Former LA governor Buddy Roemer likely to run for President

[Phony Moderate]

1. Tom Brokaw plugged Barack Obama as one of the most promising young politicians in America when he was still a member of the Illinois State Senate. Brokaw rarely does that; he is not a master of hype, so he must have known something.

2. In view of the sell-off of TARP assets for a profit and tax cuts, our President is the antithesis of a socialist. America is more capitalist now than it was when President Obama was inaugurated.

3. The GOP used to be a conservative party. It has become so reckless that it must now be called reactionary if not fascist. Some elected Republicans as high up as the US Senate  are  close to being full-blown fascists.  

Ok.

[feeblepizza]

The bailouts were opposed by the vast majority of Republicans, and supported by nearly all Democrats.

Only 14 Republicans out of 49 in the Senate voted against it. Not what I would call a "vast majority".

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Social conservatism is a form of communism - spiritual communism, because it attempts to level out everyone into mediocrity through conformism.

And only 21 of 202 Republicans in the House voted in favor of it.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Obviously, it was no one else than socialist Barack Obama who landed U.S. in two wars and under whose watch global crisis started.

The wars are necessary.

How Iraq was necessary?

Saddam (who did not have WMD) had the capability to produce WMD and was gearing up to do so. Bush acted preemptively and removed the threat before it even became a threat.

You know, Germany posses a capability to produce WMD as well. Should US strike?

There you go again, being a smartass...Germany is an ally. Iraq was an enemy. It is better to attack an enemy so that they will not pose a threat than to pose dumbass hypothetical question about attacking an ally with a questionable history just because they can produce WMD.

Iraq was not a threat at all since 1991 and Saddam was not suicidal to try anything. Furthermore, he cooperated with weapon inspectors before invasion, so war was not a need, war was a choice.

And let's see results... rapid growth of fundamentalism, turning Iraq from a secular country where terrorist have no influence into their new playground, complicating already bad situation in the region, growth of anti-American feelings all around the globe... Oh, since you seems to care so much about economy, billions of wasted taxpayers dollars, which damaged an economy much more than any aspect of Obama's (lol) "socialism".

[Mr. Morden]

Well, I will say this for Buddy Roemer.  Despite this announcement of potential interest in a presidential run getting no attention in the MSM, it somehow managed to generate more commentary here than the comparable threads about Bachmann and Giuliani combined!

[The Mikado]

Feeblepasta might be his only supporter that isn't in his immediate family.

Actually, I wouldn't be too sure about the immediate family.

[feeblepizza]

Feeblepasta might be his only supporter that isn't in his immediate family.

Actually, I wouldn't be too sure about the immediate family.

My father's side is filled with liberal Democrats, and my mother's side is no better.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Had feeblepizza even heard of him before this thread? Love how his reply to everything about his flaws is "Well Obama is SOCIALIST!"

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Had feeblepizza even heard of him before this thread? Love how his reply to everything about his flaws is "Well Obama is SOCIALIST!"

Well, don't blame him he didn't know who Obama is back in 2007. He was watching Care Bears, not CNN.

[Nichlemn]

The "Obama did it, so anyone can" meme is annoying. Obama had great political skills and an attractive biography. What does Roemer have to offer? Unless he runs an extremely imaginative campaign (it would probably need to be the most amazing campaign in history), he's just "Some Dude".

A good parallel is Mike Gravel. He had spent decades out of office, ran a quirky campaign that was successful on the internet, and yet failed to win a single delegate. So Roemer would need something better by several orders of magnitude.