The anti Tancredo thread..

[def90]

Rand Paul is anything but open minded! Jimmy Carter was probably the most open minded president we have ever had, and probably one of the worst. It is NOT possible for a solid conservative, nor a solid liberal, to be open minded. Children (and 42% of Americans) are open minded and thus impressionable, politicians running for elected office are anything but on both sides of the aisle.

Americans have increasingly voted for the image, the "Hollywood Factor" sans substance, and we are where it has gotten us. You just want to polish it to fit your image of where it should be, however you are still heading down the exact same path that brought us liberalism.

Open minded in the political world does not mean open to orgys and pot dens. It means being able to come up with new political ideas that people simply can't say no to.

As for the "Hollywood Factor", it is what it is and apparently the republicans can't figure out how to play the game. The "Hollywood Factor" has always existed, hell people wanted to make George Washington King. Psychologically people are going to favor the good looking guy over the ugly guy when everything else is level and that relationship isn't going to change much even when you factor in positions. If you want to run an ugly guy you better have a platform that appeals heavily to at least 60% of the actual turn out voters if you want to go anywhere.

[MarkCO]

Open minded in the political world does not mean open to orgys and pot dens. It means being able to come up with new political ideas that people simply can't say no to.

Only if you took the Bill Clinton course on English language obliteration. Then you stretch WAY beyond what I wrote. Open minded means no set conviction or opinion and willing to be influenced to arrive at an opinion or conclusion. Jurors are supposed to be open minded, leaders, NO WAY! You can't just change the meaning of a word or phrase because your post was ignorant of the actual definition. When you pass HS English, we can have a conversation.

[roberth]

Only if you took the Bill Clinton course on English language obliteration. Then you stretch WAY beyond what I wrote. Open minded means no set conviction or opinion and willing to be influenced to arrive at an opinion or conclusion. Jurors are supposed to be open minded, leaders, NO WAY! You can't just change the meaning of a word or phrase because your post was ignorant of the actual definition. When you pass HS English, we can have a conversation.

You can if you're a liberal, they do it all the time.

def90, you're wrong.

Tom isn't the only guy to throw his hat the in the ring so we'll have other people to look at. I want someone who is willing to make the tough and unpopular decisions, someone who has courage in their convictions. An open-minded person isn't any of these things.

Hickenlooper is exactly what you def90 are looking for, a young, open-minded fop who refused to stand with the jury and judge in the Dunlap case. A coward who admits that the recent gun control legislation was stupid but put his own personal aspirations ahead of the citizens of this state.

[def90]

Tom isn't the only guy to throw his hat the in the ring so we'll have other people to look at.

Yes, hopefully this time the Colorado old boys club including Coors will stay out of it, I would love to see a fresh face.

[roberth]

Yes, hopefully this time the Colorado old boys club including Coors will stay out of it, I would love to see a fresh face.

I agree with you here, we don't need another old boys club member who thinks it is their "turn". Tom Tancredo is not a member of this club, the members of the old boys club HATE Tom.

The Coors family should stick to brewing "beer".

[Zundfolge]

The Coors family should stick to brewing "beer".

Why? They can't even do that right (which is why they sold it to the Canuks)

[bogie]

Why? They can't even do that right (which is why they sold it to the Canuks)

But they sure can make some good ceramic........

[roberth]

Why? They can't even do that right (which is why they sold it to the Canuks)

That's right, I forgot.

[losttrail]

Open minded in the political world does not mean open to orgys and pot dens. It means being able to come up with new political ideas that people simply can't say no to.

As for the "Hollywood Factor", it is what it is and apparently the republicans can't figure out how to play the game. The "Hollywood Factor" has always existed, hell people wanted to make George Washington King. Psychologically people are going to favor the good looking guy over the ugly guy when everything else is level and that relationship isn't going to change much even when you factor in positions. If you want to run an ugly guy you better have a platform that appeals heavily to at least 60% of the actual turn out voters if you want to go anywhere.

People wanted to make George Washington king because that was the only form of government they were familiar with. The idea of a 'representative republic' was new and foreign. Thankfully, GW and many others that were attempting to build this new government understood the hazards of following the same old path.