Are we going to have to go through all of them? Oddly enough, the Republicans have skipped the really unbaggaged intelligent ones. Both Romney, Newt and Jon Huntsman are intelligent and knowledgeable. However, Newt has so much baggage it will be hard to elect someone so unlikeable.
Stewart has declared Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich and Cain to be zombies who don’t even know they are dead. Jack Abramoff has called Newt corrupt. You know you are bad when that guy thinks you are corrupt.
You know you are bad when you seek Abramoff’s opinion and actually listen to it.
So…I guess I’ll just take Stewart’s advice and vote for Romney…since he’s DESTINED to win the primaries.
Cain, Gingrinch, Perry……all good. I’m liking Gingrich more and more. But I would really like to see a Cain – Obama match. Or Gingrich debate Obama. Perry…not so much on debates. But in competing speeches…..yes.
Well I didn’t seek Abramoff’s advice. Could it be that he just gave it without being asked?
That is such a mixed bag of people. What do you see that Cain, Perry, Gingrich, and Romney have in common other than the R label?
“What do you see that Cain, Perry, Gingrich, and Romney have in common other than the R label?”
That’s easy. None of them are getting my vote.
It’s called a primary process. It’s SUPPOSED to look like this. You’d think there never was a time when we had Clinton, Dodd, Kucinich, Obama, Gravel, Biden, Richardson, and Edwards up there on stage. You’d think we never had a time when Biden was up there on stage jamming both feet in his mouth, Kucinich wasn’t talking about aliens performing probes on him, and “Johnny Beefcake”Edwards wasn’t busted for ‘indiscretions”. Of course, Jon Stewart is a professional clown and makes good money betting against anyone having a memory.
@Emma
So, Emma…who do you want in the primaries?
And if he or she doesn’t win…will you vote for the nominee?
There are a number of reasons the current Repub flavor of the moment, Newt Gingrich, will only see the White House when he’s invited there as a visitor. He’s got the third lady problem caused by his marriage to a former staffer with whom he had an affair and who is 23 years his junior (and also 3 years junior to Newt’s oldest daughter). Then there’s the Center for Health Transformation he created in 2003 that took in $37M from health care companies to provide them “direct Newt interaction.” The group advocated for an individual health insurance mandate and there’s a video of Newt saying everyone should be required to purchase insurance or pay a fine, basically what Obomney Care requires. There’s also the $1.8M one of the conservatives favorite piñatas Freddie Mac paid the Gingrich Group in “consulting fees” for Newt to provide Freddie “strategic advice” in working with Congress to keep its government ties intact. In 1989 he co-sponsored the Global Warming Prevention Act and in 2008 he and Nancy Pelosi appeared together to warn about the threat of global warming. He at first criticized Obama for getting the U.S. involved in Libya and now criticizes Obama for not getting the U.S. more involved and letting the French and British show us up. And then there’s the Abramoff corruption comment (it’s like Charlie Sheen or Lindsey Lohan criticizing someone for bad moral behavior). If there was a symbol that represents the quintessential philandering flip-flopping money-grubbing Washington insider it would bear the bloated pasty white face of Newt Gingrich.
@SlowpokeRodriguez
I believe he attempted to poke similar fun at them. He just had to work a lot harder.
And do you mind! Johnny beef-cake hadn’t been caught at that time. He was caught after the primary season.
Sorry Pokie, but you guys are embarrassing yourselves. It isn’t the quantity, its the quality. There also has to be a reason that I confuse Kucinich with Paul. Must be the tinfoil hats.
Moe said it far better than I could. The only thing Newt has doing for him is he is smart. However, Huntsman is smart without the baggage. Apparently smart doesn’t matter judging from some folks eyeing Perry.
I believe Huntsman has the depth of knowledge and experience to do the job, I just don’t think he has the charisma to provide the leadership the job needs. He reminds me of Jimmy Carter; nice guy and smart, but lacking the ability to inspire people to do hard things. I just can’t see Huntsman firing up the troops to rush into battle and charge the hill, and in the tough times we face we need someone like a Reagan or a Clinton who has the gift of connecting with people.
If you could meltdown a couple of the Repubs (doesn’t that sound like fun) and separate out their best traits – Huntsman for his knowledge and experience; Cain and Perry for their plainspoken connection with ordinary people; Ron Paul for his honesty; Gingrich for some outside the box ideas; and Romney and Bachmann for their looks so it’s wrapped in a pretty package – you could forge a solid President. Unfortunately (at least for Repubs), the strengths of each of their candidates is matched pretty closely by weaknesses of equal or greater weight.
Of course, on the other side we’ve got Obama, which makes me wish for one thing: Hillary.
hi-larious that those who claim to loathe all things washington and try to jump on the bandwagons of various self-styled “outside the beltway” types would now embrace newt, the ultimate washington deal-making snake.
once again showing that right-wingers really don’t have the slightest
idea what their core principles are, other than hating liberals.
Go Cain!
And yes…hating liberal POLICIES should be a core principle. We don’t hate liberals in general.
@Morris Davis
The sad part is…..I’d of rather had Hillary too, instead of Obama….
And I can’t stand her. I think she’s almost as bad.
Almost.
Again, it’s always entertaining to get political advice from the far left!
@SlowpokeRodriguez
It’s like the left getting its integrity critiqued by an anonymous right wing hack with an alias and a cartoon façade.