Posted on 08/18/2009 9:51:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Place not your hopes in panaceas. The last general to try for the presidency was the odious Wesley Clark.
As for businessmen, I’d say the likes of Mike Bloomberg and John Corzine (or Ross Perot)—corrupt megalomaniacs who weren’t satisfied with just money—would leave an equally bad taste.
The last Ph.d. academic was Woodrow Wilson, in retrospect, a man truly deranged.
Your lips to God's ears.
Said in the best Pat Paulsen voice.
This is a nation of pill poppers and the people don't want that to change.
I’m on board with you. One vet to another, Hooah brother.
Actually, a sizable percentage of posters here predicted it. If you paid even half assed attention to the team he put together during the primaries ,and noted just how many of his advisers served the same function under Carter - then it was pretty clear where this was going to go.
Ship, what happened to the bus?
If you want to do something for Governor Palin there is something that you can do right now that will be worth more than a million dollars later.
I am old line Republican. The Party is starting to set in motion schedules and events for 2012. They are very tentative at this point and open to whoever will be the nominee. There is an informal Romney organization consisting of past supporters and people who expect him to be the nominee.
There is no one representing Governor Palin. She needs to have at least an informal group representing her interests and communicating with the Republican organizations regularly in each state.
I would suggest that you set up such an organization, even if it is just an outline of supporters. Don't do anything in her name, just be there and be ready to be activated if and when she needs you. Don't be disappointed later if you are bypassed in her campaign structure. She will pick her own people but she needs your presence starting NOW.
What you want to do is to plan for a long primary season. She will probably win in Iowa and lose in Michigan, win in New Hampshire and South Carolina and toss up in Florida. A long primary means that she is still in the game and slugging away. The party is all but holding the door open for her but she needs people now who can speak up for her.
Just a suggestion.
Oh, one more thing. I try to always refer to her as Governor Palin. There will always be those who use "Sarah" but I think that it adds a bit of gravitas if it is interspersed with her formal title once in a while.
After all, she earned it.
Much of this can be laid at the feet of the criminally complicit, so-called “MSM” that hid Obama’s past and elevated him to saintly status. But, I also blame the so-called “independent” voters who bought the MSM lies and obfuscations about Obama, his background, and his views. The GOP fools who stayed home, or worse voted Obama, deserve excoriation, too.
Every time I hear about or read a piece in which an American “regrets” his or her vote for Obama, claiming “who knew”, I want to take a 2x4 across his or her thick skull.
BS&T, nice...
Sheesh. Whatever happen to the "given" that life is not always a bed of roses? But what would I know. I am way over here these days. Maybe my information is incorrect.
Wise man (or woman as the case might be). You have been in the trenches, I can see.
And one more thing: STOP Apologizing for America! Fool!
It is not enough to simply remove the wheels.
Bill Clinton came back stonger than ever.
Obama is counting on short term memmory for the 2010 elections.
We need to essentially strip the car of the Obama administration.
Crush the Obama socialist agenda to the point that he has MULTIPLE primary challengers.
Our pretend president cannot FAIL fast enough to suit us.
Maybe if we threw water on him he would melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.
And if so, America is about to become a banana republic, like Mexico,or worse, like Ghana.
The ghost of FDR is finally being exorcised. Funny thing, it took seventy years for the Russians to get rid of Communism and it has taken us seventy years to shake ourselves loose from the legacy of FDR.
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