tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post7793891864617781140..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Trying hard to become the next Whigs...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-67326373384882193132011-01-14T16:39:55.408-05:002011-01-14T16:39:55.408-05:00Well, I'd love someone like Palin in the White...Well, I'd love someone like Palin in the White House.<br /><br />Maybe we can get Fred Thompson as Attorney General.<br /><br />USMC General James Mattis woulkd unfotunately be ineligible to serve as SecDef in time (SecDef can't be anyone who has been an active duty officer in teh last seven years; lots of people forget this). But we could toss him into SecState (with John Bolton as his XO) and liven things up a bit.<br /><br />Jindal in Interior, maybe?Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328915597574377444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-31343221374311178112011-01-14T11:54:02.524-05:002011-01-14T11:54:02.524-05:00W was a Legacy, in the Ivy League sense. And, at t...W was a Legacy, in the Ivy League sense. And, at that, he had a "serious" challenger in McCain.<br /><br />WV: puneer - well, yup. Always remember the 1st rule of Pun Safety. Wait until AFTER they put the coffee down - but it's not as much fun that wayIan Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03704336044732061128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91098591623585053202011-01-13T18:04:50.846-05:002011-01-13T18:04:50.846-05:00I like Bobby Jindal a lot, but he is in serious ne...I like Bobby Jindal a lot, but he is in serious need of charisma implants in order to be a real contender. It's too bad but most of the country doesn't care what your politics are, they just want someone who "speaks good." Unfortunately those same people haven't figured out yet that that is how we ended up with the current idiot in chief.<br />Huckabee is the "compassionate conservative." Only worse. He is everything we hated about W (liberal spending), and very little of what we liked about W(capable of actual leadership when necessary).<br />As for Romney, while there is very little that I dislike about him there is nothing I really like about him either. So I default to my wife's opinion, "There is something creepy about him, maybe it's the hair that doesn't move."<br />Personally, I have noticed a distressing tendency among the GOP to nominate whoever came in second in the last primary. The first Bush in '88 was the VP, but also came in second in '80. Dole in '96 had challenged Bush (badly) in '92. W was an anomaly, but McCain had come in second in '00.DanHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-89216823617904013062011-01-12T22:59:10.294-05:002011-01-12T22:59:10.294-05:00The Stupids run Huckabee or Romney, I'll writ...The Stupids run Huckabee or Romney, I'll write in a 3rd party. <br /><br />Plain, simple, done. <br /><br />Enough of this bullshit. If they can't figure out how to beat our current Fearless Leader, I'm done with them.<br /><br />WV: flogiese. The art of beating sense into willing idiots.Heath Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176723284131320506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-2283701507531629172011-01-12T16:51:51.600-05:002011-01-12T16:51:51.600-05:00Oh look! Here's another puff piece for Tim Pa...Oh look! Here's another puff piece for Tim Pawlenty!:<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011104438.html<br /><br />It's so nice of our liberal friends in the Washington Post to help us conservatives find a good Presidential Candidate.<br /><br />..and if he isn't convincing enough, they can write puff pieces on some other Republican Timmy!:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwVA698Hx2gCond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45411093172121561192011-01-12T14:03:55.288-05:002011-01-12T14:03:55.288-05:00I generally agree with what is said about Huck and...I generally agree with what is said about Huck and Mitt; I generally considered myself at least a token Republican until the 2008 fiasco, when it was so apparent the Stupid Party had thrown the election to The Won as surely as as fifth-rate boxer kissing the mat in a championship fight. I enjoy Huck's talkfest on Fox, but cannot back him as Prez. <br /><br />As for Romney, as a co-religionist I look at him from a different perspective, and let me tell you I just don't trust him. Every time I see him on the boob-tube the hairs on the back of my neck start to creep. The only thing I am sure of is that Romney wouldn't be "entertaining" interns in the Oval Office. <br /><br />cap'n chumbucketAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-54997311815636828752011-01-12T13:59:23.939-05:002011-01-12T13:59:23.939-05:00Ken: My thought is that I'm electing a preside...Ken: My thought is that I'm electing a president, not a church elder. I don't care if Brother Jones believes in a flat or a progressive tax, as long as his doctrinal foundation is sound. The reverse applies to secular political contests.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952078709114872197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-40273783071698115862011-01-12T13:13:31.556-05:002011-01-12T13:13:31.556-05:00The worst thing about Huckabee (for me, anyway) is...<i>The worst thing about Huckabee (for me, anyway) is dealing with evangelicals who insist they have to vote for him because he's got a fish on his car -- all other considerations be damned. Gah.</i><br /><br />Thus proving that we've come...no distance at all, really...from Filmer in terms of justifying who gets to make everyone else toe the line.* Give a guy a badge, a flag, and some guys with guns, and he's God's Anointed.<br /><br />Just take his word for it. Or else.<br /><br />*I can't figure out any other mechanism for deteriming how a body suddenly acquires the right to aggress. "Here a miracle occurs" <i>has</i> to be in the equation somewhere.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91853362094908824902011-01-12T12:06:20.044-05:002011-01-12T12:06:20.044-05:00I wonder- has the MSM ever described ANY D. candid...I wonder- has the MSM ever described ANY D. candidate for a nomination as "unelectable"?<br /><br />Sure they may say that one has a better chance than another, but they NEVER say that one of them can't beat the Rs.staghoundshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976667812875074135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-76504393305819256812011-01-12T11:55:42.239-05:002011-01-12T11:55:42.239-05:00@Blackwing: yep, not impressed with Pawlenty, eit...@Blackwing: yep, not impressed with Pawlenty, either. I was shocked when there were rumors (during the last POTUS cycle) that he was Executive Branch material by the GOP.<br /><br />Though I vote GOP across the ticket, and on a continual basis (Though had Herman Munster made his political platform on sane spending and the economy instead of focusing on his traitorous Vietnam service I would have voted for him instead of Bush), I'm thinking that maybe, I too, should get fitted for my Wookie suit and be ready for something new.<br /><br />I have some carpet remnant in one of my basements. Perhaps I'll start there.Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-83067614438874309342011-01-12T11:31:14.620-05:002011-01-12T11:31:14.620-05:00The worst thing about Huckabee (for me, anyway) is...The worst thing about Huckabee (for me, anyway) is dealing with evangelicals who insist they have to vote for him because he's got a fish on his car -- <i>all other considerations be damned</i>. Gah.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952078709114872197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-80012241663567446172011-01-12T11:26:00.462-05:002011-01-12T11:26:00.462-05:00If Mike Huckabee is the nominee, I'll probably...If Mike Huckabee is the nominee, I'll probably give up on voting. Maybe for good.<br /><br />I can't say I'm in love with Mitch Daniels, but he's way better than most of the crop of candidates we've had in Republican presidential primaries since I started voting. He's imperfect. But he's also one of only two governors in America who told the feds to take their bailout money and shove it. Counts for a lot, in my book.<br /><br />Jindal/Palin (or the reverse) would be a dream ticket. Chris Christie's also somebody I'd be thrilled to see on the ticket, but he's still too desperately needed in the job he's already got.lelnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600824544185328505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63091790854838578452011-01-12T09:44:33.720-05:002011-01-12T09:44:33.720-05:00I am no wookie, but I swear if Huckabee is the GOP...I am no wookie, but I swear if Huckabee is the GOP nominee, I will be voting Libertarian...and stocking up on (more) ammo.<br /><br />I have voted Republican all my life, except for that one moment of stupid back in '92 when I pulled the lever for Perot, and I'm telling you that if they screw the pooch nominee-wise, I'm done with the GOP.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-46705503694004888002011-01-12T09:03:09.242-05:002011-01-12T09:03:09.242-05:00I always thought Huck's view of the Second Ame...I always thought Huck's view of the Second Amendment involved George Washington paddling across the Icy Delaware before dawn so he could get to a wicked sweet duck blind before the Red Coats shot all the Teal!Weer'd Beardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528978001340070552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65549311178885435882011-01-12T08:31:08.285-05:002011-01-12T08:31:08.285-05:00What wolfwalker said.What wolfwalker said.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-12323654436571747412011-01-12T08:20:11.436-05:002011-01-12T08:20:11.436-05:00Anybody from Minnesnowta who can discern the diffe...Anybody from Minnesnowta who can discern the difference between an orifice and an excavation will tell you that Pawlenty is the RINO from Hades. You almost have to be, in order to get elected in this state. He buckled under to "public pressure" (the lame-stream propaganda networks) from the state legislature and failed to veto multiple years of spending bills that have bankrupted the state, leaving us with a $6 billion deficit (which, with Mark "Run away" Dayton as the dot-gov, will be fixed only with tax increases, not spending cuts).<br /><br />He's probably less conservative than Giffords was, since an AZ dem-winger is probably better on most issues than a MN rep-winger.<br /><br />If Pawlenty is the best presidential candidate that the rep-wing can vomit out of its system for 2012, I'm going to throw away my vote on whoever the big-L Libertarian Party puts up as a candidate, 'cause I am NOT going to vote for him just because he's got an "R" behind his name.Blackwing1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30809277645021126222011-01-12T07:52:33.816-05:002011-01-12T07:52:33.816-05:00I don't know about anybody else, but I don'...I don't know about anybody else, but I don't like Huckabee because IMHO he combines the worst of both worlds for the GOP: on many issues he's a RINO, and on others he's a religious ideologue. Any candidate who supports McCain-type immigration reform, supports 'alternative energy,' supports cap-and-trade, and yet wants to reintroduce religious indoctrination into public schools is not a candidate I can support. No how, no way, not gonna happen, don't even ask 'cause my mind's made up.wolfwalkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-44485344444185071762011-01-12T06:16:36.868-05:002011-01-12T06:16:36.868-05:00NJT: 'Our Man' Mitch HATES public educatio...NJT: 'Our Man' Mitch HATES public education and he would rather kill it than correct or improve it. Wants all 'charter' schools. Might work in cities, but leaves the rural areas, which were poor to start with, even worse under his proposals.<br /><br />I am NOT a Mitch Daniels fan, plus he screwed up our time zones...<br /><br />All The Best,<br />Frank W. JamesFrank W. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589579734134153159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-421747197248109132011-01-12T06:05:54.109-05:002011-01-12T06:05:54.109-05:00What, Bob Dole wasn't answering his phone?What, Bob Dole wasn't answering his phone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-89686276646389756992011-01-11T23:42:51.271-05:002011-01-11T23:42:51.271-05:00kahr40 -The press is constantly trying to tell us ...<b>kahr40</b> -<i>The press is constantly trying to tell us who's electable within the GOP and they always seem to be RINOs like Huck and Romney.</i><br /><br />Yep. Pretty neat way to stack the deck, and the same way we wound up with Yosemite Sam back in '08. "Let's convince the reichwingers to nominate the candidate who is really least attractive to them but also least offensive to us. How can we do that? [thinks] I know! We'll convince them that he's a moderate who can attract the independents, and is really the only candidate who can POSSIBLY win! MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-58709739316582022482011-01-11T23:36:09.364-05:002011-01-11T23:36:09.364-05:00Problem is, there's a bunch of good governor a...Problem is, there's a bunch of good governor and mayoral material mentioned in this thread, but not a potus among 'em, imo.<br /><br />Where's a good b-grade eureka-grad actor when you need him?<br /><br />ATAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-54959682198527165212011-01-11T23:35:45.130-05:002011-01-11T23:35:45.130-05:00Romney? Frack No!Romney? Frack No!Bubblehead Les.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00730873284089958084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65350378203377759972011-01-11T23:27:15.748-05:002011-01-11T23:27:15.748-05:00Well, yes, he seems to be good on the 2nd Amendmen...Well, yes, he seems to be good on the 2nd Amendment, but other than that, he's basically an anti-abortion version of Bill Clinton, politics-wise.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45857426693547471392011-01-11T23:19:53.554-05:002011-01-11T23:19:53.554-05:00Start with howling economic illiteracy, on the ord...Start with howling economic illiteracy, on the order of Jimmeh Peanut.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-9431818291047289932011-01-11T23:01:32.070-05:002011-01-11T23:01:32.070-05:00Please tell us why you don't like Huckabee.Please tell us why you don't like Huckabee.Kansas Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15744438882831933314noreply@blogger.com