coach81938
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posted on February 7, 2008 10:53:07 AM
Mitt Romney has suspended his campaign and made a concession speech just a few moments ago. Unless something very dramatic happens, McCain looks like the Republican nominee.
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neglus
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posted on February 7, 2008 11:53:09 AM
What will Meg do now?
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roadsmith
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posted on February 7, 2008 12:10:01 PM
Not a moment too soon for me. Whatever will Rush Limbaugh do now! Have a stroke, I guess, knowing McCain will be nominated.
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coach81938
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posted on February 7, 2008 12:45:50 PM
Poor Rush just found out he is not as important as he thinks he is.
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roadsmith
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posted on February 7, 2008 05:17:37 PM
Right about Rush. Kinda fun to see guys like him put in their place, isn't it!
Mitt Romney may finally get the fact that money won't buy everything we want.
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kiara
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posted on February 7, 2008 06:37:53 PM
What are the chances that Romney's sons will go off to war now that he doesn't need them to travel the country in their motorhome campaigning for him?
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pixiamom
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posted on February 7, 2008 07:18:21 PM
Uh, I would put that at about ZERO, Kiara - about the same likelihood that we'll see Jenna & Barbara in khakis.
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kozersky
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posted on February 7, 2008 07:26:51 PM
"Mitt Romney may finally get the fact that money won't buy everything we want."
Well, it comes pretty close to doing that.
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coach81938
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posted on February 7, 2008 08:55:58 PM
"Right about Rush. Kinda fun to see guys like him put in their place, isn't it!"
It sure is,Roady. Rush's ego is so inflated, he probably believed that his tirades would keep McCain from the nomination.
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roadsmith
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posted on February 7, 2008 09:26:34 PM
The next few months are going to be Very Interesting. I've seen nothing like it since my first vote (for John Kennedy).
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Libra63
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posted on February 7, 2008 10:10:49 PM
Okay with saying that what about Hillary and Bills daughter Chelsea going to war? Don't come back and say it is different because it isn't. Hillary as a Senator voted for the war.
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profe51
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posted on February 7, 2008 10:38:33 PM
You can see it coming a hundred miles off. McGain needs a young veep as he knows lots of voters think he's too old, and he needs the evangelical vote. Solution for veep?
Huckabee
Otherwise, republicans will stay home in droves.
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pixiamom
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posted on February 7, 2008 11:16:56 PM
Libra, Hillary has seen the light and now is against the war. It's time to stop the rich farts from sending the poor farts' kids to war while keeping their own safe at home.
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Libra63
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posted on February 8, 2008 07:19:06 AM
Oh I know someone would come back with that statement. You know that for sure? No Hillary has not seen the light she is just using that for VOTES. Wow, democrats have blinders on. Of course she would say that, why not, it is not in her favor to say I still am for the war. That will NOT get her votes.
You want her for President...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVlwH7-05Fk
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Libra63
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posted on February 8, 2008 07:21:56 AM
Pixiamom, you didn't say anything about the rich Clintons fart , How come?
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pixiamom
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posted on February 8, 2008 08:45:00 AM
Huh? I guess if you truly believe the Clintons support the war, then I guess it applies to them, too. I don't believe it. I think they were duped like the rest of the world by the out-right lie that we had irrefutable proof that Iraq was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.
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coach81938
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posted on February 8, 2008 11:58:40 AM
"You want her for President...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVlwH7-05Fk"
Why would that video convince me not to vote for Hillary? She seemed quite human and made some good points. I thought it was very good. Some people hate the Clintons so much that it is hard for them to be objective.
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desquirrel
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posted on February 8, 2008 02:35:27 PM
Do you people just parrot the stuff you hear over and over?
The rich people send the poor people to fight???? You better check the Defense Department statistics on members of the military.
"Huckabee or the Republicans stay away in droves" ??? That's a joke right?
Hillary probably knows what's at stake in the Middle East so I wouldn't bet on her rhetoric.
Obama is an empty suit, you'll have to check with his handlers, who you think he doesn't have, about what he believes.
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Libra63
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posted on February 8, 2008 03:25:42 PM
Coach. Anyone who cries because they lose 1 primary is not a strong person. Although strong women have feelings they don't cry when the camera is on them. She was just looking for sympathy and guess what you fell for it.
Did you see Obama cry, when he lost a primary? No, he just moved on and came out stronger. Did Huckabee cry no he also came out stronger. That is what strong people do. Weak people cry.
What would she do with tougher problems if she loses?
You are writing about Rush and how upset he is with McCain. Well at least he didn't cry.
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coach81938
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posted on February 8, 2008 03:52:06 PM
"Coach. Anyone who cries because they lose 1 primary is not a strong person. Although strong women have feelings they don't cry when the camera is on them. She was just looking for sympathy and guess what you fell for it.
Did you see Obama cry, when he lost a primary? No, he just moved on and came out stronger. Did Huckabee cry no he also came out stronger. That is what strong people do. Weak people cry.
What would she do with tougher problems if she loses?
You are writing about Rush and how upset he is with McCain. Well at least he didn't cry."
Libra--First, you may think crying is a sign of weakness, but I do not. Because you think it is a sign of weakness, does not make it so. Many experts will tell you it is not.
Second--who says she got emotional because she lost a primary? You can read her mind? Maybe she got emotional because she was speaking from her heart.
Third--You implied that she was faking her tears. Well, if she was faking, she was not really crying, so how could she be "weak?" Can't have it both ways.
Fourth--There are signs of weakness which have nothing to do with crying, such as having an idiotic, vacuous smirk on your face while talking about sending young men and women to war or hearing that jet planes just crashed into the World Trade Center.
Fifth---Had you been the subject of scurrulous rumors, lies, and verbal attacks for as long as Hillary has (unjustified, in my opinion)you would be bawling like a baby.
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desquirrel
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posted on February 8, 2008 04:29:37 PM
"unjustified, in my opinion"
What would you base that "opinion" on?
With the Swift Boat group you had 200 people telling one story, backed up by the commanding officer and military records, or Kerry and his 5 friends telling a different story? As I remember, it was the 200 "lying" and being dirty for forming the group, that was the "opinion" of the Democrats on this board.
If you are on a jury, and the defendant testifies "I just signed where they told me to sign", do you think you would let them go?
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coach81938
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posted on February 8, 2008 06:12:01 PM
Yes, unjustified in my opinion. She has been criticized for everything and anything to the point of ridiculousness. She's cold, she cries, she's dowdy, she worries too much about appearances, she's a war monger, she's a bleeding heart liberal---you name it, she's been accused of it. She even gets the blame for her husband's affairs.
Despite what you think desquirrel, you are not the only one with a brain on this board. If I were on a jury, I would have to weigh all the evidence; therefore, I could not tell you what my decision would be if the defendant said "I just signed where they told me to sign."
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coach81938
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posted on February 8, 2008 06:17:47 PM
"Swift Boater George Elliott, author of an affidavit publicly criticizing Kerry's conduct and the merits of his Silver Star, is the same man who, as Kerry's commander, recommended him for a Bronze Star in 1969 and wrote several evaluation reports that praised Kerry as "highly courageous in the face of enemy fire," someone whose "independent, decisive action" was "unsurpassed," and "the acknowledged leader in his peer group. His bearing and appearance are above reproach." Roy Hoffmann, another Swift Boater and harsh Kerry critic, also seems to have conveniently forgotten his praise back in 1969, when he wrote glowingly that Kerry had provided a "shining example of completely overwhelming the enemy."
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profe51
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posted on February 8, 2008 08:57:28 PM
It's amazing that there are still people around who believe that swiftboat nonsense. I suppose they're the same people who believed McCain has a black child, or that Obama studied in a Madrasa, or that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9-11. Sad really.
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desquirrel
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posted on February 8, 2008 10:47:22 PM
What's really sad is denial. Also sad is discrediting people who were there and have an overwhelming consensus of what happened. Sad is the unit's commanding officer denying the decoration and that decoration being mysterious awarded later.
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profe51
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posted on February 9, 2008 05:09:52 AM
There's no way to factually decide what happened. We have all made our decisions based on who we like politically. John McCain's words on the issue are interesting though.
I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crewmates have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam.
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pixiamom
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posted on February 9, 2008 05:24:20 AM
I can't believe folks are debating this in 2008. Who served their country better in the Vietnam war - Bush or Kerry? Although the answer is clear to me, perhaps those still scrappling with it should lay it aside, leave it as a lingering question they will ask the maker when their time comes, and move to the here and now.
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coach81938
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posted on February 9, 2008 05:25:19 AM
"What's really sad is denial. Also sad is discrediting people who were there and have an overwhelming consensus of what happened. Sad is the unit's commanding officer denying the decoration and that decoration being mysterious awarded later."
These people discredit themselves. What about the 2 examples I gave. Kerry received high praise from these 2 in 1969, but they came out of the woodwork when he was running for president. What about discrediting Kerry's reputation, contrary to what they put in his service record?
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Helenjw
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posted on February 9, 2008 06:40:03 AM
Squirrel, It's questionable why you bring up at this time the Swift boat technique of spreading the vilest of lies against opponents when that same nasty tactic was used against a man who is your leading candidate today, John McCain, by the same team, Bush Rove in the year 2000.
That year Bush and the Rove machine attacked John McCain in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary by letting shady henchmen do their dirty work, spreading the vilest of lies ...that McCain was mentally unfit to serve after his long captivity in Vietnam, that his wife was a drug addict and that McCain who was a senator at the time had fathered a black daughter with a prostitute.
And you need to ask why I question your befuddled comments?
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roadsmith
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posted on February 9, 2008 08:52:51 AM
Libra: There were no "tears." There were tears in her *voice*. I'm going to write more about this, from my own experience, in Pixi's thread "why there aren't more women politicians in the u.s." (And it wasn't about losing a primary vote; it was in response to a question as she addressed a women's group about how hard it was to run.)
Roadsmith
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