re: #49 Jerk

Didn’t Huckabee win Iowa last time? Anyway, even if he does win the nomination (and not next-in-line Romney), he wil get his ass kicked by Obama.

The problem is that the nation needs both major parties functional, and a Ron Paul nomination would break the GOP for years to come. No one in my family would vote for him; You’d see all of us, Republicans and Democrats alike, voting for Obama. My father and I would hold our noses, but we’d do it. And then the Republicans of the South would lambast us as RINOs for having done so.

Some would reply: “Well, that would be good since a split GOP would give the Democrats a free hand.” I’d urge those people to think again: The Democrats have made some very serious mistakes of their own in the last couple decades (such as job killing regulation and tax-spend-elect deals to public sector workers) and giving them unchecked reign would likely send America down the path to fiscal ruin. The American political system works best when the two parties act as a check on each other. A Republican or Democratic party with a medium term lock on power would be a very dangerous scenario.