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Voter fraud in Nevada and New Hampshire, ballot issues in SC. Seems to me too many folks buying too many polling locatons.

Voter Fraud LINK

Why is it “bad” that there is a contested race instead of a quick knockout? Maybe the media will need to develop an attention span this time, instead of declaring the race “over” after each successive primary. It is amusing how every few days the pundits find a new “front runner” and new people on “life support.” McCain was dead, then Romney was dead, Thompson has been dead for awhile, and now Giuliani and Huckabee are dead for the moment. Everybody knows that in the end each party will coalesce around its nominee, so why is keeping a focus on your candidates and their messages for a longer time necessarily a bad thing for a party?

Now granted I have gotten kind of touchy about how the media is treating my boy R. Paul.
LoL and this is no different, this morning I was looking at the Eagle from over the weekend and saw the write-up about the Candidates. They had the pictures of the GOP candidates and I noticed that Paul was shown last… After Alan Keys! OMG give me a break, after Keys! I did not even know he was running again until he showed up on one of the debates. And they call Paul a Kook! BTW Paul is back up above a million on donates for this quarter.

Hey is anyone else planning to go to the Caucuses in Feb? Though the ruling class of the state GOP has crowned Mc Cain. I wonder if they are aware that he states as one of his proudest accomplishment is stopping the tanker deal?

I think the gop have a good chance if either Hillary or Barak are nominated.

Hillary will never be able to “live down” Bills antics and their numerous unanswered questions / skeletons. .. and I’ve mixed emotions about Bill being back in the WH. Do you really think his philandering is over? Republicans in Congress will have a field day almost every day….

Seems a lot of people are uncertain about Obamas’ lack of leadership / management experience. A lot more people will never elect a person of color (any). Maybe 4-8 years down the road.

There are over 125 Christian evangelicals with some form of Dominionist agenda sitting in our Congress. There are literally tens of thousands who sit in think tanks and policy making centers who share the same values. We have Same Brownback. These are the folks who wish to destroy our Constitution and Bill of Rights ( Brownback included – see his signature on the Reconstruction of the Constitution Bill) and install their version of a Theocracy and a closed society. There is the same percentage of jackals existing in the Senate on both sides. There are close to 30 thousand paid lobbyists in Washington who deal on both sides of the aisle. Congress is officially dead. The telecommunications industry is practically owned by the far right who have also been bought by special interest groups and who are attempting to merge and control all information on a global level with the help of Rupert Murdock who now owns much of American telecommunications and other. It is these folks, the media and pundits who are selecting the next President, not the American people. Mike Huckabee who is a Dominionist won Iowa and came in second in NC. That has not upset the nation because the media has not done investigative reporting but has allowed this Huckster to rise. And then there is Romney, not a Dominonist, but close – and who in spite of being a Mormon, continues to rise and fall in the race for Presidency. It is common knowledge that the Republican Party sold itself to the Christian Right. The Cheney/Bush Whitehouse aligned itself to the Christian Right by taking money from nefarious sources ( Sun Myung Moon who hates America as well as Christianity and who is waiting for the Fall of this Roman Empire in order to install himself as the Global Messiah). Bush and his entire family have taken millions upon millions from Moon while Moon and his love for so-called Christian values marries off millions of slave brides and grooms worldwide). What is troubling about this picture is the fact that these types of individuals have actually gotten this far in our entire system of government. What is more troubling is the fact that nationwide media have paid so little attention to who this Huckabee Huckster really is. Huckabee who wants wives to adore and stay home, wants Roe v. Wade dissolved, wants gays to be put into camps with HIV infected patients, wants God installed in place of the Constitution, wants immigrants to be treated like cattle, who advocates forms of bigotry, racism, and other has risen to the top of this pile to reveal to me that the brown boots are now in charge and that even though Huckabee may not win, ( which I believe he will) it shows how far this nation has come to align itself with totalitarian and fascist puppets pretending to uphold the old truths of this nation, they have sold us out and we, the good Germans, have allowed this to happen. The new Holocaust mentality will present itself in force once the global markets and our own are depleted. Once this fall out begins or if there is another catastrophe which this surely would be, you will see that the question of ” will the Republic Party win in September?” is pointless and so is this election – The Christian Nationalist and global movement will not end with this election.

and, I know, it was the Bob Jones University PRESIDENT not the non-profit University.

I think the best results for the Democrats would be for John McCain to win the GOP nominations, and Obama to win the Democratic nomination. There are a lot of Republicans that do not like McCain, and might even vote for Obama if there other choice was McCain. If it’s Clinton for the Democrats, the Republicans will lock step behind ANY ONE who is the GOP nomination.

It is probably a Romney/McCain race.

Rudy is the wild card.

Evangelicals are split, on Huckabee. If Huck can’t win in South Carolina —.

Also, in Florida, it appears it is harder for Independents to vote in the GOP Primary.

This might explain why Romney is doing better with “likely voters” there.

This is not good for McCain.

Another thing: there is a good reason for everyone to stay in the race, and for nobody to drop out, on BOTH sides.

“Brokered Conventions” require BROKERS and everyone wants to be a player.

I think that one may be a “player” and yet be a “broker”. If outright victory cannot be obtained, then the person(s) with the delegates who cannot obtain his victory certainly may have a big say concerning the eventual nominee, which, of course, may be him should there be someone else willing to subordinate his personal desires. Otherwise, deals are made, and the delegates are released “with directions” as to the person to support, etc. It could be very interesting; or, as Econ has suggested, after the “Super Tuesday” voting at the latest, it could be just another hypothetical.

Giuliani, when asked if waterboarding was torture replied, “it depends on who’s doing it.”

Say what? When is a kick to the groin, not a kick to the groin?

The last thing we need in the White House is another administration of selected ethics.

McCain did not do as well in South Carolina, in total votes or in percentages, as the last time he ran.
The field was just more divided.

I don’t think McCain can win the nomination.

I will support him if he does, but I just don’t see how he pulls it off.

Huckabee has trouble, even with the “values voter” base. Pro life Catholics are splitting to Thompson and Romney.

Will sreial-polygamist Giuliana pull through in Florida? Is his fellow Rush supporting him based on having similar ‘values’?

Ben
Actually, the polygamist in the race is NOT the Mormon?
That is kind of funny.

Dont forget, McCain divorced and remarried. That divorce is one of the reasons McCain has caught the anger and distrust of Ross Perot.

Perot claims that McCain called him for help, after a car wreck, involving his former wife. Perot went to the hospital and was a friend to the family. Then Mrs McCain came out of the hospital with a limp. Perot has been critical of McCain for “dumping the wife with the limp for a younger woman” in so many words.

“If it is the CIA, against a criminal with no recognized military chain of command, it is NOT illegal.”

George W Bush says that we do NOT torture – waterboarding is defined as torture – so how does that allow the CIA to waterboard?

By the way, Paul, John McCain, who WAS tortured, does not support the Guiliani/Bush/Rossell position.

Torture is wrong – we are supposed to have the moral high ground – we lower ourselves to the levels of the terrorists if we torture.

The real world is not an episode of “24.”

WS
You define waterboarding as torture.

The law does not always do so.

Try to seperate what you want from what is the law.

“torture” is a legal term.

Rudy gave a precise, correct, legal answer.

Bush’s speechwriter – on Bush:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96377

How My Party Lost Its Way
What caused the unraveling of the Republican Party? The president’s former speechwriter explains.

“Torture is wrong – we are supposed to have the moral high ground – we lower ourselves to the levels of the terrorists if we torture.”

End of story.

JWink
Posted January 21, 2008 at 12:41 pm | \l “comment-278752″
Giuliani is the most qualified candidate on either side of the fence. I would like to see Giuliani team up with Wichita favorite son, Robert Gates.
Ron Paul’s positions are interesting but he lacks charisma and “oomph” to run successfully for President. He needs to continue to promote his positions from a speakers platform

JWink I am not sure about Giuliani, like most I suffered from “blood lust” after 9-11 and he would have been my choice to lead the lynching party. But 7 years down the road I am not sure if I would want a hang um high kind of leader. The terrorists are small and wiry which take a cold and thinking plan not a reactionary all guns blazing.

I agree on Paul, that has always been his problem in that I think he has a better personal understanding of the issue. But it is hard for him to explain his understanding in a few minutes. I seem to keep coming back to my amazement at his attracting younger voters. I know what has attracted me to him, I just think too damn much LOL. And taking into account his “outsider, rebel” label maybe a factor, but watching these younger voters videos on youtube. It seems they have a good understanding of what he is saying and it is his message and not his status that is attracting them.

Dog –

I pray for that Wheee! in BOTH conventions!

How smart can he be if he believes all that John Birch, “Trilateral Commission” stuff?

He is also kind of handy to have around when the car breaks down too!