Oh No, The New Awesome Primary Thread

Perhaps RAZD is thinking of the General Welfare clause. Yeah, if only we could put things back the way they were. Well, I guess Trump could crash the economy again, but can he bring Osama Bin Laden back to life? And if that doesn't work, we can elect a giraffe. That would be different too. Evidently they can. To balance the budget, you can either cut expenditures or raise revenues. Whether the latter is desirable I leave it to you to judge, but obviously it's possible.

If Rick Perry has that many functioning neurons, I think he should start using all three of them.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Before we start arguing over whether mike is nuts or just completely ignorant of history, let's remember that most conservatives are both. There's not actually a statute of limitations on how long you can go on blaming people for stuff they did. For example, if an arsonist sets a fire, there's no point at which you have to start blaming this on the fireman who's putting it out.

He says he's going to win the Latino vote.

Trump's all-round idiocy and loathsomeness have now put him in first place in at least one Republican primary poll. Opinion from the left is that if he gets the nomination he could be easily beaten either by Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or a yogurt.

Good news, Jeb Bush admits that climate change exists (rather than the more popular Republican view that all the thermometers are lying to us or something). Bad news, he thinks it'll be fixed by "a person in a garage somewhere".

Is this the least convincing attempt ever to walk back a remark?

The difference is that today's Republicans would attack the policies of yesterday's Republicans as an Evil Marxist Plot to Take Away Our Freedoms and Destroy America.

It would be rather difficult.Why would they come through the southern border, apart from to please conservatives? BTW, how's your lot doing at getting that story about the talking snake taught in public schools? With $130,000,000,000 annual federal spending on creationist R&D, you'd think you'd be making some headway ... oh, wait, my mistake, that's science.

Huckabee repeats the standard GW-denier lie about volcanoes, thus managing to be wrong by about five orders of magnitude.Knave or fool? --- you decide.

Here is his critique of the Iran deal, delivered in Sun City, SC, July 21st: This is, to give him credit, the best Republican critique yet of the Iran deal, in that it's too incoherent to contain any actual lies about it.

Perhaps you could get them to agree with Reagan, then, and say that "Church and state are, and must remain, separate". I liked that idea of liberty. It was the same idea of liberty preached by Madison and Jefferson. But of late it seems to have fallen out of favor among conservatives.Perhaps this has something to do with what Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee in 1964, warned us about:

As you know, not all the declared Republican candidates are going to be allowed to participate in the first debate, because if you put all of them on the same platform their combined evil would rend the very fabric of spacetime itself and hellbeasts would start climbing out from the netherworlds beyond and feasting on the studio audience.For this or some more true but less interesting reason Fox News has decided to cut it down to ten based on polling. And here's the list.1 Donald Trump
2 Jeb Bush
3 Scott Walker
4 Mike Huckabee
5 Ben Carson
6 Ted Cruz
7 Marco Rubio
8 Rand Paul
9 Chris Christie
10 John KasichBig news is, no Rick Perry, which means we won't be delighted again by seeing him forget which bits of the government he wants to abolish. Remember that? He does. The high point of his political career was five seconds before he got asked that question.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Well no. Most U.S. citizens don't speak Norwegian, and Norway has immigration laws. Yeah, it's unfair to compare a resource-rich country like Norway with a desolate barren hellhole like the United States, which has no resources except dirty sand infested with poisonous snakes. We can hardly be expected to compete with them. No. No, they don't have the EPA. They have something called the Norwegian Environment Agency, which has a completely different three-letter acronym. So it's not the poisonous snakes dragging us down so much as those brown people with their burritos and their mariachi music. We knew they must be to blame for something, and now thanks to you we know what.

Right. Yes. So we have plenty of mineral wealth, arable land, oil reserves, skilled workers, etc. But thanks to government interference, all we actually produce are poisonous snakes. This makes us one of the poorest countries in the world, and unable to compete with the mighty economy of Norway, which as everyone knows is a libertarian utopia.But wait, weren't you originally trying to explain how they can afford to be socialists? If your explanation is that compared to the U.S. they have a small government with laissez-faire economic policies, then wherein does their socialism consist?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.