2012 United States Presidential Election

[Ryllharu]

Yeah, the GOP is for shit. They don't have a candidate that can compete with Obama. They keep rotating top candidates because the front runner keeps making an ass of him/herself in debates and interviews.

It's really pathetic. For all the talk of hope and change, Obama basically continued every policy introduced by Bush that democrats or liberals lambasted non-stop for how tyrannical they were. Warrantless Wiretapping, the Patriot Act in general, etc. If Obama didn't simply keep them, he often strengthened those policies further. (But I'll be fair, Congress prevented him from closing Guantanamo.) You can't even say he's not a warmonger, since the whole Libya affair was a "police action" and skipped the required approval by Congress.

Then we have the examples of his complete lack of leadership. The Gulf Oil spill, where he decided to stay out of it until the media started making a lot of noise about how he wasn't doing anything. A really nice executive order should have been to allow the foreign ships to aid in immediate action (they were legally banned from coming so far near our coasts, allowing only locals to do work that they simply were not trained to do, like the Dutch or Norwegian ships were). That single act would have prevented the spill from getting as bad as it did. Instead he did nothing until the PR started to look bad.

This should have been a slam dunk for the Republicans. But they can't field a decent candidate who can speak intelligently, or not act like a psychopath to scrounge for votes from the Conservative "base." Ron Paul can at least debate intelligently, but the media loathes him.

The media actually spun an Iowa Straw Poll result into stating that Michele Bachmann had won it, despite the fact that she lost it by well over a thousand votes. She did later win the Ames Straw Poll (also in Iowa), but it was pretty disgusting media spin for quite a while.

Then we've got the professional politicians and the scumbags (often one in the same). I do enjoy how Mitt Romney likes to pose himself as a Washington Outsider. Newt is well...Newt Gingrich (enough said). And if Santorum wins, we can expect him to order the systematical extermination of homosexuals...classy.


But you know what they say, "It does take a certain kind of monster to run for political office..."

How do you know it's likely? And don't say polls. Santorum was in the like the bottom 5 for Iowa for the whole first part of the race and all of a sudden he's only lost Iowa by 8 votes?

This is equally disgusting. I don't like Romney (as mentioned above, I think he's a scumbag), but Santorum getting second place, but more importantly how he campaigned, was no less disgusting. It tells a lot about the hijacking of the Conservatist side to our country.

Romney is a front-runner, no question. But the very fact that he's a Mormon is so repellent to the Christian Conservative Base that hijacked the Republican Party, that they'll look for anyone who cries from the rafters that they are a Super Christian, Born-Again, whatever. So Santorum goes from the bottom of the race, to running around Iowa telling everyone how Super Christian he is. Every speech lays out how much he loves God.

What part of Romney being a Mormon has anything to do with his policies or whether or not he would be a good President? Who gives a shit? Idiots do.