The Exercise of Vital Powers

Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues at Tech Crunch.

Witty

xkcd is my favorite geek strip these days.

This brings up all sorts of interesting jokes about Ron Paul supporters and the whole Trekkie/Pedophile Link

Clean Energy Watch: CBS Evening News Asks the Candidates about Global Warming
“I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce energy consumption and waste. And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.” — Mike Huckabee.

When I listen to Huckabee’s populist rhetoric railing against “Wall Street Fat Cats”, coming out against school choice, and practically begging his state legislature to raise taxes, I can’t help but to wonder if the only difference between the average Edwards supporter and the average Huckabee supporter is that the Huckabee supporter is bigoted against gays and Hispanics.

His selection of Don Young (Porker-AK) as one of his Congressional Co-chairs should be an indication he has no intention of being a fiscally conservative President. Grab a guitar and head back to the pulpit, Governor, you’re not wanted in the Whitehouse.

Erick Erickson posted this over at RedState that just really pissed me off. My response is as follows:

“Ron Paul has only about 3,000 real supporters nationwide. He’s got another 5000 or so who are just damn dirty liberal hippies in need of real jobs.”

Where are you getting those figures from? Certainly not the article you linked to. Most of Ron Paul’s supporters are concerned about out-of-control government spending, Democrats and Republicans who think the answer to every problem is more government intervention, and think that Republicans need to occasionally read the US Constitution (especially Art. 1, Sec. 8).

Finally I take offense at being called a “damn dirty liberal hippy in need of a real job”, as I too am opposed to closed-source electronic voting machines with no mechanism for independent review of the results (ie I want either open-code or voter-verifiable-paper-trails).

I know RedState is owned by the same company that publishes Ann Coulter, but I expected better from you Erick.

At the rate we’re going, candidates will need to announce for the 2012 race before we even know who won the 2008 race. According to Politico, Iowa may have to hold their caucus in 2007.

We need a single national primary day. If the spineless wimps on both sides of the aisle won’t do it, lets hope some “activist” judges will.

Ok Fred, I’m getting tired of waiting. Do it already.