GOP Primary Megathread!

[Razgovory]

I was hoping for a big long battle to eliminate the strong. 

There is no strong in this race.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Sweet 

A smart, fiery Chicago Jew in the White House? PERFECTION

Immanuel Goldstein?   

[The Minsky Moment]

The President in 2016 is going to be a large holding company.  ExxonMobil Corporation probably satisfies the age requirement. 

Now that corporations are fully legal persons, why not be more efficient and just cut out the middle man?

[Ideologue]

The President in 2016 is going to be a large holding company.  ExxonMobil Corporation probably satisfies the age requirement. 

Now that corporations are fully legal persons, why not be more efficient and just cut out the middle man?

Meh.

Not to rehash the discussion, but why do I wind up either disagreeing entirely with other leftists (center-facing as you may be), or holding views far more extreme than they do?

[The Minsky Moment]

Not to rehash the discussion, but why do I wind up either disagreeing entirely with other leftists (center-facing as you may be), or holding views far more extreme than they do?

Leninism is a disease that is hard to cure completely.

[CountDeMoney]

Minsky is an educated Jew.  Like Karl Marx.

[Ideologue]

Not to rehash the discussion, but why do I wind up either disagreeing entirely with other leftists (center-facing as you may be), or holding views far more extreme than they do?

Leninism is a disease that is hard to cure completely.

Yeah, Lenin was a real free speech absolutist.

I guess it's my qualified libertarian streak, which is usually trivial here because it ordinarily only comes up in the context of the individual, and we're all generally pretty libertarian in that regard.  (Well, the Americans are anyway.  The Euros are of course crypto-fascists to a man.)

Then there's the military adventurism, but that's actually classically left; it's nothing more than the spectre of Vietnam and Euroweeniness that animates the unwitting supporters of dictatorships.

[The Minsky Moment]

Yeah, Lenin was all about freedom of speech.

You were always free to say what you wanted under Lenin; and the Party was always free to line you against the wall and shoot you for counter-revolutionary behavior. 

[Neil]

it's nothing more than the spectre of Vietnam and Euroweeniness that animates the unwitting supporters of dictatorships.

I don't know.  I think it's based on a realistic view of the fundamental weakness of America.

[Phillip V]

Things are not looking good for Paul and his "caucus-strategy". Romney will handily win Nevada tomorrow as expected, but Paul is trailing badly in third place.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/nv/nevada_republican_presidential_primary-1768.html

[Sheilbh]

Romney'll smash Nevada.  But it's worth remembering that Paul's support in Nevada last time was double what the polls were projecting.  That poll projects that Paul will get the same as he did last time round.  So far, in every state, he's at least doubled his support.  So I don't know if I'd read too much into that.  I'd expect him, at least, to do better than in 2008 though he probably won't get double.

[MadImmortalMan]

Paul's performance in Nevada last time was remarkably better than it was most everywhere else. Expecting him to double that is a bit much.

[alfred russel]

Romney'll smash Nevada.  But it's worth remembering that Paul's support in Nevada last time was double what the polls were projecting.  That poll projects that Paul will get the same as he did last time round.  So far, in every state, he's at least doubled his support.  So I don't know if I'd read too much into that.  I'd expect him, at least, to do better than in 2008 though he probably won't get double.

It's all over. Romney wins by default as the other candidates have disqualified themselves.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's all over. Romney wins by default as the other candidates have disqualified themselves.

That was true even before Iowa.

[Phillip V]

I am glad that Romney got a thumping in Iowa and South Carolina. Hopefully, he later reaches out to bring the Paultards in rather than futilely bend over for the evangelicals.