I've been trying to find some clips of him in debate tnight - (my TV is down due to 2 feet of snow on roof covering disk) and I couldn't TIVO it ;o(...
But I have been loving what I'm reading
Posted on 01/05/2008 2:17:41 PM PST by SE Mom
Other than Mitt, please name a candidate that will win the republican nomination and go on to win the general.
Well, I didn't read the whole thing, but got far enough to see that I was already aware of his good positions and the red flags.
Throwing it back at you... you sound like somebody that hasn't really looked at how willing Romney is to bend the truth to fool people into thinking he's something that he's not.
Telling people its raining while he's peeing on their leg is probably what gets him the high negatives that he has. Regardless, I think the chances of my vote making a difference on the outcome are pretty low. If Romney faces Hillary, he'd stand a chance because her negatives are higher than his. If he faces Obama, I think Romney loses the election in a landslide. Obama has a personality that will get the liberals actually excited about going out and voting for him. Romney turns off too many people to be able to match him, IMO.
The pic....ROFLMAO....in tears....
I guess that is why Romney stormed conservative Wyoming today and leads in delagates.
How many people showed up to caucus today? Few enough that a devoted group of Romney supporters could swing the outcome I'm sure. I looked at the vote count for one county and was surprised at how few people it took to swing the election there.
That same number of devoted Romney supporters showing up for a general election wouldn't even be enough to cover half the dead people voting for the democrat.
Man, people should watch the Dems on healthcare. They trip over each other to give away more than the other.
The Republican debate was far more creative and lively. Rudy stated “We have the best healthcare system in the world” then, if we had socialized medicine, “Where would Canadians go for healthcare?” However he does not acknowledge the problems with costs.
McCain said the problem is inflation. Bringing inflation down would bring down healthcare costs. However, then he blabbered that much of long term care in facilities could be transferred to home health care. No way does he know what he’s talking about on that. Insurance companies will not go for it.
Romney described the Mass healthcare plan, where the state helped the uninsured to buy private insurance, by bringing down the cost of the premium and the deductible.
FRed! said we have the best healthcare system, but it costs more than it should. Beyond that, he became rather vague as to how he would change that.
Huckabee was off and running on how our system needs “major, major repair.” Then, Captain Obvious went into a spiel about a preventive regimen. Duh, Mike.
My own opinion is that the problem of costs lies with the public sector not the private sector. There is, and has been, an immense amount of fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. I cannot begin to tell you. There are docs that live solely on how much they can extort from the government. I’ve seen it firsthand.
It is harder to get away with that with private insurance claims, but that is done too.
The insurance companies must be vigilant of every charge. That is why the utilization review is the largest department in the hospital. It’s a good place to be to understand how the insurance system works, per company and per policy.
Thanks for the info, Marcella. I wonder why the legislature couldn’t pass that? Texas has a large number of delegates and should be part of Super Tuesday.
However, as another poster was pointing out, this is a primary season of mathematics over momentum, and a clear winner may not emerge from the Super.
Obama would be a far more deadly foe than Hillary, I agree. He will be like the Pied Piper.
I've been pretty ticked off (and still am) at Hume for his pretending Thompson isn't there in his reporting. And all of the sudden, reading your post, it dawns on me ... Funny, it's no longer important to me. Just gut-response, but it's as if it no longer matters because Fred is going to win regardless. For the media to take a sudden affection for him would be worrisome, actually! Fred's on a good course. Damn the media, full speed ahead.
I've been trying to find some clips of him in debate tnight - (my TV is down due to 2 feet of snow on roof covering disk) and I couldn't TIVO it ;o(...
But I have been loving what I'm reading
Oh my! =^)
Lex, If I’m not mistaken, the hast tense of “drink” is not “drinken”, its “dranken”. But, I hast been wrongen before.
When Jason talks, it’s wise to listen. He’s the most hardcore conservative you will ever find and a serious intellectual to boot. I started listening to him in the mid 90’s and he has done more to shape my thinking than anybody except Aquinas, Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, and Reagan. That should give you a good idea of the reverence I hold for him. He has done more to advance conservatism here in MN than all the others combined.
Do you wonder what he sees as the difficulties in running full out against a protected minority member that would be thrown up as not being p.c. OR
Do you believe he is a racist or bigoted against women in general?
Hey, Princess!
Nice to see you out and about.
How are things?
We’ve had Mom living with us this past year; we had to replace our leaking shake roof with tile; and entertained my elderly aunt (sister of Mom) with a 4 day gourmet extravaganza during Thanksgiving.
That and sending care packages to the troops in Baqubah, Iraq, and on the Pakistan border of Afghanistan and a couple NPTT units in Baghdad were the highlights of the year in review.
In a debate field comparable to "Romperroom", I'd have to agree. : )
Your experience with the Lebanese college student reminded me of a cab driver in Washington, D.C., talking about Nigeria and how many tribal languages there were, and that people literally couldn’t speak with one another, not even with those 5-10 miles down the road.
He thought our having the one language, English, was incredibly important to national cohesiveness.
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