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2008-01-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 The only qualified democrat. I liked the chubby guy but he did not know anything about the world we live in.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-01-10 01:10|| 2008-01-10 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Bill who? You mean, he's still alive?

Posted by Mike 2008-01-10 02:20|| 2008-01-10 02:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Ima guessing that ~~our~~ the two degenerate political parties and the Networks decided that presidential races will be two f'n years long from now on?

/Dreaming of Revolution...

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-10 03:11|| 2008-01-10 03:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess Richardson realizes Silky Pony will grab the Veep nomination on the Donks side, from all indications. Some rumors going on about his people trying to make a deal with Obama so as to trhow wll their efforts behin O to beat Hildabeeste. And that freezes out Richardson, so he cuts hhis losses and starts running for Sec Interior or Sec State.

I wish Duncan Hunter would see the handwriting like Richardsons has. Hunter should realize that its over now, and he need to throw what he has left behind the only other consistently conservatvie guy on the Trunks side, Fred, who is in dire need of help.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-01-10 06:48|| 2008-01-10 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 He could've had the open Senate seat being vacated by Domenici(R). The other seat is occupied by another Donk and won't be open for several more years. He has enough support from the usual suspects and has done a half way decent job of governor [for a Donk], to take it, but he put his ego in the Prez race.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-10 08:19|| 2008-01-10 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe he should've cried or...sumthin?

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-10 08:36|| 2008-01-10 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Or had his stomach stapled and slimmed down on the Huckabee Diet.

I think it is hilarious how quickly Richardson decided to thrown Clinton under the bus. Obama won't think him for it and if she wins all those months of kissing ass will have been for nothing.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-10 10:03|| 2008-01-10 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Funny how Edwards and Richardson both went for the VP slot and both tried to side up with Obama. I wonder if they smell a winner, or if they know HIllary has a VP choice already.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-01-10 10:45|| 2008-01-10 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 As Mark Steyn likes to say, the Clintons' dominance of the Dems has been good for the Clintons and bad for the Dems. I suspect there's a large chunk of the party that wants them gone.

Posted by Mike 2008-01-10 11:30|| 2008-01-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I wish Duncan Hunter would see the handwriting like Richardsons has. Hunter should realize that its over now, and he need to throw what he has left behind the only other consistently conservatvie guy on the Trunks side, Fred, who is in dire need of help.

Hunter might do that if Fred would get off his ass and start campaigning. I mean, did Fred show up in New Hampshire at all? Did he show up in Iowa? Where is he now? Did he say anything of any significance during last Saturday's televised debates? I don't mean to take anything away from the guy but I don't get the feeling that he has any sense of urgency...no "fire in the belly". Maybe it's good he doesn't talk as fast as Giuliani but at some point he is gonna have to jump in there and mix it up with those guys.

If I was Hunter I would stay in the race at least until it gets to California and then see what happens. You people all seem to forget California where, unlike New Hampshire, immigration is the number one issue, Hunter has the correct position on it, people know who he is and it's about damn time we stopped waiting until June to vote because we have a few more delegates than New Hampshire.

I am sick and tired of the primaries being "all over" before they get to California...before I even get to vote. Are the voters in New Hampshire more important than me? I don't think so. From what I saw they looked like a bunch of kooks...falling for Hillary's tears and voting for McCain.

Hunter might end up with a few bargaining chips at the convention. I certainly hope he does. And that would be the time for him to use them.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-10 15:34|| 2008-01-10 15:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Fred is campaigning hard - spend 3 weeks in Iowa on a bus campaign, and bumped from 9 up to 14 percent. And he skipped NH, because its all about drawing independants there - same with Michigan: they are states the lets anyone vote in any primary (which is Why McCain won, despeite getting barely a third of the Republican votes cast). He is busting ass in SC, and has been there several times already, and is there now on another bus tour, and has several million in ad spending lined up, and now doing the radio and direct mail.

If you look at the history, Iowa tends to pick a religious or populist (Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and noe Huckabee), NH tends to place the most conservative candidates in LAST PLACE and "crossovers" in first. South Carolina is one of the first basiclly conservative states in social and military and fiscal conservative matters (unlike Iowa and NH).

Starting with Iowa aqnd NH really makes the Republicans shoot themselves inthe foot - Iowa produces usesless candidates, and NH produces non-Republican ones.

Hunter is better than any of the other candidates, but he simply is not going anywhere. And if we dont get more peopel behind Fred, neither is he, which could leave us conservatives trying to choose between McCain vs Huckabee.

Sad.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-01-10 18:23|| 2008-01-10 18:23|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm supporting Fred, OS.

Yes, with money. I'll make another donation next week.

When's the SC primary?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-10 18:46|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-10 18:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Sad indeed. OldSpook. Iowa and New Hampshire are not representative of the national electorate so it is really screwed up that they have such a disproportionate influence on which candidates get to go on to other states. Sad that the networks decide Hunter is not a "viable" candidate and won't let him debate anymore just because the kooks in New Hampshire say so. I've said it before, Fred might be the guy. But I still like Hunter.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-10 19:13|| 2008-01-10 19:13|| Front Page Top

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