Posted on 08/11/2011 4:15:45 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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The Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, she earned a Master of Laws degree, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an obstetrician-gynecologist and was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty served two terms as governor of Minnesota, from 2002 to 2010. He served in the Minnesota House from 1992 until 2002. He is the son of a truck driver.
Mitt Romney
Romney was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican 2008 nomination for president. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman was Utah Governor, former ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
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And I have to paraphrase...
"I have no idea why Palin and others are holding out. Maybe some republicans do not see how serious the situation is. Perhaps they do not understand how badly America needs a voice now. Maybe (and I hate to say this) they are using poltical stragedies to help their own campaign by waiting and doing that they are putting politics above America by waiting for the best time for them to announce rather than consider what is best for America."
That's where we're at now.
Herman Cain on Border Fence Comments: America’s Got to Learn to Take a Joke
I bet the ratings would be spectacular also.
“We keep trying to take down the good ole boy network, but it’s so entrenched it seems hopeless.”
That’s how the G.O.B. network works...
You make the locals SO DEPENDENT on you for their livelyhood and jobs that they don’t DARE vote you out, and others crush your opponents for you, in return for future favors.
Only ONE potential Candidate in this race has stood up to, and taken down a GOB network. Any guesses who?
I watched Evan Bayh come in to office as Gov of Indiana, and rip apart the GOB network and political favoritism of BOTH parties, and I’ve seen it done in the early 80’s in my own hometown.
It simply takes someone with the stones to do it, who isn’t looking to simply replace one network, with another..
And the President of NBC Entertainment, Jeff Zucker, won’t be writing Obama’s speeches this time around.
Obama’s a good talker
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I strongly disagree. I think he is a terrible speaker. He is good at reading speeches written by others from a teleprompter. When he is off teleprompter he stutters, makes stupid gaffs and says things like “My Muslim faith”, “ My father served in WWII” ( but if Gramdpa is really his father that could be true), “I visited 57 states” ..... I could go on an on.
Please explain how Ron Paul ignited the fire that led to rise of the Tea Party. It's a bottom-up, grassroots movement, created by the people and for the people.
In my opinion, his stance about America's place in the world are opposed to the mainstream views of those comprising the Tea Party. America and Israel have a very special place in the world, exalted over all other countries. From what I've heard over the years from Congressman Paul, American Exceptionalism isn't part of his lexicon. He appears to think that America is just another member in the world's nations. I think that's at odds with the strongly pro-military attitude of the Tea Party.
Paul seems to think that peace as the absence of conflict. Instead, I believe that most of us supporting Tea Party principles define peace as a powerful America with unsurpassed military might. The other countries may not like us...but they'll respect a triumphant America.
Well let’s assume he will improve a great deal, you know, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. I see no harm in that theory.
I’d loved to see him lose.
I wish Rubio would run!
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Palin/Rubio dream ticket, BUT we have to find out if Rubio’s parents were both citizens when he was born... but since Obongo is in, I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.
Exactly right!
Chris Wallace was just a little bit on the _itchy side.
I cheered Newt tonight. It was a great debate moment.
“I have no idea why Palin and others are holding out. Maybe some republicans do not see how serious the situation is.”
Or maybe someone is crazy like an Arctic Fox....
In case you haven’t been following the news today, The Euro Bailout plan basicly fell apart, and Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Italy have declared a ban on short sales of big banking stocks effective immediately.
Remember what what happened to US financials after the September 18, 2008 SEC ban on shorting????
Meanwhile, BofA got a back door 1/2 billion dollar bailout today, through already-bankrupt Fannie.
Her timing may, in the end, prove to be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, especially as the Shorts ban will fall off about Aug 26. You don’t want to be ANYWHERE near a financial stock that day, unless you are shorting it, big-time.
“Paul is certifiable. He favors nuclear proliferation. He is nuts.”
His “policy” on Iran is truly insane. He actually compares them to the Soviet Union! He doesn’t know the first thing about radical Islam, global caliphate, Ahmadinejad the Twelver or any of it (nor does he care to learn). Bless Santorum for trying to passionately prove him wrong. But Paul’s bullies in the audience boo’ed him and idiot Wallace cut him off - unfair. At least Herman Cain picked up where RS left off, trying to correct Paul. Shortly thereafter, when Paul’s again spouting off - about how terrorists deserve Constitutional rights - he tells Wallace “please let me finish!” and Wallace DOES. The audience boo’ed because it was so wrong after Santorum’s same request had been denied.
“Goodbye Ron, you are a dufus!”
See #598 - tell Tennessee Nana that :-)
“I love what he has to say about the economy, on that he is just wonderful. But he knows NOTHING about foreign relations or national security and that is utterly frightening.”
Some other candidates understand the economy without all the scariness of RP. We have to have a President who knows who (and what) our enemies are and who our friends are. RP’s also an anti-Semite and we’ve already got one of those in the WH.
“Please explain how Ron Paul ignited the fire that led to rise of the Tea Party. It’s a bottom-up, grassroots movement, created by the people and for the people.”
Get off your arse. Go to a Tea Party meeting. Learn for yourself.
As for me, and so you know, I agree with most of RP’s principles. But, he is wrong about the threat of Islam, and especially the Islamic State of Iran.
For this reason, I could never vote for him. Otherwise, I might.
I would not vote for her if that were true.
I have to convince myself it is not.
I must believe that if Sarah Palin thinks her message may be able to save the market from a crash now, she would jump in.
I must believe that if Sarah Palin knew she could help America by giving it hope with promises to make it better with her policies, she would do it now.
I refuse to believe that she would take advantage of bad things that will happen before she announces.
Sorry, Sarah Palin is not a Clinton or a Pelosi. She loves America much more than that.
“Santorum defends the sanction policy that he worked on in the Senate.”
Santorum has spoken out on radical Islam many times and I wish he’d been allowed to finish his chastisement of Paul and his idiotic pronouncements on Iran. Herman Cain’s also on the right track about Islam, he just needs to read/learn more details to argue it well.
“Hope he drops out. I’d feel safer with Hillary Clinton as President.”
Maybe, and that says how really dangerous Paul is. Because HC’s been pro-Palestine, anti-Israel since her college days. But like Bill, she IS a pragmatist and is aware of American sentiment.
Wow! Did I say that? LOL! Ron Paul was pretty scary. That's for sure.
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