Weston financial pundit enters U.S. Senate race

Joining a crowded field of Republican competitors, Peter Schiff, a financial pundit who heads a Westport brokerage firm, officially entered the U.S. Senate race Thursday.

[change]

We heard the cry for change in 2008.

Here is real change, a financial professional thats not an entrenched politician.

This is what America needs.

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change wrote:

We heard the cry for change in 2008.
Here is real change, a financial professional thats not an entrenched politician.
This is what America needs.

So true... now come back to this thread in a few days, and you will see comments to the effect of:
'I won't vote for any republican whatsoever' and the like.
I wish there was some other planet I could move to....
Because spending trillions of dollars we don't have and couldn't afford anyway is certain to wreck this economy. To Connecticut dimwits in general, I'm sorry for being 'racist'.(/s)

[independent republican]

Amused wrote:

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So true... now come back to this thread in a few days, and you will see comments to the effect of:
'I won't vote for any republican whatsoever' and the like.
I wish there was some other planet I could move to....
Because spending trillions of dollars we don't have and couldn't afford anyway is certain to wreck this economy. To Connecticut dimwits in general, I'm sorry for being 'racist'.(/s)

There was a time I voted R across the board. Today I am more independent. But it will take a candidate from a major party to win. So maybe, just maybe this guy is what we need.

[greg]

Here you go amused, I refuse to vote for a republican after what that party did to this country after the last eight years.

"Where was the Tea Party movement when the tax burden was shifted from the high end to the middle? Where were the patriots when Wall Street, backed in Congress by Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, rewrote securities laws so that the wonder boys of Lehman and A.I.G. could reduce home mortgages to poker chips at a trillion-dollar table?

Where were the angry “stiffs” when the banking industry rolled the 2005 Congress into rewriting bankruptcy law, making it easier to keep people in permanent credit card hock?

Where were they when President Bush started the bailouts, with $700 billion that had to be paid on a few days’ notice — with no debate — to save global capitalism?

They were nowhere, because they were clueless, just as most journalists were.

But now, at a time when a new president wants to reform health care to fix the largest single cause of middle-class economic collapse, he’s called a Nazi by these self-described friends of the working stiff."

Finally, I find it interesting that Schiff has no "Issues" section on his website. I don't need an economist, I need a Senator. And "let the free-market handle it" is not the policy position I am looking for. Schiff will scare the crap out of CT voters

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greg wrote:

Here you go amused, I refuse to vote for a republican after what that party did to this country after the last eight years.
"Where was the Tea Party movement when the tax burden was shifted from the high end to the middle? Where were the patriots when Wall Street, backed in Congress by Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, rewrote securities laws so that the wonder boys of Lehman and A.I.G. could reduce home mortgages to poker chips at a trillion-dollar table?
Where were the angry “stiffs” when the banking industry rolled the 2005 Congress into rewriting bankruptcy law, making it easier to keep people in permanent credit card hock?
Where were they when President Bush started the bailouts, with $700 billion that had to be paid on a few days’ notice — with no debate — to save global capitalism?
They were nowhere, because they were clueless, just as most journalists were.
But now, at a time when a new president wants to reform health care to fix the largest single cause of middle-class economic collapse, he’s called a Nazi by these self-described friends of the working stiff."
Finally, I find it interesting that Schiff has no "Issues" section on his website. I don't need an economist, I need a Senator. And "let the free-market handle it" is not the policy position I am looking for. Schiff will scare the crap out of CT voters

Then we will get Dodd the crook AGAIN.
And what republicans 'did to this country' pales in comparison to what has been done in the first few months of the Obama administration.
The deficit has QUADRUPLED.
Obama is offering defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Gitmo is still open.
His cabinet is manned with tax cheats and wall street crooks.
He's caved on North Korea, russia, and iran.
He healthcare solution sucks so bad that even congress doesn't want it for themselves, Senators Rockefeller and other top democrats have voted against it, calling it 'unworkable'.
Obama has conducted the secret meetings he said he would not.

I'm not saying vote for republicans across the board. I'm saying give certain ones a chance if they appear to be better than what we've got in a given race.

I voted for the democrat when I lived in Fairfield, for example. The republican incumbent was a complete moron (metsopolous sp?)

By the way, the tax burden was NOT shifted from the rich to the middle class as a whole- the rich were given a slight break, since they ALREADY pay the vast majority of the taxes in this country.

The problem is excessive spending- do you realize there are still a dozen states that don't even need an income tax??

When connecticut citizens refuse to even consider the alternative, we get crooks like Dodd and idiots like Delauro.

If I was in South Carolina, on the other hand, I'd vote out the republican govenor. Let him sneak off to Argentina and get some STD.

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By the way, how typical that you mention Phil Gramm but neglect to mention the two democrat co-sponsors of that bill. And it wasn't until years later that this bill could do damage, it was when congress relaxed some of the guidelines in the bill.

[greg]

Man, people have the memories of turnips. I disagree with your assertions and interpretations of the first months of the Obama administration. With a world economy in freefall, priorities change and strategies evolve. You make it seem as if Obama is just creating spending for the hell of it. And unfortunately, you need to use the system in place to fix it before you can alter it.

As for voting for a Republican, it will never happen. Even though the guy is a libertarian anyway, but I don't like their philosophy either. It got us in to this mess.