Huckabee/McCain win W. Va
With 52% on the second ballot in West Virginia’s State GOP Convention, liberal Republican Mike Huckabee won that state’s 18 delegates. Mitt Romney finished 2nd with 47%.
Romney led after the first ballot, but did not have a 50% majority. McCain’s forces teamed with Huckabee’s to overtake Romney on the 2nd ballot thus creating a victory for McCain even though Huckabee took 1st place. Romney gets no delegates for finishing second.
Does anybody want to continue to dispute ‘a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain’?
First of all “hats off” to Huckabee.
And in a related story…
http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=3486
“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change,” Beth Myers, Romney’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
This is what you can expect in the White House too.
Back room deals will be the “rule.”
Don’t look for low wage workers to get any relief in the long run, regardless of whether it is McCain or Hillary.
With Obama? I am not sure but he is studying under Volkker so I he may change some of his “liberal ways” during an economic crisis, but until I actually see it, I won’t believe it.
Why should ‘low wage earners’ (who qualifies as low wage) get relief from the president?
Beth Myers is correct. Unfortunately she and the Romney team are realizing it too late…they could have worked a deal with Rudy (may have tried unbeknownst to general public) to stay in the race.
Because the low wage earner will be who drain entitlements and welfare and need social spending for Medicaid the most.
It isn’t so much “giving them relief” as it is giving the tax payers relief. The low wage earners don’t pay income tax but they consume the tax revenues that are paid by higher income earners.
If you don’t help a nation have a strong, educated, skilled “middle class” work force, the entire nation will suffer. Henry Ford understood that. He had no desire to pay higher wages just for the sake of paying higher wages. He understood the need for a “middle class” consumer.
However, he would not have supported most of what has gone on since then that has made our nation so uncompetitive in the world market.
Jan
re: #1 Do you think this RICO lawsuit has legs and how far do you think the money trail will lead? And do you consider the media conglomerates “private”? What about all the “ties” with government. (And f.y.i. I’m an avid free market proponent in all areas.)
It has no legs. It is good for publicizing the problems we face as a nation and that is about all.
Why won’t it have legs? Who will the Courts side with? Who will the lawyers side with? Who controls the Courts and media and who do the lawyers and Judges usually side with?
There is no way out of this mess until the voters start saving, demanding government reform virtually everything and we get out of the recession that what is going on will cause.
f.y.i. re: “In a related story” was meant to mean “related” to the big media not Huckabee.
The issue with “Who made Huckabee” probably belongs on a different thread.
http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O‘Brien/video/index.shtml#mea=206915
http://tinyurl.com/35mng6
One thing Huckabee has some support on is his demand for tax reform. The U.S. is lagging in that area. I think Obama would be more likely to follow the lead of Europe than Hillary since he is “studying” under Volkker.
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To counter the current economic downturn around the globe, Socialist Party leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, has put forth a raft of tax-cutting proposals.
In December, Zapatero pledged to get rid of Spain’s wealth tax, enacted in 1977 as a temporary measure. With a top rate of 2.5 percent of a citizen’s property and wealth per year, the tax is one of the highest in the world on wealth. Abolishing the tax, says Zapatero, would ensure that “saving and thrift are no longer punished.”
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Even in socialist Spain, in short, they realize that supply-side economics works, as Jurgen Reinhoudt at the American Enterprise Institute reported last month in The American magazine:
“Spain is already benefiting from substantial corporate tax relief. The Spanish finance minister, Pedro Solbes, is gradually reducing the corporate tax rate for large corporations from 35 percent to 30 percent, with the 30 percent rate becoming effective in 2008. Solbes has also slashed the rate for small businesses from 30 percent to 25 percent. There has been income tax relief as well; this year the top rate was trimmed from 45 percent to 43 percent.”
As Bloomberg News reports, “A tax-cut war is spreading across Europe as leaders of the continent’s biggest economies give up criticizing smaller neighbors for cutting business-tax rates and decide to join them instead.”
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But, will the voters support those kinds of “change?”
If we have a GOP President, would a Democratic Congress allow those things if they thought the GOP would get any credit?
God bless Huckabee!