Playing it Safe

Disgraceful article. Ron Paul is mentioned ONCE, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay at the end, and HIS name is not in searchable blue type!1

Newsweek, you suck as bad as the rest.

Glad to see that finally (March 25, 2008) you gave the man some serious coverage.

I for one will WRITE-IN RON PAUL's NAME on my ballot in November.

He is the only one with any principles or any real courage. The rest are wannabe moviestars.

After all the toro poop I believe a small amount of levity is in order. While watching political candidates on television, my eight year old grandson asked for an explanation. My first reaction was to go into mechanics of politics but after seeing his innocent semblance, decided an analogy was in order. Hoping to circumvent his attention span I chose the circus. I purposely used words alien to him in order to augment his curiosity. The text however lacks form of speech and pauses considered necessary when attempting to communicate with a third-grader. The discourse was as follows.

Think of it as a circus that comes to town every four years, a spectacle anxiously awaited by citizens of every state, city and town in the United States of America.
The circus is unusual in the sense it displays two animals, an elephant, a donkey and a unique troupe anxious to entertain the masses. The animals are icons for the clique or party each group represents. The show begins when the ringmaster, known as the media, announces the names of participants, be they Republican elephants or Democratic donkeys.
Although lacking high wire stunts and normal apparatus seen in a standard circus, the performers, known as candidates, give the impression they???re doing a balancing act with statements sometimes difficult to comprehend. There are no clowns with costumes or painted faces only candidates performing with expensive garb and makeup designed to thwart something called High Definition. Another interesting presentation is the debates between performers. The verbal interaction is sometimes comical. As the campaign ensues the rhetoric becomes more intense, a truly impressive event to witness.
To add further excitement, a woman and an Afro-American became part of the main attraction. Another event worth mentioning is when members of each group turn against each other. The traditional spectacle is necessary to select the best person to lead each clique. The circus travels throughout the U.S. with elephants and donkeys seeking acceptance from the public. Most get discouraged and drop out. After this the elephant and donkey groups meet in separate enclosures where they convene to select combatants for the main event. The grand and final spectacle occurs when everyone gets together to vote in November. After the votes are counted the media gets to announce the next President of the United States.
What???s that grandson, what animal do I prefer to ride? A donkey of course, elephants tend to weave from left to right and confuse people.

ridicules...... let me get this right..... u want candidates to mud sling? Holly Bailey your a joke

If you take the time to study the facts, you will see that Huckabee is the only candidate, on either side, that has a clean record and has already made a great difference in AR. Unfortunately, most only get involved enough to listen to the media. I personally don't want anyone to think for me or direct me to vote in the direction of their party. I will take responsibility to vte for the best candidate and I wish others would take the time to do the same befoe we are in a communist situation. Think about it. Do you want to pay a fine or go to jail if you elect to not purchase insurance? Do you REALLY want your young girls to have the right to make a grown up desicision to kill their child, when they are not old enough to even know what that means. Come on, let's use our common sense and humility.

I agree, all the talk about the Mormon Church is silly... From what I've read, everything he touches turns to gold... including the Olympics. Right now we need strong leadership to turn our wounded country around, not rhetoric or smoke and mirrors. I just hope the anti-Mormons wont submarine Romneys run, depriving us of our best shot at the White House and a brighter future for our country.

GO MITT ROMNEY!

Read this one...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/why_they_hate_mitt_romney.html

Yet another Mainstream media shill blacking out the only voice of reason among the elitist idiots (and criminals in the case of Ghouliani) running on the Republican ticket. You didn't even mention his NAME; RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL; why do all the networks (even PBS) and news outlets like this one consistently try to either portray this patriot as a kook or simply pretend he doesn't exist. If the votes were counted fairly (Live Free or DIEbold!) in NH he would have won; and he did come in 2nd in three states that I know of (Nevada, Louisiana and Arizona) yet he was barely mentioned. Your gig is up. The savvy internauts among us know the truth of your lies and almost all of us, even life long dems like myself, are starting to wake up and realize what a bunch of cowardly yes men you are; it amuses me AND pisses me off how afraid of him you must be. I am appalled though how you all think you can write him off. Every time this happens you only succeed in turning more people onto RON PAUL and off to your propaganda. He is the ONLY one making any sense, the only one with integrity. Wake up you idiots, before it's too late and we have to endure another four years of tyranny!!!!!!!!!You in the MSM (mainsteam media) fool no one with half a brain. Unfortunately that still leaves most Americans under your power but these blatant blackouts in the press are backfiring. Up with the the Ron PAUL ReLOVEution; DOWN WITH THE EMPIRE AND IT'S PACK OF BUTT KISSERS!!!!!!

Good grief, just how "anti-Romney" can the media be?!

First, the Romney-haters are out in force claiming that the voice whispering "he raised taxes" was a Romney campaign member giving Mitt "illegal assistance" during the Forida debate last night. This despite NBC publicly saying that the whisper was simply an errant comment picked up by a microphone and most likely made by an audience member or TV crew member.

Second, the 23 second msnbc.com internet clip of the whisper includes a repeat of Tim Russert's question so that you can hear the voice say "he raised taxes" not once but twice. While some may say msnbc.com did that out of "convenience" to web surfers, in this day and age of American culture, the more a "conspiracy theory" gets air-time the more it is believed. Go check out the growing number of idiotic "9-11 truthers" websites for proof on that sad fact. If you want to hear the whisper again, click repeat. Seems to me that msn.com and msnbc just want to keep the controversy going.

Third, and this one really frustrates me, a guy named Tom Minnery, a senior VP from a group called "Focus Action" claims on an msnbc.com clip that Mitt Romney has acknowledged that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) are not Christian. WHAT?! In the same clip another man named Tony Perkins, president of the "Family Research Council" says that he thinks Tom Minnery got that info from Mitt Romney's "Faith In America" speech last month. (I apologize to Newsweek readers who just want to "discuss the issues" and not religion but I feel compelled to say I wouldn't need to clarify such stupid untruths if the media quit allowing such falsehoods to be repeated). Have you seen Romney's 18 minute "Faith In America" speech? All of it? I have, FOUR TIMES, and NOWHERE in that speech did Romney EVER say that "Mormons are not Christians". PLEASE go watch it for yourself. I'll paraphrase this a little but in that speech Romney said that the religious question he is asked the most as a Mormon candidate running for President is "Are you a Christian?", and he very clearly replied that he believed that Jesus Christ was his personal Savior. How is THAT "No, I'm not a Christian"?

Come on you media schmucks, Romney is intelligent, educated, articulate, has tremendous class and patience (he needs it to deal with you negative, liberal media types), has been wildly successful in his business ventures, deeply loves his country, has no skeletons in his closet, is happily married to the same woman he fathered 5 children with, has served his fellow man admirably in high profile church and state government positions and has integrity to spare. Now just what exactly did you want in your next President?

Ron Paul made some very valid points concerning the economy, government spending overseas, and the short-sightedness of current policy. McCain looked puzzled by the issue and talked about his collections of friends who know more than he does. We need to have a debate to determine each candidate's level of economic intelligence in a format closer to that of a job interview. This is the issue of our time.