Please...I can't do 8 more years of "change"... they never mentioned "for the worse"...

Tactics, and this has already surfaced in the media, and is right in line with the two of them "we before they".

Good points. I would lean towards the trade zone idea. Better than NAFTA..

"If you believe [gov't cannot keep buyers and sellers apart], go do that in North Korea, or even Mexico."
Mexico has an industry bringing labor, sex, and drugs to people who can afford them, even if the Mexican gov't and other people's gov't try to stop it. Buyers and sellers find a way.

North Korea is a real counter-example to what I said. If a gov't wants to be like North Korea, accepts being a black spot on the photos from orbit showing the lights of human activity, then the gov't really can keep buyers and sellers apart.

Maybe, but all things being equal I suspect accident and poor planning rather than nefarious and effective planning.

I also would point out that overall in terms of the average people's ability to chose their life, pursue their dreams, get their ideas out, be free from thugs, things are amazingly good.

It's far from perfect. Gov't takes almost half what you make if you're successful. Gov't isn't respecting the Constitution. We're in danger of it falling apart. We're hardly following it now, and if the debt turns into a crisis at the same time as some low-life criminals kill a few thousand people in a politically-motivated attack, stuff that happens throughout history, it could disappear. Those little bumps could kill what we have.

This state of affairs is still amazingly good for human history. We have all these problems, but looking at us since agriculture started, it looks like the arc of history really does bend toward justice.

I imagine there were people when the US was founded saying, what a bunch of hypocritical crap. Women's rights are not recognized. We're stealing this country from the people who were hear and building it up with kidnapped slaves. They would be correct. It was still an amazing leap, realizing ancient dreams of power flowing from the people to the gov't.

My whole point in this is I say it's pointless to wonder why things are so far from perfect. Far from perfect is normal for humankind. But we don't accept it, and we make things get better.

If you believe that, go do that in North Korea, or even Mexico.

If Obama replaces Scalia, it will get a LOT worse.

Thank you. He makes monkey poop smell good. A clear and present danger.

Never gonna happen, term. Their model is to impose their "brilliance" on all of us, and live in opulence. Just like the current crop of clowns are doing today. There is a reason felony Pelosi exempted her gang and a whole host of those that paid, from Obamanation Care.

Indeed, the mark of a fascist dictatorship is the need for proof of purpose and movement. That is why some of the current issues are so disturbing.

Ideed, the mark of a fascist dictatorship is the need for proof of purpose and movement. That is why some of the current issues are so disturbing.

But: Trump resonates with the average sheeple because he is as nutty as they are. He says what they are thinking, and he lies, cheats and steals just like most people have done at one time or another. That is a completely different fish from idiots like Schumer who is whining about giving the Democraps a seat on the SC, when 18 months before Bush was banned, he outright said they would not consider any nominee that the Bush Admin submitted. He is a weasely liar who is one of the poster children for all the corrupt lying BS everyone is fed up with. Trump just happens to be "One of us" against "them". He has a real good chance of winning, if they don't find a slick ad agency to string together all his flips, flops and changes over the years. I do not think he is any better or worse than the rest of the criminal crowd, he is just a different, very odd, flavor.

Trump only makes promises he cannot keep. He fits with the GOP's constant promoting fear and promising a solution using more government interference, more taxes. Always the wrong solution.

Trump is resonating across all demographics.   He wants to reign in uncontrolled immigration and bring the jobs back to the US.  No other candidate advocates both.  I am currently employed in IT for a large Aerospace contractor.  80% of the employees are from India.  They are willing to come all this way at low wages because they can bring wives who can have a couple of babies while they are here.  Most of the supervision is people from India and I am afraid I will lose my job also.  Trump is giving hope to the unemployed and employed citizens alike.

Careful of the documentation leash, it can come back and bite you when you start getting stopped to see your documentation. It may, at first, just be a little inconvenient so that you can be sure to make life hard for those aliens that scare you. But over the 76 years of my life, the leash has tightened considerably.

He should go live in Venezuela to see where his policies will lead. Maybe he knows already, but is just playing the system to get power.

He didn't survive when he was on his own....He was a true failure. He didn't have a job until he got one from the government at the age of forty something. His second wife has also helped support him. This guy is a true testament to socialism. ...live off other people's money.

Your thinking is even more devious than mine.
I like it.

Of course the only time that McCain was significantly ahead was after he named Palin as his running mate. Then he suspended his campaign to go sign on to the bailout and never led again.

Yeah, you may be right. I was one of those people two elections ago thinking the Crazy-O could not win against McCain, and then came the idiot Palin.

Bernie is like someone's grandfather. So kind and caring, trying to right all the wrongs. All he needs is to create a money tree that requires no human inputs and never stops giving free money to him for his programs. He is just out of touch with the realities of life. He wouldnt survive if he was on his own.

Some people said the very same thing about Obama and look where we are now. The loss of Scalia was a major blow and perhaps the Senate can push BO back hard enough to stop him, but if another of these near 90yo lifetime appointees assumes room temp. there won't be any way that O'Connell will stand up to him.

As for the collage age kids who are all excited over Bernie, what can you expect. They've been undergoing 12-16 years of indoctrination into liberal thinking. For Bernie to stand up and promise free school, free loans, free what ever, it's just expected. Everybody knows that the real important things are that we "save" the planet and what the Kardashians think (do they really think???) - economics is way too uninteresting.

Bernie did not make any mistakes, or at least in his mind he didn't. He is a politician and they claim never to make mistakes.

Maybe it will be good if he gets in there and demonstrates the craziness. Maybe the public will wake up.

One would think, never underestimate the power of stupidity and corruption to force their will on us.