GOP Lacks Any Credible Presidential Candidate for 2008

[sixthson]

Though, I do hear he's quite skilled at dissecting little animals and pulling wings from flies -- he's done it since he was a kid. Funny, that's how most mass murderers (and more than a few disgraced Republican doctors) start their life of degeneracy and depravity, too.

And you wonder why no one takes you seriously. Do you really believe if you smear someone like this, people will believe it? Your lack of self control only shows just how much you are losing your grip.

BTW, how's it going looking for that new website to replace JUB since you claim to be so unhappy here? Or is that just another line like "outta here, dontchaknow". Even you don't believe what you say.

 

[OtterJoq]

Please block me too, General.

By your boorish behavior, you make me ashamed to be a liberal.

You're not doing our side any favors.

 

[kev]

...I also feel Frist totally politicized the issue as red meat for the right...Frist was exploiting the issue with his armchair diagnosis that was meant to rile up the passion of the evangelical right.

Well, it could be that, or it could be he was representing some of his constituents.

 

[kev]

I thought I had you on block...

Would that be a "lie" or an "oversight"?

 

[kev]

...maybe in Palookaville Frist is some hot shot, but in NY, he's...

Well, let's just hope then that your abdominal aortic aneurysm only ruptures when you are in Manhattan, preferably when you are on the Upper West Side so that the sprint to Columbia-Presbyterian is short...before you exsanguinate.

 

[iman]

What I have always wondered about Frist is why a noted heart surgeon would give up the scalpel to become a politician. Surgeons have huge egos to begin with, but apparently Frist's ego could not be satisfied with merely saving lives of anonymous patients, he had to be President. Frist wants to be President so badly that he buried his ethics and lied about the condition of Terri Schiavo instead of showing some integrity and leadership and telling the truth. That was a clear moment of truth for Frist, tell the truth as a noted physician, or lie and pander to the anti-rational crazies, he chose the latter.

I wish people would stop trying to enshrine Bob Dole. My clearest memory of Dole was his opposition to a Clinton initiative to cut crime in the cities by hiring 100,000 cops and funding programs for inner city youth. Gingrich and Dole characterized the program as "midnight basketball" which was an obvious code word for "Black". Dole went on to run campaign ads against the 'midnight basketball" program. Where would the Republicans be without Willie Horton, midnight basketball, and "values"? I can't wait to see how they will couch their not-so-subtle appeal to racism in 2008.

Why is everyone picking on Alfie? His threads always provoke the most responses, that makes him an asset to this forum. Is that off topic?

 

[sixthson]

What I have always wondered about Frist is why a noted heart surgeon would give up the scalpel to become a politician.

People from all walks of life have always chosen public service if they felt they had something to offer. Obviously you have been too long a sheep of Democratic party to realize that they are not all career politicians like Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry...men incapable of anything else. At least Al Gore invented the internet, I'll give him that much. Should a man or woman not serve just because he is a success in his chosen field or because he has wealth? Surgeons do have the reputation for big egos, unlike most politicians.

 

[iman]

I think it's a good thing that people other than lawyers become politicians even though career politicians usually end up with a better record than the citizen/politicians. Howard Dean was a small town physician and was a good governor in Vermont. Koop was a famous pediatrician that actually did a conscientious job (he was a bit eccentric) as Surgeon General. Both men are legitimately interested in public service and politics, but Frist was a very good heart surgeon who seems much less interested in public service than in just becoming President. Not that there is any thing wrong with that, until his medical integrity goes to the dumpster like so much hazardous waste.

Of course he did wield a mean scalpel on Trent Lott, maybe he should have been a spinal surgeon.

 

[iman]

Uh oh, was Alfie's thread hijacked again? Will the authorities be notified? Is that a knock at the door?

 

[snapcat]

People from all walks of life have always chosen public service if they felt they had something to offer.

Well, not quite ... no one from this current administration seems terribly interested in serving their country in combat. I guess as long as no wars break out in the District of Columbia everyone is cool with that.

 

[kev]

... no one from this current administration seems terribly interested in serving their country in combat...

Well, I cannot for the life of me remember ANY administration during time of war in which members resigned their positions to pick up a rifle. What is your point?

 

[snapcat]

Well, the lack of military service by so many of the current crop of GOPers.

 

[sixthson]

Well, I cannot for the life of me remember ANY administration during time of war in which members resigned their positions to pick up a rifle. What is your point?

I dunno, Kev, Cheney did shoot some guy in the face, doesn't that count? That wily guy!

 

[sixthson]

Snopes dismissed this claim back in May 2005: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

So? What's your point?

 

[chance1]

Please block me too, General.

By your boorish behavior, you make me ashamed to be a liberal.

You're not doing our side any favors.

What he said

Back to Republican nominees

Interesting to me that the guy who took Bush on last time - and gives him a hard time on a semi regular basis now - is somehow not viable - of course we're talking about John McCain. Keating??? stop it. Might has well bring up Chappaquidick

And Rudy is a LEADER - period. Anyone else here live in NY? The guy was aces after 911 and he cleaned up the city and set it up right. Do a NYC before/after with Rudy and you'll know what I mean. Yup, he's got issues - who doesn't. We need a LEADER. You keep saying you want a leader.

Which one of the Dems is a LEADER?

Russ Feingold - yup
Joe Biden - I think so
perhaps Gov. Richardson

but none of these guys is really on the radar

who else?

P.S. I assume I am blocked - if not, please BLOCK ME

Blocking = not hearing

Blocking = not listening

That's not leading

 

[khushibagh]

Well I'm a native New Yorker and Rudy gives me the creeps. The man is the Leona Helmsley of politics (the law only applies to the "little people"). If Rudy is elected be afraid, very afraid for your civil liberties.

 

[Centexfarmer]

What he said

Back to Republican nominees

Interesting to me that the guy who took Bush on last time - and gives him a hard time on a semi regular basis now - is somehow not viable - of course we're talking about John McCain. Keating??? stop it. Might has well bring up Chappaquidick

And Rudy is a LEADER - period. Anyone else here live in NY? The guy was aces after 911 and he cleaned up the city and set it up right. Do a NYC before/after with Rudy and you'll know what I mean. Yup, he's got issues - who doesn't. We need a LEADER. You keep saying you want a leader.

Which one of the Dems is a LEADER?

Russ Feingold - yup
Joe Biden - I think so
perhaps Gov. Richardson

but none of these guys is really on the radar

who else?

P.S. I assume I am blocked - if not, please BLOCK ME

Blocking = not hearing

Blocking = not listening

That's not leading

Chance, Chance, Chance!



If I want Rudy to do to middle America what he did to Times Square (turn it into a theme park), then I'll vote for the guy!



The only thing that Rudy has on Ray Nagin; Mayor of New Orleans, is that Rudy had enough sense to actually think before he spoke.

Beyond that, Rudy couldn't get elected President of the United States with everything that Karl Rove has in his magic bag of tricks!

I get down on my knees at night and pray that Rudy and Hillary see the truth in the mirror before they go to bed at night.

Hillary Clinton looks into the mirror and sees Rudy Giuliani, and Rudy Giuliani looks into the mirror and sees Hillary Clinton.

Might be good for New Yawk, but certainly NOT for the Nation.






Oh....you have to be a really unintelligent, unthinking, apologist against those who General_Alfie despises to get him to "block" you.

That are be so completely right in your facts and convictions!

I honestly think that....secretly...he lives for such interaction.

That or he just forgets to eat something every now and again, and his blood sugar goes threw the floor.

I'm just speculating of course.

General_Alfie! I LOVE YOU MAN!

He hasn't blocked me yet, and if he has I would not have known it, or given a rat's ass if he did. We can still debate the issues without taking things too personal. Though I think he forgets who he's talking too from time to time.

Oooh! Wouldn't it be something if he reported us for personal attacks?

I'm kidding! I'm kidding!

Just having a rowe!

 

[khushibagh]

According to the Economist, the Big O herself dubbed him that. So you're right an adopted Chicagoan.

BTW I knew Leona said taxes - I was focusing on "little people" not "taxes". I think his campaign before the 9/11 dust even settled to set aside the term limits he imposed on NYC because he wanted to grandstand a little longer was really telling. It gave chutzpah a whole new meaning. Thank God Ferrer pricked his balloon.

 

[OtterJoq]

Sister, I don't even know who you are, who you were, or who you hope to be. But thanks for sharing, m'kay?

And that's just what I'm talking about.

And "sister?"

Sorry, bud...feel again.

On second thought, don't.

 

[kev]

Well, the lack of military service by so many of the current crop of GOPers.

Okay, I see. So your comment is about people in the current Republican administration who "avoided" service in the Vietnam War? Or of those in the list in post no. 1?