But Newt would lose terribly to Obama. I cannot for the life of me understand why we have such pathetic candidates.
Oh whatever. I think Newt can win big against Obama.
That is such BS. Age and guile beat youth and a good haircut every time. If the country’s stupid enough to re-elect Obama,
I refuse to admit I’m an American citizen.
blehhhhh...
newt/marco or newt/west or newt/santorum demolishes ozero
In my over half century I have never seen so many well spoken conservatives as now. The conservative bench is also very deep, consider how many good ones who aren’t even running.
For the ‘RATs it is all over but the Fat Lady singing.
Oh, wait a minute. Barney Frank WAS the Fat Lady singing for the libs.
Newt is a fine candidate. If nominated, he will win.
Our candidates are not more pathetic than theirs.
It is just that the erosive process by liberals in the government, media, Hollywood and general public begins far before any Republican or conservative candidate even declares.
The chipping process begins years in advance. Just look at Sarah Palin. Those entities described above began chipping away, eroding and destroying her from the very second someone breathed her name in the public eye as presidential or vice presidential material.
This relentless, corrosive process begins and continues unabated until/after election day or the candidate drops out of a race.
Every single pore of their face, every rumor, every misstep, every contradiction, every flaw is relentlessly probed, analyzed, publicized, hashed over, exaggerated and spread until the truth or pertinence maintains no relationship to reality or sanity.
Not just actual flaws or mistakes are processed in this fashion by the liberal media/politicians/public/Hollywood, but actual slander. It makes no difference if some trumpeted flaw or misdeed has any basis in reality, they are communicated as reality. And when, after vigorous disproval, the subject is dropped by those slanderers without a word of explanation, apology or retraction, it is as if it had never occurred. It disappears into the Memory Hole only to resurface over, and over, and over again (in the Internet, opinion columns and cocktail conversation) like a drowning man breaking the surface before finally disappearing for good years or decades later.
If you were able to take the process by which a landscape is eroded over eons by the inexorable application of the elements (the flow of water, the force of the wind and movement of the earth’s crust) and speed it up to match the cycle from which a Republican or conservative candidate is either rumored to be considering or actually announces a candidacy to their destruction or defeat and change the forces of nature to the forces of liberal media and opinion, it would demonstrate the exact parallel.
No liberal candidate undergoes this prolonged and unwavering treatment. Never. Ever. If they were, the truth would be revealed about liberalism and its relative merits, and that cannot be allowed to happen.
The MSM. Would you want to go through what Herman did?
“I cannot for the life of me understand why we have such pathetic candidates.”
Huckabee, Barbour, Daniels, Pawlenty, Palin, Christie announced they won’t run.
There was a book written about the 2008 election called "Game change", I never read it, but I am aware that several republicans (and their wives) did read it, and I know Michelle Bachmann read it.
From various statements, it basically says your life, and your familys life will be turned into a living hell.