A Time for Choosing | The Weekly Standard
To the Republicans of the states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida:
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: STATE FLAGS OF IOWA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FLORIDA
At this moment of great peril for our nation, you have the privilege of beginning the process of selecting the 2012 Republican presidential nominee—the individual who will save us from the ghastly prospect of an Obama second term, and who will then have the task of beginning to put right our listing ship of state, setting our nation on a course to restored solvency, reinvigorated liberty, and renewed greatness.
Your responsibility is great. Your votes will affect which candidates survive January’s electoral gauntlet, their likelihood of ultimately prevailing, and even whether others will feel impelled to enter the race. You, the voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida, will shape the range of choices for your fellow citizens elsewhere in the nation in this crucial year.
How should you decide for whom to vote?
Vote for the person you think would be the best president of the United States. Ignore the proclamations of the pundits, the sophistries of the strategists, and the calculations of the handicappers. Ignore the ads, the robocalls, and the polls. Be skeptical of those who would seek, whether from national stage or local perch, cavalierly or presumptively to instruct you how to mark your ballot. That ballot is yours alone to cast.
Here the people rule. So you, the Republicans of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida, can step back, consider the individual candidates in the totality of their public lives, study their records and platforms, judge their abilities and views, imagine each of them in the Oval Office making major decisions for the nation . . . and choose the individual who you think should be our next president.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Rand Paul: Tea Party 'Best and Most Effective' Within GOP, Not Third Party | The Weekly Standard
Des Moines
Rand Paul indicated today that he believes it would be bad for the Tea Party if his father, Ron Paul, decides to run as a third-party presidential candidate. And the younger Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, declined to say if he would support his father if Ron Paul does end up running on a third-party ticket.
Following an interview at a Des Moines radio station, I asked Rand Paul if he has encouraged his father to stay in the Republican party if he doesn't win the GOP nomination. "I'm encouraging him to try to win the Iowa primary. It's kind of hard to think about leaving your party when you might be the nominee," he said.
Asked if he would support his father as a third-party candidate, Paul replied: "I've always said I think the Tea Party movement is best and most effective within the Republican party. The Tea Party movement as a separate movement would divide some of the Republican vote."
Link to article:Rand Paul: Tea Party 'Best and Most Effective' Within GOP, Not Third Party | The Weekly Standard
Rand Paul indicated today that he believes it would be bad for the Tea Party if his father, Ron Paul, decides to run as a third-party presidential candidate. And the younger Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, declined to say if he would support his father if Ron Paul does end up running on a third-party ticket.
Following an interview at a Des Moines radio station, I asked Rand Paul if he has encouraged his father to stay in the Republican party if he doesn't win the GOP nomination. "I'm encouraging him to try to win the Iowa primary. It's kind of hard to think about leaving your party when you might be the nominee," he said.
Asked if he would support his father as a third-party candidate, Paul replied: "I've always said I think the Tea Party movement is best and most effective within the Republican party. The Tea Party movement as a separate movement would divide some of the Republican vote."
Link to article:Rand Paul: Tea Party 'Best and Most Effective' Within GOP, Not Third Party | The Weekly Standard
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Happy 2012!
2012, you couldn't come soon enough.
This is the year, after four years of rule by redistributionists, after having the government takeover health care and a similar attempt with the energy industry, after green cronyism, after an onslaught of humanitarian ventures in non-threatening foreign nations, after four of having more and more of our economy being swallowed by government largesse, that we elect a new president.
This is the year, after four years of rule by redistributionists, after having the government takeover health care and a similar attempt with the energy industry, after green cronyism, after an onslaught of humanitarian ventures in non-threatening foreign nations, after four of having more and more of our economy being swallowed by government largesse, that we elect a new president.
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