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I've strayed from the board for a couple months and this is what I come back to.

School Prayer
I think most people don't actually understand why this is an issue. "Why shouldn't someone be allowed to pray in school? That's bullshit!" Of course you can pray in school. Personal prayer and state-sanctioned prayer are very different things. Back when I was in high school, there was a christian fellowship club that met up every morning and prayed in front of the American flag. Korean culture clubs would pray in groups in the hallways. Absolutely nothing wrong with that (so to speak) and that is not the issue here. The controversy is that currently no state can mandate school prayer. Can you imagine the implications of that? You legalize school prayer and you're pretty much guaranteed to see religious indoctrination throughout southern public schools and the midwest. In other words, any redneck, dipshit state that would place their religion ahead of the first amendment. Republicans might frame it in the context of all religions, but, make no mistake about it, they're pushing it for the sake of Christianity. Right-wing attacks on Muslims should prove how much they care about freedom of religion.

Ron Paul
People need to understand Ron Paul will get very little done as president. First of all, his ideas are incredibly radical and attack sacred cows across the board. So good luck to him getting any of his economic reforms through Congress. He's also not a particularly intimidating or well-connected figure in Washington, so that weakens his ability to get much accomplished even further. Now let's actually look at two of the things his "Plan To Save America" involves:
-Cutting Over 200,000 Government Jobs by Dissolving Five Departments
The argument for cutting these department (aside from fiscal reasons) is that the bureaucracy is too complex and inefficient. Thus we should just get rid of the bureaucracy altogether. What in the fuck? The US has one of the most decentralized education systems among modernized nations, in contrast to countries like Japan, Germany, and Canada, which all rank high in student performance AND have considerably more centralized education. Instead of just wiping out the Department of Education, how about, as president, getting the No Child Left Behind Act repealed, which takes up far too much funding for how useless it is, and other inefficient programs. We should emulate what others do better and strive to do better what we do best. The solution is not to just throw your hands up and say "Fuck it." The Department of Energy sponsors a large part of domestic scientific research - innovations in energy production in particular. Another large sponsor of scientific research are universities, and wouldn't you know it, Ron Paul also wants to slash the student loan program.
-Eliminating Taxes on Profits Earned Overseas
There's two sides to this. On the one hand, taxing profits earned by US companies that bring those profits back into the US discourages those countries from doing so and would thus opt to spend that money within the other country. On the other hand, not taxing those profits encourages more US companies to shift operations overseas which results in weakening US product markets as well as costing the government more than $70 billion in revenue. So the bottom line is that not taxing profits overseas would net us a short term boost, but a long term loss of revenue along with a gradual disintegration of US product markets (the labor market in particular). The CBO and economists such as Nouriel Roubini and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman have warned against this. It's no surprise that Herman Cain is dumb enough to advocate this. It's no surprise Ron Paul does too.

You can also thank Ron Paul for the outright refusal of Republicans to even consider raising taxes, thus the massive congressional gridlock that kept the stock market from growing pre-Euro crises and contributing to the failure of the "super-committee". Ron Paul is the father of the Tea Party movement. If you realize the Tea Party movement was retarded, then you should realize Ron Paul is as well.

Jon Huntsman
Doesn't have a shot in hell. Sorry BlandlyInoffensive. Speaking of being blandly inoffensive, Jon Huntsman (amirite?).

Also, I don't know if I read it here, but whoever said something along the lines of "Liking liberals is okay, but liking the Democrats is just retarded" was pretty spot on.



See you in another 4 months.