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Canuck57[_9_]

On 25/03/2011 6:27 AM, True North wrote:

"Harryk" wrote in message ...

Canuck57 wrote:
On 24/03/2011 8:15 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:04:11 -0700, wrote:

Colin Powell could beat him but he is not willing and the far
right
doesn't think he is right enough.

Powell has too much baggage with the UN testimony. Too bad, since
he's
a decent, thoughtful guy who couldn't win against Cheney.

You could use the same argument as fleabaggers used on McCain,
Powell is
too old.

Powell is just one year younger, but he isn't senile and isn't an
angry old man.

Pretty sure Obama is going to be a one term dodo if they can come up
with anything 1/2 baked.

I would welcome a Republican presidential candidate who would be a
rational, viable choice, which would be helpful for a healthy,
honest,
debate about the important issues facing us.

I don't see one around that has any chance of getting the nomination.
It think it's more likely that it'll be someone who is either extreme
and ignorant or extreme with a lot of baggage.

Hey, go for it if he wants. I would vote for Powell, he is a
republican
military, sure to kick some ass.

Powell is an intelligent former statesman and general. He's about as
anti-war as you can get.

I doubt he would be interested at this point, given his age and the
baggage.

As far as I am concerned "baggage" is really experience. That is
particularly true in this case.

I would really prefer someone who wasn't from the Bush/Clinton/Bush
legacy. I am just not sure who it would be,

I know I will be reminded I can't vote but here goes...

ANYBODY but Obama. We got the bottom of the pond with that one.

If you seriously believe this country would be better off with Senile
McCain and Brainless Palin at the helm, you are even dumber than I
thought. The thought of having the imbecile Palin a heartbeat away from
the presidency should have been enough for any responsible adult to vote
for Obama and Biden.

Michele Bachmann wants to be the GOP candidate in 2012. She has a
reasonably good chance of winning the first Republican caucus, the one
held in Iowa, where the Republican voters literally are dumber than a
post. Bachmann, of course, panders to extremist christians and to the
teabaggers, the mindless voters who control the hierarchy of the GOP
these days.

Nothing would please me more than to see that fruitcake succeed in the GOP.

*************

It truly is sad and a bit frightening to see how the US has declined
over the past dozen years or so.

Yep, just when 2006 congress started messing with the money system in
print/create of new mney. By 2007 government was having trouble
borrowing and unemployment was on the rise. In 208 it came to a head.

So what does congress do? More of the same as Obama big debt-spender
can't control spending.

Congress should just say today we balance the budget. No longer can
government spend what it does not have in revenue. Civil service goes
home on layoff if money runs out. Cut the waste fast. Cancel money for
nothing, tell Freddie and Fannie they are bankrupt and people have to
get and qualify for mortgages at real banks.

But it will not happen. Debt is like a heroin addiction, it usually
ends the same way too.