Posted on 04/05/2009 5:31:26 AM PDT by sussex
Thanks.
Paul was more honest, more direct than any of the others.
ROFL!
That speaks well of his character. Unfortunately in the age of "American Idol" you need more. He is considered a "dweeb" by the popular culture.
Fred Thompson (my choice in the primaries) summed up the situation well when asked if McCain might pick him as his running mate. He said no.....I don't have the right "profile".
He was exactly right.
Do you mind if I use it in future posts?
Vampires have more respect. All Count Dracula did was give an order to impale 10,000 muslims in Romania. Is this where we are going here with liberals?
Not like he stood out like a pimple on a starlet.
Pray for America
DeGaulle was a HUGE pain in the a$$ to us in those days, but I always liked him from the standpoint that he stuck up for his country and to Hell with the rest. A pity we didn't do that.
DeGaulle was the force behind Nixon closing the "Gold Window" making dollars no longer redeemable in gold by foreign banks.
I remember at the time that the press, et al, were calling him "ungrateful" for all the sacrifices we made to free France. Yet he saw us inflating like mad and decided to cash in paper for gold. I don't blame him, for I'd do the same. Evidently many citizens today are doing the same thing. (The Chinese are in a similar spot but there's no U.S. gold for them.)
One other thing that impressed me with DeGaulle. He was in some meeting when a guy bursts in yelling "The Japanese have attacked America!" Everybody was stunned. Here they were with their backs to the wall and now this. DeGaulle calmly says, "We have won the war." The others go through a WTF? moment. He perceptively explains, "With America's industrial power behind us, we will drown the enemy in men and materiel."
He'd be up the creek today.
Say what you will, DeGaulle set up the 5th Republic that still rules France and seems to have broken the spell of round robin governments that rose and fell almost every two months. He may well have had many character faults but he gave the French what they needed at that time. Maybe Sarah Palin could use some if his ideas to plan her future. I believe she should run for Senate after finishing her term as Governor. The Democrat/RinoRepublicans/LoaferLiberals/ and CommieMedia are doing their best to wreck any chance she might have in 2012.
To some degree yes, to some degree no. Yeah you do have the hacks, sellouts and the craven manipulators, but you also have a strong grassroots network that is very conservative. And they battle internally constantly. Trust me on this.
Having done this for 10 years and now being co-chair of my county party with greater access to the district and state level, it’s not as broad brush as you paint it, though it ain’t rainbows and fairy dust either.
What conservatives need to do is get off their arses and become the majority of the party, and send their reps to the higher levels to make sure they have a seat at the table. It’s not as hard as you might think. It just takes numbers and hard work.
We were driven into the ditch by Ivy League smarty pants of both parties. I spent two years in grad school at one of the Ivies and I am quite convinced that they are vastly overrated. I’ll take an honest, self-made U of Idaho grad like Gov. Palin any day.
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