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#Post#: 7429--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: JeffH
Date: May 12, 2011, 8:55 pm
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Since the 1976 election, the more handsome and generally
physically attractive candidate has won the presidency.
Obama > McCain
Bush > Kerry
Bush > Gore
Clinton > Dole
Clinton > Bush
Bush = Dukakis (equally ugly); for the tiebreaker, go to the VPs
- Quayle > Bentsen
Reagan > Mondale
Reagan > Carter
Carter > Ford
Talk all you want about policy, but, in the modern TV era, the
pretty boy (well, the prettier boy) wins.
If the Republicans want to beat Obama, they'll have to nominate
some eye candy that the men want to be and the women want to be
with.
#Post#: 7430--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: JR
Date: May 12, 2011, 8:56 pm
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--- Quote from: JeffH link ---
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> If the Republicans want to beat Obama, they'll have to
nominate some eye candy that the men want to be and the women
want to be with.
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So this rules out DaveP then.
#Post#: 7431--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: JeffH
Date: May 12, 2011, 9:00 pm
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--- Quote from: JR link ---
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> So this rules out DaveP then.
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It actually rules out the entire male population of the Bleacher
Bums Forum.
#Post#: 7432--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: May 12, 2011, 9:00 pm
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I refuse the nomination.
#Post#: 7435--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: May 12, 2011, 9:04 pm
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The only one better lookin' than Obama is Palin, and I wouldn't
put my money on that happenin.
#Post#: 7454--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: May 12, 2011, 9:45 pm
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I think it will sound loony to a lot of the people that must
vote for him in order for him to be the Republican nominee.
The United States is far beyond the time we can pretend the rest
of the world does not exist.
#Post#: 7456--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: May 12, 2011, 9:51 pm
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I would have said Santorum, but I was trying to reach the
Missouri synod voters.
#Post#: 7467--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: May 12, 2011, 10:40 pm
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Dave, we are doing an awful lot of pretending when we imagine
that we can afford the military presence we maintain over the
world, and when we imagine that the folks in the areas where we
send troops are not going to have any meaningful reaction to
their presence.
#Post#: 7471--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: May 12, 2011, 11:27 pm
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We should not have gone into Libya, and we should remove most of
our troops from Europe and some from Iraq, but if we stop the
ridiculous domestic bailouts, social engineering and make
rational programs out of Social Security and Medicare, we can
fight all the wars we want to, at least from a financial point
of view.
#Post#: 7621--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: Keysbear
Date: May 13, 2011, 3:34 pm
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I think you can scratch Mitch Daniels...the media would be
relentless.
HTML http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/13/getting_to_yes_for_the_danielses_109852-2.html
The glaring reason for the family's hesitation is a 1990s gap in
the couple's marriage, when Mrs. Daniels divorced the
now-governor and fled to California with a doctor, who was
married at the time. Mrs. Daniels returned to Indiana several
years later and remarried Mitch. It has long been assumed that
the experience is a painful one for the couple that they do not
like speaking about publicly.
But it may be less about the questions awaiting the Danielses in
a nationally televised interview, which they undoubtedly will
have to do if he runs. Instead, the concern may revolve more
around others who were affected by the situation.
According to those familiar with the details from more than a
decade ago, Mrs. Daniels' decision to end her first marriage and
leave Indiana with another woman's husband hurt several other
people, some of them children. The cross-country move blindsided
the doctor's then-spouse, sources said, breaking up that
marriage and that family.
It's long in the past now, and those involved in this drama say
they have moved on, but the intensely personal nature of that
episode -- and the questions that will inevitably be asked about
it if Mitch Daniels decides to run -- clearly have left him and
his family torn.
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