That certanly means a lot coming from Mr. “lets link to 10 year old videos to prove someone is a flip flopper.”

Sorry BK… I put links as early as 2005 for you since you can’t do your own homework. You are living in your own la la land.

Mitt Romney is a stooge. I guarantee by the time we start swinging around into the big states and not Iowa or secular NH, Mitt will lose consistently.

Texas Nick 77 on November 30, 2007 at 8:44 AM

Our attention span has diminished. I think Lincoln/Douglas debated several times, one candidate starting a debate with a 1 hour statement followed by the other giving a 90 minute statement, followed by a 30 minute “rejoinder”. They alternated the starting position from debate to debate. I believe they talked about whatever they wanted to talk about, not being limited by rules. Those debates were re-enacted on C-span a while ago.

Your idea has merit. All a candidate would need is a willing adversary and a forum.

There are men standing up here professing to be conservatives and they maybe today, but if we look at their words and actions in the past none of the front runners here other than me can claim to be a conservative. Now some people would say this was an attack ad and I disagree. An attack ad would have had Rudy walking around a dept store getting felt up by Donald trump. Or I could have talked about the Mormon religion and how they have some strange ideas about underwear that protects you from some mumbo jumbo and numerous other things. Or I could have shown where Huck wants to outlaw smoking nationwide. But I didn’t do any of those things because those would be attack ads, and I wouldn’t want to do that to any fellow Republican. I’ll wait till I’m running against the democRATs nominee before I do that.

We’d get a better feel for each candidate. But the best thing about it, if it could be done, would be for every candidate to leave the past in the past. No running on records. That is history. Tell us WTF you are going to do on each issue. Tell us what you intend to do, and HOW you will do it, about the real issues of the day.

Texas Nick 77 on November 30, 2007 at 8:44 AM

In other words, you want them to pander shamelessly and have us forget they haven’t ever brought their newfound enlightened ideas to bear when they had the chance.

I suppose this means you support Hillary. She’ll tell you anything you want to hear. Just don’t ask about her record. That’s all history. Or as Fred would say, “it’s my persona; life.”

BK, just in case you really missed Connie’s point and you’re not simply being deliberately obtuse, you were just accused of being a paid Romney operative–a plant at Hot Air (and perhaps other blogs as well) who is paid by the Romney campaign to shill for Mitt. I’ve often wondered about that myself. We know it happens. Are you one of them? If so, you’ve been overplaying your hand big-time, and you’re not helping Mitt at all. I’ll wager that you and others have turned a lot of people off of Mitt with your constant baiting and negativity.

aero on November 30, 2007 at 8:26 AM

Oh please, the Fraud!heads are the most dishonest lot around. msipes just demanded we all “jump on the badwagon.”

I asked them about Fred’s record. They still haven’t delivered anything. They have merely accused my of being a Romney plant. Thus why I was being deliberately obtuse, I don’t have to answer to this evasive miscreants.

Tell me, Fred’s record is so great, so how come in his debate appearances and ads he NEVER talks about it? What he does is give us a bunch of platitudes anyone on Hot Air could give. I’m not looking for President Platitude, I’m looking for President Results.

Fred has done nothing, zilch, nada, bupkass for the conservative movement, yet we’re supposed to herald this sub-Bush league speech writer as a conservative savior. A man who, by all counts, has never had to prove his conservative mettle and has never shown any interest in advancing conservatism. We should just elect him because he’s a good old Southern boy, apparently.

I don’t care about Southern boys. I want substance, not style.

We’d get a better feel for each candidate. But the best thing about it, if it could be done, would be for every candidate to leave the past in the past. No running on records. That is history. Tell us WTF you are going to do on each issue. Tell us what you intend to do, and HOW you will do it, about the real issues of the day.

Do you remember Reagan’s debates against Carter and Mondale. Reagan did not blow them out of the water with his extemporaneous speaking. In fact, in the second debate against Mondale I really thought Reagan’s mind had failed him. Reagan was best when he was speaking from behind his desk in the oval office. You felt like your grandfather was telling you something important.

I do remember Reagan’s speeches. Thompson’s do not come close. I’ve watched a number of his speeches on C-SPAN and have not been impressed thus far. He needs to tighten up his language and lessen the rambling. Either he needs a better speechwriter, or the discipline to stay ‘on script’ while reading his speeches.

As for extemporaneous speaking, he should just do what Reagan did – notes on cue cards.

Are you paid per post or by the word?

Connie on November 30, 2007 at 1:29 AM

I’m on salary for the Fall River Diocesan Newspaper. They don’t do commissions in the newspaper business. And besides, doing anything “per word” usually turns out a crappy paper.

BKennedy on November 30, 2007 at 2:08 AM

BK, just in case you really missed Connie’s point and you’re not simply being deliberately obtuse, you were just accused of being a paid Romney operative–a plant at Hot Air (and perhaps other blogs as well) who is paid by the Romney campaign to shill for Mitt. I’ve often wondered about that myself. We know it happens. Are you one of them? If so, you’ve been overplaying your hand big-time, and you’re not helping Mitt at all. I’ll wager that you and others have turned a lot of people off of Mitt with your constant baiting and negativity.

Tell me, the more a man loses weight or his hair, the more conservative he gets?

Do not count Thompson out because he is different.

Fred’s difference is positive. He is not a fanatic. He is not a wild card. He is impressively thoughtful before engagement in action. He is a straight shooter.

I am looking to see that Fred is smart enough to manage the executive branch a la Reagan–who he surrounds himself with; Gingrich supporting Fred counts very well in that regard.

A year is a lifetime during a campaign.

Today in time is nothing compared to the final week.

Polls mean squat, publishing whatever the pollster wants to project. Look at the “infallible” Hillary behind the other non-experienced demo Obama. Remember the exit polls in error of the election results?

With candidates still wiggling around the party platform, I agree with Fred; let’s have round table discussions vs. planted questions to hear what candidates amongst themselves have to contribute to the Republican party and to the leadership of our country and citizens. Then compare their discussions with their own written platforms to see where things stand. With a grain of salt, bear in mind how a candidate treats those who left his side or never stood with him, as that dissident could well be you in a pinch.

I would rather see him out there making his own positions known and making the case for Fred, to be sure.

Jaibones on November 29, 2007 at 8:05 PM

Check out his positions on this website.

http://www.fred08.com/Principles/PrinciplesSummary.aspx?View=OnTheIssues

Fred: Going negative because he has no record and nothing positive to say.

BKennedy on November 29, 2007 at 7:13 PM

So, stating the truth about his opponents’ records is “going negative?” Wait ’til the nominee faces the klinton machine. Whoever it turns out to be, better get ready for some real negative ads.

Bill C on November 30, 2007 at 1:03 AM

So what you’re saying is: Brownback’s blog, Fred’s Blog, and Planned Parenthood rhetoric are all better indicators of Romney’s record than either A: reality or B: Mitt himself. Nice.

Are you paid per post or by the word?

Connie on November 30, 2007 at 1:29 AM

I’m on salary for the Fall River Diocesan Newspaper. They don’t do commissions in the newspaper business. And besides, doing anything “per word” usually turns out a crappy paper.

BKennedy on November 29, 2007 at 7:13 PM

Are you paid per post or by the word?

That certanly means a lot coming from Mr. “lets link to 10 year old videos to prove someone is a flip flopper.”

Your genius postings merely served to prove the point of our debacle: Romney used to be liberal but has become conservative over time and stuck with it as Governor, and continues with it today.

And again, Fredheads, Fred’s RECORD. Are you going to talk about it or just attack me, cause I gotta tell you, your stuff is weak. I think csdeven hasn’t been around because you all put him in the hospital from lauging at you folks too hard.

BKennedy on November 29, 2007 at 10:01 PM

We don’t need to go back ten years to find Mitt “plastic man” Romney espousing liberal positions.

Mitt Romney supported taxpayer funding of abortion: “But according to an article published by the Boston Globe dated March 25, 2005, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood indicates that Romney said he ‘professed support for state funding of abortion services for low-income women’ when answering a Planned Parenthood questionnaire.” (Tahman Bradley, “FACT CHECK: Mitt Romney and Taxpayer Funding for Abortion,” ABC News Political Radar, 8/5/07)

That’s from 2005. 2005! Two years ago Mitt supported state funding of abortions.

But it’s not just abortion or gun control or tax cuts, Mitt was for McCain-Kennedy before he was against it.

I think that an amnesty program is one which all of the illegal immigrants who are here are now citizens and walk in and get your citizenship. What the President has proposed and what Senator McCain and Cornyn have proposed are quite different from that. They require people signing up for a, well registering and receiving if you will, a number, a registration number, then working here for six years and paying taxes. Not taking benefits, health, Medicaid, food stamps, and so forth. Not getting benefits. And then at the end of that period, registering to become a citizen or applying to become a citizen and paying a fee. And those are the things that are being considered, and I think that those are reasonable proposals.

As people learn about the Real Mitt Romney(TM) they will discover someone who is completely different than the persona that the Rombots like BKennedy have sought to create.

Slublog on November 29, 2007 at 9:09 PM

Do you remember Reagan’s debates against Carter and Mondale. Reagan did not blow them out of the water with his extemporaneous speaking. In fact, in the second debate against Mondale I really thought Reagan’s mind had failed him. Reagan was best when he was speaking from behind his desk in the oval office. You felt like your grandfather was telling you something important.