If you heard him speak, then I think you’d be quite impressed with him. His election in 2010 was a national news story. I am not from Florida.Marco Rubio, the Junion Senator from Florida? I’m not that deep into politics. Is he being bandied about as a running mate by people already? Didn’t he just become a Senator? Are you from Florida? I had to go to Wikepedia just to find out who he is, so that shows you my political knowledge.
Well, good luck at any rate.
I wasn’t basing that on the debate necessarily, but on the thinness of the current GOP crowd. I think Pawlenty and Romney are currently the only candidates who can defeat Obama. Pawlenty has a good record as governor. I admit that he hasn’t been very good in the debates and has been overtaken by Bachmann.
I am going to steal gilliam’s signature line.
On foreign policy, for example, my sympathies tend toward Ron Paul - stop putting our nose into all the conflicts in the world. It about bankrupts us, and even more important keeps sending our brave young men and women home in body bags or without legs. We simply can't police the whole world, and many of the crises are complicated. Take Syria, for example. I've read that the Christians there are overwhelmingly for the Assad government over the rebels. Assad is not good, but apparently they fear that his overthrow could bring much worse.
Romney does not appeal to me, but he really has the best credentials as well as the presence of a president. Can he beat Obama? There many be several million, especially among evangelicals, who may feel that they cannot vote for a Mormon and will sit the election out or choose to vote for a third party??? Personally, I rather like Huntsman, but as a Mormon he would face the same problem.
Perry? Too early to say. I wasn't all that impressed by his speech on Saturday. He sounds more like a neocon than I like. Neocons, of course, are those people who seem eager to get into every war that comes along. That's also my strong objection (among others) to Santorum. The more they sound like John Bolton the more I distrust them. They'd have us sending troops into Iran, Syria, Libya and elsewhere as soon as they can. Crazies, that's what they are. Of course, war does fill the coffers of some industries - and various military chiefs seem to profit from them, also. Didn't that great man, Ike, say something about the military-industrial complex? It certainly has plenty of power in Congress and elsewhere - both parties.
Keep smiling. God is not dead.I suspect he was referring particularly to her foreign policy positions, which is what the term ‘neoconservative’ most often refers to. That too, is also one reason for my (many) reservasions about her politics.
Yes, if Palin won you would make a killing, but that is a very big if. I don’t think the Republicans can win without capturing the middle voters who sided with the Democrats in the last election, unless Obama is challenged by a candidate from his left. I don’t see that happening. Democrats learned their lesson when Kennedy split the vote for Carter and ruined both Carter’s reelection and his own chances of ever being president.If I had money, I’d bet $1000 or more on Sarah Palin winning the nomination. At 100-1 odds, I’d make a killing. Sarah in action is a powerful force, and don’t think for a moment that Obama wants to face a fearless, competent, America-embracing candidate like Sarah Palin.Rob
Exactly how is a neoconservative different from a plain old conservative? :confused: RobWell, the odds are better for Palin (nomination, not election), so I’m not sure I would do 100-1. With Paul, I would go 1,000-1, but I don’t think any of his supporters would even bite. Even they know it’s not going to happen. As you’ve pointed out, he goes “off the reservation.”
I agree with Bob, though, that he makes the debates interesting. He’s like a Ross Perot, only with less support and not third party.
I'm talking POTUS #45, not merely the nominee.I believe that if the GOP nominee is a fighter, she will prevail. Palin is a fearless, ferocious competitor. It will be a joy to refer to he as "President-elect" next November. :DScott Lafrance may intercede if I am incorrect here, but he is most likely referring to her foreign policy positions (neoconservatism is mostly a foreign policy ideology). Neoconservatives generally hold interventionist foreign policy positions, a la George Bush (and disappointingly, Barack Obama) and usually support, for example, a more aggressive involvement in the middle east, to give an idea.Exactly how is a neoconservative different from a plain old conservative?Rob
Warmongering.Exactly how is a neoconservative different from a plain old conservative?
If by “intervetionist foreign policy” you mean “willing to use our military against anyone who looks at us funny”, yes, that’s what I mean.
Why would you vote for a Mormon?
We aren’t voting for Prophet.Why would you vote for a Mormon?
check out the Mormon doctrine. You may want to change your vote.
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So TR, LBJ, JFK, FDR, Wilson and Goldwater were neoconservatives? Come on. Not everyone you disagree with is a neoconservative. Call them a Hawk if you want but the term neoconservative is being misused.
Neo-cons were mostly disaffected Jews who had been liberal/left types but were upset at the leftward lurch of the Democrat party in the 60’s. A prominent neo-con was Irving Kristol, father of William Kristol who heads the Weekly Standard magazine. The first neo-cons were motivated primarily by anti-communism. MOdern neo-cons are motivated by a desire to help protect Israel, and spread democracy around the world. Many on the left (and some on the loony right) get away with using “neo-con” in place of Jew to hide their anti-Semitism.
TR, LBJ, JFK, and FDR weren’t any kind of conservative.