GOP seems to be in a bit of mess.
I'm enjoying watching The Big Flipper Romney's campaign falter costing
him millions of his own money. Maybe his kids could help out by earning
some army pay in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Huckster's tearing up the field -- amazing what God can do for your
campaign.
McCain I'm not really sure of -- he used to seem normal. Not sure what
his stance is on foreign policy other then sticking it out in Iraq.
Iran may not matter by next January since it seems to be a given
Bush/Cheney will be bombing it long before then.
The rest are no shows for the most part -- Guiliani's campaign is
vacationing in Florida and Ron Paul can't get the media to give him 2
minutes of coverage.
Just my thunks! [:-{O>
Cheers!
-- Marvin
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I don't smoke. I smell like bread. Life is Good.
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| User: "Pers3id" |
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| Title: Re: Is the GOP splintering? |
13 Jan 2008 01:18:54 PM |
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Marvin The Paranoid Android <marvinparanoidandroid@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:478a427a$0$11452$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com:
GOP seems to be in a bit of mess.
I'm enjoying watching The Big Flipper Romney's campaign falter costing
him millions of his own money. Maybe his kids could help out by earning
some army pay in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Romney's father had a failed presidential bid also.. Mitt is trying to
be a chip off the old block.
The Huckster's tearing up the field -- amazing what God can do for your
campaign.
That would be God and Chuck Norris.. which is the more potent is still
being debated.
McCain I'm not really sure of -- he used to seem normal. Not sure what
his stance is on foreign policy other then sticking it out in Iraq.
Iran may not matter by next January since it seems to be a given
Bush/Cheney will be bombing it long before then.
Poor McCain is still reliving those nasty days in the Hanoi Hilton, as
well as the 2000 election when the young idiot upstart George W. Bush
ridiculed him in front of 200 Million people. Now he's 8 years older and
1 foot in the grave.
The rest are no shows for the most part -- Guiliani's campaign is
vacationing in Florida and Ron Paul can't get the media to give him 2
minutes of coverage.
Ron Paul just doesn't have that presidential moxy. Hillary Clinton has
more testosterone than he does.
Just my thunks! [:-{O>
Cheers!
-- Marvin
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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| Title: Re: Is the GOP splintering? |
17 Jan 2008 08:56:36 PM |
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:18:54 -0600, Pers3id wrote:
Marvin The Paranoid Android <marvinparanoidandroid@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:478a427a$0$11452$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com:
GOP seems to be in a bit of mess.
I'm enjoying watching The Big Flipper Romney's campaign falter costing
him millions of his own money. Maybe his kids could help out by earning
some army pay in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Romney's father had a failed presidential bid also.. Mitt is trying to
be a chip off the old block.
The Huckster's tearing up the field -- amazing what God can do for your
campaign.
That would be God and Chuck Norris.. which is the more potent is still
being debated.
McCain I'm not really sure of -- he used to seem normal. Not sure what
his stance is on foreign policy other then sticking it out in Iraq.
Iran may not matter by next January since it seems to be a given
Bush/Cheney will be bombing it long before then.
Poor McCain is still reliving those nasty days in the Hanoi Hilton, as
well as the 2000 election when the young idiot upstart George W. Bush
ridiculed him in front of 200 Million people. Now he's 8 years older and
1 foot in the grave.
I was planning on voting for him in 2000. After everything he's been
willing to do to suck up to that screwup Bush in the past 8 years, there's
no way I'd vote for him, now. The guy might as well as rolled over,
played dead, and said "Sir, how high do you want me to jump, sir?". His
willingness to cave to Bush was positively revolting! (Not to mention,
very unnerving).
Woods
The rest are no shows for the most part -- Guiliani's campaign is
vacationing in Florida and Ron Paul can't get the media to give him 2
minutes of coverage.
Ron Paul just doesn't have that presidential moxy. Hillary Clinton has
more testosterone than he does.
Just my thunks! [:-{O>
Cheers!
-- Marvin
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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17 Jan 2008 08:53:33 PM |
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:52:49 -0500, Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
GOP seems to be in a bit of mess.
I'm enjoying watching The Big Flipper Romney's campaign falter costing
him millions of his own money. Maybe his kids could help out by earning
some army pay in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Huckster's tearing up the field -- amazing what God can do for your
campaign.
McCain I'm not really sure of -- he used to seem normal. Not sure what
his stance is on foreign policy other then sticking it out in Iraq.
Iran may not matter by next January since it seems to be a given
Bush/Cheney will be bombing it long before then.
The rest are no shows for the most part -- Guiliani's campaign is
vacationing in Florida and Ron Paul can't get the media to give him 2
minutes of coverage.
Just my thunks! [:-{O>
Cheers!
-- Marvin
The GOP has had a couple of different factions since Reagan's time. There
are the fiscal conservatives and the social conservatives. For years, the
fiscal conservatives who were not social conservatives were willing to
compromise with the social conservatives for the good of the party. A lot
of people, including yours truly, left the party because of the social
conservatives' attempts to control the party. I think that Bush's
disastrous tenure has highlighted the disparate views between the two
factions within the party.
The differences in philosophy can be seen in the following, um,
dramatization:
1) A fiscal conservative may not "approve" of abortion, but
would be willing to have Medicaid fund them, since any pregnancy brought
to term would result in more expenses than the abortion. The social
conservative not only does not want to fund abortions, but also does not
want to fund any type of education that could reasonably be expected to
reduce the number of pregnancies in the population group that is solely
dependent on medicaid.
2)A fiscal conservative may not "approve" of, say, marijuana use, but is
willing to accept it so long as users do not violate any other laws (for
which they would/should be promptly charged), since incarceration is not
only very expensive in itself, but a taxpayer is likely to be taken off
the tax rolls. The social conservative is willing to give enormous sums of
money to police departments, and prisons, to incarcerate people for
screwing up their own lives by using drugs.
I mean, I could come up with a long list, but you get the general idea.
Think in terms of an accountant who is watching a senile client spend
oodles of $$$ on failed ventures, and that's what the fiscal conservatives
have been dealing with in the GOP for the past 20 years. They've become
the "borrow and spend" party.
I have to say, it freaked me out enough to leave 'em! And I'm very, very
glad that this upcoming recession is not likely to have much, if any,
impact on me. (Thank god, because the last 2 sure did!)
Woods
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