RINO

sorry catfishjuggling

lame!

Erickson and Red State aren’t as “movement conservative” as you describe here.

nary

Why not Ron Paul? Huntsman and Ron Paul seem to be the brightest of the bunch. Ron Paul doesnt seem to be a shill for big business and speaks his mind even when it goes against GOP talking points.

Ironically, TOMMY CHRISTOPHER seems to be a shill for PINUPS-FOR-RON-PAUL and also a little fascist. Tommy, can you explain why you deleted my comments and claimed that I had no manners when I pointed out that the women in the calender are old? And why did pinupsforronpaul “like” your comments? I was never manner-less in my comments-

  http://www.mediaite.com/online/sex-bomb-get-your-own-pin-ups-for-ron-paul-calendar/

Erickson lost all credibility with the GOP base when he sold out to work for CNN. His opinion will not sway the base towards Huntsman who is viewed as a moderate RINO because of his views on science and the “scary GOP fringe”, even though he is more philosophically conservative than most of the other current candidates.

don’t like it go back to think propaganda

Are you truly that confused as to ‘why not Ron Paul’? Even though he makes sense on many issues he takes too many extremist stances that make him unelectable.

Most Americans cringe when he says he wants to completely end the Fed, Dept of Education, etc.

I’m not saying these are my positions, I’m just saying you’re kind of blind to what most Americans feels if you overlook these things, and for a guy like Erickson electability is important if not paramount.

I’ve been saying for a long time that Huntsman is the guy with the best chance to beat Obama. Unfortunately for him Romney’s been running for years and people equate them because they’re similarly branded guys.

Huntsman has all the electoral upside Romney but without the breadth and depth of flip-flopping which will ultimately make Romney unable to beat Obama. Plus Huntsman’s more likable than Romney IMO. In debates he’s acted a bit stilted but I think he’s learning from those mistakes.

Erick Erickson is an IDIOT!!! Do Not listen to this man!!!! He’s a rabblle rouser.

This would be a real leap for Erick Erickson.  He’d be downgrading from junkyard dog mean (Perry) to merely snarky (Huntsman).

You, Sir, are a moron.  Dana Loesch works for CNN.  Bill Bennett works for CNN.  Just because a person works for CNN doesn’t mean they’re communists.  Just to reiterate my point again: You, Sir, are a moron.

For better or worse, he makes good points.  I won’t be voting for Huntsman, Patrick Byrne made a good enough point for that.

Yes, Ron Paul does say some things that might be seen as extremist but when he explains his reasons, you could see why he says those things.

It doesnt matter though, I am a liberal and not in favour of the GOP. Ron Paul is in the wrong party for me

Nice

Why do you think it is that the Utah pols–who know both Huntsman and Romney well–overwhelmingly support Romney?

As for having an electoral upside, that’s quite an assumption since Huntsman’s currently polling between 0-2% pretty much everywhere.  Huntsman himself doesn’t give his campaign a chance to prove he has an electoral upside because he declines to compete in Iowa, is sidestepping South Carolina, hightailed it out of Florida, and pretty much does nothing except circle New Hampshire like a vulture in hopes that the Romney campaign will collapse.

I also question that he’s shown himself to be likeable.  He’s been a smug snark and judging from the Scared Mittness video he just released I doubt he’s learned anything from his smuggy snarky mistakes–including whether or not he’s well positioned to be calling anybody else scared, given the fact that he himself is scared to compete anywhere.

The GOP are soooooo screwed.

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Never heard of Erik Erkison. The presstitutes have no idea how irrelevant they are. My vote is locked on Dr Ron Paul!

He deleted your comments because they were rude and pointless.  Tommy obviously knew that the women would be participating in the comments section of the article to promote their calendar and did not want to be embarrassed by your childish remarks…  Is that so hard to figure out?

David Frum works for CNN.  Oh that’s right – he just admitted he no longer considers himself a Republican, let alone a conservative.  What does he represent when they bring him on?

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Party before country? Makes sense/

Trying out for the job of baby Norbit

Another confused neo-con, in search of his conservative identity.

you lost out on the mastubating bear gig?

Um, did I defend CNN?  I’m pretty sure I just defended those three, not fatass Frum.

I like Erick Erickson.  I don’t see him too often because I don’t watch CNN.  I have gotten away from RedState too. “Game Changer” – I don’t think so.

I think Romney can win against Obama.  I’ll support the Republican nominee – whomever that turns out to be.

People don’t like the OWS crowd (the WSJ/NBC poll is deceptive – see http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/wsjnbc-poll-only-28-support-occupy-movement )
From cnsnews,  Gallup says:
Self-professed conservatives now outnumber self-professed liberals in the United States, 42 percent to 21 percent, according to a Gallup poll published Monday. Another 37 percent described themselves as moderates.

So, it is rude to say that women are old? 

Most sexy calender women are young. Please, explain how it is rude and pointless. Even so, freedom of speech. I thought America was the land of the free.

It’s funny how many people assume that I am rude because of my username. IGNORANCE. LEARN THE MEANING OF RUDEBOY

Hypocrite……anyone can look through your comments through discuss and see that YOU HAVE NEVER  ONCE PRAISED A DEMOCRAT. lmao

Huntsman’s problem is not the republicans or the republican base, he is his own worst problem. I have posted more than once that he is probably the best choice of the republican field but his effort to make himself attractive to the New Hampshire primary voters comes at the cost of the alienation of the republican electorate across the country.  Huntsman makes flipped statements that insult the republican base yet are appealing to moderates and democrats, does he not realize that he is in a republican primary? His remarks on science causing the biggest concern…  it is not that republicans don’t believe in science, that is little more than a sound bite that liberals love to use to try and embarrass the right, it is that his base is not sold on the science and veracity of some of the claims surrounding AGW.  The republican base is simply not willing to put the future of our economy at risk based on what has become a very politicized argument which remains unsettled in the quantification of the impact of CO2 emissions on the environment.  One thing is certain, China and India have no intention of restricting their emissions as they grow their economies at the expense of the US economy, it is also clear that the US will be dependent on fossil and nuclear fuels for the foreseeable future and that we can no longer afford to leave our resources undeveloped. If we do not find ways to make this economy stronger and become more competitive in the world markets the malaise we are experiencing now will soon look like the good old days.  

Huntsman makes these remarks in venues that he full well knows he will not have the opportunity to fully explain them or maybe he does not care to fully explain them. He is killing himself with the base. The worst part is that he has made some clarifying statements, but you have to dig deeply to find these statements, even so they did not fully explain his vision for the future of US energy development. So either he supports AGW and would support the efforts of the EPA and future legislation restricting carbon emissions and oil exploration and development in this country, or he is avoiding the alienation of centrist and cross over democrats. Which ever is the case unless he addresses these issues in very public forms, he will never secure the republican nomination.  This is possibly a shame, because as you look at Mitt, and you look at Huntsman, Huntsman has by far the better record and broader breath of experience, not to mention as the article points out, how can anyone trust what Mitt says?

So go on Jon, keep punking the republican party, seems not to be working out to well so far, but I am sure that is just part of your plan.

That has nothing to do with the fact that you admitted you liked paul but can’t vote for him because ha has an R after his name. That is textbook PARTY BEFORE COUNTRY policy.

disagreeing with wing-nut erickson is ALWAYS the best thing to do. This self-serving, arrogant, full-of-himself huckster actually thinks he’s somebody important in the conservative movement. NOBODY who is important in the conservative movement agrees – with good reasons.

Huntsman is stale. Huntsman will not be the candidate in 2012.

No one cares what Erickson ever has to say. He’s switched his candidate choice so many times. He’s only mad that his latest candidate (Perry) is floundering.

How can you not understand that Tommy having interviewed these women knew that they would come to the site and participate in the comments section, I would think that it was probably talked about during the interview.  Do you not think that Tommy would find your comments to be needlessly offensive to these women and that he would possibly be embarrassed by them…  Maybe Tommy felt them to be his invited guest to this site for that article? Who knows as I can hardly speak for Tommy, but the fact is that the use of this site does not fall under the first amendment, People get kicked off this site all the time, it is designed for the exchange of ideas and thoughts which are generated from media reports, unfortunately that is rarely the case in the comments section.  The site does have rules of decorum which are very liberally enforced, usually it seems you have to really piss a moderator off to be censured. 

All the Republicon nominees are worthless, and the poor sap who wins, has no chance of beating Obama in the general election!!

Yeah, Tommy, a real game-changer ’cause as everyone knows all of us Teapublicans take our orders from Erick Erickson.

Confirmation bias. A poll does not become “deceptive” because it says what you don’t want it to say. Perhaps it’s you who’s being disingenuous.

So, pointing out that someone/some people are old (factually) is bad/rude?

That is life, not everybody likes your service. it’s a different ball game if I insulted them. 

btw…..my comments were directly related to the topic at hand.

Talk about a stretch! Most conservatives have no idea who Erick Erickson is, he just doesn’t have the exposure that other voices do. And any endorsement of Jon Huntsman is going to be met with jeers. Republicans just don’t want the chump and nobody in their right mind is going to choose him as a VP.

Erick Erickson is a fanatical Rick Perry supporter. Don’t be fooled by his semi-praise for Jon Huntsman. Erickson is merely trying to finish off Romney so that Perry might have a chance.

I’m still not used to seeing Erick on TV and having so much political sway online… we were really good friends throughout high school, he was really a book smart guy at the time, and VERY non controversial. We used to joke that we were going to be President and VP (one way or the other). I’ve always been pretty liberal, but Erick wasn’t really all that definitive about his political position until college. I dunno, it’s just weird seeing him as an authority (by some people).

Outside of the stuff he puts on the air/web, he’s a nice guy.

Trivial fact: I once threw up MD 20/20 and Cool Ranch Doritos in his bathtub because I was too drunk to find the lavatory. Good times.

This is the best explanation I’ve seen so far.

Jon Huntsman – our republican nominee – get serious.  CNN is getting to Erickson.  Look away from the light Erick.

The polling results show

Q6 Now I’m going to read you the names of several public figures, and groups and I’d like you to rate your feelings toward each one as very positive, somewhat positive, neutral, somewhat negative, or very negative. If you don’t know the name, please just say so.The Occupy Wall Street Movement: 16% very positive, 16% somewhat positive, 20% neutral, 12% somewhat negative, 23% very negative, 13% don’t know nameQ22 Do you consider yourself a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street Movement?28% Yes, 63% No, 2% Depends, 7% Not sureYet, the article written by Jonathan Weisman began with, “More than three-quarters of Americans say the country’s economic structure is out of balance and “favors a very small proportion of the rich over the rest of the country,” taking up the calls of Occupy Wall Street protesters to reduce the power of major banks and end tax breaks for the affluent and for corporations, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.”

It makes it look like 75% of the country support the OWS protest.  They don’t.

I’m a conservative.  I have no idea who Erick Erickson is.

“Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected. As much as the American public does not like Barack Obama, they loath a man so fueled with ambition that he will say or do anything to get himself elected. Mitt Romney is that man.”…who does he mean when he says that “the American People does not like Obama”??…there are plenty who DO like him…about half of the country,are these not considered legitimate because they are not Republicans???

You have no idea who Barack Obama is either.

This guy is not a RINO ….after watch him for 2 years on CNN he [ in my
mind and experience ] would call him CINO ……….. so afraid to displease
the Left CNN talking heads it’s become an embarrassment, I sent out my thoughts
on him over a year ago…. Not a RINO but something else much worse …. a CINO,
A Conservative in name only = CINO…. when face to face with his CNN meal
ticket and left wing colleagues it’s very evident.

Then go ahead and tell all of your Teabagger friends to make ODB Herb Cain the GetObamaParty nominee next year, then. Let’s see how that works out.

“The buzz in the White House a year ago was that Huntsman was the candidate who would give President Obama the most trouble.”
BWAAA-HA-HAAA! The grasping at straws from the cowardly collaborating media is pathetic.
Thank god the author didn’t mention Ron Paul (not a word!), or else HE would’ve been in trouble.

Polls put the majority of the American people against our involvment in the never ending Middle Eastern wars, and the dubious results.  Any party that is pro-war and is foolish enough to alienate the younger generation from attempting to enter the party has no chance in the general election.  I think Pat Buchannan has it about right in his latest book.  This party has to wake up and smell the demographics.  It has to deal with reality or become irrelevant.

Eric Erickson is a jerk, and the Tea
Party has lost my support. Whether I vote for Romney in the primaries or not, IF
he is the nominee of the party, I WILL VOTE FOR HIM. These purity politics are
ridiculous and divisive. News flash >> The Messiah is not running for President
(so stop looking for him).

This response to the above article is to all the members of
my generation, the “End the War” Viet Nam generation.  The era in which we attained adulthood was
both painful and wonderful, no doubt. Wonderful because we were coming into an
era of exploration and discovery in our world, and our solar system, that
seemed limitless from our limited perspective. We felt capable of anything we
could dream of, and some of us really did accomplish great things, no doubt
about it. But it was painful because so many of us did not live to see the
potential they had. They were denied that potential based on lies that our
government told us. Many of us grew up with “My country, right or wrong” in our
heads, we were proud of this country, it had given us the potential for riches
beyond our wildest dreams with the possibility of introducing that potential to
the whole damn world. Great goal, no matter how unrealistic it was. What we
failed to do was to look at the way we were going to introduce that dream to
others. We accepted that “kill a commie for God” was ok, that forcing our way
of life on someone else could never be bad, because we were so “good”. We were
going to go out and make the world safe for democracy, forgetting that we are
not a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic, something that is much more
precious than the mob rule of that democracy we were trying to impose. My
reason for going on and on about my era, is because we apparently didn’t learn
anything at all. We sacrificed 58,000+ of our own people based on a lie, we
sacrificed an unknown number of Vietnamese men, women and children, based on a lie,
and now we are repeating that process, based on a lie. There were no WMD in
Iraq, and they knew it. Ben Laden is dead, fine, but was the effort worth the
cost? I think Ron Paul had the right idea about a Letter of Marque and Reprisal
instead of the massive troop escalation that occurred with its’ corresponding
growth of deaths that just added to those we lost on 9/11, the number of
Islamic terrorists we have added to the list of people that don’t really like
us sticking our noses in their business, and never mind all the money spent
when our economy is in the toilet. That is what Israel essentially did with the
terrorists that attacked their Olympic team, much more effective and at a much
lower cost in both lives and treasure, and the “treasure” I am referring to is
not money but the lives of our people, that is our true treasure, because of
the potential each one has, and we are forgetting that as well.

Both sides of this conflict are financed by the same banking
community, so all we are really doing is enriching those people, at the cost of
the lives of our sons and daughters, just like we did in Viet Nam. Our Military
Industrial Complex says we need to stay and “protect democracy” once again. Is
that a lie? I think so, but that is just my own thought, not yours, you need to
decide that yourself. But based on previous history, I really think it is. I
think they really want us to stay because that is the best source of income
they have, and they do not care one bit about the cost of our sons and
daughters lives, just like Viet Nam. I recently wrote this response to Rick
Santorum regarding his stance on fighting in the Middle East:

“… we are not
withdrawing from Iraq, we got KICKED OUT, Obama and you are the on the same
page, he wanted to stay as well, and both of you are more than willing to
sacrifice more of our troops on the altar of this empire while we are going to
hell in a hand basket back home. I spent 13 months in Viet Nam because of the
lies our government told us and we lost 58,000 plus of the “best and
brightest” lives that can never be replaced, and now you want to
perpetuate the slaughter of another generation of our troops. What happened to
their “right to life”? You look pretty fit, put your money where your
mouth is and volunteer, go over and get shot at, kill somebody, and see just
what it feels like to really take a life, or have one of your friends, if you
have any, die in your arms while you try and plug the holes. It’s not fun, it’s
not pretty and it’s not NECESSARY, Ron Paul has it right, “just bring them
home.”” Been there, done that and don’t want to see another generation do
it. If it really is a war, declare it and fight it to win, not just pad the
pockets of the Complex.

I agree
with about 95% of what Ron Paul stands for, but if this issue alone was the
only issue I saw eye to eye with him on, it would be enough to earn my vote,
because he is the only person running for the Presidency that will actually
bring the troops home NOW. Consequently he is my only choice.

Erickson was already on the record long ago as being against Romney.  The only damage he can do against Romney is to try and depress the turnout on election day.  Same with Rush and all the other bitter dead enders.  They hate Romney because they know he could care less about their moronic opinions on everything.  He has forgotten more than they will ever know. They hate Romney because they are petrified he will be a great president, and then, once and for all, their nonsense about conservatives vs. moderates will finally be buried.  That’s the problem, they may want to lose rather than face that prospect.

If you missed him the in the Cain – Gingrich debate, you can watch it in full  http://nationalsponsor.com/?p=328 You can also support your favorite candidate in the poll there!

Game changer? Erickson is just showing how out of touch he is even with most fellow Republican opinion shapers, who are mostly crucifying him fo his determination to commit politcal hari-kari. And therefore he consigns himself to irrelevance.The party (and country) would be better if he, Limbaugh, etc. would just crawl into a hole until after the Romney administration. The once rational Laura Ingraham apparently seems like she would like to join them. Even Ann Coulter understands that it’s lunacy to oppose Romney at this point.

Newsflash: Americans don’t like the Tea Party (31% approval rating), and it is dragging down the entire GOP (33% approval; compare to 47% for the Dems). A Tea Party candidacy would have the effect of institutionalizing the ACA, during Obama’s assured second term, and set the stage for the next Democratic administration in 2016, as any kind of economic recovery will sweeten Americans toward Democrats, while the Tea Party’s positions will be no more palatable to mainstream Americans in four years than they are now.

Romney’s rationalness will make people like the Republican party again which they haven’t since Katrina. Tea party candidates will drive progressively more and more people out of the Republican party due to the narrow and rigid ideological confines that they seek to impose.   

Erickson’s reasoning is precisely why Obama will survive. He negates the evidence that Romney is shifting his positions … and can be held accountable. There is no other viable candidate. Keep bashin’ him … and roll out the carpet for another four years of misry. What a political dope.

Amen.

Dr Ron Paul’s supporters by and large wont vote for another, Liberty or BU$T. Liberty and Constitution first. If GOP party loyalists want to win in Fall 2012, get behind Ron Paul, or get left behind… the times they arr a’ changin’ Ron Paul has the youth, the military, and more hispanics every day… way more than Romney(he’s got Wall St). Dr RON PAUL or BU$T! LEGALIZE FREEDOM , next Moneybomb on Veterans’ Day. Liberty needs us!

If you want gov intervention in the economy aka bailouts/stimulus… or
If you want gov intervention in other countries aka bombing runs, bailouts, and aid… go elsewhere(Obombya)
Dr Ron Paul is leading the GOP and The United States of America to a non-Interventionist, Liberty First, Strong Foundation of our Constitution. He is not Isolationist, he is Non-Interventionist.

None of the GOP candidate present much of a threat to President Obama.

Like it or not President Obama may win by default after the GOP splits the party with a 3rd party candidate run.

Because your comments showed no manners, particularly when you pointed out that the women in the calender are old.
Or maybe I’m wrong; maybe Tommy deleted you because you are the most repulsive sort of abuse of public Internets imaginable.

Pretty sure it’s one those two, though.

You will learn. One day you will not be 12 anymore, you will be 13, and if you don’t learn then or soon thereafter, like all failed organic models on this planet, you will not propagate and you and all your potential descendants will come to a nice, neat, quick end.

Jackass Erickson has lost his pull with movement conservatives if he ever had any. I missed that pull, by the time I really noticed him, he was not respected. Perry has been a joke and Erickson has been a total hack for him. Erickson attacked Palin, who conservatives like, and Gingrich who many conservatives respect and given the current lineup, who many conservatives will end up supporting. Erickson is now touting Huntsman who conservatives laugh at.  The guys with metal bull balls hanging from the back of their pickup trucks may still read Erickson and take him seriously, or at least that’s how I think of his readers, but they aren’t movement conservatives. More like Reagan Democrats.

Huntsman is preping for 2016. He will be the leading Republican by then.

 You clearly have no idea of the destruction of the federal reserve.  They are private.  They profit by LENDING the united states money, and we pay it back with interest.  The chairman make the profit.  During the bailouts 4 trillion dollars went partilly to foreign banks, and partially to the companies that these fed chairman run.  Convenient, right?

So how is it extreme?  You don’t call it extreme when Perry or Gingrich try to parrot Ron Paul and write books about it JUST before election time.  Convenient, right?

Also, YOU are the blind one, because Ron Paul exposed the federal reserve when he, single-handedly, managed to get legislation passed that would partiallly audit the fed.  That’s how we know about the money that went to foreign banks.  Imagine what sort of crookery we would uncover with a full audit.

So that’s IT?  THAT’s all you got?  His views are extreme because of the fed and DoE? 

Please explain how closing the DoE is unpopular to republicans….even Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Andrew Napolotano, Peter Schiff, Jon Stossell, Neil Cavuto, and Sean Hannity all agree that Ron Paul’s spending cuts plan is TOPS!

Now tell us how he’s unelectable again?  Just like they said about Reagan during his THIRD campaign….oh he’s too conservative and unelectable!  I can’t wait to laugh at people like you the same way people laughed when Reagan got elected.

 Doesn’t mean you can’t vote for him.  Just register republican this one time like so many others have done.

huntsman actually DOESN”T look like a shill, though ron paul has the market cornered on NOT being a shill

Erickson is digusting piece of horseshit. Not surprisingly, this demagogue is from GA, home of many teabagging know nothings.

He also has the market cornered on 19th century thinking in 21st century race. Santorum has it for the 13th century.