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JeffJimenez 
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,11:23 am |
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I like Thompson as well. He has a good background and quite frankly seems pretty down to earth. My only concern with Thompson is his age.
I like your Democratic analysis Eagle. Do you think that the Dems would pull a stunt like that on Hilly?? I just feel that if she were elected it would be business as usual. We need a new face with fresh ideas. Obama really fits that bill.
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REPOMAN
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,12:00 pm |
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(TameThaTane @ Oct. 30 2007,10:24 pm)
QUOTE Here's the race. It'll be Hillary Clinton Verses Mitt Romney.
I stand by that and it'll come to fruition. Just watch, I'm always right. Said told you so so many times I can't even remember all of them.
Keep this thread alive as proof of how correct I always am. Make your predictions here.
QUOTE Let me get this straight, you chastise me because these predictions are somehow obvious, yet when I ask you they aren't...You're a kook to be sure.
no, moron...
I chastized you because you were chirping about how smart you always are: QUOTE I stand by that and it'll come to fruition. Just watch, I'm always right. Said told you so so many times I can't even remember all of them.
one doesn't have to be that smart to say that Hillary will be the nominee - she's running away with the damn thing - that's my point, chimp...
as to your question about why would GOP defeat be virtually assured - two words: Iraq war...
as to your statement that only a percentage of the Republican base finds Hillary's personality objectionable, you are out to lunch - most polls show that 50% or more Americans say they would not vote for her under any circumstance - ever, that's obviously more than just a percentage of the GOP base - that's a lot of independents and even some donkeys...
maybe American voters are ready for a woman or a black - I didn't say they weren't - I just stated "I don't know if they are" - and the fact is that remains to be seen...
I choose Mike Huckabee for the same reason that most people choose their candidate - because his views, statements and promises come closest to what I am looking for and expecting from in a President...
and by the way - you couldn't debate your way out of a paper bag - twerp... 
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Wareagle11B
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,12:20 pm |
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Jeff I could see the DNC doing just that for at least 2 reasons.
1) Hillary's husband. I don't think that the DNC would want him around to create issues with what he has done in the past. I know this shouldn't matter but in politics, especially on the national stage, it does.
2) While the country may be ready for a woman to be president Hillary is too polarizing in her views for the country as a whole to elect her.
I could easily see them pulling the back room maneuver for those reasons alone.
But what we all must remember about politics at every level is as the joke goes........Little Girl asked her dad after he had read her a fairy tale before bed, "Daddy do all fairy tales begin with once upon a time? No honey some begin with IF I AM ELECTED." 
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jimhanson
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,12:32 pm |
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I like Huckabee and Thompson as well--my top choices. Neither one seems to be a "professional" politician--Huckabee is calm, rational, and states his position well. He has had a slow but steady increase in the polls, so much so that many now consider him "top tier". Thompson is "folksy". The image his detractors would like to convey is that he "doesn't want it bad enough." I see that as a strength--someone that is NOT an "activist politician"--someone that, like Reagan, can set the tone and direction, and not micromanage. That's what the BEST CEO's do.
On the Democrat side--in a rational world, a 1 1/2 term senator that has never run ANYTHING (business, city, state) --that has a particularly undistinguished legislative career (name any important legislation she has authored? Post office names don't count), and whose entire claim to fame was consistent scandal and misuse of government power (filegate, travelgate, whitewater, white house travel staff, chinese fund-raisers) would not even be CONSIDERED for a top slot.
Similarly, a half-term junior Senator--ALSO with no important legislation on his record would never be considered for the top slot.
But then--we're talking about Democrat Politics--where even Dennis Kucinich ("Hey, is there a debate going on?" he shouted after being ignored at the last Dem debate) is included! 
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TameThaTane
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,2:57 pm |
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I like the comment about Thompson being too old and "Thompson is "folksy".
Ya, folksy is as folksy does...
He has two kids under the age of 5 and a trophy wife 25 years his junior who dresses like Britney Spears.
The Republican base is gonna love first lady Britney Spears. A woman young enough to be his first born daughter. A first lady who was a toddler during the Carter administration.
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,3:19 pm |
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Unlike Newt and Rudy, Thompson’s second marriage did not overlap with his first wife. Thompson and Sara Lindsey divorced in 1985. He didn’t meet Jeri Kehn until 1996 and they married in 2002.
And unlike WALNUTS! McCain’s latest wife, Thompson’s latest wife 40 years old isn’t known to be a crazy drug addict! Bring dignity back to the White House in 2008 — elect the serious-looking actor guy!
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jimhanson
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2007,4:09 pm |
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Thompson had the best line of the evening on the last debate. After Chris Wallace said "some people think you are lazy" in going after the Presidential nomination, Thompson stated his credentials--early graduate from Law school, prosecuter by age 30, tapped by Howard Baker as a prosecuter for Watergate in his early 30s, elected twice to the Senate, going back to private practice, another vocation as an actor.......As Wallace started to break away for a commercial break, Thompson jumped back in and said "And two kids under the age of 4--if anyone thinks THAT'S lazy, I suggest they follow suit!"
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Common Citizen
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Posted on: Nov. 01 2007,11:13 pm |
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Huckabee's stance on the IRS is refreshing. He will give Mitt and Thompson a lot of competition because of his lock on the Christian conservatives, especially in Iowa. Although his positions as an uber conservative may rally the base he will have problems in the northeast for that very same reason.
Give him a few more debates and he may just get the nod.
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TameThaTane
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Posted on: Nov. 01 2007,11:32 pm |
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An Arkansas Babtist minister for president? Puh-leeze!
That's all we need is Bubba the Nascar dad and his ex-Hooter waitress wife making public policy... 
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