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GOP's 2012 hopefuls crowd town they love to hate

World Feb. 21, 2010 - 03:50PM JST ( 19 )

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SargeFeb. 21, 2010 - 06:59PM JST

"Gov Mike Huckabee"

He ought to run with Chuck Norris as his VP - the Huck & Chuck team!

"Mississippi Gov Haley Barbour"

President Barbour...hmmm...
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LIBERTASFeb. 21, 2010 - 07:42PM JST

Newt Gingrich: adulterer, drunk and compulsive liar. Yeah, a superb Presidential candidate. Folks get the leaders they deserve!
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stirfryFeb. 21, 2010 - 07:55PM JST

gingrich is still alive ? he should just crawl back under his rock
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delrennichFeb. 21, 2010 - 09:10PM JST

The republicans are just a bunch of idiots. Look at their figureheads: Palin, Newt Gingrich, and the worst President in American history: George W. Bush. History will tell whether or not Obama is a one-termer...he's just trying to fix all the problems created under Bush's tenure. I never understood why right wingers are anti-abortion but pro-gun. Aren't anti-abortion laws government interference, something conservatives rally around? If you pick apart all the things conservatives stand for, you'll find an amazing list of hypocrisies. The republicans that I know all wish for some ideal American past: white, Christian, 1950s suburbia.
Democrats aren't perfect either, but they seem more educated and more aware of the world than their Republican brethren.
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yabitsFeb. 21, 2010 - 09:28PM JST

Democrats don't look all that good....

Until you look at the alternatives.
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pawatanFeb. 21, 2010 - 09:53PM JST

For the love of all that is good can we put a moratorium on 2012 election speculation until at the absolute, very barest minimum less than 2 years before the election? It's almost 3 years away, for God's sake!
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TheQuestionFeb. 21, 2010 - 11:45PM JST

The republicans are just a bunch of idiots.

I agree, but they are organized which is more than can be said for the dems. They've also managed to, rather successfully, undermine one of the largest congressional majorities in a century. For the past few decades it really has been a case of the republicans playing chess while the democrats played checkers. Hopefully all of this partisan BS will let some centrist Independents gain traction.

If you pick apart all the things conservatives stand for, you'll find an amazing list of hypocrisies.

Also agreed, however you can easily substitute 'liberals' for 'conservatives' and it would be equally true. All politicians lie, its their job, its why we vote for them. I've always believed that those running for office should have a significant (25-30 year) background in business, management, or a strong, tested military history but what we have instead are career politicians with little or no actual life experience, this is equally true on both sides of the aisle.

Democrats aren't perfect either, but they seem more educated and more aware of the world than their Republican brethren.

I disagree, by and large both parties are relatively equal in terms of ignorance.
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WeaselFeb. 22, 2010 - 01:17AM JST

The more things change, the more things always stay the same. When citizens choose to be willfully ignorant and continue to elect rich ******** who don't care about them, folks shouldn't be shocked when you get the same results each election.
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Helter_SkelterFeb. 22, 2010 - 05:56AM JST

Democrats aren't perfect either, but they seem more educated and more aware of the world than their Republican brethren.

Really? Seems to me Ivy League elitists like Obama are even more out of touch with reality.
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SargeFeb. 22, 2010 - 07:24AM JST

"Obama's weakened poll numbers"

What's up with that?

"Democrats don't look all that good"

Agreed.
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OdogmaFeb. 22, 2010 - 09:05AM JST

Aren't anti-abortion laws government interference, something conservatives rally around?

You are lost.
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GJDailleultFeb. 22, 2010 - 12:49PM JST

Ron Paul wins the straw poll, but he isn't listed among the politicians who were there. Is he playing hard to get?
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skipthesongFeb. 22, 2010 - 04:05PM JST

Repubs, I wouldn't go around counting my chickens before they are hatched. I think that is what you are doing.

Third and fourth parties - oh where are you?
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SargeFeb. 22, 2010 - 06:12PM JST

skip, heck, we've had got third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and more parties like forever. We've got a plethora of parties! But we're a two-party system, where one of the two major parties controls the Congress and/or the White House. Perot tried the third party route and he got burned. The Republicans will re-discover their conservative roots and win back power and help us to re-take our country back from the Democrats who are bankrupting us.
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skipthesongFeb. 22, 2010 - 11:11PM JST

Perot tried the third party route and he got burned. The Republicans will re-discover their conservative roots and win back power and help us to re-take our country back from the Democrats who are bankrupting us."

You don't get it do you? I don't want the repubs nor the dems controlling things. They both have been failing us time and time again. Take a look at how members of the dem party were FORCED or bribed to pass their health care bill....

I want all elected officials to drop their party once elected and be their own man/woman not follow a party.
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HonestDictatorFeb. 23, 2010 - 05:32AM JST

TheQuestion and Skip, good posts and exactly how I feel. I could care less about political party lines and more about people that want to do whats best for our country.
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yabitsFeb. 23, 2010 - 06:17AM JST

I could care less about political party lines and more about people that want to do whats best for our country.

This is meaningless malarky. Who decides what is best? Take any issue -- reproductive rights, for example: Is it best for the country that women have access to an operation which will safely terminate a preganancy? If not, why not?

You can go down the list on any issue, and end up exactly where we are today.
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HonestDictatorFeb. 23, 2010 - 05:38PM JST

@ yabits Hey, I can vote for whoever I feel like. Doesn't mean the neighbors next door will be voting for the same person I do, thats what democracy is about. Majority of like minded people get someone in office that come as close to possible to represent the POV of that majority.

Some repubs are pro-choice and some dems are pro-life. I may not agree with certain representatives on all issues and there is absolutely no way you or I will find a candidate that is 100% with us on all issues. But if they see a problem (like our country's current economic situation) and rise up to make good choices in an attempt to fix it instead of grandstanding and ignoring the problem that is a person that is interested in whats best for the country.