I think both statements were extremely foolish.
Who, in your opinion, will?
I agree with your conclusion. Could you cite some examples of your premise?
What you said was:
Most people would certainly think that at the very least you were implying that Bush’s negligence was responsible.
Romney. Get it over with, already.
I saw no such implication. He merely disputed, correctly, that Bush protected us from that terrorist incident.
Clinton, subsequent to various al Qeada attacks on U.S. targets, was given knowledge of bin Laden’s whereabouts and had the ability to strike and kill him, but instead made the conscious decision not to do so because his advisors felt there would be negative political consequences. In my opinion putting personal political capital ahead of your sworn duty to protect the country rises to the level of dereliction of duty.
Yeah, you are repeating right-wing misinformation there.
No. That. Half of the Congressional Republicans are insane and the other half are scared of being primaried by a crazy. Look at the inability of them to pass substantial legislation this year. The founding fathers designed the system for consultation and compromise: when the base demands posturing and hissy fits the system becomes dysfunctional.
Setting aside Starving Artist’s highly dubious claims that all deficit-loving Republican Presidents since Nixon are the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings every known to man, you could make a case that Bush I made some sound decisions. These include fighting the deficit with tax increases, encasing Saddam Hussein without sinking America into a quagmire and signing the Clean Air Act.
The problem today is that no Republican President would dare govern from the center: if he did, the swamps would go nuts. So a vote for a Republican is a vote for long term fiscal irresponsibility. Remember: all Republican candidates for President said they would veto a deficit plan that was gamed 10:1 in favor of spending cuts. And Romney plans to cut taxes deeper than GWBush.
Actually I think Ford was a good President. Not a great one but he had to deal with a lot of serious crises during his administration and he handled them responsibly.
I think that a man with Newt Gingrich’s background comes off very hypocritical in all this, but I also think he’s right in general. It is honestly a sign of how flawed a wide franchise is, or even a significantly large franchise is. People aren’t interested in real issues and never have been. Most voters decide on who to support either through historical party affiliation or vague “likability” and then they justify their support by adjusting to whatever things their chosen candidates does or believes throughout the campaign. It’s embarrassing that for many Americans part of the “likability” metric is based on things like whether or not the candidate hunts or fishes, whether they’ve cheated on their wife, whether they’ve done cocaine in college, or whether or not they go to church regularly.
I would disagree with Newt for blaming the media though, the media don’t create interest in trivialities, the media is a for profit bunch who cover and report on what the trash that is the majority of the public are interested in. Most of the higher up media types are well educated and wealthy people who probably internally roll their eyes at the inane garbage they have to report on to satisfy the trailer park or HUD house crowd that make up a large portion of their viewership; but business is business and they have to do what they have to do to attract viewers.
That is a slanderous mischaracterization of what Starving Artist said. How dare you!
He left out Ford entirely.
C’mon, Starv, Ford was a Republican. He must have done something amazing.
Yeah, I agree. And he will lose in about a 55% to 45% contest to Mr Obama
With probably a 65% / 35% electoral vote decision.
What really matters is what happens in the House and Senate.
None of us are talking about that.
I think it’s likely there are some registered Republicans who are actually people that don’t like any of the GOP possibilities. AND they’re voting for the one they think doesn’t have the chance of a fart in a whirlwind against Obama.
Nice strategy.
I assume they are doing so in places where you don’t have to register your party alliance.
OBTW, Hi.
The current slate of nincompoops make Nixon look like a saint. He was a crook, but he looked rather amateur by comparison.
I mean, seriously… surely there are some ethical Republican voters out there, eh?
Nah. He should have saved the Nixon pardon for the week after Dick reported for any prison sentence he was handed.
AM NOT!! 