Posted on 04/15/2008 4:42:28 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
wrong
This is one of the risks you take with purely grassroots politics.
The folks, volunteers, who offered to do the live stream thought they could do it, and that the bandwidth would be sufficient. Unfortunately, they were wrong.
We’ll fight through the ridicule of the Republican hacks and live to fight another day.
Alan Keyes is still the best man for the job.
Or Katie Couric and CBS. It could certainly boost their ratings!
TRUE!...discussions, yes.
Civil discourse....yes.
...but childish insults, false innuendo, rudeness....no.
So Ryan shoulders none of the blame?
Your type gave us Carter and Clintoon with your third party wingnuts.
Fortunately, with Keyes, I can’t imagine he would even get a fraction of the vote that even Run Paul would get - so I don’t think that he will have any effect, even if he makes the attempt.
“Your type gave us Carter and Clintoon with your third party wingnuts.”
No. The GOP ran lousy candidates who couldn’t close the deal. The GOP doesn’t have some sort of welfare entitlement to votes. It has to earn them. It failed to do so on several occasions and lost the election as a result. My personal distaste for the GOP aside, I can and have voted for their candidates in the past.
If the GOP wants to win elections it can do that by running better, conservative candidates.
bingo
I bet Soros does well by you and your Marxist trolls
| CANDIDATE NAME | DIST | NET RECEIPTS | NET DISB | CASH | DEBT | THROUGH |
|
Presidential Candidate |
||||||
| KEYES, ALAN | PRES | $354,185 | $338,388 | $30,217 | $506,943 | 02/29/2008 |
| MCCAIN, JOHN S. | PRES | $64,718,147 | $57,194,006 | $7,996,595 | $4,340,981 | 02/29/2008 |
| PAUL, RON | PRES | $34,714,095 | $29,126,820 | $5,570,164 | $0 | 02/29/2008 |
Good ol' Ron Paul, no debt!
ROTFLOL!
“We’ll fight through the ridicule of the Republican hacks and live to fight another day.
Alan Keyes is still the best man for the job.”
Let’s see if I get this right. . .
We’re all hacks if we don’t support Alan Keyes?
Does he have any national profile these days?
Does anyone know who he is, other than those of us who sit reading these forums and blogs night and day?
Has Keyes accomplished anything politically that he could build a candidacy around?
And if Fred Thompson waited just a “tad” bit too long to get into the game, hasn’t Keyes waints way too long.
His last ditch effort - if you can call it that - to get into the Republican nomination process was sooo pathetic, and his reactions to no one caring sooo bizarre, that he has marginalized himself, certainly for this election cycle.
He needs to go away, get into something useful, apolitical, that doesn’t desparage the people who used to like him too much, and come back another day when he has calmed down.
Oh, and you Keyesians need to calm down a bit too. Just let me know, are you trying to be the next “Ron Paulians”?
You must be thinking of McCain and friends... There is where you will find Soros money.
“With all due respect, he has achieved kook status. His more recent forays into the political arena make that pretty clear.”
I wonder what prominent Whigs said about Lincoln when he left the Whig Party to join the then nascent Republican party?
Turncoat?
Kook?
“We demand that:
never again shall United States troops be employed on any foreign field of battle without a declaration of war by Congress, as required by the United States Constitution . . .”
Why not simply constitutionally eliminate the office of the President from our federal government, and let the Congress run everything, and we can sit in our basements getting nuked to h**l, while our legislators vote on the next move in the war on terror.
“I bet Soros does well by you and your Marxist trolls”
Now *that’s* a new one. A marxist troll. I haven’t been called that one before. I suspect that if I actually were one, I’d have been zotted long ago.
Please go on. You’re definitely winning hearts and minds to the GOP cause.
“With all due respect, he has achieved kook status. His more recent forays into the political arena make that pretty clear.”
“I wonder what prominent Whigs said about Lincoln when he left the Whig Party to join the then nascent Republican party?
Turncoat?
Kook?”
Oh, wonderful . . . one size fits all, to your reckoning.
Let’s not compare Alan Keyes to Abrahamm Lincoln - I don’t think he could stand up to the comparison. That’s just silly.
Yeah, that silly Constitution...actually dividing the powers and having those useless checks-and-balances... Why not just get rid of Congress and make the President an Emperor....?
Sheesh.
Why not simply constitutionally eliminate the office of the President from our federal government, and let the Congress run everything, and we can sit in our basements getting nuked to h**l, while our legislators vote on the next move in the war on terror.
Yeah, that silly Constitution...actually dividing the powers and having those useless checks-and-balances... Why not just get rid of Congress and make the President an Emperor....?
Sheesh
. . . .
Actually . . .
But seriously: The notion - checks and balances, advice and consent - that the commander-in-chief needs the literal permission of Congress to act to defend the nation is preposterous. You make way too much of the “requirement” that Congress needs to “declare” war. Congress is free to declare or not declare, but the Constitution does not require the President to sit idly upon his thumbs and do nothing if Congress for political reasons won’t “declare” war.
There is much the commander-in-chief can do that Congress need not call “war”.
There is a reason why there is one President and one commander-in-chief, and not 435 Congressional Chieflets.
Thanks. I am surprised their are not more McCain shills on this thread. Perhaps they are running out of excuses for him.
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