Romney is an easy target for attacks because of his obvious big government preferences.

Closing in on third… Ron Paul. Ron Paul desperately needs a good PR guy. If he secures the Republican nomination, he can win. If he can appeal to those in the Republican base who are free from the burden of independent thought, he can win the primaries. He needs some catchy one-liners like “The only candidate who has always stood up against big government” or “More than promises – More than proven”. He can secure Tea Party support, even if the people who took up the Tea Party mantle of leadership denounce him.

Again I’ll say, I don’t agree with everything Ron Paul says. But he says things that no corporate shill will. He’s got my vote.

RINOs, moderates, libertarians, conservatives, one-and-all; the field is as diverse as can be remembered. Ditto for diverse voter groups, who have demanded wider participation than can also be remembered. The only ones missing are the anarchists, who wouldn’t play anyway.

Whether the electoral choices to be made actually result in much of a difference is another matter… but it would seem that if zero gets nothing else accomplished, he’s been responsible for a massive influx of partisan opposition.

The electorate is then allowed to indemnify their pre-selections via the ballot box. It doesn’t matter which party wins in these times since they are both compromised by the same corporate entities.

I should have been more clear about how candidate ‘selection’ really works. It was all laid out by Ferdinand Lundberg (deceased) in the 1968 release “The Rich and the Super Rich” an expose’ as to who owns America lock, stock and barrel and have so since the dawn of the Republic to present. I’m not talking about noveau riche upstarts either, but the heavy draft models like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Scaifes et al. When a candidate is called to meet with the ‘Chairman of the Board’ relative to the New World Order; I.E., David Rockefeller, then get his blessing, they know they are on the fast track to the White House. They best know who their betters are and perform a smart jig to the tune of their corporate fiddle.

The flagship party for the well heeled and landed wealthy class is the Republican party. They’ve managed to compromise the so-called “people’s party”, the Democrats totally since WWII. There is no genuine opposition, but simply a duopoly that now report to these aforementioned shadowy entities via their corporate lobbying functions. Any contentiousness between the parties is simply high theater for public consumption. In the end “we the people” invariably get screwed time and again by these usurpers in high places.

Carl Nemo **==

This any-port-in-a-storm mentality gave us Obama. When did Americans stop standing and start settling?

Just give me a Republican, any Republican…

Really intelligent. I’m proud to be an American.

We have now two “front-runners.” One who is the former governor of an overly “liberal” state that delivered the very same socialized medicine that “conservatives” love to hate, and a former Democrat that supported Hillary Clinton’s feeble and doomed attempt at the same.

I’ll repeat…Really intelligent.

Rick Perry claims to be an anti-federal, small government conservative, but his state benefits greatly from federal programs. The only reason Texas remains above the fray is due to federal defense contracts and federal welfare, but Perry tries (and apparently succeeds) to maintain that he actually had some thing to do with it as governor.

Romney is a political chameleon. ‘Nuf said about him. I can’t believe this is the best the “conservatives” have to offer.

Vote for either of these two frauds and you’ll feel the same type of buyer’s remorse that “liberals” and Democrats are feeling with Obama right now.

But hey, at least we’re not stuck with McCain, right?

Yeah, it would have been a lot different today, seeing as Obama hasn’t changed a damned thing but the name on the door and who the lobbyists write the checks to…

He’s one of them…They all are, save one…

Gee I guess if Homer says so, then it must be so…no? Yikes, is this the level to which candidate selection has degenerated in this nation?

We’ve moved to the point where the old maxim “in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king”. / : |

IMO Romney has the persona of an obnoxious, ineffective car salesman.

Carl Nemo **==