Romney Vs. Santorum Vs. Obama

[Sue U]

Dearest Ruby:

Please point to the section of the Constitution that grants the Federal Government the power to forecast the weather.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Dave

Actually Dave the weather is a very important military resource.

Well not the weather per se but certainly the ability to get fast (and accurate as humanly possible) forecasts.

Ask the Germans of WWII...

Also it is obviously necessary for the regulation of interstate commerce, especially maritime shipping and air travel, and for emergency preparedness.

But hey, that noted constitutional scholar dgs49 says it violates the Constitution! Quick, prepare a brief for the Supreme Court!

[Lord Jim]

air travel,

But where in the Constitution does it say anything about the government having the right to regulate air travel?

[Crackpot]

Or automobiles?

[Lord Jim]

The entire space program has obviously been blatantly unconstitutional.

I defy anyone to find me where it says in the Constitution that the Federal government has the authority to land people on the moon.

[Scooter]

Newt must think so, he intends to colonize it...

[Lord Jim]

Well, that just shows that he has about as much respect for the Constitution as he does for his first two wives...

[Gob]

See this is why I am so glad we don't have a constitution, all this time effort and money wasted on what after all is only a piece of paper.

[dgs49]

Sue, your postings are more ridiculous every day.

Do you honestly maintain that forecasting the weather is necessary for the regulation of interstate commerce?

As Bugs J. Bunny used to say, "What a maroon!"

[Grim Reaper]

It's cute how you cherry pick the one argument you think you can win and then proceed to just babble nonsense.

Knowing what areas are flooded, or are going to flood, is kind of important for truck drivers.

[Rick]

Sue, your postings are more ridiculous every day.

Do you honestly maintain that forecasting the weather is necessary for the regulation of interstate commerce?

As Bugs J. Bunny used to say, "What a maroon!"

Interstate commerce involves more that just trucks, International commerce definitely does...

http://www.noaa.gov/

Ya may want to go there and see exactly what they do then, ask yerself how privatizing it might make it better.

[Lord Jim]

The latest NBC poll has Romney pulling ahead in Michigan, again, by two points...

He and his Super pac are out spending Santorum and his Super Pac by about 4-1 (of course, that sort of margin out spending doesn't always do it for Mitt; he out spent Gingrich 5-1 in South Carolina and got stomped; To win in Florida, he had to out spend him 15-1).

Romney is pulling his usual number of winning by burying his opponent under an avalanche of negative campaigning, however since Santorum doesn't present as big a target as Gingrich, if he manages to pull out a win it will likely be by a much smaller margin...(even though he's had a lot more time to beat up on him)

If this is the only way Romney can win; bury more poorly financed opponents with negative ads...if he is the nominee it will bode very badly for him in the general election because he's unlikely to be able to to raise the 5-10 billion dollars that would be required to out spend Obama by a similar margin....

Speaking of Romney...

Did anyone happen to catch his painful, and I do mean painful attempt to relate as a normal person and native son of Michigan at a Town Hall meeting last week? The one where he talked about how he likes cars and trees, and oh yes lakes..not just the big one but the little ones too?

I really think that Romney would be well served if he just stopped speaking in public completely and let his wife Ann make all of the personal campaign appearances going forward. She is about 1000 times more genuine, charismatic and personable than he is. She comes across like she actually is a human being rather than like a space alien trying to do an impersonation of one....

[Rick]

Specialy if the economy continues an upswing...

[Crackpot]

AS I said Santorums spin on the ultra social conservative crazy train last weekend hurt him. In this state at least. It saved Romney from going down in flames after that completely bizarre attempt to relate to the people he pretends to share a common heritage with.

[Rick]

You mean he thought he was Polish?

[Long Run]

This past week, Santorum has been making the same mistake that he made right after his good showing in Iowa; he's giving detailed answers to baiting social issue questions, (possibly planted; they may even be planted by the Romney campaign since it's obvious this is a weakness of Rick's) where he goes on at length about his personal beliefs based on his interpretation of his Faith.

Good point. He should take the same path as Steve Forbes with the flat tax or the Clinton/Carville focus on the economy. Every question about social issues should be answered that the social issue he is concerned with is when a father or mother or adult child cannot find a job or get enough hours to support their family, and the devastation to the social fabric when there is widespread un- and underemployment.

[Lord Jim]

Good point. He should take the same path as Steve Forbes with the flat tax or the Clinton/Carville focus on the economy. Every question about social issues should be answered that the social issue he is concerned with is when a father or mother or adult child cannot find a job or get enough hours to support their family, and the devastation to the social fabric when there is widespread un- and underemployment.

Long Run, Santorum should fire his current top consultants and hire you and me....

He'd be cruising to the nomination, and headed towards a real chance of victory in November...

[rubato]

Dearest Ruby:

Please point to the section of the Constitution that grants the Federal Government the power to forecast the weather.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Dave

Postby rubato » Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:07 pm
This is the candidate who authored a bill to privatise the National Weather Service. It is impossible to underestimate an intelligence that meagre.

yrs,
rubato

It is difficult, but as you demonstrate not impossible, to find people just as stupid as he is.

I'll leave it to the legal beagles who have so often limned your deficiencies in understanding the constitution but I will just mention in passing the importance of accurate, and freely available, weather prediction for fighting wars (recall WWII? Do you?) for civil defense and general public safety. Privatizing would take that information and reduce its reliability* and its availability.

(*who wants some jackass global warming denier in charge if forecasting weather, anyone? Anyone?)



yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

CP, I really envy you living in Michigan....

It must be nice living in a state where the trees are the right height....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Think about it. He owned a home in the PA school district, paid PA income and sales taxes, paid local school taxes, was licensed and registered to vote in PA, but lived primarily in Virginia with his wife and many young children. Just like EVERY OTHER SENATOR, and this total non-story brought about his electoral downfall.

I've thought about it. Why does he let every other Senator live with his wife and many young children? Sounds like he and Mitt go to Sunday service together, neh?

Meade

[Crackpot]

CP, I really envy you living in Michigan....

It must be nice living in a state where the trees are the right height....

We should add that to the "Pure Michigan" campaign.