I'll give this to Ron Paul. The man is 100% ideologically consistent and as authentic as it gets; that's hard to find in a politician. I think he happens to be batshit in his ideology but I do find his honestly and consistency to be refreshing.
I'd go 75% awesome and 25% batshit insane. That makes him a more palatable candidate than most these days, and integrity counts for a lot.
So this morning, I heard Mitt Romney may be on his last legs of this election. Please tell me America isn't THAT stupid as to accept that whackaloon Santorum as a GOP candidate.
Either someone was joking, or you were talking to some ultra-partisan troll living in a fantasy land. Romney has almost two and a half times as many delegates as anyone else, and more delegates than all the others put together. He hasn't "locked up the nomination" yet, but it is becoming more and more of a mathematical certainty that he will. He has about one-third of the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination, where Santorum doesn't yet have even one-sixth of the number. Romney is hardly "on his last legs." I suppose something could still happen to him, but he is still the way-out-in-front runner.
Huh. Guess the guy who read the news at the wake-up call got his facts wrong. 'Cause if Sanctorum won, I was totes gonna move to Canada if I wasn't in the military. Thanks.
Santorum is not going to win unless Romney has a heart attack or something. That said, it would be a whole lot closer if Gingrich bowed out of the race because in the majority of states last night if the not Romney vote was unified then they would have won. Makes you wonder why that one billionaire keeps giving Gingrich money to stay in the race doesn't it? I mean he has to know Gingrich can't win but by Gingrich staying in he prevents Santorum from uniting the not Romney vote so the only beneficiary is Romney.
I'm waiting to see what kind of appointment Newt gets from Obama after all the destruction he has caused during the primaries!!
This is where a number of us disagree. It was blatantly obvious, to anyone who was not blinded by the "D" and the superficial rhetoric, that he had no serious experience in governing, and therefore wouldn't know how to deal with a huge crisis (which was no surprise, since it was there even before the election). It was blatantly obvious that his solution to everything that is or could go wrong is to spend huge amounts of tax money on it. It was blatantly obvious that he was as ill-prepared and at the same time as naive where foreign policy is concerned as Carter was (without Carter's integrity). If anything, I would say Obama hasn't been quite as bad as I feared. (Losing his majority in the House and his super-majority in the Senate after only two years helped...) Sure, when he was elected, I hoped he would turn out to be all right, but I didn't really believe it. About the only thing I can think of that he has done or failed to do that was not pretty much "in the cards" well before November 2008 is that he has turned out to be much more of a hawk than his rhetoric during the election would have led people to believe. That's the one area where he has disappointed me. For all the rest, there is no real disappointment because there was no serious hope, either.
I can't see any situation where Newt is working for Obama, the fucker has a giant ego so he really is just trying to stick it to Romney. That said, his billionaire pulled out and was going to let him die until Romney really needed another not Romney to split the not Romney vote with Santorum and then magically money appeared. I have to believe that billionaire is a smart man, he knows Gingrich can't win shit other than his home state, so why is he giving millions & millions to Gingrich? I have to think he knows this helps Romney and is maybe looking for some sort of kick back from Romney for helping him win by splitting the not Romney vote. In at least four states Romney only won because Gingrich siphoned off votes from Santorum. I honestly believe Romney has made some sort of deal with Gingrich's billionaire since the guy cut Gingrich loose after Florida but weeks later magically came back and started funding him again. Right when Romney needed him the most. It's all about back room deals.
He was uniquely unqualified for the presidency. The hawkishness has surprised me as well. I expected too much dove. Instead, we got too much hawk.
