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posted by J. Kendrick McPeters | 12:54 PM
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This fall's Presidential election will offer no more of a choice than that of "Coke or Pepsi." Disagree with me? Fine... if anyone out there believes there is an actual difference in PRINCIPLE between Hillary and McCain, then, please, post on this thread an explanation of why one is better than (or even different from!) the other. Thanks!
(And to anyone who wants to say "McCain will appoint conservative judges," I say, go back and look at the man's record, before you embarrass yourself in public.)
And for those of you who somehow still "don't get it"... might I suggest the following insightful book:
http://differencebetweendemocratsandrepublicans.com/
What's that I hear coming this way? Could it be.....the waaaaaaaaambulance?
In a word, "abortion" discriminates the average Republican from the liberal. There are other distinctions, but won't this one suffice?
Kendrick,
How would you propose that we choose our president?
If Kendrick had his way, all of the choices for President would obviously come through him first. He would be the primaries...
Anonymous, Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:38:00 AM, asked:
How would you propose that we choose our president?
Someone finally asked... thanks!
There are a number of ways that the process of choosing a President could be improved on... for example, we could do away with elections altogether, and turn every Presidential candidate loose on a small island, each armed with a chainsaw. VROOOOOM! VROOOOOM! VROOOOM! AHHHHHH! The last man standing would have "Hail to the Chief" played for him, and be named Prez.
Obviously, this would be an interesting -- if somewhat bloody -- spectacle, but you might have some difficulty seeing why it would be such an improvement over the status quo. Well, one reason is that "trial by combat" would take away the idiotic notion that "getting less than 25% of the potential vote constitutes a mandate." Also, by electing a President whose primary qualification is his brutality, the American public (and Congress and the Supremes) would be encouraged to return to the original concept of "President as Chief Bureaucrat in charge of carrying out Congress' laws." As opposed to todays "The President is the God-Emperor Maximum Leader of the Free World, Who Can Declare War on a Whim, And Who Is Never Held Accountable For His Lies."
But, okay. Maybe you don't like the idea of trial by combat replacing elections. In that case, I'd let the Almighty pick our President for us. How? Well... I'd have each of the fifty governors pick three people (each a resident of their state) to serve as nominees for President. Each state's senate would study the history and qualifications of the candidates and vote to accept or reject each nominee.
Eventually, the final one hundred and fifty names are written on slips of paper, which are folded, taped shut, and dropped into a revolving hopper. Live on C-Span, two names are drawn from the hopper. The two men selected are then brought up on stage, and they flip coins to determine which one will serve as President, and which as Vice President.
So what are the advantages of "letting God pick the Prez? First, any nominee chosen by a governor to reflect the best his state has to offer, is likely to at least be qualified to manage a McDonalds franchise. (Which is more than you can honestly say about McCain - Obamaa - Hillary... all three of em have devoted their whole lives to politics and "public service.")
Second, money would have almost no way of influencing the outcome. Right now, no candidate is considered "viable" unless they are annointed by the corporate owned news media. With choices made at the state level, this would be much less of a problem. Consider how hard it would be for plutocrats to corrupt the process: since any one of the one hundred fifty nominees has an equal chance of being named Prez, a plutocrat would have to bribe fifty governors, along with a majority of senators in fifty states. That would cost a lot of money, and the whole scheme would come undone if even a handful of governors and senators refused to be bought.
Finally, a Prez/Vice Prez selected through random sortition (after being prequalified by governors and senators) would almost certainly have to feel somewhat humble, and that would be a very very good thing. Nowadays, politicos act as though winning a "popularity contest" has brought them up, nearly to the level of God. The political consequences -- endless foreign wars, for instance -- of such delusional thinking are all too often apparent.
Well, anonymous... that's myn plan for electing Presidents. Now do you wanna hear my plan for electing Congresscritters? ;-)
Turning the podium over to a guest:
Let's Hear It For The GOP!
by Chuck Baldwin
March 25, 2008
I think it is time that we all stood up and gave the Republican Party a big round of applause. I mean, they have done us all a huge favor. By an overwhelming majority, the GOP has prevented a potential plague from enveloping these United States of America, and I think it is time that we acknowledged it. Yes, the GOP stopped a potential catastrophe. Without the combined efforts of millions of Republicans, there is no telling what kind of disaster might have ensued. Let's hear it for the GOP! Hip Hip Hooray!
For a few minutes there, I thought the GOP might have lost its mind, but I am glad to report that all is well with the Republican Party. The international bankers and oil companies, and the military-industrial complex, as well as the presidents of Mexico and Canada, can breathe easy. With John McCain as the presumptive Republican nominee, the globalist power brokers who have dominated the last three Presidential administrations can know that they are still in charge. There will be no changing of the guard this November.
It was scary there for a while. You see, there was this kook who was running for the Republican nomination that had the potential to upset the applecart real good. But thankfully, the fine people within the GOP rose to the occasion and beat back the attempts of his nutty supporters to vault him to the nomination.
After all, just think what would have taken place if this kook Ron Paul had won the Republican nomination for President. This nut case actually believes that the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Imagine that. That means he would never take America to war except with a Declaration of War by Congress. Think how such a thing would prevent America's meddling and interventionism worldwide. Think of the billions and even trillions of tax dollars that would not need to be spent overseas. Think of how much money Halliburton would lose. Think of how much money the Federal Reserve bankers would lose by not being able to loan money to the U.S. government. It is too ghastly to think about.
Furthermore, this Ron Paul nut might have actually insisted that the federal government declare unborn babies to be "persons" under the law. Think of it. This would mean that every unborn baby would have the immediate protection of law. And this would have happened without the necessity of appointing a single Supreme Court justice. Whew! The Republican Party dodged a bullet on that one. Now they can continue to talk about being "pro-life" for the next thirty years in order to fool Christian conservatives into voting for them without having to actually do anything about it.
This Ron Paul kook would also have put a stop to the incessant spying on the American people by their own federal government. Egad! This Paul character would have set America back two hundred years. Think of it. No more illegal wiretaps. No more reading private emails, letters, and telegrams. No more harassment by the BATFE of law-abiding firearms dealers for honest errors in paperwork. No more using the wars on "terror" and "drugs" to violate the Fourth Amendment. Think of the money that would be lost by the feds not confiscating the private property of the American people.
In addition, if this Ron Paul nut had actually become President, he might have succeeded in abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and overturning the Sixteenth Amendment. Holy Horrors! Can you imagine the tragedy that would have ensued? No more income taxes. No more tax forms to fill out. No more IRS agents arresting hard-working citizens for "tax evasion." No more government tracking of our private financial transactions. Think of the US attorneys whose services would no longer be necessary. Imagine that. The federal government would actually be required to live within its means; it could no longer raise taxes, because there would be no more taxes to raise.
And if all of the above is not bad enough, this Ron Paul kook would actually demand that the federal government obey the Tenth Amendment. This, all by itself, would reduce the size and scope of the federal government by at least fifty percent. Imagine if the American people suddenly had the federal government out of their pocketbooks and off their backs? What would they do with all that newfound freedom? It is too scary to contemplate.
Do not worry, however. Thanks to the fine men and women of the Republican Party, John McCain will carry their standard into the November elections. Yes, my dear friends, David Rockefeller and his fellow travelers at the Council on Foreign Relations can rest easy. Should McCain win the general election, they will retain their influence in the White House. Indeed, we can all rest easier knowing that John McCain will be the Republican nominee for President.
After all, John McCain will see to it that our borders and ports remain open to illegal aliens. In fact, a McCain Presidency will ensure that illegal aliens become permanent U.S. citizens. Or better yet, that the U.S. and Mexico will be merged into a North American Community, thus eliminating the need for U.S. citizenship altogether. This will greatly help the Chamber of Commerce and Big Business. Think of the money they can save by hiring cheap Mexican labor. Think of the plants and factories that can be moved to Mexico. Think of the cheap Chinese goods that can be loaded onto Mexican trucks from Mexican ports and shipped into the United States on the NAFTA superhighways.
And did I mention the advantage a John McCain Presidency will provide to incumbents in future elections? Because John McCain does not believe in the U.S. Constitution, the First Amendment means nothing to him. This is good, because he can use the bully pulpit of the Presidency to promote his McCain/Feingold bill that would make it illegal for citizens to voice their concerns and opinions regarding the voting records of incumbents during a general election. That means those sinister organizations such as the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America will no longer be able to publicly promote their views regarding the anti-Second Amendment voting records of congressmen and senators.
That Ron Paul kook would never have tolerated such a law as McCain/Feingold. But thanks to the fine men and women of the Republican Party, we do not need to worry about these little inconveniences such as the First and Second Amendments (or any of the other articles within the Bill of Rights, for that matter), because they wisely selected John McCain to be their standard-bearer.
Furthermore, because the good men and women of the GOP decided to nominate John McCain, we can look forward to one hundred years of war in the Middle East. We can all anticipate the opportunity of sending our troops into harm's way all over the world to promote the interests of international corporations, nation-building, and other U.N. machinations.
Had that nut Ron Paul been elected, he would have practiced a non-interventionist foreign policy. He would have sought peace with all nations. And, instead of preemptively invading foreign countries, he would have dealt constitutionally with terrorists, resulting in their capture or death, the protection of America, the absence of long-term war, and the respect of nations throughout the world. Furthermore, that nut Paul would have refused to use U.S. forces to do the bidding of the United Nations and other international entities.
However, we do not need to worry about old-fashioned, out-of-date ideas such as constitutional government, conservative principles, or common sense, because the fine men and women of the Republican Party wisely chose John McCain as their presumptive Presidential nominee. Yes, indeed. Let's hear it for the GOP!
Consider the liberal alternative.
Read this about Barack Obama: He was talking about Pulaski here...He sucks so bad!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/11/obama-draws-fire-for-comments-on-small-town-america/
Obama's preacher was againts the government. Now tell me Obama's not against it.
This is not about race in my part. I'm hoping McCain will ask Rice to be his running mate.
Dr. Rice is not interested. I wish she was though. We have got to stop the left this time for sure.
Do any of you think hillary clinton is attacking Obama so that John McCain will win? Some believe she is doing that to get Obama out of the way so she can run in 2012 for the presidency. Typical clinton underhandedness.
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