RE: Mitt Romney actually comes up with a genius idea
September 24, 2012 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2012 at 11:16 pm by Darth.)
Quote:It's not a conclusion that I like coming to. I would prefer things were different. I'm a former Reagan-worshiping Republican. My politics were once conservative, then libertarian and today somewhere between liberal and libertarian. So there was a time when I did find the right more intelligent and made a more compelling case than they do today.
Sounds like you have a choice then...
Quote:Deregulation? That worked well, didn't it? I used to believe in rational markets when I was in business school. How many financial crashes must we endure before this idea is finally scrapped?
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Name the conservative idea, be it foreign policy, economic policy or social policy. It was tried under Bush and spectacularly failed.
Cmon DP, we've established (in a previous thread) that the deregulation was a sham, it was a move towards more corporatism, rather than towards a free market.
Quote:This is not a party of intellectual heavy weights. The only intelligent and sane candidate who ran was John Huntsman, and he lost the primary in spectacular fashion.
No love for Gary Johnson from a person between liberal and libertarian?
Did Saddam not have gas and use it on the kurds? Though yeah, the reason(s) they gave were bullshit.
Edit: that is what I would classify as a WMD, but yeah, it meant only nukes?
Nemo me impune lacessit.
