i just did something i swore i'd never do: i donated money to a political campaign.
mr. schiff has been featured on these pages before--i've been following him for a long time.
this is my kinda republican--he doesn't give a damn about such sideshows as abortion or gay marriage; he's got his eye on the only ball that matters right now: the financial future of the united states of america.
and speaking more broadly, he's also my kinda politician--a successful, self-made entrepreneur who came to politics only after having established his credibility out in the real world, and who is just as even-handedly critical of republican policies (and politicians) as he is of democrats'.
and the icing on the cake? he's going up against one of the chief architects of the financial catastrophe in which we we find ourselves today: that most bloated, corrupt and infinitely inept of all political hacks, christopher dodd.
schiff clearly saw--and has spent the last ten years warning the world about--everything that dodd was so obviously blind to. ridiculed for years as "dr. doom," schiff's critics have all pretty much shut up, as everything he predicted has pretty much come to pass.
and his followers? they're a passionate bunch, to say the least. from its humble beginnings as a grassroots "draft schiff" movement barely a year ago, his campaign has raised over $1.1 million, most of it from out-of-state donors--and far more than has the tainted mr. dodd.
how will this race play out? i think it's gonna be fascinating to watch. first, to see how he does against the various party hacks the republican establishment--who hate schiff and see him as a huge threat to their status quo--run against him in the primary; second, to see how the connecticut electorate take to his message; third, to see how his candidacy resonates nationally; and, finally, the reaction of the dodd camp to this, the most formidable threat they've seen in 30 years.
i, for one, will be following it closely.
if you'd like to get a sense of the man for yourself--or if you just want a quick primer on how we got to the sad, sorry place we are today, and where we're headed if things don't change--i urge you to watch the following clip featuring most of his very first campaign speech, given yesterday in hartford. trust me, there's no empty political rhetoric here:
[and now that he's gotten the stamp of approval from this bastion of respectability--seriously, what could possibly stop him?]
2 comments:
For Guttermorality gave up his hard earned money for a political donation, this is a testament to your devotion because my experience has been that Guttermorality doesn't give a dime to anything.
But, really now, Schiff was the prophet of doom in 2005 and 2006...all that is true and kudos to him.
But he keeps saying we are facing imminent collapse and that just is not true anymore.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
Just because someone is right in the past, does not guarantee future correctness.
Schiff's future prediction that the economic is going to continue in recession is just not credible.
Finally, Schiff himself had a terrible year for his own performance in 2008 as the market advice he gave (investing in foreign stocks in natural resource companies and above all getting out of the dollar) was, ahem, not so good.
noblesavage: did you even watch this clip? schiff's logic is unassailable and based on what's actually happening; whereas, best as i can tell, your logic is based on nothing more than belief in what the government propaganda machine is telling you, and your own blind optimism--i mean, correct me if i'm wrong, but i see no basis in reality for your position.
i'm gonna try one more time. read the following article by jim willie--he's a guy whose monthly newsletter i actually pay to receive. although this particular piece is one of his publicly-posted columns, it lays out what i have come to believe--and why--very plainly.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/willie110609.html
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