Tim Pawlenty for Republican Presidential Candidate 2012?
This guy looks good. The Republicans would be wise to consider him for a Presidential run in 2012.
What do you think?
Quagmire: I think Pawlenty/Huckabee would be a winner, as would Hagel/Huckabee.
Anything is better than the Idiot Girl from Alaska.
Lawrence: Do I know you from another web site? I think maybe I do, right? If so, “Hi, how ya doin’?” If not, sorry. Anyway, Jindal is not doing well with LA, let alone the nation. Just being a 1st Gen. Indian-American isn’t enough.
Cookie: I live in South Dakota…and I too have met him. He seems a genuine nice guy.
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Bristol Palin Pregnat
How is it that a woman, especially the governor of a state can be seven months pregnant and no one know anything about it? Even her staff didn’t know she was pregnant. Really? Really! So, as the questions were beginning to blossom into a full-blown conspiracy theory, Sarah Palin decided she needed to come forth with information that would solve one problem but create another.
The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. We have a prenant Palin, but it’s the unmarried daughter- that’s the new story.
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Who the father is will be the next question, after a full vetting reveals other things, such as Todd Palin’s old DWI.
Here’s what I must ask. Why would someone want to be Predient or Vice President.
More specifically, why would a woman, who has FIVE kids, living about as far away from D.C. as one can, with a helps-needy five month old child, and a pregnant but unmarried seventeen year old daughter want to give up her family, lifestyle, and good life to run for VP? Tell me why anyone in that position would do such if not just an ego gratification move?
Sarah Palin may be the Conservative’s delight, but for me she’s made a very selfish decision that doesn’t sound like a mother who loves he kids and family, and maybe not too unlike a selfish mom who aborts her baby. I know the broader differences- life and death. But in another sense the selfishness is the same.
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Sarah Palin: Vice Presidential Astrology
Alaskan governor Sarah Palin has attracted more than her share of attention as the Republican Presidential candidate in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Unfortunately, she has invited criticism for most things she has done. Perhaps this is because of some unfortunate planetary influences in her astrological chart currently going on in the sky.
Sarah Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho on February 11th, 1964. Palin’s astrological chart reveals that she is an influential individual, whether that influence is for better or worse. Her youthful appearance is the result of being a forward thinking Aquarius and her Leo rising gives her a lot of charisma. The television cameras can’t seem to take their lenses off her.
A number of planets in Aquarius might have been the cause of Sarah Palin’s recent televised gaffes. Still, despite Palin’s perceived shallowness, Aquarians are not usually tyrants. They are usually intelligent deep thinkers that have a vision even if they are not. They can make great leaders.
So why is Sarah Palin, who has so many natural positives to her character insist, being involved some questionable situations?
This might not be the optimum astrological time for Palin to run for the White House. Right now, Neptune, which is retrograde, and also about to go forward along with square Mars (in early November 2008) is a very troubled planetary position that is causing a lot of disturbance in general. Sarah has Neptune square her natal sun, which causes big trouble. Normally, Palin would just rise effortlessly to the top, but right now luck is not on her side. When Neptune is afflicted, it means that the person becomes foggy, lost, and unable to connect with others. It actually causes the person to be viewed unfairly, as Neptune is a planet of distortion.
Like all famous people, Sarah Palin has a stellium in her astrological chart and this one just happens to be in that seventh house of her chart. She has both Saturn and Mars in the seventh house, which means that people will always be somewhat hostile in the way people perceive her. Saturn is a planet that symbolizes criticism and Mars is a warrior energy that can even be violent.
At the time of her Vice Presidential nomination, the planet Neptune was actually transiting over her natal Neptune, which would be a once in a lifetime happening since Neptune is such as slow planet. This planetary position simply translates to mean “I can’t win no matter what I do.That is also what might happen to Sarah Palin as she attempts to become Vice President of the United States. If Neptune were not crossing over the stallion of planets in her seventh house (which is the house of public opinion), she might not be the target of so much derision and be taken seriously in the press.
Even though she is a former beauty queen and seems soft on television, she has a moon in Capricorn, which makes her a fierce yet fair ruler. Unfortunately, with the planets not on her side, her political quest might not come to fruition. Perhaps the main reason she rose to political prominence in the first place is because she has Jupiter in the ninth house, which, for most of her career, had her in the right place at the right time.
We’ll find out on November 4th if the planets are in her favor in her quest with John McCain for the White House.
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Who think that Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential candidate who gets it?
When I say “it”, I mean “everything.”
At one of the debates, Paul was trying the explain the idiocy behind the “They hate us for our freedom” argument. Anyone who actually believes that is a moron.
Paul was NOT defending the terrorists. He was explaining their motives. They hate the US because of our crappy foreign policies in the Middle East, and the US’s meddling in their countries.
Ron Paul, unlike the other Republican candidates, understands that you can only push people so far before they start pushing back.
search_rescue_ranger, that has got to be the most ignorant thing you could have said.
RON PAUL IS NOT A HIPPIE!
He is a Vietnam War Vet, and maybe the reason he wants peace is because he’s seen war firsthand. It looks like that’s something you need to.
well, ranger, it seems I spke too soon, but it’s wrong to accuse anyone who fought in Vietnam and then later opposed it of being a hippie.
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Alaska Votes to Subpoena 13 in Palin Troopergate
BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER Sept. 13, 2008 at 12:01 AM PDT
Republican presidential candidate John McCain with his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Steve Branchflower, a retired state prosecutor who legislators hired to probe Palin’s firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, said someone in the governor’s office might have also pushed one of the 13 people on the subpoena list to deny workers’ compensation benefits to state trooper Mike Wooten.
The trooper was involved in a divorce from Sarah Palin’s sister, and Monegan has said in media interviews he believes he lost his job because he wouldn’t bend to pressure from the Palin family and at least one of the governor’s aides to fire the trooper.
In 2005, before Palin ran for office, the Palin family accused trooper Mike Wooten of drinking beer in his patrol car, illegally shooting a moose and firing a Taser at his 11-year-old stepson. Palin and her husband, Todd, also claimed Wooten threatened to kill Sarah Palin’s father. Wooten as a result was suspended over the allegations for five days in 2006 but still has his job. Among the complaints the Palins have lodged against Wooten is that he filed a workers’ comp claim even though he wasn’t really injured.
Branchflower testified Friday at a joint hearing of the Alaska House and Senate judiciary committees in Anchorage.
Committee members vigorously debated whether to take the rare step of issuing subpoenas, with one lawmaker, North Pole Republican Sen. Gene Therriault, predicting that doing so might lead to a “smackdown” court battle between the executive and legislative branches of the state government.
Therriault and Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, argued for delaying the issuance of subpoenas, if not the investigation itself, until after the Nov. 4 election.
Others, wanted to get on with Branchflower’s investigation.
“I say let’s just get the facts on the table, the sooner the better,” said Sen. Charlie Huggins, a Wasilla Republican who came to the hearing dressed in camouflage, saying he took time out from a moose hunt to attend.
Huggins joined Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hollis French and Sen. Bill Wielechowski, both Anchorage Democrats, in supporting Branchflower’s request for subpoenas. Therriault and McGuire voted against.
The lawmakers than voted to subpoena witnesses including Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, and the unnamed employee at Harbor Adjustment Service as part of the Troopergate inquiry.
Legislators first began the probe in late July of 08 well before Palin was announced as a vice presidential candidate. The lawmakers voted to spend up to $100,000 on Branchflower’s investigation.
In open testimony Friday, Branchflower explained that he needed to subpoena witnesses, most of whom are state employees who have declined to submit to his questioning or who initially agreed to but were no shows for later appointments.
One “especially important” witness on the subpoena list, Branchflower said, is Murlene Wilkes, owner of an Anchorage company called Harbor Adjustment Service. The company holds a state contract to process and pay workers’ comp claims.
Branchflower said in August he heard that “someone from the governor’s office or someone from the state” advised Wilkes to deny Wooten’s claim. So Branchflower said he called Wilkes to check it out.
Branchflower said Wilkes told him she had never talked to anyone in the governor’s office about the Wooten file, nor had she seen photos of Wooten riding a snowmachine while on workers’ comp.
But later, he said, an employee for the company who worked under Wilkes and who actully handled Wooten’s claim said she was pressured — Branchflower refused to disclose her name. All he would say was that she called his investigative tip line to say Wilkes told her “something to the effect that either the governor or the governor’s office wanted this claim denied.”
Branchflower said the employee’s statements were recorded during the interview. Branchflower said she told him she felt pressured.
“I don’t, you know, care if it’s the president who wants the claim denied. I’m not going to deny it unless I have the medical evidence to do that,” Branchflower said, quoting from the employee’s statement.
Now, Branchflower said he wants to take a sworn statement from Wilkes, who he said was possibly “not truthful” in her initial talk with him. Wilkes, he said, canceled a Thursday appointment for an interview on the advice of an attorney.
“She obviously is a key player because she handles all of the workmen’s compensation claims for the state of Alaska,” Branchflower said. “She may have a financial motive,” he added, due to her contract with the state.
Wilkes, since that testimony has be unavailable and apparently ducking the press.
Tom Van Flein, an Anchorage attorney retained for the governor by the Department of Law (AG’s Office) that authorized up to $95,000 to pay for her representation as governor. But he is also representing the Gov. and her husband Todd privately. When Van Flein was asked by reporters “did he think there is any conflict of interest or violation of any ethic’s” He indicated there was not, and that he has in the past represented the Palins in other matters, and refused to say what those matters were. Normally the State Attorney General would have represented Palin, however Alaska State AG Talis Colberg himself is deeply embroiled in the whole matter and because of that he has recused himself according to his office.
Van Flein said that he couldn’t say whether someone with the governor’s office contacted Harbor Adjustment on the Wooten claim. But Van Flein said state officials did investigate “potential workers’ comp fraud,” based on information from Todd Palin. Palin’s version of the events deny any abuse of power and Palin’s attorney Van Flein has long contended that the investigation belonged in the personnel system and not the legislature.
State officials on Friday when queried about the worker’ comp case they were unable to shed any more light or other details which included what the state’s current contract is with Harbor.
News reports Brad Thompson, the state’s risk management director and one of the people who will receive a subpoena, furnished a copy of a one-year contract, signed in 2003, paying Harbor $1.2 million to handle workers’ comp claims.
Thompson, in an e-mail, said the state has signed “several extensions” since that initial contract, but he didn’t respond to questions as to the current contract term or dollar amount.
Branchflower said he wants to subpoena Todd Palin as the “principal critic” of Wooten’s continued employment as a trooper. He told legislators Todd Palin had a meeting with Monegan in the governor’s office in January 2007, not long after his wife was sworn in, to show him the results of a private investigation into the trooper’s alleged misconduct, including photos of Wooten riding a snowmachine.
Two important witness who Branchflower wanted to interview, but who legislators decided not to subpoena, are the governor herself and her former chief of staff, Mike Tibbles, now working as campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska who is indicted by the feds and is preparing for his up-coming trail.
Branchflower has claimed that he is aiming to finish his investigation and findings by Oct. 10.
In a second new and interesting development the Laguna Journal has learned that Alaska attorney and former US Attorney Wevsley Shea actually wrote to Palin advising her against her current course of action in this matter and warned of “grave” circumstances if she continued.
The Gov. before she retained an attorney revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper fighting in a custody battle with her sister.
Palin, who has previously said her administration didn’t exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper.
Shea in his letter to Palin dated July 24, 2008 said, “I have great respect for you, Todd and your family. You are wonderful Alaskans. Unfortunately, in my opinion, you have had very naïve unprofessional counsel on the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Law. Your “political advisors” have given you poor counsel; The situation is now grave.”
His letter goes on to say that he recommends action “now” to restore your credibility and Alaska’s bright future with you.
He than encouraged the Governor to immediately “Apologize for not personally terminating Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan, And for her to “Apologize for your statements regarding Commissioner Monegan in the Press Release no. 08-125. And “Apologize, with Todd, for overreaching or perceived overreaching on Trooper Mike Wooten. And “Terminate any “state advisor” who addressed Trooper Wooten with Commissioner Monegan. And “Withdraw former Kenai Police Chief Chuck Kopp’s name as Commissioner of Public Safety. And “ Do not, in writing (as in Press Release no. 08-125). “ define” the credibility of state employees.
Shea closed his letter by saying that “ Trooper Wooten was/is a grave public safety threat to your family. It was/is a very personal, emotional matter which was either mishandled or covered up by certain individuals. Todd was/is very concerned. You are a wonderful lady with a fine husband. Certain key advisors were/are weak and self absorbed. I am extremely concerned about “wolves” if my recommended action is not taken immediately.”
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For related articles go to: www.lagunajournal.com
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Mark Sanford
Clement Mark Sanford is a politician who belongs to the Republican Party. He is Governor of South Carolina and has been since 2003. He was in the gubernatorial vote of 2002. He first overcame in the Republican primary Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler and then went on to defeat the Democratic member, Jim Hodges, in the common vote, by an edge of 53% to turn out to be the 115th Governor of the state of South Carolina. In agreement with South Carolina regulation, Sanford was chosen independently from the state’s Republican deputy governor, Andre Bauer.
In 2006, previous to the midterm ballot, a number of people discussed the option of Mark Sanford running for President. He claimed not to run in it, and said that his re-election attempt would be his last ballot whether he won or lost. In 2008, subsequent to Super Tuesday, Governor Mark Sanford got some mention as a possible mate for John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate. Mark Sanford openly allied with McCain in a piece in the Wall Street Journal on March 15, 2008. Hr likened the presidential contest to a football game at halftime by saying that he had sat out the primary half, not supporting a candidate but now that he had stepped onto the ground and was going to exert to assist John McCain, it was vital that Conservative Party does the same.
Mark Sanford, for the presidential campaign against Obama in 2012, professes to be a definite follower of smaller governments, and many experts have portrayed his vision as being liberal in temperament. Most lately, he has gone on board on a determined preparation to modify means of backing the state’s community schooling organizations. This would comprise of processes such as school coupons that intend towards initiating more friendly competition into the education arrangement as a way to foster development. Mark Sanford’s plan would also permit more alternatives for parents who desire for their family to be educated in an independent or religious situation, therefore creating easier admission at doing so. This plan is known as “Put Parents in Charge,” and will offer about $2,500 per child to parents who choose to remove their children from the state’s community school organization and as an alternative send them to independent schools. Mark Sanford has outlined this plan as an essential market based improvement.
Recently, the state of South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford has been going on rounds in the media about which course the Republican Party requires to follow for expansion and values sake. He promises to battle and assist Constitutional adherence, to defend the free markets, and guard strong family principles. According to The Associated Press, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was elected the new Chair of the Republican Governors Association. For 2012, just like another prospective President libertarian beloved, Mark Sanford enjoys the campaigning. And against Obama, in 2012, he has a lot of chances if he selects a proper campaigning strategy and keeps his current rate of increase in ranks within the Republican Party.
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Ron Paul The Revolution: A Manifesto
The Revolution: A Manifesto
From Publishers Weekly
Congressman, Republican Presidential candidate and author Paul (A Foreign Policy of Freedom) says “Let the revolution begin” with this libertarian plea for a return to “the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution, and a noninterventionist foreign policy.” Specific examples demonstrate how far U.S. law has strayed from this path, particularly over the past century, as well as Paul’s firm grasp of history and dedication to meaningful debate: “it is revolutionary to ask whether we need troops in 130 countries… whether the accumulation of more and more power in Washington has been good for us…to ask fundamental questions about privacy, police-state measures, taxation, social policy.” Though he can rant, Paul is informative and impassioned, giving readers of any political bent food for thought. With harsh words for both Democrats and Republicans, and especially George W. Bush, Paul’s no-nonsense text questions the “imperialist” foreign policy that’s led to the war in Iraq (“one of the most ill considered, poorly planned, and… unnecessary military conflicts in American history”), the economic situation and rampant federalism treading on states’ rights and identities (“The Founding Fathers did not intend for every American neighborhood to be exactly the same”). Though his policy suggestions can seem extreme, Paul’s book gives new life to old debates.
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“The real truth about Liberty. This book takes a wrecking ball to the political establishment. Senator Goldwater would have loved it — it’s The Conscience of a Conservative for the 21st century.” (Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., former member of Congress )
The most important book written since COMMON SENSE,
April 21, 2008
By J. D. Seagraves
Dr. Ron Paul’s THE REVOLUTION: A MANIFESTO is a concise (167 pages) and convincing argument for a return to America’s libertarian principles. During his campaign for president, Dr. Paul established a very diverse following: Republicans, Democrats, Greens, and “even some anarchists,” he would joke. In truth, many people were drawn to him due his obvious sincerity — a breath of fresh air! — even if they did not fully agree with or understand his ideology. Now they will understand and become Austro-Jeffersonians, one and all!
The first chapter, “The False Choices of American Politics,” demonstrates why those Ron Paul supporters who do understand his message cannot bring themselves to vote for either McCain or Hillary/Obama, or even to really care who among them wins: There is very little (if any) substantive difference between them. They may disagree about when and where to use foreign intervention, but never over whether it should be used at all. They may disagree over how fast interest rates should be cut by the Fed, but never over whether the Fed should exist. You get the idea.
Chapters 2 and 3 are titled “The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers” and “The Constitution,” respectively. Here Dr. Paul challenges his neocon and liberal opponents to openly condemn the wisdom of the founding fathers, which they do with their actions, or else follow it. The framers of the Constitution were far from unanimous — there were bitter disputes among so-called “Federalists” (Hamiltonian nationalists) and “republicans” (Jeffersonian decentralists) — but today’s neocon/liberals reject the wisdom of both parties, taking an expansive view of their powers that even Hamilton himself would have seen as excessive.
Chapter 4, “Economic Freedom,” may be an eye-opening one for many readers. First, there are the liberals who were attracted to Dr. Paul’s campaign, who may for the first time be presented with a contrast between the true Austro-Jeffersonian libertarian brand of capitalism and the inflationist, Kudlow & Company / Forbes magazine variety. Secondly there are many “paleoconservatives” I met who supported Dr. Paul but were under the mistaken impression that he was against free trade — nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, as Dr. Paul points out here, he is 100% in favor of unilateral, unconditional free trade and 100% against quotas, sanctions, embargoes, duties, and protective tariffs. He does oppose phony “free-trade” deals like NAFTA and the WTO (joining many liberal Democrats in doing so, but for different reasons) not because they “steal American jobs” (they don’t), but because they limit trade too greatly. Furthermore, they erode constitutional sovereignty and work for the benefit of politically connected elites, something with which libertarians, paleocons, and liberals can all agree.
All three constituencies will also cheer Chapter 5, “Civil Liberties and Personal Freedom.” Here the contrast between Jeffersonian libertarianism (once considered “liberalism” before that philosophy was given a bad name in the early twentieth century) and the so-called “conservatism” of the neocons and post-WWII New Rightists is perhaps at its greatest. Ron Paul supports the Constitution and the limits it places on government — which makes him a “blame America” leftist among the neocon punditry, all apologists for the liberal Wilson/FDR/Truman/LBJ foreign policy, by the way.
But the best and most important chapter, without a doubt, is Chapter 6, “Money: The Forbidden Issue in American Politics.” Here Dr. Paul expertly details the operations of the Federal Reserve System in stunning clarity — no conspiracy theories or half-truths that often further obfuscate discussion of the secretive monetary authority. The Austrian (and true) perspective on the Fed is not to be horrified that the Fed isn’t a government agency (it is, even if indirectly), but to be outraged that all banks are essentially arms of the government. We don’t need the government to have even more control over the money supply, we need it to have no control whatsoever (the exact opposite of what movies like FREEDOM TO FASCISM seem to suggest). What’s more, Dr. Paul doesn’t spread the myth that the Fed somehow profits as an entity when it creates money (its profits go to the Treasury), but instead, politically connected individuals and businesses profit at the expense of working-class and poor families. You see, the effects of inflation are not uniform — the Fed System works as a wealth redistribution system from poor and middle-class to the rich and politically connected. How so? Buy this book and find out!
Finally, the book ends with the self-titled seventh chapter in which Dr. Paul lays out a moderate and realistic course that could be accomplished over one or two presidential terms. I’m tempted to share this blueprint for you here but I don’t want to discourage anyone from buying the book. Instead, I’ll use the last few words of this review to lament the fact that this blueprint will certainly not be implemented by the next president. Perhaps a young man or woman who volunteered for Ron Paul’s campaign in 2008 will work his or her way up through the political establishment and be swept into office, with a like-minded Paulian Congress, sixteen years from now (just as Reagan followed sixteen years after Goldwater — not that either of these two are to be looked at as heroes. . .). We can only hope that the Republic can endure that long!
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