‘I’m Still In the Race’

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Are you telling me you can win the Republican nomination? It takes 1,191 delegates, and you ' d need to win more than nine of 10 from here on.
I've got a shot. Now, is it a long shot? My life has been a long shot. And if you don't make it, you always look at the progress you made and say, "By golly, with a little more time we might have won this thing."

What does McCain have to do to reassure conservatives?
Even if I knew, I sure wouldn't tell you because I'm not trying to help him out. I want to lock up those conservatives; I want them to realize they have a choice. And frankly, the more conservatives choose me, the more leverage they'll have with Senator McCain should he be the nominee.

If you don ' t win, what would you like him to add to his platform?
I'd certainly like to see a commitment to not raising taxes. I'd love to see him commit to keeping the Human Life Amendment plank in the platform … It is important to many of us who believe that this is not just some peripheral political issue, but it's a moral issue that reveals how we, as a nation, view each other as human beings. I also would like to see an absolute commitment on the Supreme Court justices, that they would be strict constructionists.

Do you want to be vice president?
No. If I did, I'd just put my name out there for that. I'm running for president. Right now, I don't need to make that decision.

If McCain is the nominee, wouldn ' t he be able to win the South regardless of who his running mate is?
I don't think it's all about geography, but if it's not a Southerner in particular, there's going to have to be someone on the ticket who can articulate, communicate and be ready to adhere to things that really matter to people in the South.

You ' re at home on television. Does it upset you that you seem to have been accepted more by the entertainment side of Big Media than the news side?
I think that the people who are connecting with me are probably more in tune with real America than a guy sitting in the chattering class in Washington—no offense to you intended.

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Posted By: lonewolf1948 @ 02/15/2009 3:18:49 PM

You asked "What would you do with the $13 the stimulus would give me? I would put it into the savings account like all of my bonus or raises I get...It is money I don't budget on just like you don't budget overimte, child support or alimoney...
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Posted By: J Druid @ 02/22/2008 10:37:44 PM

The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are moving us closer and closer to Socialism, away from our Constitution (the true Test of American Patriotism). Both major parties pushed through the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties) allowing the Federal government (and the lawmakers) greater access in to our personal lives. We have welfare, medicare, and medicaid, all basically federal government subsidies for Americans as a socialist distribution of wealth and commodities. Then, we have the continuation of undeclared War (a direct violation of our Constitution), allowing the President (or socialist leader) the ability to unilaterally decide whether our country (our Americans) go fight in another country using military resources and costing volunteer military lives.
The very core values of America that the founding fathers of our country laid out for us are being destroyed, and our nation is moving in a perilous direction. The American people need to Wake up from their Slumber, and start helping educate their fellow Americans that we are not Socialists, but in fact we are a Nation of Patriots (people who live by and die for civil liberty as well as individual rights).
Our country sorely needs a third party that will rejuvinate and unify the 40% of Americans that usually don't vote, to overcome the two party system of the Socialist Democrats and Socialist Republicans. Individuals always care for other individuals through charity and good deeds, the Federal government steals from individuals to line the pockets of the Corporations and maintain power for itself, leaving whatever remains recycled back to the American people.
Stop sleep walking into Socialism --- Wake up and fight for our Founding Fathers core values of freedom and equality for all! Freedom from the Federal government intervention! Freedom from excessive taxation!
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Posted By: J Druid @ 02/22/2008 10:37:28 PM

"There's only "a dime's worth of difference" between the Republican and Democratic parties, and they're fighting over that dime! "
Obama, Clinton, McCain, Huckabee --
1. All voted to continue funding the Iraq War.
2. All support "comprehensive immigration reform" -- Washington speak for Amnesty for illegal aliens. They want their big corporation buddies to be happy now don't they with their cheap labor. Meanwhile we pay higher taxes to offset the burden that would put on Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare. If you subsidize something you get more of it, the more we subsidize illegal immigration the more we will get of it, and the more illegal alien families will be affected and hurt.
3. All wish to enact some socialist program or another for the "greater good" -- Translation, we want you to pay higher taxes so we (the federal government) can spend it in the way that benefits our special interest group. Obama (Health care insurance companies), Clinton ( Pharmaceuticals), McCain (Military industrial complex including all military corporations), Huckabee (Military industrial complex).
4. All are for reforming Washington and ridding it of government and lobbyist control (well so they say).
5. All support the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties)