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The American public (sorry – couldn’t resist).
Have any of the GOP candidates done anything to prove they’re worth running against the Democratic ticket? Do any of you conservative or GOP-leaning posters see anything inspirational so far?
From the Left it looks as follows:
Giuliani: Top interest is causing heart attacks in older voters from fear of another 9/11.
Romney: Top interest is figuring out which way the wind is blowing this week.
McCain: Top interest is in “staying the course” in Iraq.
Huckabee: Top interest is in making religious conservatism look and sound good.
Tancredo: Top interest is re-instating electrocutions for all fer’ners entering the country by any means. (But, really, mostly the brown people from the South and over the sea where our oil is stored…)
Brownback: Top interest is in ensuring that the proper 6000 year history of the world replaces current teachings.
Gilmore: Top interest is getting enough time in the debates to actually be considered a candidate.
Hunter: Top interest is in trying to out-xenophobe Tancredo.
Paul: Top interest is in opposing the Iraq War. Ignore the fake Republican, please…
T.Thompson: Top interest is Healthcare. Ignore this one, too.
F.Thompson: Top issue is that everybody recognizes him. If the GOP were more logical, they’d be complaining that he was a Hollywood actor and a lawyer.
Did I forget anyone? Newt?
All you etablishment hacks on both the right and the left are relics of age gone by.
The American people are fed up with your son of a mob boss Giuliani / your war monger flip floping Hillary and all the fakes running against them. The American people are sending a message to the establishment (much like they did in November) clearly voting with Paul in mass much to the establishment’s chagrin.
Ignore Paul? If the GOP sabotages the peoples right to vote for Paul in 08 (even though most people agree that electronic voting is a scam) it will create the grandest of all canyons between the masses and the government ever.
Sorry if I didn’t make it clear. Paul is the only one talking sense on some of the issues; Tommy Thompson is the only one in the group that vaguely understands healthcare. Therefore they can’t be valid heirs to this cluster**** that is the modern GOP.
And where might that right be found? Both parties have systems in place of how the presidential candidate is chosen. Nothing about rights, but policy and procedure.
Nevertheless, that although I disagree with specific positions of R. Paul, he has a trait oh so rare in Washington these days: integrity.
thus far (half-time).
Guliani doesn’t come across as trustworthy (do any of them?). . . McCain seems frail. . . Romney’s too polished
Whatever happened to Alan Keyes?
…that Keyes lost big-time to some guy named Obama… He’s probably willing to move to whatever state you think he needs to be from in order to be able to select an appropriate running mate – for the right price.
The way Giuliani has been talking, you’d think he wants to kick all the durned Libruls out of NYC and turn it into a shrine for the Global War on
TerraTerruh.As to trustworthy, um, no not really. I suppose I’d trust Brownback and Tancredo to be the total dogmatists that they’ve shown themselves to be; but I wouldn’t judge them worthy of my trust in running the government.
I’ve figured out what’s wrong with Romney’s [physical] appearance:
He looks like an evangelical pastor. Given what we know (esp. here in Colorado) about the polished men of the cloth, it’s no wonder that, even if one doesn’t follow politics faithfully (like me), that they don’t even look trustworthy, for whatever “looks” are worth.
I’ll tell you this, `though. I appreciated McCain’s viewpoint on hispanic contributions to this country in the context of the current immigration debate and, which eloquently and accurately restates what I was trying to say in my earlier post on the subject.
What a freaking hypocrite. Does he think we’ve all forgotten his ridiculous and offensive “!Viva Tancredo!” yard signs in 2000, 2002, 2004… before he suddenly became Mister “Secure America” in 2006?
What a poser.
Univision has announced the first all-Spanish debates in September – one for Democratic contenders, and one for the GOP side. The debates will be held in Miami – hotbed of Cuban dissidents and putative 3rd-world country.
So, does Tancredo attend and blow all his credibility by (a) speaking in Spanish and (b) braving the dangers of Miami, or does he pass and let all those good GOP votes (the Cuban dissident population is usually very GOP…) go to waste?
on how those Cubans feel about illegal immigration. They’re probably not very empathetic toward non-Cuban immigrants, as possibly Cuban immigrants too unless they convincingly denounce Castro. What are the restrictions there? I know that they’re pretty much in as long as they can avoid the Coast Guard and safely reach the Florida shore.
….about the Republican Rainbow: “White. Off-white. French vanilla.”
Hell, I had one of those signs; I was being sardonic in displaying it. As if Tancredo could identify a dozen Hispanic constituents willing to vote for him….
When I linked this page earlier in the evening, it went to a list of comments about the GOP debate tonight (Tuesday night). The comments were overwhelmingly in favor of Ron Paul. It thus comes as no surprise that CNN has removed the comments about Ron Paul and re-directed the link to comments about Monday Night’s debates.
Shame on CNN for trying yet again to “pre-screen” the candidates before the elections.
A copy of the comments about Ron Paul, presented in its entirety as they were before CNN pulled them, can be found HERE http://www.whatreall…
It is time for the American voters to send a clear message that the mainstream media will NOT choose the President of the United States. That choice belongs to WE THE PEOPLE.
Shame on CNN for such underhanded chicanery!
One incident among many in the last decade.
As of 1:45 this afternoon, Tanc is tied with Rudy for second place, both trailing Ru Paul (or Ron Paul…..whatever) who for some inexplicable reason is running away with first place. Must be a burst of home state pride amongst the Colorado GOP who post here.
Did you notice that even though they weren’t supposed to clap, the audience did anyway? They didn’t clap until the end at the Dem debate. Dems are more behaved.