Originally posted by: lordjedi
Really? All of them? Everything from Ron Paul's "If it's not in the Constitution, we shouldn't be doing it" to the other candidates "We have to finish the job"? Or were you just referring to the Democrat solutions?

Changing the government so that it stays the hell out of things is always a good idea, but apart from Ron Paul I don't really see a candidate truly advocating that. The lack of government action is not a solution though, that's just passing responsibility back to the people who should have it.

Absolute crap solutions like expanding socialized health care, where the government decides what kinds of health-care services you can get, are seriously being considered by around half the population of this country. Another issue is how Democrats want to cover the landscape of our country with ugly wind turbines (and having the government subsidize ethanol is a big republican issue). It's all so pathetically stupid that I often want nothing to do with any of it.

The only problem is in the area of legitimate government action. Issues like having a strong national defense, being tough on criminals, standing up for our common social values, and having judges that uphold our laws (as apposed to judges that think our laws should mean whatever they feel it should at any moment) are too important to leave in the hands of a boob like Colbert. (Though I have a slight suspicion that he'd be better than Hillary.) Oh well.