When conservatives have nothing positive to say...they go onto the negative attack mode. Nothing new here.

I love it! Now, let's have some fun with the same program. Let me think, what on earth could we morph Newt into??

He's already a Newt, so we'll have to wait until he gets better.

Any vote for any GOP member means NO SOCIAL SECURITY NO MEDICARE....Balance the budget by ending the crusades !

This is the last gasp from a dying Santorum campaign. Do whatever it takes Ricky, to keep the voters home in November. The GOP is the nation's most experienced job killing party.

When conservatives have nothing positive to say...they go onto the negative attack mode. Nothing new here.

Rubio said. "No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’ In sheer numbers, that statement is correct: Obama bought many more ads than McCain did, both positive and negative. Nevertheless, two studies suggest that, overall, Obama's ads were not significantly more negative than his rival. He ran the most negative ads because he ran the most ads. We rate Rubio's statement Mostly True.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/feb/06/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-no-candidate-has-run-more-negative-ads/

Will MSNBC and the rest of the liberal media that has so disgraced themselves during the current Trayvon-mania refer to Rubio as a "White Hispanic?"

Speaking of MSNBC's disgraceful coverage filled with lies, distortions and deceptive omissions....

http://www.nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/nbc-investigating-segment-on-zimmerman-call.html?imw=Y

NBC disclosed today that it will be launching an internal investigation into a segment about the Trayvon Martin case that appeared on the Today show, in which a call between George Zimmerman and a 911 dispatcher prior to Martin's death was edited in such a way that it portrays Zimmerman as a racial profiler. The editorial decision under review involves the removal of the dispatcher's inquiry about the race of the person Zimmerman was following — Martin. Absent that question, Zimmerman's comments get strung together as if he said, in sequence, "This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black."

The Washington Post provides the full transcript of that part of the call:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.

Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?

Zimmerman: He looks black.

Of course Zimmerman goes on to follow Martin against the advice of the dispatcher, but in this version of the call, it doesn't appear that he's awkwardly offering the information or in effect, profiling. Zimmerman still might have been, but the truncated call left much less doubt.

The Post's Erik Wemple writes that in a case where few facts are undisputed, it was particularly egregious to misrepresent one of them, the phone call. "To portray that exchange in a way that wrongs Zimmerman is high editorial malpractice well worthy of the investigation that NBC is now mounting."

Meanwhile New York Times media czar David Carr wrote a column today titled "A Shooting, And Instant Polarization," in which he similarly impugned some media coverage of this controversial case.

That the public is rendering its verdict immediately and firmly may be routine, but choosing sides takes on a deeper, more dangerous meaning when race is at the heart of the story. Race as an explosive issue is nothing new, but it’s been staggering to see it simmer and boil over in our hyperdivided media environment where nonstop coverage on the Web and cable television creates a rush to judgment every day.

Partisan politics and far-flung conflicts fit nicely into that world — who’s ahead, who’s behind, should we stay or go? — but racial conflict? Not so much.

That hasn’t stopped many in the media from displaying the same reflexive vigilantism that some are attributing to George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon. All over the Internet and on cable TV, posses are forming, positions are hardening and misinformation is flourishing. Instead of debating how we as a culture are going to proceed, an increasingly partisan system of news and social media has factionalized and curdled.

Carr and Wemple are not the only two to call out partisan media and media at large for mishandling coverage of the Martin case, or misrepresenting specific aspects of it. Nor are NBC or Business Insider (chastised by Carr for mishandling dubious photos) the only two to have erred in their coverage.

We'll end with an exchange from Something's Gotta Give, starring Jack Nicholson (Harry) and Diane Keaton (Erica):

Harry: I have never lied to you. I have always told you some version of the truth.
Erica Barry: The truth doesn't have versions, okay?

It's safe to say that Tim Russert is ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE.

Damage123: Calm down - it's not the media, liberal or otherwise:

From the US Census Bureau website:

"The terms "Hispanic" or "Latino" refer to persons who trace their origin or descent to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spanish speaking Central and South America countries, and other Spanish cultures. Origin can be considered as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify their origin as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic/about.html

Bottom line (pardon the pun) If you have a vagina, don't vote Republican

Gingerbread Mamma

Bottom line (pardon the pun) If you have a vagina, don't vote Republican

REALLY? Is there a PUN in there? I don't see one. Please explain to me where the PUN is!

Perhaps the issue is that you don't know what a "PUN" is.

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From dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pun?s=t

pun

   [puhn] Show IPA noun, verb, punned, pun·ning.

noun
1.
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize orsuggest its different meanings or applications, or the use ofwords that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different inmeaning; a play on words.

2.
the word or phrase used in this way.

8-P

Feisty:

What salty nuts they are, if you can get past the rancid bitterness! ;>)

What better way to start the week than to read the readheaded bimbo's BS !

SOB................... pun bottom/vagina!!!!

Phine,

Santorum needs to get out. He screwed up last week with the "We might as well leave Obama in" line and this ad is no different. Implying that there would be no change from Romney to Obama is ridiculous.

Funny but I think most of the Libs here would agree with me that Mitt Romney has very little in common with Barack Obama from a policy perspective.

Why Santorum thinks this is a winning strategy is beyond me.

It is desperate and it shows.

Obama should hit back. "What do you mean there's no difference? I'll give you a difference. If I tell you the sky is blue, you don't need to walk over to a window to see for yourself. When Romney tells you its blue, well, I'll leave that up to you."

WAC -- Not only that but this has to be the worst insult any one could throw -- morphing into pond scum.

But the question still remains, will the conservative voter buy into the ad?

Maybe. He is programmable, you know. Just depends on the skills of the guys turning the screwdrivers.

I just hope they don't forget the integrity chip the next time they work on him.

I am strugglinig here to grasp how Santorum's negative and largely inappropriate ads in Wisconsin, attacking his opponent necessarily morph into women's rights issues. If the man is committing political suicide, then women across America should be feeling relieved, if we ever actually felt threatened in the first place.

Tommy-499410

Well I can tell you that I am happy to hear that! But, I live in a town, that was booming with Manufacture jobs about 15 years agao, now we have just alott of empty decaying buildings.....so I guess my next question to CNN Money, is WHERE? Cuase they certaintly are not where I live.

Thomas, Not all towns and cities manufacturing companies are going to come back! My questions to you is why did the Republican party stop a plan to raise the tariff on goods coming from other countries? This would stop manufacturing companies from leaving your town, because goods would be higher! Republican made a promise of no new taxes, so they shot down the idea!

Second question - Why do you feel the need to call the President names? Can each side have a debate without it?

We don't want him, he is all yours...

Oh no, you think Santorum will come back in 2016 and try to plague America again. He needs to stay home with his family. America does not need him.

So I was right! Thanks for proving my point that you and the rest of the Tea-Party hate any good news about the United States! President Obama has millions of donors, and he can not account for each person. Construction spending will raise!

I am so sorry you are so full of hate!!

President Obama 2012

The GOP hates all good news that's happened under President Obama's wing.

Oh but I thought he was a "multi-tasker" Tommy-499410? Well, if I was running for President, I would know who is actly donating to my campaign.

Or maybe he would now who was donating to his campaign, if he wasn't on the golf course.

But, really, that amount of a donation and he doesnt know who gave it.....please!!! shovel it somewhere else!

The definition of insanity is to continue doing something over and over again, expecting a different result. While I am sure that a small group of people may be back to work, and while I am sure that an even bigger group is benefitting from expanded social programs, I do resent the attitude among posters here that because everything is hunky dorey in their lives, I am supposed to get up and cheer with them, because my life and that of my community is in tatters. I am supposed to be patient and wait....Wait for what? and for how long? It is very easy to tell other people how rosy things are, unless you have experienced unemployment, loss of savings, crippling debts, loss of home, car, and let us not forget loss of personal dignity and self esteem because everything that you worked for is crumbling and you cannot do anything to stop it.

Steeler Fan -

By way of comparison......for people who seem to think that the 2008 Obama/Clinton primary campaign was even remotely this negative......this morning I realized that it was four years ago today that I saw then-candidate Obama speak at a local high school. Went looking for a video of it on YouTube and found this one, where he starts talking about the campaign at about the 50-second mark, and the difference is like night and day compared to this Romney/Santorum stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzN6QCYsBd0

As he says, that was a great campaign - on both sides - because people got involved and energized and enthusiastic. Both he and Hillary were more FOR their respective visions and ideas than they were against each other personally, and that's how you get people involved and energized and enthusiastic in the first place. Since neither Romney nor Santorum were doing anything else four years ago, you'd have thought they'd have paid attention and maybe learned something. Apparently not.

In any case, at least I don't think we have to worry about there ever being a Secretary of State Santorum.....

When I think of our former Senator, JoAnne---the first 2 words that come to mind aren't tact & diplomacy---traits that I have come to admire in Secretary of State Clinton.

Have you seen the ad for a Republican senatorial candidate in Pa. who describes himself as in the mold of "Santorum", as if that is a virtue? Did no one tell him of Santorum's historic margin of defeat in 2006?

Yikes - no, I haven't seen that one yet - though I'm assuming whoever it is at least realizes that "the Santorum mold" wouldn't play too well here in the Philly media market. I'm guessing it's NOT either one of these two guys, though:

"(Steve) Welch, of Chester County, switched his registration to the Democratic Party in 2005 and voted in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary - for Barack Obama, he said. He says he switched parties after becoming disenchanted with Washington, D.C., and insists he voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 general election.

"Then there's Tom Smith of Armstrong County, who is largely retired from a coal-mining enterprise he founded. For practically his entire voting life, he was registered as a Democrat, and even voted in the 2010 Democratic primary - although he claims not to remember who he voted for. Smith's campaign responded that he has otherwise acted like a conservative and supported conservatives."

So we've got one Republican who voted for Obama and one who can't remember which Democrat he voted for just two years ago? Now there's a tv ad war just begging to happen!

Cakewalk for Bob Casey in November either way.....

http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/01/3148022/do-pa-republicans-know-senate.html

I agree with you. There are too many people that are scared of him and his views on where the country should go. I know a few Repubs that will vote for Obama before they select Santorum. I believe Santorum is just a sore loser. He has lost. The Primary is about math, Santorum sucks at math, there is no way he will ever succeed. i see a few people stating that he should come out again in 2016. Hell no. Never to Santorum. Emotion is important, but he cannot control himself. He would be a horrible leader. He seems like an okay person, but I do not want someone like him or anyone from the tea party running the Nation.

Santorum has been outspent by the Romney campaign and by Super PACs and yet is still running in primaries in April because he has a message that some in his party want to hear. Not a message that appeals to me but I can understand their frustration that their opinions aren't being heard.

That to me is the difference between this primary and the one for the Democrats in 2008. I supported then-Sen. Obama but I always believed that if he lost to Sen. Clinton, my voice would still be heard in the party.

Just curias, what the hell, is an anit_Christ? I've never heard of one befor Romney?

DfromSpencer:

If you want to now what an anitchrist is....go knock on the WhiteHouse door!!!!!

Hey Tom, the GOTP are traitors to this country! They are deffinately traitors to the middle and poor classes, and the elderly! Go figure!