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Iowa Caucus Discussion NIght Of Caucus

LesGovt said:
LOL! No, you totally don't understand my point. We are as concerned as Democrats about the ability of our candidates and probably more so. After all, you guys elected Obama so you have no reason to sit in judgment. Pshaw!
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Kiddo, Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law where he was an editor on the Law Review. Then he went on to TEACH at the U of Chicago Law school... You are seriously going to compare his intellect negatively to a dude that graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in animal science?

It's just ridiculous. There are plenty of smart, educated, informed, competent Republicans out there. Some of the very smarted, most capable, most educated, politicians in the world are Republicans. You have people like James Baker and Colin Powell sitting on the benches while you run knuckleheads like Sarah Palin and Rick Perry for president. It's asinine.
 
teamosil said:
Kiddo, Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law where he was an editor on the Law Review. Then he went on to TEACH at the U of Chicago Law school... You are seriously going to compare his intellect negatively to a dude that graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in animal science?

It's just ridiculous. There are plenty of smart, educated, informed, competent Republicans out there. Some of the very smarted, most capable, most educated, politicians in the world are Republicans. You have people like James Baker and Colin Powell sitting on the benches while you run knuckleheads like Sarah Palin and Rick Perry for president. It's asinine.
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LOL! A great education that has been wasted on extreme leftwing ideology. I don't recall James Baker or Colin Powell running. Did I miss that? Perry is just as qualified as Obama and he has a lot more common sense. I will give you that he is a poor debater.
 
teamosil said:
You don't think that knowing all the justices on the supreme court is a minimum requirement we should seek in a president? That just blows my mind. The president is who nominates justices to the supreme court. They should have an exhaustive knowledge of the workings of the court, how it divides on various issues, all the major cases that have come up in the last 20 years... Really they should have that level of knowledge about all the circuit courts too. The person shaping the future of our legal system can't just be some dude tossing darts at a board to do it. They should understand, intimately, the legal system, the law, the judges....
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I agree, I don't support Perry and never have. I just don't believe in using one sound byte to completely disqualify a candidate. I didn't do it when Obama thought there were 57 states or when Hillary Clinton thought American democracy preceded European democracy.

I mean, come on. Is that too much to ask? There are like 1 million Republicans at least in the country that are at least that informed. You guys can't pick from that list? There is nobody on the right that is well educated and that you like? That's impossible! They just aren't even trying to pick capable ones anymore. It's some kind of weird anti-intellectual backlash going on over there...
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Um, I support Mitt Romney (the frontrunner). He got a JD and MBA from Havard. You disagreeing with a candidate's politics doesn't make them uneducated.

Bachman - Masters of Law, William and Marry School of Law
Romney - JD/MBA, HBS/HLS
Cain - Masters, Purdue
Paul - MD, Duke
Gingrich - PhD, Tulane
Santorum - JD/MBA, Pittsburgh and Penn State
Huntsman - BA, UPenn
Perry - BS, Texas A&M

Obama - JD, HLS
Biden - JD, Syracuse
Clinton - JD, Yale
Dodd - BA, Providence
Edward - JD, UNC
Gravel - BS, Columbia
Kucinich - Masters, Cleveland State University
Richardson - Masters, Tufts

Anti-intellectualism? Give me a break. Why don't you post your qualifications for making such a comment.
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
I agree, I don't support Perry and never have.
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Excellent. And, to be fair to Republicans, most of them don't support Perry. IMO out of the primary candidates, there is a pretty steep cliff between the intelligence levels of Perry/Cain/Trump and Romney/Gingrich/Huntsman/Paul. I think the former are just plainly too stupid for the job and the later, which I disagree vehemently with their politics, are plenty smart. Bachmann is a weird one. She's actually pretty smart, but crazy as a bat! Anyways, I digress. My point is that I'm not trying to say all Republicans accept stupid candidates, just a block of them.

Rhapsody1447 said:
I just don't believe in using one sound byte to completely disqualify a candidate. I didn't do it when Obama thought there were 57 states
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I think that is a telling comparison though. Obama was pretty clearly tired and started to say he'd been to all 50 states, then he realized half way through that he hadn't been to three of them and just kind of bumbled together a seven on the end. He misspoke. As long as that kind of thing isn't too common, I don't hold it against people either. Dan Quayle's spelling bee gaffe I would put in the same category for example. Maybe even Palin saying Africa was a country. Obviously Obama knows there are 50 states and Palin knows Africa is a continent, it's just that if you're being interrogated like 10 hours a day like they are, you mess up sometimes.

Perry's thing is different. He honestly just doesn't know who is on the supreme court. He later said that he just "didn't memorize them"...

Rhapsody1447 said:
or when Hillary Clinton thought American democracy preceded European democracy.
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I'm not familiar with that one, and I don't know if this is what it is about, but there is a longstanding debate about which was the first "democracy". Some people say Rome, but in some ways it was ultra anti-Democratic. Only like 2% of the inhabitants of their empire had any say whatsoever and a large portion of them were enslaved. Not really what you think of when you think of Democracy.

Rhapsody1447 said:
Um, I support Mitt Romney (the frontrunner). He got a JD and MBA from Havard. You disagreeing with a candidate's politics doesn't make them uneducated.
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Oh, no, I totally agree. Romney is smart and educated. I"m objecting to the Trump/Cain/Perry/O'Donnell/Angle/Palin strain of Republican candidates, not all Republican candidates.
 
Navy Pride said:
Woukdn't be great if a man with Santorum's family values could be elected president....If he ever got the nomination we might see where the values are in thiis country.
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We all know the "family values" that you and the GOP represent Navy....and thankfully this country has better values than that.
 
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