They can beat multiple wifes and STILL get laid. That's bad ass right there.
I think I am gonna vote mormon on this one...
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if you're talking KJV, then they inherited full claim. not exactly ending stake meetings with "amor del rey", but if the muslim brotherhood ever stepped foot in northern arizona, they could get their genocide on.
recall you lot were pretty passive until 60 yrs ago, and now everyone wants to learn krav maga
I was rooting for Huckabee for that exact same reason. McCain and Romney are both at a similar level of toughness, as both have HUGE issues to overcome.
McCain:
Age - the campaign season is tough, and all it'll take is getting lampooned on SnL for being ancient (or crazy) and the view will probably stick. His age will also be *very* apparent if he goes up against the youthful and energetic Obama.
Flip-flopping - "I was against the Bush tax cuts before I was for them." Nowhere near as bad as Romney, but that and other maverick issues will come back to hurt him.
Ostracizing the Establishment - Rushannity & Co have railed against him for years. They're suddenly going to have a Romney-esque epiphany, but it's going to sound cheezy and their listeners won't buy it...
Romney:
MAJOR FLIP-FLOPPER - Comparing any of his positions up until his recent "oh my god I'm going to run for president, I had better change my positions to reflect the GOP base" will show him to be the quintessential washington politician. The sudden and immediate backtracking on health care (Romney-care!!), taxes, government spending, abortion and gay rights (hmmmm, his state is the only state that has legalized gay marriage??) will be the topic over and over and over and over again. How much was spent by the government on The Big Dig during his presidency? How does the electorate really know that he'll elect anti-abortion judges when his history doesn't reflect that?
New Englander - The majority of the GOPs strength is in the south and mid-west, and typically NE'ers don't play well to that area.
High dislike numbers - Probably only 2nd to Hillary as the candidate that most voters don't like, it'll be hard for him to get past the 62% unfavorability rating...
Think Rudy would've been hardest to take on in the general election, but thanks to right-wing conservatives everywhere, democrats don't have to worry about that...
I am liking Mitt more and more and McCain less and less...
Mitt is a politician's politician. he's smoother than george michael's colon after a handful of exlax.
i had high hopes for his governorship in MA, but he failed on so many points, and lost interest halfway through so he could set his sights on the national stage.
i had high hopes for his governorship in MA, but he failed on so many points, and lost interest halfway through so he could set his sights on the national stage.
I'm sure you're right. Does that mean he's not the most qualified of all the candidates?
i'm not gonna vote republican anyway, so i'm not really paying much attention to that side.
same here, but all the clips I found were from before his 2005 "oh my god I'm running for president and better appeal to the conservative base" epiphany... he's still pro abortion, pro gun control, pro universal healthcare, pro big government spending, right?
$5 says that Obama is more religous than Mitt.
And we don't even need to discuss Huckabee or Edwards.
i dunno....mormon's aren't the type to be lackadaisical re: their faith. don't forget the mammoth temple built in Belmont (largest outside of Utah?), which just happens to have violated some building specs and permits, and also happens to be where Mitt lives.
As long as its a religion not based on some dude sticking his head in a top hat and calling what he hears the new testament I'm cool.
Well, that's a pretty fockin' ignorant statement.
How is Smith that much different than Jesus or either of them from David Koresh for that matter.
Lay off the kool-aid and let people be.
*yawn*
let me guess: you think benjamin franklin was the last closet jebus-freak prez?
This is why I'm not bothering with Tmeyer... they've all had their "religious" or whatever oddities.
Hell, didn't Reagan consult an astrologer?
No....because of retarded statements like this:
Do your research. Openly religious?!? Name one aetheist (hell...I'll settle for agnostic) candidate...I dare ya.
name the last sitting u.s. president who wasn't "openly religious"? the closest you could come is nixon.
upon preview i see secret squirrel is saying something similar, so that's the final wurd.
Sorry about that. I let my frustrations from talking with another moron on another forum carry on.
Awesome, now I'm a moron. Either take our side or vanish, I think you know where I'm going..... Carry on.
I took it...but I don't think I put it in the right place...
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"girlz, rawk the boyz"
"We'll get wild..........wild..................wild"
"wild..........wild.......wild:
Wait whut?
Oh yeah.
McCain's conservative rating from the American Conservative Union in 2006 was 65 (bleh) but his lifetime record is 82.3 at the end of that year. (I don't see any updated numbers that include the 2007 votes.)
Rick Santorum has a lifetime rating 88.1. The ratings are determined by how often a lawmaker votes the conservative position on a key vote.
(Other interesting lifetime ratings.... That squish Lindsey Graham? 90.6 lifetime rating. John Sununu of New Hampshire? 93.2. Trent Lott? 92.4. Sam Brownback? 94.0. Hillary Clinton? 6.2. Barack Obama? 8.0.)
I'm not going to try to persuade readers who are convinced that McCain is liberal or "not conservative" that McCain is a conservative; even if I could muster the rhetorical brilliance and analytical rigor that task requires, I don't think you want to hear it right now.
Note that McCain had been in Congress for 24 years at the time of that rating (in 2006, so it's now more than 25) and thus any one year with a lot of non-conservative votes doesn't pull down that lifetime rating very much. I'll also note that when McCain takes a position to the left of his party or to the conservative base, it's not on quiet, little-noticed issues. Campaign finance reform. The Gang of 14. The immigration deal. The Bush tax cuts. He's not perfect on guns, and he believes in cap and trade to mitigate global warming.
But year after year, there's been a lot of pro-life votes, a lot of defense spending bills, welfare reform efforts, the Republican Revolution of the mid-1990s, voting to impeach Clinton on both counts, Supreme Court justices, etc.
As discussion of Republican primary choices has gotten more heated, I think the terms "liberal", "not conservative" and "not as conservative as I would like" have become synonyms, and that shouldn't be the case.
nancy's head to body ratio is only matched by victoria beckham's.
It would be horrible to have a president that reflected the 'average' views of Americans rather than the average views of either left or right wingers.
that's just carzy talk there!
