Posted on 12/27/2010 9:23:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Two other reasons the author left out:
1. Auditioning for VP. If Biden hadn’t run earlier, he wouldn’t have been on the radar.
2. Practice run for later. Huckabee’s odds in 2008 weren’t great. He did well enough to be labeled “front-runner” this time around.
The way this reads, it looks like just an excuse for Kurtz to single out our roster and slam them as dunces and fools. The bottom line is that our weakest candidates like Bolton and Pence still have a far better shot against this garbage in the WH.
Kurtz should examine how his party got stuck with such a loser and what are they going to do about it before the primary.
Only in Bizarro World does a man who’d probably be the best Secretary of State in 100 years considered a “weak” candidate.
We know who we are voting for and it’s up to them to find out after the new conservative POTUS takes office.
Let them try to divide us all they want.
Don’t doubt it. “Journalists” from now until November 2012 are going to jeer at any and all non-RINO Republicans. The other thing they’re going to do is attack Republican candidates with conservative-posing PSYOPS “analysis” articles. They’re going to do their best to scare the public about cost cuts and make “austerity” into a swear word to tack on any successful Republican. If these candidates think they can curry favor with the MSM instead of confronting it at every opportunity, they’ve already lost. The MSM is fighting for its life.
“They’re going to do their best to scare the public about cost cuts and make “austerity” into a swear word to tack on any successful Republican.”
Is the American Electorate so stupid that they will prefer to have their Life savings stolen from them and do with nothing Rather than Keep their savings and have to do with less?
Perhaps, They elected the American Mugabe!
http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18211&posts=2
“John Bolton supports “gay” “marriage”, refuses to address the moral questions posed by abortion
AIP-Approved Constitutional Watchdogs -> Patrick Flynn’s “Republican” Watch
Bolton is talking about running for president, and up until now it has been virtually impossible to find out anything concerning his views about the core moral questions of our day. That is no longer the case.
Townhall:
Reiterating a point he made to the Daily Caller, Bolton confirms he’s willing to rankle some social conservatives by positioning himself to the Left of [Alleged] President Obama by explicitly voicing support for gay marriage. “I think [same-sex marriage] is something that in society today, we ought to be able to live with,” he says. “I don’t, however, think this is a matter to be adjudicated in federal courts. I don’t think the Constitution speaks to the question at all. It’s an issue that ought to be primarily decided at the state level, rather than being handed down by judicial edict.”
He also makes really stupid remarks about abortion:
The question that Roe poses is not whether the Court was right or wrong on abortion; it’s whether it was right or wrong as a matter of Constitutional jurisprudence.”
He could serve honorably... but not as CiC.
LLS
Huckabee's prominence this round is attributable to a RINO controlled GOP that's scared to death of Sarah Palin, but can't for their very life produce a candidate that's even remotely acceptable to the American people, so they've resorted to recycled failures.
All Sarah needs to do is announce.
And I leave that to her keen sense of judgment and timing.
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Howie here is making some great points. As much as I love many of the personages here-- he is right on target about most of these things.
I learned a hard lesson back in 1996. I was a Phil Gramm guy. I stuffed envelopes and did fund raising calls for his campaign in downtown D.C. after working night shifts. He was everything that I wanted in a possible President.
But his campaign, well funded as it was, went nowhere. And mind you, Phil Gramm was a bigger name than Mike Pence or John Thune.
In our hyperactive 24/7 media environment, charisma and stage presence are HUGH. Being solid on policy issues is simply not enough. A great candidate communicates those ideas to people in terms that can be grasped by them. Ronaldus Magnus was not called The Great Communicator for nothing.
(Yes, Obama's image makers Communicate well too-- they just lie about what he really believes.)
In a land where an empty suit socialist like obama can get elected everyone has a shot............
The whole point of the article, I think, is to conflate Sarah Palin with the pool of long-shot, no-way-in-hell candidates. It is an illusion. As other posters have said, all she needs to do is announce, and this becomes a whole different deal.
It’s funny the flavor of the week, Herman Cain , is not even mentioned...that’s gotta sting!
I now hope they all run. I had been fearful of the establishment splitting the conservative base to elect Romney with a plurality, but now I think the more the merrier, because Sarah’s support is rock solid, and these dwarfs will just divide the anti-Palin vote.
She has a built in 30% from the Palnista’s and Tea Party activists...that should be enough to win in a ten to twelve candidate (or more) field.
This is going to be fun to watch.
“What percentage of the government, much less the electorate, predicted the last housing and banking crisis?”
You have a good point. Most people were Blind sided by this.
Bush tried to reform the Lending rules under the CRA but Barney said Fanny and Freddie were good.
As an example, Lets use Gold. Two years ago I stopped buying Gold because the Price was getting too high for me. Lots of other people kept buying. Today Gold is over 1400. Is that Real value or just a Speculative Bubble?
The same could be said of the housing market. People were buying Homes not with the Idea of having a home to live in but because of Speculation. When the Bubble burst who’s fault was it? People’s own greed put them in a bad situation. But, Congress bailing out the Housing Industry not only cost the Tax payer Billions But actually has slowed the recovery of the Housing market by years if not decades.
My more immediate concern is whether 401K’s and other savings will be seized. Inflation is another way to Rob people.
I could cash it all out and pay the taxes (I am past the age to pay a Penalty) But then where would I put the money if Bank accounts are Not safe? Land and Hard Goods come to mind. Land certainly is not liquid But certain goods may be bartered.
Just my opinion and you know what they say about those.
All I know is I want Chris Christie to be the White House Press Secretary. I would like to see juan mccain appointed to secretary of something just so he could be fired. Ditto for huckabee.
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