Comments on: It Has Been A While http://www.baldowski.org/2008/02/08/it-has-been-a-while/ Brian Baldowski Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:40:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jeremy Clifton http://www.baldowski.org/2008/02/08/it-has-been-a-while/#comment-30 Jeremy Clifton Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:49:33 +0000 http://www.baldowski.org/2008/02/08/it-has-been-a-while/#comment-30 I forgot to add that while Romney is the most desireable of the three, taken at his word, I wouldn't buy a used car from the man. I'm not convinced I can trust him. Of the remaining two, I like McCain the most personally. I have a great deal of respect for him despite my differences of opinion with him. I wouldn't mind meeting him and having a cup of coffee or a beer with him. Huckabee is a great orator (he was a preacher, after all), and he's funny. However, he's got too many ethics scandals to his name. If we take the high road and assume he's naive, the repeated ethics investigations and his habit of appointing people to positions after they give him gifts or money is still disturbing. From that angle, he's a good man that has done things that could allow people to take advantage of him. Whether malicious or not, that's not the kind of man we need in the White House. I forgot to add that while Romney is the most desireable of the three, taken at his word, I wouldn’t buy a used car from the man. I’m not convinced I can trust him.

Of the remaining two, I like McCain the most personally. I have a great deal of respect for him despite my differences of opinion with him. I wouldn’t mind meeting him and having a cup of coffee or a beer with him.

Huckabee is a great orator (he was a preacher, after all), and he’s funny. However, he’s got too many ethics scandals to his name. If we take the high road and assume he’s naive, the repeated ethics investigations and his habit of appointing people to positions after they give him gifts or money is still disturbing. From that angle, he’s a good man that has done things that could allow people to take advantage of him. Whether malicious or not, that’s not the kind of man we need in the White House.

]]> By: Jeremy Clifton http://www.baldowski.org/2008/02/08/it-has-been-a-while/#comment-29 Jeremy Clifton Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:45:36 +0000 http://www.baldowski.org/2008/02/08/it-has-been-a-while/#comment-29 McCain hasn't got the nomination in the bag just yet. No, I don't think Paul has a prayer of getting it (nor did I think it was any more than a long shot even from the beginning) but Huckabee could turn out to be a contender. True, he'd have to pretty much take the majority (if not all) of the delegates in every remaining state, but it is possible. I wish Romney hadn't dropped out. I may have said this when I was talking to you on the phone the other day, but if we take him at his word, he's the candidate I would support over McCain and Huckabee if I were forced to vote for one of the three. In my mind, he's the lesser evil of the three. On the other hand, McCain's "practical ways" of fixing the problems are no better than marijuana to patient with lung cancer. Severe problems require severe measures, not reassuring platitudes and feel-good "solutions." But I know you don't agree, since you think we Libertarians are a bunch of naive ideologues. :-) McCain hasn’t got the nomination in the bag just yet. No, I don’t think Paul has a prayer of getting it (nor did I think it was any more than a long shot even from the beginning) but Huckabee could turn out to be a contender. True, he’d have to pretty much take the majority (if not all) of the delegates in every remaining state, but it is possible.

I wish Romney hadn’t dropped out. I may have said this when I was talking to you on the phone the other day, but if we take him at his word, he’s the candidate I would support over McCain and Huckabee if I were forced to vote for one of the three. In my mind, he’s the lesser evil of the three.

On the other hand, McCain’s “practical ways” of fixing the problems are no better than marijuana to patient with lung cancer. Severe problems require severe measures, not reassuring platitudes and feel-good “solutions.” But I know you don’t agree, since you think we Libertarians are a bunch of naive ideologues. :-)

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