Republicans worried????
 

Every month, another candidate is flavor of the week.....Do you wish you had another option from the existing candidates?

I can always wish for another candidate, but to what purpose. I also wish the current President was still rabble rousing in Chicago instead of diminishing my country.

Nope

There isn't a Republican candidate mentioned, no longer running or running now that isn't hands down better than what is passing as a president presently

yup!!! The most important result is we have an option to the incumbent.

Also please try to recall the process of elimination when the Democratic throng of candidates was doing exactly the same thing 4 years ago!!

I am sure y'all didn't refer to their process as the flavor of the week....even though it was.

btk

Come now, Perry better than Obama. I am in big support of Romney, but lets get real. I bet you were in favor of George McGovern also. Lets be reasonable. If not Romney, I will vote and campaign for Obama. At least I have the sense to want the best man for the job. Incumbent out at all cost is prejudice or at least dumb.

Intelligently stated.

Of course Perry would be better than Obama. Maybe you don't like him, but he's more AMERICAN than Obama can ever hope to be.

He may not have been the best Republican candidate, but as an AMERICAN, he's head and shoulder's above Obama is true American values.

Heck Richie McGovern would have been better than Obama:1rotfl:

Osama Bin Laden would probably agree with you on that - that is, if he was able to .....


It is time for another Repube/Con/****** to enter the race .......


Palin/Joe The Plumber - 2012 ..................

Richie, can you explain to me why you kept putting the word "American" in all caps?

Was it:

1) Describing Perry's "intangibles" as somehow more in tune with your (or other) definitions of a 'real American'?

2) Insisting that Perry is an American and implying that Obama is not?

3) Something else that I missed entirely?

Well Richie, I believe it's my country too. And my read is that Obama is improving my country. :icon_wink:

Your "guess number 1" is more in line with what I was thinking and it's much more than intangible.

Obama is not standing up for traditional American principles in any way, shape or form. "His America" is more of a Marxist thing.

:agree:

Suzanne

Can someone please explain to me how Obama is improving my country? :popcorn:

Somehow that doesn't surprise me. I'm sure all those on food stamps, unemployed and loosing their homes agree. Five dollar a gallon gas coming up to. That'll really give struggling families a boost. Go Obama!!

Yeah, Go Obama, Go back home. Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing you...

Tiresome. :ohdear:

from one who would know about being tiresome...:coolsmiley:

Why should republicans be worried? They have one loser candidate that nobody can stand and another candidate that is so far out of the mainstream that he's about to take the whole republican party off a cliff.

I can't remember any presidential candidate that wanted to impose his strict ideological views on the country. I don't remeber JFK, another catholic, wanting to abolish contraception. Who else wanted to abolish the Dept of Education and advocate that everyone home school their kids?

I was under the impression that the republican party stood for smaller government. Under Rick Santorum, this country would have the vagina police department, the gay sex police department, the pre-natal care police (yes, he even said pre-natal care causes abortions), all contraception would disappear under President Santorum.

Does anybody out there remember the loser tea-party senate candidates that cost the republican party control of the senate in 2010? Go Rick Go. The guy lost his senate seat by 17 points.

Who is trying to abolish contraception? The point is that the government is attempting to mandate that the Catholic Church provide contraception in the healthcare insurance of their employees...That is a ridiculous request, to say the very least!

Katz...as a woman, Catholic or not, don't anyone dare to tell me what to do with my body but me! Contraception should be an OPTION for any woman...regardless of religion. Where does American freedom play a part here? Where do women's rights play a part? Holy cow...it's back to square one where women don't have a vote.

Katz...do you agree it's ok to let others make your choices for you? I mean ALL your choices? Or do you just pick and choose?

I don't normally participate in this political forum and you probably won't see another post from me regarding this subject. I just don't understand why women want MEN to make decisions about their choices.

I don't think anyone is trying to make your choice for you or any other woman regarding birth control.

The issue is whether you can force the Catholic Church to pay for it. Why are so many people not getting this point?

Is any liberal paying attention out there?

I'm a Democrat and proud of it! I'm paying attention. I don't understand why Republicans aren't paying attention.

It shouldn't be a question of "church". It's a question of women's rights.

You have all your rights. The Church also has theirs. You cannot compel them to forfeit their rights to facilitate and finance yours.

Is that any more understandable?

It's not a question of who decides whether a person can have/use contraceptives.

It's a question of "Who PAYS" for it!!!!

WHO pays for it should be the enployer. Plain and simple.

If I am a follower of the Catholic church, I am not going to expect them to pay for my contraceptions. It is against one of their fundamental doctrines. what I do in private is just that...private. I doubt that the Catholic church follows up on what its women do or don't do. They are just not going to provide you with twhat you need to go against their doctrine. I don't blame them nor think they should do any different. If I don't like it, maybe I should reconsider aligning myself with the Catholic church.
As far as others making choices for me...too late! I have thousands of dollars taken out of my pay every year by the US Federal government to support many things that I would prefer not to support. I would much rather keep my money and give to the charity of MY CHOICE. Shouldn't I be given freedom of choice regarding my money? Who has the right to enter my wallet? Where are the Women's Rights/Pro-Choice folks to defend me on that one?!?
Rather let men make my choices?!? You lost me on that one...just ask Mr. Katz :icon_wink:

So you're saying the church has to forfeit it's Constitutional rights if it hires an employee?

There is no constitutional freedom of religion for the Catholic Church?

Do you really want to make that argument over the cost of a pill?

Which one stirs up more controversy, the Catholics or the Muslims?

The "who pays for it" argument is just a cover for taking away a woman's choice by the male dominated Republican right wing. :ohdear:

True but not new. We have been doing that for thousands of years. But for the good side. We in America are not as hard on women as they are in Muslim countries.

I have not seen any stories on Catholics stoning one of their women for talking to a non-Catholic. But on the other hand, well you get the picture. Then how about the converted muslim in Iran that they are going to execute because he converted. Don't think I have seen any Catholics brought up on charges to be execute because they change religions.

Just food for thought.

I agree, Catholics are not quite that bad, but I can remember when to marry outside the church was not nice.

I had a friend who attended Catholic elementary school (many years ago, of course) and while in 1st grade, he was told by a nun directly that his father was going to Hell because he was not Catholic.

Because you cannot refute the Church's Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion, the anti-Catholics on this tread are starting to vilify and defame the Church and it's adherents right here on this forum. It's despicable.

Now Now, nothing has been said that is not true. I will say again. Catholic members or fine Christian people, but the Hierarchy of the church is less than saintly.

The Catholics have a right to believe anyway they want to, as long as they don't make me believe in what they believe in. I get to believe in what I think is right the same as they do.

Not everyone will like the Catholics or the Jews or the "whatever" but as long as any religion does not use force (muslim) to make me believe their way is the only way, then what you believe in or not believe in is between you and whatever god you pray to. No one should be able to tell you, you are right or wrong and since no one has ever crossed over, gone there, traveled the lighted road and come back with what is or is not there, believe in what you want, and I will do the same.

There is no doubt that ANY group/race has it's non-saintly or not so proud of folks or dumb rules of the past.

As per usual, in this case the negative commentary on catholics/catholosicsm, a minority of specifics applied as a general, usually denigrating statement for the purpose of making a point.

The negative commentary in fact can be most certainly applied to any group/population.

I look forward to some day hearing about what the majority are doing. And right behind that, a discussion without dredging up select models from the past, out of context, usually, to make a point or start a fire!!

btk