Posted on 01/19/2007 2:35:59 PM PST by Dark Skies
I'm starting to think Newt JUST MIGHT have a shot. He says he isn't declaring unless nobody else worthwhile shows up...and not till September, but if he sees how well he's polling...who knows?
WOW! You are missing a terrific city!
And so much history. "The first time I went there I was working on the New York Stock Exchange for a week. I walked a block away to Trinity Church which I knew from my Revolutionary War books. I walked up the stairs and noticed the graveyard at the church ... I buimbled back down the stairs and looked at the first gravestone. I nearly feel over. It was ALEXANDER HAMILTON!!!
Wall Street is right in the middle of American history ... the whole city is. George Washington's favorite church is still there right by Wall Street and was a temporary hospital during 9/11.
It is simply awesome.
See # 43.
Yes we do, unfortunately... I was hoping that if GOP won last election, Dems would break up with many deciding the far-left is hurting them nore than benefits. Unfortunately, their "Hail Mary" with Rahm's-Schumer stragey of fielding faux "conservative" Dems, and all-out assault from al-Media and legal system (FBI raids, indictments, insinuations...) worked and now it's "Stupid Party"'s turn to see if they can keep their coalitions together.
Fortunately, it's better to get these out of their system early (like now) and coalesce behind a solid conservative with ideas, imagination, good speaking abilities to deliver these ideas to populace over and above the media waves.
I think Newt is this man, with VP of Condi or Hunter or someone like.
I always thought that breaking up Democrats should happen before "cleaning up GOP house", as many true conservative ex-Democrats (Zell Miller type) could join GOP, and marginal RINOs would go to one of the spinoffs of Democrats, thus dividing them and marginalizing even further the "progressives".
Oh well, we'll have to wait for Democrat Party crack-up some other time, hopefully not too long after 2008.
Are you serious? Newt helped to sell the budget busting prescription drugs plan, the biggest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ. Please note that the vote on that measure was very close and Dubya had to twist arms to get it....thus your man Newt could have made the different in advancing this march to socialism.
Hmm. Perhaps, Rudy is somewhat reminiscent of a Churchill. Churchill was totally ridiculed as a drunk and everything else, yada, yada, yada, in his day. The exemplary qualities sometimes seem to come out of the blue to rise to the occasion. Churchill's "fireside chats" kept people going in very, very, dark days.
He is a Reagan style Republican.
It was FDR who made the "fireside chats" though perhaps this says something. Come to think of it Rudy seems closer to the Welfare statist FDR than to Churchill.
Man, that is a pathetic group. I don't think any one of those guys could win.
Hilly vs Newt, and Hilly wins in a 400+ electoral vote rout.
Exactly right
---"Hilly vs Newt, and Hilly wins in a 400+ electoral vote rout."---
Seriously.
I bet you were surprised Bush won Texas in 2004.....
(rolling eyes)
Anybody but McCain.
Yes, seriously. And no, I wasn't surprised Bush won Texas in 2004. I actually overstated his strength, predicting about 310 or so EVs.
He has a major speech defect. Like Tom Brokaw, he can't pronounce "L" when it begins a word. I think you'd get awful tired of listening to that in his speeches should he become president.
Sorry, he has too much baggage--multiple wives that he cheated on; his misplaced playbook suggested that he has some questionable foreign business connections; and from what I've read about him and his management style, he's a one man band. His backing of Bernard Kerick for Homeland Security head when the guy was a known womanizer with shady business practices suggests that he lacks judgment. Plus, he chickened out once in an election against Hillary.
No way I'm voting for him.
Oops. Wrong term. Way before my time. Thanks for the clarification. I knew someone would do it.:) The point I was trying to make, was that an improbable leader (Churchill) had some fantastic speeches which inspired and comforted in dark times. BTW, why do you think Rudy is a socialist? Gotta run, but look forward to a reply if you feel so inclined.
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