The Republican party has never been more desperate or lacking in good potential Presidential candidates. Bachman is a Religious extremist loon, Romney a flip flopping Mormon and Perry a redneck fool. Herman Cain is one of the current front runners and seems to be brain dead and not actually know anything about US foreign policy.This video is humiliating the man does not have a clue. He needs to stick to pizza toppings.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...s-on-Libya.html

 

 

Romney will win by default and Obama's line will be "so last time your best candidate was someone not good enough to beat George Bush, and this one wasn't even good enough to beat that guy..."

 

Just as well for the Democrats because they'd be struggling otherwise.

Obama does need a weak candidate to win a second term but do they all have to be this weak. I know the Republican base are not too discerning but its current candidates are the worst.

Ideally that good ol boy Rick Perry will win the nomination as the Tea Party are backing him and he is just as inept as Cain.

So he needs to know all the facts, hear all sides of the argument and then have plenty of time to decide. Had he been around at the time he would probably have decided Hitler was not terribly friendly by around 1962. Leaders have to strike the right balance between considering the facts and making a timely decision. By that measure, Cain is no leader.

The closest the Republicans have to a respectable candidate is Ron Paul, although given his libertarian views and the media blackout from him, he has no chance of securing the nomination. I did find Perry forgetting what governmental policy he wanted to abolish was hilarious. The rule of three is a great way to connect with an audience and activate the 'clap trap' in debates, but it helps if you know what those three things are.

God it almost makes me wish for Sarah Palin.

This is an out-take from the new "Thick of It" spin-off film, isn't it....? :lol: :lol:

 

The man's an absolute f**king idiot... :rolleyes:

 

Ron Paul must laughing his arse off right now, he really has no competition for the Republican Party candidacy....

Ron Paul must laughing his arse off right now, he really has no competition for the Republican Party candidacy....

You're kidding right? :lol: It's almost certain he won't get it. Have you seen his consistent polling figures despite air time at every debate? It'll almost certainly be Romney (or Gingrich/Huntsman/Johnson if any of them manage to peak as the anti-Romney candidate at just the right time...), and Paul's just, well, a bit TOO loony libertarian for most of the base.

You're kidding right? :lol: It's almost certain he won't get it. Have you seen his consistent polling figures despite air time at every debate? It'll almost certainly be Romney (or Gingrich/Huntsman/Johnson if any of them manage to peak as the anti-Romney candidate at just the right time...), and Paul's just, well, a bit TOO loony libertarian for most of the base.

 

No, I'm not kidding, Ron Paul is by FAR the best candidate as far as Republicans go, he's certainly the one who talks by far the most sense, and since when has being a "Libertarian" a dirty word..?

 

Romney, Gingrich, Bachmann, et al, are all f***ing idiots who will just kow tow to the bankers and Israel and before you know it, we'll be entering into a bloody and ruinous war with Iran; Paul actually has a mind of his own and doesn't automatically believe the shite the IAEA says as if it's gospel.. Oh, would that be the reason why people consider him a "loony"..? Because he'll actually get shit done..... :rolleyes:

 

Besides, this report from Russia Today (which I consider a FAR more trustworthy news source than shite like the BBC, CNN or Faux News) would seem to suggest that things are a lot closer than you think, and the mainstream US media would be comfortable with....

 

http://rt.com/usa/news/latest-poll-ron-paul-425/

He may be the best candidate and willing to reject economic orthodoxy, but that doesn't mean he stands a chance of winning. I'd certainly consider libertarian to be a dirty word where it concerns the economic side of things. Privatising the money supply? Returning to the gold standard and thereby completely removing the backup of Keynesian stimulus and deficit spending in the worst case scenario as an option? Privatising education? Getting rid of the Departments of Energy, Health, Internal Revenue and FEMA? Thatcher had a mind of her own and got shit done too...

 

That's one poll. It may be the sign of an upsurge, or more likely given the last month (and this isn't to do with news sources at all - this is to do with polling organisations. I follow the basic mantra: never trust a news organisation to report poll findings, only ever take them from the source as news organisations just tend to pick out the story they want from them. Take the oh-so trustworthy Russia Today - "Texas Congressman Ron Paul has taken the lead in the latest poll.", before saying he's on 19% compared with Cain's 20%! And at no point does it state in that article that it's a poll of JUST Iowans rather than a nationwide poll, hence skewing it miserably. Never take a news report on polls at face value...) it could just be a rogue or a temporary debate spike.

 

Paul has consistently polled from a range of polling organisations between 5-10% with a couple of outliers showing him on 12/13% since the beginning of October, which is nowhere NEAR enough to be winning him the nomination. Even within Iowa, where the Bloomberg poll is focused, Paul has no distinct polling trend - his figures jump all over the shop. Bloomberg and Iowa State Uni have him around 19/20% in Iowa last weekend, at roughly the same time and within a week before The Polling Company, Newsmax, and 'We Ask America' have him around 10/11%. The real trend in Iowa the last few weeks is of Cain building up a huge lead and it slowly slipping back now into a possible four-way tie in Iowa between Cain, Romney, Gingrich and Paul - and given Iowa is one of the areas Paul has been polling the most strongly (coming second in the Ames Straw Poll there to Michele Bachmann), which would be his notional cornerstone, that isn't particularly promising for his candidacy. Paul could win Iowa, and maybe at a massive stretch New Hampshire, but these are his support bases - he's not going to be winning the whole thing!

There is only one Republican candidate that is intelligent, sensible, moderate and has foreign policy experience. He will never get the chance to take on Obama and that is Jon Huntsman. The issue rather like Paul is that he does not appeal to the bigoted, rabid Tea party loving Republican base and he is too centrist. The Republicans have veered so far to the right that anyone who is not anti Gay, anti immigrant, anti tax cuts, anti abortion and anti the poor but still Pro-God has no chance. The Republican party is now the party of empty vessels who make the most noise but have no sense of responsibility to anyone but the rich.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/jon-hun...-040034364.html

Edited November 17, 201113 yr by marrb

He may be the best candidate and willing to reject economic orthodoxy, but that doesn't mean he stands a chance of winning. I'd certainly consider libertarian to be a dirty word where it concerns the economic side of things. Privatising the money supply? Returning to the gold standard and thereby completely removing the backup of Keynesian stimulus and deficit spending in the worst case scenario as an option? Privatising education? Getting rid of the Departments of Energy, Health, Internal Revenue and FEMA? Thatcher had a mind of her own and got shit done too...

 

Newsflash - gold is already in play and China is buying up all the gold it can get its hands on because they see the future.. Fiat is dead as the dodo, currencies only ever have a 30 or 40 year run, and Fiat's run is coming to an end (it was in 1971 that Nixon ended the Gold Standard)... Watch Max Keiser, he's been saying for the past two or three years that gold is going to come-back, he was also warning everyone about the banking crisis in 2006... EVERTHING Keiser has predicted has come true.... the gold standard isn't the problem, it's finding the right price for gold that's the key...

 

Ron Paul, like Max Keiser, is smart enough to see where things are heading... The other front-runners are complete idiots who just want to stick to the status quo WHICH ISN'T WORKING....

Besides, this report from Russia Today (which I consider a FAR more trustworthy news source than shite like the BBC, CNN or Faux News)

And you're on their payroll for promotions :kink:

Fiat currency doesn't have to be on the way out, it just requires strongly regulated fractional reserve banking...I hardly think that returning to a failed system is the way forward, even if it is a convenient one. Given the amount of political pressure that would be required to abandon fiat currency it's hardly almost a fait accompli as you're implying either...

And you're on their payroll for promotions :kink:

 

Oi, watch it you, our you'll get a visit from the FSB.... :P :lol:

 

Fiat currency doesn't have to be on the way out, it just requires strongly regulated fractional reserve banking...I hardly think that returning to a failed system is the way forward, even if it is a convenient one. Given the amount of political pressure that would be required to abandon fiat currency it's hardly almost a fait accompli as you're implying either...

 

The dollar as a reserve currency is dead.. It just doesn't know it yet... :P The Euro is probably on the way out too..

 

The Euro would emerge as the big reserve currency if the Eurozone got it's shit together and stopped acting like a bunch of squabbling 3 year olds. If the ECB commits to being a lender of last resort (Like the BoE is for us) then a lot of the problems will simply melt away. Being able to call upon the ECB would actually reduce the interest rates payable by Italy (saving them from becoming Greece II and plunging the entire world into recession) and help Greece manage its repayments.

 

If only the Germans wouldn't stand in the bloody way!

 

 

If the Eurozone continues shitting about, then the Aussie Dollar could replace the Yank Dollar. $1 = A$0.994 currently (according to Google) so there would be no losses due to exchange rates.