GOP Primary Megathread!

[Phillip V]

Rick Santorum now the GOP frontrunner nationally in several polls.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html

[Ed Anger]

Ugh

[CountDeMoney]

Rick Santorum now the GOP frontrunner nationally in several polls.

Awesome.  That's even better news for the President than if it had been Gingrich.

[Phillip V]

Rick Santorum now the GOP frontrunner nationally in several polls.

Awesome.  That's even better news for the President than if it had been Gingrich.

Indeed. It assures my voting for Obama.

[Ed Anger]

I sure as hell won't vote for Santorum. Unless he runs on a platform of turning the country in the Handmaid's Tale. And I'm Robert Duvall.

[derspiess]

So how many actually think Santorum will win the nom? 

[CountDeMoney]

Rick Santorum now the GOP frontrunner nationally in several polls.

Awesome.  That's even better news for the President than if it had been Gingrich.

Indeed. It assures my voting for Obama.

It assures most of the nation will, too.

Nothing like now for the GOP to declare war on women.  Again.

[Ed Anger]

So how many actually think Santorum will win the nom? 

Not me. Maybe Poppa Bush and his multicolored socks will garrote the backroom at the convention and we get Jeb.

[CountDeMoney]

and we get Jeb.

Oh, dear Lord.

You do realize that prior to 2000, Dubya was always considered the Smart One, right?

[Ed Anger]

and we get Jeb.

Oh, dear Lord.

You do realize that prior to 2000, Dubya was always considered the Smart One, right?

I'll take a Bush anytime over this crop of retards running right now.

[Darth Wagtaros]

and we get Jeb.

Oh, dear Lord.

You do realize that prior to 2000, Dubya was always considered the Smart One, right?

xThought it was the other way around.

[jimmy olsen]

and we get Jeb.

Oh, dear Lord.

You do realize that prior to 2000, Dubya was always considered the Smart One, right?

xThought it was the other way around.

Same here. At least Jeb sounds fluent in English (and is IIRC also fluent in Spanish)

[The Minsky Moment]

But he authorized air war, founded the EPA, and opened China (it's not his fault that worked out so poorly).  It's a backhanded compliment, but Nixon may be the best/only good Republican president since Lincoln.  I guess Eisenhower was OK.

He also imposed price controls, lost control of the budget, was forced into a humiliating reatreat from Bretton Woods by France, wasted thousands for American lives on a flawed US strategy in Vietnam, was forced into another humiliating retreat there and got outfoxed at the negotiating table, brought America its first experience of stagflation, repeatedly and flargrantly violated the Constitution with illegal wiretapping and surveillance programs and oh yes, directed a plot to subvert American democracy.

Other than that, terrific.

[Razgovory]

So how many actually think Santorum will win the nom? 

It's a curious quirk of fate that it's likely either a Mormon or a Catholic will win the Republican nomination.

[Neil]

But he authorized air war, founded the EPA, and opened China (it's not his fault that worked out so poorly).  It's a backhanded compliment, but Nixon may be the best/only good Republican president since Lincoln.  I guess Eisenhower was OK.

He also imposed price controls, lost control of the budget, was forced into a humiliating reatreat from Bretton Woods by France, wasted thousands for American lives on a flawed US strategy in Vietnam, was forced into another humiliating retreat there and got outfoxed at the negotiating table, brought America its first experience of stagflation, repeatedly and flargrantly violated the Constitution with illegal wiretapping and surveillance programs and oh yes, directed a plot to subvert American democracy.

Other than that, terrific.

Subvert American democracy?

The whole Vietnam thing is irrelevant.  Sure, the US was utterly defeated, but at least Nixon ensured that the Vietnamese knew they had been in a fight.  The only strategy that might have saved Vietnam from communism, an invasion of North Vietnam (requiring millions of US troops), was off the table due to Johnson's pussyfooting around the issue.  Simply surrendering Vietnam to the communists without a fight was not an option either.