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George W. Hobbes
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« on: January 02, 2006, 05:26:35 PM »

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Senator Thomas Hobbes Strathmore (CA)
Age: 55
Marital Status: Married (Ann, 38), no children.

Few ever gave Thomas H. Strathmore much chance of attaining any sort of prestige when he emerged from a fierce fight for the 48th congressional district's nomination way back in 1984.  It was predicted to be a bad year for Republicans, as backlash against President Owen Cleary's quiet mullings over making Social Security "voluntary" had slid all the way down the line to virtually every GOP officeholder.  To the surprise of everyone, Strathmore won a heated race on the issue of illegal immigration, and quickly became one of the Republican Party's rising stars.

Calling himself a "progressive conservative" or, more recently, a "progcon", Strathmore has done the virtually impossible...attaining an image of centrism while remaining a consistent voice for conservatism on all the right issues.  That wave rode Strathmore, a pro-life Christian, to a landslide Senate victory in 1992 and re-elections in 1998 and 2004.

In what some saw as a move to solidify himself with the faith-based right, Strathmore lead the Senate fight for President Roy Hennigan's federal marriage amendment in 2002 and even made a courtesy appearance on The 700 Club with former presidential contender the Reverand Wilson R. Danforth.

In an attempt to move away from the moderate label usually pointed at him for his support for raising the minimum wage and environmental protection standards, Strathmore has shrewedly decided to base his campaign on "new ideas" that fall under the hot button issues but aren't standard responses.

For example, on the abortion question, Strathmore has favored a Medicare reform to allow mothers to get pre-natal care on the government's tab and mandatory ultrasound screening before a mother can officially decide to have an abortion.  Strathmore contends these two measures will end the legacy of abortion on demand and allow for abortion rates to dwindle until the procedure can be "safely killed off".

Other such opinions, such as Strathmore's call for a FairTax to abolish the IRS and replace the old tax code, may well be the key to wooing conservatives with new solutions that fit conservative labels...without wholesale buying the right-wing agenda.


Governor A. Ross Beck III (DE)
Age: 63
Martial Status: Single, (wife Donnatella, dead at age 37), two children (Bruce 40, Sarabeth 38).

Sixteen years ago, A. Ross Beck III, Delaware's congressman at large was the front-runner for the GOP nomination to the White House.  But the death of his wife Donna sidelined the triumphant Beck and the Republican Party took an irreversible turn to the Christian right, leaving Rockefeller follower Ross Beck without a national following in the party of his parents and grandparents.

Beck seemed content to simply serve Delaware instead, with his pro-choice stand on abortion wooing Independent and moderate Democratic voters to his banner in election after election, and it was no surprise to any pundit when Beck won the governor's mansion in 2000 with a whopping 68% of the vote.

The Independence Day attacks on America left Beck, like many Americans, heartbroken and seeking revenge.  Beck fully supported President Hennigan's invasion of Goyzostan, where the Islamist regime was supporting al-Moudi's terror tactics.  What Beck didn't support was the Patriot Act and continual attempts by the Hennigan White House, particularly after winning a landslide re-election in 2002, to curtail privacy statutes.

Following the debacle that was and is the Ekairan War, Governor Beck decided to run for his party's nomination as the champion of civil liberties.  "Government should be out of our pocketbooks, our workplace, and our bedrooms," has become a stand Beck sign-off at his campaign events.

Fiercely libertarian, Beck supports abortion rights, tax cuts, and a curtailing of the U.S.'s "world policeman" motif in order to bring peace and stability to the world.  It remains to be seen if Beck can manage to woo social conservatives into supporting his crusade.


House Majority Whip Donald Carpenter (SC)
Age: 51
Marital Status: Divorced (Julianne, 1999).

The favorite of the fire-eating right during the 1980's Iron Donny Carpenter has become a bit more sensible under the 1990's of Democratic President Clint Blythe (LA) in order to get work achieved for the Republican Party.  To the surprise of many, even after the election of Florida Governor Roy Hennigan in 1998, Carpenter didn't return to his old hard-right stances, instead embracing standard rhetoric on taxes and national defense over his usual condemnation of the "scarlet women" of abortion and the "welfare queens" of the entitlement programs; leading many to believe he was laying the groundwork to run for President.

Turns out they were right.  With a campaign largely centered on creating private Social Security accounts and defending marriage, Carpenter is making safe overtures to two big GOP groups, business and evangelicals, without alienating the rest of the electorate. 

Carpenter's problems will likely stem from his past, where an ugly 1999 divorce proceeding remains sealed and regular speaking events at Bob Jones University seem certain to cause trouble in what should be a fairly well-backed Establishment campaign for the Republican nomination.
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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2006, 05:31:20 PM »

America News Network/Gollum Poll
1,337 registered Republican voters, MoE +/- 3

If your state's primary was held today and you had to choose between Governor A. Ross Beck III, Senator Thomas H. Strathmore, and Congressman Donny Carpenter, who would you vote for President of the United States?

Congressman Donny Carpenter 28%
Thomas H. Strathmore 15%
A. Ross Beck III 9%
No Opinion/Undecided 52%
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2006, 05:45:58 PM »

Carpenter Calls For Mexican Border Fence
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In a move likely to undercut support for Westerner Thomas H. Strathmore (R-CA), Rep. Donald "Iron Donny" Carpenter fleshed out a plan for a "fence, a concrete fence, across the southern border of the United States" today.  Carpenter cited the Fourth of July Commission's findings that America suffers greatly from lax border controls across the U.S.-Mexico line.

"Illegals are coming in here everyday, and we cannot identify them. They could be hijackers, terror bombers, God knows what.  And if they aren't here to kill us, many illegals are taking the jobs of hardworking, red-blooded Americans.  Illegal immigration is a security threat, and a threat to our economic viability, plain and simple, cut and dried," Carpenter announced at a surprise rally in Arizona today, where he met with the Minutemen.

In response, fellow contender for the GOP nomination, Governor A. Ross Beck III (R-DE), lashed out at Carpenter at a Kiwanis Club meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.

"Donny Carpenter has shown today that he simply is out of touch with the true story of the American West and immigration," Beck said, "Illegals are here to work and make money...and to do the jobs that Americans won't do.  To say that they are stealing American jobs is preposterous....verily, without them, our economy would collaspe."

Senator Thomas H. Strathmore (R-CA) had no official comment, although his office said to expect the senator to address the immigration issue in the coming days.
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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2006, 06:34:34 PM »


Christopher Walken- 2006 Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2006, 10:22:09 PM »

ANN Spotlight On:

President Roy Hennigan (R-Florida)

President Hennigan won his first election narrowly in 1998, defeating Vice-President Bob Warren (D-Alabama) with 51 percent of the popular vote and 296 electoral votes.  During his first term, Hennigan succeded in passing a large across the board tax cut of 15 percent, but achieved little else domestically. 

A sinking approval rating was rejuvenated by Hennigan's tough response to the terrorist attacks of July 4th, 2001, when Mahmoud al-Moudi's Allah's Hand terrorist network hijacked three planes, crashing them into the Washington Monument, the Capitol Rotunda (vacated for the Fourth of July holiday), and the World Trade Towers.

The July 4th attacks were met with a heavy response by President Hennigan, who ordered operation Eternal Liberty in the nation of Goyzostan, which provided cover for the Allah's Hand network.  Working with southern Christian rebels, the Goyzostani government fell and several key leaders of Allah's Hand were captured or killed although al-Moudi remains at large.

Riding the wave of popularity following the attacks and the Goyzostan War, Hennigan was re-elected with 500 electoral votes and 62 percent of the popular vote over sacrificial lamb Governor Markus Terwillinger of New Hampshire.  (Terwillinger's concession speech is mostly remembered for his loud screaming of "Yeeeargh!" after it had concluded.)

In 2003, shortly after being inaugerated, President Hennigan made overt tones to declare a police action in Ekairan, which bordered the nations of Iran and Kuwait and had recently fought a war with America in 1991.  The threat was that Ekairanian dictator Umar bin Zarka may well have been researching sarin gas and nuclear weapons.  Congress passed a use of force resolution in March, and the President worked with the UN for the next year in attempts to get weapons inspections and UN troops.

After all else had failed, on March 11, 2004, the President ordered the war, (Operation American Justice) to begin, and the war ended in five weeks and bin Zarka was apphrehended within the year.  Unfortunately, no WMD were discovered, leading to criticism of the administration and a Democratic victory in the Senate (and coming within three votes of controlling the House).

Since then, there has been nothing but legislative deadlock.
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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2006, 10:32:17 PM »
« Edited: January 03, 2006, 02:39:22 AM by Mr. Hobbes »

Christian Coalition Chieftain Mulling Bid
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Clad in his standard pink tie, the Rev. Joshua Redwood enters his Redeemer Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia and heads up to the pulpit.

"America is decaying under a wall of secularism and institutionalized disbelief," Redwood cries out to a multiracial audience of a mostly lower and middle class congregation, "We need strong leaders, leaders touched by the hand of God and born to lead this nation out of the desert if we as a country are to survive as the Lord's Republic!"

According to some sources, the Rev. Redwood, who has never forsaken his old church back in Georgia even as he assumed control of the Christian Coalition and the power to call up President Roy Hennigan whenever he wants, may think he is that man and may soon be announcing a candidacy for the Presidency of the United States.

One would assume that Redwood would ally himself with Rep. Donald "Iron Donny" Carpenter (R-SC), the darling of the Religious Right back during the Cleary Administration.  But Carpenter's moves towards mainstream conservatism in an effort to appeal to a broader section of the electorate seem to have rankled Redwood and his supporters.

"The fact that he would assume we will blindly follow him his nonsense," said one Coalition worker, "Donny Carpenter has a lot to learn about dancing with the one who brung ya."

As for Redwood himself, he's remained publicly mute, although the 42-year old preacher did say that "Divorce is an ugly thing, often the result of ugly sin" when asked for a comment about Carpenter's viability last week.

Combined, it seems as if the Religious Right may see one of their own seek the Republican nod for the first time since the Rev. Wilson R. Danforth ran for the job way back in 1986.
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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2006, 02:36:59 AM »

General Lancaster Declines To Run, Endorses Nobody
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Although speculation has always drifted every four years to the Michigan home of retired four-star 60-year old General Cincinnatus "Lion" Lancaster (R-MI) when the Republicans are considering whom to endorse as their standard bearer in the fall campaign, this year General Lancaster clamped the lid down tight against such musings.

"I will not run for President in 2006.  If nominated, I will not accept, and if elected, I will not serve," Lancaster said to assembled press on his front porch from his Oakland County residence.

Lancaster than chuckled and said, "Why do I have to always do this with you folks?"  Laughter rang through the press corps, although many were disappointed with the general's decision.

Lion Lancaster has bucked attempts to draft him into the White House in every election since 1994, when he achieved fame for resigning as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff over President Blythe's attempt to allow homosexuals to serve in the military.  That year, Lancaster came the closest he's ever come to running for the Presidency, having received public support from high profile GOP leaders and polling showing him winning by a 20 point margin over Blythe, his old nemesis.

Instead, Lancaster declined, stating that he had a commitment to be a father and a husband to his family first and foremost, allowing Blythe to handily defeat Senator Bill Dickey (R-IA) in the general election.

However, in this election, Lancaster left open the possibility of serving as Vice President and pointedly declined to make any endorsements, even of Governor A. Ross Beck (R-DE), a fellow pro-choicer.

"The Vice Presidency needs a man who can fill that role without a desire to remove the Vice from his title," Lancaster said when asked of the possibility of being tapped for the second slot, "It's something I would have to consider this year."
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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2006, 02:55:10 AM »

Veterans' Groups Unsure of Endorsement
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Candidates for the Republican nomination seem to have solidified, with the three-pronged attack of Congressman Donny Carpenter (R-SC), Senator Thomas H. Strathmore (R-CA), and Governor A. Ross Beck III (R-DE) having staked out their sections of the GOP political spectrum and no other serious contenders, minus the possible wildcard of the Rev. Joshua Redwood (R-GA)...and they have left veterans organizations unsure of who to endorse.

The religious right-wing minded Strong Patriots of America (SPA) would normally lean towards Donny Carpenter, but are holding back their chips, mostly because Carpenter never made it into the military, getting deferments for schooling largely because of what is considered to be political connections.  Senior SPA members have been on record saying that they view Carpenter as "a bit of a coward" and would prefer that Purple Heart recipent the Rev. Joshua Redwood enter the race instead.

The more moderate counter to the SPA, the Veterans of America's Wars (VAW), has been courting A. Ross Beck III lately, largely because Beck has a military record while Senator Strathmore has none, although Strathmore had legitimate medical reasons for avoiding the conflict in Vietnam having once had ostemeyliotis, which the Army refuses to consider a disease fit for service, since it can always resurge.  Under other circumstances, Strathmore would likely have received the VAW endorsement, since his politics on war matters line up more than Beck's libertarian pseudo-isolationism.

"We know that Beck is against war and not the warrior...and it's always better to support a man who has seen the elephant," one VAW officer noted.

Both VAW and SPA endorsed Roy Hennigan in 1998 and 2002, but Hennigan's brief service in the Florida Air National Guard during Vietnam did provide more cover than the zero years of service flaunted by Carpenter and Strathmore. 


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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2006, 03:27:50 AM »

President Hennigan Suggests Iranian Airstrikes
America Today

Confronted with continual denials of the Islamic Republic of Iran (a border nation to Ekairan, where 160,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed) to admit international nuclear weapons inspectors to search Iranian power plants for signs of a potentional nuclear bomb project, President Roy Hennigan (R-FL) suggested at a morning press conference today that "American airstrikes could do the job just as well".

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate condemned the "cavalier attitude of the President towards war", but response on the GOP side of the field was decidedly mixed.

Governor A. Ross Beck III (R-DE), an opponent of the Ekairan War who has called for shifting 30,000 troops to Goyzostan and bringing the rest home in a yearlong withdrawal, said that "President Hennigan simply doesn't understand that we should finish one job and finish it right before branching out."

On the opposite side of the fence, Donny Carpenter and Thomas Strathmore shares a brief moment of consensus, with both candidates issuing statements in favor of "the Commander-in-Chief's decisions in prosecuting the war on terrorism." 

Strathmore, however, a member of the Project for a New American Era (PNAE) went further and announced support for a controversial bill which would lead the road to a United States Space Force and the militarization of space.  "I'd rather have a nuclear umbrella of American hegemony in the heavens in order to deter dictatorships from challenging democracy."
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2006, 04:13:28 AM »

Carpenter Shrugs Off Bob Jones Visits, Divorce Settlement
Des Moines Tribune

Stumping in Iowa today, Congressman Donald "Iron Donny" Carpenter (R-SC) brushed off his past visits to pontificate at Bob Jones University, a college known for its strict hopes in preventing racial mixing, as "harmless addresses to a student body in my home state" and denied having any support for racial segregation of any kind.

"I have lived and worked among Americans of all colors and creeds my entire life," Carpenter said when the visits came up during a town hall meeting in Ames, "And, friends, I have always stood four-square against racism, whether it came from a majority against a minority as once, I am ashamed to say, happened in my home state...or against a majority by a minority in the form of affirmative action."

Carpenter also said that during his visits, he made a point to speak to administrators about encouraging more racial mixing, and claimed "I was simply trying to enact change from within."

His divorce to ex-wife Julianne Carpenter came up, but the candidate brushed aside the inquiry, stating that "it is a tragedy that so many American marriages break up, and mine happened to be one of them.  It was never something I was proud of, and I did my own bit to cause much of the damage to that relationship by working too much in the House.  Frankly, I'd like to just ask for respect for both myself and Julianne on this subject."
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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2006, 04:02:27 PM »

Candidates Clash Over Economic Proposals
The Wall Street Trader

Although the stock market has been looking healthier as of late, housing pruchases remain on a steady climb, and government revenues are holding firm, there's still concern in the air over the state of the U.S. economy, with only 22% of the public holding a belief that the economy is doing "good" or "excellent", while 20% consider the economy "average", and 50% consider the economy is "bad" or "below average".

As a salve, Senator Thomas H. Strathmore (R-CA) has presented his FairTax as the solution, citing economic estimates that the tax code could expand the U.S. economy by 10.5%.  "No other candidate has such a plan, such a recipe for growth and jobs," Strathmore said at a rally in New Hampshire yesterday.

Governor A. Ross Beck III (R-DE) says that targeted tax relief to the middle class is the solution, since "the middle class are the consumers, and the consumers are the people who put cash into our economy, who purchase and invest."  Beck has never been quite pinned down on exact numbers for these tax cuts, and Americans For Tax Change chairman Cleveland Turnquist scoffed that "Governor Beck's 'tax cuts' are as mythical as his 'conservatism'.  He's a liberal, plain and simple."

Rep. Donny Carpenter (R-SC) has proposed a myriad of schemes, mostly centering on making President Hennigan's 15% tax cut permenant and he has lately taken to spinning his call to open ANWR to oil exploration as a job creation plan, claiming that alone could create over 250,000 jobs.

All in all, it remains unclear as to which plan will take hold with GOP voters.
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« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2006, 04:33:25 PM »

Responses welcomed. Smiley
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« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2006, 04:41:18 PM »

Few ever gave Thomas H. Strathmore much chance of attaining any sort of prestige when he emerged from a fierce fight for the 48th congressional district's nomination way back in 1984.

California only had 45 congressional districts in 1984, so that really was quite an achievement. Cheesy

An excellent read so far.
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2006, 03:54:56 PM »

Abortion, Gay Issues Cloud Beck Campaign
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The biggest problem facing Governor A. Ross Beck III (R-DE) is values voters.

In the past, Beck has made calls for 'choice', specifically standing with reproductive rights advocates such as Planned Parenthood and the National Pro-Choice League (NPCL).  This has made him the visage of evil to many GOP faithful, including Christian conservatives, largely lead by the Rev. Joshua Redwood, who is also contemplating a bid for the White House.

"There will never be a pro-choice Republican President," Redwood said on Hardball with Chris Matthews last week, "We'll leave consorting with child murderers to the other party."

Although Beck is running at around 10% nationally with likely Republican primary voters, according to the latest ANN/Gollum Poll, voters specifically identifying themselves as 'values voters' or 'social conservatives' are much less likely to vote for Beck...the numbers drop to around 2 or 3 percent, depending on the poll.

Also likely to impact the Beck camp is his support for universal adoption and tentative support state's rights on gay marriage.  Beck has been vague on the subject as a whole, but his libertarian pleas that government remove itself from "our cell phones, our e-mails, our workplace, and our bedrooms" have thrown up a guard by Christian conservatives.

In response, the Beck camp plans to focus on winning small government fiscal conservatives to thier side, in hopes that they will prove a counterweight to a divided Christian conservative constituency that may have to decide between "Iron Donny" Carpenter (R-SC) and the Rev. Redwood in the primaries.
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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2006, 06:33:44 PM »

Redwood Joins GOP Pack
Manchester Leader-Federation

After weeks of speculation, the answer is in.  And so is the reverend.

The Reverend Joshua Redwood of Plains, Georgia has officially launched his Presidential campaign, becoming the first man of a collar to seek the White House with a major party since the Rev. Wilson R. Danforth in 1986.

"We as God's people must stand together and demand leadership that will stand for the moral principles that Christ preached while on Earth," Redwood declared in his announcement outside his Redeemer Baptist Church, "We must stand with the unborn souls the Lord has created, we must stand against human tyranny and know that we have no King but Jesus, and no other human being deserves to be bound by a man-made despot."

Redwood's entrance into the race complicates the front-runner status of Rep. Donald "Iron Donny" Carpenter (R-SC), who is widely backed by GOP-leaning special interests and key Establishment figures.  Both Carpenter and Redwood are ultimately preaching to same social and fiscal conservative base, although Carpenter has shied away from the more bombastic language that Redwood favors in the interest of appealing to more moderate voters in the general election.

For his part, Redwood has promised to talk straight and pull no punches.  "Ultimately, it is God who will decide if I am to be the President...not the pretty poetries of my speeches."
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