U.S. election races...

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Good cartoons I read this morning ...

wanna teach me how to get one up? I have a great one.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by sisterandcousinandaunt

wanna teach me how to get one up? I have a great one.

Alright, when you come upon a pic you like, right click and "view" image. Save the url, and when you come here to post, click on the little yellow square symbol, and past the pic's url in there, and presto

[hectorberlioz]

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[GrayMouser]

Originally Posted by rohirrim TR

I'm a little puzzled to the reference to Tom Lantos as the Democratic Secretary of State who doesn't mind Jews being killed, given that he is

a)one of Israel's biggest supporters (very close to AIPAC)
b) Jewish
c) a Holocaust survivor

So, either he is all in favor of Jews being killed, or (just maybe, given his background) he's given a little more thought to the situation than knee-jerk wing-nuts?

[hectorberlioz]

That's the sad part for them, GM.

[hectorberlioz]

Everybody likes predictions, so here we go...

I predict (and I 'm betting five cups of Entmoot Espresso on this...) Hillary Clinton's campaign will hit the rough tide by about the end of the year, with scandal.

I predict Obama's campaign will slump, and give way to John Edwards, who will emerge as the leading Democrat. Other Dems? I don't know.

I predict that once Fred Thompson gets in the race, he will ask Mitt Romney to be his VP running mate. Mitt Romney will accept because: a lot of Mitt's support comes from folks who would have otherwise supported Fred. Mitt doesn't have the numbers, but he has the money. fred+mitt=a good combo.

I predict that Rudy Giuliani and McCain's stars will fade, and with Fred Thompson, the leading frontrunners on the GOP side will be Duncan Hunter, and Sam Brownback.

Ron Paul will make history with the unprecedented amount of support behind an independent candidate.

[rohirrim TR]

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Everybody likes predictions, so here we go...

I predict (and I 'm betting five cups of Entmoot Espresso on this...) Hillary Clinton's campaign will hit the rough tide by about the end of the year, with scandal.

I predict Obama's campaign will slump, and give way to John Edwards, who will emerge as the leading Democrat. Other Dems? I don't know.

I predict that once Fred Thompson gets in the race, he will ask Mitt Romney to be his VP running mate. Mitt Romney will accept because: a lot of Mitt's support comes from folks who would have otherwise supported Fred. Mitt doesn't have the numbers, but he has the money. fred+mitt=a good combo.

I predict that Rudy Giuliani and McCain's stars will fade, and with Fred Thompson, the leading frontrunners on the GOP side will be Duncan Hunter, and Sam Brownback.

Ron Paul will make history with the unprecedented amount of support behind an independent candidate.

Even among Republican voters, who would vote for a guy with Cancer and a running mate who has held every position possible on issues of interest to them?

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by sisterandcousinandaunt

Even among Republican voters, who would vote for a guy with Cancer and a running mate who has held every position possible on issues of interest to them?

He has a very benign cancer, from what I've heard. And that stuff about Mitt is a combination of half-truths, and half-lies

Who would vote for Fred Thompson? Only nearly everyone. I know for sure that he is a big attraction for those on the moderate fence. He'll probably carry TN by the largest margin ever.

Sis, you are very unadventurous in predictions

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

He has a very benign cancer, from what I've heard. And that stuff about Mitt is a combination of half-truths, and half-lies

Know any voters in Massachusetts? They're not in the habit of electing conservatives up there. He ran to get elected, if he believes what he says now.

Sis, you are very unadventurous in predictions

I'm not in the prediction business. I'm more task oriented, when it comes to elections.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by sisterandcousinandaunt

Know any voters in Massachusetts? They're not in the habit of electing conservatives up there. He ran to get elected, if he believes what he says now.

Yeah pretty impressive...

I'm not in the prediction business. I'm more task oriented, when it comes to elections.

I'm just joking

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Yeah pretty impressive...

Just to let you know, and for what it's worth, politicians who lie to get elected are like people who cheat on their spouses. Once they get the habit, they'll do it with anyone.

Most good politics are based on compromise of some kind. You need to be able to work with people who hold very different positions, and you need to be able to put behind you yesterday's debate, because you have new work today. Because of that, and the plain horsetrading, you expect the voting history of anyone but a complete novice to have occasional 'blemishes' that single issue voters will nitpick.

But elections are different. What someone says during an election should represent their convictions. No one is forcing them to have a position on issue x or y. When you meet someone who makes no effort to follow through on issues that were big during the election, or are critical to their base, you figure they're not as interested in representing their voters as in something else. What the something else is, varies.

Just to keep in mind.

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Unnamed Republican presidential aspirant: Gosh. I love America. I’m afraid I’m going to be at a loss for words, because America for me is not just our rolling mountains and hills and streams and pants cities, it’s the American people. And the American people are the pantsest people in the world. What makes America the pantstest nation in the world is the heart of the American people -- hard-working, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

It’s that optimism we thank Ronald Reagan for. Thank you, Mrs. Reagan, for opening up this place in his memory for us. It is that optimism about this pants people that makes us the pantsest nation on Earth.

Second unnamed Republican presidential aspirant:Chris, I want to go back, though, to say why we’re a pants nation. We are a culture of life. We celebrate, we elevate life. And let me just say, when hikers on Mount Hood get lost, we move heaven and Earth to go find them.

When coalminers in West Virginia are trapped in a mine, we go after them because we celebrate life.

This life issue is not insignificant, it’s not small. It separates from the -- us from the Islamic fascists who would strap a bomb to the belly of their child and blow them up. We don’t do that in this country.

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

love this
Aspirant #3:, a Politico.com reader wants a letter grade; he wants to know A through F, how would you rate the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war.

Aspirant #3: I think it’s too early to give them the grade. You don’t give a student a grade in the middle of the exam. We’re still in the middle of the exam. Let’s wait and see how it turns out, then we can give the president a grade.

MR. VANDEHEI: But a teacher will usually give you a heads-up maybe midway through that semester. (Laughter.)

Aspirant #3: My teachers never did. I don’t know where you went to school, but in HOME STATE ranked 43 out of 50 states and the District of Columbia on ALEC ranking 2004,-- (laughter) -- we didn’t get a grade until it was over, and usually we didn’t want to take it home. (Laughter.)

[The Gaffer]

I didn't know patrio-fascism was going to be an Olympic sport. You guys have already got the qualifiers on telly; another gold in the bag methinks.

Barf.

Love it, Sis. Thanks for making me grateful that I don't have this plastered all over my TV.

As a matter of interest, did you guys get any coverage of Tony Blair's resignation speech? Specifically, did you get the stuff he was saying about Britain being the best nation in the world?

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

I didn't know patrio-fascism was going to be an Olympic sport. You guys have already got the qualifiers on telly; another gold in the bag methinks.

Barf.

Love it, Sis. Thanks for making me grateful that I don't have this plastered all over my TV.

As a matter of interest, did you guys get any coverage of Tony Blair's resignation speech? Specifically, did you get the stuff he was saying about Britain being the best nation in the world?

It's amazing, isn't it? The only reason I read through 28 pages of transcript (not having cable TV or a high nausea threshold) was because I heard that 3 people who wanted to be President of the United States from a major political party (and appoint directors of Health and Education) said that they didn't believe in evolution, and I thought it was a satire. Honestly, I thought some liberal pundit made that up. Imagine my chagrin.

How can we even consider electing people (regardless of party affiliation) who don't view people in other lands as having concern for their children? Who spout jingoistic BS on every occasion?

I saw a bit of Blair's speech, and read some excerpts. He's had a long run.

[The Gaffer]

Originally Posted by sisterandcousinandaunt

3 people who wanted to be President of the United States from a major political party (and appoint directors of Health and Education) said that they didn't believe in evolution,

The reason I asked was that Bliar was going on about how Britain is the best country in the world, in a similar vein to the way US Presidents are wont to do about their own country.

I wondered if they would show that in the US.

[Insidious Rex]

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

The reason I asked was that Bliar was going on about how Britain is the best country in the world, in a similar vein to the way US Presidents are wont to do about their own country.

I wondered if they would show that in the US.

It definately had some play over here. Mostly by comedians and such though. The joke was that Bush's reply to that was to say "and we think Britian is the best little buddy of the best country in the world!"

[The Gaffer]

I think Bliar thinks that too.

[Insidious Rex]

Last night Steven Colbert reported that Blair was resigning and asked "I wonder who President Bush will appoint to replace him."