Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Diomedes]

He's articulate..

cue the pointy hat smiley, which I'm too lazy to search for...

and for the record, I'm kidding.  He IS articulate....much moreso than any of the other candidates.  His speechifying is superior to all the rest by a factor of ten.

[rjs246]

At the McCain talkers...

McCain has sold his soul in an all-for-naught attempt to gain favor within his party. It failed, but he is still basically the closest thing to a real (normal) person that the Republicans are presenting. He is the one that I REALLY hope doesn't run because he has a chance to pull moderate votes that clowns like Huckabee have no shot at.

[Phanatic]

Yeah as was stated it seems like Huckabee is running a Bush ticket to the white house.

Things will be very interesting if Obama is elected. The secret service is going to have their hands full holding off the whackos...

[Phanatic]

At the McCain talkers...

McCain has sold his soul in an all-for-naught attempt to gain favor within his party. It failed, but he is still basically the closest thing to a real (normal) person that the Republicans are presenting. He is the one that I REALLY hope doesn't run because he has a chance to pull moderate votes that clowns like Huckabee have no shot at.

I think selling your soul is required to be president...

[ice grillin you]

He's articulate..

cue the pointy hat smiley, which I'm too lazy to search for...

and for the record, I'm kidding.  He IS articulate....much moreso than any of the other candidates.  His speechifying is superior to all the rest by a factor of ten.

unfortunately hes a terrible debater
unless he improves
he will get eaten alive against the republican nominee
in that setting
if he makes it

[Diomedes]

The secret service is going to have their hands full holding off the whackos...

I dunno...I think they'll always have their hands full.  Bush, black, woman..whatever.  There will always be whackos gunning for the President.

[rjs246]

At the McCain talkers...

McCain has sold his soul in an all-for-naught attempt to gain favor within his party. It failed, but he is still basically the closest thing to a real (normal) person that the Republicans are presenting. He is the one that I REALLY hope doesn't run because he has a chance to pull moderate votes that clowns like Huckabee have no shot at.

I think selling your soul is required to be president...

Perhaps, but McCain flip flopped on some issues that he very publicly flaunted previously, just to make himself more conservative. What a douche.

[Diomedes]

Hell, he caved repeatedly to Bush..if that's not selling your soul, wtf is?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I think selling your soul is required to be president...

Perhaps, but McCain flip flopped on some issues that he very publicly flaunted previously, just to make himself more conservative. What a douche.

Romney flip-flopped to pander to the liberal base in Mass. and went back to align with the right in this election.  Giuliani used to be a Democrat.  Huckabee used to be really fat.

The list goes on of wishy-washy losers on the Republican ticket.

[rjs246]

Luckily, Obama hasn't been around long enough to flip flop on anything. How refreshing!

[ice grillin you]

on a related note like to flip and flop all up in michelle obamas butt....her bootie was boomin in that dress last night

[Geowhizzer]

And before Dio chimes in with his tired rhetoric..

Your namby-pampby cliche-ridden deity-worhipper-masquerading-as-centrist rhetoric is refreshing by contrast?

McCarthy was a Nazi wrapped in the American flag..that you think of him as anything less than extremes says enough about where you're coming from..

My religious beliefs are my beliefs. Yours are yours.  I try to give my opinions with a minimum of bombast and ridicule.  You have no such limitations.  I don't try to shove them down your throat, but neither am I ashamed of them.

My political opinions have evolved as I've grown older.  Right now, I'd say I am in the moderate-conservative range, but trending towards the moderate.

McCarthy was whatever he thought he needed to be to gain attention and power.  He had no true political convictions that he stood for.  In some ways, that makes him perhaps even more dangerous than a true extreme politico, who actually believes their bombast.  And don't try to make it sound like I agree with McCarthy - he was perhaps the largest black spot on the American political scene during the Cold War.  My statement there is that he wasn't a truly extreme politico with an agenda to change American society.  He cared about one thing:  himself and getting more TV time.  If anything, he was perhaps the first true political celebrity.

In terms of using rhetoric for destructive purposes, you are correct in saying he's the most like Hitler's political machine, which is why I said in my original statement that he's there because of thefocus and  effects of his attention whoring.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Luckily, Obama hasn't been around long enough to flip flop on anything. How refreshing!

That's exactly what I'm thinking.  If we don't elect him this time around, he'll realize he's got better things to do than dumb himself down to the level of U.S. President.

[Cerevant]

Quotes from Huckabee's 1998 book, "Kids Who Kill"

Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornography, drug abuse, and homosexual activism have fragmented and polarized our communities.

It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations—from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia.

The legal commitment of ideological secularism to any and all of the fanatically twisted fringes of American culture—pornographers, gay activists, abortionists, and other professional liberationists—is a pathetically self-defeating crusade that has confused liberty with license.

Men who have rejected God and do not walk in faith are more often than not immoral, impure, and improvident (Gal. 5:19-21). They are prone to extreme and destructive behavior, indulging in perverse vices and dissipating sensuality (1 Cor. 6:9-10). And they—along with their families and loved ones—are thus driven over the brink of destruction (Prov. 23:21).

Add a quote from a 1998 speech to a Pastors convention:

I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives. [...]

I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.

This man has no business being in American politics.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Religion shouldn't be any more of a lightning rod than corruption or sheer stupidity, but your point is still valid.