On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:17:16 -0400, LilAbner wrote:

On 6/13/2011 10:38 PM, wrote:
Looks like she's going to announce "soon." I sure how Palin announces.
Then, we'll see just who is the craziest.
The whole attitude that America or the Middle Class caused the problems
and should bear the burden of restructuring our economy is sick.
Wall Street Globalists and Bankers/ the Supplier Side government should
be paying their proportion, of taxes and restitution.
instead they pay what if any taxes to tax havens around the world and
massive amounts to buy influence, in Washington.

No argument from me. She announced her candidacy during the GOP
debate. To be honest, she and Pawlenty were the most credible, even
though they both fabricated at every opportunity. I watched the entire
2-hour show.

Santorum seemed to ramble and kept getting back to his "family values"
theme. I guess he was trying hard (no pun intended) to not have sex
with Romney. He seemed out of place, esp. when he claimed to "fight
the good fight," which got him booted out of the Senate by 20% in his
last election.

Bachmann seemed to have coherent thoughts, although she relied a lot
on right-wing rhetoric. I thought she presented herself well, and
seemed less crazy and extreme as she really is in reality. She did
well for herself.

Gingrich seemed scared. He tried to bring some nuance to his answers,
but they sort of ran out of gas. It seemed like the rest of the group
pretty much ignored him.

Romney seemed unable to answer simple questions, but at least didn't
come across as a robot.

Paul was his usual self, ranting on and on about the evils of the Fed
and getting the business of a strong vs. weak dollar at least
partially wrong. Amazingly, a couple of the others referred to him
from time to time. I thought he didn't actually exist in their frame
of reference.

Pawlenty was bland but not boring. He seemed the most "presidential"
to me. I got the impression he answered the questions he was given
fairly directly. I didn't agree with the rhetoric nonsense, but he
obviously has some creds.

Herman Cain seemed out of place. He almost always answered whatever
question he was given with business platitudes. Also, his answer on
deep dish vs. thin crust was totally wrong.