An Independent State of Mind

Honorable man? McCain? he senator at the geographic epicenter of the Keating Five, the group that took massive bribes from the savings & loan industry in the late 1980s in return for sponsoring sweetheart legislation loosening regulation? The group that made what would have been a standard periodic downturn in the real estate market into a financial crisis that shook the country? McCain's face in 2000 showed that even he couldn't believe that the media gave him a pass on his corrupt lowbrow history. And now they are doing it again, because they would just love to see the Republicans nominate someone soft on border enforcement.

McCain is an honorable man, but after 30+ years in Washington he has done next to nothing for change. Why do people think it will be any different in the White House. Also, he still does not approve of the Bush tax cuts which has proven to have dramatically worked for the economy. He is also very weak on immigration. Romney is the clear choice for President. He has had little time in politics, yet he has accomplished more than McCain. He has proven himself in the Private sector and in Government. He sticks to the issues even under the pressure of the personal attacks from the McCain and Huckabee tag team. Yes Romney does attack other canidates, but if you notice it's always pertaining to thier stance on a certain issue... He is serious and will make a Great President of this Great Country!!!

I am a die hard evangelical Republican voter but guess what folks? As much as I like Huckabee, beleive he's the most honest man in the Republican race and agree with im on all the major socail issues, I'm not naive enough to think he could stand up to the Democrat nominee in the latter Pres. debates. Yes, he represents some cahange and like Obama is trying to reach for votes across the aisle but the fact is, that unlike the latter, he is too much wlike GW when he first ran (as much as I actually still like GW!). The Dems won't miss that point and will run him to the ground. The sorry fact is that we really don't ahvea good candidate to rally around. So, incredibly I am drawn to Obama, as liberal as he may be. It just seems like this is his time. I like that he doesn't demagogue the Repubs like the Clintons ahave thrived on. I like how he seems like a good, and, yes, moral man. He's remained faithful to Michelle (who, btw, is a brilliant orator too and very likeable) and he represents all of our desires to not see so much acid talk of blue vs. red and vice versa. We need someone who can unite by inspiration and bring people together and that is why I am seriously considering voting for him, depending on the Reup nominee and how he fares. The fact is I think an African American candidate like Obama, adn with his name, would actually be a fantastic new face to the world, would shake things up in that regard, and would be an healing inspiration to minorities, not the least of which African Americans who, through him, will be able to claim there time has come! Rightfully so. IF, however, Dems are naive enough to vote for Hillary, then thousands like me, will be sure to vote for whoever stadns against her (and in turn, her husband). She represents everything wrong with the past and can only succeed with living off diviiding and demonizing the American politic.

So, Ron Paul wins the independant vote in Iowa. Now here is an article about independant voters, and Dr Paul is not even mentioned. What is wrong with this picture??

Romney=big business
McCain=war after war after more war

Not what I want in America!!!

how can Mitt, of all people, lack credibility?????? You don't need to take his word on anything! Look at his RESUME!!! what has he DONE????? He's a venture capitalist so successful he got himself dripping wet rich. Do y ou know HARD it is to succeed in venture capital when 8 out of ten businesses fail. Then he takes on the overbudget, behind schedule disaster of the OLympics..basically A HUGE multinational corporations and has to build a HUGE facility and gets it done, ON TIME, UNDER BUDGET nad meets all the specs of the many cultures, peoples, languages, translators, security, transportation, infrastructure, judges... a HUGE understaking! THEN he becomes governor of an overtaxes overspent state with one of the worste bond ratings in the US and TURNS I T COMPLETELY AROUND and now we have one of hte best (I'm sure Deval will kill it now though), balances the budgets with NO TAXES and has the state running stellar when he leaves. WHO CARES WHAT he says!!! What can he DO???? and what needs to be done???? everything he's done before! You're NUTS not to understand whta HUGE potential for this country that ROmney is. heck, I'm prochoice but his business savy is so impressive I still hope to vote for him.

Political party primaries arebasically irrelevant. As an independent candidate for President, I am the only candidate who has proposed a solution to the Iraq War. If elected, I will go to Guantanamo, load the "prisoners of war" onto airplanes, explain to them that they are less of a danger to the United States as enemy combatants than as foreign nationals being tortured by mentally ill Americans, and take them back where they came from. Then I would go to Iraq, order Americans to stand down from all offensive military actions, and coordinate the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. The President as Commander in Chief has authority to do this because the last time Congress declared war was in 1941. Undeclared wars are the bread and butter of party politics, as Senator McCain so eloquently reminded us with his proposal to remain in Iraq for 100 years.
I have not copyrighted this plan to end the war. The incumbent President is free to use it. All other candidates for President are free to use it. However, on general election day, I will still be the only candidate with a plan for getting out of the Iraq War.

freakn new hampshire. they can't fund kindersgarten for Goodness sake, they don't have a helmet law and about once a week there's a traffic jam from some idiot who smashed his brains all over the roadways, the LAST in the nation to install hte easy pass in their tolls....hey, don't rush into that techonological age! Tokens and long lines are just fine with us. Don't want none of that fancy big brother scanning type stuff...except when it comes to radaring you with a out-of-state licence! Then they don't mind technology one bit! Hardly the pinacle of thoughtful governing. They are the land of backward living and libertarians. I will TRULY lose ALL respect if they give McCain the nod again especially after living right next door to seeing Romney do such a stellar job without raising taxes. do the right thing NH, elect Romney! have some self respect for God's sake! Those transplants cant think for EVERYTHING for you guys!

I'm for Hillary and am against Obama, and it isn't based on cowardly and vile feelings.
Hillary ought to win independent votes!

Nice article Jake! good lord, I think my nephew could have put together a better piece...

if you are independent the ONLY choice you have is Ron Paul. anyone else you vote for is in the hands of big biz and therefore NOT independent. if you do not vote for RON PAUL...you are guilty of killing fellow Americans in Iraq...where there is no victory...only more mother's losing children. You vote for anyone else and your hands are stained...

e murphy - Do you live in the Twilight Zone? Or are you so far Socialist that the media that is Far Left Liberal is to the Right of you? Out of the three main networks ABC is the most moderate, but that aside I am sure they meant to say Woodbury? But where is your attacks against Obama, Edwards and Clinton for their false talk?

As far as Mccain he is not going to win just on his immigration reform.

And if NH really wants Immigration reform they would vote for Fred Thompson!! The only one that has stood the ground!

the whole story is factually incorrect. the event couldn't have happened as written.

THERE IS NO WOODBRIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL in salem nh.

more lazy reporting from the right wing biased media......

To the Asian-American who is "sorry that she is not ready to vote for a black president", if Obama was Asian-American would you feel the same way? What an insult to any normal person's intelligence. There are so many hateful and ignorant people who would be very very quick to tell you to "go back where you came from", yet Obama has embodied the true essence of what it means to be an American who has transcended the hatred of racial differences and will not allow his color to define who he is. As an African-American female physician, I have endured your kind of racism my entire life. I am glad to say that my patient population is very culturally diverese (black, white, Hispanic, Asian), and I haved very blessed by their confidence in me as a doctor who has demonstrated my non-biased attention to their medical needs for over 20 years. Many new patients don't even know that I am a black woman until they get to my office. But like Obama, they are more interested in how I treat them personally and professionally. They keep coming back and they refer their friends and relatives. There is no place in medicine or in politics for racial discrimination. By the way,were you awake last Thursday?

This is why I stopped and listened to Ron Paul, Dr. Paul- the internet... Oh yes and his message.

Google Trends- Ron Paul Winning the Race!

Here is the order:

1. Romney

2. Ron Paul

3. John "Insane" McCain

4. Huckafool

and who cares about everyone else.

The Bible I know tells Christians to OBEY the Laws of the Land. So if we have Laws on the BOOKS, then we are supposed to Obey and enforce them. But maybe you do like others and only use the verses that help your cause and ignore the rest. And it's funny how you can say WE went to WAR to SAVE MILLIONS IN IRAQ, which is a lie. Yet Bush allowed HUNDREDS to die in NEW ORLEANS as he flew above to watch them suffer. Oh and last i checked, This WAR IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. What kind of Christian are you. You could care less about Rules and Laws.

NH
REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS VOTE for McCAIN for the NEXT USA PRESIDENT.

McCain= PRO Life, Pro Victory (Iraq Qar), Pro Undocumented Immigrants.

ROMNEY=PRO LIFE/CHOICE ...ANTI-Immigrant
Huckabee=Pro Life= Anti-Immigrant Flip-Flopper ...

DEMOCRATS=Obama '08, The NEW KENEDY

INDEPENDENTS VOTE 2008

McCain and Obama
We went to Iraq to save millions of people under tyranny of Sadam. Great Compassion from George W BUSH (Republican President)

Today in America Millions of Undocumented World Citizens live in USA

The Republican Main Platform is to DENY any kind of hearing or close the doors to these human beings. Most of them are Anti-Immigrants and they have No Compassion for their state of life.

Catholic Bishops, Chritian Pastors and Evangelicals preach Christ and many of us Share and understand what means Christian Charity and Compassion. But many would rather here to Lou Dobs, Glen and like-minded who make their living creating discord AGAINST Christian Charity!!!

Senator McCain has this Compassion to these Human Being and wants to cross the party lines. Senator Obama understand what means to live a human being without a country and citizenship....

Many ignorants and some republicans are intollerant and racists. I am a Registered Republican and a CHRISTIAN and in my OPINION, I feel that I am Great American like the rest of Republicans... and I will vote AGAINST those who are Anti-Immigrants. I invite Independents and other Great Americans to Join Me for A Greater Cause tha Iraq War.

Quit with the Hillary Comeback crap. I just ate.

This is nonsense. McCain will lose the Ind. votes to Obama (for sure) and Ron Paul. The MSM fails to tell you guys but Ron Paul carried 41% of the IND vote in IOWA. I doubt that will change in NH.