2012 Republican Presidential Primaries: Don’t Let Media Pick GOP Candidate
Conservatism 101: D.I.Y. Political Education
The Republican primary season is beginning to warm up and Da Tool Guy explains why it is so important to pay attention–or the GOP faithful may end up saddled with another John MCain…or Bob Dole…or George H.W. Bush…or… It’s all there and more in this week’s Conservatism 101.
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CONSERVATISM 101:
#46 – The Primary Season
DaToolGuy
September 30, 2011
Darkside Dave was considering watching the latest Republican Primary debate the other day, but of course his rather liberal family kept him from seeing it. He was curious, however, as he nibbled on his cookies what all the drama was about.
Well, there are several reasons to pay attention to the primary season, not least of which is to avoid someone else picking your candidate for you — as happened to the Republican party in 2008.
In the system we currently have you often have a plethora of candidates vying for the same office — hence the primary elections and the early debates.
For conservatives this is particularly important.
In the last presidential election we had an empty suit in Barack Obama, facing a good man, and war hero, but milquetoast conservative in John McCain.
The conservative base, while respecting McCain’s war record, found him uninspiring at best. Independents took a look at his voting record and policy statements and figured if they were going to get Democrat-lite in McCain, they might as well vote for the real thing — and besides, those blasted Republicans were already spending like drunken Democrats anyway, right?
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What a difference a couple of years makes. It’s become clear the empty suit is not just empty, but devoid of all substance, and even more clear conservatives allowed the media to pick our candidate the last time.
If we don’t want more of the same we need to pay close attention to the debates and to the candidates this year.
And there are some exciting candidates, a couple of Establishment types in John Huntsman Jr. and Mitt Romney. Ron Paul is back and as usual has some good ideas in with the whacko ones. My personal favorite Herman Cain is very exciting as a complete political newcomer who has not only never held office but has never even run for office. Rick Perry, the Texas governor who has presided over Texas becoming the 13th largest economy in the world is also an interesting candidate.
Regardless, conservatives need to pay close attention to the primary race. If allowed the media would see to it Huntsman was the candidate and he’s the same Democrat-lite McCain was.
It’s also all part of being part of a healthy political process — something we’ve not had in a while.
So get out there, pay attention and most importantly — vote.
by DaToolGuy
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DaToolGuy is a small town journalist with big time dreams. He’s spent his entire adult life laboring in the obscurity he actually deserves. But he’ll take the opportunity to show off when it comes.
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