Category: Politics

Some might find this useful for the 2008 election year.

TD notices that polling shows Hillary’s tears yesterday seems to have really helped her among women, and opines “Why are you people allowed to vote, again?”  I think he means Democrats rather than women, but I have to tell you, I have no faith in the future of this country if this is what we base our voting decisions on.

What have we become?

From Countertop:

There are lots of reasons for the Republican’s defeat. Some real (they lost their way, they renegged on term limit pledges, Schiavo, runaway earmarks) Some false (Iraq) but one thing which really did drive them to lose, and I have no doubt, is the shit thats peddled on Fox News. If you don’t listen to anything else I ever write, just remember this – Fox News (or at least their prime time “political debate” programs) are about the least intellectual thing on TV. I can’t think of a worst example of folks without a clue of how D.C. works or whats actually going on around here actually fooling people into paying attention to their contrived talking points.

Interesting theory, but I’m curious as to how exactly this has hurt the Republicans? I agree completely with his statement here, but don’t quite make the connection to electoral failure. My first choice for where to lay blame would be evangelical voters who think as long as a guy loves Jesus, he’s OK by them.

The great thing about the Democratic Primary, no matter who wins, change won.  Both Hillary and Obama are now touting themselves as the candidates of change.   I’m just wondering how long it takes for people to take a serious look and realize that both candidates are peddling the same socialist gift basket the Democrats have been trying to push on us since the 1960s.

John McCain sucks, which is why when I found myself rather happy that he won New Hampshire, rather than Mr. Satan Hair, I soon had to ask myself what this country is coming to, that I’m now happy a man I said I’d never vote for is poised to make a come back. But yeah, I’ll get on the McCain Train if the alternative is Romney or Mr. Jesus Preacher.

You can stick a fork in Fred folks. I say that because New Hampshire voters should have been receptive to his ideas, and it’s not like he ignored the state like Rudy did. Countertop isn’t feeling it for Fred either anymore:

Its sad. I’ve tried hard, I wasted money, I’ve reached out to folks at all levels of his campaign (from Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to former hill staffers, law partners, neighbors, etc) and I’ve been unable to get past any “initial enthusiasm.”

Its a scam. As if he signed all these people up and assumed they would work with no direction.

We are electing a leader, if he wants it, Thompson needs to lead

It’s a legitimate criticism. I like Thompson’s philosophy on government, a lot, but it won’t make a whit of difference if he can’t get his act together. My fear at this point is the non-evangelical faction of the Republican Party fractures on multiple candidates, and hands the nomination to Huckabee, who has evangelicals locked up.

I think the more libertarian leaning factions of the Republican coalition need to start thinking about getting behind a single candidate, otherwise we might hand the nomination to Huckleberry.

Socialism doesn’t work.  Please stop voting for socialism.   Thank you.

After New Hampshire, I think you can stick a fork in the following candidates, even if they aren’t going to drop out:

• John Edwards
• Ron Paul
• Bill Richardson

And it pains me to no end to say this:

• Fred Thompson