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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:29:34 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:03:29 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:15:07 -0400, 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,

Really? Like Newt's experience dumping his wife while she was getting
chemo? Was that his first wife or his third?

Similar to Edwards huh? Politicians are generally scum.

Yes, similar to Edwards in moral failing. No, not similar to Edwards
as a ardent supporter of family values, whatever that means.

Or, like all the experience pandering to the crazy bat**** people?

Or, the stop funding the gov't crowd that has no governance
experience?

I said I am not sure who it would be. The pool of candidates is really
pretty shallow and I don't blame them. The job of president really
sucks. It will only get worse as the economic problems we have been
ignoring for the last 50 years start exploding in our face.

The 2012-2016 president will have to tell 83 million boomers they are
not going to get everything they were promised. That may get ugly.

Nobody ever gets "everything" they're promised. It's the nature of
democracy and compromise to achieve the best for everyone.