ok guys & gals, give me you favorite......

[AR182]

give me you favorite politicians in the party that you don't favor.

for example if you are a democrat, let us know which politicans in the republican parties you like & if possible, why....

there must be pols in the opposing parties that you like.....

so lets hear from (hopefully) everybody & even from the posters who don't live in the staes. you know enough about the u.s. politicians from both parties to form an opinion.......

so lets hear from eddie haskell...i'm sure that some body as jaded as you must like somebody in the republican party.......

you too, stevied, lets hear about the pols you like in the hated republican party.......

and you dr. freeze, who do you like in the democratic party.......

and dtb, chanman, gw, djv, wilson, kosar, io & everybody else lets hear (or read)what you have to say..........

and you too jack, yyz, bahama mama, ie (i know you hate politics).....lets hear from you.....

and please lets keep it to you favorites..... & not who you dislike....

 

[gardenweasel]

o.k..

o.k..

dems....evan bayh.....lieberman....

neocons ....mccain(that`ll be everybody`s choice)...jim bunning....george allen.....

 

[hogman14]

I'll second the Leiberman.

 

[wareagle]

I like Ted Kennedy:drinky:

 

[AR182]

since i'm a independent, i'll give a few in each party......


i like pols who don't follow their party line on the issues all of the time......

to start i like guiliani & mccain as my 2 favorites.

i saw rudy become a republican mayor in a democratic city & change the crime rate in nyc in such a dramatic fashion that it was very impressive. the way he settled down the people of nyc & the country after 9/11, was also very impressive. i would like to see him run for president one day but it would probably have to be on an independent ticket. since he is pro-choice i don't think yhe will get the republican nomination so i think an independent candidacy is the only way he will get nominated.

another republican i like is chuck hagel from nebraska. although i don't always agree with what he has to say, i like how he discusses his point.

on the democratic side i like bayh, lieberman, & biden.


anybody else ?

 

[kneifl]

Since I am a moderate

Since I am a moderate

I'll name a few from both parties....

For the dems, I like the previous Senator from Nebraska, Bob Kerrey, gave me my first job in one of his health clubs when I was 15. Sometimes he would work out there too and I got to chat with him a few times, he has an artificial leg he lost in combat. Also, he ran for president once and is a decorated war veteran.

For the Reps, I like Ronald Reagan... He did a lot for this country and I always thought he was a great president when I was growing up as a kid and I have not liked any president as much since.

kneifl

 

[Blitz]

Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia...

 

[LEROY TIREBITER]

Since I am a Moderate....

#1 Ronald Regan
#2 FDR
#3 Abe Lincoln
#4 Mel Blanc
#5 Superman
#6 Mohammed Ali

 

[gardenweasel]

leroy

leroy

mel blanc........lol.....seeing what`s around politically,it`s actually not all that funny,now that i think about it....

i agree with the wise ar1 once again....rudy`s gotta be up high on my "neocon" list ......

i`m using the "neocon" label to appease some of the hardcore libs on the board...we all like to label people...it`s fun...

neocon.....neocon....neocon.....frau blucher.....neocon...damn neocons.......:yawn:.......... ...................................

 

[IntenseOperator]

JFK

JFK



From what I know of the events around the Cuban missile crisis...

He made some unbelievably phenomenol CORRECT decisions under intense pressure. In some decisions, he had no support and stuck with his beliefs despite those closest around him, and most in the country, attempting to drive him into a WW.

It scares me to know how close we were to total destruction in that period. Another leader may have not stood so stoically in the pressure and chose a different path.

 

[bjfinste]

Re: leroy

Re: leroy

i`m using the "neocon" label to appease some of the hardcore libs on the board...we all like to label people...it`s fun...

Neocon is just an abbreviation for neo-conservative. Kinda like you using "libs" as an abbrevation for liberals.


As for my list, I would obviously put McCain up there, and despite his brush with the law, I respected Bill Janklow quite a bit. Didn't always toe the party line, seemed like a straight shooter, ran a positive campaign in the 2002 House race (unlike his scumbag republican counterpart in the senate race there, who ran about 150 ridiculous attack ads a day and got to the point where I couldn't stand watching TV all October. Thankfully, he lost.).

Janklow did commit that crime and served his punishment. It was unfortunate because he seemed to truly care about the people of SD and his legacy is forever tarnished simply because he drove through a stop sign at a very, very, very bad time. It's terrible what happened and he deserved the punishment he got, but it was a case of a good man making a poor choice with horrible luck in timing.

 

[djv]

Indepentent.
Flat out love John Mc Cain. R
Former Senator Bob Kerrey. D
Liberman D, for his honesty.

 

[Wilson]

Jay Rockefeller...the guy is an honorable individual. I like the way he stands up for veterans. He usually is a straight shooter that will admit his mistakes.

He is a big Mountaineer fan

 

[Mjolnir]

lieberman.

i respect guiliani more than any other politician around. when he tore up that check for 10 million from that sheik, it took major balls. i think pretty much every other politician would have been worried about the muslim demographic instead of the rest of the country.
STUD.

 

[shamrock]

independent
R) Jefferson
McCain
Giuliani, as to agree with ar, I went to College in New York and the city was a mess after Koch & Dickens.
Powell
George Allen Jr.


D) JFK
Lieberman
Kerrey
Cuomo
Tsongas, truly thought this man could have been a fantastic president. One of those whom unfortunately had to leave before his time

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/1997/tsong_1-20.html

 

[StevieD]

Since I am an Independent I will tell you I like McCain but just in these times. Tough to come up with guys I like.

I tend not to trust any of them I even had your favorite Bill Clinton yell at me once. It was during his first campaign and he happened to stay in the same hotel as my wife and me. We were checking out and there was hundreds of news guys all around the hotel. So we stayed in the lobby and after a few minutes they closed the lobby. We were inside with about 10 people and a bunch of secret service guys.

We made like a reception line and after a little while Clinton came out of the elevator and he went thru the line shaking everyones hand. When he got to me I said "I hope you aren't lying to us." He got all red in the face and started yelling that he wasn't lying that it was the other side that lies. He was yelling as he shook my wifes hand. Then he came back to me and said if I wanted to hear lies I should listen to the other side. He was pretty mad.

I always joke with my wife and tell her that she must be the only woman he ever met in a hotel lobby and didn't invite upstairs.

 

[AR182]

stevie,

that's a funny story!!

i guess you're off clinton's x-mas list-lol

 

[gardenweasel]

neocon....or "new" conservative....

i kid.....no offense.....

let me throw a beautiful poem that i came across into this thread....i think libs and neocons can all appreciate it....

THE FLAG.....

The Flag

Ladies and gentlemen. I give you the flag
That flew over Valley Forge
Was torn in two by the gray and the blue
And bled through two world wars.

I give you the flag that burned in the street
In protest, in anger and shame,
The very same flag that covered the men
Who died defending her name.

We now stand together, Americans all.
Either by choice or by birth
To honor the flag that's flown on the moon
And changed the face of the earth.

History will show this flag stood a friend
To the hungry, the homeless and lost
That mixture of men as common clay
Valued one thing beyond cost.

And they've signed it in blood from Bunker Hill
To Saigon and Toko Ri.
I give you the flag that says to the world
Each man has a right to be free.

Baxter Black

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

put me on the Lieberman band wagon also.

One Dem that is not a politician that I think would be excellent as one is Lee Iaccoca (spl)

I hate incoherant screamers from either party. Something about over exuberant people that alarms me.