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If Ron Paul is going to run I'll have a reason to vote.

Of course I'm in California, voting Republican here is purely a symbolic thing. This state always votes Democrat for whatever the reason regardless of the candidate. Adolf Hitler can carry California if he claims to be a Democrat.

Troy says

worse, angling to become a dependent of the state.

I've got the distinct feeling TOT would feel quite comfortable carrying one of those "Don't touch my Medicare!" signs.

Suppose Ron Paul becomes POTUS.

How long will it take before he becomes co-opted by the Very Serious People (=the corporatist Republican establishment)?

Most of the tea party has been coopted already.

Tell me I'm wrong....

No if there's going to be a health scam system, that does not deny existing conditions,
that also subsidizes those that can't afford it. Then I'll skate along and take my chances until 2012.
If something catastrophic was to happen, then I'll sign my house over to my wife and divorce her, then get on the Obama dole. I understand mathematics enough to know that I'll be better fucking the system, rather than bending over and letting it screw me.

More short sighted Liberal bullshit, that screws the hard working middle class, while giving white glove gratis service to the poor.

I see how it works, I'll go stand in that line, then when nobody is looking I can stand in this line.
But when Liberals make a system, one thing for sure, everybody gets some, on the middle class's dime.

Obama care is fucking Joke that falls grossly short of its mark. It is not a healthcare system it is a Healthcare profit center.

See how that works? But in the mean time, it's far cheaper, to pay out my own pocket to go see the optomatrist, general practitioners, my kids get doctor check ups. We're all fit as a fiddle.

Which 99.9% of Americans are, $1400 a month premium for healthy American families like we've got festering boules on our backs, and is in need of 24/7 medical care, Are you insane?

Troy do me a favor will ya, pay my part for me, I'm really losing sleep at night fucking the Obama system out of fucking me and my family over.

And by the way PAL, push comes to shove, I'll go to Peru one of hundreds of countries for major surgery if I need it. But Wall street and the clueless 401K pensioners, aren't getting one cent of mine. Not for MY Health. Greedy ass Bitches!

Tenouncetrout says

At this rate I suspect it will be more like $2500 a month while Obama watches the health care industry run the clock out, raising premiums unimpeded.

That couldn't possibly happen, could it? I mean, Obama, being a Democrat, cares. How could a caring President FORCE the American people into paying a premium that high (to the benefit of the caring PRIVATE insurance companies)? It just can't be, can it? Maybe that's what was meant by "Yes WE Can?"

shrekgrinch says

Nobody cared about Bush’s bankruptcies, why should they care about Trumps…

Agreed. This is all old news.

shrekgrinch says

especially when Trump will just say, “Yeah, and the rest of you should do it too…screw the bankers!” and his poll numbers will skyrocket even more when he does that.

Nah... I don't think this will work. He's a long-established member of the NY financial elite and lives in a gold plated penthouse for crying out loud!

And even if this angle does work for Trump, his number is up when the public finds out that thing stapled to his pate is actually Jimmy Hoffa's scalp...

Troy says

Bush Sr was the last Republican to win California (by 350,000 votes), though in 1992 the Bush/Perot vote won 700,000 more votes than Clinton, good thing there were 2.3M morons voting for Perot in 1992 : )

I didn’t realize 1992 and 1996 were so close for Clinton:

This isn't too surprising if you consider that California didn't become a 'blue state' until the Clinton years. Before that California generally voted along with the rest of the western states, and often for Republicans. The website below has a great history of the electoral vote running back to 1789!

http://www.100bestwebsites.org/alt/evmaps/electoral-maps.htm

@Terri

>Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/

Thanks for this link!

No problem. Enjoy!

Tenouncetrout says

No if there’s going to be a health scam system, that does not deny existing conditions,
that also subsidizes those that can’t afford it. Then I’ll skate along and take my chances until 2012.
If something catastrophic was to happen, then I’ll sign my house over to my wife and divorce her, then get on the Obama dole. I understand mathematics enough to know that I’ll be better fucking the system, rather than bending over and letting it screw me.

So your plan if something really bad happens is to stick everyone else with the cost since you don't want to take responsibility to insure yourself or your family against catastrophic illnes. Perfect, people like you are one of the reasons that health care insurance is so expensive.

bob2356 says

people like you are one of the reasons that health care insurance is so expensive.

and why there's the mandate in the first place.

though I just got billed $250 for a simple pituitary hormone blood test (one of three taken in one sitting) so my hatred of the current system did get bumped up a notch.

Thing is, I realize to get to a Canadian or Eurosocialist system here is going to require going over the dead bodies of anti-government idiots like TOT.

bob2356 says

Perfect, people like you are one of the reasons that health care insurance is so expensive.

The health care system is so expensive primarily because Americans have one of the worst diets in the entire world. Americans rank right up there with being the most obese in the world, which leads to all kinds of health problems that they think can be "cured" by going to some quack Dr. that will prescribe them some magic pills to make them better. Big Pharma and the medical community thrive because of like you that support this rediculous system that will force us to comply by mandating insurance premiums.

CL says

I think the Republican bosses will make him appear to be a crackpot, a la McCain, because he is not thei candidate of choice. They’ll kill the baby in the crib.

We'll have to wait and see on this one. Both Paul and Trump have yet to attend the court of this boss in NH (nytimes):

A White House in New Hampshire Lures the G.O.P.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/us/30house.html?_r=1&hp

Mr. Lamontagne said he expected the parties to continue into the fall, with a break in July and August because his house gets too warm. Mr. Romney wants to come, he said, as does Representative Ron Paul of Texas. He endorsed Mr. Romney in 2008, but in staying neutral for now, he is guaranteeing that his parties stay red-hot and that his own name does the same.

Donald J. Trump has yet to reach out, but Jorge Mesa-Tejada, a friend of Mr. Lamontagne’s, joked that Mr. Trump’s main goal in visiting New Hampshire this week was to get on Mr. Lamontagne’s radar screen.

Wonder how that happened? With his name sounding all French-y. :)

justme says

Suppose Ron Paul becomes POTUS.
How long will it take before he becomes co-opted by the Very Serious People (=the corporatist Republican establishment)?
Most of the tea party has been coopted already.
Tell me I’m wrong….

I'd say before the 3rd primary.

An interesting quote from a recent nytimes article:

Republicans Are Pursuing a Wider Field for 2012 Race
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/us/politics/01republicans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The party lacks the establishment-anointed candidate that has led it into every presidential cycle for decades.

Mitt Romeny has a very slim chance of becoming the nominee. I only see him getting the nomination if something devestating comes out about Pawlenty at the last minute.

And no mention of Mitt Romney is complete without a link to a RomneyCare article:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2011_0412romneycare_a_big_bust/

terriDeaner says

Nah… I don’t think this will work. He’s a long-established member of the NY financial elite and lives in a gold plated penthouse for crying out loud!

h

If it were not for the Time Warner Center in the background, I would have mistaken that photo for one of Saddam's palaces.

The scariest words in the English language:

"This is President Trump. Give me the launch codes."

HousingWatcher says

And no mention of Mitt Romney is complete without a link to a RomneyCare article:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2011_0412romneycare_a_big_bust/

Nice...

i'm saying these quotes are reasonable. attack by the left is a false interpretation of them.

Those blacks that were rioting were pillagers and looters, the only thing that stopped them were hand outs and Koreans with guns. only reason my dads store did not get ransacked was because he had a dog with a loud bark and a shotgun. The same mentally sick (mostly blacks) people that were rioting back then are the same kind that go rioting and pillaging every time Lakers win a championship.

The liberal hit job is when they try to take that reality and make it sound like it is being addressed toward all the blacks that exist when we all know it's not the case and that the statement is only meant for those who are guilty as charged. It's what the ultra left does, takes sentences out of context and plays them to extreme to prove a point.

Nomograph says

Folks on these forums have really bad track records when it comes to making predictions.

To be fair, it was qualified with LONG SHOT not dead certain "why can't the rest of you dolts see how obvious the outcome is".

Nomograph says

Folks on these forums have really bad track records when it comes to making predictions.

I knew you'd say that.