Not sure how I feel about this guy yet, but definitely some good stuff in this article.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...h-to-veterans/
"American soldiers should be led by American commanders." Amen to that.
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Not sure how I feel about this guy yet, but definitely some good stuff in this article.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...h-to-veterans/
"American soldiers should be led by American commanders." Amen to that.
Good stuff, I'm not a 100% on him, but I like what I keep hearing.
+1
Same here. I actually voted against him in the last TX gubernatorial race. I voted for Kathy Glass on the Libertarian ticket. She wanted to get rid of TX's concealed handgun licenses saying that the 2nd Amendment is your right to carry, concealed or otherwise. And she had an awesome view on illegal immigration. Of course Perry kicked her butt, but I went with who I thought was best.Quote:
Originally Posted by UberTong
It will be interesting to continue to watch the GOP race.
As a veteran, and it makes me sad, I joined during the Bush administration. I followed everything from the lead up to the election right down to the inauguration (the whole time wishing McCain was CiC). I have to say, while I wore the uniform I had ZERO respect for the man who was our Commander in Chief from 2008-now, but I did respect the position and had to follow orders, even if I did constantly question the legitimacy of how the man attained said position. Perry on the other hand, well I have a lot of respect for him. He openly admits he never saw combat, and never claims he wanted to (because every true warrior wishes for peace, but is prepared to fight), but shows unrelenting support for anyone who wore the uniform. Great man, and I sure hope someone like him can give this current dickhead in office the boot.
Can't stand Rick Perry, but good stuff in that article...
I'm gonna go out on a limb now and predict Rick Perry will be the republican nominee.
He's not my first choice but he's definitely on the short list. I wouldn't have any problem voting for him.
How about a Perry/Bachmann ticket? Or even Bachmann/Perry? That might be a good match.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
I'd throw in my vote! Bachmann has said some very good things lately about how she really truly wants to turn this failboat around... Perry just would do much better for our armed forces- which I believe Obama is failing right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpienads
MB is still my favorite. An MB/RP or RP/MB ticket would be awesome.
Agreed.
That ticket would scare a lot of the more libertarian or non-social conservatives pretty far away. Including myself...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpienads
2012 = Perry/Bachman
2016 = Perry/Bachman
2020 = Bachman/West
2024 = Bachman/West
2028 and 2032 = West/?
There. Pretty well maps out the next 25 years.
AHHHHHH, SHIT! That would be sweet. [Ban3]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Of course I still believe that change needs to come from individuals and work it's way up to the federal government. If we wait for top down change, it's never gonna happen. Until we place the emphasis on state and local elections and elect only those that, for better or worse, will tell the federal government to stay in their lane and/or go f*ck themselves, things will never be as they should.
Bachmann is fucking nuts, and Perry isn't far behind from what he keeps saying.
The liberal media has claimed another one!Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
I'm with Deus here, and I don't think it's at fault of the media. She says enough crazy shit to make me believe that all on her own...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
Yup, must have read Newsweek last week..... what a shame!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
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Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
Would you guys mind giving examples? I've heard her speak a few times, and every time I have I can't remember hearing anything that sounded crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ghettodub
Uh, she's saying the earthquake and Irene are messages from god to Washington about spending.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpienads
I don't like Perry's ties to Merck and his executive order requiring all teen girls in Texas be required to get the HPV vaccine...a vaccine that at the time only Merck sold.
He's not terrible otherwise. He's too religious for me. His spending record in Texas doesn't give me any hope he'd do anything to help while President.
Currently, he might be the best the GOP can put out. And it wouldn't be terrible. But Bachmann..no fucking way.
I would rather that folk like Bachman, West, Paul, Rubio, McCotter and other congresspersons/senators that folk keep talking about for pres or vp stay in the legislature where they actually do some good.
Becoming president or VP means you'll have a few more years of relivance and then you retire ... other than a VP becoming president immediately after 8 years as VP you never see presidents or vice presidents go on to do anything but write a book and collect speaking fees.
We have a lot of ass kickers in the legislature now (and I believe we'll get an additional crop in the 2012 election). At this point, The guy in the whitehouse just has to be a rubberstamp machine.
We have a tendency to look at who is in the whitehouse and judge the "era" by that man (or woman maybe someday). But the real power is in the house and senate.
Look at Bush. He was mediocre but things didn't really go to shit until the dems took over the house and senate in 2006.
I will gladly pull the lever for Perry (much better than McLame or Romney).
They did the same thing with Palin... made her out to seem like a complete idiot, when in later interviews after the election she complained that they twisted and edited her to come off looking like a fool... Hence why I think Katie Couric is a dirty c*nt! Now they're twisting Bachmann's words. I guess the lib media is frightened of female politicians that aren't with the democrack party.
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Originally Posted by Ronin13
It's OK to have minority candidates, judges etc., ONLY if you are a democrack! If not, then all the BS they preach about being the minority party doesn't count. What hypocrites’!
+1 for Palin
Oh, you guys have done it now. All the Palin haters are going to come out of the woodwork and thrash you good. They don't have a f**kin clue why but they'll sure tell you Palin is an idiot.
I like Sarah. I wish she had a real shot at the title.
+100Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Bailey Guns, this will get their panties in a wad then......
Very interesting facts on two very different women.
Sarah Palin
Whether you're a Democrat, Independent or Republican the second half of this email should make all of us very sick, send this on especially the second half.
READ TO THE VERY END, VERY ENLIGHTENING AND VERY DISTURBING!
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things I'm about to mention here.
1.Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC), sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing, wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la." Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
2.Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested; Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3.The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining she already had a car and dismissing her State-provided security force (never mentioning - she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4.Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5.For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6.President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to Alaska after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better..
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the Democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her.I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.
So "You go, Girl.." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty and morals. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media
The establishment politicians both DemocRAT and RepubliCON-MEN are scared she'll get elected, some of them could end up in jail to...
NOWIf you've read this far open your eyes..........
First Lady Michelle Obama's Servant List and Pay Scale
TheFirst Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants (22 Attendants to be exact)
1. $172,200- Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000- Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000- Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000- Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000- Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000- Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000- Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000- Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000- Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000- Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000- Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000- Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000- Fitts, Alan O... (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500- Lewis, Dana M.. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500- Mustaphi, Semonti M.. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16. $50,000- Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special-2Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
17. $45,000- Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000- Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19.. $40,000- Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20.. $36,000- Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000- Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000- Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)(This is community organizing at it's finest.)
Bless her heart, I guess it takes $1.5 million to try to make her look good it (but it didn't work).
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49 & "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe..
FRIENDS, THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE? AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION? WELL, MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT'S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY….
Copyright 2009 CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress..com/
Yes, Yes, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist.
Holy shit N8tive! I knew a lot about Palin and the good she did for AK and the good she'd do if in an even higher office, but that really digs in and tells you what she's really about. And then Michelle O, what a joke. I think after they exile her husband for treason and defiling the constitution, they should strap her to a Saturn V rocket and "to the moon, Alice!" Like you always say with one addition "Worst President ever... with an even worse First Lady."
It's eye opening isn't it. It drives me nuts when people start bashing her based on what they see in the media (Katie Couric). They have no idea how good she would be for this country! Instead, they let blind hatred and ignorance make the decisions for Americans. After all we elected the "worst president ever....with even a worse first lady"!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
Since we hit rock bottom, there is nowhere to go but up.
I want the stupid O out of office, so I will support whoever the independent moderates will support. Unless they are on board with the GOP candidate, then we have four more years of O S!!!!
It matters very little if a candidate wins the primary but losses the general election.
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Originally Posted by MED
It's too late for her this election. I hope whoever gets into office utilizes her experience and talents.
The media and left will just move on to the next one, probably Perry, way to religious and conservative.
I'm afraid the republican and the tea party are going to split the conservitive vote, and we'll have Obeyme for another four years.
Not with his party abandoning him. They have no one.Quote:
Originally Posted by mopar
By this time in 2013, he'll be giving useless speeches to heartbroken dims. Which is the only thing he is good at doing. I'll bet he will have a new book out to tout as well. (which was written on his watch when he should have been leading the country. Will it be called "Bush's fault?)
A) It shouldn't be nuts for an elected official to mention GOD. This country was founded on Christian principles, whether you believe in a deity or not. The values that accompany this is what made America once great. You guys (atheists, religion haters, whatever) are way too fucking sensitive on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
B) Reference Marlin's signature...SARCASM. Maybe she believes in Zeus too right?
I'm afraid we're going to get another mealy mouthed, middle of the road, moderate, "Democrat lite" Republican candidate (like McLame ... who only started to do well when the conservative firebrand Palin came aboard) and people will choose "the real thing" over the fake any day and we'll end up with O again.Quote:
Originally Posted by MED
Authentic, genuine conservatism wins every time.
"Independents" don't care about ideology (if they did they wouldn't be independents), they care about sincerity (or at least the appearance of it).
Independents flocked to Obama last time for two and only two reasons:
1) They wanted to be part of history (electing first black pres)
2) They believed he was sincere and "authentic".
Tong, just to play devils advocate here. You would be cool with references to Allah then?Quote:
Originally Posted by UberTong
3) They don't really stand for anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zundfolge
Sorry, Z...had to fix that for you.
While that's certainly a contributing factor (and frankly a big reason why people ARE independents) its still not a reason ... its not part of their decision making process.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Its because they don't really stand for anything they'll go for the candidate they believe is "real", "authentic" and "sincere" ... regardless of said candidate's actual beliefs.
That's why I argue that we need a real, authentic and sincere conservative, not some hand picked drone that will "appeal to the moderates" (like Romney or Huntsman or Christie for that matter).
I'm mostly arguing against the foolish notion that a lot of conservatives have that a real conservative can't get elected so we have to water our shit down to appeal to the masses.
That's just bullshit.
Drilldov, I certainly hope your right about the election.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drilldov2.0
The book should be called" Waaaaa! the LIBS unloved me".
Sure wouldn't. Islam is a pretty drastic example to play devils advocate with. But let me give a better example. An atheist candidate, who didn't believe in God, but believed in the principles, ideals, and values this country was founded on. I wouldn't say whoaaaa this guy is way too Godless for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mobat555
We need some values and some SPINE back in the white house. It's totally different to recommend a religion/social structure that has zero to do with the founding of this country as my post stated. I just don't want to see a guy discredited because he's too religious, when his values and ideals might be what is needed, somebody that stands by his values and ideals.
Just look at the other thread with great quotes from our forefathers that was started today.
I didn't mean to get on whoever posted that one, wasn't my intention.
Only ticket I want goes Paul/whocares. The rest of these people are just more of the same, flip floppers with no integrity who want to limit your liberty just as much as the dems, just in a different way.