• All those people talking about taking America back in November, how far back do they want to go? 1920, before women got the vote throughout the U.S.? The 1890's - Robber Barons? The Gilded Age? Before 1860, before the Federales trumped that whole states rights thing, and people were bought and sold as property? Farther than that? Is it too much to ask just how far?
• Hypothetical question: If a plantation owner in the antebellum era bought a new slave for his workforce, would that have made him a job creator?
• If the whole point of automation, computerization, just in time manufacturing, etc. etc. is to do more with less, why are we talking about raising the age of retirement to keep people working longer when there's less and less to do?
• If the rich think the poor don't pay enough in taxes while they feel the pain of paying too much, wouldn't the real shared sacrifice involve raising the minimum wage, increasing pay and benefits, so the poor could also feel the burden of having money and being forced to pay taxes on it?
• If guns don't kill people, people kill people, wouldn't it make sense to ban people?
• If Mitt Romney is such a big defender of traditional marriage, how does he justify being married to an equestrienne?
• How can the leadership of the Catholic Church defend traditional marriage without ever having tried it themselves? Isn't that a bit like running a restaurant where the cooks never eat what they're serving up?
• If someone believes government isn't the solution, government IS the problem, aren't you just asking for trouble if you vote for them so they can become part of the problem?
• A conservative is someone who is convinced the world is going to Hell - and gets extremely upset if it doesn't.
• Could a real libertarian really be happy that real referees are now imposing rules on football games? Isn't that just creeping authoritarianism?