[quote=markmax33][quote=DomoArigato][quote=svelte]Maybe I’m just getting too used to well polished Hollywood type politicians, but I wasn’t overly impressed with any of the candidates in the debate last night. The parts I saw anyway.

And they all certainly have their vulnerabilities. It is going to be a fairly interesting Presidential race, methinks.[/quote]

As a Liberal, I like that Perry doubled the size of the Texas state debt and grew the public sector at twice the rate of the private sector during his term. Perry also raised taxes during his term as Governor of Texas. I think we need something similar at the Federal level to get us out of this economic jam.

Perry is looking better than Obama at this point.[/quote]

I thought one of the most educational points of the night was when Ron Paul described the difference between Crony Capitalism and real capitalism. I never thought of it this way but he was dead on. Companies that get rich from GOV bailouts, fed bailouts, sweetheart GOV contracts, etc are crony capitalism. Real capitalism is when Steve Jobs creates something unique for the market place and they love it. Real capitalism is when Starbucks started up from nothing, etc.[/quote]

Never quite sure where Paul sits. He’s either a democrat that thinks victory is a wolf in a sheepskin, or idealism is somehow virtuous.