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The usual dichotomy isn't between public and private funds, though, because your election system isn't a joke.

Well, OK, not the same one I was making. It's a different joke.

My point is that he hasn't been cashing police welfare checks to fund his investigation into himself.

Having seen the pit of despair that is present day Flint MI, I tend to judge Michael Moore a little less harshly.

It's the only place I know that is a combination white trailer trash park ghetto cesspool rust town. It's everything bad about every former steel town all rolled into one. Flint is the place that Detroit looks down on.

Edited, Dec 2nd 2011 8:49pm by catwho

That's my "Oh, I'm so surprised" face.

He'll just cry that the liberals and media made him do it. Just like Cain!

Man, at least Thompson lasted a few primary states before giving up. You're picking worse candidates every cycle, Varus.

Also, Onion.

Edited, Dec 3rd 2011 3:43pm by Jophiel

not really surprised the only real candidate the pubies have is Mitt. Admittedly I like Paul more, he seems more intelligent, or at least has more intelligent people around him, he doesn't have a chance. Romney is all the GOP has really on paper, Newt will be another fizzle like the 6pack before him. (I think its only 3 but 6pack sounds good right now.)

I'm thinking there isn't any real opposition to Obama, unless maybe Hilary decides to try and unseat him.

Well, it's weird in that it's like wondering whether the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. You should already know the answer.

He's good at ******** about the media and babbling massive streams of nonsense but assuming it'll sound good if he interjects the words "fundamentally", "dynamically" and "profoundly" a lot.

Gbaji should love him

Edited, Dec 4th 2011 9:10am by Jophiel

It absolutely works. Always. You are literally 200 times smarter when you use those words.

See he does that **** for his country, he is already a better choice than Cain.

Must be one of those transferable skills.

I commented to someone in another forum that Newt is basically the seven deadly sins all wrapped into one package. Pick a sin, and there's a matching Newt story somewhere to go along with it.

One bit of amusing tidbit for this primary season:

Last election, a lot of Republican movers-and-shakers were upset that McCain locked up the nomination so early. They felt that he was a poor choice as nominee for whatever reasons but, by the time he won Florida, there was nothing left to do but order the McCain 2008 napkins for the convention. The next closest opponent was Huckabee who had a tiny handful of delegates to McCain's. The reason for this is because the GOP primaries were "winner takes all" affairs. You get the most votes in a state and you get 100% of the delegates. They changed it now that the first half of the primary states award their delegates proportionally; 30% of the votes gets you 30% of the delegates. This means no one can secure a quick win unless they're winning overwhelmingly.

Remember the 2008 primary and people on the Democratic side bemoaning the proportional system and how it led to a long slog through the states? You can expect the same now with Gingrich and Romney. Romney had hoped to sweep in Iowa and New Hampshire and have it sewn up with Florida a little later (after some other states). Now it's likely to take much longer and probably get much nastier.

To the GOP's partial credit, they decided that the second half will be awarded as "winner takes all", presumably to help tie it up before the last states. Of course, this doesn't mean as much as it could -- Obama had the nomination tied up in every mathematical sense by late April but the "contest" dragged out to the final states. Unless the GOP front-runner sweeps an early handful of "winner takes all states", you could see it continue on, trading state for state.

Edited, Dec 4th 2011 6:03pm by Jophiel