "GOP" MAN AS HIS FIRST CHOICE TO SHARE THE SAME TICKET, THIS IS A HINT - YOU ARE BACKING THE WRONG MAN!

GOP has a lot of heavy decisions to make in the next year - will they continue to lick after the Dims? or will they go back for their base they left behind, the REAL Reaganites, and not the FAKE ones who call his name for political expediency, like the RINOS Newt and Mitt!

Believe me, we are watching.
And thanks big time to Dah Ahnold Man for driving our point home JUST NOW. Hundreds of thousands of your suckers voted for him, WITH YOUR HELP AND ASSURANCES.

I'm looking for steady, faithful, reliable PATRIOTS who love our Constitution. And hate OLIGARCHY and think that judges CAN be IMPEACHED for the likes of KELO.

OOPS! MY BAD! I DO APOLOGIZE!

I just posted a vote on this straw poll, and then a very very harsh comment to the GOP, thinking this site was affiliated with the official GOP.

Please know my comment was NOT DIRECTED at YOU BLOGGERS HERE - but at the OFFICIAL GOP LEADERSHIP which has my fierce outraged IRE over their conduct this last few years.

If you decide not to post that comment, I certainly do not blame you. I was a bit irate, I confess. Pure flaming, I'd even say.

It is so frustrating that blogger does not allow script. Grrrr.

I would and will actively campaign against a Hagel or McCain candicacy in the general election if they are nominated by the Republican Party. Bank on that.

I can't get the Java script to work on old blogger.

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/

Power and Control

BTW the preview function does not allow me to post
without a wait.

You folks have some work to do.

M. Simon

I don't care for your one dimensional RINOUltraConservative spectrum. I picked a CenterRight number just to pick something, but I would never describe my position in those terms. Some of us are libertarian types -- I've always thought of myself as a Goldwater conservative.

I had not heard Giuliani's take on the Iraq war recently. It was good to hear him back the President's change in course on Fox last night. I liked his connection between his precinct by precinct constant measurement and change of tactics in his law and order campaign in New York City and the measurement of conditions in different sectors of Baghdad and the need for constant changes to address them in the campaign to make Baghdad more stable.

Attention to detail is a major attribute for successful Generals. It is not something Congress can do well. Candidates who suggest that Congress should or could manage the tactics in a war once it is declared, have disqualified themselves. Thus Senator Brownback becomes unacceptable in my polling reaponse.

Why does it load so slowly when embedded on my blog?

[NOTE FROM EDITOR: We've placed the widget on the blogsforbush.com server now and it fine... just replace gopbloggers.org with blogsforbush.com in the script and you'll be fine.

sorry for the trouble]

Ditto, Rose. Couldn't have said it better.

After Chuck Hagel's grandstanding hyperbole denouncing Bush's new proposal on Iraq, he should be driven out of the party, on a rail. It's a big tent, but not big enough to include an ego-driven toady for the MSM. That's what the Democrats are for. I'm sure he and Teddy would be very happy together. It's a shame these clowns haven't learned anything from their clock cleaning in November.

What is the ANCHOR BABY LAW? I'm definitely against it; children should always wear life jackets.

Don't be dismayed, we love you, Tancredo!! And you hand in there two, Hunter, because anyone else will be a disaster for this great nation.

Some of these men's views will come and go as we begin to learn more about them. I cannot, except for a few obvious ones, be definitive about whom I want to win. Giuliani is not prolife but he may run on a conservative platform and he may be the only one who can defeat a pro-abortion nominee. I don't really know the extent of his views but he will surely tell us. I like his understanding of how people and politics can be better and work together for good as he did in New York. Mitt Romney speaks conservative and yet a person above has called him a RINO. I have yet to know more.

The TRUTH is really coming out on Mitt Romney! Detractors are starting to go into their holes who have been spewing venom, half-truths, lies, and distortions against Romney! I, myself, several months ago did not even consider Romney, and started believing all the "against", and "RINO" hype that many have been leveling against Romney.

However, after doing a lot of research, looking at both sides of the coin, and investigating just where all these people who say that Romney is a flip-flopper, or a true conservative - I have concluded -

Romney is THE real deal! He is honest, capable, conservative, a champion of true "marriage', a champion of the rights of the unborn, a champion of state's rights, a champion of education, a champion of lower taxes - a Social Conservative for our time....right now!

Well, they did it. The OP (Old Party - they're not Grand anymore) just showed they're dead set on amnesty by making Martinez chairman.

For now on I'm only registered as a Republican to influence the primaries with my vote. I won't have anything more to do with them; there is no way I'm going to give them anything.

I beg you all, STOP GIVING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! Make contributions only to the candidates you like. After the rest of the party dries out for a while, maybe - just maybe - they'll start listening to us again.

As for me, it's Tancredo and Hunter. And where's Ron Paul? You can count this post as an acceptable vote for him as well.

Why is Ron Paul not included? He is as viable as some the others.