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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 11:38 AM
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John Bolton for President?
Edited on Mon Aug-30-10 11:39 AM by onehandle
While he told TheDC social issues “aren’t where I spend a lot of my time,” Bolton said he opposes abortion and has no problem with gay marriage – indeed, he said that gay marriage is “going to happen.” But, he added, “they are fundamentally issues to be resolved politically, primarily at the state level. And I think the notion of creating a constitutional right to abortion or a constitutional right to gay marriage is a mistake.”

Not shy about his position on a wide range of issues, would this critic-in-chief consider a run for commander-in-chief in 2012? Bolton didn’t reject the idea out of hand.

“It is a very great honor that anybody would even think of asking. I’m obviously not a politician. I’ve never run for any federal elective office at all and, you know, it is something that would obviously require a great deal of effort,” he said. “What I do think, though, and what concerns me, is the lack of focus generally in the national debate about national security issues. Now, I understand the economy is in a ditch and people are concerned about it, but our adversaries overseas are not going to wait for us to get our economic house in order.”

When pressed as to whether that means he would consider a run, Bolton seemed to suggest that he might do it, at the very least to help put national security issues at the top of the debate agenda.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/30/john-bolton-criticizer-in-chief/3/

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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 11:52 AM
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1. would Americans want to have a beer with John Bolton?
:shrug:
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Chipper Chat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 12:05 PM
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2. Bolton/McCain 2012
Campaign slogan: "Nuking Our Way to Freedom"
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 12:10 PM
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3. Four more Wars. Four more Wars.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 08:34 AM
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4. We really need to have a gallery of the thugs they have to offer.
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 09:18 AM
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7. +1
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Jello Biafra Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 08:53 AM
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5. That's great....Bolton and McCain....
The Walrus and the Eggman koo koo ka choo.......
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 10:01 AM
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11. PLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!!
That is an absolute insult to the memories of John Lennon & George Harrison and to the honor of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. They were/are all honorable men. Please to not sully their reputations with the spectacle of these two.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 08:56 AM
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6. It will never happen. Americans will not elect a man with such bad hair and a creepy white mustache
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WingDinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 09:33 AM
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8. Throw another dumbass stupid looking mustache into the scrapheap of history.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 09:56 AM
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9. Yosemite Sam for President!!! n/t
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 10:00 AM
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10. Isn't he going to be one Dancing with the Stars next year?
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