[pissant]

FWIW

[icwhatudo]

Well done!

[pissant]

Had to get it off my chest PING

[Terpfen]

Hunter flopped because he ran a poor campaign. Bush gets bashed for being a poor communicator, but that didn’t stop him from winning two elections; Hunter needs to take some notes.

And I say this as someone who would have voted for him in the primaries were he still on the ticket when it was Florida’s turn to vote.

[unspun]

Dear all of the above:

Cloward-Piven Strategy

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=cloward-piven+strategy&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

[peggybac]

Very good! Coulter was on fire tonight on H&C - she wouldn’t let Alan say a word. I notice you mentioned NR - I finally got fed up after years of subscribing and did not renew about a year ago. Someone called me a few days asking me to start up my subscription again and I told him no. I also told him the magazine had become too liberal. Such a shame. I love Rob Long and his Larry King scenarios.

[chemicalman]

I sure hope he trys again.

[grey_whiskers]

Consider yourself highly commended, sir!

Besides, "Palin-Hunter 2012" has such a nice ring to it!

Cheers!

[Darkwolf377]

I can’t help but think that Hunter would have been razor-sharp in his attacks on Obama in the first debate.

[Yosemitest]

Question:

Is this what we get when Democrats play war?
"Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs In Vietnam" by Monika Jensen-Stevenson & William Stevenson

This book is about a devastating American scandal. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, two award-winning journalists provide startling evidence that the American government, right up to its highest echelons, knows, and has always known, that American POWs were left behind at the end of the war. More amazingly, it has regularly obstructed the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth.

Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Emmy award-winning producer of CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, and her husband, William Stevenson, author of the best-selling A Man Called Intrepid, have written a heartbreaking account of men sacrificed to American foreign policy and to clandestine operations—some of them highly questionable—concealed from the American public and its elected representatives.

The story began in 1985, when Jensen-Stevenson was developing a segment for 60 Minutes on ex-marine Bobby Garwood, who escaped from Vietnam in 1979 and claimed to have seen countless Americans still in captivity. He claimed, also, to have been a prisoner of war, but the government disagreed and convicted him—with surprising haste—of collaboration with the enemy, burying his story of prisoners along with his reputation. As she examined Garwood's case more closely, Jensen-Stevenson found herself drawn into a world of secret information, anonymous sources, official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony, and thinly veiled threats from highly placed government officials. She met with veterans, families of missing men, disillusioned and outraged government officers—who shared with her the information and documents they had gathered painstakingly over the years. Thus began a five-year investigation that produced some eye-opening revelations about the government's abuse of power and secrecy.

Not only does Kiss the Boys Goodbye reveal evidence of men abandoned and families torn apart, but it raises larger questions that strike at the very heart of democracy. When honorable men and women who ask questions are ignored, ridiculed, or persecuted by their own government, whom is that government serving? When a government uses the cry of "national security" to conceal facts from the public, how can the actions of that government be assessed, and to whom is it answerable? Is there, in fact, a "secret government" of intelligence bureaucrats running the country? Reading this explosive book will forever change the way you view the Vietnam War, the Americans who fought in it, and the government that betrayed them.

MONIKA JENSEN-STEVENSON is a former magazine editor who started her career in TV journalism in Canada as a reporter and producer for CTV. In 1981, she moved to CBS-TV's 60 Minutes as a staff producer, and worked there for six years. She won a Gold medal for Best TV Documentary at the New York International Film and TV Festival for one of her CTV productions and an Emmy for her mini-documentary "In the Belly of the Beast." She writes regularly for the Toronto Star.

WILLIAM STEVENSON first encountered the Far East as a Royal Navy fighter pilot and re-turned to Asia at the outbreak of the Korean War as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, later traveling for the Star in China and South-east Asia and covering the final French defeat in Vietnam. He is the author of A Man Called Intrepid and Ninety Minutes at Entebbe, and his television credits include a period as staff producer and co-host with Alistair Burnett of Dateline, ITV's nightly news program from London, and one as correspondent and producer for CBC-TV.

[RBMP85]

I'm actually hoping for a Pence/Palin ticket in 2012. I know it would be way to conservative to win, but one can dream.

[SoConPubbie]

The Fred Barneses, Hewitts, Medveds, and the National Review ladies

Those aren't conservatives my friend.

They just play conservatives in whatever media they are involved with.

[pissant]

ping

[Yaelle]

Seriously — that was good. Hunter may not have charisma but he has cojones. I have even more respect for him tonight than ever before. Prayers for his health — we may need him soon enough.

[wgflyer]

Excellent!

[Herakles]

Dear Rush, Laura, Michelle, Mike, Glenn and other conservative talkers,

Thanks for talking your unquestioning followers, the elites of economics, the Warren Buffets of our society who are expertly capable of getting their paychecks deposited to the local bank (less beer money and car payment), into trying to crash our economy so you could take your the hundreds of millions to by investments at bottom dollar.

Thank god smarter people like Paulson prevailed so your avid admirers can afford electricity to listen to your blather!

I, a conservative, now look at your treacherous ways in a very different light. I could be wrong, maybe you are just stupid, but I think what you did was deceitful and on purpose and for your own gain!

[CaliGirl-R]

Bravo, pissant! I sure miss my Hunter pings, sigh....

[ishabibble]

Great stuff, pissant! Duncan Hunter is what is right about the Republican party, what a decent and honourable man he is!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I hope that Duncan Hunter does run again, but he will definitely not be the only decent conservative running next time for POTUS in 2012 with Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal being possible worthy competition. Obviously, everything is really just speculation at this point when discussing ‘12 and beyond. Let’s also see how November 4 really turns out.

[TomasUSMC]

what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, the banks and the corporations that will grow around them will deprive the people of all their property, first by inflation and then by deflation, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Thomas Jefferson

Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.’’
I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” -Andrew Jackson

The people cannot be all, & always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.” Thomas Jefferson

Will lethargy or Courage mark America’s response?

[defconw]

My husband and I were Hunter supporters. We were very disappointed that he was out before our caucus.

On a brighter note if any good has come out of this bailout, Obama, McCain mess. My mom a life long Democrat leaning Independent is so mad at the Rats, she is voting for McCain. She voted for Gore and Kerry.