Ron Paul won’t quit the race, insisting that actual conservatives have a candidate to vote for at the Convention. He has been smeared as a racist by association, as now seems to be the main way to destroy or attempt to destroy any genuinely reformist politics in America. But his legacy will endure because, as Michael Grunwald points out, he actually represents something honorable:
When his fellow candidates denounced big government, Paul was there to remind them that President Bush and the G.O.P. Congress had shattered spending records and exploded the deficit. When they hailed freedom, Paul asked why they all supported the Patriot Act and other expansions of executive power. And when they called themselves conservatives, Paul asked what was so conservative about sending thousands of young Americans to try to transform the Middle East.
These questions have not and will not go away. At its very best, Iraq, it is now more than apparent, is a decades-long, bankrupting, utopian liberal attempt to build a democratic culture where no such culture has ever existed; and at worst, it is a corrupting, demoralizing cancer on America’s reputation and power in the world.
So you all want an answer to why the media is in blacking out Ron Paul?
I have that answer.
The Media wants McCain to win the Republican Nomination.
Why you ask?
100 more years, thats why. The Media has conducted their polls, they know damn well that an overwhelming amount of the U.S. Population wants out, around 72%, and that poll is conducted on land lines, not even including a lot of the youth, that would be forced into the war if a draft was put into effect.
The Media, wants McCain, because the Media does not want a Republican in Office in 2008.
Unbelievable. In a nation that is 70% against war, it looks like the American electorate wants to overwhelmingly vote in the most pro-war candidate in recent history.
A man who finished at the bottom of his graduating class in the Navy
A man that regularly swears violently at colleagues
A man that has been quoted saying flat out racist things again and again
A man that wanted amnesty for millions of illegal mexicans
A man that crashed a near record FIVE planes while a pilot - almost entirely due to gross incompetance
McCain may be the most disgusting man to ever run for president, excluding Giuliani. And Americans want him?!?!?! Good god.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Much of the attention in the race for the Republican presidential nomination has narrowed to Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, apparently irking rivals former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
As McCain and Romney stressed their conservative credentials at a debate Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan presidential library, Huckabee tried to get a word in — and Paul interjected, too, both with little success.
“There are a number of pieces of legislation where his views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought,” Romney said, chastizing McCain for his initial support for giving amnesty to illegal immigrants and opposing drilling for oil in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.
Mr. Namedropper Extraordinaire has a little problem with the “facts.”
–which means he fits right in with the neocon crowd because they think they can make it up as they go along.
Did I hear McCain say in response to Ron that Ike didn’t run on promising to get us out of Korea? Well, here’s a transcript of one of his campaign ads:
“‘Announcer: Eisenhower answers America.
“‘Man: General, the Democrats are telling me I never had it so good.
“‘Eisenhower: Can that be true when America is billions in debt, and prices have doubled and taxes break our backs, and we are still fighting in Korea. It’s tragic. And it’s time for a change.’”
Less than a month after a huge upset victory, and promises that fundraising would be ramped up, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is asking his senior staff to keep working for him without pay, while lower level campaign staff are seeing their salaries cut dramatically or eliminated altogether.
“The goal is to get a leaner, meaner campaign structure moving into Super Tuesday,” says a senior campaign adviser.
But many of those being asked to take the cut are refusing, and walking away, leaving the campaign with holes to fill.
“The money simply hasn’t come in at the rate that we expected,” says the aide. “Florida is a $7 million commitment that we can’t meet, and if we did, that leaves us exposed for Super Tuesday, where we have a lot of states and a lot media buys. We had to make tough decisions.”
On the rather late date of Sept. 4, 2007, Fred Thomspon sat on Jay Leno’s couch and declared that he was running for President, adding, “I don’t think people are going to say, ‘That guy would make a very good President, but he just didn’t get in soon enough.’” Thompson was right. It wasn’t the lateness of his entry — fully six months after most of his rivals — that killed his campaign. It was the candidate’s own perceived apathy.
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson withdrew Tuesday from the White House race. Here’s his statement:
McLean, VA - Senator Fred Thompson today issued the following statement about his campaign for President:
“Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.”
From here it’s expected that Thompson will endorse his old colleague McCain. Indeed, he has already helped McCain: by staying in the race he drew Evangelical support from former Arkansas Mike Huckabee, helping McCain to a win in South Carolina. Though if McCain is envisioning all-night bus tours and tireless stumping from Thompson, he might be making the same mistake many Republicans did when Thompson got into the race: he may be expecting a little too much.
Last night, Fox News anchor Brit Hume kicked off the network’s South Carolina GOP debate by asking the candidates if “the American commander in the Strait of Hormuz the other day [made] the right decision by responding passively when approached aggressively by Iranian fast boats believed to be from the Revolutionary Guards.”
Almost all of the candidates responded with hawkish, war-mongering rhetoric.
Former governor Mike Huckabee replied that the Iranians should “be prepared that the next things you see will be the gates of Hell.” “One more step and they would have been introduced to those virgins that they’re looking forward to seeing,” said former senator Fred Thompson.
“This incident should wake a lot of people up,” said former mayor Rudy Giuliani. “Don’t think that this wasn’t a serious situation of the utmost seriousness,” added Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Guess what, today the Navy commander of the fifth fleet was on ABC and announced that, “you know, that voice might not have come from those vessels.” So what does that mean? Was there a rush to judgment on this, ready to go to war? … And we don’t need another war, and this incident should not be thrown out of proportion to the point where we’re getting ready to attack Iran over this.
In exclusive interview, the president discusses politics, Iraq and religion.
JERUSALEM - President Bush said Friday he doesn’t take it personally when Democratic and Republican presidential candidates embrace change as a major campaign theme.
“Oh, listen, if you’re running for office, you can’t run for office and not say, ‘I’m an agent of change,’” Bush told NBC News’ David Gregory. “That’s just American politics. If I were running for office at this point I’d be saying, ‘Vote for me, I’m — I’m gonna be an agent of change.’”
The president declined to comment on any of the current presidential candidates, but he left little doubt he would support the eventual Republican nominee.
Ron Paul won’t quit the race, insisting that actual conservatives have a candidate to vote for at the Convention. He has been smeared as a racist by association, as now seems to be the main way to destroy or attempt to destroy any genuinely reformist politics in America. But his legacy will endure because, as Michael Grunwald points out, he actually represents something honorable:
Less than a month after a huge upset victory, and promises that fundraising would be ramped up, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is asking his senior staff to keep working for him without pay, while lower level campaign staff are seeing their salaries cut dramatically or eliminated altogether.
On the rather late date of Sept. 4, 2007, Fred Thomspon sat on Jay Leno’s couch and declared that he was running for President, adding, “I don’t think people are going to say, ‘That guy would make a very good President, but he just didn’t get in soon enough.’” Thompson was right. It wasn’t the lateness of his entry — fully six months after most of his rivals — that killed his campaign. It was the candidate’s own perceived apathy.
Last night, Fox News anchor Brit Hume kicked off the network’s 