Posted on 04/05/2007 7:32:20 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent
Yawn :)
Okay, tell me some of your better answers.
Nice work.
We can only hope.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” —John Quincy Adams
I’m wondering why I have yet to find a poster who’s pronouncing they will vote on “principle” who will actually TAKE THE QUIZ.
Will you cherish the sweetest reflection of, say, Jamie Gorelick as Attorney General of the United States?
Why don’t you share with us a couple of your answers as to who you think would be in leadership positions in the respective Rat and Pub administrations? Can we get past the platitudes long enough to talk about R/L?
If you need some names on the Rat side, here are a few from recent history:
Web Hubbell
Mike Espy
Ron Brown
Henry Cisneros
Frederico Peno
Donna Shalala
George Stephanopoulos
Harold Ickes
Jamie Gorelick
Les Aspin
Janet Reno
Madeleine Albright
Sandy Berger
My cousin was in Real Estate in DC area. She retired after a couple of Presidential elections.
thanks for the quote.
The Republicans have increased domestic discretioary spending at a much faster rate than the Democrats. They have supported taking away our free speech rights in election campaigns. They have largely been for some form of amnesty as long as it’s not called thaat. They have backed the President in his reluctance to do what it takes to win the war.
Your point is?
appointments and nominations are two different things.
THE most important nomination(s) the next President might have - SCOTUS.
My point is: quit talking in generalizations and name some names. Is there a reason apparently no one in the “stay home” crowd wants to actually get down to brass tacks?
There is very little practical difference in appointments and nominations. Both result in the president and his political party installing certain individuals into positions of power over us, the American people.
I agree that the most important nominations are to SCOTUS. That’s exactly why, given ANY Rat or ANY Republican, I’d hold my nose and vote Republican.
That said, are these other positions chopped liver? Does it matter from which party the Secretary of Defense comes? Does it matter from which party the Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Enforcement comes? Does it matter from which party the head of the EPA comes from?
(( not you - but for others: crickets chirping))
I agree with you in theory. However, there is the little matter of the several vocal “stay home” crowd members who have already (prematurely) vehemently and loudly proclaimed that if [fill in the blank] is the Republican nominee, they fully intend to cut and run on Election Day, *even if that means the election of [fill in the blank], the Rat candidate.
When you have people in your own party declaring they will *never* vote for certain individuals should they win the nomination, the rest of the team that actually does want to play a full four quarters has to assess how that impacts the game plan NOW.
In short, your approach is very reasonable and I support it whole-heartedly. Yet it has become necessary to push back at the nonsense that there would be no difference at all between [fill in the blank] Rat administration and [fill in the blank] Republican administration.
Withe the age and health of several justices, the next President will get to nominate more than one (if W does not get one more in the next year).
No, your response to my post is more or less irrelevant.
Name some names, Old Mil! Who do you think [fill in the blank] Rat president would appoint as, say, Secretary of Defense compared to who [fill in the blank] Republican president would appoint?
C’mon. Pick out five cabinet departments and give me your best choices on each side of the aisle.
True.
That’s why at this juncture in history, I’d vote Republican every time.
But what about these other departments. They are important, as well. In some cases, very important. The power grabs could be unbelievable, depending on the individuals appointed to them.
Again, I’d like *someone* to take the quiz. Give us your considered judgment on the type of people that would be serving in these respective administrations.
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