Quote from: Gator Monroe on January 11, 2015, 07:54:24 PM
Walker/Gowdy in 16

This Post is both Herp & Derp proof...

Quote from: Gator Monroe on January 12, 2015, 12:56:54 PM
This Post is both Herp & Derp proof...

QuoteName: Trey Gowdy
Congress: South Carolina, District: 4, Republican
Cumulative Freedom Index Score: 78%

Status: Active Member of the House

Score Breakdown:
73% (113th Congress: 2013-2014); 82% (112th Congress: 2011-2012)
http://www.thenewamerican.com/freedomindex/profile.php?id=G000566

Here's a little comparison.

QuoteName: Tom McClintock

Congress: California, District: 4, Republican

Cumulative Freedom Index Score: 91%

Status: Active Member of the House

Score Breakdown:
93% (113th Congress: 2013-2014); 92% (112th Congress: 2011-2012); 90% (111th Congress: 2009-2010)

Name: Ted Cruz

Senate: Texas, Republican

Cumulative Freedom Index Score: 90%

Status: Active Member of the Senate

Score Breakdown:
90% (113th Congress: 2013-2014)

Quote from: Gator Monroe on January 11, 2015, 07:54:24 PM
Walker/Gowdy in 16

The main problem with that ticket is we need Gowdy as AG!!

Quote from: redbeard on January 12, 2015, 03:45:38 PM
The main problem with that ticket is we need Gowdy as AG!!

I'm for that. If Cruz cannot be President, he too would be the man in black.  I'd settle for either.

While no one has been paying attention, Iowa, not incidentally, has become a narco state.
It serves the St. Louis and Kansas City markets, and has a couple of thriving customers
in its own borders. I'm just wondering how far down that road they have traveled. It doesn't
take long, and when it takes, law enforcement becomes anathema.

I'm against any Republican Senator running for president. We don't have a large majority in the Senate like we do in the House, and when you consider that some Senators are going to be retiring, and the fact that the party in the majority traditionally looses seats in the mid terms, we can ill afford to any forfeit any Senate seats to a bid for the Presidency or VP slot.

Quote from: Darth Fife on January 12, 2015, 04:26:57 PM
I'm against any Republican Senator running for president. We don't have a large majority in the Senate like we do in the House, and when you consider that some Senators are going to be retiring, and the fact that the party in the majority traditionally looses seats in the mid terms, we can ill afford to any Senate seats to a bid for the Presidency or VP slot.

Historically governors make the best presidents!!

Quote from: redbeard on January 12, 2015, 04:45:24 PM
Historically governors make the best presidents!!

That would be Walker, Jindahl, Perry, Bush, who am I missing?   Was Huckabee a Governor?
You have to dig pretty deep to find a decent governor east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason Dixon line. Oh, Christie. Those guys are window dressing.
Sheee---it Almost forgot. Mitt.

Quote from: redbeard on January 12, 2015, 04:45:24 PM
Historically governors make the best presidents!!

I get tired of hearing that and reading that. It simply isn't so. Lincoln, for example, was never a governor, nor were Washington, Jefferson, or Madison, but all were respected and accomplished presidents. In the past 100 years, only seven of seventeen presidents had been governors, and that group includes Wilson, FDR, Carter, and Clinton, arguably four of the five worst (certainly the most damaging) presidents of the period before the Kenyan stumbled onto the scene. LBJ is the fifth, but he was never a governor, merely a "balance" VP, and he cruised to his only national electoral victory on the back of his predecessor's assassination mere months earlier.

The governor=good president is a myth.

Quote from: red_dirt on January 12, 2015, 05:23:03 PM
That would be Walker, Jindahl, Perry, Bush, who am I missing?   Was Huckabee a Governor?
You have to dig pretty deep to find a decent governor east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason Dixon line. Oh, Christie. Those guys are window dressing.
Sheee---it Almost forgot. Mitt.

Well the first 3 on your list were pretty good. Jeb is not his brother, but he is to far off on illegal immigrants for me. He was a good governor here in Florida and definitely more conservative then George But I will take walker over him any day!!

Quote from: TboneAgain on January 12, 2015, 05:48:23 PM
I get tired of hearing that and reading that. It simply isn't so. Lincoln, for example, was never a governor, nor were Washington, Jefferson, or Madison, but all were respected and accomplished presidents. In the past 100 years, only seven of seventeen presidents had been governors, and that group includes Wilson, FDR, Carter, and Clinton, arguably four of the five worst (certainly the most damaging) presidents of the period before the Kenyan stumbled onto the scene. LBJ is the fifth, but he was never a governor, merely a "balance" VP, and he cruised to his only national electoral victory on the back of his predecessor's assassination mere months earlier.

The governor=good president is a myth.

Jefferson was the 2nd Governor of Virginia 1779-1781 and he also served as vice-President prior to being elected president.

Washington was, of course, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

Madison. True, he was never a Governor, but he is hailed as the Father of the Constitution. If he didn't know how to be president, nobody would!

Lincoln did one thing. He kept the Union together - by force of arms and at the cost of half a million soldiers dead... at the hands of their brothers...

Quote from: Darth Fife on January 12, 2015, 07:16:54 PM
Jefferson was the 2nd Governor of Virginia 1779-1781 and he also served as vice-President prior to being elected president.

Washington was, of course, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

Madison. True, he was never a Governor, but he is hailed as the Father of the Constitution. If he didn't know how to be president, nobody would!

Lincoln did one thing. He kept the Union together - by force of arms and at the cost of half a million soldiers dead... at the hands of their brothers...

How many of our good presidents came out of the House or Senate? 

Quote from: Darth Fife on January 12, 2015, 07:16:54 PM
Jefferson was the 2nd Governor of Virginia 1779-1781 and he also served as vice-President prior to being elected president.

Washington was, of course, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

Madison. True, he was never a Governor, but he is hailed as the Father of the Constitution. If he didn't know how to be president, nobody would!

Lincoln did one thing. He kept the Union together - by force of arms and at the cost of half a million soldiers dead... at the hands of their brothers...

I probably should have added military to that too! 

Quote from: redbeard on January 12, 2015, 03:45:38 PM
The main problem with that ticket is we need Gowdy as AG!!

As great as this idea is; Trey Gowdy would make such an excellent replacement for Ruth Bader Ginzberg. I'd die with a permanent grin on my face (like the Joker)!

Quote from: wally on January 13, 2015, 06:41:28 AM
As great as this idea is; Trey Gowdy would make such an excellent replacement for Ruth Bader Ginzberg. I'd die with a permanent grin on my face (like the Joker)!

Now that's an excellent idea!

Quote from: wally on January 13, 2015, 06:41:28 AM
As great as this idea is; Trey Gowdy would make such an excellent replacement for Ruth Bader Ginzberg. I'd die with a permanent grin on my face (like the Joker)!

Lefties would go nuts if Gowdy was nominated for the SC. I can see the MSM long guns coming out full fledged.