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Originally Posted by Gattigap
Listen, hippie. Sometimes folks just need killin'. You may not understand this, but the good people in the GOP primary ranks do, and they're gonna give us a candidate who is the living, breathing embodiment of their id.
It really will be a fascinating thing to watch. Early on in these debates, it seems pretty clear that Perry is untethered from the constraints of reason, and it'll be interesting to watch whether Romney is able to box him in to things like "facts" and "reality," because there ain't no way that Romney can out-id this guy. Who will GOP primary voters actually choose? |
Hmm. "Fascinating" must be one of those words like "upshot," because for years I thought it meant "really interesting" and all along it meant "pants-shittingly-terrifying." Makes me think of all those
Star Trek episodes in a much different light.
I think he's gone a bit too far on SS for all but the hardest core of primary voters, and it sounds much too much like he wants to destroy it completely and leave nothing in its place (I freely admit that I have no idea, or interest in, what his actual policy prescription for SS might be). Even Republicans have parents and grandparents who collect SS, and there are even some who harbor some hope that it will be there for them in their old age. No one gives a shit about global warming in any faction of the GOP primary voting base as far as I can tell, so he's probably safe being a wingnut on that point.
