StrangeSox

1) There's no wrongdoing here. Shouting about it more without actually backing it up doesn't change that. Medical procedures can sound "gross" when described bluntly and emotionless, but that would apply to other tissue, organ and cadaver donations as well. 2) Cutting the HHS budget by $500 million means that a whole lot of reproductive services will be gutted over another faux hidden camera video scandal. edit: and since you're so concerned about wrongdoing, you may be interested to know that a judge has issued an injunction against them releasing any more of their secretly recorded and heavily edited videos as they may have violated confidentiality agreements. They appear to be willfully violating that restraining order.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:17 AM) Thanks for all the responses, guys. Good to think about some of these names. Last cycle I was a fan of Huntsman (who by the way was the guy closest to Reagan's issue stances, despite protestations from the rest of the field), more so than Obama or any of the GOP'ers, but he wasn't going to win. If Kasich has a similar profile in some ways, plus he can carry one of the 2-3 most key swing states and might be able to actually get the nomination, that sounds intriguing. I'll have to research him a bit, I know very little about him. The number of lunatics in the field is disturbing. I don't mean Bush or Paul or really the majority of them - I am not talking about issue stances per se. I mean guys who just seem to do nothing but throw temper tantrums - Trump and Cruz chief among them. I can't see how anyone would vote for those two, as they clearly have no actual interest in governing. That's not about issue stances. FWIW I think Michelle Bachmann is still touring around the country on the money she raised during the 2012 primaries. For some of these guys, it's definitely about building their own brand and bringing in dump trucks full of cash. But that was probably 95% of the GOP field last time whereas this time around there are some more legitimate candidates.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 07:27 AM) None of that matters. The far right tea party faction of the Republican Party has made Obamacare enemy #1. If you don't come out as 100% against every single provision of Obamacare and pledge to vote to defund it every single one of the 416 times it comes up for vote, you have no future in the party. Kasich recently said that he would keep the Medicaid expansion portion of Obamacare and replace the rest. That sealed his fate right there. If he ever gets high enough in the polls to matter, he will get pasted with ads painting him as in favor of Obamacare. That highlighted bit is one major reason why calling Obamacare a "conservative plan" or "way to the right" of the plan Romney put in place as governor while dealing with Democratic supermajorities in the state congress will always be silly. I know it's a bit of a derail but that's sort of a pet peeve of mine.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) If he can win Ohio for the part though that's a pretty big deal. Sure, but then again Walker could make the same argument for Wisconsin and he's more likely to get support from the primary-voting and caucusing base than Kasich is. If a candidate can't pick up enough convention delegates early on, they'll struggle to continue raising funds and stay in the race. If Kasich survives that, I could see him being the "establishment" (or whatever you want to call it) candidate that the party ultimately gathers around, like Romney in 2012. I just don't know if he can make it that far.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 03:21 PM) These first debates will be crazy. How can you get more than one question to each candidate in the time allotted? At least one major polling firm has decided to stop polling the Republican primary field because they're concerned that their polls are being misused to decide who's in and who's out. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-g...le29787529.html

For whatever it's worth, I heard Kasich compared to Hunstman--just an incredibly bland guy for the national stage that'll have a hard time catching on earlier enough to really hang around.

We finally finished remodeling pretty much our whole house after four years this summer, so now my wife wants to move.

So glad they didn't send the wrong message to this great roster by trading away shark

HERE WE COME!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 12:15 PM) Articles like this one http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...the-2016-field/ You do realize that that says pretty much the opposite of him being electable in the general election, right?

Lol

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 07:22 PM) They have had a good month. Pulling the plug right when they get back into it is not a good message. Welp

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 07:04 PM) Unless they'd rather have chance at wildcard and comp pick instead of prospects and selling. Meh. Maybe offers weren't better than comp pick. sure but that's an argument from the GM's overall strategy perspective not "oh it'd send a bad message to a team that's generally played like hot garbage"

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 06:21 PM) Trading Shark, unless it was a deal you couldn't say no is kimd of slapping the rest of the roster in the face. a sub-.500 club has no room to complain about moving a guy who's been here for a little more than half a season and will likely be gone by next year anyway

What do you base that on?

why is ted cruz a lock to get the nomination?

Makes sense. No matter where he's at, he's pitching for a contract next year.

If someone repeatedly fail to negotiate good deals, maybe they're the problem.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) Hung on to Shark, mixed emotions. If the last week was for real, or at least semi-real, this team is going to win games. But look at how much other playoff-hunting teams loaded up compared to the Sox who may or may not be good based on playing well for a little over a week in July.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:01 PM) What an absolutely idiotic lack of strategy by the front office. that's what I'm taking away from this.

Don't know what the offers were of course, but pretty disappointed that he wasn't moved.

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:47 PM) Who's this dude Detroit News writer.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:33 PM) Bah, I hate twitter some days.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:45 PM) You and I both know that they will instead worry about what laws, if any, were broken in procuring those tapes instead of any wrongdoing that they show. But since there's no wrongdoing shown, there's not really anything to investigate.