Politics The Elephant in the room...The GOP today

The modern GOP is full of professional victims. They're victims of reverse racism and wars on countless things like Christmas, family values, regilous percussion, the homosexual agenda etc... It's a amazing they manage to maintain being the "real" Americans so well.

 

Trudeau is almost correct. What he is really trying to say is that liberals tend not to have real conviction. Hence we get the Occupy Wall St. Movement with people protesting Wall St. while sleeping in LL Bean tents, drinking Starbucks Coffee, playing games on their Apple phones with service from Verizon.

On a side note Trudeau has really lost his edge. Is it because we have a liberals in control of Washington and therefore good political satire involving liberals is off limits?

 

Poor Paul Ryan, torn between Ayn Rand as his childhood idol and his Catholic upbringing requiring a bit more compassion. He downplayed the Pope's recent proclamation as a lack of understanding of capitalism because he (the Pope) is from Argentina,where true capitalism was never in play.

So I'm guessing he stands by his compassionate conservatism based on the myth of lazy government sucking parasites.

"But we don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency, that drains them of their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives.." ​

 

That article pretty much sums up the entire problem of campaign finance reform and the Citizens United decision. Rich people shouldn't have that much influence over politics and getting their agenda implemented.

 

It's not as simple as that.

First of all, the independent power of money in electoral politics is tremendously overrated. And TV commercials have little impact on the average voter's behavior.

Remember the 2012 election? Unleashed by Citizens United, wealthy conservatives spent an unprecedented amount of money to change the outcome. It won them essentially nothing.

When both sides in an electoral battle have a certain threshold amount of resources, additional money added on one side makes very little difference. Shoestring campaigns beat well-funded campaigns all the time.

Moreover, the more money a political campaign has, the higher percentage of its spending is wasted. A well-funded campaign buys very nice offices, lots of paid staff to populate them, lots of catered food, lots of consultants, lots of useless polls, etc., etc., etc., none of which have much, if any, impact on the outcome.

The real problem with large campaign contributions from interest groups is the way that it affects the candidates, and ultimately, the officeholders.

Even if the outcome is not in much doubt, every candidate is eager to get as much money as possible. A well-funded campaign is more fun than a shoestring campaign. The donors who make that kind of campaign possible are contributing hugely to the politician's comfort and happiness, and hence, bending him (or her) to their will.

 

Chis Christie is a classic bully, it is good that it is coming to light before Presidential election season. I never thought his style would play outside of the NE. His tap dancing is an embarrassment, he should resign as governor.

 

More to the point, he's a hothead. Not good presidential temperament.

 

I don't get why people care about this little traffic incident over all of the other policies that would screw over people for the Right to prove that they had the better plan all along. Even if it meant hurting people or costing them a lot of money.

Sure, it makes him look bad and vindictive, but the people on the Tea Party side of the Republican party didn't want to have to compete with him in 2016, so they are going to be pushing this too.

I think there are plenty of other reasons to not vote for him, this is almost something I would expect from New England/Chicago style politics.

 

For the same reason that folks cared more about a blowjob from an intern than a lie that killed hundreds of thousands of people, and continues to kill.