Posted on 05/17/2007 8:29:46 AM PDT by PhilCollins
Want Reagan? Try John Cox
Republican voters dissatisfied with the current crop of Reagan wannabes ought to check out the only GOP candidate barred from this week's South Carolina debate hosted by Fox: John Cox. That's because while the other candidates used the first debate to claim they were closest to Reagan, Cox tells us he's the real McCoy.
"Ronald Reagan was from Illinois, and I'm from Illinois, too." And it doesn't end there: Cox, a lawyer-businessman who was also chairman of the Cook County Republicans, hates taxes and wants major reform and elimination of the IRS. "I'm a manager," he said in an interview done a year ago. "I think this is the year for outsiders, a fresh face," he added.
Well, apparently the debate organizers don't think so, at least not his face. He's been barred from the debate because he doesn't have the needed 1 percent recognition in national polls. He claims that's because pollsters never include him. So on Tuesday, before the event, he's going to the debate site to demand that all the other GOP candidates stand with him for fairness and let him in to debate. After all, he has landed a spot on the South Carolina ballotso shouldn't voters be given a chance to hear his views? Posted at 05:13 PM by Paul Bedard
In April, he won a straw poll in a South Carolina county and won second place in another county's straw poll. His campaign website is www.cox2008.com.
I think because both Republican and Democratic contests are so crowded and the fact that most of the primaries will be on the same day, nobody will get either a majority or momentum and each party’s pick will actually be chosen at its convention in smoke filled rooms like the old days.
As a young man Ronald Reagan thought it was so important to serve in the military that he concealed his faulty vision to be commissioned as an officer in the US Army. John, since your the real Reagan-type candidate, tell us about your military service...
Zing............
I'm already supporting a lost-cause candidate ... Tom Tancredo. The problem is, there's too many lost-cause candidates (far better than any of the media's choices) for a good grassroots movement to drive any of them to the top.
Sadly, most of the lost-cause candidates are virtually identical on the important issues. Tancredo, Huckabee, Hunter and Cox all support the FairTax. Tancredo and Hunter and Gilmore are pretty close on borders and illegal immigration.
They'll all use the fool out of torture if three shopping malls have been attacked and someone with information on a fourth attack is caught off the coast of Florida!
I agree that the nominees will be chosen during the conventions, and I’m glad. During the past 30 years, we knew who the nominees will be before the conventions, causing the conventions to be boring. Next year, the conventions will be more suspenseful and exciting, causing more people to watch and hear the different ideas. More people will watch the republican convention and hear Republicans say that they want to decrease tax rates, help the military, and deport more illegal aliens. Many people will watch the democrat convention and hear Democrats say that they want to increase tax rates, keep troops in the U.S., and let illegals stay in the U.S.
He was born in 1955.
Cox wasn’t in the military because of a medical problem that he couldn’t conceal. I don’t know the details. He helps troops by being a member of the USO board and by donating money to the USO.
And how does THAT matter for a hill of beans?
...you’re obviously a mind reader, even at a distance...
This guy has never held a national or even a state office. His only experience is that he has run for Congress twice and lost both times, not even making it past the primary.
The pinnacle of his political career was being the GOP chair for Cook County (Chicagoland). He’s never held an executive or legislative office; all he is is a political hack. He’s never been elected in a general election as far as I can see for anything. That’s why he’s being ignored.
...oh it’s kind of relevant during wartime at least to some folks. I realize there are folks who could care less about it: I’m not one of them.
Reagan was born in 1911...
It's completely irrelevant to me since there's no evidence that suggests that men who served in the military make better war presidents than those who didn't. Flying a plane or carrying a rifle don't translate into having strategeric sense or the will and capacity to competently carry a war through to a successful conclusion.
I mean, a private citizen banking on a Presidential bid. I think I'll declare an exploratory committee, for heaven's sakes.
He was a member of a school board for two years. He says that many people he met, in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, say that they want an outsider to become president. They say that too many U.S. senators, U.S. reps., and governors have spent too much government money, and we need a president who won’t do that. He’s campaigned in all 99 Iowa counties, all 10 New Hampshire counties, and 42 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
In July 2003, Cox announced that he was running for the U.S. Senate. In Oct., the race had eight republican candidates. He thought that seven were conservative and that one (John Borling, a retired air force major general) was moderate. Cox thought that, if he stayed in the race, he would help split the conservative vote, helping Borling win the primary, so he dropped out and endorsed then-St. Sen. Steve Rauschenberger. The March 2004 primary was won by Jack Ryan. Rauschenberger was third, and Borling was fifth.
Like it would really tell us everything we need to know. (Jimmy Carter served in the Navy and was a commanding officer...we see how that turned out)
i don’t think they were hiring in 1973 when he would have been eligible to serve. Between 1070 and 1975, active duty personnel went from ~3mm to ~2mm. http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:tVUt4NclzUwJ:www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004598.html+active+duty+military+personnel+history&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a
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