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2012-01-08 -Election 2012

To Win, GOP Candidates Must Confront Wars and Bush

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Posted by Hupans Gruse3699 2012-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 To win they must have better candidates who don't put their country club owners first.

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-08 03:52|| 2012-01-08 03:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Or he (Bachmann is out, right?) can concentrate on the economy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-01-08 06:46|| 2012-01-08 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Bush, bush, bush. And (gasp)WARS!

Democrats prefer the dictators that tell them they are little people, not Presidents that defend them for real.

Posted by newc 2012-01-08 08:10|| 2012-01-08 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 One day I saw an unfortunate cat laying on the road, alive that had been struck. Its internal organs were exposed and it pawed at them as if they could be pushed back in. This is what the Republican and liberal media tools are good at. This is just more fuel added to the left assult upon any opposion of their ilk. Lets remind everybody again that "its Bushes fault". Perhaps Regan, Nixon, even Goldwater is mentioned from time to time. Problem noadays is the young don't know who your talking about anymore. Nor do they care. Just show me the money. Where do I vote and for... which one was that?.

Posted by Dale 2012-01-08 09:27|| 2012-01-08 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Diana West is right. Iraq cost us $1T and 5000 dead GI's. It deserves to be known as Bush's Folly. That $1T could have bought us the full complement of F-22's and F-35's. Instead, we frittered it away on fighting insurgents in Ramadi and dozens of other similar hellholes in Iraq. Fighting that war made it impossible for Bush to do any of the domestic budget cutting he had planned - he needed to shore up popular support for the war. Ultimately, Iraq got us Obamacare, by delivering large majorities in both houses to the Democrats, as well as radicalizing Democrats to the point that they chose Obama over Hillary for the presidency.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2012-01-08 09:58|| 2012-01-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 ZF, what makes you think GWB would have cut the domestic budget, NCLF? Bush is a big gov't conservative and would have done little more than he did under any circs. Not to say he wasn't miles better than any of the Dimmi alternatives.

Posted by AlanC 2012-01-08 11:45|| 2012-01-08 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Five thousand dead American troops prevented how many 9/11 attacks at 3,000 civilians per plus billions or hundreds of billions of dollars in business lost and rebuilding costs? Five thousand dead American troops gave us how many tens of thousands of dead jihadis in Iraq and the Af-Pak region alone, let alone in the less-heralded battle spaces? Five thousand dead American troops and the philosophers of jihad suddenly began rethinking their position, deciding that those engaged in terror to establish the caliphate were fasting themselves for the depths of the Muslim hell rather than paradise.

We didn,t start the war. But by God, we brought it to the attention of the Muslim world -- not to mention everyone else -- that picking a fight with us is a very, very bad idea, one that Allah will not step up to support.. At a trillion dollars, 5,000 dead, and a great many more wounded, we got off cheap.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-01-08 13:53|| 2012-01-08 13:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I considered a response to Zang Fei, but trying to remember an old saying about an animal in the genus Sus (within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates) combined with the formal process of deliberately transmitting the skill of producing sound by means of carefully controlling a stream of air flowing through a small opening in one's lips, distracted me.

Posted by Pappy 2012-01-08 14:02|| 2012-01-08 14:02|| Front Page Top

#9 ZF can't be educated in regards to the power of evil. He is part of the usefull idiot rah-raf section of evil.

Dollar Count Listening to a financial analyst who (correctly) estimated a year ago that a 17% increase in revenue would occur in 2011 by US publicly held companies. As in the years past that was supposed to increase the value of the stock market by 17% but did not. It increased by only 5%. WHY?? Becuase of Obama using the power of the US to support instability in Egypt, Lybia, etc, etc, which rattled investors, something they never saw the US do.

Body count Now that the US has pulled out of Iraq the body count of innocent people has sored in Iraq during the past three weeks, another bloody killing field that has just been created by Obama by pulling out the force that provided security there for the ME, and thus rapidly converting the ME into another breading ground for forces of darkness that will again strike at the heart of the US as in 9.11.11.

Posted by Unush Panda7572 2012-01-08 15:41|| 2012-01-08 15:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh. And lets not talk about inflation that MSM has refused to bring to light. Gas prices have increased 100% since Obama took up residence in the White House and food at least 25%. And count on 2012 being REAL hyper in those areas....

Posted by Unush Panda7572 2012-01-08 15:45|| 2012-01-08 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Consider how 5,000 american (or british) lives might have snuffed out Nazi expansionist ideas back in the 30's - and perhaps saved millions of lives later on. Prevented the holocast, etc...

Not to draw a direct comparison or saying that it actually did - nobody (outside of God) knows what would have been the result of we hadn't.

The folly comes in when Obama gets in and throws all that away - wasting the sacrifice of those 5,000. Very publically bowing to our enemies and insults our closest allies. Literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq.

Locking us into an energy policy where we would never be independant.

Posted by CrazyFool 2012-01-08 16:13|| 2012-01-08 16:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Most of those 5,000 lives were wasted on trying to keep Iraq one country.

Iraq will split into 3 anyway, assuming Turkey doesn't try and reestablish the Caliphate.

Posted by phil_b 2012-01-08 16:56|| 2012-01-08 16:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Some have forgotten the pre-Tea Party 'Porkbusters' who rose against the shift of the Trunks towards simply being Donks lite with 'spend spend spend' and the pre-Obamacare federal prescription program by which those same Trunks greased the arrival of Obamacare. Selling out the core of the party drove many away from the polls allowing the Donks to attain the power they did as much as anything about the war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-01-08 20:47|| 2012-01-08 20:47|| Front Page Top

#14 To win, GOP candidates must confront Bambi and the DemoncRats.

Nice try.

Posted by Barbara 2012-01-08 21:11|| 2012-01-08 21:11|| Front Page Top

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