"Newt and Romney are McCain style Republicans. And we know how well that got out the republican vote.
Santorum is only a little less left leaning.

All three beleave in a different big brother watching you and controlling you.

We dont have any real conservatives in this race. Just Republicans (oh and retread Paul).

I will hold my nose for any of these three and vote. But will stay home if Paul is selected. (wont happen though)"

"None of those people can be described as left-leaning unless you're a fascist of some description. Santorum hasn't got a left wing bone in his body, which is ironic for a man who claims to support the Catholic Church.

Though, if you mean "left-leaning" as in "supports big government", then you'd be right. They support big government in defence, police, and interfering with women's reproductive systems. In other words, you're fine when you're in the womb, then you're screwed until you reach recruitment age, then you're just what they're looking for.

Not that left wing politics actually advocates big government necessarily, but the vocabulary of American politics has been completely skewed that feck knows what any of you mean by left wing anymore.

As for "Obama will reduce the military", he may be anti-war but he's still American, the military will still be the most capable in the world even with cuts. There's no way Obama will want to be known as the President who knocked the US off that particular No.1 spot. "

"Oh ya I guess Im a fascist because Im to the right of you. lol Pathetic try"

"You have no clue what our system is and what a US replublican is or wants. Left leaning to a US conservative or Republican is a lot different than to a Irish or european conservative.

Dont even bring up military defense when your country leans on GB forprotection. Which GB leans on US and or NATO (which is US) for protection.
Ireland couldnt defend its self from a girl scout troop armed with rubber hoses. lol

After our military is almost decemated with wrong headed cuts in all the wrong areas. It might still be the strongest for now. But with the planned cuts that will not last for very long. And if you think Pres Obamas dislike of the US military wont be a desiding factor, you my Irish liberal/socialist are wrong.

Oh ya I guess Im a fascist because Im to the right of you. lol Pathetic try"

"Ron Paul is a ex-libertarian/independent that couldnt get any notice or fallowing worth even crediting as one. But now that he has relabled himself as a so-called conservative Republican. He is now getting notice and a fallowing.
But it still dont change his isolationist US first and only ideas.

1) He wants to pull all military and Federal employees back to the US. And yes that includes embassy staffs and diplomats of any kind.
2) Cancell all goverment foreign aid. Be it money, food, medicine.
3) Leave the UN and all other world bodies and groups. And expell the UN from US soil.
4) Close our borders to imagration of all but a select PHD type group.
5) Place tariffs on all imported goods.
6) Close all programs and agencies that arent part of the defense of the US.

the list can go on and on and on........

He wants to return the goverment and constitution of the founding.
Oh ya he has said repeatedly that Pres. Abe Lincohn was our worst and evilest Pres ever. Not my words but his.

But hey you can vote or campaign for Ron Paul as much as you want. But no matter how bad Pres Obama is he is still 100% better than Ron Paul.

Have fun while I depart and puke my guts out for saying I would rather have Pres Obama than Congressman Paul."

"All that sounds pretty good to me !

Lincoln of course had no trouble suspending the constituion when it suited him.In 1861 he suspended habieas corpus and ended up arresting 13,000 people under martial law with no charges or trials.
Most of these arrests were for people expressing views that disagreed with his and not for violence against the country.
I live on Md. eastern shore and Lincoln sent steam boats fill of soldiers over here to arrest editers of newspapers that disagreed with him as well as common people just exercising thier 1st amendment rights of free speech.
Chief justice Taney of the US supreme court found this to be illegal but Lincoln and the military ignored him.
After Lincoln was killed the supreame court determined having martial law in areas where civil courts were capable of functioning was illegal and the president didn't have the power to do what he did.

I think if Lincoln never got shot, and if people knew how Lincoln really felt about Blacks, he though them very inferior to whites and wanted to deport all the freed slaves overseas because he didn't think the two races could live together, he would probably have gone down as one of the worst US presidents"

"You have no clue what our system is and what a US replublican is or wants. Left leaning to a US conservative or Republican is a lot different than to a Irish or european conservative.

Dont even bring up military defense when your country leans on GB forprotection. Which GB leans on US and or NATO (which is US) for protection.
Ireland couldnt defend its self from a girl scout troop armed with rubber hoses. lol

After our military is almost decemated with wrong headed cuts in all the wrong areas. It might still be the strongest for now. But with the planned cuts that will not last for very long. And if you think Pres Obamas dislike of the US military wont be a desiding factor, you my Irish liberal/socialist are wrong.

Oh ya I guess Im a fascist because Im to the right of you. lol Pathetic try"

"Hating the United States comes easy when you have warmongering Republican administrations that want to drag European countries into the wars as well. Or so I keep hearing from people, Ireland is neutral, that doesn't really affect me.

Ireland has Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Pfizer, EMC, and feck knows how many other large companies exporting from its shores. Ireland's problem is with its banks, they were full of gangsters and corrupt bastards, they ran up debts like no tomorrow. The reason Ireland isn't rioting like Greece is precisely because we still have a strong economy if one can put the debt aside. Greece has beaches, that's about it.

The rhetoric of some of the religious right in the US is very theocratic. It would be familiar to the Taliban or the clerics of Iran. It is the language of tyranny cloaked in God's protection. They want to create a Christian nation for Christians only.

I don't hate the US, I hate ignorance. American ignorance is only obvious because of its power, there's plenty elsewhere."

"Nope, the Irish don't riot.

That's the Northern Irish's job!"