That state consists of corruption at the highest level, the intermixing of church and state (See Bush and Huckabee), and the ‘morally correct’ society that we are supposed to live in today.

The book would include such ideas like taking care of your own problems, taking accountability for your own actions and consequences, and being a realist who investigates.

I think this book would appeal to the intellectuals and progressive-minded.

Would you read it?

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Then he is all….”I’m nobody…leave me alone….I don’t want attention” but yet he would hold countless interviews on his front yard and even do interviews in studio on FOX, including Huckabee and Hannity and Colmes.

Now he’s got an agent trying to secure a book and movie deal and doing stump speeches for McCain….even though on his previous interviews on his yard Joe mentioned he knows nothing about economics and foreign policy.

Isn’t Joe The Plumber just a POSER and a schill for the GOP who actually would benefit from Obama’s plan much more so than McCain?
HEY ELECTION AREN’T FOR SISSES-

You have it wrong. Joe pursued Obama, yelled out a question and called him over to him. Obama gracefully went to him and answered his question thoughtfully and throroughly. Furthermore, Joe opened himself up to criticism by not being who he said he was and by continuing to seek interviews and fame instead of just not answering his door and declining said interviews.
HEY EAFS–
Once again,…Yes…it was in Joe’s yard. Joe raced out to the edge of his yard….yelled out a question…and Obama gracefully went over to him and spent several minutes answering his question. The encounter…covered completely on videotape shows this to be true. You are brainwashed with the inaccurate reporting by the talking heads on FOX.
HEY SLOANER2–

Wow! You are even LESS informed than EAFS. “Obama knocked on JOE’S door”!?! OMG….you are just plain wrong. Your other arguements would support more weight if your facts were correct….which they are not!

Vote Palin

Huckabee has issued an extensive new plan that calls for illegal aliens to return home voluntarily, pushes employers to check workers’ status and would end several legal immigration programs.

It marks a major change in tone from Mr. Huckabee’s tenure as governor of Arkansas, when he campaigned for illegal-alien students to be eligible for college scholarships and financial aid and complained about federal raids on work sites that employed illegal workers. In his book earlier this year, he also called for a way for illegal aliens to earn citizenship.

I thought it was Romney that flip flopped?!?!?!?!??!

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And, if they do, would that create an opening for a quiet competent non-ideologue to step in as an Independent and win the election?

Assume that Obama continues his downward spiral into Marxism and his close association with ACORN. Assume that he continues to be hapless and incompetent in dealing with America’s problems.

Assume that the GOP goes right off the deep end and winds up with a Huckabee-Palin ticket, or a weak ticket caused by concessions that the candidate has made to the social/religious extreme right wing of the party. So there may be a good person on the ticket but with very bad promises made to get on the ticket.

Assume that some clearly capable business or ex-military leaders would like to be President, have the money to run, and have serious things to say to a nation fatigued with meaningless squabbles between left/right ideologues in Washington DC.

Assume that the Independent ticket has a woman on it.

Assume that a lot of private money is made available, including PAC money from the “Independent for President” movement, and lots of soft advertising supportive of the idea of bypassing both major parties.

Assume the Independent articulates clear, clean, simple policies that people can understand, and which seem to be in the interests, and which seem to be do-able and work-able.

Beyond that, the Independent outlines a legislative plan that specifies how the policies will be pursued in legislation — who the expected allies will be — how the project will be paid for, and how it will help the people it is designed to help.

Beyond that the Independent has an Executive Agencies plan which states what can be done by Executive Order (without the help of Congress), acting through the DOD and the various agencies. The candidate can say, without obfuscation, who would be helped, how they would be helped, when this would happen, and what it would cost.
This comes across to the voters as a promise — this is how I plan to use the power of my office in my first 100 days — I promise.

The words come from a person who has always been good on their promises, and there are no internal contradictions that would make the promises impossible to keep.

Imagine

You say you don’t see the candidate, right there on your screen.

I say, I know, that’s why I’m asking you to imagine.

Keep in mind that Ross Perot got almost 30% of the vote in many places. So an Independent candidate is not completely out of the question in modern times.

Keep in mind that Sarah Palin may run as an independent spoiler candidate destroying the chances of Pawlenty, or Jindal, or Romney.

Keep in mind that Obama might easily become extremely unpopular if the war in Afghanistan gets more sour and then more sour, and if the US economy gets more sour and more sour. Obama could start to look like a man that needs replacing. Even Dems might split off to vote for a plainly competent Independent who has ideas that would work.

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Seems like political pundits keep mentioning people from the 2008 campaign – Romney, Huckabee, and Palin (heaven forbid) – as the most likely candidates.

Other names that keep coming up include Newt Gingrich (by 2012, 14 years would have passed since he held public office) and Rudy Giuliani (by 2012, 11 years would have passed since he held public office).

Two of the most highly respected Republicans in the US – Senators Richard Lugar and Chuck Grassley – will be way too old to run. Ditto for John McCain.

The GOP leaders in Congress – McConnell and Boehner – come across as being obstructionists who haven’t been able to generate any alternative plans to what Obama proposes.

As for the better known Republican governors… Arnold can’t run since he wasn’t born here, Rick Perry (TX) blew it after the seccesionist remarks earlier this year, Charlie Crist (FL) is too moderate for most Repubs, Bobby Jindhal (LA) is really young and didn’t make a good impression in the Repub’s response to the SotU address, Haley Barbour (MS) is a spitting image of the liberals’ stereotype of Republican politicians – an old white buffoon, and Mitch Daniels (IN) is an Arab-American (a non-starter for evangelicals) whose governing style is very heavy-handed.

Doesn’t look like the GOP has many options for 2012. Are there any rising stars that I am not aware of?

No Obama 2012

I do not think Rudy Giuliani will get the GOP nomination, because I think Romney will take the North, while Gingrich, Huckabee, and Jindal fight in the south. While Palin, and Thune fight over the west.

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