Which Republican would you vote for in the primary?

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2007-12-30 05:29pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:I would vote RP, just to see what would happen. Much the same way people poke things with sticks, to see what'll happen

I'd rather vote for Mike Huckabee than for Ron Paul.

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2007-12-30 06:22pm

Fire Fly wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:I would vote RP, just to see what would happen. Much the same way people poke things with sticks, to see what'll happen
I'd rather vote for Mike Huckabee than for Ron Paul.

Mike Huckabee has based a lot of his campaign on being the candidate for fundamentalist cave-man-conservative nutcases, and he has a much better chance of beating a democratic candidate than Ron Paul, who would make for a fun campaign and then lose.

And that's why Ron Paul has narrowly defeated Zombie Ronald Reagan for my pretend vote.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-12-30 10:03pm

BRAINSSSSSS

lets hear it for the undead, leading the pack.

how about my suggestion of Zombie TR that way we can at least get some climate change work done, and then hunt big game, and useless big celebraties...

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2007-12-30 11:14pm

Its really hilarious for me to put a vote into this thread as I've recently been reading Team of Rivals which is probably the best bit of Lincoln shcolarship I've ever read. Just getting into his head and the heads of everyone who coalesced into the original Republican party its both unsuprising they devolved to this point but also sad as anytime a decent leader emerged to bridge the gap between wings of the party they usually got positive shit done.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2007-12-30 11:35pm

Mr Bean wrote:I have to say, compared to the Democrats thread this one is rather sad. Ron Paul is tied with the scum that is John McCain. But both are beat out by Zombie Regan.

Not only that, but at this posting, Zombie Reagan almost matches Paul and McCain combined.

alexholker · Post by **alexholker** » 2007-12-31 04:04am

Civil War Man wrote:Not only that, but at this posting, Zombie Reagan almost matches Paul and McCain combined.

Hmmm... that gives me an idea.

Zombie Reagan vs. Jon McPain, a Frankenstein's creation made from the shattered corpse of the Republican party?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2007-12-31 11:11am

Wow... I put in Zombie Reagan as a joke.

SD.Net, dissatisfied with the Republican Party? Who would have thought...

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2008-01-01 10:56pm

I know it is late But I shall be voting for Fred.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2008-01-02 02:01am

Glocksman wrote:
Spyder wrote:I would vote for Ron Paul. I don't know about you guys but non-interventionist sounds pretty sweet from this side of the planet.
It sounds good over here too, but Paul also wants to allow private currrency backed by gold to tbe legal tender, abolish the income tax, eliminate the Federal Reserve, etc.

If Paul wasn't a libertarian nutjob, I'd vote for him.
But since he is, my choice in the Repub primary is Thompson, simply because he's not FlipFlopFascist Rudy McRomney.

My vote's based on the fact that I don't live in the US

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-01-02 03:31am

Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

I'd rather vote for a fucking vegetable than any of these idiots. Luckily, I don't have to do either, since I don't live your country. But the world still has to live with the consequences of your decisions anyway.

alexholker · Post by **alexholker** » 2008-01-02 03:58am

Darth Wong wrote:Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

You have to admit, there's a refreshing honesty about a modern Republican who literally has a cold, unbeating heart and replaces formerly intelligent people with others just like himself.

Lusankya · Post by **Lusankya** » 2008-01-02 03:59am

Darth Wong wrote:Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

I'd rather vote for a fucking vegetable than any of these idiots. Luckily, I don't have to do either, since I don't live your country. But the world still has to live with the consequences of your decisions anyway.

I didn't vote for zombie Reagan. I voted for non-reanimated Reagan, who would presumably hang around doing what corpses do best: nothing.

The Original Nex · Post by **The Original Nex** » 2008-01-02 08:58am

Darth Wong wrote:Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

I'd rather vote for a fucking vegetable than any of these idiots. Luckily, I don't have to do either, since I don't live your country. But the world still has to live with the consequences of your decisions anyway.

The poll specifies his dead corpse, not some frankenstein reanimation.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2008-01-02 10:09am

The Original Nex wrote:The poll specifies his dead corpse, not some frankenstein reanimation.

Wouldn't electing a corpse mean that the VP takes over immediately after inauguration?

On the assumption that that doesn't happen, you can make an argument that such an office-holder would at least be unable to do as much harm as W. I've often stated -- not so much here, but elsewhere -- that a ham sandwich would have made a better president than the guy you have now, but I had to reject that statement because a ham sandwich can't sign legislation into law, and could therefore not get anything done. The current thread about the whole pocket veto attempt has made me aware that, if Congress is in session, the ham sandwich would just have to not veto a bill.

There you have it: tasty pork products can also lead the Executive Branch!

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2008-01-02 06:52pm

Darth Wong wrote:Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

I'd rather vote for a fucking vegetable than any of these idiots. Luckily, I don't have to do either, since I don't live your country. But the world still has to live with the consequences of your decisions anyway.

Its not actually zombie Regan but rather Regan's corpse and I would support that because a dead body which physically does nothing while in office would serve us infinitely better as Congress could pass any law it needs to while we wouldn't have to suffer through bullshit supply side economics as I've not yet met a corpse who can speak. More importantly this means the world's shortest ever State of the Union speeches.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2008-01-02 11:07pm

Darth Wong wrote:Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

I'd rather vote for a fucking vegetable than any of these idiots. Luckily, I don't have to do either, since I don't live your country. But the world still has to live with the consequences of your decisions anyway.

Democracy's a grand thing; you get the choice between the knuckle-dragging warmonger, the other knuckle-dragging warmonger, the other semi-educated knuckle-dragging warmonger or the knuckle-dragging warmonger that has one good policy that isn't " not fuck the world up as much as possible".

Remember folks, not voting forfeits your right to complain. When you do vote you can even complain even if the person you voted for does exactly what everyone said he'd do.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2008-01-03 12:33am

You left Ron Paul off that list, who should be the educated-nutty fundamentalist with a strict non-interventalist policy.

Which is why he's so poplar with independents. At least Ron Paul will only fuck things up domestically. Moving to Canada is a viable option with Ron Paul, not so much with the other guys.

Metatwaddle · Post by **Metatwaddle** » 2008-01-03 12:59am

Spyder wrote:Democracy's a grand thing; you get the choice between the knuckle-dragging warmonger, the other knuckle-dragging warmonger, the other semi-educated knuckle-dragging warmonger or the knuckle-dragging warmonger that has one good policy that isn't " not fuck the world up as much as possible".

Out of curiosity, which is the semi-educated one and which is the one with the good policy?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2008-01-03 02:24pm

Mr Bean wrote:You left Ron Paul off that list, who should be the educated-nutty fundamentalist with a strict non-interventalist policy.

Which is why he's so poplar with independents. At least Ron Paul will only fuck things up domestically. Moving to Canada is a viable option with Ron Paul, not so much with the other guys.

No he didn't, that's who I voted for.

Discombobulated wrote:
Spyder wrote:Democracy's a grand thing; you get the choice between the knuckle-dragging warmonger, the other knuckle-dragging warmonger, the other semi-educated knuckle-dragging warmonger or the knuckle-dragging warmonger that has one good policy that isn't " not fuck the world up as much as possible".
Out of curiosity, which is the semi-educated one and which is the one with the good policy?

I didn't really have any specific examples in mind. My point was typically you have the choice between shithead A and shithead B, C, D ect.

The Guid · Post by **The Guid** » 2008-01-04 01:03am

Mr Bean wrote:You left Ron Paul off that list, who should be the educated-nutty fundamentalist with a strict non-interventalist policy.

The Ron Paul paranoia has you Mr Bean!

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2008-01-04 01:25am

The Guid wrote: The Ron Paul paranoia has you Mr Bean!

Damn right it has, it has me good.

OAN SD.Net totally failed to match Iowa's turnout.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2008-01-07 02:12pm

Darth Wong wrote:Why the love for zombie Reagan? His greatest attribute was inspirational speaking, while his actual policies were shit. Modern Republican economic policy is not some distorted version of what Reagan preached; it is EXACTLY what Reagan preached.

Truth be told, Reagan really had no idea what he was doing. He was the first truly clueless figurehead President for his neocon/free-marketer advisors, who really came up with all the material. He was just the marketing presentation. For Christ's sake, he once cracked ethnic jokes about Russian cab drivers in a diplomatic meeting with Gorbachev, and had to be yelled at by his own SecState afterward. What a senile clown. Also, his people moderated their economic policy as it was shit later in his term; Bush simply only hired those Reaganites who were thorough ideologues.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-01-07 04:37pm

Reagan may have been an imbecile, but he was sincere in his speeches and economic policies. I've heard recordings made of some of the speeches he gave many years before he became president, and they sounded exactly like the supply-side bullshit he pushed when he was in office.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2008-01-07 05:05pm

I doubt he understood supply-side economics at even a superficial level. He just thought anyone who believed in social justice was stupid and a commieh and liked to spread the propaganda for rich financiers et al. He even produced a propaganda record in his youth for the AMA that discounted socialized medicine as a communist plot.

There were supply-side economists who were generally unaccepted in the academic community but were cultivated by Reagan to provide the veneer of academic credibility to his antipathy for social programs in any form.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-01-07 05:14pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:I doubt he understood supply-side economics at even a superficial level.

Oh, I agree that he had no idea what he was talking about. But that doesn't mean he couldn't have a very strongly held opinion on the matter anyway, and be capable of hiring or firing people based on their allegiance to these principles.

Your current president is like that too.

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