Republican Candidates

[Zoraptor]

I'm hoping Rand Paul will run for president sometime in the future. That guy shows a lot of promise.

Was this deliberate?

Rand Paul = Ron Paul's son, so I expect he was named deliberately. He's currently a senator new entrant from 2010, iirc.

[Oblarg]

Why do you find Paul crazy?

 

Is it because he wants to bring home the troops and end the undeclared wars?

Or because he wants to shut down the privately owned Federal Reserve which prints money

out of thin air and **** up the economy?

 

Wals, if you loosen your tie and unbutton that top-button on your shirt, you'll get some oxygen to the brain,

and you'll be able to turn your head left and right.

 

 

J.

 

No, it's because if elected I'm rather afraid he'd do something psychotic like reverting to the gold standard.

 

Sure, he's commendable for being the sole Republican candidate who seems to legitimately believe what he says and who doesn't shamelessly pander to a certain demographic, but he's still hopelessly disconnected from reality - only in different ways from the other candidates.

[Calax]

Paul is grate in most fields (willing to listen, legit small government, willing to compromise) but there are a few points that make people just flip out (like wanting to go back onto the gold standard for example)

[Junai]

This clip of Jon Stewart talking about the media's treatment of Ron Paul made me chuckle.

 

Wow. i mean I think the guy is looney tunes. But blanking him out? That's properly cuckoo.

Why do you find Paul crazy?

 

Is it because he wants to bring home the troops and end the undeclared wars?

Or because he wants to shut down the privately owned Federal Reserve which prints money

out of thin air and **** up the economy?

 

Wals, if you loosen your tie and unbutton that top-button on your shirt, you'll get some oxygen to the brain,

and you'll be able to turn your head left and right.

 

 

J.

 

That's good coming from a guy who thinks CIA elves blew up the twin towers.

 

He's a lunatic because you can't take the wrold's largest economy and pretend that it doesn't have to defend interests outside its own borders. It's an infantile position, however populist.

Dolt, I never claimed the CIA blew up the twin towers.

Just because a person finds the official 9/11 theory absurd, doesn't mean he's a fan of Alex Jones.

 

Bombing the bejeezus out of every country that teases Mossad with a nuclear fuel rod isn't good foreign policy.

 

J.

[Meshugger]

The only one of those republicans that any shed of integrity is Ron Paul. The rest of them are either frauds, tricksters or bullies.

 

Just to put it into perspective, a great republican president from the past:

 

 

- Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion

 

- The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

 

- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Edited January 25, 2012 by Meshugger

[WDeranged]

Yeah I like Ron Paul, I don't think he's got all the answers but I agree with a good amount of what he says, he'd get my vote if I weren't a pasty old worlder, the fact that most big media want him silenced is the clincher, they do not like him one bit.

[Orogun01]

Yeah I like Ron Paul, I don't think he's got all the answers but I agree with a good amount of what he says, he'd get my vote if I weren't a pasty old worlder, the fact that most big media want him silenced is the clincher, they do not like him one bit.

Aren't you in England?

[Morgoth]

Yeah I like Ron Paul, I don't think he's got all the answers but I agree with a good amount of what he says, he'd get my vote if I weren't a pasty old worlder, the fact that most big media want him silenced is the clincher, they do not like him one bit.

Aren't you in England?

Can't he still be a big America fanboy though?

[Hurlshort]

Yeah I like Ron Paul, I don't think he's got all the answers but I agree with a good amount of what he says, he'd get my vote if I weren't a pasty old worlder, the fact that most big media want him silenced is the clincher, they do not like him one bit.

Aren't you in England?

 

He said very clearly he is a pasty old worlder and cannot vote.

[Orogun01]

Yeah I like Ron Paul, I don't think he's got all the answers but I agree with a good amount of what he says, he'd get my vote if I weren't a pasty old worlder, the fact that most big media want him silenced is the clincher, they do not like him one bit.

Aren't you in England?

 

He said very clearly he is a pasty old worlder and cannot vote.

I thought that was an euphemism

[Walsingham]

Mmmm... pasty

 

[HoonDing]

Looks Cornish.

[Morgoth]

Looks nasty...

[WDeranged]

It's been so long since I had a decent Cornish pasty that I've decided they're a myth.

 

[Gfted1]

What the heck does that say? I swear, the English dont speak English half the time.

[WDeranged]

For whatever reason we have a silly amount of dialects, Bill Bryson wrote a pretty good book that touched on it but I can't remember the details.

[Tale]

For whatever reason we have a silly amount of dialects, Bill Bryson wrote a pretty good book that touched on it but I can't remember the details.

I'll never understand it. I've seen hotels larger than your nation. I just don't see how there's room for dialects.

[WDeranged]

For whatever reason we have a silly amount of dialects, Bill Bryson wrote a pretty good book that touched on it but I can't remember the details.

I'll never understand it. I've seen hotels larger than your nation. I just don't see how there's room for dialects.

 

I could travel 30 miles in one direction and accents might change so much that I'd have difficulty understanding, or I might travel 100 miles in another direction and have a perfectly good conversation, for all I know it might be the same in France or Germany.

 

In other news Gingrich promises MOON BASE!

[Tale]

I might travel 100 miles in another direction

Wouldn't that put you 25 miles into the ocean? I keed. Partially.

 

Yeah, Gingrich is promising pork in Florida. It's exciting. He shouldn't be trusted on it.

[Gorgon]

I'm surprised the whole wife debacle seems to have turned in his favor. It's positive on one hand that those kinds of attacks seem to have lost their bite, and on the other hand remember all that 'moral majority' crap. It seems to me there ought to be a price to pay when a family values holier than thou candidate doesn't live up to his name.

[WDeranged]

I might travel 100 miles in another direction

Wouldn't that put you 25 miles into the ocean? I keed. Partially.

 

I demand a smiley with a cricket bat

[Guard Dog]

I just do not understand this! How is that miserable bloated gasbag of a politcal caricture (Gingrich) actually looking like he might win the nomination? He would be the worst possible choice for the Repub nomination but somehow he is winning. I could understand if it were Ron Paul pulling the upset but Gingrich? This guy has more ethical issues than Warren Harding. I'm still supporting Romney and I hope he'll pull it out. He'd make a much better President than Barry O and much better than Gingrich. If Newt gets the nom I'm voting Libertarian. Between Obama and Newt we'd all be f****d either way.

[Calax]

I just do not understand this! How is that miserable bloated gasbag of a politcal caricture (Gingrich) actually looking like he might win the nomination? He would be the worst possible choice for the Repub nomination but somehow he is winning. I could understand if it were Ron Paul pulling the upset but Gingrich? This guy has more ethical issues than Warren Harding. I'm still supporting Romney and I hope he'll pull it out. He'd make a much better President than Barry O and much better than Gingrich. If Newt gets the nom I'm voting Libertarian. Between Obama and Newt we'd all be f****d either way.

Because of the way that the primary's are set up... you have to fight to be the most extreme member and pander to the factions that'll give the most support within the party.... just to turn around and fight it out on a national scale against the current president, and trying to pander to the moderates.

 

 

Basically, the way its' set up right now, the most effective leaders and bi-partisan/moderate people who could even think of running for the presidency, are weeded out before they can even try to act moderate/bi-partisan.

 

I did have myself an internal laugh when my friends back home (when I said that Mitt was the only chance in hell the republicans had of ejecting Obama from the White House) said that Romney wasn't a conservative... he's a moderate, and thus they wouldn't vote for him.

 

Then I ended up accidently tripping their mom's "insanity" switch, and she went off about how within a year we'll be eating our own dead and everything will become mad max.

[Bos_hybrid]

Then I ended up accidently tripping their mom's "insanity" switch, and she went off about how within a year we'll be eating our own dead and everything will become mad max.

 

 

Love political rants.

[Walsingham]

I might travel 100 miles in another direction

Wouldn't that put you 25 miles into the ocean? I keed. Partially.

 

I demand a smiley with a cricket bat

 

Wearing cricket whites.