The scariest candidate? Not who I thought it would be.

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I never would have put Mitt Romney in the "scary" department. He may (if he could actually beat Obama) continue more of the same but I don't put him in the scary department. A week ago I probably would have said Newt Gingrich, but that no longer holds true. I mean, you know, he is scary but to my surprise, not the most scary. It actually turns out to be Rick Santorum. After watching the last two debates that man scares the living bejeesus out of me. I never saw someone so paranoid running for president (well, SERIOUSLY running for president) as this guy. After hearing him drone on about Cuba and Venezuela, etc... and their ties to Iran and him making it seem like there is a Muslim terrorist under every rock on the planet, just waiting to bomb the shit out of us or something - he wins the honors.

We all know that Newt can't beat Obama. And I'd say we're all just as certain that Santorum can't but if it actually came to pass - I would have to leave the freaking country. He and Congress would lock this country down so tight he'd make Stalin jealous. And even then, I don't know if there would be a safe place on the globe outside of the Antarctic.

I took an oath to vote for only Ron Paul but if Santorum one the nomination (by some slip in the multiverse or something) I would HAVE to vote for Obama just to ensure 100% that this nutjob never gets the office.
 
Imagine a Gingrich/Santorum ticket. Yikes! I do not think Romney would put either of those guys on his ticket, they may win votes in a republican primary but in a general they both would be destroyed. They repel independents as well as they attract fear worshipers.
 
i could never vote for either Gingrich or Santorum , we would be in unneeded wars for ever . these guys love their party and neocon ideas much more than america.
 
The scariest candidate is the one supported by Wall Street. Money is what makes the world run.

Wall Street bought Obama, who went from an anti-war stance, to committing war crimes on par with George W. Bush...the one who gave us the patriot act.

Harvard-educated and gentle peacenik Obama, made Bush look like a member of the UCLA when he followed the Patriot Act with the much more dangerous NDAA and ACTA. He put Bush to shame in his zeal and skill at killing Muslims. (If Bush had signed NDAA or killed as many Muslims in as many places, the progressives would have been up in arms. Especially the liberal media...NO...killing people who happen to live where the oil is, happens "FOR OUR OWN GOOD"...is perfectly fine with the "toppest prog of the top progs.." Every last one of them, that at ONE TIME KNEW BETTER, should be hanging their heads in shame!)

Romney is the ONLY candidate to flat-out say he supports NDAA and he EVEN thinks Obama is TOO timid with the killing. He plans to add 100,000 active duty military, he plans to add more ships, he says he will build more planes. For WHAT? We have a larger military than all of the rest of the world COMBINED.

Why do ya'll think the media (owned lock stock and barrel by the guys who bought Obama and NOW Romney) are going foaming-mouth-mad every time ANY candidate other than their boy, Romney, comes out on the top of a poll?

Who cares how meed Romney looks. Obama and his cute family look harmless too.

Ask the soldiers who bury the dead because of the senseless wars how harmless Obama is. Ask the brown-skinned people whose mothers, wives, chidren, husbands, fathers and grandfathers became "collateral damage" due to a bomb that missed or a drone, how harmless our well-spoken, well-educated presidents is?

Don't let the looks and rhetoric fool you people. Follow the money. That is where the GREATEST threat to our FREEDOM lies.



Romney: "Obama has done a LOT of things wrong, BUT I don't think he is going to ABUSE this power. And when I am president I WON'T ABUSE this power."​


Then WHY have such a law exist? WHY would ANY law which gives Obama OR any OTHER PRESIDENT authority to ABUSE exist? EVER? EVER? Unless you intend to abuse.

When somebody says, "Trust me. DON'T."

He ISN'T EVEN HIDING HIS INTENT. ZeroHedge said this first and it is SOOOOO worth repeating, America deserves whichever president it gets.

If superficial looks and a nicey-nice way of talking make the most blood thirsty look palatable to you...I just don't know what to say. Again, Follow the money.
 
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Romney doesn't scare me because his presidency would be the same as Obama's. I DON'T want another Obama term, but I know what it is like at least.

Gingrich is on a completely different level of scary. He is smart evil. If he won we would know what it is like to have a super villian as president and it wouldn't be pretty.

Santorum scares me, but not as much because his says way too many idiotic things to ever get enough support to enter the white house. He is more like stupid evil, although his presidency might be scarier than a gingrich presidency. We might have a theocracy under him and I'd end up hanging out with you guys in some re-education camp. He is basically an admitted fascist. But unlike Gingrich and Romney supporting fascist policies to help special interests and their own personal lust for power, Santorum seems to be more of a true believer when it comes to fascism.


I generally long considered Santorum to be the scariest in the sense of if he was actually president. As a Pennsylvanian I just figured people wouldn't fall for his idiocy and long considered him to have absolutely no shot of doing well considering his insane views. I guess I was wrong. Those poor, poor souls that are supporting him...
 
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Romney doesn't scare me because his presidency would be the same as Obama's. I DON'T want another Obama term, but I know what it is like at least.

Gingrich is on a completely different level of scary. He is smart evil. If he won we would know what it is like to have a super villian as president and it wouldn't be pretty.

Santorum scares me, but not as much because his says way too many idiotic things to ever get enough support to enter the white house. He is more like stupid evil, although his presidency might be scarier than a gingrich presidency. We might have a theocracy under him and I'd end up hanging out with you guys in some re-education camp. He is basically an admitted fascist. But unlike Gingrich and Romney supporting fascist policies to help special interests and their own personal lust for power, Santorum seems to be more of a true believer when it comes to fascism.


I generally long considered Santorum to be the scariest in the sense of if he was actually president. As a Pennsylvanian I just figured people wouldn't fall for his idiocy and long considered him to have absolutely no shot of doing well considering his insane views. I guess I was wrong. Those poor, poor souls that are supporting him...
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If things were going to be the way they have always been, I'd say you were right.

Should the world go the way many smart people say it will, it is URGENT that we have a leader in charge who will NOT sign bills that give away your right to demand a search warrant, that would NEVER detain you without cause and that WOULD FIGHT for your right to free speech...NOT GIVE IT AWAY.
 
Santorum would get severely beat down by Obama. I am not the least bit concerned that he could ever become president. Gingrich and Romney on the other hand would really give Obama a run for his money. Gingrich scares me more. But all things equal, I agree Santorum is the scariest man running for President by far. Fortunately I live in a somewhat blue state (hasn't gone red since 88), so I won't have to vote for Obama out of pragmatism if it comes down to it.
 
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Nothing against the OP, but I thought this thread would be based on some type of objective rating system that tells us where each candidate stands on civil liberties and so forth.

Does anything like that exist?

And if not, maybe some smart activist/entrepreneur wants to create one?
 
I don't find Santorum scary in the slightest. His defense of the Cuban embargo is political pandering to get votes from Cubans in Florida, and his comments about Jihadists are in general to gain support from the factions of the party that hold the "War on Terror" to be the most important issue. I believe a Santorum presidency would definitely be better than Obama, however Santorum would likely not act to improve anything in the area of the Federal Reserve.

I take a nuanced view of all of these candidates, knowing that one of five people will be the President for the next four years. I would personally rank the choices this way 1. Paul, 2. Santorum, 3. Gingrich, 4. Romney, 5. Obama. A large part of ranking the other Republican candidates before Romney is my observation of his inconsistency and political pandering to an extreme degree where similar to Clinton, it is hard to know what he truly believes in or what he would actually seek to do as President.

I disagree with some views of ALL of the candidates, but I always would chose with conviction and consistency over those "finger-in-the-wind" politicians that seem to be afraid to take a stand on anything.
 
The mere fact that Paul has attacked Cain, Newt, and Santorum, but not Romney, in the debates shows me that he finds them more reprehensibile for some reason.

Based on my own instinct, I find Newt the worst, followed by Santorum, Obama (because it will be his second term so he will not worry about re-election), and Romney. Even though the big money is on Romney, he doesn't seem as evil as the others.
 
Paranoia and Fear are the tools of these Megalomaniacs. But since you focused on Rick Santorum

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