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Yup Ben.

As much resistance as their is to Obama?

The core cons are fit to be TIED with McCains rise! I think Rush is gonna have a stroke!

John McCain – Congaleesa Rice. Then Ms. Rice can continue to say, “This President …. ” I would like to see Wichita’s Robert Gates, now Secretary of Defense, continue at a high level, perhaps as Secretary of State.

Sol? McCain and Huckabee are republicans, the best your candidate Ron Paul can hope for is for the republicans to have a brokered convention and to have a bloc of delegates to have some influence with, and a bloc need to be more than the 4 or 5 delegates he has now.

I wonder if Rush would ever have a clue that the McCain/Huckabee ticket was one that he and is ilk helped immeasurably?

TP,

6 and counting. Waiting super tuesday…

VT, Dr. Paul is campaigning in all states. He is hitting hardest in the states the other candidates are ignoring. Rumor has it he could take Maine.

Bummer, they disabled some of the HTML in posts. :-(

Keepin hope alive VT. Aside from the urban areas, Maine seems to be a small government pro-gun rights state. Right up the Dr.’s alley. He is campaigning pretty hard in a lot of other states too. He has been extremely frugal with his campaign earnings. He is spending them now. Wait to see his figures tomorrow evening. Another money bomb is planned I believe.

McCain is the traditional Republic Party candidate. But he’s not gonna buy into the Evangelical Wing of the party. And he’s not gonna get the Racist Wing of the party that hates brown people who speak Spanish.

And with all the factions of the Republic Party coalition barely able to muster a majority of voters in 2004, an unable to muster a majority of voters in 2000… just where does that leave the Republic Party?

I’m sure there’s a segment of Republic Party voters who are like Jerry Seinfeld’s sports fans — “This year a guy plays for your team. Yea!!! Next year a guy plays for their team. Boo! It’s like people are rooting for the shirt on the player’s back. It’s like people are rooting for laundry.”

For no other reason than he’s the Republic Party nominee, Republic Party fans will vote for McCain or Romney or Huckabee or (guess it’s too late for 9iu11iani) whomever survives the Pachyderm Death March.

If the GOP ends up with McCain, count on the Limbaugh-tomized Masses coming forth and claiming he’s the “true conservative,” despite all Rush has said. And the Faux Noise Channel might accept that 9iu11iani is a loser and Mittens is the Ken Doll ready to be spokesperson for the Country Club faction of the Republic Party coalition. And maybe Jesus will return and convince everyone to back the Huckster’s vision of a King James Version of the Constitution of the United States.

But will the American people believe any of those scenarios?

Anyone this side of the Republic Party (which is to say, anyone this side of sanity) is ready, willing, and able to vote for any Democratic canidate of president this year.

Republic Party chauvinists, not so much.

Monkey,

I’d rather vote third party. Maybe Libertarian if they put up someone descent.

Reagan supported Amnesty, and the only border security does Dr Paul have solid conservative ideals, on most everything else hes a libertarian which isn’t conservatism, that’s why he fails at gaining traction with conservatives and why he gets so little support from the National party. Aside from a few idealist college kids, anti tax conservatives, and libertarians who are dissafied with their party much of his support comes from kooks pot smoking college dropouts, stormfront types, ancharsits, and conspiracy nuts.

Elected officials–current
Aubyn Curtiss[212] – Montana state Senator.
Michael J. Doherty[213] – New Jersey state legislator.
Mike Folmer[212] – Pennsylvania state Senator.
Jim Guest[214] – Missouri state representative.
Phil Hart[212] – Idaho state congressman.
Paul Ingbretson[215] – New Hampshire state representative.
Karen Johnson[216] – Arizona state senator.
Rick Jore[212] – Montana representative.
Roger Koopman[212] – Montana representative.
Allan Mansoor[217] – mayor of Costa Mesa, California.
Jerry O’Neill[218] – Montana state representative.
Steve Vaillancourt[218] – New Hampshire state representative.
Elected officials–former
Bob Barr[219] – former member of Congress (R-GA)
David Duke[220] – former Louisiana State Representative
Paul Findley[218] – former member of Congress (R-IL)
Barry Goldwater, Jr.[221][222] – former member of Congress (R-CA)[[]]
Gary E. Johnson[223] – former governor of New Mexico
[edit] Government officials
Karen Kwiatkowski[224] – Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Retired
Andrew Napolitano[225] – political commentator and former New Jersey Superior Court Judge
Political–other
Michael Badnarik[226] – 2004 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
Chuck Baldwin[227] – 2004 Constitution Party vice-presidential candidate
Jim Clymer[228] – Constitution Party National Chairman
Darrell Castel, Esq[228] – Constitution Party National Co-Chairman
Frank Gonzalez[229][230] – 2008 independent congressional candidate in Florida
Stephen P. Gordon[231] – former national communications director, Libertarian Party
Larry Kilgore[232] – 2008 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Tejas
Steve Kubby[233] – 2008 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
Michael Peroutka[234] – 2004 Constitution Party presidential candidate
Justin Raimondo[235] – 1996 Republican congressional candidate in California and editorial director of Antiwar.com
Mary Starrett[228] – Constitution Party National Communications Director
Academia–economics
Walter Block, Ph.D.[236] – professor of economics at Loyola University and fellow at the Mises Institute.
Ken Schoolland, M.S.F.S. – economics and political science, Hawaii Pacific University.
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.[237] – professor of economics, George Mason University.
Paul has also received endorsements from active and retired economics professors at The University of Dallas, Orange Coast College, Saddleback College, Hollins University, Pepperdine University, The Johns Hopkins University, The Naval Postgraduate School, Winston-Salem State University, Hillsdale College, and Indiana University.[206][238][239]

Academia–other
David Beito, Ph.D.[240] – professor of history, University of Alabama.
Paul has also received endorsements from active and retired professors at Southern Illinois University, Ohio University, Florida Atlantic University, Brigham Young University, and the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

Finance
Peter Schiff – financial consultant, Fox News contributor and author of Crash Proof.
Don Luskin – financial consultant, columnist and author.[241]
Media
Alex Jones – Tejas radio host and filmmaker.
Texe Marrs – pastor, author and radio host.
James Bovard[citation needed] – author and columnist.
Theodore Beale[242] – columnist.
John Derbyshire[243] – columnist for National Review Online.
J. R. Gach – talk radio host.
G. Edward Griffin[244] – author and film producer.
Karen Kay[206] – author.
Devvy Kidd[245] – political columnist.
Ilana Mercer[246] – columnist.
Robert Ringer[206] – author.
Lauren Royal[247] – author.
Joel Skousen[248] – conservative political scientist and editor of World Affairs Brief
L. Neil Smith[249] – author.
Joseph Sobran[250] – columnist.
Kinky Friedman[251] – author, songwriter, humorist.
The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan
Celebrity endorsements
Singer Aimee Allen, player John “Tex” Barch, actress Emma Caulfield, actress Donna D’Errico, drag racer Don Garlits, wrestler Glen Jacobs (a.k.a. “Kane”), race car driver Will Langhorne, country musician Rockie Lynne, comedian Bill Maher, wrestler Sean Morley (a.k.a. “Val Venis”), comedian Joe Rogan, comedian Doug Stanhope, radio host Howard Stern, model Carrie Stroup, media personality Adam Curry, blues guitarist Jimmie Lee Vaughan, and Redskins tackle Todd Wade.[252]

Other
Jane Roe – the plantiff in Roe v. Wade (now pro-life activist) ,Overstock.com CEO Patrick M. Byrne, Stormfront White Nationalist Community webmaster Don Black, independent congressional candidate Frank Gonzalez, Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel owner Dennis Hof, Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob G. Hornberger, and pastor Creighton Lovelace.

Amen to THAT !!!

I wonder if this is the first of the “damning with faint praise” pieces concerning Sen. McCain.

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NWE3NjA4OGFjNGIzNGRlM2RjNDBhYzgyMDk1YWFkMzg=

test

ENOUGH with the damn track backs. DAMN

A little something from an admitted Romney supporter wondering if the party’s over. While valiantly arguing Gov. Romney has one more run in him on next Tuesday, implicit to me within the exit poll analysis reported is a tone of almost resignation to Sen. McCain being the GOP nominee.

http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/670mqvok.asp?pg=1

“And he’s not gonna get the Racist Wing of the party…”

You mean like this?

“John McCain – Congaleesa Rice”

Libs. Ya gotta hate ‘em.

Get used to it brian – your nominee is going to be McCain!

:)

VT – he is probably one of those who considers McCain to be a liberal who will destroy the GOP. Just like there are those who claim that Sebelius is a conservative out to destroy the Democratic Party.

Ben, when one reads the analyses (and goodness knows, there is a surfeit of them) of the exit polls from the Florida primary. one begins to understand why Sen. McCain has a chance to be elected in November, and why certain groups within the GOP feel threatened by his candidacy.

VT – yep. And why I find the reactions of OxyContin Rush to be especially funny.

MrC – one point about the tanker contract: Perhaps if Boeing had not been so corrupt and they had put together a clean bid they might have gotten it. Instead they got their ‘revolving door’ Air Force officer and Tankerless Todd to try to strongarm it.

MrC, agree with Ben concerning the tanker contract.

Mirage
Actually, Iraq DID support terrorism. Even the Clinton administration listed Iraq as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism.

Iran is also a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17628147/

Interpol, NOT BUSH, says that Iran was behind terrorist bombings in Argentina.

My liberal AND coservative friends.

I still think that Romney has a shot. But, guess what? I originally supported Steve Forbes, prior to Dole beating Forbes. I knew Forbes would not win, but I wanted to push Dole to the right. It worked.

I used to be a BIG Kemp fan. Kemp gave some of the worst speaches of his life, when he was running with Dole. I don’t know what happened to Kemp.

Anyway, McCain is CLAIMING to be a “conservative” already. Why?

McCain will have to pick a VP.

Who will it be?

No, not Huckabee!

(Sorry libs, that does not help shore up the base, IMHO.)

One other thing: a nuclear bomb in the hands of a terrorist is a danger to us all, liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, born and unborn, legal and illegal, Atheists and believers.

I think McCain would be better at protecting us from such an event, than any Democrat.

I will hold my nose and vote for him.

I will understand, full well, that Ronald Reagan lost to Gerald Ford.

I will remember, full well, what happened thereafter.

Two of the eight candidates proposed sufficient spending cuts that more than offset their new spending plans: Rudy Giuliani (-$1.4 billion) and “Ron Paul (-$150.1 billion).”

National Taxpayers union foundation.
http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=991&org_name=NTUF

Paul, duh, we knew you’d vote for McCain over Hillary or Obama. Gee, as if that’s a hard one.

What makes you think McCain can defend us over Obama or Hillary?

Do you believe Obama and Hillary want to see us get hit with a terrorist attack again?

Thankfully the american people are onto the 911 fear mongering. We must be vigilant, yes, but we’re over giving up everything that makes us Americans over fear. For 7 years we’ve let the terrorists win by taking the thing we hold dearest..our freedom…and you handed it over to Bush (I didn’t).

Every single day, McCain sounds like lil Bush. We must keep all of them out of the White House.

What freedom, exactly, have we “given up” in your opinion? Is there any freedom out there, that you use to have, that you do not have now?

No Paul, we have just sold our country’s soul to the devil in all this, that‘s all. I will not rehash the warning that B. Franklin gave. But your question requires a knowledgeable answer and in part it takes some looking behind the scenes as that answer is out there and can be found. Also the real effects and just how the lost of freedom has yet to be public view. But now a question for you, when battling a small foreign terrorist group. What would be the purpose of having the ability to spy without a warrant, listen in on not just communications where there is a suspicion of having terrorist ties. But on everyone within the United States? Why is there such a strong demand on the ability to ease-drop on all calls within the United States on the off chance that a terrorist in Pakistan calling another terrorist in Iraq. And the call might end up being routed through the wires within the Untied States. And rather then doing the simplest answer to such a question being to allow such a single call being listen to where every it passes? Why be so broad in scope when the subject is so limited in focus and would be in violation of the fourth and fifth Amendment to the Constitution? It really does beg the question of just who are they seeing as the enemy?

“Econ101″ loves to say –

“LBJ and JFK wire tapped MLK.”

Which ignores the fact the the person who tapped MKL was really J. Edgar Hoover. And J. Edgar Hoover tapped JFK’s and LBJ’s phone calls.

In fact, Johnson put up with Hoover because he “…would rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.”

By the 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover had been in power for so long he considered individual presidents transients in Washington, D.C.

Another thread speaks that John Edwards is a king maker.

King maker the other side is Mike Huckabee.

Which way does he go? He can sink Romney or McCain depending on which way he jumps.

My bet is he goes McCain. To play second to Romney means he places his faith second to Romney’s…unusual faith. I don’t see that happening.

Huckabee goes with McCain. Probably just before or just after super Tuesday.

Even Romney can’t buy his way out of that.

Of course he still has his magic underwear….

Most Evangelical leaders think that it is bigoted to attack the beliefs of Mormons:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,515040354,00.html

“Is there any freedom out there, that you use to have, that you do not have now?”

Yes, I miss the freedom to pay less than 2$ for a gallon of gas

Why are Americans more interested in what a candidates religous propensities might be as opposed to the interest of what candidate will leads America out of this bottomless pit of GOP corruption and war mongering? I just don’t get it!
Why must we politize religon. History has proven time and again thepolitizing religon is a sure recipe for corruption. 2 examples the Catholic Church and the Church of England. Millions of lives were taken during the polictcal crusades the the Church was the exclusive tool by the government and they went willingly because there was much money to be made.

Ben
By the way, did you know that some of Clinton’s support is “radioactive”??? This guy made his money off of Uranium:

http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080131/1194742375200.html?.v=7

For the record, we DO need to expand our nuclear based electrical production.

However, to the leftists on the Blog: What is the difference between Bush, and his “oil buddies” and the Clinton’s and their “uranium buddies”?

Tom Ridge for VP?

econ

here adjust this

wasn’t a year ago we were paying less than 2 — adjusted for inflation that s aahhhhhhh less than 2 — take your freaking time machine and go back to the 70s tony orlando and dawn miss you

McCain votes like Hillary, much of the time:

http://election.newsmax.com/citizens_mccain/?s=al&promo_code=442F-1

JM
Excuse me, Hillary Clinton voted FOR the Iraq War.
Again, what is the DIFFERENCE?

JM
the word “difference” does have some meaning.

You can not answer, because there IS no difference!

Juvenile
People are allowed to pray for you, without your consent.
I don’t see much difference, with the Mormon post-mortem baptism thing. I am guessing that you are making up your story, about your relatives being baptised, after death, by the Mormons.
I doubt that you would even know how to check such a thing.

You made up the stuff about how you used to protest at the abortion clinics.
You have never been prolife.

You made up the stuff about how you used to be a Republican. There has never been a Republican bone in your body.

You made up this stuff, about your relatives, as well.

Nobody believes you.

And, you are a bigot.

Excuse me, How do YOU know the “will” of a dead person?
Also, the Mormon Church really believes in family. When they do these “post mortem baptisms” the ceremony is, most often, at the request of another relative.
Those other relatives have wishes and desires that merit as much weight as yours.

Post what I really said, Juvenile. You are again up to your old trick of misquoting people. I am not sure, theologically, that the Mormon Church is on the right track here. However, what they are doing causes no harm. Therefore, why worry about it? It is done in the sincere belief that they are assisting in the salvation of people that they care about. No government power should ever be able to tell the Mormons NOT to baptise the dead. They don’t do it with the real body. What is the big deal?

“Excuse me, How do YOU know the “will” of a dead person?”

It is not part of MY faith or lack thereof to assume as to my dead ancestors wishes paul. I find ancestors of mine baptized into a religion that did not EXIST until after they were dead. I am not the one doing the assuming.

And, Juvenile
The Hindu Faith believes in reincarnation.

What in the world did you do, in a previous life, to deserve your current, miserable condition?

It occurs to me that you have no trouble supporting Mormons or Hindus when they have a “D” behind their name.

Oh and since you devoted considerable text to trying to define me paul?

I’ll do the same for you.

Having raised 5 kids by your admission, you are single and on the hunt. So much for your family values. Was it the Mrs. or you made that call?

You bailed on your union, now dead. You bare some responsibility for that. Probably you take some pride in that.

You have admitted that despite your degree “no one wanted me”.

You are SO “pro life” that you once got kids to lay down in front of cars.

By the way? I was there and saw it and you. I bet I could still recognize you today.

But not so pro life that you care about kids having health care.

Now? Here you are pandering for Willard Romney. Now I don’t have a faith and so don’t have to answer to any. But I do believe you said you were a Catholic.

Now you and folks like you were happy to call John Kerry a heretic because of his pro choice position. But you yourself SUPPORT a heretic in favor of polygamy, baptizing the dead, etc.

You are what is wrong with America paul. You believe in nothing but you.