LOL! I nailed you down with that single bit of tripe that you posted.
As per usual, you libertines can't buy a clue as to what is important to the public.
As for trade, it does not even make the top ten. It will not be a issue in 08, and Hillary Clinton, Pat Buchanan, and yes, even Lou Dobbs are unelectable for POTUS.
The Rats intend to use some of these wedge issues to spit the party, but they won't be able to.
Ya see, even Lou Dobbs likely voted for Bush, and anyone with half a brain knows that Hillary is a flamin socialist. She uses everything she can to divide and conquer, just as her commie mentors taught her.
Funny thing about the new Commies, they are now calling themselves Progressives and have since embraced Capitalism as the missing link in their previous failures.
Soros and company will be backing the one they can win with however, and even Soros does not trust the Clintons. Even he, sees that Clintons are in it to feather their nest and for the power, the feeling of power.
BTW, Lou Dobbs has the red ass because his dreams, his pay, and his ex company did not rise with the tide of dot coms. He sees foreign competition, Indian techies and global trade as dangerous for little fiefdoms who want to get rich quick on stock options. Unfortunately for him, that little game did not pan out, and he blames globalization, Bush, and anybody that PO's him.
Pat Buchanan is much the same in some ways. But his politics are at least honest. He is just from a time and place that disappeared prior to WWII. He thinks we picked the wrong option from the two that were available after 9/11. He wanted to retreat and build the proverbial "wall" around America and let the fools kill each other across the oceans he still sees as offering protection.
If he had had his way, a large thermonuclear explosion would likely have occurred in one of our harbors, taking out a large city and devastating our economy.
Pat is dead wrong, but he comes to it with honesty. The rest are trying to get rid of some particular facet of life that they abhor for personal reasons.
Bush will defuse anything the Dems throw at the Republican party for the next four years, and we will field a good candidate. I just don't have a clue who it will be yet.
We will have so much on our plate, that Free Trade will be invisible on the list. We need vision, imagination and a president that is willing to use all we command. Not a woman with a Marxist ideology and a Lothario for a "first man". She will have little influence regarding what we do, or who we put up as a candidate.
We lead, we don't follow.
You keep on imagining that wedge issues won't split the party...but it's not about splitting the party. It's about attracting the middle and turning out the base. The Republicans turned out their base better than the Rats last time, and pulled more middle votes. And next time, we don't know that will happen. The Clintons got elected to 8 years in the White House, no matter how much vitriol this website and the rest of the right wing poured out, because the Clintons are very good at what they do, and Republicans in their blindness did not nominate a candidate who could appeal to the middle or energize the base.
Your premature declaration of victory is typical of the crowd that thought Dole was a wonderful candidate. You gloss over problems, refusing to prepare and preferring to keep your head up your crack, sticking it out only to spout insults at anyone who says the GOP is remotely wrong on anything. That willful ignorance is how a loser like Dole got nominated. That's how Dole lost against the weakest Rat nominee since Bryan.
I anticipated more smartass remarks which just ignored my comments, but thought optimistically. Not surprisingly, I got the smartass remarks. Unlike you, I learn from experience and criticism instead of ignoring it. I shouldn't have bothered, then, and don't worry about me bothering with your posts in the future. You've convinced me of that with the pages of sanctimonious blathering about Buchanan and Dobbs which you posted. I attempted to respond to your initial insulting little screed without being too harsh, but your continuing pride in your willful ignorance, er, "wisdom," is proof I shouldn't bother. Goodbye.
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