GOP Primary Megathread!

[Admiral Yi]

I think the only candidates whose policies would reduce the national debt are Obama and Paul.  All the other Republicans are promising various kinds of unfunded tax cuts and increases tot the defence budget.  Romney promises those two and attacks Obama for cutting Medicare.

Do you happen to know the nuts and bolts of Paul's proposal?

[Sheilbh]

I think the only candidates whose policies would reduce the national debt are Obama and Paul.  All the other Republicans are promising various kinds of unfunded tax cuts and increases tot the defence budget.  Romney promises those two and attacks Obama for cutting Medicare.

Do you happen to know the nuts and bolts of Paul's proposal?

Cut $1 trillion in his first year.  Abolish Departments of HUD, Energy, Commerce, Interior and Education and the TSA.  End foreign deployments of troops and foreign aid.  Cut Federal employees by 10%.  End Medicare and Social Security as Federal programs, except for veterans and current retirees move it to the states.

Then cut corporate tax to 15% and end lots of other taxes with the end goal of a 0% income tax.

So I'm not sure how much it can be considered a 'realistic' proposal to end the deficit

[CountDeMoney]

I think the only candidates whose policies would reduce the national debt are Obama and Paul.  All the other Republicans are promising various kinds of unfunded tax cuts and increases tot the defence budget.  Romney promises those two and attacks Obama for cutting Medicare.

Do you happen to know the nuts and bolts of Paul's proposal?

Cut $1 trillion in his first year.  Abolish Departments of HUD, Energy, Commerce, Interior and Education and the TSA.  End foreign deployments of troops and foreign aid.  Cut Federal employees by 10%.  End Medicare and Social Security as Federal programs, except for veterans and current retirees move it to the states.

Then cut corporate tax to 15% and end lots of other taxes with the end goal of a 0% income tax.

So I'm not sure how much it can be considered a 'realistic' proposal to end the deficit

Now you know why Paul supports pot legalization.  He's been smoking some real good shit.

[PDH]

So Santorum states:  "I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute"

Is he trained to say all the wrong things?

[Razgovory]

I think the only candidates whose policies would reduce the national debt are Obama and Paul.  All the other Republicans are promising various kinds of unfunded tax cuts and increases tot the defence budget.  Romney promises those two and attacks Obama for cutting Medicare.

Do you happen to know the nuts and bolts of Paul's proposal?

Cut $1 trillion in his first year.  Abolish Departments of HUD, Energy, Commerce, Interior and Education and the TSA.  End foreign deployments of troops and foreign aid.  Cut Federal employees by 10%.  End Medicare and Social Security as Federal programs, except for veterans and current retirees move it to the states.

Then cut corporate tax to 15% and end lots of other taxes with the end goal of a 0% income tax.

So I'm not sure how much it can be considered a 'realistic' proposal to end the deficit

No government, no deficit.

[fhdz]

Is he trained to say all the wrong things?

His God commands it.

[Ideologue]

I think the only candidates whose policies would reduce the national debt are Obama and Paul.  All the other Republicans are promising various kinds of unfunded tax cuts and increases tot the defence budget.  Romney promises those two and attacks Obama for cutting Medicare.

Do you happen to know the nuts and bolts of Paul's proposal?

Cut $1 trillion in his first year.  Abolish Departments of HUD, Energy, Commerce, Interior and Education and the TSA.  End foreign deployments of troops and foreign aid.  Cut Federal employees by 10%.  End Medicare and Social Security as Federal programs, except for veterans and current retirees move it to the states.

Then cut corporate tax to 15% and end lots of other taxes with the end goal of a 0% income tax.

So I'm not sure how much it can be considered a 'realistic' proposal to end the deficit

Now you know why Paul supports pot legalization.  He's been smoking some real good shit.

I'm absolutely, 100% convinced that the people who want to abolish the Departments of Energy and Commerce do not know what the Departments of Energy and Commerce do.

Patents and nuclear materials would be ideally handled by fifty different states, right?

Fun fact: Pantex, our sole nuclear bomb plant, is in Texas.  RUH-ROH.

[CountDeMoney]

Fun fact: Pantex, our sole nuclear bomb plant, is in Texas.  RUH-ROH.

Actually, no.  We still make bombs at Oak Ridge, and another facility that escapes me at the moment.

[Ideologue]

I think it's the only final assembly plant...

We haven't made a new nuclear bomb since 1991, according to the Pantex site.  They actually disassemble them now.  But they could do more.

[Eddie Teach]

Do we really want more nukes in the hands of Texans?

[CountDeMoney]

I think it's the only final assembly plant...

We haven't made a new nuclear bomb since 1991, according to the Pantex site.  They actually disassemble them now.  But they could do more.

There's a lot of places involved in the warhead weaponry supply chain.   

[Phillip V]

Rasmussen has Obama ten up against Mitt and seven up against Sant,. AP  yesterday was similar and Quinnipag showing small Obama leads (except against Newt)

Also decent leads in Virginia and Penn for Obama.

I suspect Gallup's poll was rogue

Rasmussen now has Obama only leading Romney by 2 points, a statistical tie. There is indeed tightening for some reason.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

[MadImmortalMan]

It seems the Santorum implosion is beginning. They are running out of Not-Romneys though.

[Razgovory]

There is still one major not-Romney left.  Though he's a black guy who lives in a white house...

[Sheilbh]

So Santorum states:  "I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute"

To be fair he compared American church-state separation with French.  He's right.  Compared with the absolute line drawn there the US does have a different sort of separation, in my opinion it's a better balance.