(11-04-2013 09:01 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 06:22 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Many times I feel like I could go to the local mall and find people that could run the country better.
More good people do not want to be in politics than the percentage that do.

Do you think that huge percentages of "good people" choose not to roll in the slop that is necessary to obtain enough funding to be relevant? That and having people dig up stuff you did as a teenager.

Would have a lot to do with it in an overwhelming amount of cases.
Kind of like having to sell your soul to the devil.
Good people don't normally do that.

(11-03-2013 05:59 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  Didn't the media give Biden a pass on his plagiarism? But they're dogging a Republican on this?

I remember the media coming down pretty hard on Biden and his bout of plagiarism, both at the time and rehashing it extensively when he ran for president.

I'm not nearly as concerned about Paul's plagiarism as I am about the sources of it. Word for word bad movie plots lifted from Wikipedia!

(11-04-2013 06:52 AM)Vewb1 Wrote:  and, he has a drunk for a son. Good man

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/06...22436.html

Yeah but at least it was his son AND it wasnt crack..

Guys.


I think this is kind of unfair for everybody. Have you ever been around kids who come from a wealthy family or a powerful parent? Sometimes you get the absentee parent effect. The Dad is so busy making it happen for the family the kids sometimes turn out to be turds. It's the rare exception when the kid is balanced emotionally and it's always someone else in the kids life who did the parenting.


I've seen it and neither party is immune.

It seems that Paul's most recent book was of the cut and paste variety. He really needs to get a better ghost writer. There are about 1,300 words lifted directly from a Heritage report as if it is his. He needs to come out and just say he screwed up and he will be more cautious about what he puts out in speeches and in print. Then he needs to fire a few staffers and get some people that aren't so lazy.

Maybe it was Jack Hunter ghostwriting. He writes for DeMint (Heritage) as well. Rand is going as right as he needs to get nominated like they all do. He is his fathers son.