Republican Nominees

menalawyerguy wrote:Ron Paul is the only one who doesn't have his head entirely up his ass.

mac wrote:

menalawyerguy wrote:Ron Paul is the only one who doesn't have his head entirely up his ass.

I don't really follow Republican politics that much but apparently Ron Paul is a friend of Don Black, if you know who that nutcase is.

menalawyerguy wrote:

Big deal. Barry Obama is a friend of Bill Ayers. He still got elected.



Paul attracts a lot of nutjobs because he openly criticizes the Federal Reserve. The Fed is a favourite of the conspiracy theorists and other types of nutjobs, but Paul himself is not a conspiracy theorist. He also advocates strict enforcement of our immigration laws, which is probably why he attracts white supremacists like Don Black. Paul will never get elected because the media will incorrectly align Paul with conspiracy theorists and racists if he ever gets any real momentum. Then again, the media's reflex is to align any Republican with racists, so that's status quo. Substantively speaking though, Paul is correct on most issues.

Mustangt125 wrote:Haha, thanks for the shout out man.

Any of them in a coma would be a better President than Obama.

There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today's Republican party (I disavow the ridiculous ‘GOP' nickname, because the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has lately forfeited all claim to be considered ‘grand') is this: In any other party and in any other country, an individual may occasionally rise to the top in spite of being an uneducated ignoramus. In today's Republican Party ‘in spite of' is not the phrase we need. Ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory. Intellect, knowledge and linguistic mastery are mistrusted by Republican voters, who, when choosing a president, would apparently prefer someone like themselves over someone actually qualified for the job.

...The population of the United States is more than 300 million and it includes some of the best and brightest that the human species has to offer, probably more so than any other country in the world. There is surely something wrong with a system for choosing a leader when, given a pool of such talent and a process that occupies more than a year and consumes billions of dollars, what rises to the top of the heap is George W Bush. Or when the likes of Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin can be mentioned as even remote possibilities.

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...a politician's attitude to evolution, however peripheral it might seem, is a surprisingly apposite litmus test of more general inadequacy. This is because unlike, say, string theory where scientific opinion is genuinely divided, there is about the fact of evolution no doubt at all. Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable. It is the stunningly simple but elegant explanation of our very existence and the existence of every living creature on the planet. Thanks to Darwin, we now understand why we are here and why we are the way we are. You cannot be ignorant of evolution and be a cultivated and adequate citizen of today.

Mustangt125 wrote:Haha, thanks for the shout out man.

Any of them in a coma would be a better President than Obama.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:I hope Rick Perry wins the nomination, because he says he doesn't believe in evolution, and there's no way 260m Americans can be stupid enough to let this guy someone that stupid get the Presidency.

There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today's Republican party (I disavow the ridiculous ‘GOP' nickname, because the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has lately forfeited all claim to be considered ‘grand') is this: In any other party and in any other country, an individual may occasionally rise to the top in spite of being an uneducated ignoramus. In today's Republican Party ‘in spite of' is not the phrase we need. Ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory. Intellect, knowledge and linguistic mastery are mistrusted by Republican voters, who, when choosing a president, would apparently prefer someone like themselves over someone actually qualified for the job.

...The population of the United States is more than 300 million and it includes some of the best and brightest that the human species has to offer, probably more so than any other country in the world. There is surely something wrong with a system for choosing a leader when, given a pool of such talent and a process that occupies more than a year and consumes billions of dollars, what rises to the top of the heap is George W Bush. Or when the likes of Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin can be mentioned as even remote possibilities.

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...a politician's attitude to evolution, however peripheral it might seem, is a surprisingly apposite litmus test of more general inadequacy. This is because unlike, say, string theory where scientific opinion is genuinely divided, there is about the fact of evolution no doubt at all. Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable. It is the stunningly simple but elegant explanation of our very existence and the existence of every living creature on the planet. Thanks to Darwin, we now understand why we are here and why we are the way we are. You cannot be ignorant of evolution and be a cultivated and adequate citizen of today.

Doctor Richard Dawkins

ahlycotc wrote:They all suck except Ron Paul. Americans are too stupid to vote for Ron Paul though. Rick Perry is probably the worst one though.

SBSP wrote:I wonder if it would be a good thing if Bachmann or Palin get nominated, as the country shouldn't be that stupid to actually elect them.

Then again...

RobbieSavageIsA... wrote:Was "Gay Johnson" in the poll intentional?

ahlycotc wrote:

SBSP wrote:I wonder if it would be a good thing if Bachmann or Palin get nominated, as the country shouldn't be that stupid to actually elect them.

Then again...

We can do better than Obama though. We don't have to settle for Obama.

Mustangt125 wrote:Haha, thanks for the shout out man.

Any of them in a coma would be a better President than Obama.

dena wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:

We can do better than Obama though. We don't have to settle for Obama.

Who can do better?

ahlycotc wrote:

SBSP wrote:I wonder if it would be a good thing if Bachmann or Palin get nominated, as the country shouldn't be that stupid to actually elect them.

Then again...

We can do better than Obama though. We don't have to settle for Obama.