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Title: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: 240 is Back on September 23, 2011, 09:43:35 PM
Special Editorial: Yikes

William Kristol

September 23, 2011 9:22 AM

THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s official reaction to last night’s Republican presidential debate: Yikes.

Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative policy types and GOP political operatives later last evening and this morning, we know we’re not alone. Most won’t express publicly just how horrified—or at least how demoralized—they are. After all, they still want to beat Obama—as do we. And they want to get along with the possible nominee and the other candidates and their supporters. They don’t want to rock the boat too much. But maybe the GOP presidential boat needs rocking.

The e-mails flooding into our inbox during the evening were less guarded. Early on, we received this missive from a bright young conservative: “I'm watching my first GOP debate...and WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!” As the evening went on, the craziness receded, and the demoralized comments we received stressed the mediocrity of the field rather than its wackiness. As one more experienced, and therefore more jaded, observer wrote: “I just thought maybe it’s always this bad...they’re only marginally worse than McCain and Bush.”

Now there are some legitimate excuses. With nine candidates on the stage, and answers restricted to one minute, it’s hard to really show your stuff. And two of the candidates—Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney—did provide respectable performances. But no frontrunner in a presidential field has ever, we imagine, had as weak a showing as Rick Perry. It was close to a disqualifying two hours for him. And Mitt Romney remains, when all is said and done, a technocratic management consultant whose one term as governor produced Romneycare. He could rise to the occasion as president. Or not.

But in a week in which markets collapsed, Solyndra exploded, our Middle East policy was in meltdown, the Iranian nuclear threat became more urgent, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff fingered our “ally” Pakistan as a sponsor of terror against American forces in Afghanistan—none of the candidates really seemed up to the moment, either politically or substantively. In the midst of a crisis, we’re getting politics as usual—and a somewhat subpar version of politics as usual at that.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 23, 2011, 09:50:35 PM
Kristol is one to talk about sounding crazy lol...  for years he did nothing but push crazy and spearhead the neoconservative propaganda campaign on the people.

Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: 240 is Back on September 23, 2011, 09:58:31 PM
but when kristol says you're crazy.... well.... the man knows crazy when he sees it...
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: MM2K on September 23, 2011, 11:57:13 PM
Nah. Other than the rediculous TWO people who booed the gay soldier and other than Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, I dont see how they sounded crazy. The Dems had atleast one or two crazy people in thier primaries. And Mitt Romney DEFINATELY didnt sound crazy. He was presidential.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 24, 2011, 12:31:58 AM
Nah. Other than the rediculous TWO people who booed the gay soldier and other than Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, I dont see how they sounded crazy. The Dems had atleast one or two crazy people in thier primaries. And Mitt Romney DEFINATELY didnt sound crazy. He was presidential.
what did Paul say that was crazy?  If it was crazy, why did people cheer after he spoke?
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: MM2K on September 24, 2011, 02:43:39 AM
what did Paul say that was crazy?  If it was crazy, why did people cheer after he spoke?

Because it was a small minority of his crazy followers. What is particularly crazy about Ron Paul is the way he views EVERY single question and subject in the prism of his rose tinted isolationist glasses. Ok, I get that he thinks we shouldnt be involved in these regions over seas. We all get that. Does he have to mention it when talking about domestic policy? The wars represent a miniscule fraction of our current deficits.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 24, 2011, 06:54:17 AM
Because it was a small minority of his crazy followers. What is particularly crazy about Ron Paul is the way he views EVERY single question and subject in the prism of his rose tinted isolationist glasses. Ok, I get that he thinks we shouldnt be involved in these regions over seas. We all get that. Does he have to mention it when talking about domestic policy? The wars represent a miniscule fraction of our current deficits.
Oh, it was only a small group of crazy followers that cheered huh?  What debate are you talking about lol...

Ron Paul is not an isolationist.  Stop listening to the propaganda against him and actually read and listen to what he says.



Is Ron Paul an isolationist?  NOOOO!!!


The Original American Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul375.html


&feature=relmfu
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 24, 2011, 06:59:49 AM
Because it was a small minority of his crazy followers. What is particularly crazy about Ron Paul is the way he views EVERY single question and subject in the prism of his rose tinted isolationist glasses. Ok, I get that he thinks we shouldnt be involved in these regions over seas. We all get that. Does he have to mention it when talking about domestic policy? The wars represent a miniscule fraction of our current deficits.

Lol, you must have been watching a medication induced, imaginary debate in your head.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 24, 2011, 07:02:06 AM
Kristol is one to talk about sounding crazy lol...  for years he did nothing but push crazy and spearhead the neoconservative propaganda campaign on the people.




Exactly. The guy is totally irrelevant.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Freeborn126 on September 24, 2011, 08:18:02 AM
Bill Kristol is just another lying douchebag neocon chickenhawk.  They are a dime a dozen these days.  Another guy that talks up a big military game but he himself never served. 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 24, 2011, 08:26:09 AM
Bill Kristol is just another lying douchebag neocon chickenhawk.  They are a dime a dozen these days.  Another guy that talks up a big military game but he himself never served. 

If Kristol ever found himself in a real war situation he's knees would turn to dust from knocking together do hard and he'd piss on himself. Piece of smug trash.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 10:06:58 AM
Because it was a small minority of his crazy followers. What is particularly crazy about Ron Paul is the way he views EVERY single question and subject in the prism of his rose tinted isolationist glasses. Ok, I get that he thinks we shouldnt be involved in these regions over seas. We all get that. Does he have to mention it when talking about domestic policy? The wars represent a miniscule fraction of our current deficits.

I wouldn't call Paul crazy, but some of his supporters are pretty fanatical.  Sort of detached from reality. 

Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Straw Man on September 24, 2011, 11:27:54 AM
I wouldn't call Paul crazy, but some of his supporters are pretty fanatical.  Sort of detached from reality

the same could be said of Bachmann and her supporters
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: chadstallion on September 24, 2011, 02:13:01 PM

Exactly. The guy is totally irrelevant.
but, but, but.....He's on Fox News almost every night during B. Bauer's 'all star panel'...along with the guy in the wheelchair....
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: MuscleMcMannus on September 24, 2011, 02:45:56 PM
Because it was a small minority of his crazy followers. What is particularly crazy about Ron Paul is the way he views EVERY single question and subject in the prism of his rose tinted isolationist glasses. Ok, I get that he thinks we shouldnt be involved in these regions over seas. We all get that. Does he have to mention it when talking about domestic policy? The wars represent a miniscule fraction of our current deficits.

A miniscule fraction of our current deficit? Haha.............what a dumb fuck. 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: headhuntersix on September 24, 2011, 04:03:22 PM
Our long term debt problems will neither be fixed by ending these wars or cutting defense.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 24, 2011, 04:56:25 PM
I wouldn't call Paul crazy, but some of his supporters are pretty fanatical.  Sort of detached from reality.  


Do you feel the same for some of the tea party? 

It's funny, most of the people calling Paul supporters crazy or fanatical don't have much to back it up but their opinion.  You can find some videos of Paul supporters being very agressive in their support, but then you can run right out and find the same videos supporting Bush or Palin too.  Lots of tea party vids of people freaking out.  Fanatical is what you see in so many of the Obama supporter vids. 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Deicide on September 24, 2011, 05:18:31 PM
Our long term debt problems will neither be fixed by ending these wars or cutting defense.

Nigeria is an important oil exporting country, some people have spoken of future US involvement there, could be interesting.

On another note, that is simply not true, 1 trillion plus a year could definitely be used to offset the deficit.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 24, 2011, 05:26:25 PM
Nigeria is an important oil exporting country, some people have spoken of future US involvement there, could be interesting.

On another note, that is simply not true, 1 trillion plus a year could definitely be used to offset the deficit.
When you look at spending on the wars, the department of defence and veteran spending it's a huge chunk of the pie.  If we were not out policing the world, nation building and maintaining a global military presence, that massive chunk would be a lot less.  I'm not for cutting anything on vets, but that spending would naturally go down if we were not fighting wars we shouldn't be fighting.  The increase for spending in that area is only going to go up the more we have to police the world.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 05:45:15 PM
Do you feel the same for some of the tea party? 

It's funny, most of the people calling Paul supporters crazy or fanatical don't have much to back it up but their opinion.  You can find some videos of Paul supporters being very agressive in their support, but then you can run right out and find the same videos supporting Bush or Palin too.  Lots of tea party vids of people freaking out.  Fanatical is what you see in so many of the Obama supporter vids. 

No.

I don't know if Paul supporters are out doing dumb stuff.  That's not what I meant.  I think they do a good job of inflating online polls or anyplace where there may be a small turnout and they can block vote, like the Iowa straw poll.  What makes a lot of his supporters fanatical and unreasonable is they refuse to look at the actual election results (like 2008), and make claims like he would be a frontrunner if there wasn't some media conspiracy to suppress his support. 

They refuse to take an objective look at the only thing that matters:  votes on election day.  For example, you won't find any Ron Paul fanatics addressing things like this:  http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=394271.0 

One of the questions I asked in that thread is how he can win the nomination if he's unable to win his home state?  How does he do it? 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 05:46:49 PM
Our long term debt problems will neither be fixed by ending these wars or cutting defense.

Agree.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Deicide on September 24, 2011, 05:49:22 PM
Agree.

Cool, let's fight even more wars then, after all, like Cheney said, deficits don't matter... ::)

Defence spending and wars are costs that are not actually part of the debt, that's good to know.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 05:52:27 PM
Cool, let's fight even more wars then, after all, like Cheney said, deficits don't matter... ::)

Defence spending and wars are costs that are not actually part of the debt, that's good to know.

Who said anything about fighting more wars?  The issue was whether cutting the defense budget would solve our debt/deficit problems.  It will not.  Defense spending makes up about 25 percent of our federal spending. 

Saying we shouldn't cut defense spending doesn't mean you support "more wars."  That's silly. 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Deicide on September 24, 2011, 05:54:56 PM
Who said anything about fighting more wars?  The issue was whether cutting the defense budget would solve our debt/deficit problems.  It will not.  Defense spending makes up about 25 percent of our federal spending. 

Saying we shouldn't cut defense spending doesn't mean you support "more wars."  That's silly. 

That was not the point; everything needs to be cut, defence, entitlements, everything but conservatives only think that entitlements should be cut and liberals think only defence should get cut. There are lots of military people who think there is too much waste in military spending and the Iraq and Afghan wars have accelerated the debt problems; solve them? not but it would help a lot and there is no denying that.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 24, 2011, 05:56:10 PM
No.

I don't know if Paul supporters are out doing dumb stuff.  That's not what I meant.  I think they do a good job of inflating online polls or anyplace where there may be a small turnout and they can block vote, like the Iowa straw poll.  What makes a lot of his supporters fanatical and unreasonable is they refuse to look at the actual election results (like 2008), and make claims like he would be a frontrunner if there wasn't some media conspiracy to suppress his support. 

They refuse to take an objective look at the only thing that matters:  votes on election day.  For example, you won't find any Ron Paul fanatics addressing things like this:  http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=394271.0 

One of the questions I asked in that thread is how he can win the nomination if he's unable to win his home state?  How does he do it? 
Even Jon Stewart did a good job of proving there is a move by the media to exclude the guy.  The only person I see with a CT here is you.  Your theory is that a very small group of people are able to fund the hell out of Paul and able to sway every internet poll and many straw polls lol...
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 06:00:51 PM
That was not the point; everything needs to be cut, defence, entitlements, everything but conservatives only think that entitlements should be cut and liberals think only defence should get cut. There are lots of military people who think there is too much waste in military spending and the Iraq and Afghan wars have accelerated the debt problems; solve them? not but it would help a lot and there is no denying that.

Yes, that was the point.  HH made this comment:

Quote
Our long term debt problems will neither be fixed by ending these wars or cutting defense.

I agreed with him:

Quote
Agree.

You then came in with a comment about starting more wars:

Quote
Cool, let's fight even more wars then, after all, like Cheney said, deficits don't matter... ::)

Defence spending and wars are costs that are not actually part of the debt, that's good to know.

I have previously said I don't have a problem with cutting defense spending so long as it doesn't compromise national security or mess with pay and benefits. 

But defense isn't the problem.  It's 25 percent of federal spending.  Even if we cut it in half it wouldn't solve, or come close to solving our problems. 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 24, 2011, 06:01:25 PM
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 06:03:06 PM
Even Jon Stewart did a good job of proving there is a move by the media to exclude the guy.  The only person I see with a CT here is you.  Your theory is that a very small group of people are able to fund the hell out of Paul and able to sway every internet poll and many straw polls lol...

My theory is that his support is a mile wide and an inch deep.  That's what election day shows.  He dominates online polls after every debate, but stays at about 7 or 8 percent nationally.  

How can he win the nomination if he's unable to carry Texas?  
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Deicide on September 24, 2011, 06:06:55 PM
Yes, that was the point.  HH made this comment:


I agreed with him:


You then came in with a comment about starting more wars:


I have previously said I don't have a problem with cutting defense spending so long as it doesn't compromise national security or mess with pay and benefits. 

But defense isn't the problem.  It's 25 percent of federal spending.  Even if we cut it in half it wouldn't solve, or come close to solving our problems. 

So only entitlements should be cut according to you?
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 06:09:41 PM
So only entitlements should be cut according to you?

Never said that. 

We should start with "waste, fraud, and abuse."  We should cut or eliminate federal departments/agencies that are inefficient and unnecessary.  I'd actually start with the IRS.   
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Deicide on September 24, 2011, 06:14:48 PM
Never said that. 

We should start with "waste, fraud, and abuse."  We should cut or eliminate federal departments/agencies that are inefficient and unnecessary.  I'd actually start with the IRS.   

You want to get rid of the Infernal Revenue Service? wow! why would you want to that?
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Dos Equis on September 24, 2011, 06:22:45 PM
You want to get rid of the Infernal Revenue Service? wow! why would you want to that?

Cut, not eliminate.  I like Cain's tax idea.  I like Huntsman's.  I like Steve Forbes' idea of a flat tax.  If we dramatically changed our tax structure, we wouldn't need the mounds of IRS rules, the plethora of agents, etc.  That's definitely one department that is too big.   

I'm pretty sure 33 posted something about all of the IRS agents we'll have to hire if Obamacare gets implemented.  Crazy. 
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Deicide on September 24, 2011, 06:24:40 PM
Cut, not eliminate.  I like Cain's tax idea.  I like Huntsman's.  I like Steve Forbes' idea of a flat tax.  If we dramatically changed our tax structure, we wouldn't need the mounds of IRS rules, the plethora of agents, etc.  That's definitely one department that is too big.   

I'm pretty sure 33 posted something about all of the IRS agents we'll have to hire if Obamacare gets implemented.  Crazy. 

I suppose that was hoping too much. :-\
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Soul Crusher on September 24, 2011, 06:48:15 PM
Cut, not eliminate.  I like Cain's tax idea.  I like Huntsman's.  I like Steve Forbes' idea of a flat tax.  If we dramatically changed our tax structure, we wouldn't need the mounds of IRS rules, the plethora of agents, etc.  That's definitely one department that is too big.   

I'm pretty sure 33 posted something about all of the IRS agents we'll have to hire if Obamacare gets implemented.  Crazy. 

16,000 new agents to enforce mengeleCare
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Soul Crusher on September 24, 2011, 06:52:51 PM
A No Confidence Vote in Orlando [Kristol: Cain Vote Just Means "None of The Above"]
Weekly Standard ^ | September 24, 2011 | WILLIAM KRISTOL
Posted on September 24, 2011 8:33:36 PM EDT by Steelfish

A No Confidence Vote in Orlando SEP 24, 2011 • BY WILLIAM KRISTOL

Having watched the debate Thursday night, and having heard the candidates speak and having mingled with them over the subsequent couple of days, 70 percent of the activists attending the Florida Republican gathering this weekend cast a vote of no confidence in the two GOP frontrunners.

So, with all the usual caveats about not over-interpreting straw polls, I’d suggest:

1. There is resistance to both Rick Perry (15 percent) and Mitt Romney (14 percent). Perry’s poor debate performance hurt him—but it doesn’t seem to have redounded to Mitt Romney’s benefit. Perhaps neither Perry nor Romney will end up as the nominee. After all, the two GOP frontrunners in national polls in late September 2007 were Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. The Democratic frontrunners in a Gallup poll on September 24, 2003 were Wesley Clark and Howard Dean.

2. Herman Cain (37 percent) will obviously get a new, more serious look. Still, with all due respect to Cain, to some degree voting for him is voting for none of the above.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...






Lmfao!!!!   Wwwwaaahhhhhhhhhh.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:24:56 PM
Kristol is one to talk about sounding crazy lol...  for years he did nothing but push crazy and spearhead the neoconservative propaganda campaign on the people.



Agreed,,,,I like him personally and I have read his columns.....I used to actually agree with a lot of stuff that he espoused but he started to really drift more and more to the right and started sounding crazy on FOX news....although in all fairness FOX news seems to have that affect on people :)
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:29:29 PM
Special Editorial: Yikes

William Kristol

September 23, 2011 9:22 AM

THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s official reaction to last night’s Republican presidential debate: Yikes.

Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative policy types and GOP political operatives later last evening and this morning, we know we’re not alone. Most won’t express publicly just how horrified—or at least how demoralized—they are. After all, they still want to beat Obama—as do we. And they want to get along with the possible nominee and the other candidates and their supporters. They don’t want to rock the boat too much. But maybe the GOP presidential boat needs rocking.

The e-mails flooding into our inbox during the evening were less guarded. Early on, we received this missive from a bright young conservative: “I'm watching my first GOP debate...and WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!” As the evening went on, the craziness receded, and the demoralized comments we received stressed the mediocrity of the field rather than its wackiness. As one more experienced, and therefore more jaded, observer wrote: “I just thought maybe it’s always this bad...they’re only marginally worse than McCain and Bush.”

Now there are some legitimate excuses. With nine candidates on the stage, and answers restricted to one minute, it’s hard to really show your stuff. And two of the candidates—Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney—did provide respectable performances. But no frontrunner in a presidential field has ever, we imagine, had as weak a showing as Rick Perry. It was close to a disqualifying two hours for him. And Mitt Romney remains, when all is said and done, a technocratic management consultant whose one term as governor produced Romneycare. He could rise to the occasion as president. Or not.

But in a week in which markets collapsed, Solyndra exploded, our Middle East policy was in meltdown, the Iranian nuclear threat became more urgent, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff fingered our “ally” Pakistan as a sponsor of terror against American forces in Afghanistan—none of the candidates really seemed up to the moment, either politically or substantively. In the midst of a crisis, we’re getting politics as usual—and a somewhat subpar version of politics as usual at that.


they are crazy.....I started to believe that when Michele Bachmann, a woman, was against Rick Perry issuing an order that all girls be vaccinated against the HPV virus.....

Michele as a woman should have been cheering this on.....it would save so many women and young girls form getting cervical cancer....yet michele is against this AND stated that the vaccine is dangerous and causes "mental damage" ...WOW!!!....

the republicans are living in the Bizarro world where trying to help people is considered bad....and then they wonder why people are hostile to their views?
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:30:38 PM
Nah. Other than the rediculous TWO people who booed the gay soldier and other than Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, I dont see how they sounded crazy. The Dems had atleast one or two crazy people in thier primaries. And Mitt Romney DEFINATELY didnt sound crazy. He was presidential.

Mitt Romney is a rich momma's boy Mormon who is running away form his record......plus he is like a robot
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:31:40 PM
what did Paul say that was crazy?  If it was crazy, why did people cheer after he spoke?

People cheer because he does well at putting things out there that people are thinking and that sounds simple.....but it never ever translates into votes for him...
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:32:51 PM
Oh, it was only a small group of crazy followers that cheered huh?  What debate are you talking about lol...

Ron Paul is not an isolationist.  Stop listening to the propaganda against him and actually read and listen to what he says.



Is Ron Paul an isolationist?  NOOOO!!!


The Original American Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul375.html


&feature=relmfu

I think plain and simple....people just don't trust him for reason..I don't know why but that seems to be the case
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:36:34 PM
My theory is that his support is a mile wide and an inch deep.  That's what election day shows.  He dominates online polls after every debate, but stays at about 7 or 8 percent nationally.  

How can he win the nomination if he's unable to carry Texas?  

Good Excellent post
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 24, 2011, 07:38:11 PM
A No Confidence Vote in Orlando [Kristol: Cain Vote Just Means "None of The Above"]
Weekly Standard ^ | September 24, 2011 | WILLIAM KRISTOL
Posted on September 24, 2011 8:33:36 PM EDT by Steelfish

A No Confidence Vote in Orlando SEP 24, 2011 • BY WILLIAM KRISTOL

Having watched the debate Thursday night, and having heard the candidates speak and having mingled with them over the subsequent couple of days, 70 percent of the activists attending the Florida Republican gathering this weekend cast a vote of no confidence in the two GOP frontrunners.

So, with all the usual caveats about not over-interpreting straw polls, I’d suggest:

1. There is resistance to both Rick Perry (15 percent) and Mitt Romney (14 percent). Perry’s poor debate performance hurt him—but it doesn’t seem to have redounded to Mitt Romney’s benefit. Perhaps neither Perry nor Romney will end up as the nominee. After all, the two GOP frontrunners in national polls in late September 2007 were Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. The Democratic frontrunners in a Gallup poll on September 24, 2003 were Wesley Clark and Howard Dean.

2. Herman Cain (37 percent) will obviously get a new, more serious look. Still, with all due respect to Cain, to some degree voting for him is voting for none of the above.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...






Lmfao!!!!   Wwwwaaahhhhhhhhhh.

I would actually consider voting for Cain although I have made fun of him....Romney and Michele Bachmann have no chance at my vote
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Straw Man on September 24, 2011, 07:58:40 PM
Cut, not eliminate.  I like Cain's tax idea.  I like Huntsman's.  I like Steve Forbes' idea of a flat tax.  If we dramatically changed our tax structure, we wouldn't need the mounds of IRS rules, the plethora of agents, etc.  That's definitely one department that is too big.    

I'm pretty sure 33 posted something about all of the IRS agents we'll have to hire if Obamacare gets implemented.  Crazy.  

you actually said cut or eliminate and if your first order of business is "waste, fraud, and abuse." then cutting the IRS would only ADD to the problem.

The IRS estimates that we lose $300 billion a year to tax evasion
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/04/22/stopping-tax-evasion-would-add-4-trillion-to-federal-coffers/

so the first thing you would do would just make the problem worse
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: garebear on September 24, 2011, 08:08:04 PM
Nah. Other than the rediculous TWO people who booed the gay soldier and other than Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, I dont see how they sounded crazy. The Dems had atleast one or two crazy people in thier primaries. And Mitt Romney DEFINATELY didnt sound crazy. He was presidential.
The root word of DEFINITELY is finite, which means having definable limits. Let's keep that in mind when we're writing in our own native language, hotshot.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: George Whorewell on September 24, 2011, 09:41:27 PM
The root word of DEFINITELY is finite, which means having definable limits. Let's keep that in mind when we're writing in our own native language, hotshot.



Your idiocy is infinite. That means your stupidity has no definable limits. Let's keep that in mind when you spew your nonsense on this message board, ok hotshot?
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: garebear on September 24, 2011, 09:47:11 PM


Your idiocy is infinite. That means your stupidity has no definable limits. Let's keep that in mind when you spew your nonsense on this message board, ok hotshot?
Well, at least you spelled it correctly.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: George Whorewell on September 24, 2011, 09:53:30 PM
Well, at least you spelled it correctly.

Racist post reported.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: MM2K on September 24, 2011, 10:16:59 PM
Oh, it was only a small group of crazy followers that cheered huh?  What debate are you talking about lol...

Ron Paul is not an isolationist.  Stop listening to the propaganda against him and actually read and listen to what he says.



Is Ron Paul an isolationist?  NOOOO!!!


The Original American Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul375.html


&feature=relmfu

Yeah, how many delegates does Dr. Domento get everytime he runs? THought so. Give me a break. If he were president during the early 1800s the USA would be one third its size now.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: MM2K on September 24, 2011, 10:22:18 PM
A miniscule fraction of our current deficit? Haha.............what a dumb fuck. 

OK. So youre idea of a large fraction is 1/13. YOur the dumbfuck. Maybe during the Bush years when we were running MANAGABLE deficits, it was considered a sizable fraction, but not now with President Downgrade running things.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: MM2K on September 24, 2011, 10:26:21 PM
When you look at spending on the wars, the department of defence and veteran spending it's a huge chunk of the pie.  If we were not out policing the world, nation building and maintaining a global military presence, that massive chunk would be a lot less.  I'm not for cutting anything on vets, but that spending would naturally go down if we were not fighting wars we shouldn't be fighting.  The increase for spending in that area is only going to go up the more we have to police the world.

We spend 5% of GDP on national defense. That is historically low espeacially for times of war. You are barking up the wrong tree.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: 240 is Back on September 24, 2011, 11:38:37 PM
No.

I don't know if Paul supporters are out doing dumb stuff.  That's not what I meant.  I think they do a good job of inflating online polls


BB,

why do you believe Ron Paul's fans are inflating polls?  Do you have evidence of this?  And why can't anyone else's fans do it?
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 25, 2011, 05:11:02 AM
And why can't anyone else's fans do it?
That's a key wonder to this CT of BB's and others on Paul lol... 

Just this last week after the debate, I logged onto major websites promoting other candidates and found that they were linking to all polls that could be found for people to vote in.  So in reality, they are not doing anything different than Paul voters.  Yet Paul still ends up demolishing these polls?

A bigger "conspiracy" would be to ask why so many of the other candidates have adopted many of Paul's positions, which were quite unpoplular just a few years ago.

All of these candidates do their own polling which is not released and polling that is done in their best interest.  Makes you wonder what the fuck huh....  If Paul was really that unpopular, why is there such a massive shift by other candidates toward shit Paul has said?  An overall shift that both right and leftwing media has acknowleded?  What's the point of that if there is not a massive public push toward that?

WHY? Because if you polled the people without mentioning names, you start to find that the people are in mass agreement with most of what Paul stands for...  That's a big problem for those in power and those seeking nomination. 

After this nomination, you will see all of those issues dropped by a candidate like Perry and if you can't see why you're lost beyond repair lol...

That's my post of the year, it's spot on..
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 25, 2011, 07:08:12 AM
That's a key wonder to this CT of BB's and others on Paul lol... 

Just this last week after the debate, I logged onto major websites promoting other candidates and found that they were linking to all polls that could be found for people to vote in.  So in reality, they are not doing anything different than Paul voters.  Yet Paul still ends up demolishing these polls?

A bigger "conspiracy" would be to ask why so many of the other candidates have adopted many of Paul's positions, which were quite unpoplular just a few years ago.

All of these candidates do their own polling which is not released and polling that is done in their best interest.  Makes you wonder what the fuck huh....  If Paul was really that unpopular, why is there such a massive shift by other candidates toward shit Paul has said?  An overall shift that both right and leftwing media has acknowleded?  What's the point of that if there is not a massive public push toward that?

WHY? Because if you polled the people without mentioning names, you start to find that the people are in mass agreement with most of what Paul stands for...  That's a big problem for those in power and those seeking nomination. 

After this nomination, you will see all of those issues dropped by a candidate like Perry and if you can't see why you're lost beyond repair lol...

That's my post of the year, it's spot on..

You nailed it. I could post a video from 08 with Romney supporters stuffing the ballot box at straw polls and BB wouldn't say boo bit when RP candidates mobilize and destroy the polls it's a giant conspiracy of fraudulent voting.  ::)
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Hugo Chavez on September 25, 2011, 08:32:04 AM
You nailed it. I could post a video from 08 with Romney supporters stuffing the ballot box at straw polls and BB wouldn't say boo bit when RP candidates mobilize and destroy the polls it's a giant conspiracy of fraudulent voting.  ::)
Most important with what I said is that you will see all of those issues Ron Paul has brought to the others dropped as soon as Perry or Mitt is nominated.  You clearly see this swing by all the candidates toward shit Paul started and all that will be out the window come nomination day, I fucking guarantee it.  It will be ancient history like they never said it and business as usual, with America getting screwed.  I wish 3333 and others could see that rather than piss and moan about a worm being better than Obama as President. ::)  That's not the case, you can easily get the same shit in office with a generic republican.
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: Soul Crusher on September 25, 2011, 09:22:32 AM
Most important with what I said is that you will see all of those issues Ron Paul has brought to the others dropped as soon as Perry or Mitt is nominated.  You clearly see this swing by all the candidates toward shit Paul started and all that will be out the window come nomination day, I fucking guarantee it.  It will be ancient history like they never said it and business as usual, with America getting screwed.  I wish 3333 and others could see that rather than piss and moan about a worm being better than Obama as President. ::)  That's not the case, you can easily get the same shit in office with a generic republican.

Romney / perry / hunstman may be a rino, but fucking please bro - gmafb - none of them are even on the same spectrum or planet as awful obama is.  again - you voted for and donated money to him, so please, lets stop the bs.   
Title: Re: Kristol on last night's debate/GOP field: "Yikes"WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!"
Post by: andreisdaman on September 25, 2011, 09:38:02 AM


Your idiocy is infinite. That means your stupidity has no definable limits. Let's keep that in mind when you spew your nonsense on this message board, ok hotshot?

 ;D