Posted on 05/15/2014 1:25:31 PM PDT by kingattax
Thanks for the info,
I never could even sit through Hucksters FNC show.
He strikes me as a fat Goober.
Which is why any R candidate, facing that kind of question needs to respond with “I will answer your question as soon as you ask HRC why she and her political minions destroyed the reputations of all the women her husband raped, abused and assaulted.”
In case oh Herman Cain, I blame some republicans more than I blame the always unfair MSM. So many turned against Cain as soon as they heard the ALLEGATIONS from women who had direct connection with Chicago politics. Obama was more afraid of a fatherly black man opponent who was not afraid to call a spade a spade (pun not intended).
I think the republican party is destined to be a minority for ever. We turn on every candidate who is not 100% in sync with our wishes and “pure”. I call that masochism. Those who like losing elections are masochists. During 2012, there was not a single candidate running for president who was not attacked.
Bush 41 ran a substantial oil company (with some help from the CIA) for 10 years or so. And he eventually ran the CIA for a few years. Successfully in both cases.
He was also totally plugged in to a network of business, military, intelligence and political players. He had a hyper-competent cabinet from day 1 and he knew what he wanted to do and how to do it.
A very modest man, and a very underrated President.
GWB (Bush 43) ran Texas, for 8 years, well and honestly. In his times (and I think he would have the humility not to take credit in such a way), Texas reformed its many corrupt institutions, created a formidable business climate (and Texas was NOT always known for this). And in his days Texas even achieved improvements in public education that perhaps naively GWB thought could be transplanted to the rest. It was in the 1990s that Texas took the standing it does in the disassociated NAEP scores.
In his days the foundations were laid for its future prosperity. How much was Bush ? I suspect more than we usually assume.
McCain, meh, I grant you that.
His color wont protect him.
It will be discounted and ignored. If he is nominated I expect the networks will do all they can to keep his face off the TV.
They own the communication channels, and all will be tilted until we take them over.
Bush43’s gift to the country was financial meltdown in 2008.
To top it off he bailed out the criminal banks with pressure from his Goldman Sachs SOT. A total dimwit if you ask me.
He should have all the too big to fail banks go bankrupt and the more conservative smaller banks could have purchased all the loans and deposits.
Worst sin of Bush43? He awarded us Obummer for 8 years.
Exactly same as when we got lucky with Reagan due to the horrible record of Carter.
There’s so much to admire about Ben Carson, but he’s not going to be president, nor should he IMO.
Exactly.
Anyone who is thinking of running for POTUS, try being a Governor first.
IMHO, Bush 43 had little himself to do with the meltdown of 2008.
This was long overdue. The Fed had been putting off “natural” corrections since Clintons day.
Like all such cases where the limits of speculative investment are not corrected, when they do get corrected its worse.
As for the bailing out - it was the entire ruling class that wanted that, and they got it. The 1%, or rather the .01%
I never said it was Bush43’s fault. What I am saying is that
he was not smart enough to see through the smoke screen and
do the right thing.
It is not clear that the smoke screen is the smoke screen.
Put yourself in that position. Everybody around you, including everybody that you have had to trust all this time, is saying the same thing, that ugly as it seems a bailout is it is the least bad option, and the one that is most consistent with doing his duty, unpopular though it may be.
Granted we can say now that it was an error. As we (60+% at the time) were also saying then. But there were the best and brightest saying the opposite.
So long as he . . .
1. demonstrates that he has indeed “come around” on the 2nd Amendment,
2. expresses a convincing commitment to closing the border and agressive deportation as an absolute necessity before even considering a word of discussion about potential “pathways” for as yet undeported illegals
. . . I would be thrilled to support him.
As much as I love Ted Cruz, Carson was born here in the US and is not already mired in connections to the DC beltway cesspool of lobbyists and cocktail parties.
He has personally risen above the dysfunction of the impoverished urban core. He’s not merely a brain surgeon, but a thoroughly accomplished leader with a distinguished career among the world’s brightest brain surgeons. He professes and appears to live out a deep devotion to Christianity. He speaks with honesty and simplicity and seems unencumbered by political calculus. Like Herman Cain he is a capitalist who is unafraid to express specific, understandable ideas to make things better; yet, to me, it seems very likely that he has none of Cain’s apparent history of indiscretions.
I still have a lot to learn about him, but given the Canadian caveat, my hunch is that Ben Carson is the best in the field currently taking shape. He reminds me of Fred Thompson in 2008 in terms of how unfettered I think I could I be in trusting him to lead this country.
I have known of his legend for years, but my interest in his future was violently jolted to life when I watched his full prayer breakfast address. He walked into the den of the enemy and spoke momentous words of irresistible clarity and leadership, courageously yet artlessly. He did not apologize, and though scoured by an IRS audit in return, he has not stooped to whine. When he realized his presence at Johns Hopkins had the potential to foment political drama, in what I think was a display of considerable class and dignity, he calmly, nobly retired.
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Besides all that I find I can watch with glee all day long the clip of him asking Roland Martin why the NAACP isn’t just renamed to the NAACProgressiveP already? MM mm, I never tire of that little clip! *guilty giggle*
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