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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Thompson and Gore
by Rich Galen
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Romney - 3 (- 5)

Brownback - 3 (+2)

Tommy Thompson - 2 ( - )

Chuck "I Called You All Here to Tell You I Have Nothing to Tell You" Hagel registers an appropriate asterisk. Again.

Rudy Giuliani, is still popular with the GOP base but he, as I may have written before, will have a growing problem as more people become better acquainted with his official positions and personal background.

When Giuliani declared he was not in favor of a pardon for Scooter Libby, I suggested to one newspaper that was one more straw on the back of the Conservative camel and it appeared to me that the camel's knees were beginning to buckle.

Romney, who may well win the first quarter fund-raising sweepstakes, will not be considered a viable candidate for very long if he doesn't make a move in the national polls soon. Being tied with Sam Brownback (R-Ks) is not where his campaign thought it would be at this point.

McCain, whose campaign has finally gotten out of the starting blocks is statistically unchanged at 22%; more important for him is that Giuliani is being drawn back to the pack. But, McCain's campaign has to begin to make its own destiny and not just be reflective of the activity (plus or minus) of the other major candidates.

Newt will suffer from a potential Fred Thompson candidacy because Fred may become, in many GOP voters' minds, the alternative to the Big Three (Giuliani, McCain and Romney) which is the position Newt has been holding since the beginning of the campaign.

On the Democratic side, Hillary still holds a largely unchanged lead over Obama 35% to 22% with Al Gore remaining at 17% and Edwards gaining five percentage points to 14%.

Gore has not indicated he will enter the race but a worrying stat for the Hillary and Barack campaigns has to be Gallup's point that Gore is viewed favorably by 84% of Democrats - a full 10 percentage points higher than Clinton.

If Gore follows Thompson's construct that he is "leaving the door open" for a Presidential run, the Democratic race will turn into a mad scramble probably ending up in a Gore v. Clinton stretch run next February 5.

The Boston Globe has a piece by the AP's Nedra Pickler, wondering whether there is any substance to the Obama campaign.

On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to the transcript of Fred Thompson's interview on Fox, the Gallup analysis of this latest poll and the AP piece on Obama. Also a Mullfoto which makes me smile and a Catchy Caption of the Day which will make you wonder.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Mar 30, 2007 - 8:08 PM EST
photogbill
Thanks for the compliment! I had/have more fears about Gore now than I had before. Something else that has not changed:

"He calls for more gun regulation, licensing and registration, as an aid to
confiscation
Of our firearms and more;
He favors cities' litigation, since he can't get legislation, to wreak financial
irritation on gun companies galore.
Vote for Bush and not for Gore."

The Dems' maneuvering to cram a socialist agenda down our throats should be a wake-up call; voting Dems are being betrayed by their own party. The richest members are mostly Democrat -- the richest one being Kerry -- and socialism is NOT about redistributing the wealth. That is a lie that socialists want the "masses" to believe but the truth is that socialism is all about **concentrating** the wealth -- and power -- into the hands of an elite few. Ayn Rand's **Atlas Shrugged** used about eight pages to describe the evils of a socialist lifestyle. Part of that agenda is to push the price of gasoline to FIVE bucks per gallon.
in order to make driving too expensive for any but the rich.

I recently learned that elimination of sulfur from Diesel fuel will eventually result in problems; sulfur provides lubrication so what will replace it? Acids of combustion have more to do with nitrogen than with sulfur; all fuels are burned in air which is 80% nitrogen so the result is the production of oxides of nitrogen which oxodoze further then dissolve in water to form nitric acid.

As Milton Friedman pointed out, "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
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Date: Mar 30, 2007 - 10:37 AM EST
jander
You are 100% right about abortion. Anyone who thinks abortion isn't murder is either lying or delusional. Unfortunately that genie was let out of the bottle and new legislation has no chance of getting it back in. If I thought it could I'd support it in a minute.

The only way to end abortion now is to take away the demand. That can only be accomplished by giving people hope for the future so they don't feel the need to murder their offspring.

Hope is all but gone in this country. We are living under the jackboot of oppression thanks to both major parties. Republicans and dems have no desire to give up their power.

People call libertarians naive for believing that individuals can make better decisions for themselves than the gov't can. But since the dawn of time people have always wanted the same thing. That is to be left alone so they can make decisions they think are best to create wealth so they can leave their children better off than they were. If that is naive then call me naive.

Repubs think gov't can legislate morality and dems think gov't can make better decisions than they can. In that context who is being naive?

But back to abortion. Having children is a way of providing for your future. If your future is so bleak due to outrageous taxes, laws and regulations then why have children? If you are so devoid of personal reponsibility due to gov't handouts then why have children?

Abortion would eventually die on its own when people have hope again. Hope can only be achieved by throwing off the yoke of government oppression. No new laws will end that oppression, only liberty can do that.

The same applies to drugs.
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