New Hampshire Primaries

[Jografer]

Will read the article later, but I reckon it could be onto something - the GOP really does look like it's run out of ideas at the moment, and it's got such a divisive split in the form of the Xtian right as well...

We can but hope..... but I've seen this false dawn too many time tbh....

 

[Idris2002]

Will read the article later, but I reckon it could be onto something - the GOP really does look like it's run out of ideas at the moment, and it's got such a divisive split in the form of the Xtian right as well...

That there post was all my own work - the lines after the link are not an excerpt from the article. . . just in case anyone was wondering.

 

[davekriss]

Tancredo's doing pretty well for someone who quit the race weeks ago, but don't let that overshadow the story of the *real* Republican dark horse...

O I see George W Bush is trying to sneak in a third term by running under his real name, Vermin Supreme!

 

[Meltingpot]

Kucinich is years ahead of his time. Ron Paul is an interesting Repug candidate too (for a repug that is).

But the best candidate may yet be to announce: Nader said he will run if Hillary is selected (or "selected"). That seems likely, she is the elite choice and many NH discrepancies point to rigging of the machines. Quelle chuffing suprise.

Dennis Kucinich is good IMO, but my choice is Mike Gravel. He refuses on principle to accept corporate donations (as does John Edwards).

 

[nino_savatte]

Aye, Kucinich is good. I'd like to see more politicians like this making headway.

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the current junior United States Senator from Vermont. Sanders was elected on November 7, 2006, and is presently a member of the 110th United States Congress. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large district in the United States House of Representatives for 16 years.

Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, but because he does not belong to a formal political party he appears as an independent on the ballot. Sanders caucuses with the Democratic Party and is counted as a Democrat for the purposes of committee assignments. He was the only independent member of the House during much of his service there and is one of two independent Senators in the 110th Congress, along with Joe Lieberman. Sanders is the first self-described socialist to be elected to the U.S. Senate.[1] Sanders left the House in order to run in the 2006 election for the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Jim Jeffords and won the election with 65% of the vote.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Here's an interesting piece on the race from the Seattle based Stranger newspaper:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=479775

Last night I was looking at Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

It's full of Steadman cartoons depicting Nixon as a bloodthirsty monster. Nixon, of course, would be considered a leftwinger by today's standards. <snip>

I think you could make a fairly convincing argument to the effect that Nixon was well to the left of Bill Clinton in most important respects.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It's full of Steadman cartoons depicting Nixon as a bloodthirsty monster. Nixon, of course, would be considered a leftwinger by today's standards.

Sadly, by today's standards he was the paragon of honest government.

 

[Idris2002]

Sadly, by today's standards he was the paragon of honest government.

And ten years on from YW's post, how does he look now?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

And ten years on from YW's post, how does he look now?

Ha! Little did we know what we were in for.!