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ELECTIONS 2008

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CHOICES BEFORE US- A CONSERVATIVE LOOKS AT 2008

2008: THE RIGHT CANDIDATES FOR THE GOP :

For President

09/05/07 Fred's in the race: "I'm running for President of the United States of America". Fred has been criticized by some who contend he has waited too long to announce. Actually, the timing is early by historical standards. I would wonder at the timing of the announcements of other candidates, Democrat and Republican; way, way early. All this early activity reflects the depth of polarization of politics today in the United States. You will hear Fred speak much of "security, unity and prosperity" in the months ahead, as he addresses a key concern about the threat to the United States occasioned by international IslamicFacism. He will also take on the difficult task of directly addressing the brick wall of entitlement spending towards which the nation is racing. His calculation is that the ordinary voter is better prepared to consider the problems of terrorism and big government entitlements than the politicians. For more, got to http://www.fred08.com. The Mountain Observer supports this candidacy as representing the best ELECTABLE option for Conservatives in 2008. We shall see. JES

Visit www.imwithfred.com

09/05/07 Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-CA The right guy for VP www.house.gov/hunter/

THE WRONG CANDIDATES FOR THE GOP, or, people who I would consider to be politically obnoxious :

Senator George Allen R-VA ? He's a Senator, an alleged conservative favorite. I say no.

Senator Bill Frist R-TN Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was right about "girliemen". I am getting sick and tired of "nice" people in politics. In addition to being unable to "slap people up along side the head" in the Senate, as an unintended consequence, "nice" people like Frist cause wars.

Senator John McCain R-AZ An unprincipled ego-maniac. No private sector experience. No history of executive responsibility. The POW experience, clearly exemplary, is not a substitute for policy substance. Finally destroyed himself beyond recovery over the issue of amnesty for illegals.

Senator Chuck Hagel R-NE John McCain Jr. Very Jr.

Ex-US House Leader Newt Gingrich Sadly, a well educated individual fallen victim, professionally, to ego-mania. His track record in following through on the implementation of the "contract with America", a series of generally good ideas, in 1995/9 was awful. He is not an executive, and not really even a good politician. His mother fed him too much sugar.

NYC Mayor, Ret. Rudy Giuliani Fails badly on social issues

09/0/07 Rudy takes a nosedive: Declares illegal immigrants are not criminals. This is what you have to expect from someone who is a product of New York City. Otherwise, go visit http://www.catholicsagainstrudy.com/ for another perspective on this pious Catholic hypocrite. Go Fred Go. JES

NY State Governor George Pataki Out of touch with the GOP, let alone Conservatives, nationally

FL Governor Jeb Bush Out of touch on the border issue, and his name is Bush.

Representative Tom Tancredo R-CO Occasionally I make mistakes, and this one is embarrassing. I am back to my original assessment that Tancredo is unqualified as a candidate for President. He is properly on the right issue, illegal immigration and the border, but he is too much a single issue politician and has recently shown very bad political judgment in his support of certain other candidates. At a national level we have no time for amateurs or single issue obsessions.

2008: DEMOCRAT SWEEPSTAKES:

03/25/07 Keeping track of Hillary Rodham: http://hillaryspot.nationalreview.com/

01/27/05 "Moderate" Democrat Evan Bayh, IN, takes himself off the table as a potential candidate for the Presidency by joining those pandering to the far Left in voting against confirming Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State.

03/24/05 Hillary is the only one in the party with any brains, which given her Left Wing Statist credentials (a polite way of saying she is a marxist) makes her very dangerous. However, Republicans should not allow themselves to get alarmed. Allowed to do so, Hillary will self-destruct. The more she opens her own mouth, the better.

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TRACK RECORD FOR DEMOCRAT CONTENDERS SINCE 1960:

1960 John F. Kennedy (D) Wins Screws up Bay of Pigs. Gets us started on Vietnam. Faces down the Russians/Cuba (After Khrushchev

pushes him around). Gets taxes cut (Good for him)

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) Wins Screws up Vietnam.

Saddles taxpayers w/War on Poverty which after 3 billion dollars spent from then till now appears to have been a total waste.

1968 Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Loses to Richard M. Nixon. Humphrey, an old school Democrat, was caught up in the backlash against

the war.

1972 Geo. S. McGovern (D) Loses Gets his head handed to him by Richard Nixon

1976 Jimmy Carter (D) Wins. Beats Gerald Ford, many believe, on the strength of Ford's pardon of Nixon for Watergate.

Economy goes all to hell. OPEC runs amok with oil prices. Carter botches everything to do with Iran, and is fearful of

killer rabbits.

1980 Jimmy Carter (D) Loses Gets his head handed to him by Reagan

1984 Walter F. Mondale (D) Loses Gets his head handed to him by Reagan

1988 Michael S. Dukakis (D) Loses Gets his head handed to him by Bush 41

1992 OJ Billyboy (D) Wins. Bush 41 forgets his pledge not to raise taxes, saddles the country with the lawyer friendly Disabilities

Reform act & tries to take the GOP back to the center. The Cold War is over, and who needs those old guys any more anyway?

Who needs a pretend Liberal when you can get the real thing?

1996 OJ Billyboy (D) Wins. GOP runs slow moving Bob Dole & the boomer gens hope OJ Billyboy will protect them from all those

mean Republicans they had just elected in 1994 after OJ Billyboy had raised their taxes in 1993 after promising not to and Hillary

scared everybody to death with her socialized medicine scheme. Besides, the working premise now was that war was a thing of

the past, and OJ Billyboy was a lot of fun. OJ Billyboy dallied in the Oval Office as al Qaeda festered. Nero fiddled as Rome

burned. If this all sounds loopy, it's because it was. The whole decade was loopy and out of touch with reality.

2000 Al Gore (D) Loses. Close call, and the Supreme Court had to remind the Florida court that it had to follow Florida law, but after

this, and a major effort by Democrats to invalidate military votes, it all added up to a Bush 43 victory, eventually validated to the

satisfaction of even the New York Times. The Liberal elements of the Democrat party come unglued with conspiracy theories, and

panics at the thought of a Nazi invasion.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 happen.

2004 John Franchurian Candidate Kerry (D) Loses.

This is interesting because on almost every issue, at one time or anther, John Franchurian Candidate Kerry has taken polar

opposite positions, and several in between. So it can be said by most people that depending on the day of the year, and the

status of his menstrual cycles, sooner or later John Franchurian Kerry agrees with you on everything. I'm not sure even OJ

Billyboy ever reached this level of political creativity. Did this work on election day? It did not.

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Presidential Electoral Results 2000 Presidential Electoral Results 2004

Geo Bush 43 Al Gore CHG 2k Census Geo Bush 43 J Kerry

AL 9 none 9

AK 3 none 3

AZ 8 10 10

AR 6 none 6

CA 54 55 55

CO 8 9 9

CT 8 7 7

DE 3 none 3

DC 3 none 3

FL 25 27 27

GA 13 15 15

HI 4 none 4

ID 4 none 4

IL 22 21 21

IN 12 11 11

IA 7 none 7

KS 6 none 6

KY 8 none 8

LA 9 none 9

ME 4 none 1 3

MD 10 none 10

MA 12 none 12

MI 18 17 17

MN 19 none 19

MS 7 6 6

MO 11 none 11

MT 3 none 3

NE 5 none 5

NV 4 5 5

NH 4 none 4

NJ 15 none 15

NM 5 none 5

NY 33 31 31

NC 14 15 15

ND 3 none 3

OH 21 20 20

OK 8 7 7

OR 7 none 7

PA 23 21 21

RI 4 none 4

SC 8 none 8

SD 3 none 3

TN 11 none 11

TX 32 34 34

UT 5 none 5

VT 3 none 3

VA 13 none 13

WA 11 none 11

WV 5 none 5

WI 11 10 10

WY 3 none 3

271 267 286 252

TOTAL 538 270 NEEDED TO WIN

If you look at the shifts of Electoral College votes among the states caused by the 2000 Census, the changes were worth a total of 16 votes in Bush's favor nationwide in 2004.

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