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ted stevens is doing the right thing by continuing his run. if reelected, he then gets booted and sarah palin replaces him.

Absolutley not!! Palin needs to stay in Alaska, choose ANOTHER replacement for Stevens if need be, run for and get reelected, bone up on international issues, have sevaral speaking engagements in the lower 48, make appearances on the MSM, AS HERSELF WITH HER OWN VIEWS, and prepare to get back in the national scene in 2012.

If she replaced Stevens, she will be stifled by GOP leadership and just be one among the other 99 senators in D.C. without the opportunity to do any meaningful reform.

Better to remain outside the D.C. swampgas. Gaining experiece as governor is better than any experience she could gain as a senator.

ted stevens is doing the right thing by continuing his run. if reelected, he then gets booted and sarah palin replaces him.

Absolutley not!! Palin needs to stay in Alaska, choose ANOTHER replacement for Stevens if need be, run for and get reelected, bone up on international issues, have sevaral speaking engagements in the lower 48, make appearances on the MSM, AS HERSELF WITH HER OWN VIEWS, and prepare to get back in the national scene in 2012.

If she replaced Stevens, she will be stifled by GOP leadership and just be one among the other 99 senators in D.C. without the opportunity to do any meaningful reform.

Gaining experiece as governor is better than any experience she could gain as a senator.

FruNobulux said:

On November 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

So, in summary, we were sold out by those we thought represented us. I wonder if there are historical precedents for that.

Yup.

The Gang of 8

The Gang of 10

The Gang of (any friggin number you want to pick)

And any version of the Crap Sandwich sellout you may want to choose.

Sulu in the Evil Kirk episode of Star Trek.

And any version of the Crap Sandwich sellout you may want to choose.

Going back further… well… most of you saw 300.

And of course… there’s Judas.

On November 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

So, in summary, we were sold out by those we thought represented us. I wonder if there are historical precedents for that.

On November 5th, 2008 at 2:06 pm, AlohaGuy said: George Bush was a political fiasco.
Is his villa in Mexico move-in ready yet? He can step down anytime, I’ll take Cheney until Komrade takes over.

There’s another presidential ticket that should have been reversed…Cheney/Bush…Palin/McPain

George Bush was a political fiasco.

Is his villa in Mexico move-in ready yet? He can step down anytime, I’ll take Cheney until Komrade takes over.

FruNobulux said:

We need another one like Reagan…man, could that guy orate!

Fondly remember Nov ‘79. The 8 years following that weren’t so bad, either! Then the Dark Ages started. Where and how did Conservatism come off the rails?

When Clinton took states the had been Red for some time, the RNC panicked and started to believe that America wanted liberals in the White House. Enter W. Not a quite a Lib… but in no way a true conservative. Then when his popularity was plummeting, the RNC made another miscalculation. They still thought they weren’t liberal enough.

Instead of fighting for the base’s principles, they pandered to the left, hoping “they would win the hearts and minds of the enemy”

hearts and minds…. Sounds familiar?

They had disposed with fiscal responsibility and so many other principles that was core to conservatives.

George Bush was a political fiasco. Instead of fighting, he folded his arms and took “the high road”.

And that was all she wrote.

There’s more to it of course, but this is what stands out for me at the moment.

On November 5th, 2008 at 12:17 pm, bilgerat said:

I said, “I want you to witness the death of democracy and the USA so you can tell your children and grandchildren about it.”

Good One!! I didnt think to say that to my daughter. But since she will be eligible to vote in the next election, I made her stand right next to me in the polling booth while I walked her through the entire voting process. (I did let her see my final choices though, because dont want my grandkids saying “well mom votes this way cuz granddad told her to)

I showed her the booklets and the handouts that she needed to research before she votes (her eyes got really wide and she shook her head).

I told her she didnt have to vote on EVERY item on the ballot, because if she wasnt informed about the person/topic then she had no business voting on it.

And then I said just loud enough that the poll workers probably heard me “You do not vote for someones clothes or if you like them or not. You vote for who is going to represent what YOU believe in”

(what was humorous was that the poll workers thought she was there to vote too)