Best GOP Candidate

[Incodcito]

Palin, because she would get crucified in a general election.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Now wait a second. Mike Huckabee is too religious to win, but Mitt Romney isnt?

Well, there's personally religious, and then there's religious influence in government.

I don't know how this applies in this particular case, but its the latter that bothers people (Well, most people who are bothered by it anyway.) I doubt anyone cares about the former...

Sarah Palin isn't running for President.

Has this been confirmed?

 

[Ajidica]

Has this been confirmed?

She hasn't formed any exploratory committee and hasn't been doing alot of posturing.

Michelle Bachmann - The lite version of Sarah Palin.

Try Palin as the lite version of Bachmann. Bachmann says she went into politics after a three day fasting and received a vision from the lord. More recently, she claimed that our current tax levels are similar to the Holocaust.

 

[downtown]

She hasn't formed any exploratory committee and hasn't been doing alot of posturing.

Or more importantly, she hasn't hired ground staff yet. The best consultants and organizers are hired already.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Try Palin as the lite version of Bachmann. Bachmann says she went into politics after a three day fasting and received a vision from the lord. More recently, she claimed that our current tax levels are similar to the Holocaust.

Wait, TAXES are like the holocaust? TAXES?

I may be a radically libertarian rightwing nut, but I am not that nutty. That is literally insane.

I've heard abortion compared to the Holocaust, but TAXES? TAXES? What the heck does TAXES have to do with murder?

Taxes can be compared to theft (How accurate the comparison is a different sort of debate, I'm just saying you CAN compare them, not that you should) but MURDER?

By this logic, speeding is like theft...

 

[El_Machinae]

Ehn ... it's not really a biggee

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is describing the loss of "economic liberty" that young Americans face today as a "flashpoint of history" in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did to stop it.

In a speech Saturday to New Hampshire Republicans, Bachmann recounted learning about a horrific time in history as a child — the Holocaust — and wondering if her mother did anything to stop it. Though she said she wasn't drawing an analogy, Bachmann said the next generation will ask similar questions about what their elders did to prevent them from facing a huge tax burden.

 

[GhostWriter16]

OK, Ajidica twisted the facts. Nice.

I still think that un-analogy was a bit much, but it was still partly valid...

 

[Ajidica]

OK, Ajidica twisted the facts. Nice.

I still think that un-analogy was a bit much, but it was still partly valid...

She still compared taxes to the holocaust.
Anyhow, her comparison was bogus. Is she seriously asserting that the inhumane slaughter of millions is comparable to our current swiss-cheese tax system? She isn't even complaining about a tax increase here, but our current tax levels.
Crazy lady is crazy.

 

[GhostWriter16]

She isn't even complaining about a tax increase here, but our current tax levels.

Oh the horror. If it were an increase, it would be OK for her to complain in this way, but for the CURRENT levels! Blasphemy!

Seriously, I have no doubt she's crazy, but this doesn't make her so....

 

[Ajidica]

Seriously, I have no doubt she's crazy, but this doesn't make her so....

What does make her crazy? Spouting enough lies for Anderson Cooper to tell her she is an idiot? Claiming to hate big government and socialism, yet actively campaigning for the government to finance a bridge in her district? Crazy lady is crazy.

 

[MobBoss]

Or more importantly, she hasn't hired ground staff yet. The best consultants and organizers are hired already.

DT, in all fairness, its not like they put a lot of thought into her the first time....

 

[Azale]

Now wait a second. Mike Huckabee is too religious to win, but Mitt Romney isnt?

Romney plays the role of a religious conservative on TV (despite his mixed record in Massachusetts), Huckabee is an actual ordained Southern Baptist minister.

His stance on abortion, same sex marriage, and the death penalty (I think) are all a ways more to the right than Romney.

Tax credits for private (read: Christian) schools is another favorite item for Huckabee, and his entire political outlook has an evangelical hue to it. Unlike Romney.

 

[squadbroken]

I guess I'd have to say Ron Paul. He's as stupid and crazy as the rest of them but he at least comes across as having some principles.

 

[Cutlass]

I like how candidates who are clearly libertarian get to run as republican now. Yay for the US? It's nice that they think they have a chance but even though I trend libertarian I just don't see it happening at this stage with the mainstream. A lot of people in my age group (mid to late 20's) and younger trend this way but frankly most of the people I know in my age group are still too busy partying every night to give much of a crap about politics and voting.

No one who is really libertarian runs as a Republican.

 

[BuckeyeJim]

Without question Gary Johnson

 

[GhostWriter16]

No one who is really libertarian runs as a Republican.

Ron Paul?

No one who is really libertarian runs as a Democrat.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Ron Paul?

No one who is really libertarian runs as a Democrat.

Ron Paul isn't very libertarian socially.

And left-libertarians run as Democrats all the time.

 

[metatron]

I don't like Palin much, but she wouldn't collapse America or anything. She did fine economically in Alaska.

Alaska pays some 60c of federal taxes for every dollar of federal spending.
It's an "economically successful" leech. Like most "red states".

Not screwing that up in 2 years is not an accomplishment.

 

[Cutlass]

Not to mention that Alaska is the most socialist of states. Considering that all the residents get a payment from the oil industry.

 

[kochman]

Alaska pays some 60c of federal taxes for every dollar of federal spending.
It's an "economically successful" leech. Like most "red states".

Not screwing that up in 2 years is not an accomplishment.

Well, since that is the national average! We borrow 40c for every federal dollar we spend, as a nation.
So... yeah.