fred quits
on 01/22/2008 at 02:38 PM
Well as for me, I’ll either write him in anyway, vote Libertarian, or not vote at all. I’m sure as hell not going to take time out of my day to play “pick your tyrant.”
Maybe if we can make enough noise and get enough millions of bloggers to say they’re gonna write him in anyway… who knows, maybe he’ll rethink it.
I am not as charitable as Oldfartman. I have serious doubts about FT’s ability to run the country after watching him run such an ineffective campaign. Hopefully Fred makes another run at it in 4 or 8 years, and who knows maybe he’ll be chosen by the eventual nominee to run as VP.
McCain strays a little too far left of center for me, but seems like the best possible candidate to keep Bill and Hillary from stealing anything else out of the White House.
sad day for conservatives.......sigh.
mccain is way to far left for me. rudy does not like guns etc, looks like mitt for me.........a repub. in a liberal state but he has management skills [ but overcoming his religion in America might be tuff]. sigh...........go mitt!Fred’s poor showing as a campiagner is part of his charm for me. Running the country is a managerial job. It requires completely different skills from kissing the media’s collective ass and sucking up to whatever voting bloc your advisors think you should go after TODAY. A poor showing is precisely what I’d expect from someone who stands by his principles and isn’t going to abandon them for fear that _____________ will be offended and not vote for him. If we base our votes on how good a con man a candidate is, a con man is all we’ll get.
If I thought the popularity contest was all that mattered in a President I’d vote for Johnny Depp.My problem with McCain is not so much his being too far left, as that you can’t prove by me that he stands for anything at all. He *claims* to stand for whatever he thinks the voters want to hear… and then votes for whatever advances his own personal power.
Just like Backup Osama and Pillory Clinton. And 99%+ of any of the rest of the politicians you care to name. I consider Fred to be the first one who stayed with what he claimed to support since Newt Gingrich.
I don’t agree 100% with Fred either, but at least with Fred I think you’d actually have gotten what you paid for.Just another casualty of the multi-day/month/week primary system.. why can’t all primaries be held on the same day so the whole country gets to vote on all the candidates that decide to run?
the regional primary proposition i saw looked pretty good...........can it happen??
rotating regions should work...............The problem with Fred is that he didn’t always seem to be interested in the job. Managerial are different from campaigning skills, but the campaign is the job interview. As much as I like Fred’s simple basics, he just couldn’t get anything moving.
I don’t care if you call McCain lefty, flip floppy or whatever. The problem is that he’s all over the map and seems to have the iron will of a bed of kelp. Nice smile and he keeps on trying, but I can’t see having him in the White House.
Huckabee I’ll actually class with McCain. Something’s wrong there. I recommend looking up Ann Coulter’s columns on him. The nicest thing she has to say is that he is what liberals think conservatives are.
So, Giuliani or Romney? Anyone think we can somehow keep Giuliani’s liberal inclinations under control? He might not be too bad then. Romney’s religion probably does rule him out, but who knows? All the Mormons I’ve known have been pretty decent folk. Maybe I’m not the only one who’s noticed this.
Finish on a happy note! I caught a short clip of Obama tearing into the Hildebeast for exporting U.S. jobs. Whatever you think about him otherwise, in Hillary’s case, he’s saying what “the vast right wing conspiracy” has known for years. It actually felt good hearing it from a Democrat. Is there some chance that the truth of Hillary Clinton may come out yet? She is easily one of the most devious, dangerous and power hungry politicians I have seen in decades. Think it would be appropriate to call her the Dragon Lady or shall we stick with Hildebeast?
I’ve been calling her “Pillory” since the healthcare plan. The original one, that is. It describes what she thinks should be done with anyone who offers her any tiniest amount of criticism. She’s rather reminiscent of a Muslim Imam in that respect.
The Republicans are in this quandary because the heir apparent; Colin Powell, got all weak in the knees after being labeled an Uncle Tom by race baiting liberals. Its my humble opinion that conservatives would have rallied around this Rockefeller Republican if he had run.
So why not give McCain, who provides the Republicans a candidate with at least a snowball’s chance in hell of winning over independent and moderate Democrat voters during the general election?
Weak in the knees is right for old Colon. And not just after the Uncle Tom thing. Even back when he could talk a good talk he was still always too eager for consensus .. in other words , quickly abandoning his position to meet the opposition “halfway”.
I think he would have been a superb candidate if he could have survived SoS. But he couldn’t clean up State, couldn’t get them away from the Clinton mindset, couldn’t/didn’t get the President’s policies accepted there, and wound up being a weak link in the Bush admin. Granted it may have been a near impossible task - State and CIA have both fought Bush tooth and nail since day one, and very little has been done about it.
Powell also had a problem after being publicly embarrassed. I still wouldn’t mind seeing him go for it. btw - where was he born?
Colin Powell was born in New York City and raised in the South Bronx. His parents were immigrants from Jamaica.
Its probably too late for him to run as a Republican but I’d vote for him if he entered the race as an Independent.
Of course my vote is contingent upon his position about taxes, firearms and protecting America.
Fred’s Still on the Ballot in AZ!
01/22/2008 at 05:46 PM
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