Posted on 09/20/2010 6:18:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
The only people who matter are the Delaware voters. Rowe and the beltway crowd can't vote and are irreverent. Delaware voters want someone who will vote against spending, taxes and big government. O'Donnell is clearly the better choice than the Marxist Coons.
The people are getting all this.
It’s not important is Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President.
It is important that we know what one of 100 senators did in High School. There are how many Senate races?
Anyone know who is running for the US Senate next door to Delaware in Maryland?
America doesn’t care really. America wants to hear about Christine O’Donnell.
Keep it going.
How about the Dewey Beach Music Conference & Music Festival Weekend after this (s30-o2) in Dewey Beach, DE
http://deweybeachfest.com
Ya know, I was never much of a fan of term-limits because I always had this pie-in-the-sky notion that maybe some particular politicians just had a natural talent for governance and shouldn't be limited if they were truly serving the common good, and that any 'change' could be made at the voting booth by We the People. That notion has mottled profoundly in my eyes.
Human nature, in relation to politics and power, just is what it is. Our Founder's got it right the first time, as George Washington 'limited' himself to two terms and that same tradition continued until FDR blew it right out of the water with 4 (count 'em FOUR!) elected terms to office, until a Constitutional Amendment was invoked limiting POTUS back to two terms.
I never thought that I'd ever say this, but Congress should be limited too, given all the outrageous abuses of power which individual members have wreaked upon We the People over the years and decades ... there is no reason for any member of Congress to be a 'career politician' ... none whatsoever ... they lose a complete concept of street level Americans while basking in the vaunted halls of DC.
-- MM
Be that as it may it is tough beat an M80.
Well, what it does to me is, well, I’m happy, because I know that Democrats hate Karl Rove. And when Delaware Democrats see Karl Rove, who they hate, attacking Christine, they’re gonna like Christine.
Over in Ron Paul land, they’re liking Christine.
They hate “neocons”. They use the word wrong. But they do know that Bill Kristol is a neocon and that Bill Kristol attacked her. They know all the attacks are from the Republicans that they hate. Christine filled out the C4L form, and she answered enough of the questions right. So they are liking her more now since when I tried to hype her up about a week before the primary. The Ron Paul people (yes, small in number) are getting on board if they weren’t already. Many, maybe most, of them actually joined the tea party, or are affilited with them in some way. Over on the RPF, those are the leftovers who haven’t gotten excited about other races except Rands.
I hung around lefties because it was fun in college.
That’s it...
Here is the problem. Some who enter politics may have alturistic motives. My belief is the vast majority don't. Private jets, almost unlimited power and we the people work till we are dead or at least crippled and get tossed a few worthless cookies tossed in our direction.
So what are you advocating, that someone throw more at your direction? That is socialism and it doesn’t work.
How about working, saving, creating businesses, relying on yourself not the government?
In my opinion anyone that thinks that politicians and government should work for the common good is a socialist.For government be able to affect the common good it needs great powers which it uses for evil and oppression. Even if government wanted to do “good” socialism doesn't work so it can't. Government can't compete with small private companies in making electronic consumer products what makes you think government can do anything better than the private sector or at all?
I'm saying let me keep what I earn as opposed to taking it in taxes and telling me I can get a pittance of it later. Read between the lines before you make ignorant replies.
Term limits should apply to ALL offices because men, being the corruptible beings that they are, just can’t seem to resist it.
No matter how pure their motives and desire to do good, it never seems to last. And for the one in a thousand where it does, it’s not worth putting up with unlimited terms with the other 999.
I never said that, yer putting words into my mouth. Perhaps you should go back and re-read my post fully.
-- MM
I would suggest the vast majority have anything resembling pure motives. Get elected to the right office and you are on easy street on the backs of others who actually produce wealth.
In my opinion anyone that thinks that politicians and government should have altruistic motives ( devoted to the welfare of others) is a socialist.For government be able to affect the common good it needs great powers which it uses for evil and oppression. Even if government wanted to do “good” socialism doesn’t work so it can’t. Government can’t compete with small private companies in making electronic consumer products what makes you think government can do anything better than the private sector or at all?
Ignorance is interpreting the writings of some anonymous stranger on the Internet. Ignorance is believing government is the solution and not the problem.
In my opinion anyone that thinks that politicians and government should have altruistic motives ( devoted to the welfare of others) is a socialist.For government be able to affect the common good it needs great powers which it uses for evil and oppression. Even if government wanted to do “good” socialism doesn’t work so it can’t. Government can’t compete with small private companies in making electronic consumer products what makes you think government can do anything better than the private sector or at all?
Ignorance is not in a few seconds trying to decipher or interpret the writings of some anonymous stranger on the Internet. Ignorance is believing government is the solution and not the problem.
In which way does that apply to me? My opinions have been quite clear since 2000. Be careful of stepping on your unit when the lights are not on.
It’s a lot harder to have to keep buying new politicians, than to keep the same old ones bought.
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