Objective review of Republican candidates for President

[Karl Henning]

 Quote from: Todd on Today at 12:09:21 PM

Alas, there are quite a few social conservatives who do believe him.  Not enough to get him the nomination, let alone the presidency.  I can only imagine joy in the Obama camp were Santorum to get the nomination. 

 
For the matter of that, it cannot grieve Team Obama at all, to see that the Mittster is having such trouble shaking Santorum off his pants cuff . . . .

[Todd]

For the matter of that, it cannot grieve Team Obama at all, to see that the Mittster is having such trouble shaking Santorum off his pants cuff . . . .

The primary is offering all manner of attacks that can be used against any Republican candidate in the general election:

• Romney committed the now horrible sin of being a successful capitalist.  Clearly, he's a very bad man.  Throw in the conservative pronouncements he has made – half-hearted or fake to conservatives; proof of his evil conservatism to liberals – and the aloof gaffes (his wife drives a couple Cadillacs, etc, etc, etc), and he's prone to withering attack from Obama.  Of course, Romney will have the Willie Horton ad exec in his corner, so it will get good and nasty.  (I predict internet ads will be the best.)

• Santorum thinks it is 1958, but without anti-Catholic bigotry.

• Gingrich thinks Gingrich is cool.

• Paul is a certified fruitcake.

[Gurn Blanston]

The Dutch are known for their generally enlightened and tolerant attitude so I suppose it would be possible.

Yes, well they would have to be to adopt a Texan of their own.

[DieNacht]

To the best of my knowledge, no one but a crackpot minority believes anything Santorum has to say. He is a wing-nut (in this case, a Right wing-nut) and has no credibility in the eyes of the majority of actual Republicans. When the shakeout comes (fairly shortly), he will go with the rest of the dandruff. So I wouldn't be unduly concerned about his opinion of the Netherlander health care system. If he were to actually become president, I would personally be delighted to become one of your citizens and partake of it.

Well, all democracies have their wing-nuts, but it is a bit worrying that he is still in business as a candidate for the leadership of the US & that some states have actually voted for him. Such remarks suggest him being perhaps a sanatorium rather than an oval office guy to me - a complete lack of political insight and maturity in spite of his project.

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, all democracies have their wing-nuts, but it is a bit worrying that he is still in business as a candidate for the leadership of the US & that some states have actually voted for him. Such remarks suggest him being perhaps a sanatorium rather than an oval office guy to me - a complete lack of political insight and maturity in spite of his project.

Well yes, certainly that's true; it isn't really worrying, however. This part of the process is designed to weed out the loonies. It nearly always works. But in a country of 300 millions of people, there are always going to be a few like-thinking, equally moronic wing nuts. The thing I've noticed over the years is that generally speaking, the morons among us have more time on their hands, and louder voices, than the reasonable, hard-workers of the majority. So they show up in the early primaries in droves. But come election time, they will recede into the woodwork from whence they came. And their candidates with them. I would cut off my own head before voting for Santorum, and so would everyone I know.

[Karl Henning]

 Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on Today at 02:50:15 PM

. . . generally speaking, the morons among us have more time on their hands, and louder voices, than the reasonable, hard-workers of the majority.

 
I think immediately of Rush Limbaugh, whose nonsense is not vindicated by calling it "entertainment."

[eyeresist]

To the best of my knowledge, no one but a crackpot minority believes anything Santorum has to say. He is a wing-nut (in this case, a Right wing-nut) and has no credibility in the eyes of the majority of actual Republicans. When the shakeout comes (fairly shortly), he will go with the rest of the dandruff. So I wouldn't be unduly concerned about his opinion of the Netherlander health care system. If he were to actually become president, I would personally be delighted to become one of your citizens and partake of it.

Armbands for all!

The primary is offering all manner of attacks that can be used against any Republican candidate in the general election:

• Romney committed the now horrible sin of being a successful capitalist.  Clearly, he's a very bad man.

According to this list of richest American politicians, Romney is only number 12 - what a loser!

[snyprrr]

Indeed.  The same could be said about Syria.  Or Sudan.  Or Zimbabwe.  And technically, China hasn't invaded anyone recently.  Complaints by Tibetans and Uighers therefore have no merit. 

I am curious to know if snyprrr thinks the Israeli bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor a few years ago was a bad idea.  Surely things would be better today were Syria a nuclear power.

Israeli PM Calls Iran a 'Nuclear Duck'!

snyprrr calls Israel a 'Nuclear Weasel'!


Hey, all the more power to 'em. ok, Bibi, here's your desert fatigues, here's your parachute, go at 'em buddy. Just don't ask the Goy to fight your battles of jealousy.

No, I'm not afraid of the 'Axis of Evil' (any country without a Rothchilds Central Bank).

Hey, bomb Syria to your heart's content. I'm talking about... the other place!


Frankly, that AIPAC speech had the cows ruminatin'. Oy, the way PM brought out the Jewish Congress stuff from 1944, to shame us,...ooo... shame shame shame America, you might as well be on our shit list too (we are, don't worry), how daaare you. Oh, n***a pleeez.

And then he goes on about how Arabs and Christians have all these rights in Israel. N***a pleeez.

Is it true that former IDF are getting sushi training because they don't want for (I try not to go on to long)

PM basically says that he can do anything for the Jews' survival. What if that means the genocide of the rest of the world because he's so paranoid that anyone... ANYONE... might ever look at a Jew 'wrong'?

Yes, basically, let them do the 'Christian' thing and...mm... I don't know... turn the other cheek? Love their enemies? Do something other than scold scold scold? They're acting like they're... CHOSEN BY GOD, or something. The Israelis are craving their own destruction: they, as a lot, are Freudian to the hilt. They will destroy themselves trying to save (only) themselves.

They act like not only do they want to get into the lifeboat first, they want to be the only ones IN the lifeboat.


Yea, I'm sorry, I just can't say anything nice about Israel. Nothing. I'd love to know how many of their nukes are pointed at their 'allies'. I just can't believe a word that comes out of the mouth of any Israeli figure. Sorry.



The French I like.

[snyprrr]

The French I like.

And that is a joke.

[snyprrr]

Dear God,

Please let them change the subject so we can all go back to discussing things that really matter, like Romney, and Santorum, and G...



btw- my computer says 'Romney' is spelled right, but 'Santorum' isn't. Hmmm...it's a conspiracy!!

[Todd]

I'd love to know how many of their nukes are pointed at their 'allies'.

Hmmm.

[Karl Henning]

How much do you know about Mitt Romney?

[Karl Henning]

I scored a disappointing 75%.

[Todd]

Love the answer choices for the first question.  I do admit that I did not know that People named Romney a beautiful man.  Perhaps I should expand my reading list.

[Karl Henning]

I got that one wrong, too . . . wonder how that would play in the current campaign?

[Florestan]

Not being a US citizen, I took the test just for the fun of it and scored 33 % (I guessed his name, I inferred from drogulus' posts that he likes Ike, it was obvious that on the roof of his car must have been the dog and I have read about his naming corporations "people" - and for honesty I pretended not to have read the two previous posts and chose a wrong answer deliberately). 

[Karl Henning]

Very sporting of you, Andrei! : )

[Karl Henning]

Hey, Romney won in Hawaii! (With 45% of the vote there.)

"Senator Santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign," said Romney, who came in third in Alabama and Mississippi.  Sounds just a little strange, and more than a little like wishful thinking. Santorum cannot win, but that doesn't mean either that he's at the end now, nor that it is a desperate end.  Desperation is on Romney's side, meseems . . . .

[Todd]

Desperation is on Romney's side, meseems

Hard to see how someone with so many delegates is desperate.  More like standard blather at this point. 


I do enjoy The Onion's recent headline regarding Mr Santorum.

[Karl Henning]

Hard to see how someone with so many delegates is desperate.

Oh, no lie.  Still, as one journo puts it, "The presumptive nominee shouldn't finish third in both major states that voted on Tuesday."