How Paulson Just Picked the 2012 GOP Nominee

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Paulson is an ELITIST SCUMBAG, Period!!!! He hangs out in Public SteamRooms & Public Bathrooms looking for he "next" ADVENTURE!!!!!
When I look at Paulson & the other SCUM they make me think of the movie: Trading Places and how those Elitist Protrayed the REAL thing!!

Bobk90 of NC 12:00PM July 11, 2011

Ron Paul was firmly against the bailouts but beyond that he was also predicting the housing crisis many years before it happened. He has been railing against unsound policies of the Federal Reserve and D.C. for decades.
Basically everything he warned against has happened. Now he is on all the major news channels, financial shows and popular websites as an economic guru.
The tough thing is the GOP will shun him again like they did in 2008 because he isn't a Neocon warmonger like 95% of the GOP.
Watch and listen.

ryan of UT 7:18PM November 11, 2010

when l was young the most a bank would charge was 6%.why are lobbiest allowed to cause some many problems? is their any hope for the fair tax act? from what l've read it's one way ont of this morass and also takes 4/15 and the IRSof everyone's back.
l hope you can put these thoughts to use.
thanks,
kevin behan
kbillcue@aol.com

kevin behan of MA 7:46PM September 30, 2008

What we face is socialism or fascism, which are hard to define separately (Liberal Fasciscm is a book which gives it a great try). If free elections still exist in 2012, I expect someone like Huckabee to triumph...Gingrich if he doesn't have too much baggage or isn't too old.
By 2012, people will be more fully behind a concept of Armagedonnish breakdown, and so Christians such as Huckabee will be even more attractive. By then, maybe Palin will have thought through her foreign policy, and could be a VP.
I believe the thesis of this article is correct. I was a liberal dem for most of my life, and I believe my conversion to this line of thought was brought about by looking more closely at the facts...but we are all still somewhat in the dark, aren't we?

Mariel of NM 1:36PM September 28, 2008

It is ironic though that many evangelical-religionist wingnuts don't believe in the "apocalypse" of Paulson-Bernanke but do believe in the Apocalypse of Revelation and the Left Behind franchise of LaHaye-Jenkins.

Philo of TX 5:34AM September 28, 2008

If they want Republican support for the rescue package all they need do is attach some kind of anti-abortion rider to the plan.

A Foreigner 4:20AM September 28, 2008

....Determine the financial policies of this nation, then we all better join hands right now and detonate enough nuclear missiles to make America a memory.
Lucianne Goldberg's Obese Offspring and Mad Michelle, the brunette Ann Coulter, have always been, and will always be, interested only in their own financial enrichment and ego maintenance.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Each is an intellectual lightweight with little more than Neoconservative and Conservative paymasters.

Mark of 12:46AM September 28, 2008

Who has been the most anti-bailout of anyone:
Ron Paul.
It seems like a stretch right now that he'd run again or would be accepted as the GOP standard-bearer in 2012, but if the country is in as terrible of financial shape as it looks like it will be, and as he's been predicting it would be for God knows how long, he'll end up smelling like roses to the GOP and the country in Four Years.
One thing is for sure: people are starting to listen to him in light of this, and he's gotten more media coverage in the last two weeks in light of the bailouts than he ever did during his campaign. If he wanted, he could make another run for it.

Paige Michael-Shetley of NC 12:29AM September 28, 2008

Instead of giving $700,000,000,000 to Wall Street, let's do this:
Let's divide $700,000,000,000 by the U.S. population size of 300,000,000 and give the resulting $2,333,000 to each person in the United States.
Every person in the middle class and the poor can pay off all their mortgage and credit cards and medical bills, and buy a house debt free, and send their kids to college, begin businesses, invest in the stock market, etc.
It would be the greatest economic recovery and jubilee the world has ever seen as all that money "percolated up".

booksnmore4you of CO 11:53PM September 27, 2008