Make Tuesday Super — Open Thread
by pjamesbeardsley
Today is Super Tuesday, which unless we get a Republican convention where no candidate has 1,144 delegates, is probably the single most important day in the primary season. Consider this your open thread, friends of freedom, to discuss today’s goings on in the comments. I’ll leave you with a handful of things from my facebook page to get the ball rolling:
“I look at this campaign right now and I see a lot of folks all talking about lots of things, but what we need to talk about to defeat Barack Obama is getting good jobs and scaling back the size of government…” — Mitt Romney saying something I actually agree with, continued:
“…and that’s what I do” — Mitt Romney, the architect of RomneyCare that is currently bankrupting the Commonwealth of Massachusettes, finishing the previous quote with a laughable lie.
The man in the best position to defeat Obama is Ron Paul. The jobs and small government candidate is Ron Paul. If you really believe the first part of your quote, Mitt, you’ll drop out and cast your support for Ron Paul. If you don’t, I have to assume that you don’t believe what you say either.
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I’d like to believe in American Exceptionalism. Not that America is exceptional, how could it be? It’s a country. It gets no special exceptions from the laws of physics or economics. Reality is not optional
But I’d like to believe that the American people are exceptional. I’d like to believe that the American people are still a people, no matter how diverse in how many ways, bound together in spirit not by bloodlines, territory, religious conviction, or any other attribute of a person, but to a document: the U.S. Constitution. I’d like to think that America is still a country where peace, prosperity, and the Constitution is a winning message.
Prove me right. Get out and vote for Ron Paul..
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”Just get the people in Washington D.C. to follow the Constitution. It would solve all our problems”
“There’s a worldwide debt crisis now, and we can’t get out of it by doing the same things that got us there in the first place”
–Ron Paul after the Washington Caucuses
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Personal prediction for the day: it pretty much follows what we’ve seen so far. Romney does better than any other individual, Gingrich does annoyingly well in the deep South, Paul does very well in caucus states and states where Democrats and Independents are allowed to vote, but at the end of the day, nobody is on pace for the nomination.
Rasmussen is reporting very slight leads for Santorum in both Ohio and Tennessee, and a significant lead for Gingrich in Georgia. While it’s not perfect news, that would be a Paul lead in all, it does point to a contested convention, which would be great news.
For those of you who imagine that Ron Paul’s message isn’t the best one to win, why is it that on a generic Republican v. Democrat ballot, the Republicans lead by 3%, but Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich are all losing to Obama, by more than the margin of error, in a head to head? Meanwhile, Dr. No is up by 4 over Obama.
How the hell does newt plan on getting us to 2.50 gas?
I think that’s part of his moon colony plan
In terms of dollars, gas isn’t that much different than it was in 2006. But in terms of gold and silver, a dollar is worth about 2.5x less than it was in 06. That’s the hidden cost of inflation and why we need to end the fed. If money were only worth as much as it was in 06, gas would be about $1.40 per gallon. Ron Paul — the cheap gas candidate
So then where would the money to maintain our roads and bridges come from?
That comment is fro me
First thing, let me say that I’m for free market roads. As with free market money, what the federal government does in that arena is borderline Constitutional, and what state and local governments do is completely Constitutional, but the market would do it better.
The money for maintaining roads and bridges currently comes almost entirely from the gasoline tax, and either way, there is absolutely no authority in the Constitution granted to the federal government to engage in the practice of granting money to states to do such a thing. It’s illegal.
It’s a question of resource allocation. Ifwe got out of the expensive, Unconstitutional wars and bribes we give to dictators (which never work), there would be more than enough money to do it.
Of course, there’s always the option for state and local governments to impose more taxes and tolls, but then the people would likely have something to say about it. It’s when they hide the tax by printing money that people don’t notice. But make no mistake, it’s a very real tax on the value of your money.