Fortunately, none of these idiots have a snowball's chance in hell at getting the nomination. The Repubs will nominate Romney, who is the embodiment of a "sleazy politician" but who was actually fairly pragmatic as the governor of Massachusetts. Even if he beats Obama, I doubt he'll do that much to destroy what's left of the safety net.

It's odd, the platform enjoyed by mentally ill people in US politics. Also strange are the signs of political Christianity, or Christian fascism, in one of the few countries with an explicitly secular constitution, with a seperation of Church and State. Seemingly, half of the American population are so dumbed-down by now that they'll vote for any lunatic or demagogue with a theocratic agenda.

Matthew Shute wrote:It's odd, the platform enjoyed by mentally ill people in US politics. Also strange are the signs of political Christianity, or Christian fascism, in one of the few countries with an explicitly secular constitution, with a seperation of Church and State. Seemingly, half of the American population are so dumbed-down by now that they'll vote for any lunatic or demagogue with a theocratic agenda.

It is very ironic. It's also ironic that the Christian demagogues are generally the ones who claim to be defending the Constitution so staunchly (Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, etc.). And the defenders of the Constitution loathe the American Civil Liberties Union, even though the ACLU's sole purpose is to protect individual rights that the Constitution guarantees (left or right). If they have a liberal bias, then the Constitution must as well.

Salinger wrote:Fortunately, none of these idiots have a snowball's chance in hell at getting the nomination. The Repubs will nominate Romney, who is the embodiment of a "sleazy politician" but who was actually fairly pragmatic as the governor of Massachusetts. Even if he beats Obama, I doubt he'll do that much to destroy what's left of the safety net.

Actually I quite like Romney, it's a shame he's with the GOP. I'm just interested to see Obama in a second term just to see what he'll do. Whether he is really just a "Yes" man or a "Yes we can" man.

You quite like Romney?

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Just kill off the problem

Paul G wrote:You quite like Romney?

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Right wing republican doesn't want to reduce the defense budget? Shock-horror! And we don't know the details of his medicaid cut proposal. This was the man who brought an early form of universal healthcare to his state. Obviously I wouldn't pick him over a second term Obama, but out of the GOP he's one of the few who's not a fucking lunatic. I actually prefer Ron Paul though, he's the bluest kind of red I've ever seen.