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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[misko27]

 

We could form the National Socialist Democrats for American Prosperity.

Go NSDAP! Go NSDAP! Go NSDAP!

wait...

It was the abbreviation that got you? Not the, you know, National Socialist part?

Heil lue.

We could form the National Socialist Democrats for American Prosperity.

Go NSDAP! Go NSDAP! Go NSDAP!

wait...

It was the abbreviation that got you? Not the, you know, National Socialist part?

There are some variations you could put on the name:

• National Sensible Democrats for American Prosperity
• National Social(ist) Democrats for America Party
• National Society of Democrats for American Prosperity

Honestly the best part would be if the party's abbreviation didn't attract any major media attention.

I'm also surprised I was able to come up with a suitable backronym so quickly. It's almost disturbing.

Because clearly, any party that lacks major media attention is sure to win. Also backronyming is not hard, I for one created DEEPER:

Department of Engineering the Eldritch and Practical Exploitation of genetic Resources (Engineering Nightmares since 2037)

entirely of the top of my hat. And many others were made. The CDC was once "Commincable Disease Center", now being the "Center for Disease Control and prevention".

Nonaligned Social Democrats for American Progress

But making more types of democrats doesn't actually increase the net number of democrats in the country. They tried this in Weimar, and you can see how that turned out. Plus Americans like snappy names. "Democrats", "Republican" 3-3 syllable. Easy, obviously good. "Nationalist Socialist Party" "United Soviet Socialist Republics", 9, 12 syllables; clearly evil.

[lue]

Nonaligned Social Democrats for American Progress

This wins.

And amazingly, nsdap.gov doesn't seem to exist.

Could we... actually do this?

We would be doing this a joke party, right guys? ...Guys?

misko27: clearly, we would be called the "non-aligneds"

[Helgoland]

How does one found a party in the land of the West?

[freeformschooler]

Because clearly, any party that lacks major media attention is sure to win. Also backronyming is not hard, I for one created DEEPER:

Department of Engineering the Eldritch and Practical Exploitation of genetic Resources (Engineering Nightmares since 2037)

That's DEEPEGR. I call shenanigans.

[misko27]

Nonaligned Social Democrats for American Progress

This wins.

And amazingly, nsdap.gov doesn't seem to exist.

Could we... actually do this?

We would be doing this a joke party, right guys? ...Guys?

misko27: clearly, we would be called the "non-aligneds"

Fuck it I'm bringing out the big guns.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: About this sound Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help·info), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945.

Heil lue

Because clearly, any party that lacks major media attention is sure to win. Also backronyming is not hard, I for one created DEEPER:

Department of Engineering the Eldritch and Practical Exploitation of genetic Resources (Engineering Nightmares since 2037)

That's DEEPEGR. I call shenanigans.

People have been doing that for years. But if it means so much to you, you could drop the "genetic" and it would still fit.

[Helgoland]

Department of Electrical Engineering, Principiality of Exo-Romania

[Lord Shonus]

How does one found a party in the land of the West?

Strap an invectve-filled sign to your pickup truck and drive around town screaming at people that God wants you to build a rollercoaster. At least, that's what Opal did.

[misko27]

It does not change the fact that lue is attempting to create not a Americancetric fascist party, as feared, but recreate the old Nazi Party. Kill him and his Acronym inspired fascists.

[lue]

It does not change the fact that lue is attempting to create not a Americancetric fascist party, as feared, but recreate the old Nazi Party. Kill him and his Acronym inspired fascists.

recreate the old Nazi Party.

GOOD CHRIST NO It's just a socialist party people earlier decried the US not having. I just happened to find a suitable backronym for an unfortunate choice of acronym pretty quickly. Now it's a joke theoretical political party of the US.

[misko27]

It does not change the fact that lue is attempting to create not a Americancetric fascist party, as feared, but recreate the old Nazi Party. Kill him and his Acronym inspired fascists.

recreate the old Nazi Party.

GOOD CHRIST NO It's just a socialist party people earlier decried the US not having. I just happened to find a suitable backronym for an unfortunate choice of acronym pretty quickly. Now it's a joke theoretical political party of the US.

I feel in the mood to incite imaginary violence at non-existent secret organizations and their infiltrators, so no luck for you. I didn't become leader of DEEPEGR peaceably after all.


So how does everyone feel about the Technical problems of the Obamacare rollout?

[Chaoswizkid]

Despite the administration's reassurances that Americans will be able to continue using their current health insurance, estimates of 50% to 75% of insured Americans who buy their insurance individually (~14 million total) will lose their current health insurance plans (or have already), and evidence suggests that the administration was aware of this even in 2009.

[Lord Shonus]

Wrong. That percentage is people who buy their insurance individually, not those covered under workplace plans (the vast, vast majority of insured Americans). Individual plans tend to be nigh-useless bits of paper that are sold to the naive or the elderly by phone or door-to-door solicitors. Generally, they cover virtually nothing, and serve the sole purpose of scamming premiums. In other words, exactly the kind of policies that we are trying to get rid of.

[bulborbish]

Wrong. That percentage is people who buy their insurance individually, not those covered under workplace plans (the vast, vast majority of insured Americans). Individual plans tend to be nigh-useless bits of paper that are sold to the naive or the elderly by phone or door-to-door solicitors. Generally, they cover virtually nothing, and serve the sole purpose of scamming premiums. In other words, exactly the kind of policies that we are trying to get rid of.

To put in perspective, this is .5 to .75 of 14 million people. The American Population is 313 million. This only affects half of 4 percent of the population, assuming that the prediction is true.

[kaijyuu]

So, 2% of the population lost or changed their health insurance when a huge health insurance overhaul came about.

Man I could've predicted that.

[Lord Shonus]

Wrong. That percentage is people who buy their insurance individually, not those covered under workplace plans (the vast, vast majority of insured Americans). Individual plans tend to be nigh-useless bits of paper that are sold to the naive or the elderly by phone or door-to-door solicitors. Generally, they cover virtually nothing, and serve the sole purpose of scamming premiums. In other words, exactly the kind of policies that we are trying to get rid of.

To put in perspective, this is .5 to .75 of 14 million people. The American Population is 313 million. This only affects half of 4 percent of the population, assuming that the prediction is true.

Precisely my point.