Scott R. Sullivan

January 8th, 2008 by Scott

So who else is sick of every candidate calling for “change.” It seems as if the shallow slogans of most of the presidential candidates have now not only become more shallow, but they are all “change.”

For anyone who has been under a rock for the last few weeks, it seems that most every candidate has been campaigning on “change.” Obama was campaigning on change. Then Hillary. Now McCain, Huckabee and many others are saying they are the candidate of change.

Sigh.

This is the problem I had during the last election and the reason the Republicans lost some seats. No one was telling us specifics of what they would do.

Remember back when Sen. Kerry said he was against the war in Iraq (this was after he was for the war he was against)? Kerry kept saying he would fight a “smarter” war. Huh? Give us some specific examples. Tell us exactly where YOU stand. Tell us exactly what YOU plan to do to solve these problems you claim are so common.

Unfortunately, this has become a campaign based entirely on emotion, and real messages and ideas have been lost in the “I’m for change” theme.

I miss the days when candidates would lay out specific ideas and mandates that they want to promote. The days when each candidate would debate the other on their ideas, not on how much money they have raised or how their campaign is negative. Let’s get back on message so we KNOW who we are electing, so we KNOW for what they stand, not just how they make us “feel.”

What would our founding fathers say?

January 3rd, 2008 by Scott

Tonight the results came in from the Iowa caucus and we have our first primary result. Republican Gov. Huckabee and Democratic Sen. Obama lead the pack, at this very early stage.

As I mentioned in my previous post about these results, we now have a preliminary result of a Democrat Senator versus a Republican Governor.

Though I missed the exact result (I called for Gov. Romney to win, and he came in second, winning 12 delegates to Huckabee’s 17), I still stand by my analysis of the 2008 presidential election. I still see Gov. Romney taking the White House this November. Of the Republican candidates, Romney is, perhaps, the strongest conservative running.

On the Democratic side, what will be interesting is to watch Mrs. Bill Clinton over the coming weeks now that she is no longer the “inevitable” candidate that she tried to portray. And with a third place ranking, it will be hard for her, even if she does win, to claim to have a “mandate.”

Of course, remember that winning Iowa doesn’t mean you win the White House. Remember several years back, one Gov. Clinton came in fourth in Iowa, and second in New Hampshire only to be the “comeback kid” and win the presidential election in 1992. It is an election and, as history has shown, anything can happen!

Only time will tell.

Update: 8 Jan 08
The New Hampshire primary has finished and Gov. Romney took the “silver” as he called it. This, combined with Iowa and Wyoming, place him at the top, with the most delegates.