The Republican race could get interesting
The Republican race could get interesting
Joined: 12/31/69
#1The Republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/19/07 at 11:45pm
I kept thinking about the draft Gore movement and pondered that while the Democrats have several ready-to-rule candidates, the Repubelicans seem a little light in the gravitas department- and maybe they'd see a "draft _________" movement emerge. So I thought- who is the Repubelican's "grand Old Man"? Who is seasoned, still young enough to run and could win in 2008? Bob Dole? Too Old. Dick Cheney? Too satan-y. George HW Bush? Too loserish. Then it hit me.
Vice President Dan Quayle! Why aren't the Repubelicans drafting Dan? He could even modify the old Nixon slogan: "Tan, rested and reddy!"
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2re: The Republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/19/07 at 11:48pm"And you thought the last one was a numbskull!"
#2the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 7:31amthe really (needs to be) committed wing of the gop seems to be whispering jeb's name.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#3the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 8:11amIt's true. I'm hearing it too. Which shows how desperate they are.
#4the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 12:29pmI think JEB in the race would be great. Then the Democrats could really make the election about our corrupt, war criminal president.
#5the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 12:34pmi'm thinking huck's got a much better chance than anyone is giving him credit for.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#6the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 12:38pmBut could anyone seriously say "President HUCKABEE" without laughing?
#7the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 12:39pmcan it be any worse than the fact that half the country right now thinks that dubya's middle name is actually "f*cking".
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 1:31pmObviously I started this thread to poke some fun at a man so inept he managed to be an embarrassment to the most embarrassing US Office- Vice President. Btu seriously, Who will end up the Republican Nominee? I don't think any of the so-called serious candidates can sew it up- Huckabee is a possibility but I don't see him galvanizing the election. I think they have some problems right now.
#9the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 2:26pm
huck can do it.
f*ck rudy.
i'm officially a huckster.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#10the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 3:08pmI have a very liberal teacher that one day, very shamefully, admitted to us that he was related to Dan Quayle. This is apparently a great source of inner frustration to him. Don't blame him in the least.
"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."
#11the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 6:41pm
(CNN)–Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said legalized abortion in the United States was a holocaust.
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
#12the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 6:45pmi'd say that he knows his audience, that he had to throw raw bleeding red meat to the faithful, but i believe that mike would stand behind that sentence 100% regardless of where he spoke it and regardless of who assails him for it. this comes on the heels of his being blasted for being insensitive about suicide for the comment about the other candidates "sitting in a warm tub with razor blades." we'll see if he issues an apology, but i wouldn't hold yer breath.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 9:13pmI'm proud to say that I visited an adult bookstore with a cousin of Dan Quayles. Talk about your Brush With Greatness.
#14the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 9:42pmIt would be fine with me if Huckabee got the nomination. He would be a great choice for any Dem. to win. After Bush I think he is WAY to conservative for any moderate, swing vote, etc. to consider. He may get the super right wing vote, but I don't think much else.
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#15the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 9:52pm
actually huck's got a lot of appeal with the libertarians and independents with the fair tax plan. his biggest weakness is that he's too soft on immigration. no one wants to say it, but immigration's as big an issue in '08 as iraq or health care or taxes. the winner in '08 will have to prove themselves on that specific issue. if huck doesn't evolve on that it'll doom him as the nominee, but not as the veep candidate.
bear in mind now that he's running in the gop primary so he's using a message designed to resonate with the gop faithful. it won't be the same campaign should he'll use should he get the nomination.
regardless, the voters will always cut a candidate slack for positions with which they disagree if he or she is consistent and they feel that they're positions are based on their convictions. better the devil you know. even in this climate.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#16the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 10:46pmHe would be a good veep and add to the GOP ticket (not that I want a good GOP ticket) esp. as the front runners are trying to out-conserve each other...
9/10 - Next To Normal, Ensemble Theatre
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
#17the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 10:50pmthe problem for most of the gop candidates is that they are trying to run away from their records, especially on the social issues they worry so much about. i would love to have seen one or two be unapologetic about their previous positions, but the only one i see who's got any balls among the bunch (of the ones who have a shot) is huck. even if he is a baptist preacherman.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 11:21pmThe problem with Huckabee is that America is not ready to elect an Arkansas governor President.
#19the republican race could get interesting
Posted: 10/20/07 at 11:26pmi worry too, joe, about how america will react to the man from hope.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
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