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1 posted on 02/02/2008 8:53:12 AM PST by jdm
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I would really like to see some speeches about ideas rather than endorsements.


2 posted on 02/02/2008 8:55:33 AM PST by keepitreal ( John McCain: Foot soldier of the Reagan Revolution who went AWOL)
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I now hear that Ralph Nader is also thinking about running.


3 posted on 02/02/2008 8:59:14 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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Clever of McCain to let Jack Kemp write his tax policy. Seems the Party Uber Alles types are assuming a McCain Administration would fight with McCain’s buddies Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Russ Feingold to get this thur a hostile Congress.

There is a suckers bet if ever there was once.

4 posted on 02/02/2008 9:01:03 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Instead of "Swift Boaters", 2008 Democrats have "Short Bussers"-Freeper Sax)
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Steve Forbes is a Republican “elitist” who is for amnesty for illegal immigrants for cheap labor purposes, and this is why he’s for John McCain!


7 posted on 02/02/2008 9:05:13 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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I’m trying to understand why Ted Olson has been proclaimed as some great conservative. He has long supported California RINOs like Tom Campbell and Dan Lungren and seems to throw cash at folks like Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, Spencer Abraham and Bud Shuster . He may be a great attorney, but his preference in politicians stinks.


8 posted on 02/02/2008 9:06:33 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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I was just watching the Fox Business Block and saw Forbes's support for McCain. Troubling was, however, the many pundits on that show who use the phrase, "Who is better suited to run the economy?" when referring to McCain or Romney. Since when does a president run an economy? For that matter, when does a congress run an economy? -- a much better question but still misses the mark (but perhaps hits the Marx).

Individual people run an economy -- these people are consumers, suppliers, and many times fill both roles. Government officials place hurdles in an economy and make it more difficult for the people to 'run it'. A best case scenario is that a congress removes hurdles but it typically does not do this because the electorate is dumb enough to believe that government is responsible for job creation, GDP growth, and the health of the economy that THE ELECORATE are, in fact, really running themselves. The only thing a president can do is make it harder for the congress to add to or clear the hurdles on the 'run track'.

For Fox to perpetuate such language is a disservice. For people like Steve Forbes, himself, to allow for the king of language to be used without correcting it on the spot, just shows how dumbed-down we've become and just how much proper education we'll need to get us back to where we should be.

10 posted on 02/02/2008 9:12:06 AM PST by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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I guess Steve Forbes is bored with publishing and wants a cabinet job.


12 posted on 02/02/2008 9:13:35 AM PST by devere
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**Still, the Forbes nomination may go a long way towards convincing at least the fiscal conservatives to go with McCain in the general election — and that seems to be the contest on which McCain’s focused. **

Let’s follow this.


14 posted on 02/02/2008 9:17:49 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Whoopdee Freakin’ Doo!! Another Country Club Republican!


15 posted on 02/02/2008 9:31:27 AM PST by Dscott_FR (Right Wing Extremist and proud of it!!)
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16 posted on 02/02/2008 9:33:22 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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Maybe Forbes can help McCain’s broke campaign, but smart, fiscal conservatives will get behind Romney. No smart upper management type will want to see a flat broke and busted McCain going up against a well financed Hillary or Obama. They will ruin him.


18 posted on 02/02/2008 9:34:03 AM PST by pallis
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I’d like to know why Olsen purposely did not endorse Romney.
I’d like to know why Forbes purposely did not endorse Romney.

There is a story there. And it doesn’t speak well of Romney.


21 posted on 02/02/2008 9:40:00 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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24 posted on 02/02/2008 9:51:48 AM PST by littlehouse36 (Why be Europe?)
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Poor Willard!

Nobody likes him.


25 posted on 02/02/2008 9:53:12 AM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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Steve Forbes support will help McCain as much as it helped Rudy. It will get McCain one vote, Steve Forbes vote.


26 posted on 02/02/2008 9:54:24 AM PST by jubail
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It’s all about CHEAP MEXICAN LABOR and the belief that the economy would fall without it.


30 posted on 02/02/2008 10:03:34 AM PST by Poincare (Hope is nostalgia for the future.)
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Every political parasite in the country is now hitching his wagon to the McCain convoy, hoping for a job in the administration (or at least a favor or two). If just one of these embarrassing punks was sincere, he would have offered his endorsement a month or two ago. As these endorsements come forth now, I know who to respect and who to loathe.


31 posted on 02/02/2008 10:04:33 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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Steve Forbes is a socially liberal, pro amnesty country club Republican. His sole concern is wealth, period. This isn’t going to sway conservatives one whit.


32 posted on 02/02/2008 10:12:00 AM PST by DesScorp
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