Comments on: Security Threat From Mexico Greater Than Iraq, Afghanistan http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carney http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-2#comment-77295 Carney Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:29:48 +0000 #comment-77295 We also need to realize how narrowly we avoided unmitigated catastrophe in the last Mexican election, when a Hugo Chavez style nation-wrecking leftist came within a whisker of winning the presidency. We may not be so lucky next time. Imagine a Mexico joining OPEC and restricting oil production to jack the price up again, threatening to cut us off, funding illegal alien and Southwest separatist groups, including violent ones, freely intersecting with organized crime gangs now running rampant throughout both our nations, its armed forces brandishing the latest Russian tanks and planes, bristling with Russian advisers and intelligence agents, welcoming the Iranian leadership and signing pacts with them, allowing Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad to operate bases on its soil. We also need to realize how narrowly we avoided unmitigated catastrophe in the last Mexican election, when a Hugo Chavez style nation-wrecking leftist came within a whisker of winning the presidency. We may not be so lucky next time.

Imagine a Mexico joining OPEC and restricting oil production to jack the price up again, threatening to cut us off, funding illegal alien and Southwest separatist groups, including violent ones, freely intersecting with organized crime gangs now running rampant throughout both our nations, its armed forces brandishing the latest Russian tanks and planes, bristling with Russian advisers and intelligence agents, welcoming the Iranian leadership and signing pacts with them, allowing Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad to operate bases on its soil.

]]> By: RLHotchkiss http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-2#comment-48503 RLHotchkiss Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:09:46 +0000 #comment-48503 I tried to post about this but my post wouldn't go through. Maybe it is too long. Anyway you can read it here: http://p2p-offense-newt-gingrich.blogspot.com/ The highlights are that it is nice that Gingrich is finally aware of a problem that has been brewing for decades and even has whole genre of folk music dedicated to it. I wishe he would tell the truth--Interdiction has been a total failure. Legalizing narcotics is the single most effective foreign policy decision we could make. The saved money could be antidrug efforts that work I tried to post about this but my post wouldn’t go through. Maybe it is too long. Anyway you can read it here: http://p2p-offense-newt-gingrich.blogspot.com/

The highlights are that it is nice that Gingrich is finally aware of a problem that has been brewing for decades and even has whole genre of folk music dedicated to it. I wishe he would tell the truth–Interdiction has been a total failure. Legalizing narcotics is the single most effective foreign policy decision we could make. The saved money could be antidrug efforts that work

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-2#comment-39775 Anonymous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:29:10 +0000 #comment-39775 House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help. House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks
Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don’t, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn’t help.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-2#comment-43923 Anonymous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:28:55 +0000 #comment-43923 House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help. House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks
Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don’t, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn’t help.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-2#comment-40868 Anonymous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:28:30 +0000 #comment-40868 Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time." Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said “She isn’t young enough or pretty enough to be the President’s wife.” But his second marriage hasn’t been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated – “frankly”, she told the Washington Post in June 1989, “it’s been on and off for some time.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-1#comment-54821 Anonymous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:28:12 +0000 #comment-54821 Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time." Does Newt have some kind of problem with women? He has said that he read a book called "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", and "found frightening pieces that related to my own life." Incidentally, Marianne told Gail Sheehy she doesn't want Newt to run for President. " I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy. I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything. ... I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be." Newt's response? Marianne "was just making the point hypothetically" that he would not run unless she agreed he should. Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said “She isn’t young enough or pretty enough to be the President’s wife.” But his second marriage hasn’t been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated – “frankly”, she told the Washington Post in June 1989, “it’s been on and off for some time.”
Does Newt have some kind of problem with women? He has said that he read a book called “Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them”, and “found frightening pieces that related to my own life.”

Incidentally, Marianne told Gail Sheehy she doesn’t want Newt to run for President. ” I told him if I’m not in agreement, fine, it’s easy. I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything. … I don’t want him to be president and I don’t think he should be.” Newt’s response? Marianne “was just making the point hypothetically” that he would not run unless she agreed he should.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-1#comment-47652 Anonymous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:26:45 +0000 #comment-47652 Family Values? Pressing Wife for Divorce in the Hospital: "He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery." - Jackie, his first wife. Dead-Beat Dad: The hospital visit wasn't the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off. Family Values? Pressing Wife for Divorce in the Hospital:
“He walked out in the spring of 1980…. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, “Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?” When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery.” – Jackie, his first wife.
Dead-Beat Dad:
The hospital visit wasn’t the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-1#comment-49091 Anonymous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:25:42 +0000 #comment-49091 Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt's daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then." Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt’s daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. “As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys’ wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.”

]]> By: coleman http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-1#comment-44173 coleman Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:53:48 +0000 #comment-44173 Please, address the post, not the person doing the posting. This is a new site, let's try to make this one an exception - more about ideas, less about name-calling and ranting. Please, address the post, not the person doing the posting. This is a new site, let’s try to make this one an exception – more about ideas, less about name-calling and ranting.

]]> By: storystick http://www.frumforum.com/security-threat-from-mexico-greater-than-iraq-afghanistan/comment-page-1#comment-48732 storystick Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:12:09 +0000 #comment-48732 The Marines are afraid to go to Mexico? Give me a break.When no Marine has been even hurt in Mexico and we enforce a boycott on Northern Mexico on a government level it is a provocative act. I go there all the time and believe me Tucson is just as dangerous for Tourists.Legalization of drugs solves the problem in Mexico and Afganistan. The Marines are afraid to go to Mexico? Give me a break.When no Marine has been even hurt in Mexico and we enforce a boycott on Northern Mexico on a government level it is a provocative act.
I go there all the time and believe me Tucson is just as dangerous for Tourists.Legalization of drugs solves the problem in Mexico and Afganistan.

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