Posted on 03/10/2012 12:08:57 AM PST by Bulwinkle
Bump!!
” You know what they say, “...as goes Guam, so goes Outer Mongolia and Cameroon”
LOL!!
Romney get’s delegates from Guam, the NM Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Wyoming.
Thankfully it doesn’t seem like anyone gives a damn (see the funny comment in post #2) so RS is the winner of the day for taking Kansas.
Agree!
This is a future President of the (United States) that is being considered for election come November. Where does the Constitution allow places like Guam, etc. decide who will become the nominee? So it's a territory. So what? Is China, Russia, Iran, etc. next?
I feel like the US is becoming more and more like the UN. If Obama gets elected, he will be very happy to let the UN take full control of the country.
God help us.
Examined your post history. You are for Romney, aren’t you? And you know the FR position on that RINO??
Other territories we got from Lend Lease under Obama's hero FDR.
Call me a racist, or an anti-island bigot, ect... but give Guam, Samoa and Puerto Rico back to their people, this country is enough of a basket case without having to worry about people living in jungles chucking spears at wild hogs!
If I sound like a lib, ban me but when we have so many problems in this country why should I worry about Guam, Virgin Islands and of all places the Marianas Islands other than WW2 I think it's best know for the TV Show "Survivor"!!!
I'd cut them all loose including Puerto Rico, what have they done for me lately? And all the psycho commies in DC who proudly have their "No taxation with representation" I would make DC either a city in Virginia or Maryland. So they can quit bitching about not having 2 rat Senators and a rat Congressman.
If DC had 2 senators the Rats would win with 99.9% of the vote. I'd incorporate DC in Maryland, it'd give em some more criminals to add to the criminals in Baltimore but atleast they can't claim they don't have representation!!!
Sorry smoke break, blood pressure about to explode!!! Stop RINOS NOW!!!
I want to see the “Iwo Jima for Romney” sign. This is disgusting. Why do islands that have less population than the amount of men Sandra Fluke fornicated with matter to me?
Everything is made worse when you realize that Romney’s have been here for over a century, but NO Romney has ever served in our military.
Shout that from the rooftops!
DC as a state is unacceptable.
Putting DC in Virginia wouldn’t make any sense since it came from Maryland (the VA part was already returned). It would also seriously mess up a key state.
Giving it back to Maryland would make sense but that would take what is already a very very difficult state for Republicans and put it totally out of reach.
The best solution comes from Auh2orepublican, take the DC suburbs in MD and VA and join them with the District in a new state. It would be safe rat but VA would be made pretty much safe Republican and Maryland would become a swing state.
That will never happen because it requires too much effort and imagination for our gray-suited overlords and MD and VA won’t want to lose tax dollars.
Either the situation in DC will remain the same forever or it will be given a vote in the House (but not the Senate) by constitutional amendment, or given the vote by law (which would be unconstitutional and overturned). The latter happening might be necessary to precipitate the former.
Retrocession to Maryland would be a long term possibly also if Maryland would take them.
Puerto Rico needs to be studied to discern how it would vote if made a state (the conventional wisdom of “heavily rat” is disputed by Puerto Rican freepers.)
The other territories are far too small to ever be states.
Of course DC voting rights and the status of Puerto Rico are on almost nobody’s priority list
Other than PR, the other territories are, as you said, far too small to become states, but they could be attached to existing states, such as, e.g., adding Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (and the Midway Islands and other lightly inhabited or uninhabited islands in the northern Pacific) to the State of Hawaii, which would make the state less Democrat.
That sounds good to me.
That leaves the VI. Attaching them to PR would not be good electorally.
“Attaching them to PR would not be good electorally.”
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