The Political Thread

[JOE SOAP]

It's either Mitt or Newt.

[Roger Godpleton]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/rick-santorum-quotes-as-new-yorker-cartoons

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I was stunned to hear that one of Labours front benchers has been found out to be a racist and amazingly I found this on the Mirror website.
It was out of context, blah, blah, blah. Next she'll be telling us that she has 'white' friends 

[Roger Godpleton]

We all love firing people, Mitt.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Mitt Romney is the best chance the Republicans have of taking back the White House, for several reasons;

1) he's not a right-wing ideologue, but is a moderate conservative, and can thus garner votes from the Republican base (especially if he has Marco Rubio or Chris Christie as VP), independents, and soft Democrats who don't like Obama's hard-left socialism.

2) he's not tainted by the profligate Republican Congress the American electorate threw out in 2006 and 2008.

3) he has executive experience - a Republican governor in the most liberal state in the union (Mass.) - and extensive private sector experience, which is a heck of a lot more than Barack Hussein Obama had when he was elected President!

4) he's been preparing for the White House run since his first campaign ended in 2008, and has both the money and the infrastructure to win not only the primary/caucus process, but to go toe-to-toe with Obama and his erstwhile fellow travellers in what amounts to the American press these days.

5) he has barely put a foot wrong thus far in the campaign - with the exception of the $10, 000 bet he tried to make with Texas governor Rick Perry - and if you think that's just luck, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya!

I would personally agree with Rick Santorum (and that link was just disgusting, which is what I'd expect from that usual crowd of degenerates and reprobates, they're not only a disgrace to the human race, they're a public health hazard into the bargain), Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, et al, but they couldn't win the general election against Obama, and Romney CAN, period!  Republicans cannot afford ideological purity this year, the American electorate haven't forgotten why they voted them out a mere few years ago, and the broader the coalition behind the Republican nominee, the greater the chance of winning the White House (it's how Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in Canada were able to regain a majority in the federal House of Commons last year for the first time in 18 years)...

[TordelBack]

I would personally agree with Rick Santorum [...] Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, et al

You're a funny guy, Beaky.  You're seriously telling us that you'd agree with Perry and Santorum?  Semi-human garbage though they be?

[Beaky Smoochies]

I fail to see how you think it's funny Tordelback dude, I agree with their conservative - both social and economic - positions, in that I believe EVERY unborn child has a right to life, in that I believe that marriage should be EXCLUSIVELY between one man and one woman, in that I believe that that you should be able to keep more of the money you earn instead of the government taxing you excessively and giving it to others who didn't earn it, in that I believe that a nation should have a robust foreign policy agenda that promotes freedom and liberty and treats allies as friends and enemies as foes (not the other way round like Obama), and in that I believe the free world should stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel because if they fall to the barbaric Islamic hordes then Europe is next, geddit?

You can disagree with conservative views if you like, no problem there, but please don't do what most of the organised Left do and attempt to discredit conservative opinions by calling them "mad" or "funny" or "extreme" or whatever, it's amazing how quickly liberal 'tolerance' for diversity quickly disappears when that diversity includes an opinion that happens to fall on the right (in more ways than one) side of the political spectrum... but just so I don't end this post on a sour note - - there ya go, that's better...

[TordelBack]

Thank you for your polite response to my very impolite comment Beaky, but I think we had best agree to fundamentally, utterly, completely disagree!  It is good that we can find common ground in our affection for a comic, but, uh, I think that's about it.

[JOE SOAP]

I wouldn't presume that anyone is automatically left-wing just because they don't agree with your views Beaky -an extremist position- nor would I see your views as particularly 'conservative' or promoting freedom and liberty but that's politics for ya. One man's left is another's right.

[The Legendary Shark]

"barbaric Islamic hordes"?

Good grief.

[TordelBack]

Don't worry Sharky, the hordes aren't as large as you might think - after all, there's no such thing as Palestinians, so that's about 3 million less bloodthirsty barbarians at the gate.  I know, 'cos Gingrich told me so.

I'm going to shut up now.  (-cheering erupts-)

[johnnystress]

I like Clint

http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/09/18/why-clint-eastwood-isnt-a-republican-anymore/

"I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone. These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of."


as you were

[Roger Godpleton]

Wait, we had a teabagger on the board and he was saying things? Goddamnit, that'll teach me to stay up all night drinking Pepsi.




Though I suppose it wouldn't have mattered if I had been awake because it looks like I forgot to bring my pokeballs to work today.

[Old Tankie]

Mitt Romney has about as much chance of being the next President of the United States as Wallace, oops! sorry, Ed Miliband has of being the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom!

[Hoagy]

We'll just have to wait for the results from the next Burgerbilt conference.