Since it’s dominating the news, and I’m busy with other stuff. Meanwhile, the Corner is probably your best source for Republican side analysis.
Another link: Making sense of exit polls.
Meanwhile, cast your own ballot on this question:
Comments are open for your related links or observations.
Ron Paul is a most interesting wildcard. If you only heard a thought or two from this guy you might be impressed. The problem comes after the one word of wisdom: a sh*t pile of downright scarey weird stuff. His followers are also pretty scarey in their own right.
BTW, Would you support a candidate who advertises on an adult website?
I see Huckabee has won W. Virginia. McCain got only a measly one percent.
Interesting…
West Virginia is a rural and very Bible Belt state. Huckabee must have poured on his preacher charm there.
What bothers me about Huckabee is that his continued presence is an impediment to Romney as he is siphoning off votes from him. Huckabee is so damn Jimmy Carter and that smooth superficialness of Bill Clinton combined.
The economy is tanking. I’ll take a Romney who has actual business and executive experience over McCain who is not a fiscal conservative anyday.
Texas Canuck – change, and new ideas are always scary. Aside from some fringe (ok, actually, alot of fringe) in Paul’s campaign, tell me that whackjob elements don’t exist in the main parties?
It’s the beauty of freedom of speech.
And honestly, Paul ain’t as big a whackjob as some think.
It’s another example of how one gets tossed aside if you don’t play the game that is expected of you.
What a frightening world where differing ideas and (God forbid!) libertarian views actually get discussed.
I suspect that most people (>80%) in North America couldn’t survive a year without the nanny state wiping their a$$ and giving them their bottle.
And that is what most people know, but won’t admit. Even most Republicans (and Conservatives up here).
Maybe being down here in Texas I’ve heard more of Ron Paul than I’d like but it isn’t change the fact that I find the Ron Paul movement scarey. Just my observations.
“His followers are also pretty scarey in their own right.”
That’s what they say abut Mark Steyn and Keith Martin.
Scratch a Ron Paul hater and you’ll find a Tax And Spend Socialist. I’d be doing backflips of joy if given the opportunity to vote for him and you know what? They don’t make ’em like Ron Paul anymore, this is likely the last time Americans will get to vote for an old school American for president.
But enough nut-huggery, let’s look at the facts, the data:
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/about/
Ron Paul is the best by far.
Some of you may think your right wing but probably have never seen that far.
His main point-return to the costitution.
The document that made America great.
And the document they have strayed so far from.
Wow, those supporters pop up really fast!
Prediction:
Romney squeezes McCain by 2% in votes, delegate differential
Please. Ron Paul. His claim to fame is fluffing up bills and then voting against them. That’s a sign of a true leader.
Plus, he’ll remove all the income taxes and replace them with, to paraphrase the guy, “uhh, fees. User fees and such.”
Yeah, vote for the guy on that platform. Go right ahead. Then watch a Barack/Hillary ticket take 80% of the popular vote.
Intrade has McCain at 88.9% to win nomination. Hillary is 50.8% and Obama is at 49.4.%. I am surprised at Obama’s showing, and McCain’s too.
Intrade has it at 71% that the US economy will go into recession in 2008. Conservatives at 58% in Canada and Liberals at 40%. OJ Simpson at 77.5% to be convicted of at least one count. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.intrade.com
Hillary coughs up funding for health care:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VszMdi6Iyo
It’s another example of how one gets tossed aside if you don’t play the game that is expected of you.
That’s ridiculous. Ron Paul is getting tossed by voters. Plain and simple. We’ve seen him in all of the debates. There is no nefarious force stopping his meteoric rise to the White House other than the voters.
Ron Paul is a screwball, although some of his voting record has merit, who needs an isolationist as he describes himself as President. He looked and sounded like a drooling idiot in the last debate. He’s the Handicapped Parking of this election, a place for the politically underdeveloped to park their brain.
Oh, and, mornigstar, we’ve never strayed from the Constitution. The Iraq War, the Patriot Act, funding for Guantanamo, if that’s your issues were all voted on and passed in Congress. What is it with you nuts that when you don’t like a policy you suspend all reality and pretend you are living in a police state? Sorry, but, tanks are going to roll down Pennsylvania Avenue any time soon.
I’m glad to see that Ron Paul is still in the race and IMHO he is the most likely to preserve personal liberties in the US. I find McCain as scary as Clinton/Obama as he has shown he has total disregard for the 1st ammendment in the McCain-Feingold bill. This is the type of legislation one would expect from a lieberal government in Canada, not from an individual who one would expect to uphold the US constitution.
We can’t vote for Ron Paul up here in Canada but we can contribute to his campaign.
Go to that website Stormfront and you will see one bigass advertisement for Ron Paul. He’s a complete nutbar with his obsession with “fiat money” and his isolationist proclivities.
Looks like he doesn’t much like Jews either.
Of course this is just Hector Mauvaise’s opinion.
To those in the USA-Look well to your ballot.
Just who is this Paul Szabo guy? He’s a piss poor chairperson. Looks lok he always sitting on an ass full of hot air or Brison, can’t tell from here.
That lack-of-ethics committee grilled Sphinctor and just burned through another half million of taxpayers money. Out of control as bad as the HRC’s.
Just wait ’till it’s mandate stretches ten times its size,like Szabo’s ass, and accidently starts looking into OTHER prime ministers affairs. Like the shawinne-GAIN thugs harassing a BDC officer, in what was a private sale, involving of course, civilservant muscle.
They’ll be on to climate change and the seal hunt, by june I bet….
It appears the world is watching this election a lot closer than past elections. And not just for the obvious reasons.
America has to illustrate to the world what democracy is and how it works.
As faulty as democracy may be, the US system is still the best version. Certainly better than our own. Apart from a having a minority government, the elected Conservatives have to deal with a fully entrenched Liberal bureaucracy that leaks information to the press at every turn and absolutely resists change. Against the wishes of the people, it borders on treason.
The foundation of democracy is a fair, just and equitable ideology writ in law. An ideology which Islamic theocracies, for example, can’t provide.
After so many years of Liberal hegemony, it’s difficult for Canadian democracy to provide this either, without legally reaffirming what our shared values and ideals are. Freedom of speech, the press and property rights have been trampled by Liberal hegemony and their undemocratically applied, ‘progressive’ ideas, such as multiculturalism.
Show the world how it’s supposed to work America.
irwin daisy – I’ve always felt that parliamentary/coalition governments are not as effective as a two party , fixed four year election cycle, winner take all system. Look no father than Israel or Italy to see how badly coalition governments can gridlock real progress and deny the will of the people.
This may not be the election outcome that I want, but, on a fixed date if it is a disaster for the country, which if the Dems win it will be, it can be fixed at the polls again.
Sadly, what the lefty world press is fawning over is the race/gender aspect, the issues content of the candidates they could give a damn about.
“He’s a complete nutbar with his obsession with “fiat money” and his isolationist proclivities.”
He describes a simple world I’d love to live in, but it’s just not possible.
Well penny call your local realator and see what your house is now worth.
Then pull up david walker from the gao(government accounting office) on you tube and see how much debt your government has saddled you with.
Then compare your 401k’s and see how much purchasing power you have lost.You do this by looking at the gold price(thats why gold is quoted so often).
You are screwed.
By the end of this year you will know it.
So sorry.
“What bothers me about Huckabee is that his continued presence is an impediment to Romney as he is siphoning off votes from him.”
I don’t buy the whole McCain is a liberal argument. I’d say that all 3 candidates have done quite “liberal-esque” stuff as governor or senator. My theory is that the Republican vote is roughly divided into thirds based on three main blocks of support.
1. Huckabee – he’s getting the Southern, good ol’ boy, and Bible Belt voters
2. Romney – getting the economic, suburban type voters (taxcutters).
3. McCain – getting the foreign policy/military/experience types (the Dick Cheney Republicans)
If Huckabee weren’t in the race, I think that religious vote would divide pretty evenly between Romney and McCain as McCain is more consistently pro-life.
penny: “Oh, and, mornigstar, we’ve never strayed from the Constitution.”
Well, um, except for the part about all legal tender being silver and gold? Oh, and the 4th amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Yeah, those warrantless wiretaps fit right in there, don’t they? And I’m sure you don’t mind the NSA reading all your e-mails, right?
Suicide is against the law, but nine guys in black dresses can invent a specious “right to privacy”, and use that to justify the murder of over 48 million babies since 1973. Most legal scholars, regardless of their personal views on abortion, consider Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court on strictly legal issues.
Yep, the US has certainly stayed true to its Constitution… not!
Canadian Sentinel: “I see Huckabee has won W. Virginia. McCain got only a measly one percent.”
You are correct, but you may have missed that McCain supporters, seeing him trailing badly, switched their support to Huckabee to deny Romney a victory.
I was quite impressed with John McCain. He has matured immensely as a politician and his ability to talk to common folk is quite powerful.
I also think Democrats are making big mistake should they choose Obama. His rhetoric is quite predictable – there’s big changes coming. He tells everyone what has to change but never explains how to effect that change. Hillary is a far stronger candidate, who can give McCain a good run for his money.
I suspect McCain will mop the floor with Obama, who would only entrench decided Democrat voters, such as the black and victim vote. Obama might make a great president some day, he’s simply not ready right now, especially given the emergence of McCain, the moderate Republican, who will surely win if he can entice Joe Lieberman as his running mate.
I have listened to all the candidates and I am firmly convinced that Mitt Romney would be the best choice for Republicans. Mr. McCain is an old soldier and I like and respect him but I think he has difficultly making up his mind. Huckabee is too much of a preacher for my taste – he thanks God for allowing him to acquire wealth and success – this is not the business of The Lord, in my Bible. Ron Paul has the most compelling ideas but his persona is shaky. Mitt Romney has a record of success in business – I think that makes him best qualified to run the US Nation’s Business.
Mitt is the best looking Republican and it is not in his favor; I know that I would rather look at him for four years than look at any of the others that are in the run – I could not look or listen to Shrillery for 4 years FOR SURE – My Mom once told me that the British people did not trust Sir Anthony Eaton prior to the last war because he was too good looking – hence: the rise of Hitler (Mr. Eton opposed kowtowing to Hitler in the name of ‘peace’).
Mitt Romney is capable, likable and easy to look at – as is his wife and family – with Fred Thompson out of the race, Romney would get my vote without qualms. I would NEVER vote for Obama or Hillery because neither is capable, Obama is likable and is a good orator but he has no grasp of the office that he is seeking.
I think that McCain and Huckabee are encouraging strategic voting (as in W. Virgina) to defeat Romney. I find that type of behaviour contemptible.
I am hoping for a Romney/Thompson ticket winning the White house. I love America and I have many friends and relatives that live in the USA, the reason for my choice is not based on emotion.