Why the 2012 GOP Race Isn't a Replay of the Obama-Clinton Contest

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SCHEISSLINGER'S REVISIONIST HISTORY IS A HOOT...
Most everyone else who followed the knock-down drag-out no-holds-barred 2008 fight between Obama and Clinton remember not how they were torn between picking one of the candidates but the knock-down drag-out no-holds-barred parts.
And now the only ones trying to compare the 2012 republican primary to the 2008 democrat primary are the ones like Scheisslinger, eager to rewrite the 2008 democrat primary as such a wonder-filled period of bliss.
And there's a good driving reason for Scheisslinger to try and rewrite the 2008 democrat primary history:
It's beyond obvious now how Hillary would have been a much-better democrat president than Obama turned out to be. She wouldn't have tried to grab for EVERYTHING everytime. She would have ended up getting way more than Obama did in terms of democrat party ideals, without turning the country upside-down and splitting it in half.
Clinton would have been a well-planned heist, like the Thomas Crown Affair. Obama turned out to be a liquor store smash-n-grab artist.
But that's Scheisslinger's worry, how Obama threw away democrat control of the House and now stands to lose it all for the democrats.
HEY JOHN OF NY: Give up already on BILL of MO. Everybody knows EXACTLY what Rep. Paul would and wouldn't do as the next president -- via that mighty and much-needed executive-order and -veto pen. And that includes Bill of MO.
It's clear to even the intentionally dimmest of the dim -- SCHEISSLINGER -- that things are about Executive Branch leadership -- not 'compromise.'

dom youngross of OH 1:50AM March 17, 2012

Bill Hedges of Mo, you still don't see it. The federal government is prohibited by law (the contstitution) from doing most of the [harmful] things it IS doing. The federal goverment is charged with national defense and treaty and trade aggreements internationally and interstate. The federal government also is to have a court system to resolve disagreements. The point is that the federal government is Prohibited from doing all the OTHER things it does .......and for very good reason!
Does this help you see it Bill? Washington DC is not Supposed to and is not Allowed to by the highest law of the land.......run our lives. So the best accomplishment is putting us back into a sustainable government structure well designed to work. Come on Bill, be American.. aren't you old enough to see how rotten 'over reaching' central goverments make things? You find the Congress to be Correct in it's 'business as usual'?
It's the SIZE of the federal government that is the source of trouble here. Ron Paul's campaign is the caution against class warfare in Ameria (pitting dems against republicans) and against rule from afar. In a healthy society, citizens have a broad measure of local control over thier lives.

John of NY 5:41AM March 16, 2012

John of NY
I can't say what Paul will do. He's done NOTHING. Voted NO...
Takes compromise to accomplish in D.C. and Paul has no experience that shows. You always say Paul _WILL_, you never say _WHAT HE DID_...

Bill Hedges of MO 8:46PM March 15, 2012

Obama and/or Clinton for domestic freedom and international peace in 2008, at least they say so.
Romney and/or Santorum for reducing federal spending and balancing the 'current year' budgets in 2012, or at least they say so.
The flip side is that Obama and/or Clinton happily borrow and spend. Romney and/or Santorum gladly launch aggressive and pre emptive war while extinguishing personal freedoms.......
Dems/Republicans ~ each only half right.
Liberals/Conservatives ~ and all divided in conflict.
Freedom, Peace AND Fiscal responsiblity are ALL possible at once.... an honest man, a man of integrity will attend to it. United we Stand. Elect Dr. Ron Paul President of all Americans.
Pass it on.. in the shops and in the streets.. are patriots for a free and peaceful society.

John of NY 7:54AM March 15, 2012

Why is it always such a "team sport", a football game between Dems and the GOP?
We're so Used to the two party system and re-institutionalize the failures of each of them when it's time for the big election "game" year by year. Until by now we have the worse mess in memory regarding the budget and wars and personal freedoms. Money shouldn't buy our support, turning off the big money advertisements this year would let us sort through.
Or are there a certain percentage of voters who go like zombies according to the coolest ad? Sadly, it seems so...therefore... don't know? don't vote :)
Those who do think and consider all angles before voting might take the good parts from each side and then we get Ron Paul. The best candidate by far from either major party.

John of NY 6:11AM March 15, 2012