Not my preferred choice but like I said... better than Obama.
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Not my preferred choice but like I said... better than Obama.
Too many people do go to university nowadays but it's like Game Theory. It may be optimal overall if less went, but in the current situation you as an individual should go.
Isn't that just sound investment strategy on behalf of his daughters?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Santorum is the severely extreme side of the GOP. He's a theocrat that doesn't believe in the separation of church and state (he pukes). In interviews he (and his wife) say God has called him to run for office, and if he loses <ie, if Obama wins re-election>....it's the end of our nation! If we don't elect St. Santorum, Satan will take over, since The Prince of Lies is out to destroy the US!!!
Besides, President Obama is a "snob" who wants to indoctrinate our children using those elite lib'rul college professors, take away their faith, and create them in his image! It's a vast left wing conspiracy to kill faith, family, and country! OMG!
Hey Lewk, you've claimed before that theocrats would be bad for our democracy. So why would you prefer Santorum over Obama?
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Originally Posted by GGT
You know, I bet you'd make a really good "this is your brain on drugs" PSA.
Santorum would make a good "this is your brain on religions" one.
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http://www.theonion.com/video/heartb...for-two,27497/ I think this is relevant. :o
No no, the Iranian position is that America is Satan. Totally different.Quote:
Originally Posted by earthJoker
That duality shouldn't be a problem for a proper Catholic, right? When you can be the son of yourself, you can also be in the clutches of yourself.
A similar theme:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...party?page=0,0
I got 8 right.
Those aren't very similar if it's that easy to guess them correctly...
Subtle differences in focus gave them away. The content is indeed pretty similar.
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Yes, yes
This is what I want
Never would have pegged you for the type to want an SUV. They're bad for the environment, you know. :downcast:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
This is especially for Veldan and other D&D fans http://www.onthecampaigntrail.org/
It is a thing of magic. Literally! High-lights includeSpoiler:
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EDIT: That is brilliant! Upto number 10, that had me really LOLing :D
Bloody brilliant! Thanks Ness!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000003
Someone has a bad case of the foot-in-mouth disease. Maybe Santorum can go to Illinois next and tell everyone that the Cubs and White Sox should be kicked out of MLB?
He certainly has a better taste in women than Bill. :p
Who doesn't? :p
But yeah, good call by Mitt on locking down that yummy redhead. We should all be so lucky. :(
Oh Mittens, never change :heart:Quote:
A Rick Santorum spokeswoman was handing out Etch A Sketches before a Mitt Romney town hall Wednesday in Arbutus, Md., furthering the goading of the GOP front runner after a gaffe by his campaign earlier in the day.
And it apparently worked. After the event, Romney shot back at reporters who quizzed him about it.
"I'm not doing a press conference right now, OK?” a testy Romney said, grabbing a reporter’s tape recorder. He then hastily called a media avail and took one question.
"Organizationally, a general-election campaign takes on a different profile,” Romney said. “Issues I'm running on will be exactly the same.”
He added, “I'm running as a conservative Republican ... I'll be running as a conservative Republican nominee."
Politics seems to be like sports: people whine every time they get a canned response, but go up in an uproar on the rare occasion a politician/athlete tells the truth.
I really can't wait for the VP nod. It has to be someone absolutely insane to placate the Teapers and crazy fundies, but it almost certainly can't be fecal matter and lube, Newt would tell Mittens to go fuck himself, and if Ron Paul is even considered, I'm calling a Farnsworth.
Could Michele make a come-back? :heart: :D
Sigh...sorry, it does NOT need to be someone insane to placate the 'Teapers'.
Newt and Santorum are big government Republicans...Paul will never be offered, give him SecTreas maybe.
I'm thinking Rubio or Christie. (Their protests that they are not interested are meaningless)
Rubio isn't white, so he's out. Christie probably won't appeal to the fundies though I admit I'm not that well acquainted with him, and his...Volatile style probably won't be that attractive to swing voters who're not of the "burn the whole thing down" mentality. And, again, Mittens really is way too white-bread for the Teaper crowd, he needs to bring the insanity with him if he wants the core to show up come election day.
Your logic is fatally flawed. Rubio appeals to Hispanics as well as conservatives, while Christie has been able to gain the support of many independents while maintaining conservative backing due to his volatility. Both would be very strong candidates. There's also an outside chance someone like Paul Ryan or Rand Paul get chosen. Romney is running too much of a research-based campaign to choose someone who'd have any chance of railroading his campaign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Believe it or not, I value your analysis, Low-key, and I look forward to history vindicating one of us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
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Originally Posted by Nessus
Jebus, do you really think Republicans are all racist assholes?
And BTW, as someone who identifies with the TEA Party/Libertarians, can you lay off the disparaging remarks and still make your point?
Rubio helps nail Florida being a popular senator from there. He will help even out the Hispanic vote everywhere, and is YOUNG and fairly good looking.
Christie plays to the middle a lot, with some big check marks in the Conservative column. He puts the union in their place while leading NJ (a pretty blue state) to making one of the largest payments to the retirement fund for the municipal and state workers to help close the funding gap. His bombastic nature helps in that if aims for the irate voter. If Christie can get elected in NJ, it bodes well for him.
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What about Rand Paul? Heard his name mentioned a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
The Pauls are not politically well-aligned with the Republican party, being libertarian, and on top of that, it's seems like a longshot that either would want or accept a VP position.
Rand Paul doesn't have decades of experience saying no to his own party, so I think you might be overestimating how much he's disliked by fellow Republicans. He's also less of an ideologue than his father. He wouldn't be the worst choice to shore up conservative support without nominating a psychopath.
Sure, Ron won't take it because he's too principled.
Not the same reasons Rand would turn down a VP slot (probably, hard to be sure), but there's a big difference in being near the end of your life, in a nothing congressional district and being at the start of your career in a Senate seat. Plenty of reasons for Rand to not want the proverbial bucket of warm spit.
I'm sure there are plenty of nice racists in there, too. And I'm equally sure that there's a whole bunch of uninformed unfortunates who don't pay attention and haven't noticed what a fucking freak-show the Pubbie apparatus has become; that the circus of the primaries hasn't clued them in is sad, but there are sadder things in this world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
The only Hispanic vote the Pubbies have a hope with is the anti-Castro Cubans, the rest (assuming they can read and comprehend) will be kind of turned off by all the brown people fright rhetoric. You know, one of those things the Pubs use to court crazy old white people, aka the majority of the Teapers?
Christie's union-busting is likely to be seen favourably by the Pubbie lunatic base, I am aware of that, but I'm not convinced the swing voters, even in the US, have drunk that much kool-aid. And the irate voters set probably largely intersects with the pot-smoking Ron Paul is cool set, so I'm not sure how precisely Christie could help Mittens in the general. No one likes Jersey, right?
Paul isn't happy with Mittens. Again.
I like people who get angry :DQuote:
Paranoia Strikes Deeper
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 22, 2012
Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Actually, it’s the noise a great political party makes when it loses what’s left of its mind. And it happened — where else? — on Fox News on Sunday, when Mitt Romney bought fully into the claim that gas prices are high thanks to an Obama administration plot.
This claim isn’t just nuts; it’s a sort of craziness triple play — a lie wrapped in an absurdity swaddled in paranoia. It’s the sort of thing you used to hear only from people who also believed that fluoridated water was a Communist plot. But now the gas-price conspiracy theory has been formally endorsed by the likely Republican presidential nominee.
Before we get to the larger implications of this endorsement, let’s get the facts on gas prices straight.
First, the lie: No, President Obama did not say, as many Republicans now claim, that he wanted higher gasoline prices. He did once say that a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions would cause electricity prices to “skyrocket” — an unfortunate word choice. But saying that such a system would raise energy prices was just a factual statement, not a declaration of intent to punish American consumers. The claim that Mr. Obama wanted higher prices is a lie, pure and simple.
And it’s a lie wrapped in an absurdity, because the president of the United States doesn’t control gasoline prices, or even have much influence over those prices. Oil prices are set in a world market, and America, which accounts for only about a tenth of world production, can’t move those prices much. Indeed, the recent rise in gas prices has taken place despite rising U.S. oil production and falling imports.
Finally, there’s the paranoia, the belief that liberals in general, and Obama administration officials in particular, are trying to make driving unaffordable as part of a nefarious plot against the American way of life. And, no, I’m not exaggerating. This is what you hear even from thoroughly mainstream conservatives.
For example, last year George Will declared that the Obama administration’s support for train travel had nothing to do with relieving congestion and reducing environmental impacts. No, he insisted, “the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.” Who knew that Dagny Taggart, the railroad executive heroine of “Atlas Shrugged,” was a Commie?
O.K., this is all kind of funny. But it’s also deeply scary.
As Richard Hofstadter pointed out in his classic 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” crazy conspiracy theories have been an American tradition ever since clergymen began warning that Thomas Jefferson was an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati. But it’s one thing to have a paranoid fringe playing a marginal role in a nation’s political life; it’s something quite different when that fringe takes over a whole party, to the point where candidates must share, or pretend to share, that fringe’s paranoia to receive the party’s presidential nod.
And it’s not just gas prices, of course. In fact, the conspiracy theories are proliferating so fast it’s hard to keep up. Thus, large numbers of Republicans — and we’re talking about important political figures, not random supporters — firmly believe that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by a global conspiracy involving thousands of scientists, not one of whom has broken the code of omertÃ*. Meanwhile, others are attributing the recent improvement in economic news to a dastardly plot to withhold stimulus funds, releasing them just before the 2012 election. And let’s not even get into health reform.
Why is this happening? At least part of the answer must lie in the way right-wing media create an alternate reality. For example, did you hear about how the cost of Obamacare just doubled? It didn’t, but millions of Fox-viewers and Rush-listeners believe that it did. Naturally, people who constantly hear about the evil that liberals do are ready and willing to believe that everything bad is the result of a dastardly liberal plot. And these are the people who vote in Republican primaries.
But what about the broader electorate?
If and when he wins the nomination, Mr. Romney will try, as a hapless adviser put it, to shake his Etch A Sketch — that is, to erase the record of his pandering to the crazy right and convince voters that he’s actually a moderate. And maybe he can pull it off.
But let’s hope that he can’t, because the kind of pandering he has engaged in during his quest for the nomination matters. Whatever Mr. Romney may personally believe, the fact is that by endorsing the right’s paranoid fantasies, he is helping to further a dangerous trend in America’s political life. And he should be held accountable for his actions.
I can see it being Santorum and boy do I not like that thought. If Romney wins and goes for a rival for Veep though, I would think the natural choice would be Perry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus