Comments on: Frustrated GOP Supporter Hedges His Bets

Washington Post: In Michigan, Disgruntled Republican Donates To Romney, Giuliani - And Clinton

[cfin5]

Posted by veteran71 at 06:47 PM : Jan 13, 2008---------------Precisely why Fox didn''t want Dr. Paul included in the debate. They know that Hannity would be discredited,.....and rightly so. "l8c6" puts everyone in the same box and should know that there is no other way to run for the Presidency. That is so out! I look at each candidate regardless of party affiliation. And that result clearly indicates the best of both parties are lower tier candidates. If Ron Paul was a democrat, it would have changed NOTHING in bias way to help him be the next President. He is very much and proven to be the best AMERICAN currently as a candidate.

[l8c6]

My question is: Would someone tell me why we should NOT elect Ron Paul?

Posted by DenisL1

Because he''s a crackpot corporate libertarian who in conjunction with his membership in the republican neo con party has turned the United States into a global hoe house for sale to the highest bidders. Who gives a da*m*n about the working citizens of the United States has been the secret motto of the corporate libertarian republican neo cons. Ron Paula, a long standing member of this apostacy.

[element51]

b-easy63...Man what a fabulous post. Seldom do I see a post on here that is so well put together. I actually got goose bumps as I read it. Your statement that this is not the old Republican Party is so right on. Before Bush was elected the first time, (well maybe elected isn''t the right word) I did a lot of research on him and I told everyone that he was going to destroy the country if he was elected and people laughed at me and called me lots of dirty names. Well, you can come to your own conclusions. Some will defend bush as if he were the right hand of God. The rest of us have seen the truth.

[denisl1]

We each seem to have our own major issue(s) that make their choice for President seem like the best one. My question is: Would someone tell me why we should NOT elect Ron Paul?

The rest, with Richardson out and Kucinich low in the polls, seem to be talking crazy talk about our military adventures in the Middle East. Additionally, no one else seems to understand the problems with the economy, inflation, and out of control deficit spending. Inflation is going to eat us alive, as it has already started to do so. Do you really believe that the REAL inflation rate last year, the rate that was used by the government for Social Security check increases this month, was 2.3%?

One can not talk about tax cuts without ALSO talking about cutting spending. We have a $9 trillion debt (double since 2000) that must be paid so we can afford Social Security and Medicare. The interest payments will go sky high when we begin to fight inflation with higher Federal Reserve bank rates.

And we must stop inflation or everyone''s life savings will go down the tubes, along with the middle class, like what has happened to the middle class in most countries south of our border. Inflation is coming, unless Republicans begin to understand the seriousness of runaway deficits and spending. And start educating the country. A Democratic President will surely not fight inflation like Volcker and Reagan did!

Please vote Ron Paul and save the country from bankruptcy abroad and at home!

[jumkey]

The "fair" tax? Is that the one that gives tax breaks to people who make over $200 per year and raises the taxes on the rest of us?

Sorry, jh2005, I''m not interested in paying more in taxes.

[ih2005]

Mr. Esshaki ought to do his homework. He can begin by checking what the findings are about FairTax. What''s CRAZY is a businessman like Esshaki who does NOT KNOW the tremendous BENEFITS the FAIRTAX would afford:
http://snipr.com/fairtaxslate

[skyk-2009]

Clintons'''' contribution to the economy was to do nothing. Much as Greenspan who saw the Tech Bubble coming and yet he did not use his bully pulpit to inform the sucker day traders who ended up taking it in the shorts.

The Economy is the laborer, not the politician. Clinton continued the downward spiral that Reagan started with regards to free trade, deregulation and the bleeding of American manufacturing. A bubble is a faux economy that enables the investor class who in essence do nothing, and who produce nothing to wring money from the talent and skills of the laborer. The investor classes advantage is having control of the means to production; the machines, land, and raw material. Do not forget is takes a laborer to extract that raw material, bring it to the factory and shape it into something of value.



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Posted by curse914 at 03:18 PM : Jan 13, 2008
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Now you may be able to convince some Red Neck of this but most intelligent people KNOW he was the ONLY President to submit a balanced budget to congress. Right now that would mean a savings to the American People of MILLIONS of dollars. Clinton would NOT have gotten bogged down in Iraq, add BILLIONS more tax dollars and it''s pretty safe to bet that IF we continue Clintons Economic Policies we have a Surplus to help with the credit mess. You can say what you want but the Clinton Economic Plan made the 90''s possible.

[aljack3]

What a scoop! A businessman that donates to both political parties. This guy must have been really hard to find. Way to go WaPost. Keep these hard hitting pieces coming.

[rohink-2009]

CBS doing it''s job.

[cs4466]

Bring back the CLINTONS, Bring back the ECONOMY!!!

VOTE SMART, VOTE Hillary ''''''''08!!! WOOHOO!

[prinzowhales]

curse914--They also control the very mechanism in which the collapse occurs--the echanges...it was no accident that Winston Churchill was on hand at the NYSE to witness the Crash first hand. Bush even has a plunge protection team to keep the markets from falling on their arses...or to boost them.

The Regime has already spent enough in industrial production and labour to have built enough infrastructure for solar power to put a huge dent in our oil imports...but that would have been for the people, not the Corporatists who profit when the price of oil ascends.

[cbscensorsus]

BOYCOTT ADVERTISERS WHO SUPPORT A CORRUPT SYSTEM , YES

THEY CHEAT US WE FIGHT,
STARTING WITH THE TREASONIST PRESS (NETWORKS) ALL EMPLOYEES

THE PEOPLE (THE PRESS) WHO ARE SUPPOSE TO BE THE VIGILANT EYE
SECURING OUR REPUBLIC, HAVE BETRAYED US (TREASON)



JUST TODAY I HEARD ON ABC HOW THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE DEBATE OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE WON A PRIMARY STATE

AFTER WHAT 5 STATES
WE ONLY HEAR FROM THE CRIMINALS
WHO THE CRIMINAL PRESS WANTS


ALL DURING THIS ELECTION YEAR PROCESS WE HAVE HEARD
THE BAR CHANGE
WHO HAS THE MOST MONEY
THE TOP 5 CANDIDATES
THE TOP 4 CANDIDATES
THE TOP 3 CANDIDATES

AND NOW ABC
AFTER WHAT 5 STATES
WE ONLY HEAR FROM THE CRIMINALS
WHO THE CRIMINAL PRESS WANTS

AND WE ARE SUPPOSE TO BELIEVE THE BEST CANDIDATE
FOR THE REPUBLICANS IS A COUPLE OF MOB BOSSES

OR A DEMOCRAT (JOHN Mc CAIN)

GET READY FOR REAL WAR PEOPLE
IT IS COMING

BUY FOOD GUN and AMMUNITION..

[prinzowhales]

The Bush-Clinton connection goes much deeper than their drug and money laundering partnership at Mena, Arkansas...M3 expanded beyond productivity all through the Clinton presidency...and, just like Reagan, he benefited politically from it.

Many of the seeds of destruction that are blossoming today under Bush43 were planted under Bush41 and Clinton--Barbara''s ''other son''. Trade treaties like NAFTA were signed under Clinton...Illegal immigration continued unabated...the police state was expanded...and Americans got used to accepting lies from their government concerning events like the attacks at Waco and OKC. Bubbles are a lot of fun on the way up...its no wonder Clinton is liked by some...but when they pop...things are not so nice.

[hungry1968]

VOTE SMART, VOTE Hillary ''''08!!!

Posted by metroduck75 at 12:45 PM : Jan 13, 2008



Haven''t we had enough of the Cheney / Bush regime?

Why would you want "Cheney lite"?

[omega39-2009]

He''s probably curveball''s brother, spitball.

[iceman_1960]

"Esshaki has always sided with Republicans because of their business stances"

[iceman_1960]

"Negative campaigning is nothing new.

In the 1828 presidential race, Andrew Jackson"s opponents accused him of cannibalism.

The Whigs claimed that Democrat Martin van Buren wore the finest ladies" corsets under his suit. He ate off golden utensils and spent a fortune on diamonds, rubies, French vases and imported beauty creams, all charged to U.S. taxpayers.

The 1844 race was enlivened by the interesting claim that Henry Clay had broken every one of the ten commandments.

In 1876 the Republicans declared that Democrat Samuel Tilden had sy*philis and was an unprincipled drunkard scheming to bring back slavery. Tilden"s people then claimed that Hays had gone insane and shot his mother.

In 1948 Lyndon Johnson, running for the Senate against Coke Stevenson, instructed a campaign worker: "Go out there and tell "em Coke was caught having s*ex with a farm animal." The worker was aghast. "But you know that"s not true!" "Of course it"s not true. That"s not the point. Tell it anyway, and make him deny it."

- from "Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren"t Fair (And What We Can Do About it)," by William Poundstone

(Excerpt quoted in The Oprah Magazine, February 2008 issue)

[cfin5]

This is a good standard of judging what a pet philosophy can do to our founding fathers gift to us as Americans namely our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The following was quoted by Cicero in 42 B.C...........
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear."

[prinzowhales]

Omega39 "...the rich eventually get their comeuppance."
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Now, would be a good time....

[cfin5]

joshdestardi,.....What is the end result of those that hold to Alinsky''s nihilist philosophy or Leo Strauss''s nihilist philosophy taught by Nietzsche?.......Nothing but the road to the same destination. Oh, feel free to add Strauss to my previous post and any other enemy to our Constitution!