Posted on 01/26/2008 9:10:40 AM PST by jnwest
In his recent memoir, Alan Greenspan says he's been pushing a constitutional amendment of his own devising. It reads: "Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office." If the Greenspan amendment is ever enacted, it will at last clear the field for Fred Thompson, who might then become president. But not until then.
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Totally agree, Fred wouldn’t act bizarre or stupid like the rest of them. It’s a damn shame.
Republicans should stop participating in debates until the “moderators” are no longer left wing reporters. There is no reason those democrat script reading pretty boys should be allowed in such an important role.
Maybe the issue is to have closed initial primaries not open. The each party could pick from the beginning not party jumpers. My take is those that voted for McCain will vote for Hillary and so we never really get a chance.
I agree. I think the primaries should be a closed events. These often sway public opinion way too much. It’s time for a change in more than a few things in the election process.
Fred had it right. Still does.
The MSM is not dead and they have honed their attacks on conservatives down to a science. If we are going to remain so foolish and gullible as to allow them to eliminate our choice, we will never see another conservative in the White House.
I miss Fred more with each passing day. By spring, it will become evident to most of the rest of the deniers that we were played for fools.
I generally agree with the premise
No one who wants the job of President
bad enough to run for it,
should be elected.
Machiavellian concerns without
I propose a National Test of all citizens
of the USA, say, at 35 y/o
To test for “Leadership Capability”
whatever that is...
Take the top 1% and randomly draft into Local positions
Take the tap .01% and randomly draft into State positions
Take the top .001% and randomly draft into Federal positions
Pay then what they are worth, say, their IRS based current income.
Never let a person continue in the
same position for >4-8 years.
Some process like this
So much for the Representational Republic
But it would stop all this foolishness.
That is the absolute truth.
It’s nice to be among sensible people. Question for anyone out there: I’m a newbie, so I need to know how to post a reply to all those involved in a current thread. Thanks!
“That is the absolute truth.”
I agree! I also miss Fred with every passing day, but after weighing the options I don’t see anything better than to give my vote to Romney next Tuesday.
Some say go for a brokered convention. I don’t see that happening. If someone does, I would like to hear how they think it could happen, and how that would keep McCain or Huckabee out of the nomination. I could live with Romney first and Guiliani second, so voting Romney.
Type “All” in the “To” box.
So Fred lost because of Catch 22?
Same here.
Much obliged!
Parties have too much control over the election process as it is, IMHO of course. I would say, let the parties have their "closed" primaries, to select their candidate for the "real" primaries, which would be open to anyone, one election, not multiple parallel ones. If the parities want to take there chances with a single candidate in the single real primary, fine. Or they can put in their top two or three or whatever they want.
Parties are not provided for in the Constitution, and really only exist because of the power of Congress to make it's own rules, which do recognize parties, and which of course are designed to protect incumbents.
Do a reply, after the name, put a comma space all
Thanks
Interestingly, Fred has highlighted how corrupt, how pandering, how totally sleazy and unfit the rest of the candidates are.
The only possible explanation for a Freeper to support anyone other than Fred was the influence of the MSM.
We should consider banning all articles from the MSM. All articles should be from Fox News or other FR approved sources.
bump
I said it before.
It’s a lesser nation without someone like Fred as the nominee and eventualy winnner.
I return you back back to the regularly scheduled RINO herding.
No. But if I a had a dollar for every time we saw a MSM talking point about Fred Thompson repeated here I'd be rich. Far too many followed right along as the media falsely defined, marginalized and ignored the conservative candidate who stood up to them.
Those who, from the beginning, have supported one of the moderate/liberal candidates in this race did it for their own reasons, most having to do with identification on a religious or other strong single issue, but those who claimed to want a real conservative and still wound up falling for the drivel, were played like a violin. The media has become very good at guiding outcome and we need to become better at recognizing it and resisting it.
Me, too (for Mitt) but I do miss Fred.
As to his participation in the debates, he came off extremely well in those, so I don’t think that hurt him.
He just was not known to the general population and he didn’t have a great team. For example today I got a note from his campaign thanking me for a donation I made over a month ago. I should have gotten that within days along with a request for more money which I probably would have sent.
But I still have hopes that he will be appointed to something meaningful in the government ... perhaps even selected to be Romney’s veep.
I don’t think he would campaign for that but I think he would take it if offered.
For quite some time I’ve supported a national lottery for president and congress. We couldn’t do worse than what we have, and quite frankly, I suspect we’d do quite a bit better.
Agree
Devils in the Details...
What is Leadership, how is it measured
Who measures the “measurers”?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
And how is "service" coerced?
So true. Because of Thompson, I am no longer willing to vote based on political relativism. He's shown me that there are good candidates out there, and as a result I am no longer willing to settle for anything less.
” Question for anyone out there: I’m a newbie, so I need to know how to post a reply to all those involved in a current thread. Thanks!”
Welcome to FReeRepublic!
At the top where it says “To” just put “ALL” or you can type in several different names by putting ; after each one.
In all seriousness, I like the idea of a straight-up lottery.
The kinks should be easy to work out. We’d treat elected office like we treat Jury Duty. You’re obligated, there are a lot of acceptable excuses you can give to get out of it, but they have to be legit. Basic exclusions for anyone convicted of a serious offense, any direct relatives of anyone currently serving, and Bill O’Reilly.
We couldnt possibly end up with a worse congress.
I am one that misses Fred’s sensibility. There was a big hole in the last debate because of his absence. No adult was present and it was obvious.
For me, I suppose the bottom line is that I don’t want Hillary or Obama to win by default so I’m reconciled to doing what I have to do come election day. However, it’s impossible to transfer my sincere support and faith in Fred to another candidate. I’m so disappointed that I never got the chance to vote for him or to see what he could do for the future of us all. I guess as a country we’re too far gone - even those on the right are blind.
Hmmm...
Perhaps I am too complex in my suppositions
Must consider this
The President is, however, a type of Military animal
He(She) must be willing to kill, to be effective.
Usually this requires some training,
perhaps a school for ruthlessness
Hmmm...
I was all for Fred but I knew he was dead in the water after his second debate. For better or worse one has to have some personality, some kind of pizzazz, to have any kind of success in a Presidential run. Fred had all the charisma of a bowl of cold oatmeal. It may not right or fair but that’s the way it is.
Charisma is what got us Clinton. Those who didn’t vote for Fred based on this just perpetuated this.
You'll get no disagreement from me on that. But the reality can't be ignored. The majority of the voting public are not political junkies like we on FR. They don't really vote based on issues or policy, rather, they vote for who they "like" the best.
I believe Fred might take issue with that declaration given his Federalist views. Our founding documents make no mention of political parties. They are a creation of politicians over the years to gain ever more power in the hands of an elite group of individuals. As another astute FReeper observed, what we need is a second party, a conservative one, to push back against the ever increasing drift to the left of the Washington establishment.
If the Dems win, and when Americans have had enough of them, pizzaz won’t be so important. People don’t learn from history.
Fred ran the kind of campaign that conservatives have been saying they wanted; more real meat. But when push came to shove, they let themselves be led by the media with its "lazy, no fire in the belly, doesn't want to be President", meme. They went for the flash and dash, not the substance.
Absolutely NOT. "Know thine enemy" is a good rule by which to live!
Unfortunately Fox is now part of the MSM. They turned to the dark side some time ago.
I see something better for next Tuesday: Fred is still on your ballot. VOTE FOR HIM.
This will, hopefully, be a real, disputed, convention. Give Fred some delegates, and he will be the winner.
Too much is dependent on polls, which we know are tools of the liberal media.
“But when push came to shove, they let themselves be led by the media with its “lazy, no fire in the belly, doesn’t want to be President”, meme.”
Yep, can’t count the number of times I heard that trash repeated by morons here at FreeRepublic.
I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING Rudy McRomnaBee, no matter what.
Yes. Once on the ballot, on the ballot.
Just go vote for Fred (or Duncan, even if he cheapened himself with his Huckster endorsement).
“I see something better for next Tuesday: Fred is still on your ballot. VOTE FOR HIM. This will, hopefully, be a real, disputed, convention. Give Fred some delegates, and he will be the winner.”
If I thought there was a chance that Fred would come out the winner I would do it. I believe a vote for Fred here in Florida will make for a sure win for McCain. I do NOT want that to happen! McCain needs to be stopped here in Florida!
Is that why he helped to author the Fiengold-McCain Campaign Finance Bill? Is this way he took the bribe from Mitt and Huck to leave this presidential race?
Are you nuts? There are conspiracy theories and then there beyond insane conspiracy theories.
What “bribe” was that?
It’s because of lack of money. You can’t run for anything today unless you can get people to do more than just give you moral support. They need to give their candidates money also. Fred and Duncan just didn’t have the money, or the charisma. I liked Fred Thompson. He is a true conservative,but unfortunately not a rich one.
I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING Rudy McRomnaBee, no matter what.
who do you perefer ........ Barack Hussein Obama or hillary roddham clinton?
Sorry, the days of allowing RINOs to cow conservatives with that threat are over.
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