Posted on 06/16/2010 5:30:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The title of Puke that I’ve bestowed on him is far too generous.
Romney is Mormon, and was publicly pro-choice for most of his career, the evangelical vote would have deserted him in droves.
And Huckabee’s populist schtick didn’t fly with a lot of fiscal conservatives either.
Bottom line, if we had a strong candidate, then the media wouldn’t have been able to “pick our candidate”, the media will always support the weakest Republican candidate, but a strong candidate would have overcome it. We didn’t have any one close to be a strong candidate.
Any way, I’m done rehashing 2008, let’s just make sure we have a strong candidate in 2012.
The fact that a Hussein Muslim with no experience won in this day in age is incomprehensible. It’s a combo of conservatives with principles and young liberals without a clue.
Hey, we’re a country that kills more than 1 million babies every year.
Nothing we do is that incomprehensible.
And more. Good comment at WSJ
Lewis Stepp wrote:
The government collects billions of dollars from oil companies for drilling on government land and waters. When government explicitly permits individuals or companies to engage in risky activity that endangers the safety or property of its citizens, like deep water drilling, then it is the undeniable responsibility of the government to have the rules, resources and a plan in place to mitigate and manage the risk.
The US government was not prepared for this or any Gulf spill. That is as unacceptable as the risks that BP took.
Geoff Wilson replied:
Lewis,
collecting billions of dollars of fees really means that the government is collecting billions of dollars from US, the electorate, who then have to pay those costs through higher oil prices. Surely you recognize that. So, that means that you already paid for the level of protection the government provided in this case. How’d that work out for you? The electorate already paid billions of dollars in fees for “oversight” that was supposed to prevent this type of thing from happening. Why is no one talking about government failure here? I mean, either the government is in charge or it is not, right? How come they are in charge when things are going right and collecting the fees to prove it, but then when something goes wrong, all of a sudden BP is the bad guy?
Once again...young liberals without a clue. Point taken.
Yippie! Now we get to buy more oil from the bad guys.
Scott Brown met with 0bama today in the oval office and spoke frankly to him...not sure it did any good. Scott was stressing no new taxes for oil spills.
This gulf thing was the perfect deflection; only its now out of hand and worse than the original problem.
That's why he looked so damn fake and weak last night. His handlers' plan did not work out and he's going to be eviscerated because of it; more over, he knows it.
The MSM will do whatever it wants to because the idiots in this country sold their liberty and freedom for cable TV. The TV networks (who own 95% of all the channels) will stick up for Obama no matter what.
Fox/Saudia News is only a bit better.
Don't forget that we had Democrats voting for McCain in states like NH for the primaries. In NH all you had to do was say you were planning to move here and you were allowed to vote. I was stunned at the number of Massachusetts plates I saw in the parking lot on the primary voting day.
I also had my hopes set on Thompson.
If Soetoro is still a viable candidate in 2012 then the Press and the Democrats will, indeed, choose the Republican candidate because large, perhaps overwhelming, numbers of Democrats will re-register as Republicans to vote in the Republican primaries. The Republican primaries will be especially targeted by Democrat vote fraud organizations like ACORN or whatever acronym it is flying under at the time. We need for Mrs. Bill to mount an insurgent campaign against the Kenyan to keep the Democrats in their own primaries. At the same time Hilarius in actual contention is itself a scary thought tempered by the knowledge that insurgent winners of nomination against incumbent presidents have not heretofore won the ensuing elections.
Same with Hunter. Republicans like to have their names on the list of candidates. They don’t like the strenuousness of actually running and the thought of winning leaves them cold. Palin is the exception and seems to be actually serious and obviously studied Reagan’s techniques.
and not really necessary when the whole government is a protection racket.
BINGO
Man. Even ol' "Slow Joe" Biden is looking like an improvement.
Well said. I heard a self-important media type prattle on recently about the importance in American industry of establishing a "society of innovation."
*knock knock* Hello? Yoo hoo!
Ever heard of free-market capitalism and individual liberty?
What a maroon.
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