Posted on 05/03/2007 8:30:56 PM PDT by jdm
SAM BROWNBACK
He said his approach in Iraq would differ from President Bush's. "I'd push more a political solution along with a military solution in Iraq, and here I would push a three-state, one-country solution in Iraq, with a Kurdish state, a Sunni state, a Shiite state, with Baghdad as the federal city. I think we've got to push a political solution, along with the military, to get to a stable situation in Iraq, which is our key political issue of the day."
He said Congress was right to intervene in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case. "Yes, it should have. And it gave her the right, and the family the right to take that appeal to the court. That's what the Congress did. And her life is sacred. Even if it's in that difficult moment that she's in at that point in time, that life is sacred, and we should stand for life in all its circumstances."
JIM GILMORE
"I see this Iraq problem as part of an entire Middle East issue, and it's sort of a fundamental problem that we're going to have an honest conversation with the American people about. We're going to have to engage in the Middle East, and we're going to have to do it for an extended and a long period of time."
RUDY GIULIANI
He said it would be acceptable if the Supreme Court upheld Roe v. Wade. He also said, "It would be OK to repeal. It would be OK also if a strict constructionist judge viewed it as precedent, and I think a judge has to make that decision. ... I think the court has to make that decision and then the country can deal with it. We're a federalist system of government and states can make their own decisions."
"The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. It's the worst nightmare of the Cold War, isn't it? The nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person, an irrational force. (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad is clearly irrational. He has to understand it's not an option; he cannot have nuclear weapons."
MIKE HUCKABEE
He said he would have asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign earlier than Bush did. "I think I would've done that before the election. I certainly wouldn't have said that we are not going to do it and then, right after the election, done so. But that's the president's call. Clearly there was a real error in judgment, and that primarily had to do with listening to a lot of folks who were civilians in suits and silk ties and not listening enough to the generals with mud and blood on their boots and medals on their chest."
"The most important thing a president needs to do is to make it clear that we're not going to continue to see jobs shipped overseas, jobs that are lost by American workers, many in their 50s who, for 20 and 30 years, have worked to make a company rich, and then watch as a CEO takes a $100 million bonus to jettison those American jobs somewhere else. And the worker not only loses his job, but he loses his pension. That's criminal. It's wrong. And if Republicans don't stop it, we don't deserve to win in 2008."
DUNCAN HUNTER
"You know, right now, right now, Iran is moving equipment into Iraq that is being used to kill Americans. Iran has crossed the line, and the United States has absolute license at this point to take whatever actions are necessary to stop those deadly instruments from being moved across the line, being used in explosives, roadside bombs, inside Iraq."
"Right now, the border is 2,000 miles of a very porous area where hundreds of thousands of people come across on an annual basis and where last year we had 155,000 folks who came across from Mexico who were from other countries in the world. Some from communist China, some from Iran, some from Korea. We have to secure the border. That's the biggest failure of the federal government."
JOHN McCAIN
"When the majority leader of the United States Senate says we've lost the war, the men and women that are serving in Iraq reject that notion. And, if we lost, then who wins? Did al-Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer _ they cheer _ when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home."
He said he supports a guest worker program to help deal with illegal immigration. "The status quo is not acceptable. We have to secure our borders. But we also need a temporary worker program, and we have to dispose of the issue of 12 million people who are in this country illegally. This issue is an important and compelling one, and it begins with national security. But we also need to address it comprehensively."
RON PAUL
"The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card."
MITT ROMNEY
"This is a nation, after all, that wants a leader that's a person of faith, but we don't choose our leader based on which church they go to. This is a nation which also comes together _ we unite over faith and over the right of people to worship as they choose. The people we're fighting, they're the ones who divide over faith and decide matters of this nature in the public forum. This is a place where we celebrate different religions and different faiths."
"You can fight, for instance, to make sure that partial-birth abortion is made illegal. You can fight to have information given to women who are thinking about having an abortion. You can fight to make sure that there's opportunities for people to express their views on this topic openly and near abortion clinics. You can fight for the opportunity to go out and campaign for the rights of those who care about this issue to be heard before Election Day, and the McCain-Feingold law prevents that from happening."
TOM TANCREDO
"There are issues that I believe have not been addressed tonight, not in full, and I believe that they do separate us. And I certainly believe the issue of immigration and immigration reform and what's going to happen to this country unless we deal with this forthrightly _ no more platitudes, no more obfuscating with using words like, 'Well, I am not for amnesty, but I am for letting them stay.' That kind of stuff has got to be taken away from the political debate, as far as I'm concerned, so people can understand exactly who is where on this incredibly important issue."
TOMMY THOMPSON
"I think the biggest problem we've got in America is the alternative minimum tax that's bringing more middle-income people in. Let's put it in _ let's have the people have a flat tax and have the option of paying whichever is least."
President Bush already compromised the GOP's principles, like his father. The GOP has been the Dem Party Lite for some time. You just say the above for dramatic effect. Why don't you stand up and accept NO compromise. The Republican candidate will surely have some flaw, some 5-15% of weak principles. Why stay in the GOP when there are other more principled parties? Heck, start your own party.
You must have a reading comprehension problem. I explained to you explictly why I oppose Ron Paul’s candidacy.
Ron Paul is not “the most conservative of the 10 Republican candidates.” He is a libertarian, in fact.
Study more.
“You are a nihilist dressed up as an idealist.”
Now, THAT’S funny.
Main Entry: ni·hil·ism
Pronunciation: ‘nI-(h)&-”li-z&m, ‘nE-
Function: noun
Etymology: German Nihilismus, from Latin nihil nothing — more at NIL
1 a : a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless b : a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
2 a : a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility b capitalized : the program of a 19th century Russian party advocating revolutionary reform and using terrorism and assassination
- ni·hil·ist /-list/ noun or adjective
- ni·hil·is·tic /”nI-(h)&-’lis-tik, “nE-/ adjective
I've noticed, as has Jim Robinson, from my reading of his posts, that one of the first tactics of the Giuliani supporters was to attack Reagan, or Bush, or whoever, in a bid to make the liberalism of their candidate look less egregious. Sorry to see Romney's supporters forced to adopt the same foolish tactics.
Heck, start your own party
No need, as yet. We've already got a party, with a pro-life, pro-family, pro-America platform. It's called the GOP.
You support no candidate. Therefore, you are effectively a nihilist in the eyes of everyone else.
I'll try a boilerplate EV response: 'What does pointing out the extreme liberalism of Republican presidents have to do with anything? It's not a tactic, its the truth if you can handle it.'
I know you've studied history, I would have thought you'd known better. Start with the founding fathers.
Try studying the history of Ron Paul.
Paul has more in common with what conservatives used to stand for than what conservatives now stand for.
I’d say he’s 100% correct on everything but foreign policy. He’s actually correct in principle on that too, but wrong in a pragmatic globalist world.
Goldwater...there’s a ‘conservative’ of old. ‘Social conservative’, ‘compassionate conservative’, ‘neoconservative’, these are relatively recent terms.
I don’t want to argue with you, but I’ll continue to prod until you tell us the candidate you’re supporting...so we can put your commentary in context.
Prod all you want. All I can do is tell you the facts. Your acceptance of them is not within my power.
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