Because there really is only one candidate for which to vote.
"Clashing GOP fiscal visions take stage; N.H. debate could shed light on rivals’ priorities" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff / June 13, 2011
WASHINGTON — The debate will run from 8 to 10 p.m. in Manchester, and will be televised nationally by CNN.
The candidates will not just be fighting for attention among themselves, but with the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks. Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals will be aired at the same time.
Readers, really, is that the most SELF-SERVING and ARROGANT STATEMENT you can imagine or what?
Yeah, everyone else in the whole country is going to be watching a hockey game!
The debate will also feature US Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; businessman Herman Cain; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; US Representative Ron Paul of Texas; and former US senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania....
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Gee, there is PLENTY of PAWLENTY in there. He must be in favor with the elite selectors as an alternative to Mitt.
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Also see: Boston Globe's New Hampshire Straw Poll
Lot of press for a three-percenter.
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Upon further review:
"Deficit hawks for peace; The high price of war has created an unlikely coalition of those trying to end it" by James Carroll, June 13, 2011
THE WAR is over — “Bin Laden is gone, and there is zero Al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan. We have done our job.” So says Representative Walter B. Jones, a conservative North Carolina Republican who has thrown in with liberal Democrat James McGovern of Massachusetts in demanding a swift end to the war in Afghanistan. Late last month, Congress nearly approved the McGovern-Jones amendment to accelerate withdrawal of US forces.
Jones started out as an enthusiastic backer of President Bush’s war policies, but he became an opponent of the Iraq War, and now regards the Afghanistan War as pointless.
After he realized we were all lied to by the government and media.
But his key allies have another concern. One of his amendment’s co-sponsors was Representative Ron Paul, the Tea Party godfather, and Tea Party freshmen made up the largest bloc of the 26 Republicans who voted yes.
All right, THAT DOES IT!
I may not always agree with Ron, and sometimes I even get angry at him; however, I am SICK of the INSULTING AmeriKan MEDIA!!
Yeah, Ron Paul is the overlord and the Tea Party is a crime syndicate (just ignore AIPAC).
Just INSURGENTS in the political system, right?
Related: AmeriKan Media's Point of View When it Comes to Peace
Not exactly an impartial pri$m, are they?
If more members of the Tea Party join this movement in upcoming votes, the war’s price tag (about $10 billion per month) may trump questions of morality or realpolitik in forcing a change in Afghanistan policy....
How sad that the cost and not the killing based on lies is what may end them, but I'll take what I can get.
According to the set Obama timetable, the US war is not scheduled to end until 2014. But ever gloomier assessments foresee a permanently dysfunctional Kabul government, with no assurances that it will ever be able to manage its own security. Even 2014 could be too soon. What — leave Afghanistan to the chaos of civil war, or return it to the Taliban, strengthening them for troublemaking in Pakistan? America may have to stay even longer.
That's why I never take withdrawal propaganda seriously anymore.
Actually, there are those who raise equivalent questions about Iraq, where the US military withdrawal is supposed to be complete by the end of this year. Having invested so much there (nearly 5,000 US dead, about a trillion dollars), are we really going to leave that country in a state of such instability as to effectively hand it over to Iran? And what does “leave” mean anyway, given the hyper-militarized “civilian” contingent (pushing toward 20,000, including a private army of security contractors) that is supposed to remain in more than a dozen places?
For years, arguments over these questions have divided between liberals and conservatives, doves and hawks — with so-called progressive interventionists tipping the balance in favor of both starting the wars and prolonging them.
Yes, the sad excuse for the "LEFT" in AmeriKa.
But the wars have gone badly, and the avowedly anti-war Obama promised to end them, if on George W. Bush’s schedule. That was enough for most Americans to put the conflicts out of mind, especially once the economy tanked.
But the fiscal fundamentalism that has so gripped the Republican Party has suddenly mated the issues of the economy and the wars....
He acts like they just found it while I have been screaming about it for years.
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