Posted on 04/25/2006 9:49:30 AM PDT by Reagan Man
Perot made a good showing back in 92 when we had a lot less important issues than we do today.
Squirrely as he seems in hindsight, he pulled almost equally from left and right. A common sense candidate for any office can make a "politician" look like an idiot in a debate.
I think a Presidential election was not the right place to begin, however. We need to push common-sense candidates up from the bottom. Candidates that will vote NO on spending that doesn't properly belong at that level of government. When I see Congressmen crow about the bacon they brought home, I'm disgusted. I don't want them to bring home spending to my state -- I want them to reject spending in my state and every other state on principle. Federal spending is not supposed to be a big slush-fund used to buy local votes.
General rule: if you can identify a specific group that benefits from spending, and that group is smaller than the entire constituency at the level you serve at, it isn't appropriate spending. At the Federal level, you should NOT BE ABLE to identify some segment of the population that benefits.
Katrina ? BS
Social Security ? BS
Medicare ? BS
Medicaid ? BS
Welfare ? BS
Federal Flood Insurance ? BS
Public Education without choices ? BS
Military ? OK
Borders ? OK
Judiciary ? OK
Interstate highways ? OK
New Bridge in Podunk ? BS
Applause back home tempting pols to spend other people's money is commonplace, but just so far outside what anybody would consider honest in the private arena that it is stunning.
I totally agree. Frankly, they were more effective as a minority.
The preeminent issue in this election will be the invasion of the USA by illegal aliens. The politician who promises to rectify the circumstance in the manner in which American born citizen voters want will be elevted. The Republican/Democrat McCain/Kennedy proposal will not be accepted. If Hitlery comes out and states she will, within 100 days of her election , begin building a physical barrier (wall) and then impliment a moderate approach to Mexiican assimmilation into American society, she will be elected. If the Republican 'thinkers' fail to recogninze this they will loose huge. This worm is turning very fast. The media has succeeded in (wrongfully) demonizing Bush that unless someting is done fast, our gains will be lost.
My sister, a super-duper Liberal, happily points to Newt as man who dumps his wives. I wish that she weren't able to do that.
Is he writing about the herd of RINOs? Because the conservatives, apparently, haven't been the majority for seven or so years.
No kidding. Newt was our star and then our shame.
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