Romney would do well to lay off the “he’s not going to be the nominee” remarks.  Dude’s already got a problem with pushback from people who don’t want him yet think the fix is in.  This just shores up that opinion…and makes a lot of people react negatively (aka. not voting for) him.

“We love to hate the IRS, but no one is really talking about killing the
16th Amendment or offering a tax code other than one putting the ‘b’ in
Byzantine.”

Speaking frankly, I’ll grit my teeth and bear income tax, and I’d trade even my mortgage interest deduction for not sweating and swearing my way through the damned tax form. I’m pretty good at both accounting and IRS tax forms, but I have terrible, cold, frightened moments when I bolt upright in bed, sure that I made a stupid error and the IRS is going to send a SWAT team after me.

Offer me a simpler tax code. Please.

So you don’t believe a nuclear Iran is a threat?

No. Iran has never threatened us.

Brilliant point. Of course Iran has been at war with us since 1979, but I don’t believe that they’ve ever threatened us.

The problem with the Obama strategy, which was actually the old McGovern 1972 strategy, is that the Democrats had a far smaller percentage of delegates selected by primaries than Republicans do.  They also reserve 20% of the seats for officeholders, party bosses, union leaders, etc.  Obama was able to bully those delegates by threatening a black revolt “if the leader in delegates isn’t the nominee.”  Of course, the Super Delegates were created to prevent anyone from rolling through the process without review, but in the end they couldn’t stand up to the race card.

Paul may well have such a plan, but it is no more realistic than any of his other ravings.

That is a blatant and overt lie.

You forget that it was the US and Britain that helped overthrow Iran’s democratic government and imposed the Shah.

So maybe they have good reasons not to like us.

It’s rather amusing to hear Romney whining about Paul using “arcane rules” to contest the ‘inevitable’ Mittens coronation. This is the guy whose surrogates broke election law to move Primaries around and end the nomination process prematurely so they could ‘get on’ with losing the general election.

In any case, I can see why Mittens would be so upset about this. It gives him a chance to flip-flop on another issue, hypocrisy and hubris being his two dominant political traits.

It’s a blatant fact. Look it up.

We need to face that it might be in all our interests to reach out to Odd Uncle Paul. 

It may not be possible.  Many of Paul’s positions are non starters.  But not all of them are.  

The rules are only arcane to those who don’t bother to read them. Iowa’s rules are simple: precinct caucuses elect county convention delegates, county conventions elect state convention delegates, state conventions elect national convention delegates and alternates (three each by the delegates from each  congressional district, the remainder by the full convention). What confuses the ninnies in the press is that Tuesday night’s “vote” is a non-binding straw poll, so there’s no correlation between straw poll percentage and the presidential preference of Iowa’s delegation to Tampa, which won’t be chosen until June.  As I explained on my blog recently, Ron Paul could easily “win” Iowa but wind up with zero Iowa delegates.

Different rules in each state reflects federalism, and the freedom each state Republican Party retains to decide how to apportion its allotted number of delegates. The Democratic National Committee imposes certain rules on all states, requiring proportional representation for caucuses as well as primaries.

Every Republican presidential campaign should have at least one supporter  in each state with enough state party experience to understand how the system works and what the rules are. If a candidate can’t muster a single savvy activist in a state, probably best to skip it.

Hey you’re the one that brought up Dimona, I never mentioned word one about dem Jooos until you said that. Israel is more than capable of taking care of itself, if they want to kill every Arab in the region, salud. I only give a shit about the oil.

No, if I vote for anybody it will be the GOP nominee, which will be Mitt Romney.

“…the left libertarianism?”  He’s got a 100% ACU rating, you know.  And although I was young, I certainly remember the days when it was the Democrats who were branded the war party.  Grabbing that title isn’t anything to brag about, much less cling to.

What part is he lying about?  

Google ”
TPAJAX Project” – that stuff isn’t classified any more. Our CIA overthrew their leader because Iran wanted to nationalize their oil, something that BP was firmly set against.   The puppet leader we installed was a brutal dictator. Although years of British occupation had left Iran as the most Westernized nation in the Middle East,  our heavy handed power plays enabled the theocrats to gain the support they needed to pull off the  revolution.

(Now is the part where ya’ll start crabbing because I ‘blame America” which is apparently vastly different than the conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions.)