tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post7755933976884556360..comments2023-12-14T21:13:46.857-06:00Comments on Tom Roeser's Blog: ASK ME YOUR QUESTIONS AND I’LL TELL YOU NO LIES.Jake Parrillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11195261008177966339noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post-58069785424660039292011-02-21T12:12:13.809-06:002011-02-21T12:12:13.809-06:00Sorry for the typo--"their electoral votes&qu...Sorry for the typo--"their electoral votes". Gov. Jim ThompsonUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02343314198747759826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post-6869841102400421792011-02-21T12:08:25.327-06:002011-02-21T12:08:25.327-06:00Okay, so a "5-foot-6 balding guy" can...Okay, so a "5-foot-6 balding guy" can't be President. There goes John Quincy Adams("one of the great diplomats in American history"), John Adams("one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States"), William McKinley(Peace and Prosperity, who opened the Republican party to Catholics and others who had been Democrats), Martin Van Buren(one of the founders of the Democratic party), and James Madison(the Father of the United States Constitution). The two greatest issues facing America today are federal deficit spending and the proper role of the federal government in American life. On these issues, you say Gov. Daniels is "brilliant", but you reject him because he called for a "truce" on the discussion of social issues while we battled the overiding issue of a bankrupting America. His comment to the Weekly Standard may have been inapt, but as his recent speech to CPAC makes clear, he was simply trying to say first things first and that we should not read out of the party those who disagree with us on some issues, or fail to support those who agree with us on most issues. The government of Indiana, which he leads, is not one most conservatives would view with alarm. Most "social" issues properly belong to the states, not the federal government, or to the family or church and are not the business of any government. If you can't put together a majority of the American people(and there electoral votes)on your behalf you can't be elected President. But I suppose you could teach political science or be a blogger.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02343314198747759826noreply@blogger.com