Comments on: Platform 10 backs Obama for President

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:49:03 +0000

All you tories are selfish arseholes. I cant stand you people

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:55 +0000

All those shocked that UK Conservatives might support Democrats should read more – or visit the other side of the pond more. Politics is vey different in our two nations. Majority / centre Democrats are extremely close to the UK Con Party… Many Republicans are well beyond (ie more extreme) the Conservatives in terms of both social and economic policy.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:21:47 +0000

A Democratic president would offer the Republican Party time to rejuvinate. During this campaign the Republicans might well develop liberal conservative policies such as on climate change but they need a more fundamental review after George Bush has remodeled them in his own image. Well done Platform 10 for a brave call.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:06:38 +0000

It should be noted that though Clinton won the popular vote Obama actually won the state based on delegates in the electoral college 12-11. They both got 9 each based on the result and the superdelegates split 3-2 in favour of Obama. Crucially Clinton will get 156 delegates in Michigan because Edwards and Obama boycotted the state at the behest of the Democratic party because Michigan broke the party rules about when primaries are scheduled. Those may be critical electoral college votes and shows that Clinton is quite happy to go against her own party leadership to secure the nomination. Anything to win.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:30:29 +0000

Conservative MP Simon Burns has been helping Clinton’s campaign which IMO is good thing. Any Democrat is better than the modern mutated monstrosity that is the Republican party. I long for the day when the Republicans rediscover their roots.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:49:21 +0000

I agree it’s reassuring to have a liberal Conservative voice

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:58:13 +0000

Glad to find this site and discover I’m not the only liberal Conservative. Tories shouldn’t automatically support the Republicans. The GOP is no longer the party of history it has been taken over by a cabal of ultra religious, deficit spending, neo-con, imperialists. McCain is at least anti-torture but he says he is for gun control but has voted against gun control bills. He voted against tax cuts until 2005 when he started voted for them (eyeing 08?). He is for campaign financing reform but is the business/industry/lobbyist’s favourite candidate. He is close to Jerry Falwall which is just appalling. He is pro-Iraq and therefore pre-emptive war and hasn’t learnt from Bush’s folly. Republicans talk about tax cuts but historically they’ve never got around to the spending cuts leading to huge deficits (par for the course for Republicans). There is no point sacrificing the public’s finances for sake of vote pleasing tax cuts. This sounds more reminiscent of Labour fiscal mismanagement. How on Earth has Giuliani been a man of his word or competent? Ask the NYPD and FDNY what they think about his performance before, during and after 9/11 at Real Rudy. Or read the 9/11 Commission Report. He inherited a $2bn deficit, cut several taxes and left Bloomberg a $5bn deficit – typical Republican.

By: Malcolm Dunn

Malcolm Dunn — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:43:06 +0000

Remember people the West Wing was fiction. Obama has been very coy about his policy positions and until he’s spelled them out I’m pretty stunned that a supposedly Conservative blog would choose to back him. Guliani and McCain may be inferior speakers to Obama but both have demonstrated that they are both men of their word and competent. To write them off this early seems to me the height of folly. I do not think this thread will do much for the fortunes of Platform 10 within the Conservative community of bloggers. Malcolm Dunn

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:19:11 +0000

God help us all if the Global Warm-monger Obama, or any of the Democraps, or McCain, Romney, or Guiliani get in. Because we’d be finished. Go Ron Paul!

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:48:03 +0000

It’s one thing to be a modernising Tory, another to be a leftie. Just one example (this article sneers at so many conservative positions there is hardly a shortage): apparently the choice is between tax cuts and deficit reduction. What our socialist friend ignores is the possibility of spending cuts. McCain, a moderate, supports clamping down on spending, yet a British moderate ‘conservative’ seems to want to close off this option. In his eyes it appear the federal government is meant to take the people’s money but not protect them from foreign militants, illegal immigrants or being aborted.