As far as I am concerned it was a ruse. After Chinagate, I never trusted him.
I tried to warn ‘em, but most wouldn’t listen.
And watching the developing 2012 race it seems that most haven’t learned much, quite frankly.
I for one am in favor of eliminating the electoral college. I would replace it with a system where the winner in each county gets a point. Most points wins. This way you can win NYC and it counts the same as winning a small town upstate.
Is is really fair to win a state like Pennsylvania just because you won Philly?
Leave congress alone and just apply it to the senate and the presidency.
We are playing checkers while the RINO big guys are playing chess. It looks like maybe the 2008 race was full of intentional distractions such as Fred Thompson and I am sure that all of them got their rewards for playing the game.
You really can’t go by their words, it is whether they really mean those words, which many of them don’t. Many politicians are just slick actors. They play their asigned roles, some play liberals and some play conservatives. They know their lines and the professional speech writers know them even better. Does anyone remember that Robert Redford movie “The Candidate” about all of the manipulation of the candidate that goes on behind the scenes? We Republicans have to get it through our heads that we too can be fooled. It is not just the Democrats who can be manipulated and wrapped around Obama’s finger. We can be manipulated just as well. The political operatives study us and they know exactly which category we fit into and which type of verbage works with us. I have learned a bitter lesson in the past 6 or 7 years. We cannot be gullible again.
Expect more stealth RINOs in this election. Already they are using the 2008 strategy of filling the field with too many candidates just to confuse us.