GOP Primary Megathread!

[grumbler]

"I'd like to see us reduce government to meet the revenue, not raise revenue to meet the government."  I saw that quoted on Twitter (Gingrich, maybe?) and I like it.  

That's been the reactionary and Luddite call all along.  Read about the US preparedness for the wars of 1812, 1861, and 1914 to see where that leads.  I will concede that it is simplistic and likely very attractive to simpletons.

[Eddie Teach]

I wish Huntsman could get some traction.

He'd just pick an unacceptable running mate and you'd end up voting for Obama anyway.

[Valmy]

I wish Huntsman could get some traction.

Too late for that now.  Maybe 2016.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Tonight Rick Perry called the government of Turkey 'Islamic terrorists', seemed to hint towards eventually bombing them and lumped them in with Iran and Syria.  Despite this I think that was his best debate performance by a mile and he may do okay, though not well enough, in SC.

I don't know if that says more about Perry, his party or South Carolina

It tells you a lot about US citizens' intellect.

More like their education than their intellect.

It also tells you why the GOP is so eager to cut school funding and fire teachers.

[Razgovory]

0%?  Perhaps we should allow the rich to legally murder people if they feel like it as well.

His issue is Constitutional with regards to the federal income tax.  I do not remember exactly what it was, that it had to apportioned in a certain way or something else technical about the sixteenth amendment.  I do not really remember exactly.  Since it is never actually going to happen (and if whatever his issue is becomes significant, I am pretty sure the Congress will just correct it) I never paid much attention.

Sounds kinda like one of those anti-tax conspiracies.

[Valmy]

That's been the reactionary and Luddite call all along.  Read about the US preparedness for the wars of 1812, 1861, and 1914 to see where that leads.  I will concede that it is simplistic and likely very attractive to simpletons.

Well we are in a tricky place.  The economy would have a hard time doing either, raising taxes or massively cutting spending...and then you have the issues with unsustainable debt.

[Razgovory]

Newt Gingrich certainly put that nigger in his place, all askin' about food stamps an' such.

Is anyone here still believe when Republicans call the Obama "the Food Stamp President", or a "Welfare Thug" that it isn't some kind of Racist dog whistle politics.  Santorum tried it and he fucked it up.  He actually said "Black people".

[Valmy]

Sounds kinda like one of those anti-tax conspiracies.

Eh it probably is sorta like that.

It just shows how far the establishment parties have pushed me that I am going to vote for the crazy old guy.

[fhdz]

I wish Huntsman could get some traction.

Didn't he drop out yesterday?

[HisMajestyBOB]

I wish Huntsman could get some traction.

Didn't he drop out yesterday?

If all the current candidates die, could he reenter the race?

[fhdz]

If all the current candidates die, could he reenter the race?

[DGuller]

If all the current candidates die, could he reenter the race?

Let's take it one step at a time.

[Gups]

If all the current candidates die, could he reenter the race?

Let's take it one step at a time.

Zombie Dennis Price is rather good at this kind of thing.

[Phillip V]

Tonight Rick Perry called the government of Turkey 'Islamic terrorists', seemed to hint towards eventually bombing them and lumped them in with Iran and Syria.  Despite this I think that was his best debate performance by a mile and he may do okay, though not well enough, in SC.

I don't know if that says more about Perry, his party or South Carolina

It tells you a lot about US citizens' intellect.

More like their education than their intellect.

It also tells you why the GOP is so eager to cut school funding and fire teachers.

'Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg fixed their sights Monday on a shared opponent: what they derided as New York State's education bureaucracy.

Both men said the state could no longer tolerate a public school system they said was failing students, invoked the ideals of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and appeared ready for a fight.

At separate observances commemorating Dr. King's birthday, the governor and the mayor ratcheted up their attacks on teachers' unions and school administrators.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, declared that "we have to realize that our schools are not an employment program" and vowed to press for the speedy establishment of a statewide teacher evaluation system.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/nyregion/cuomo-and-bloomberg-on-attack-on-teacher-evaluations.html

[Ideologue]

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, declared that "we have to realize that our schools are not an employment program"

Not in any shape or form, no.