And the Draft Romney movement gains even more momentum!
Per Dr. Carson, President Obama is a psychopath:
Projection, much, Dr. Carson?
Webb has more executive experience than Graham. I’d probably support Graham over Webb, but I’d support Webb over most Republicans in the field. Biden and O’Malley too.
Right now these are the Republicans I’d definitely vote for:
Graham
Jindal
Kasich
Pence
Christie
Ones I’d consider voting for if the Dem nominee is someone I can’t stand:
Carson
Huckabee
Walker
Bush
Paul
Rubio
Won’t vote for:
Cruz
Ok, it’s just that Webb is pretty much the only candidate who stands for a more restrained foreign policy while Graham is pretty much the epitome of an ideological perma-hawk. So from a policy perspective, the two couldn’t be more different.
I’m not sure what I think about the isolationist view vs. the neocon view and everything in between. I see virtue in Jacksonian foreign policy, Wilsonian foreign policy, and pretty much any mainstream foreign policy ideology. Besides, for me, who to vote for for President is more about competence and integrity than ideology. I vote almost straight Republican for Congress and state legislature. But for governors and Presidents there are more important considerations. The enforcement of the law should be nonpartisan. I trust Jiim Webb. I trust Lindsey Graham. I trust Joe Biden. I trust Hillary Clinton on competence, not so much on integrity. Ben Carson doesn’t yet know the first thing about governing, so I don’t trust him and wouldn’t even if I agreed with everything he said. Managing the federal government is a big job.
So basically, if I trust the man, I trust his foreign policy. I don’t think being the world’s policeman is any more or less moral or intelligent than being isolationist. There is virtue and drawbacks in both policies. I just want a person who can conduct foreign policy, whatever policy he or she chooses, intelligently and morally. I have faith that either Graham or Webb would do that. Carson I believe would have the right moral compass, but first he has to figure out who our allies are. That’s kinda a prerequisite.
Armstrong Williams? Good thing this is not a Pit thread. Carson using Williams as an advisor looks like an invitation to confirmation bias, a sort of ideological monoculture that holds all the promise of cousins marrying.
Though, I am probably being unfair, just because every Armstrong Williams op-ed I every read (whether or not I made it to the end) left me rolling my eyes.
I’d never heard of the guy, myself. Here’s more:
Williams is pretty good at what he does though. Carson got himself a good advisor. The guy’s trying, but like most doctors, Carson is a bad patient.
Plus the word Carson should have been looking for was “sociopath”, something that most good politicians probably are. Why would someone who went to medical school not know the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath?
Why would anyone who went to high school not know about evolution? Shit, never mind med school!
Carson knows about evolution, it just conflicts with his religious beliefs, so he rejects it. But he’s not ignorant of evolution.
If he rejects it, he’s ignorant of it.
Not true at all. Many liberals reject the idea that increasing minimum wage costs jobs. That is a rejection of the law of supply and demand. I’m sure they all know what it is, they just don’t like it.
If he embraces medieval superstition in general, he’s ignorant in general.
This isn’t true – some minimum wage increases will absolutely cost jobs, but not necessarily all.
Raising the minimum wage from 10 cent to 20 cents an hour would cost zero jobs. It depends on the numbers one is talking about. We can look at history and find minimum wage increases that did not result in fewer jobs.
So you’re the ignorant one here, if you are insisting that all minimum wage increases must cost jobs.
Yeah, well, try electing a candidate who doesn’t believe in a medieval superstition. I’d sooner take a candidate who actually believes in his superstition than a candidate who is only nominally a member of a particular cult. Lying, IMO, is a greater crime than any other.
That’s because there could be other factors at the time that overwhelm the minimum wage increase.
Zero net jobs. Not zero jobs. Someone, somewhere, actually many people in many places, lose their jobs when the price of their labor goes up.
No, I"m insisting that the scientific principle that raising the price of something gets you less of it is one of the most well supported principles around. That’s why it’s called a Law and not a Theory.
That’s not a rejection of the law of supply and demand. It’s an acceptance of the fact that there are exceptions to every law.
We generally do, no matter what face they put on for public consumption.
Really? You’re excusing treason in the other thread.
And that S&L is not necessarily adequate to describe a modern economy, in particular because it does not account for amplification effects. The more people who have more disposable income, the more they spend it on things that create more jobs, etc. This is not a complicated subject, at least not for those who don’t worship the Laffer Curve and supply-side voodoo.
There is no treason going on. If you’re going to persist in using that word I don’t want to hear about Ben Carson and “psycopath”.