Anonymous sources throughout the campaigns and Democratic have filtered through, and indicate a deal is close for a new primary in Michigan on June 3.
The proposal by the Michigan primary would be held in the same way as the last primary on Jan. 15. it’s results, following a period of non-campaigning by all candidates were […]
March 14, 2008
March 7, 2008
John McCain has an interesting choice to make as to who should be his vice presidential running mate. In the most basic of terms the considerations are wide. It’s not even clear the so-called “Maverick” would pick a Republican, though it would be a pretty craven Democrat who would accept his request. What’s that, Joe Lieberman?
A woman? Someone in a wheelchair? A general?
How about Colin Powell? Woah, that one is worth a long, considering pause isn’t it?
Regionally does it matter? Likely not another southwest presence but what about Arnold Schwarzenegger to help drag California to his side? I think it is technically constitutionally legal for a naturalized American to be vice president. National media would shine the biggest spotlight on this campaign.
Laura Ingraham? McCain likes the blondes.
Would he want to strengthen his hawkish (to put it mildly) positions or push someone who would balance where he is perceived as weak.
Does he accept that he is not conservative enough and that being more conservative would actually help with the general electorate?
Would he bring Jonah Goldberg aboard so the right-leaning blogosphere would finally come aboard?
Michael Bloomberg is a serious consideration. What say you?
March 5, 2008
With his own confetti strewn picture atop his Web site, Independent candidate Ralph Nader wants people to not only listen to his views but to vote for him and send him money to become the 44th President of America.
Currently there sure do seem to be a lot of potential defectors from the Democratic Party if their preferred candidate doesn’t get the nomination. From the right, it’s hard to think Nader’s anti-corporate stance - not a bad thing - will draw many Republican defectors unhappy with John McCain. After all, they don’t like him because of McCain-Feingold’s attempted stripping of money power from corporations. McCain isn’t right enough.
Nader lays down 12 major issues he says are “off the table” of the other candidates. They are:
• Adopt single payer national health insurance
• Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget
• No to nuclear power, solar energy first
• Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare
• Open up the Presidential debates
• Adopt a carbon pollution tax
• Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East
• Impeach Bush/Cheney
• Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law
• Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax
• Put an end to ballot access obstructionism
• Work to end corporate personhood
Here Nader makes the pitch why he’s a better choice than McCain or Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton:
March 4, 2008
After a sweep of the states tonight, In what was a fairly substantial - and conservative speech - John McCain accepts the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential race. This is a big deal for McCain who has been trying for so long.
Because he wrapped up the campaign, in all but math weeks ago, this speech has been prepared for a while.
In Austin, Texas, speech below:
As prepared, Gov. Crist’s State of the State address tonight in Florida:
“Thank you. Thank you very much. Good evening. Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Chief Justice and members of the court, members of the Cabinet, the Legislature, honored guests, and my fellow Floridians across our state. Good evening to you all.
“I also want […]
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Republican, has said he is willing to consider re-opening the primary in Florida for a do-over of the Democratic candidate primary.
The primary results were discarded weeks before the election took place when the Democratic party took all delegates away as a penalty for holding their primary early. The national Republican party […]
February 19, 2008
A wasted 50 years of name-calling, blockades, barriers and imposing sanctions may all have to change if Fidel Castro goes through with his pledge to not ask for a renomination to a new term when the Cuban National Assembly meets Sunday.
For the last 18 months Castro, 81, has been sick enough to not make many public appearances at all. In a statement, with shades of Lyndon Johnson’s words, Castro made it clear he did not want to continue as president or commander-in-chief.
“To my dear compatriots, who gave me the immense honour in recent days of electing me a member of parliament … [I] communicate to you that I neither will aspire to nor will I accept - I repeat - I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief. It would betray my conscience to take up a responsibility that requires mobility and total devotion, that I am not in physical condition to offer.
This will be a big deal for America more than any other country, who’s citizens will likely just shrug and wonder what America will do next.
Somewhat predictably, President Bush talks about yet another area where the United States will spread democracy, and he does so with belligerence. “I believe that the change from Fidel Castro ought to begin a period of a democratic transition … Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections, and I mean free and I mean fair, not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as being true democracy. … The United States will help the people of Cuba realize the blessings of liberty.”
Doesn’t seem as if that will help, does it?
If the Republican presidential race had any juice left in it, this would suddenly be the topic du jour toward manly statements. It will likely still come up as candidates strain to give the country credit for the … voluntary resignation due to health concerns after 49 years. Both Republican and Democratic candidates and congressmembers will likely have a few words about Fidel’s almost certain successor, his 76-year-old brother, Raul Castro.
Nowhere will the bellicosity be as loud as in races around the Miama-Dade Congressional Districts, with the likes of Joe Garcia, Annette Taddeo, and Dave Weldon.
See a photo gallery of Castro through the years, from high school on.
January 29, 2008
Does John McCain’s big win here in Florida speak to the quality of his competition?
Though he is very conservative except on a couple of key issues, McCain does not seem to be attracting the conservative base (though Sen. Joe Lieberman runs in place for him). However, if he is not, then is the conservative base staying home? Or are their numbers over-estimated?
McCain really is coming back from the dead to take victory’s over Mitt Romney. It’s a case where slick = sick of him. Mike Huckabee, likable but clearly no longer electable in th eminds of most Republican voters.
Romney took a body blow today, though close in the result he gets nothing. He is falling behind in state polls to “McCain-mentum.”
Giuliani snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and he has dropped out of the race. He is likable as a person but increasingly no one liked his views or the way they believed he would lead. Presence at a ground zero does not equal power or respect.
“Ron Paul won all the debates,” Giuliani quipped in his concession speech in Florida and the race. He did stay positive toward the other candidates.
Though winning by, at 21:26 EST, just 50,000 votes, (36 percent to 32 percent). The Arizona senator walks away with 57 delegates, a big chunk of the pie, and the biggest state to be decided so far.
Democrats
It’s clear that Hillary Clinton’s “victory” in Florida means little. However, what do people read into the fact that she won by about 20 percent?
Does that elevate the results slightly above meaningless?Those who aren’t Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton supporters may be most qualified to answer.
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