Why does Arizona keep voting for this arrogant old rat fink? Because he lies his way through the Primaries, takes money from fast food magnates who employ illegals and spends it destroying his honest competition and as soon as he is re-elected, goes back to being a Democrat lackey. That is why. AZ has been fooled many times by this phony hero who barely graduated from Annapolis, can't dodge SAMs. Once a liar, always a liar.

Hoover was a big government man. When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25% to 63% and increases in corporate taxes. Smoot-Hawley tariff was largely responsible for starting a trade war that drove the whole world into the Great Depression and probably WWII. Hoover's tax increases turned a recession into a Depression. FDR's policies kept the Depression going until rescued by WWII which forced our way out of it. His wartime policies caused serious economic problems after he died.

Jindal comes across as weak. Rubio is not weak on the border, he is more focused on solving the Immigration problem. The last President to engage in mass deportation was FDR, who forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers during the Depression he perpetuated. Eisenhower had "Operation Wetb@ck," which is a lesser move restricted to illegals. Neither of these things is politically possible. We will eventually see Obama's legalization of illegal immigrants like it or not. Not closing the border is not something Rubio proposes.

As far as I am concerned, you can chop the whole thing from Maine to Maryland and DC off the country and have a better USA. Perhaps what we need is autonomous City-States, like the Greeks had. Then NYC, DC, Boston, LA, San Franciso, Detroit Cleveland, Philadelphia and a few others like NOLA, Atlanta and Miami could wallow in their political corruption and despair. Just don't let them have Senators or electoral votes.

I guess we are expecting more of the Republican Party than it is capable of providing. If you read history there are a lot of parallels between the Whigs and the current leaders of the Republican Party. The Whigs ended up on the scrap heap of political history for the same reason the GOP is headed there. I am not a Democrat, so don't think I am rooting for that. I just think this country is hopelessly divided in the same way it was in the 1850s; not over slavery but over an oppressive government vs demands for a government true to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

No, I don't think so. She did not fill the bill with the in-command geniality part and did not simultaneously dismiss the specific idea of the left while providing the conservative alternative. Sarah Palin's job was to keep idiot McCain's campaign on life support. She committed politica suicide when she resigned as Alaska Governor. That will forever be used against her if she ever runs for public office again. Now she is damaged goods.

There's shuckin' and jiving done in Washington all the time. Then there's steppin' and fetchin'. Those are not two equal terms. I think in Powell's mind they are both code-word phrases of a neurotic black mindset. It appears to bother him that Palin tells it as she sees it, unlike most politicians. If she was steppin and fetchin for the GOP she would be more appealing to his mindset.

What has Colin Powell ever done to convince anyone he is a Republican other than try to fill the shoes of MacArthur or Eisenhower as a POTENTIAL political candidate? Nothing. And he is no MacArthur nor an Eisenhower. He would be another unrecognized footnote in a list of obscure Chairman of the JCS without Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf to make him look compentent.

How about we find a leader who sticks to righteous conservative ideas, pragmatic American ideals, and looks at those with opposing views with geniality and smiles, while at the same time rejecting their ideas and simultaneously proposing a specific better way each time. Who is out there that can do that. If he starts now to hone in on that Reagan way of doing things, perhaps it could be Marco Rubio. He seems to be the only one that really comes close to a comfortable fit.

Another good analogy is RINOs are like Lucy with the football and Conservatives are like Charlie Brown, every single election.