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Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign
bobwrit writes with this excerpt from CNN:
"Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of 'prayer and thought,' effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney. Santorum made his announcement after the weekend hospitalization of his 3-year-old daughter Isabella, and in the face of tightening poll numbers in Pennsylvania — the state he represented as a U.S. senator — ahead of the April 24 primary. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we made the decision to get into this race around our kitchen table, against all the odds,' Santorum told a news conference, flanked by emotional family members. 'We made a decision over the weekend that while the presidential race for us is over, and I will suspend my campaign effective today, we are not done fighting.'"
I have a hard time believing that Santorum actually expected to have a chance at this stage. My mother is a Neo-conservative Christian party-line voter, and even she is considering voting for Obama again; and not because she likes him. The entire GOP lineup is a mess.
"Nerds" to me implies some degree of intelligence and knowledge. Thus, many nerds DO have an interest in seeing a politician who was running on a campaign of ignorance and hate go down in flames *
The second part of the statement is "News that matters," and this definitely does.
Lastly, there's nothing in the statement along the lines of "News that has not been covered everywhere else."
Thus, I'm declaring this one fair. Not that anyone was asking.
(* Though it is somewhat a shame he didn't fall much much harder. I would have preferred him to call it quits after a report that he was paying for male prostitutes and meth with a check from the Koch brothers and the Focus on the Family group, or maybe running in a general election against Neil DeGrasse and getting 0.1% of the vote, but this is better than nothing.)
I guess it's kind of relevant to Slashdot because of Santorum's strong anti-science stance.
Good bye crazy douche-bag, you will not be missed.
According to conventional wisdom, the Republicans always nominate their runner-up next time around. I saw a couple of sites predicting Romney on this basis, long before the primaries started shaking out.
If the CW is right, Santorum will be their next nominee.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Indeed dangerous as he threatens the high life due to the nation's continued parasitic existence. The other guys that seek to start a global conflict against the BRICS nations and whoever else falls on their side for geopolitical reasons are a far better prospect for president surely. Let's ignore the fact that the US dollar effectively functions as a global tax via your quantitative easing and enforcing use of it via your military and the fact that the rest of the world is getting sick of that. Doesn't he realise that his policies mean a minimum wage worker will no longer be able to afford the latest shiney electronic gizmo every 5 months!? We shouldn't care that this is possible due to the exploitation of human beings elsewhere, just so long as we're all right Jack! Just how long do you think you can continue to subjugate a massive proportion of the human race in this way? Surely it's better to put a stop to it before the resistance reaches critical mass and 9/11 is a fond memory in comparison to the new reality you suffer.
I'm actually curious as to what does scare you. Personally, as a leftie myself (what they call a "social democrat" in Europe), I don't get why left wing is so mad at Ron Paul. I mean, the guy basically just wants to give the states free reign - so what? This means that we can have our own liberal paradise with blackjack, hookers, marijuana, public healthcare and education etc in blue states, rather than having to fight the tug of war with conservatives over who gets to put more crap into Federal laws. What's wrong with that?
Meanwhile, on the federal policies that do make sense to keep at federal level (like foreign affairs / wars), his stance seems to be much closer to your typical leftie - you know, pulling out of existing conflicts, not starting new ones, and generally minding your own business and not mucking around with other countries.
The comments here will be very different from anything you might encounter on CNN. Actually, I never cared about the comments at CNN. Here they can be interesting.
"Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!" -- Ivanhoe
Pretty much - both R and D are against different freedoms, so that they can point at each other and yell to get enough support to get elected. When they swap turns in power they just take away more each time. In other words, whenever the other party gets in power, they never give back any freedoms, they just work on their list for a while...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
(For the record, I like about 30% of what Obama stands for and am seriously worried about 70%
I like about 95% of what Obama stands for, and about 5% of what he does.
As for Ron Paul, he claims he's pro-constitution, but stated he would have voted for a law that repealed Full Faith and Credit as defined in the Constitution, indicating that he hates the Constitution and doesn't even understand what a law is (they are bound by and can't directly contradict the Constitution). That alone disqualifies him for President, regardless of what percentage of other things of his I'd like. Given Obama's talk and actions, I can only assume that Ron Paul would do the same as President, picking the things I didn't like and doing all those first, and the things I want him to do being last on the list. So, even if he wasn't a lying anti-constitution politician (they all are), he'd still never get my vote.
I am a small-government libertarian, and so I could never vote for Ron Paul. Obama could have (and said he would) fix health care and the military as well, and see how that went for us...
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