How Paulson Just Picked the 2012 GOP Nominee

Socialism, Fascism, which is it?

What we face is socialism or fascism, which are hard to define separately (Liberal Fasciscm is a book which gives it a great try). If free elections still exist in 2012, I expect someone like Huckabee to triumph...Gingrich if he doesn't have too much baggage or isn't too old.

By 2012, people will be more fully behind a concept of Armagedonnish breakdown, and so Christians such as Huckabee will be even more attractive. By then, maybe Palin will have thought through her foreign policy, and could be a VP.

I believe the thesis of this article is correct. I was a liberal dem for most of my life, and I believe my conversion to this line of thought was brought about by looking more closely at the facts...but we are all still somewhat in the dark, aren't we?

Mariel of NM @ Sep 28, 2008 13:36:59 PM

Apocalypse now

It is ironic though that many evangelical-religionist wingnuts don't believe in the "apocalypse" of Paulson-Bernanke but do believe in the Apocalypse of Revelation and the Left Behind franchise of LaHaye-Jenkins.

Philo of TX @ Sep 28, 2008 05:34:22 AM

Getting Republican Support

If they want Republican support for the rescue package all they need do is attach some kind of anti-abortion rider to the plan.

A Foreigner @ Sep 28, 2008 04:20:11 AM

If Lucianne Goldberg's Obese Offspring and Mad Michelle....

....Determine the financial policies of this nation, then we all better join hands right now and detonate enough nuclear missiles to make America a memory.

Lucianne Goldberg's Obese Offspring and Mad Michelle, the brunette Ann Coulter, have always been, and will always be, interested only in their own financial enrichment and ego maintenance.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

Each is an intellectual lightweight with little more than Neoconservative and Conservative paymasters.

Mark of @ Sep 28, 2008 00:46:27 AM

Umm, you forgot the one guy...

Who has been the most anti-bailout of anyone:

Ron Paul.

It seems like a stretch right now that he'd run again or would be accepted as the GOP standard-bearer in 2012, but if the country is in as terrible of financial shape as it looks like it will be, and as he's been predicting it would be for God knows how long, he'll end up smelling like roses to the GOP and the country in Four Years.

One thing is for sure: people are starting to listen to him in light of this, and he's gotten more media coverage in the last two weeks in light of the bailouts than he ever did during his campaign. If he wanted, he could make another run for it.

Paige Michael-Shetley of NC @ Sep 28, 2008 00:29:10 AM

Try this bailout plan

Instead of giving $700,000,000,000 to Wall Street, let's do this:

Let's divide $700,000,000,000 by the U.S. population size of 300,000,000 and give the resulting $2,333,000 to each person in the United States.

Every person in the middle class and the poor can pay off all their mortgage and credit cards and medical bills, and buy a house debt free, and send their kids to college, begin businesses, invest in the stock market, etc.

It would be the greatest economic recovery and jubilee the world has ever seen as all that money "percolated up".

booksnmore4you of CO @ Sep 27, 2008 23:53:23 PM

The war without taxes has enough infaltionary pressure...

...add this nonsense to the mix and inflation will make the 70's look like a picnic!

Doug di Giovanni of CA @ Sep 27, 2008 23:52:06 PM

Ron Paul 2012

There's one person in Congress who did vote against the Iraq War. There's one person in Congress who predicted this financial crisis years ago.

Joe S. of WA @ Sep 27, 2008 23:48:51 PM