Posted on 11/08/2006 1:25:23 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Oh, I remember now. He wasn't properly faithful enough.
I'm not bitter. Just trying to be angry, when I have nothing to be angry about. Though I think he'd have been a first-rate president.
The Republican party took it on the chin last night.
I don't plan to sit back and rub my chin too long.
He is the son of Malcom Forbes who toured the world with his Motor Cycle Gang "the Capitalists Tools". They were welcome everywhere even USSR and China.
Steve has many talents not necessarily patrician. He sat at his father's knee during interviews with any leader in the world that was a leader.
Bump!
I've been a true and faithful support of Bush.
Thinking like that gave us what we got yesterday. Making a point to nobody but yourself.
Forbes fan BTTT.
I have his book....
It may not have mattered, though, as the President, like his father, seemed set on appointing mediocre corporate pseudo-Keynesians.
Forbes is from New Jersey, not New England.
It would have been nice to have an educated, well traveled man in the bully pulpit.
Thank you. I knew he wasn't from Texas.
I love Texas but all those small New England states all seem to run together.
What a pathetic display he put on at that new conference.
"Show's what I know!" said Bush.
That will be his legacy soundbite.
You're such a huge Forbes fan and you don't even know where he's from?
Give me a break.
Show's what I know.
Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS by Steve Forbes
A New Birth of Freedom: A Vision for America by Steve Forbes
I understand your point, and I voted straight Republican yesterday, but I'm not convinced I was wrong.
We got Supreme Court seats (after Harriet Myers was destroyed by bloggers), and not half bad tax cuts ( after the flawed tax bill went to commttee and came out with cuts on capital taxes at the last minute), but we also got the biggest expansion of entitlements since LBJ with Medicare drugs (research-destroying price controls coming soon), the most important curtailment of free speech I can remember with campaign finance "reform", and a new definition of Republicanism: spend every penny you possibly can, it's "compassionate".
Amazon.com
Two-time presidential candidate Steve Forbes lays out his political vision in A New Birth of Freedom. Readers won't become very familiar with Forbes the man, but they will definitely get to know what Forbes thinks about the issues of the day. "Less government and more freedom" is the principle underlying most of his ideas, whether they involve the flat tax, health care, or Social Security. The book is detailed, but not overly so, and avoids becoming a mere laundry list of policy choices. Libertarians will be drawn to his economic ideas, and social conservatives will appreciate his chapter on "the moral basis of a free society." Forbes puts many of his best applause lines from speeches on these pages, but they will sound fresh and bold to those who haven't heard them before: "We can't tinker with this tax code monstrosity or try to reform it around the edges. The only thing we can do with this hideous beast is kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it, and hope that it never rises again to terrorize the American people." Forbes also takes a subtle swipe at Texas governor George W. Bush, his main competition for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000: "I come from a family of entrepreneurs and risk-takers--of tax-payers, not tax-raisers," he writes, hoping Republican primary voters will remember that his father, George Bush, broke his "no new taxes" pledge when he was president. If they do and pick Forbes, this book provides a good look at what to expect from the Forbes administration. --John J. Miller
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895263203/issues2000org/
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Are you sure you're Cincinatus' Wife, and not Forbes' Wife?
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