Hey, maybe the GOP should sit this election out
WATCHING the Republican Party struggling to agree on a presidential candidate, one wonders whether the G.O.P. shouldn’t just sit this election out — just give 2012 a pass.
You know how in Scrabble sometimes you look at your seven letters and you’ve got only vowels that spell nothing? What do you do? You go back to the pile. You throw your letters back and hope to pick up better ones to work with. That’s what Republican primary voters seem to be doing. They just keep going back to the pile but still coming up with only vowels that spell nothing.
There’s a reason for that: Their pile is out of date. The party has let itself become the captive of conflicting ideological bases: anti-abortion advocates, anti-immigration activists, social conservatives worried about the sanctity of marriage, libertarians who want to shrink government, and anti-tax advocates who want to drown government in a bathtub.
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Morons like you are really beneath contempt – that is, if you aren’t just a leftist hack masquerading as a conservative. Either way, you’re just as worthless.
The Count on February 12, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Let me guess, Greedman is “pro-choice”.
Flange on February 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Let me know when you begin to make an argument.
Stoic Patriot on February 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM
The country is starving for the kind of grown-up debate Tom Friedman is incapable of participating in.
deepelemblues on February 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Well that would be only way your boy Obama would be able to win in November.
Tommy_G on February 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM
This thread’s starting to become an ABO discussion, so I’ll throw my 2 cents in:
I don’t support Mitt. Right now I’m leaning toward Santorum only because he’s the more conservative (I guess he’s the more severely one of the bunch)of the remaining candidates. That being said, I’m not going to not vote for Mitt should he be the eventual nominee. While he may be a northeast lib with an R next to his name, he’s not an out and America hating Marxist.
His election won’t fix any of the mess made in the last few years, but it will slow the speed of our trip towards the cliff’s edge.
If he’s the nominee and wins, it might just buy us some time till guys like Rubio, West, or Ryan feel they’re ready to step up to the plate.
Call me unprincipled, but not voting for Mitt should he be nominated is essentially a half a vote guaranteeing America’s collapse in 2 years. I say hold your nose and pick the better of awful and evil.
ironbill on February 12, 2012 at 11:49 AM
“I don’t like your opinions, so you should just go away. Pleeeeease.”
Friedman’s totalitarianism isn’t really the kind that inspires defiance or even disgust, it’s more like pity. The man is so pathetic he can’t even indulge in his fantasies about total control without looking like a limp-wristed idiot.
deepelemblues on February 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Of course this toolbag wants his messiah to run unopposed. Because that’s the ONLY way Captain Downgrade could possibly win reelection.
ZK on February 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM
I think it’s a failure of imagination on the parts of the latter who are telling themselves that Romney’s opponents are just whacky extremists and that of course Romney will be different from Obama.
I think if a lot of them sat down and genuinely tried to figure out how a Romney presidency would differ from Obama’s presidency, they would probably figure out in short order than it wouldn’t be that different.
Doomberg on February 12, 2012 at 12:25 PM
His suggestion that the GOP just sit this one out reminds me of when the left was so happy to get Obama they figured that Bush should just go ahead and step down early.
They really don’t like this whole voting thing, when they could just, you know, be in power forever! Due to being superior and smarter and better and obviously more right and all that.
Alana on February 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM
The argument that you are a moron is self-evident.
The Count on February 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Wow. Proof by assertion! Awesome!
Stoic Patriot on February 12, 2012 at 1:58 PM
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