On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:33:00 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

When it comes to the Republican choices this time around Mitt Romney
looked pretty good in retrospect. I can't believe how far to the right
the GOP has gone. Jeb seemed moderate for a while but even he had to
bow to Tea Party influence led by people like Cruz.
Trump is a great marketing pro but he's nuts otherwise.

Then again, the Dems choices ... really just Hillary and Bernie ....
have swung hard to port (notice the boating reference?) led by Bernie.
Hillary has had to adjust her positions several times to avoid losing
young voters who know nothing about what being a "moderate" is.
Socialism is on the rise and it agrees with them.


The biggest problem with Bernie is his numbers to justify his plans
are crap. The taxes he proposes will not raise nearly enough money and
he is projecting growth numbers that are totally unrealistic.
He thinks he can recreate the US right after WWII when the rest of the
world needed to be rebuilt and we were the only game in town.