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Who will win the GOP nomination?
Where is Ron Paul?
Who will win the GOP nomination?
Blade... why don't you put Ron Paul on your ballot and see what happens.
It is my opinion that Santorum is ultra conservative. Too much so for a progressive country like the US of A.
RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL!
I say vote who you want to win - don't vote for who you think might win. I don't like the argument that people often use that you are "throwing away" your vote when you pick someone who probably won't win.
Do what is right. And what is right - is a vote for Ron Paul! Yahoooooo!!!!
Will you vote for Romney or Obama come this November?
He is done. No chance to win the nomination. He will be around for several more months but he has ZERO CHANCE of getting the GOP nomination.
I would vote for Obummer. Flip flop Rom and Bombs Away Obama is the same thing. At least I get the pleasure of watching chicken little republicans screech for another 4 yrs.
Has anyone looked up santorum on urban dictionary? Have fun!
Romney remains the man.
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Try flipper
Hope he has some answers for the flip flop charges.
He even flip flops on flip flopping!
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In about 30 days (60 at most) Mitt Romney will have the GOP nomination all locked up.
South Carolina then Florida at the end of this month. If Mitt finishes first it's over.
Obama vs. Romney.
Who will win the GOP nomination?
Wish it were Huntsman.
I like Ron Paul too, but then I saw a bunch of Huntsman clips. He speaks Chinese - holy crap! Let's elect that guy.
You don't think China is an issue?
He is done. No chance to win the nomination. He will be around for several more months but he has ZERO CHANCE of getting the GOP nomination.
Realistically, you now have 3 choices (I think Newt is done as well). Will it be Santorum or Romney?
Will you vote for Romney or Obama come this November?
When Huntsman was asked to speak Chinese, the results weren't pretty.
Like the link says, "Americans claim to "speak" Chinese no matter how few words they understand, while Chinese claim to be unable to speak English no matter how many words they understand." The comments say that his Chinese is fine (mostly), so I figure the balance is somewhere in the middle, but the biggest thing is that he doesn't say more than a few words, whereas I can talk in Spanish for about 30 minutes and French indefinitely without repeating myself. My point with that is that, if he only can say 3 sentences, how functional is that?
but every Chinese would understand unequivocally everything he says and would most likely be very impressed.
Hyperbole much? Even the Chinese don't understand each other, and that is by a wide margin. "Every Chinese" - in Hong Kong? Singapore? Tahiti? NYC? Shanghai (MAYBE)? And, even notwithstanding pronunciation, really - "unequivocally"? Are you a Chinese speaker? I know, like, 10 words of Mandarin, and I would tell the Chinese patients that I cannot do medical Chinese. My Korean pronunciation is even better, and I know even less of that. Japanese? I can count to ten and say "my telephone" (watashi no denwa), mostly because I recall telephone in Mandarin to be "dian hua". If his word order was off, that would be "clearly, without error" understood? What if a person said in English the following: "I win almost every time". What if they meant "I almost win every time"?
I get a kick out of the YouTube vids of Sandra Bullock speaking German and Mila Kunis speaking Russian (although for Kunis it's because Russian was first for her, and English came later). I saw it on TV (but can't find it online) about Gov. Huntsman saying something, and it was translated as "you won't understand me" (but was referenced in the Slate article). Huh? Vous ne pouvez pas comprendre ce que je dis? Tu no puede comprendar de que yo hablo? That's kind of a recursively dumb statement.
Speaking some of a language is one thing. Fluency, though, is a much, much higher bar, which any linguist will tell you.
GOP voters could give a rat's arse what foreign language he speaks as long as his English is sound and his views are Conservative.
Too bad Chris Christie decided not to run; now we get Romney or ??
I'd put more money on Huntsman's Chinese than Palin's English.
Hyperbole much? Even the Chinese don't understand each other, and that is by a wide margin. "Every Chinese" - in Hong Kong? Singapore? Tahiti? NYC? Shanghai (MAYBE)? And, even notwithstanding pronunciation, really - "unequivocally"? Are you a Chinese speaker? I know, like, 10 words of Mandarin, and I would tell the Chinese patients that I cannot do medical Chinese. My Korean pronunciation is even better, and I know even less of that. Japanese? I can count to ten and say "my telephone" (watashi no denwa), mostly because I recall telephone in Mandarin to be "dian hua". If his word order was off, that would be "clearly, without error" understood? What if a person said in English the following: "I win almost every time". What if they meant "I almost win every time"?
I get a kick out of the YouTube vids of Sandra Bullock speaking German and Mila Kunis speaking Russian (although for Kunis it's because Russian was first for her, and English came later). I saw it on TV (but can't find it online) about Gov. Huntsman saying something, and it was translated as "you won't understand me" (but was referenced in the Slate article). Huh? Vous ne pouvez pas comprendre ce que je dis? Tu no puede comprendar de que yo hablo? That's kind of a recursively dumb statement.
Speaking some of a language is one thing. Fluency, though, is a much, much higher bar, which any linguist will tell you.
If you are able to communicate almost all or most of your ideas to another person in a relatively smooth manner, then I would consider you fluent.
Ron Paul all the way baby! He's the only one not bought and paid for, the only one who understands or even pays attention to the constitution, and the only one who understands markets and how economies work.
It will be Romney vs Obama. Ron Paul came in second again. Ron Paul has a large following but at this point the only role Paul can play Is spoiler
Blade, the last 3 presidential election winners happened to have come in second place in the New Hampshire Primaries.
Blade would have a heart attack if Ron Paul became president.