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Archive for December, 2007

Iowa - 2008 Presidential Polls

Monday, December 31st, 2007

What happens to Rudy and Thompson if they finish fifth or lower? What Happens if Hillary takes third place? Predict your top four in order from both Parties as to how you think they will finish in Iowa not who you support! I will start first.
Huckabee
Romney
Paul
McCain
DEMS
Edwards
Obama
Hillary
Biden
Lee Enterprises
Mid-date: 12/28/2007
Iowa
GOP
Mike Huckabee 34%
Mitt […]

Al-Qaeda denies Benazir Bhutto killing

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Al-Qaeda usually is quick to take credit for killings to demonstrate power. Did not the leader of Pakistan have must to gain with Bhutto death?
CM-AL-QAEDA linked Pakistani militant Baitullah Mehsud was not involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman said.
“He had no involvement in this attack,” Mehsud’s spokesman Maulvi Omar said by telephone […]

Huckabee says Romney is ‘dishonest’

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Is Huckabee right?
PI-Mike Huckabee called chief rival Mitt Romney “dishonest” today for what Huckabee said were gross distortions of his record, and said voters should question whether Romney would tell the truth if he were elected president.
“If a person will become president by being dishonest, just remember, if he becomes president, he likely will not […]

Giuliani calls for increased military spending during South Florida stop

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Can we afford Rudy?
SS-Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto during a campaign rally Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, underscored the need for increased military spending to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It’s a terrible, terrible tragedy,” Giuliani said, speaking to reporters today at Fort Lauderdale’s […]

Ron Paul on Immigration

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Bogus Romney card sent to S.C. Republicans

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Does this not look like the same dirty trick played on McCain when he ran against Bush in South Carolina?
Card purportedly from candidate, family cites Book of Mormon passages
Many South Carolina Republicans got a bogus holiday greeting card this week, purported to be from White House hopeful Mitt Romney, that cites some controversial passages of […]

Huckabee & Foreign Policy!

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Will Huckabee’s lack of Foreign Policy experience hurt his run in 08?

Dodd unloads on Obama and Clinton

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Can the Dems do better than Obama or Hillary?
Politico-Chris Dodd is a warm and friendly guy, a charmer, a hail fellow well met. But when he hits you, he wants to raise a bruise.
And he hit both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at an afternoon rally at his headquarters Friday, less than a week […]

Bolton: US ‘helped precipitate’ conditions for Bhutto’s assassination

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

This was from Chris.
RAW-The US has seen its options for dealing with Pakistan crumble with Benazir Bhutto’s assassination Thursday, and a former diplomat says American foreign policy decisions helped “precipitate” the former prime minister’s death.
John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, said it was a mistake to collaborate with Bhutto’s “desire to get […]

Clinton’s “don’t ask” policy

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Has Hillary lost Iowa?
LATIMES-As she races through Iowa in the days before next week’s caucuses, Hillary Clinton is taking few chances. She tells crowds that it’s their turn to “pick a president,’’ but over the last two days she has not invited them to ask her any questions.
Before the brief Christmas break, the New York […]

DEBATE: MITT ROMNEY & JOHN McCAIN GET INTO IT! WATERBOARDING

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Fair Tax or Con Job?

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

I found this comment on the PP explaining issues regarding the fair tax. I hope you find this as educational as I do!
Buzz- I worked in sales taxation for better than 20 years for 9 Fortune 500 companies, and the FAIR???tax bears faint resemblance to state sales taxes.
Objection #1 - It is a […]

Ron Paul disappoints on evolution

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

When evolution comes up, fundamentalists and “everybody else” hear two different questions. Fundamentalist hear “Do you believe that we are the product of semi-random biochemical interactions, meaning there is no creator or God?”
“Everybody else” hears, “Do you believe that, although we don’t know how life started, once organisms appeared, evolution explains the change in […]

Dollar in Danger- The Greatest Threat to America

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Do you agree?

The Top 12 Blunders of the Presidential Campaign

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

What do you think?
FROM TOWNHALL
12) Mike Huckabee attacks Romney’s religion: In an interview with the New York Times magazine, Mike Huckabee asked, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”
Why Huckabee chose to give Romney’s supporters a chance to bash him for being “anti-Mormon” just for asking the question is unknown, but […]