imperialist interventionists in the GOP will vote for somebody other
than a conservative republican.
On Dec 22, 11:05 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some very astute observations by Former Iowa Congressman Greg Ganske
> on crazy Uncle Ron:
>
> *"Right now it's an anybody-but-Romney primary. If Ron Paul wins Iowa, it
> will become anybody-but-Ron Paul going forward."*
>
> *"Ron is accusing the speaker of being a hypocrite, I mean that's how he
> ends this last ad. Well look, when I was in Congress with Ron, he used to
> put in, he would put in hundreds of millions of dollars of appropriations
> requests, earmarks. And then he would sit on the floor and he would wait
> until the vote was certain that his earmarks would be funded and then he
> would put his card in the slot and vote No. So that he could then say with
> purity, 'I don't vote for earmarks.'"*
>
> *"He doesn't complete the deal. He'd vote against his own earmarks, knowing
> that they were going to pass, so he could then have his cake and eat it
> too. And you know what, I don't think that that's a totally honest way of
> dealing with your fellow colleagues on that. If you truly are against the
> earmarks, then you don't put them in and you don't request them." In a way,
> he was for the earmarks but he was against the earmarks, if you know what I
> mean. I think that is kind of a hypocritical position to take. So I think
> people ought to be a little careful when they live in glass houses on this."
> *
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