Posted on 03/23/2010 12:08:25 PM PDT by pissant
You’ve lost it, man...
I’m still waiting for that link or excerpt showing where I wanted Hunter to run third party.
Seriously...is that your defense? This reminds me of the Monty Python routine in which a general wrote a protest letter about a skit on cannibalism in the British Navy. His "defense" of the Navy was that the "problem is now relatively under control."
I won’t argue his credentials. All I’ll say is that I hope he runs a much better campaign than he did the last time around. No one can tell me that he ran a good campaign with a straight face. His failure to attract funding, if nothing else, points to an extremely poor campaign, and that’s if we completely ignore his poor numbers.
Funny, that baloney only applies to the conervative candidates so that the “experienced” RINOs have a snowballs chance.
The left never seems to worry about experience. They ran two short-termed Sinators (Hitlery and BamBam) and no one seem to mind about thier “lack of experience”. In fact they both have been shown to be utterly incompetent in everything they do.
Gee, 25 billion for a program intended to loan money to the domestic auto manufacturers who were in a world of hurt - who also have sizable MILITARY components to their companies - with the $$ coming out of TARP versus paying off the chinese and german banks with the TARP. Tough choice.
And for your info, Ford opted out of the entire thing, as could have GM or Chrysler.
I know it’s not as important as Ron Paul’s vote to restore 100 million to PBS or his vote to allow illegal aliens free medical care, or his teaming with Murtha and Pelosi override President Bush’s veto on a boondoggle, liberal, bloated, multi-billion, nanny state intel bill, or his vote to spend a couple billion on closing Gitmo and moving the terrorists stateside, but a guy’s gotta be allowed a few mistakes.
I’ll buy that, largely.
Ron Paul is a charlatan. He shoves millions of earmarks into bills he KNOWS are going to pass so he can get the pork for his district without having to vote for the overall bill.
Listen to this damn claptrap:
Ron Paul on Global Warming
Source: YouTube; July 8, 2007
“Global temperatures have been warming since the Little Ice Age. Studies within the respectable scientific community have shown that human beings are most likely a part of this process. As a Congressman, I’ve done a number of things to support environmentally friendly policies. I have been active in the Green Scissors campaign to cut environmentally harmful spending, I’ve opposed foreign wars for oil, and I’ve spoken out against government programs that encourage development in environmentally sensitive areas, such as flood insurance.”
“I strongly oppose the Kyoto treaty. Providing for a clean environment is an excellent goal, but the Kyoto treaty doesn’t do that. Instead it’s placed the burden on the United States to cut emissions while not requiring China - the world’s biggest polluter - an other polluting third-world countries to do a thing. Also, the regulations are harmful for American workers, because it encourages corporations to move their business overseas to countries where the regulations don’t apply. It’s bad science, it’s bad policy, and it’s bad for America. I am more than willing to work cooperatively with other nations to come up with policies that will safeguard the environment, but I oppose all nonbinding resolutions that place an unnecessary burden on the United States.”
When asked by Bill Maher if he thinks the Federal Government should be involved in stopping Global Warming, Ron Paul replied:
“Then you have to deal with the volcanoes, and you have to deal with China... so what are you going to do, invade China so they don’t pollute? ... But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do what we can to slow up the emissions and stop subsidizing big oil companies. I don’t like subsidizing oil companies. They’ve been doing that for years. We go to war to protect oil, so that we can buy more oil, and burn more oil. So I say our foreign policy contributes to global warming — by subsidizing a policy that is deeply flawed. And that’s why we’re in the Middle East, to protect oil interests.”
When asked if efforts to slow down Global Warming should be increased, Dr. Paul replied: “Yes.”
Because he does not support any piece of legislation not specifically authorized by the Constitution, Paul votes against most bills that involve government spending or expanded government initiatives; thus he does not seek legislation to combat the global warming. Instead, he advocates reducing emissions, halting subsidies to oil companies, and altering a war-for-oil foreign policy that in itself contributes to global warming.
http://pesn.com/2007/11/05/9500456_RonPaul_on_GlobalWarming/
WS Bump!
The way I see it, we need the best we have to offer to run for POTUS. We haven’t been getting that in a while now. I tend to think the smart ones don’t want the job and maybe they are correct in thinking that way.
DeMint 2012
He’d make a fine VP for Hunter.
The steaming pile of poo is right. Rick Gingromlentbee
Demint said he will not run. Don’t know why.
That is unfortunate
B4DH
Bet on it.
To you and me. But to attract voters, additional experience will be important.
Perhaps. His biography is long and accomplished. He’ll need to brandish it.
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