The Paddock

If Reagan really believed in his "doctrine" (and I think he did) which was to speak no ill of another Republican, he probably wouldn't pick any of them.

I love that Gingrich is pissed off. He's a smart guy, he should have known that he was never and never will be a viable candidate for POTUS.

You are wrong about the Tea Party and if the idiots in control of the Republican party listened to them more often we wouldn't have the disaster we had.

It's stupid to have a 'payroll tax deduction' that is a suspension of adding to SSN and medicare. It's stupid. Both programs are struggling and you want to stop adding to them? Crazy. Besides that Dems have said for years that neither program is a tax so how do they now call this a tax? You know how they are paying for this? They are adding a 1-2% fee/tax onto new mortgages underwritten by Fannie & Freddie... How stupid is that? Down housing market, people struggling to buy homes and you want to make them more expensive. Smart...not!

Their may be some anarchist in the tea party but they are few and far between. The Tea party is about limited government and your continued slandering of them is absurd.

We need to vote all the incumbents out of both parties!

Seriously... Cobby is spot on in that last post. Carl... I ask that you research those claims by Cobby yourself (issue by issue as he posted). You WILL be WOW'ed!!! Facts don't discriminate against one party or another... they are what they are. (facts).

Mike Huckabee should have ran... he would've won the nominee by a landslide.

Focusing on who IS running, I've always heard to beware of the one making the less noise... so I'm paying more attention to Huntsman at the moment. He may prove to be the surprise dark horse in this race.

Huckabee would have been slaughtered in the general election. The same as Santorum if he wins. Huntsman is dead in the water. He can't even get close in New Hampshire. Unless that changes pretty fast he's done.

I hate the term RINO. I'm not a republican but that totally divides you guys. If Reagan was alive today he'd be called a RINO. Basically all a RINO is is a moderate that realizes in politics you can't get everything you want and will actually work with the opposing party to try to get things done for the country. God bless the RINO's. I wish we had more of them.

Haha ... I feel like I just witnessed the birth of a Republican in that video.

nice

Because a lot of those people that won't change their minds never had much of a mind to begin with. I don't mind someone changing their minds unless they change it multiple times to suit whatever the constituency they happen to be trying to appease at that moment. That's my major problem with Romney.

I don't care about romney's stance on social issues. That is what he is accused of being a flip flopper in.

What we need in the white house is a proven leader. Why is Barack Obama an epic failure? Because he never led anything before he got in the white house.

Romney, whether you like his policies or not is a proven leader at every level. He's been a wildly successful leader in the private sector and he was a very effective leader as a governor. He tackled big issues
That needed tackling and fixed problems that needed fixing.

Obama took office when the entire house (economy) was on fire and he tried to re-model the kitchen (healthcare).

In his supply side effort for stimulus (stimulus was a good idea) he flopped. He spent the money on companies that had no chance to succeed and spent money on hiring government employees. If he had spent the money investing in real infrastructure and real businesses it could have had a chance. Instead he spent it in useless crap that provided nothing for economic growth.

Obama has proven to be "not ready for prime time". The stage was too Big and he didnt know how to handle the situation.

Romney, while not perfect understands practicality in leadership and he understands how to analyze a situation and make he best and sometimes hardest decision.

Every president in the last 40 years had "flip flopped" on multiple issues. George w bush on stem cell research, Reagan on every issue, Clinton on right to work and partial birth abortion, George h w bush on abortion, and Obama on the surge in Iraq.

While i didn't want to believe the rhetoric about Obama and extremism my judgement of him 3 years ago prove to be naive. I voted for him and I now regret it as much as anything I have ever done.

He userped the legislative process on health care reform, his NLRB has proven to be as anti-capitalistic as any in history and his EPA has been a 100% disaster.

Obama will go down as one of tr worst presidents in us history.

Your accusation on Romney is categorically false in regards to how he operated in the private sector. You're reading dnc talking ponits. That doesn't even deserve a response.

In terms of "tough decisions". Any president would have gone in and gotten Bin laden. that's an easy decision.

Most disagreeable congress in history? He had a super majority his first two years as president. he refuses to deal with congress. he (obama) refuses to negotiate or inject himself into discussions with congress.

he's a miserable leader. Reagan and Clinton, two of the better presidents in the last century both faced a situation where the entire congress for the majority (in reagan's case his entire time in office) was controled by the opposite party yet they were able to get a TON accomplished and were able to create a terrific environment for our economy and society to thrive. Obama, with a super majority for two years and 1/2 the congress for the other year has failed miserably. he's petty, he's immature and he doesn't understand how the real world works.
i learned my lesson. Don't elect somebody president who has never lead anything in their life.

It isn't false. It's what he did. He cut others jobs. He didn't take a pay cut did he.

It wasn't an easy decision and you know it. He had several safer options. He didn't know for sure if it was even him. It was a 60% chance at best. When you consider, and he did, the failed mission in Iran under Carter and blackhawk down it was a terribly tough call to make and how dare you pretend it wasn't just because you hate him.

By far the most disagreeable and the number of censures backs me up 100%. He never had a super majority in both houses which is what you need nowadays to do anything. He has tried and tried to work with congress and they have continuously disregarded him. You're wrong. And it was officially a super majority but not really. Any blue dog dem, and there are several, crossing the aisle ends any so-called super majority. For all intents and purposes he didn't have one and what's more he shouldn't need one. This super majority is unconsitutional and isn't what the founding fathers intended.

Reagan and Clinton both worked with congresses that would work with them even though they were each opposing congresses. Yes Clinton and Reagan both deserve credit for working with opposing congresses but the congresses of each party deserve just as much credit for working with a president of an opposing party. Obama has tried and tried to work with them and they won't even compromise on things they agreed with him on in the past. They have said their number one goal is to make Obama a one term president. Not the economy. Not Health care. Not education. Killing Obama. They do that by putting down anything he might get credit for that would help the country. I blame him for not knocking his own parties heads when they needed it and I'm not enthused by him but he's a GOD compared to that do nothing congress that would rather flush us all down the toilet than to compromise on anything. Our credit being downgraded is a prime example. Obama offered what was recommended in cuts to go along with a modest revenue hike on the top 1%. If it was acted on by congress we wouldn't have been downgraded and our recovery would have been further down the road than it is. But congress shot it down without even considering it.