Ron Paul makes a lot of sense on a lot of issues. Here he explains why he should be electable in a Republican primary; he is a strict constructionist and a fiscal conservative (who actually votes against spending). Of course, I bristle at his use of the word empire to describe our foreign policy. I don’t mind his disagreement with the way we have conducted the war on islamofascism, but empire c’mon.
Two names is all it takes for me to answer that question.
McCain-Feingold
But there are a lot more and fortunately Mark Levin has written a helpful article over at the National Review Online outlining those other reasons. His domestic record is particularly horrible.
What not to do after a 3rd place finish in Iowa.
What to do after a 3rd place finish in Iowa.
Is this what turned things around in New Hampshire for Hillary? Did this change peoples mind about her? The polls showed Obama surging. Did her passion sway the people of New Hampshire? Was this authentic or were these alligator tears? I don’t know. Were the polls really that wrong? They showed Hillary losing by 8 points in New Hampshire.
Oh and am I supposed to get excited that McCain won for the Republicans?
With Barack Obama winning Iowa and surging in both New Hampshire and national polls, is there any way for Senator Clinton to win? I don’t know but I wouldn’t count her out just yet.
If he wins the Democratic nomination are there any chances for a Republican candidate? Well with him winning more votes in Iowa (a state Bush carried in 2004) than all of the Republican candidates combined, it doesn’t look good for the GOP either.
This is what bothers me about so many people that want to be in office. They think government, in their hands, is the solution to X problem.
“I have so many opportunities for this country. I don’t want to see us all fall back,” she said, her voice breaking in the last phrase. –Hillary Clinton (from Ben Smith of The Politico)
This also bothers.
The questioner, Pernold, said she’d come to the event “smitten” by Obama, but that she’s now torn. “Showing that emotion — I really find it refreshing,” she said.
Edit: She didn’t say “I have so many opportunites for this country.” She did say she has so many opportunities from this country. I’d love to say I’ll double check where I get my info. but I won’t.
See her for yourself
“Huckabee is No Ronald Reagan; There is no Reagan in the Race” -Rush
Rush must have used an old pic of the Huck for this one.
Well he isn’t Reagan, and he shouldn’t try to be. He needs to be himself. All of the Republican candidates need to be themselves. Hearkening back to days gone by is not a winning strategy. If you want to be a strong candidate you should never compare yourself to him or anyone else for that matter. Be yourself, stand by your principles. If others make the comparison, fine, but don’t make the comparison yourself. Be a leader!
There are so many great passages from Clarence Thomas’ memoir, it makes it difficult to narrow down, so I will share a few for the next several days. Enjoy.
“The damn vacation is over,” Daddy [his grandfather] had told us on the morning we moved into his house. I thought of the filthy outdoor toilet behind Pigeon’s [his mother] old tenement and tried to figure out what vacation he was talking about.”
“Old Man Can’t is dead– I helped bury him” –Myers Anderson (Daddy)
“… we missed school only once in all the years I lived on East Thirty-second Street. That was not Daddy’s fault: he warned us that if we died, he’d take our bodies to school for three days to make sure we weren’t faking, and we figured he meant it.”
”I was honest with Juan [Williams] about my view of the race debate, which I found increasingly exasperating. I didn’t care which schools blacks attended, so long as they recieved a good education. As I told another reporter, ‘I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral, I’d fight against it with every breath in my body — but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.’ Nor did it matter to me if certain neighorhoods were predominately white or black so long as they were safe and blacks could freely choose to live in either. I was sick and tired of the theories and statistics that had come to dominate the discourse on both sides of the political fence. What mattered to me were individuals and their problems, but most of the people I met in Washington, Republicans and Democrats alike, seemed hell-bent on winning arguments instead of solving those problems. Juan understood my pent-up frustration with this self-serving, irrelevant debate, a constant struggle that never seemed to change anything for the people who needed our help.”
What do you think?
So why do I like the FairTax?
It is really simple to me, the biggest advantage is this: Taxes are a deterrent. No one questions this. It is why “we” put really high taxes on cigarettes. If you want to discourage an activity, tax it. The converse is also true. If you want to encourage an activity give a tax break. So why in the world would we want to discourage INCOME? Don’t we want people to be productive? If we tax consumption instead of income we are now discouraging consumption and encouraging conservation. This would not just be good for your pocketbook but good for the economy and yes even good for the environment. Why the environment you ask? The FairTax does not tax the sale of used items. Want to avoid paying taxes on a car, buy a used one, don’t want to pay taxes on a house purchase, buy a used one. I really believe we could take a lot of power out of the hands of selfish politicians and put it back in the hands of the selfish people and that is a very good thing.
Is it just me or does Hillary Clinton, despite all of her negatives, just have more Gravitas than Barak Obama?
It just seems to me that even though I think I disagree more with Hillary I would rather her win than Obama (and I don’t really think there is much chance for anyone else to win). I have a couple of reasons, (1) I think she would be better against the Islamofascist than Obama and (2) I think she would have a sympathetic House and Senate for 2 years only and then would lose control of at least one chamber of the U.S. Congress. She would then be hard pressed to get her truly radical agenda through. Obama seems to me to be a little more milquetoast. He might keep the House and Senate longer because he doesn’t have quiet so many people that are truly afraid of what he might do.
Just listen to John Kerry in the background.
I would love to answer his question but…
Then in this one listen to this guy.
