Libertarian Thread #2: We Shall Never Die!

Yeah, that's just 1 term.

I'm referring to 2 terms.

True.

He's a loony anyway, so it won't make much difference.

manofmystery wrote: Slarti ought to be smiling tonight: the media managed to bring the evangelicals out for the most ridiculous candidate in the entire race.  Goes from drawing crowds of 20 people to 20,000+ votes.  Something stinks here.

His poll numbers soared in the last week, the evangelicals finally decided he was the one they wanted to go with. Anyway, I'm enjoying the gnashing of teeth around the internet.

I believe there should be an age cut off for candidates, yes.

Also, I just remembered Ron Paul was in Bruno...when Sacha Cohen wanted to make a sex tape and came onto him by surprise.
Obviously that was the start of it all and he's been vaulted to the mainstream.

I'm a little bit shocked by the numbers. Santorum's evangelical surge really hit Paul's numbers worse than I thought. I didn't really think his surge was real. Thank you mindless herd voters for validating the absolute worse candidate in the race. 

Heh....all this lesser government talk is nice and all but maybe in the end America (well Republican voters) only do care about one thing. Talk about your faith. Don't have to do much else..just whip out that Bible and you can still sweep mammoth swaths of the country. When it comes to "moral conservative" (oh it pains me just to type) tough to beat good ol Santorum.....

IDK Slart like I said somewhere else, Iowa is more moderate then stereotypes would have you believe. Well moderate as in the democrat/republican balance. It's no New York or California which range from white trash to elitist, and have pretty much every group..but Iowa ain't bad for a bellwether.

I always wondered how Paul would make it through the GOP with his stance on gay marriage. I know he ultimately doesn't support it per se, and can say "leave it to the states" but people would much rather hear I WANNA AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO STEP DEM GAYS. Which more than a few GOPers will gladly say there's also the whole drug thing and non interventionist policies.

How on Earth will he actually get through to Republican voters? Us people are dumb and they wont listen to the anti-government stances. Just wanna hear the end result and the core of the Republican party really is pretty off from what Paul wants. A lot of people are pissed enough at the moment but I still wish him luck, because he'll need it!

James wrote: I believe there should be an age cut off for candidates, yes.

Why only for candidates? Let's put an age cap for every profession. And while we're at it, let's also dliminate risks or some stupid youngster ruining us. Let's make it so that only male between the ages of 50 and 55 can be president. Yes and they better be religious. And have a family. And have a dog (well I kind of agree with this one...)

^True. What's sad is, Romney's is this year's McCain

The key with Santorum isn't the candidate it's the media's coverage of him.  FOXNews and the radio neocons are going to rally around him while the mainstreamers pump him as the "conservative" challenger to the Mittster because they know his chances in a national election are laughable.  There was a reason the entire media body pumped him up leading up to yesterday.  Running on a platform of theocracy and christian jihad can win you the support of enough evangelicals to gather 25% of the vote in a heavily evangelical state but it's not something we'd have to worry about as the primary goes on..... unless the MSM and Hannitys, Limbaughs, and Becks of the world kid glove him with their coverage and treat him with more respect than is deserved of an absolute loon.