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On January 22 2012 09:22 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2012 08:20 Adreme wrote:On January 22 2012 06:38 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Honestly, I'd prefer Newt over Paul or Santorum, but I think Gingrich is too far on the right to reunite the country, too many liberals would seal themselves completely off, while Romney wouldn't be as effective of a leader but at least ease the tensions between Republicans and Democrats to get rid of gridlock in Congress. Congress isnt gridlocked because of how far on the left or right the president is, they are gridlocked because it is the smart thing to do. Everytime the president signs a major bill his popularity goes up a bit, so if you are a republican who wants to have the white house what motivation do you have to give the president a victory on anything. That logical approach is what creates the gridlock that makes it impossible to do anything even if you offer everything the other side wants. It's smart but accomplishes nothing. It just means we need 67% of congress to be either Republican or Democratic to get things done (vetoing everything Obama/President 45 doesn't like)
And that is a major major problem in american politic.
The opposition is more concerned about screwinig over whoever is in charge then doing there best to get concessions through for there supporters this gives a lot of situations where a goverment gets crippled.
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Romney supposed to make a speech in less 15 minutes.
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On January 22 2012 09:32 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Romney supposed to make a speech in less 15 minutes.
Have a stream of it somewhere? For some reason it's impossible to find a stream of a decent US newschannel.
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I'm amazed at how little republicans seem to care about Newt's baggage. It seems like they respect his intellect and presentation so much (as compared to Romney's) that they're willing to overlook all of his other shortcomings.
I'd vote for him because I think he's the only one that can go head to head with Obama in a debate. I just can't see Romney doing well in that category. He's definitely a dick, but to me he's the only one that seems to have any charisma and capability of solving the big issues.
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So confusing. Every graph I look at has <15% est. reporting.
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How effective would he be at solving anything though? His role when he was Speaker was a stonewaller. His reputation was built as an anti-solver more than anything else, which some people might prefer. But there's no question that he doesn't play well with others.
As of right now, none of them are standing toe to toe with Obama. There's three different winners for three different states and all of them have huge negative clouds surrounding them (from within their own party), and two of them aren't very good campaigners.
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Looks like its gonna be 4 more years of Obama! :D
(Gingrich won South Carolina)
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This is fucking hilarious. CNN is not even showing Ron Paul's vote totals on their site.
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On January 22 2012 09:54 Jibba wrote:
How effective would he be at solving anything though? His role when he was Speaker was a stonewaller. His reputation was built as an anti-solver more than anything else, which some people might prefer. But there's no question that he doesn't play well with others.
As of right now, none of them are standing toe to toe with Obama. There's three different winners for three different states and all of them huge negative clouds surrounding them, and two of them aren't very good campaigners.
Idk, part of me sees Republicans wanting that "doesn't play well with others" attitude. After all, many of the Republican Congressmen got where they are in 2010 because of their proposed aversion to compromise.
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On January 22 2012 09:55 Housemd wrote:
This is fucking hilarious. CNN is not even showing Ron Paul's vote totals on their site.
http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/state/sc
So hard to click around a website... It's not like they skipped over him. He's in last place in SC, and they only showed the top 3. OH NO!
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Really Romney is going to attack Obama...?
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"The hope of the Earth" lmfao.
On January 22 2012 10:00 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Really Romney is going to attack Obama...?
I think he wrote this speech anticipating beating Gingrich.
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err Romney probably shouldn't mention class warfare.
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On January 22 2012 09:56 aksfjh wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2012 09:54 Jibba wrote:
How effective would he be at solving anything though? His role when he was Speaker was a stonewaller. His reputation was built as an anti-solver more than anything else, which some people might prefer. But there's no question that he doesn't play well with others.
As of right now, none of them are standing toe to toe with Obama. There's three different winners for three different states and all of them huge negative clouds surrounding them, and two of them aren't very good campaigners. Idk, part of me sees Republicans wanting that "doesn't play well with others" attitude. After all, many of the Republican Congressmen got where they are in 2010 because of their proposed aversion to compromise.
They do, which works on Congressional elections. It doesn't work for the Presidency, however.
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The fact that he's a mediocre public speaker isn't helping either.
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That and it seems to be the exact same speech and isn't the best time to give a stump speech at that.
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Not dropping out. No reason to watch anymore. 
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