This is pretty much exactly what hubiestubert has been saying about Roemer and about himself. Best of luck to Buddy...he's not insane like the rest of 'em.

Nope, still doesn't ring a bell.

stoli n coke: ruinevil: Don't know why everyone here loves him, he seems to have been an ineffectual governor. He has sane policy positions for the most part, but he's just "meh."

He'd probably be an ineffectual president, which would have been acceptable 120 years ago, but will screw us over in this era.

Do you want a president who's got his face buried in paperwork trying, in an ever so dull way, to fix things, or do you want a loud, obnoxious, fundie nutjob who's pissing himself for the chance to push the red button and start Operation Bring Jesus Back?

Given what's offered, I'll take the nerd Obama.

GODDAMMIT!

Well, that's it. I'm out. Not a damn one the stage that I'd vote for in a general election, so screw this. They want to let the Idiot Brigade put forward the candidates, I can't stop them. I can vote against the Idiot Brigade at the polls though. Won't be joining the Democrats anytime soon, but maybe the Modern Whigs need an organizer or someone to work the phones...

And then there were five. (new window)

hubiestubert: Well, that's it. I'm out.

One of the fascinating things about being on Fark as long as I have is watching people's personal politics evolve.

Well, their political views tend to stay the same, the party that they consider themselves a member of changes.

Buddy on TDS. (new window)

tcan: So another nonexistent candidate leaves. Sad thing about a democracy is that people have to vote for you before you can get elected. Roemer was just a good excuse for some people to pretend they were republicans by supporting a fringe candidate who never had a chance. It also looks now that Roemer was only pretending to be a republican too so they were in good company.

True. Since obviously money equals experience and validity of speech, and Roemer made it a point to not take Big Money, obviously he spoke to no one of any sort of validity in the party. The message, and the candidate should be passed up, unless they have large money backing, because money equals speech. Truly, you have a finger on the pulse of the party, and the nation.

You can have it. I tried. I held on for as long as I could, even while the party leadership flushed down every thing that I believed in, from fiscal sense, to belief in the Constitution. What you call "pretending to be Republican" you can have. It's yours. I will continue to be Conservative, even as the GOP pisses on anything remotely looking like a Conservative position--eschewing it for radical tripe that hates the Constitution, hates its neighbors, hates the very faith that it pretends to embrace, by rejecting those who disagree with the tenets of a Prosperity Gospel that reject the very teachings of a carpenter from Nazareth.

Have them. They're yours. I tried, and I will admit, myself and others, we failed to turn the party away from the precipice. You can keep going though, and cheering on Dominionist rhetoric and fiscally irresponsible and frankly dangerous embrasure of radicals who hate the foundations of this nation. Cheer and wave that flag for your team as opposed to anything resembling sane policy.