If Sarah, or Newt, or Mitt, or McCain, or Huckster became president in 2012...

[Shagbark Hickory]

If Sarah, or Newt, or Mitt, or McCain, or Huckster were to be elected for president in 2012 after running on their usual anti-government, anti-middle class platform and much to the surprise of the entire world, within their first couple of years in office:

O- Created a national health policy that at the least included a robust public option that covered everyone,
O- Ended all the wars we have going on and closed many military bases we have overseas,
O- Closed gitmo and tried every one of the prisoners (in the US),
O- Drafted economic reforms that end "too big to fail" and restrict wall street bonuses,
O- Went after the banks that committed mortgage fraud in the housing crisis,
O- Set forth a huge investment into wind and solar,
O- Proposed a very robust green jobs program,
O- Announced phasing out oil drilling and phasing in clean energy,
O- Spoke out in favor of the workers in Wisconsin,
O- Raised taxes on the ultra-wealthy,
O- Didn't do anything to hinder reproductive rights or marriage equality. But also didn't do anything that substantial with immigration,

... Would you then support this president, despite the fact that they were once a crazy rightwing nutbag and even if they may say much of the same crazy psycho-talk?
And if so, would you vote to re-elect them in 2016?

I'm just curious. :shrug:

[WhiteTara]

1. do you think

I'd have enough time to sell my house before I ran to another country?

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Did you read beyond the title?

[WhiteTara]

16. actually, no

the horror was too great!

[MindPilot]

3. Hell yeah! I'd hang around just to watch the R's heads explode.

Probably be better than the rapture.

[yourout]

4. I would support them but The Rs would make him/her disappear in short order.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Wouldn't those things make them a true democrat??

Look at how many changed parties after being elected in Texas......

[barbtries]

6. fantasy

not worth contemplating 'cause it ain't gonna happen

[Ikonoklast]

7. Then they would have to have been replaced by Aliens.

I would support any politician that wanted the same things I want, and if they called themselves members of the Militant Quaker Punk Rock Party it wouldn't matter.

The problem is, these guys are REAL nutbags, and that's the scariest thing. They actually believe some of the insanity they spout is the truth.

[CJCRANE]

8. If you like oranges, and apples were oranges

would you then like apples?

:crazy:

Did Karl Rove and Boojatta help you write that OP?

[tabasco]

9. ZZZZZZZZZzzz zzzzzzzz ....... .....

:boring:

[grahamhgreen]

10. Yes! K&R

[On the Road]

11. Sure --

I care more about what people do than what they say. Voting for one candidate over another, however, depends entirely on the other candidate.

When Donald Trump considered running in 2000 on the Reform Party ticket, his proposed platform was based on:

--Universal health care
--More favorable trade agreements
--A one-time tax of 14% on all personal assets of over $10 million dollars, which would be used to pay off the national debt.

Based on that platform, I might have voted for him.

[CelticThunder]

12. You mean like the complete opposite of what happened when Obama was elected?

Could be.

[louis-t]

13. You have GOT to stop eating pickles before bedtime.

Your dreams are getting weirder and weirder. :evilgrin:

[Urban Prairie]

14. Only an Independent(ly) wealthy POTUS would be likely to do or propose them.

He or she would obviously face stiff opposition from the Rethugs and DLCers in Congress, regardless of which party held the majority in either the Senate or the House, or both.

Now that corporate personhood is lawful per the SCOTUS ruling, are there really very many if any candidates, who we can trust to keep some, or most, if not all of their campaign pledges/promises anymore?

"In God we trust", but all others will gladly accept being corrupted claiming corporate capitalist campaign contributions.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

15. Won't happen... I don't thing anything would change. "More the same" will continue.