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Yssup Rider · 05-21-2011, 10:15 AM

Big week for the Republicans... the field for the GOP nomination has contracted significantly:

1) Donald Trump, a leader in the polls as recently as a few weeks ago, decided he'd rather keep firing people on TV than lead our nation.

2) Rev. Mike Huckabee reported that a conversation with the Almighty let him to get out of the race as well.

Newt Gingrich, author of the worst Congress since this one, actually formally announced his candidacy. He did it on YouTube, and got half as many hits as the chick who did a video about all the shit she bought at Forever 21. Hilarious. Pundits are now buying squares on the calendar for him to drop out too.

So, the Red team lost two legitimate candidates, both of whom might have mounted a serious challenge to Barry O next year, and gained a washed up philanderer (Gingrich) who helped develop some of the medical programs in the stimulus package - particularly the mandating of Electronic Health Records.

He'll be gone before Super Tuesday; that's my prediction.

Who's left? Mitt Romney? (Right, the Republicans are going to nominate a Mormon) Sarah Palin? (PLEASE DO IT!) Rick Perry (PRETTY PLEASE DO IT!)

Seems that the usual suspects are dropping like flies and the clock is ticking. If the GOP is going to field a strong challenger to Obama, history has shown us that that "outsider" needed to be a full year into his campaign by now.

Long odds are only getting longer.

Billy_Saul · 05-21-2011, 11:29 AM

Any of them would make a superior president to Hussein O'Bama. Hopefully the lot of Republican candidates will thin out sooner rather than later so the party can unite with the sole purpose of defeating the current socialist administration. Normally I vote Libertarian but this election is so important we must get the democrats out at all cost, four more years of Hussein O'Bama and we may never be able to dig our way out.

I'd say that the long odds for reelection of the current regime are getting longer. What a joke.

Yssup Rider · 05-21-2011, 11:35 AM

The last time I looked BHO didn't dig this hole. Shovels seem to be firmly in the hands of the mathematically-challenged GOP freshman class.

Before that, it wasn't a hole. It was a smoking crater. And we ALL know where that came from.

Of course you're entitled to your opinion BS, and you're right about that ... the GOP needs to find someone who appeals across the board and do it fast. Tick tock.

Billy_Saul · 05-21-2011, 12:12 PM

At this point in time it doesn't matter how we got in a smoking crater, the simple fact is that the current bunch in power isn't getting us out of it, nor do their policies of destroying the value of the dollar / spending trillions that we don't have stand any chance of pulling us out of this great recession. That's what the next election is all about. Does anyone really want four more years of the way things are trending now? How about $8 a gallon at the pump, will that be enough for you? And it's the GOP that is mathematically challenged, really? It seems that they are trying to cut government spending.

It's this type of ignorance that is sending this country straight down the hole.

WyldemanATX · 05-21-2011, 12:14 PM

This current Administration has spent more money than all previous administrations combined.

If Obama care is so good how come the whole state of Nevada asked for a waiver? AARP a huge supporter for Obama care has also got a waiver...

If you say that Bush created a crater, then Obama has shoved a nuclear bomb in it and created a new black hole.

NO Bama NO Leadership NO hope NO change.

Yssup Rider · 05-21-2011, 12:23 PM

Did you read the GOP House budget proposal that's being touted as scripture, BS? It claims to cut unemployment to 2.6%. Sounds like what Bush I called Voodoo Economics. Of course, it all turned out to be DooDoo Economics. Who's mathematically challenged?

BTW -- gas will be coming down in a couple of weeks. We've already heard that. Of course, when we go blow the chit out of another country in the Middle East, I expect them to rise again.

What kind of waiver are you "waving" around, man? More importantly, why did the State of Texas, whose citizens fund federal government to the tune of 15% or so, refuse the federal moneys we put into the kitty on ARRA and unemployment and were entitled to? Might an extra couple of billion have helped the current state budget crisis? Especially when it was our money to begin with?

Is that leadership? I'd call it pandering to a certain extremist group in order to set up a sweep around "right" end.

I do like the bumpersticker style though. Snappy!

Guest040616 · 05-21-2011, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Billy_Saul

Normally I vote Libertarian but this election is so important we must get the democrats out at all cost, four more years of Hussein O'Bama and we may never be able to dig our way out.

How quickly they seem to forget that we are still in the process of digging ourselves out after 8 very long years of the most incompetent (and unpopular) President in modern history. Have you forgotten that we were forced to "dig our way out" from the worst economic disaster since The Great Depression? Additionally there were two wars left in GW's wake!

I am certainly not saying the present Administration has been among the best in recent history but I can say without hesitation that we are much better off today than we were 28 months ago!

WyldemanATX · 05-21-2011, 12:36 PM

Just like a Liberal wanting us to be pussies like everyone else and ask for a hand out.

What ever happened to the mentality of ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country? I know that JFK was a D, but he went against the grain at the time.

In order to increase revenues and decrease unemployment you have to stop having a parasite mentality. Cut taxes and government wasteful spending. If you give tax breaks to the big bad corporations they create more jobs and as those business increase there will be a bigger pie to gain money from it will reduce the deficit. When you continue to grow the government it will eat away at the host. When the host gets to small it cannot sustain what the parasite needs to survive and both die....

As Americans we need to get more proactive instead of siting back looking at the Government to solve our problems. I am sick of the cry babies out there always looking for someone else to solve their problems..

Again I hate bumper stickers I think they look tacky...

Gulf2 · 05-21-2011, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bigtex

...I can say without hesitation that we are much better off today than we were 28 months ago!

I would be interested in hearing the basis for this statement.

undercover1 · 05-21-2011, 02:37 PM

Anybody thinking the republicans were going to be their savior from Obama...you've got a brain the size of a pea!

1. The republicans got us into two wars with no end...and the dems don't know how to get us out
2. The republicans took a vibrant growing economy with 3 consecutive yrs of budget surpluses and crashed into a wall like only once before in history..and you think the current batch of republicans can repair their own damage?
3. The republicans claim they are the party to defend the constitution from liberal dems...why aren't they the ones that started the spying on US citizens without warrants, jailing US citizens without due process and claiming a "thing" (corporation) has literally the same rights as a living breathing person? Talk about turning the constitution on its head!

The dems apparently aren't any good about getting us out of the mess the republicans got us into....just amazing how conservatives believe the republicans are the party that's gonna save this country! LOL

Yssup Rider · 05-21-2011, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Wyldeman30

Just like a Liberal...

Anybody detect a pattern here?

I took a few economics courses in colleges (Nixon was president), but don't remember anything that remotely resembled: "In order to increase revenues and decrease unemployment you have to stop having a parasite mentality."

Trickle down economics, which I think you're describing, trickled down Reagan's leg and onto Daddy Bush's shoe. Because of that gem, America wound up in a recession ... and Daddy Bush wound up out of a job.

"Parasite mentality?" Sounds like a Humpty Dump!

Booth · 05-21-2011, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Anybody detect a pattern here?

Yep. Let's not take the bait. It's just not worth it.

Booth · 05-21-2011, 04:57 PM

Palin isn't running or she wouldn't still be on the Fox payroll. Bachmann might and that could be very entertaining. The more serious potential candidates (like the gov. of NJ) seem to know they'd be better off running in 4 years and Pawlenty/Romney/Daniels don't scare anyone.

And the fact that he's still referred to by some as "Hussein" is an indication that his opponents have nothing better to run with.

Yssup Rider · 05-21-2011, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Booth

Yep. Let's not take the bait. It's just not worth it.

Yeah, we're all adults and adultresses around here!

CHIT! I wish Palin would run. Her and Bachmann in a debate might would be hysterical. Both on and off the stage!

Lurker17 · 05-21-2011, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Booth

Palin isn't running or she wouldn't still be on the Fox payroll. Bachmann might and that could be very entertaining. The more serious potential candidates (like the gov. of NJ) seem to know they'd be better off running in 4 years and Pawlenty/Romney/Daniels don't scare anyone.

Christie's biggest problem is he is fat, and image means so much these days.

Huckabee was a complete tool, who definitely did not need to be in the race. As of now, the choices are craptacular for the right side of the aisle to say the least. I tend to vote that side more often than not.