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Will he? Won't he? Getting lots of press here in the mid-TN area all of the sudden. Anybody have an opinion?
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Will he? Won't he? Getting lots of press here in the mid-TN area all of the sudden. Anybody have an opinion?
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Run for President? If so, I'd vote for him. However, I think there's a lot of dirt on his personal life, so I doubt he'd do it. Remember, he was a bachelor for many, many years before marrying a younger woman.
 
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HotlantaVol said:
Run for President? If so, I'd vote for him. However, I think there's a lot of dirt on his personal life, so I doubt he'd do it. Remember, he was a bachelor for many, many years before marrying a younger woman.
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That might be a plus. It's hard to cheat on your spouse when you don't have one. Personally, I cannot see him re-entering politics.
 
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Like I heard somewhere else, seeing Newt, Thompson, and Hagel rattle their swords, you know the base is truly not satisfied with who the frontrunners are.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Like I heard somewhere else, seeing Newt, Thompson, and Hagel rattle their swords, you know the base is truly not satisfied with who the frontrunners are.
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Yep . . . It's all pre-season until a couple of conservatives jump in to start the tug-o-war.
 
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Probably so, but Romney has some issues with his abortion stance and possibly with his being a Mormon.
 
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Well then with all of the dirt, skeletons, and controversy out there, who does the base get behind?
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Well then with all of the dirt, skeletons, and controversy out there, who does the base get behind?
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If Hillary gets the D nomination the base will get behind whoever the nominee is. If the Ds are wise enough to nominate someone who can win the general election...who knows, maybe no one.
 
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But who will the nominee be? If Hillary wraps this up easily and early, the strategy will be to have Dems cross over in the states they can. They will go for the most vulnerable one.
 
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You hear about strategies like that, but when has that ever worked?
 
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Well Cynthia McKinney here in GA...both for her and against her. But on the Presidential level Kerry was initially the underdog at the beginning of the primaries 4 years ago.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Well Cynthia McKinney here in GA...both for her and against her.
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That dynamic was a little different though since that wasn't voting for a weaker candidate, that was voting out a certifiable nutcase. :good!:
 
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GAVol said:
That dynamic was a little different though since that wasn't voting for a weaker candidate, that was voting out a certifiable nutcase. :good!:
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One of the significant reasons I left Decatur for Marietta was to no longer have her as my representative :)
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Well now that area has HANK! Since Cobb is carved up, who is your rep now?
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I left Decatur in 2001, so I got out when the getting out was good. Currently, Tom Price is my rep. Probably heavy in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies and health insurance cos, but that's OK with me if he keeps those tax brackets lower. It's all about the benjamins.
 
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HotlantaVol said:
I left Decatur in 2001, so I got out when the getting out was good. Currently, Tom Price is my rep. Probably heavy in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies and health insurance cos, but that's OK with me if he keeps those tax brackets lower. It's all about the benjamins.
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I smiled when I read this post it's so cool. I guess I can't blame anyone for taking care of number 1 everyone does it I guess. It just caused me to recall the scene in the movie 'remember the Titans' when the defensive end tells the linebacker captain...''I'm gonna take care of me, and I'm gonna get mine''. That 11 word sentance in my opinion is pretty much the caption for politics in America, the face of a nation. People wonder why no 1 administration can solve the problems in this country, why the problems are so complex and intergrated like a virus that you can't kill without killing the patient....well there ya go thats why, that 11 word sentance.
 
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HotlantaVol said:
Currently, Tom Price is my rep.
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Oh the skeletons in that man's closet. Fortunately for him it is his base that has elected him repeatedly for the state legislature that already knows these things so even with that baggage, he can sleep soundly knowing he's in a safe seat.
 
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HotlantaVol said:
Run for President? If so, I'd vote for him. However, I think there's a lot of dirt on his personal life, so I doubt he'd do it. Remember, he was a bachelor for many, many years before marrying a younger woman.
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Most of the republican candidates have dirt in their personal lifes. Gugliani married 3 times, Newt Gingrich married 3 times, etc. I don't think his background is worse then the others.

I'm not sure a candidate who has been married 3 times, and left his wife for a much younger woman can be elected president. That won't play well in the bible belt, the republican base.
 
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Well when all or most have that as an issue, do the religious right voters settle for the lesser of the evils or just stay home?
 
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