Posted on 12/31/2007 8:35:07 PM PST by Spiff
Excellent point. No matter how much money a person has, if they don’t win state contests and collect DELEGATES, they’re out of it. A good example of this is when Steve Forbes ran. He dropped out early right before the Ohio primary (first Tuesday in March) both times he ran. Why when he had the money to go on? Because he was not winning the states to gain delegates. Without delegates, you cannnot win the nomination and have nothing.
And a Happy New Year to you as well.
He couldn’t beat Obama in Illinois....how do you expect him to become president?
I guarantee they wouldn't because bigots of that poster's ilk are more interested in throwing rocks at people that don't meet their narrow definition of Christianity than in finding common ground with fellow conservatives.
I see their type gather, like ants at a picnic, everytime the Mormons gather at their historic sites. I see them pass out hate literature aimed at Catholics when they gather here in the Pittsburgh area where Catholics are numerous.
They are like cockroaches and a cancer on the body politic. No different than the Ku Klux Klan of yesteryear or the Taliban of today.
That is a large part of it yes.
America is not Illinois.
In other words, the base will let a candidate know when it’s time to end no matter who they are and how much money they have — support is support. Hey, Daddy Bloomberg is a billionaire, and the base would let him know when it was time to stop, if he ran.
So you may have said I wasn’t funny, rather than saying I was being rediculous, which suggested you thought I was serious. Or maybe I just didn’t get your joke — I know some people think it’s hilarious to call me names.
He is running, and was even in the latest Iowa debate.
Yes that would be one issue. The other is a successful candidate whose success is coming at too high a price for the over all good of the party...
Duh, that’s right. His name is never mentioned anymore.
Actually I was being a tick silly. sorry...
no problem.
Doug Wilson is not exactly what I would call "savvy".
Kathe Tuttman was appointed by Willard (aka Mitt) Romney, not Clinton.
If you read the literature that the bigots of Taliban Christianity put out, you are only slightly better than a Mormon, whom they don't consider Christian at all. Catholics are a heritical branch of Christianity, in their narrow-minded view. So am I because I visit different churches from time-to-time, but mostly stay at home, read the scriptures, listen to Christian music and try to incorporate the principles of Christianity into my life without providing a revenue stream to their particular brand.
Their bigotry is so extreme it is jaw droppingly astonishing. They've compared the Pope to anti-Christ. Mormon leader G.B. Hinckley, meanwhile, had this to say about Pope John Paul II in his opening remarks of their April 2005 General Conference. Quite a contrast, isn't it?
Fred Thompson was in the senate from 1994 through 2002. During that time an enumerable number of judges were appointed to the bench by Bill Clinton, and every one of those judges were presented to the Senate for confirmation.
The Senators had the obligation to closely evaluate each of those judges, and to vote against any that would make mistakes like Kathe Tuttman made.
So my question was, and still is, where is the list of judges that Clinton appointed, that then screwed up big time, for which Fred Thompson voted NOT to confirm them.
I’m not saying Fred Thompson should be held responsible for judges he voted for that did bad things. But those who argue that Romney should be held responsible for every judge he picked that does something wrong certainly should be consistant and hold senators accountable for every judge they voted for that does something wrong.
Since Fred Thompson has never been an executive, the only way we can judge his RECORD on evaluating judges is to see which judges he voted AGAINST in the Senate, and which he voted FOR.
But even though someone aught to have a list of every Senate judicial vote, nobody has posted that list to show how Fred Thompson voted against the Clinton judges.
Yes, we know, 40 million and counting.
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