I see your point of view, but given Romney's extreme positions in these primary months, I am not sure he is that different from Santorum at this point. I'm serious.

I think the main difference is that Santorum means it.

My mother was just telling me about a bunch of married engineers in our family, msbelle, but I don't know what their surnames are. I don't know for sure about Campbells. Why?

Okay, I now have a portfolio. Every picture of a kid I've drawn over the past year is included. I've drawn relatively few women, so all of them not in sexytimes are in there, and some diverse body types in there too. Not that there's a huge amount of that coming from TV fanart. But I did what I could.

Of course if Romney gets us into a nuclear war, whether he means or not won't be important. And the thing is people usually govern the same or to the right as where they run. I guess the thing is to make sure than whoever is the Republican nominee to make sure they don't become President.

we have a mine in Jamaica. We have a Campbell in my office.

None of my engineer relatives, as far as I know, live in Ja. They're all Americans. And I checked my most recent family trees for Campbell, and I think he's dead.

Was he born in Canada?

Yes, he was born and grew up in Toronto. My grandfather was working for the Canadian branch of his company.

This really is a terrifying election. I don't understand what the Republicans are thinking AT ALL. I mean, I didn't like Reagan, I didn't like Bush Sr, but I understood how one could honestly believe they'd be good for the country. But what's happening now? I just don't get it.

Fielding a relatively sane and respectful candidate four years ago didn't work, so why not run a bunch of assclowns and see if one of them catches the zeitgeist?

Well, I dunno how sane & respectful McCain is: the only reason he got the nomination last time is he swung hard right after losing in 2000 (to some serious dirty tricks including rumormongering of miscegenation in South Carolina), and he's now out there bloviating about how we need to take a hard line with Iran.

WTF, people. We DO NOT WANT ANOTHER WAR. WTF.

I think Romney has a better chance of being elected, because he's not a terrifying ideologue like Santorum. But that also means he's less likely to get us all killed. On the other hand, his lack of ideologue-ness means the wingnut base won't vote for him, so he could still lose the nomination, despite all the money he's throwing at it.

Well, I dunno how sane & respectful McCain is

Yeah, I mean sure compared to Bachman, Santorum and Gingrich, but that's damning with faint praise.