GOP Primary Megathread!

[Eddie Teach]

Uh.  Negative.

You just don't see it because you've been brainwashed by the Military/Industrial Complex. 

[Phillip V]

The results are coming in quite slowly.

[Phillip V]

Minnesota votes this Tuesday, and the only poll shows close to a 4-way tie.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/mn/minnesota_republican_presidential_primary-1747.html

[fhdz]

Why's Obama got to be the black line?

WHERE ALL THE UNEMPLOYED HONKEYS AT?

[Razgovory]

What's the deal with all the people rooting for Paul?  Am I not giving you people enough crazy?

Stoner vote.  Morons.

That's what I'm thinking.  Most of Paul's ideas are really bad, he's prone to conspiracy theories, and has never demonstration anything resembling the correct skill set required for being President.  Hell, the man can't remember who wrote his own newsletter.

[DGuller]

That's what I'm thinking.  Most of Paul's ideas are really bad, he's prone to conspiracy theories, and has never demonstration anything resembling the correct skill set required for being President.  Hell, the man can't remember who wrote his own newsletter.

  Reagan probably couldn't remember quite a bit more than that, and he was still the best president this world (or maybe even the whole universe) has had.

[Razgovory]

He's also termed out and dead.  So I don't think he'll make a good showing.

Personally I think that Reagan like Bush deliberately played up their folksy, non-intellectual persona.  I suspect that both men were much smarter then they let on and preferred to have potential opponents and critics underestimate them.

[DGuller]

He's also termed out and dead.  So I don't think he'll make a good showing.

Personally I think that Reagan like Bush deliberately played up their folksy, non-intellectual persona.  I suspect that both men were much smarter then they let on and preferred to have potential opponents and critics underestimate them.

I definitely agree about Reagan.  He may not have been book-smart, but he was definitely intelligent, and had all the right political instincts.  I don't agree about Bush, I think W was a legit moron, at least by presidential standards.  He was elected not because he was underestimated, but because 49%-51% of the country was in a mood to have a moron as a president.

[Admiral Yi]

An article in the NYT on possible Democratic presidential contenders in 2016 mentioned Elizabeth Warren.  That would be less than ossum.

[DGuller]

An article in the NYT on possible Democratic presidential contenders in 2016 mentioned Elizabeth Warren.  That would be less than ossum.

Let her win the Senate seat first.  And I would disagree about the awesomeness part:  just the fact that Warren is running for political office is due to Republicans doing the bidding of their oligarch masters.  If that act of shameless corrupt lobbying results in Warren becoming a president in 2016, then it would be the most awesome backfire in politics since picking Teddy Roosevelt as a VP candidate.

[Admiral Yi]

Let her win the Senate seat first.  And I would disagree about the awesomeness part:  just the fact that Warren is running for political office is due to Republicans doing the bidding of their oligarch masters.  If that act of shameless corrupt lobbying results in Warren becoming a president in 2016, then it would be the most awesome backfire in politics since picking Teddy Roosevelt as a VP candidate.

I guess we'll have to disagree.  Political irony combined with economic suicide is not my idea of ossum.

[DGuller]

Let her win the Senate seat first.  And I would disagree about the awesomeness part:  just the fact that Warren is running for political office is due to Republicans doing the bidding of their oligarch masters.  If that act of shameless corrupt lobbying results in Warren becoming a president in 2016, then it would be the most awesome backfire in politics since picking Teddy Roosevelt as a VP candidate.

I guess we'll have to disagree.  Political irony combined with economic suicide is not my idea of ossum.

Well, I don't assume that her political ideas will lead to economic suicide, obviously.  I think casino capitalism protected by bought and paid for with free speech politicians has a lot going for it when it comes to economic suicide.

[Admiral Yi]

Well, I don't assume that her political ideas will lead to economic suicide, obviously.  I think casino capitalism protected by bought and paid for with free speech politicians has a lot going for it when it comes to economic suicide.

The way you put those two sentences right next to each other like that suggests you see a connection between casino capitalism and Elizabeth Warren's regulatory ideas.

[CountDeMoney]

Personally I think that Reagan like Bush deliberately played up their folksy, non-intellectual persona.  I suspect that both men were much smarter then they let on and preferred to have potential opponents and critics underestimate them.

Reagan may have been folksy, but I wouldn't have categorized him as a non-intellectual persona, given the breadth of his entire political career.  Maybe not a policy wonk, but as we know about organizational cultures, big picture leaders are certainly not necessarily "non-intellectual".

Now Dubya, on the other hand, that fucker was as moronic as advertised.

[DGuller]

Well, I don't assume that her political ideas will lead to economic suicide, obviously.  I think casino capitalism protected by bought and paid for with free speech politicians has a lot going for it when it comes to economic suicide.

The way you put those two sentences right next to each other like that suggests you see a connection between casino capitalism and Elizabeth Warren's regulatory ideas.

That suggestion is misleading.  I don't think of just regulations when I think of Warren, and I don't think you do either, or the bit about economic suicide would be overly hyperbolic even for such a statement.  I think of the economic ideology that she is promoting on the campaign trail, and her economic ideology is in direct contrast to the casino capitalism that has been in power in the last decade, if not two or three.