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I was impressed with the 3K white people who showed up to listen to Willard & Eddie tell them what they want to hear in NH!
I'm afraid at the ease with which the lies roll off their tongues & the gullible groupies who believe their every word!
Why does the GNOP hate women?
Who DO they embrace?
When will Team Willard release a statement on Ryan being attached at the hip to Akin's?
Did you ever notice that if there is a person of color on the premises, they try to get him/her on the dais behind Romney? And that if they pan the crowd you rarely find any others?
They couldn't locate even one today!
It was a sea of white faces...
Right-on Feisty: Ryan and Akin think like two peas in a pod.
Ron,
Who can ever forget the
1/2 term Governor from AKwild Alaskan dingbat, forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits?Talk about word salads........
The full salad bar was open with the RRR....Mr. Marvelous uses a phrase "Magic Secret".....WTF?
Willard says "I signed a statement saying I will not raise taxes"......(Grover)....
New Hampshire should be afraid........as should everyone else with connected brain cells!
Pass the Bleu Cheese... please ;o)
Willard also choked on his comment about building in America or somewhere...
While the seals continued to clap wildly!
Freudian slip..?
Feisty, having lived in New Hampshire, I can tell you that there is not a large population of people of color in the Granite State. That is a fact.
The Democratic Governor of New Hampshire was elected with very few minority votes...does that make him a racist?
Fisty believes that every get together should be 50/50 black/white... pay no nevermind to the fact that blacks only make up about 12.5% of the overall US population.
Not to mention the fact that the black population tends to be concentrated in certain areas... but hey... they should be represented 1-to-1 in EVERY geographic area regardless of whether there are actually any blacks even living there!
(got a clown nose, fisty?)
Got a relevant comment? EVER?
Or did your staff make you say that repulsive thing?
Ah, the land of Peyton Place, as wikipedia succinctly claims:
Sounds like Romney/Ryan/Bob's kind of place. The only reason Bob moved is because Va. added vagina probes to the mix.
Oh quit being a racist, Anna Molly!
I simply want to see that wonderful little clown nose that fisty adds to many of her posts... you know... the one that looks like this... :O)
(show it to me, fisty!)
Why Would any women with a IQ above 80 continue to support any group that wants to abolish the concept of "Free Choice" on any issue .... especially one as important as child bearing, under any guise?
moonbeamracer - the operative words here are "women with an IQ above 80." Few in the GOP even get to 80!
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Our little buddy will do anything for a cheap thrill...
Ummm....NO!
Which is why the SOB made my exclusive ignore list months ago...
Uh huh. Seriously.
Begs a VERY big question, doesn't it?
To which Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, and Jan Brewer provide illustrative answers.
My hoped for question in the VP debate:
Question for VP candidate Paul Ryan: I caught the dreaded Gay a few years ago and I was advised to hang out with women. Will your plan give me a voucher for a hooker or a generic donut? The donuts get me all sticky.
Follow up question for Mr. Biden: Why are you laughing so hard?
No. But Medicaid will pay for you to receive treatment from Marcus Bachman.
Private enterprise, doncha know.
Anna Molly
Is Marcus a hooker or a doNUT? Please advise.
moonbeamracer
Why Would any women with a IQ above 80 continue to support any group that wants to abolish the concept of "Free Choice" on any issue .... especially one as important as child bearing, under any guise?
Some Republicans say Rep. Todd Akin should step down even Scott Brown.
Anyone else notice who was sitting behind Akin when he was speaking on the floor of Congress?
None other than Illinois very own Dead-Beat Daddy Joe Walsh!
Cuckoo's really do travel in flocks...
About New Hampshire today - I'm sure I detected a few plants in that audience and I don't mean the kind that grows in your garden. I mean it was well oiled stagecraft.
The comments on this site are becoming more crude and childish by the day.
Bob in Virginia-5210392
NH is just another example . Here is one from N. Carolina, same thing:
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/08/13/exclusive-romney-ryan-rally-draws-thousands-in-n-carolina/
or WI
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/08/huge-romney-ryan-rally-in-waukesha-wi-photos/
these are just random pics that tell the same story
Just look at him.
Take as needed. Repeat as necessary.
bayllie --
or WI
Oh, well, Waukesha County -- that's where all the whites went who did not want to live in Milwaukee, anymore. Might as well be New Hampshire.
lisa - I'd say the comments made by the GOP politicians are getting more crude and ridiculous with each passing day!
Obama/Biden 2012
Seeking Sanity, Your entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to mine. Have a nice day
lisa, I use crude to bury the prude.
You don't have to be African American to support President Obama. You just have to be smart, or have suffered under a Tea Party governor.
Maine is the whitest state in the nation, and polling shows President Obama ahead of Romney here by fifteen points.
PS Peyton Place may have been set in New Hampshire, but it was filmed in Camden, Maine. New Hampshire is too boring to serve as a backdrop to that scandalous series!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/me/maine_romney_vs_obama-2097.html
Amy - I love Maine - even moreso now! The New England states are so beautiful - especially in the spring!
Amy B. Portland, ME
Just an aside Amy, how do you feel about there no longer being a ferry to Yarmouth, N.S.? It sure as hell took a bite out of the economy in Nova Scotia.
The GOP as far as I know it, is dead... The extremist, rightys, fundamentalist and the religious nut-jobs have killed the republican party... And not a single democrat had anything to do with it...
Why ths attack on women from the GOP?
Women are the majority of voters...
Not sure what intelligence has to do with any of these debates. If you wanted to make this an exercise in cognitive ability, I am not sure the progressive viewpoint of equality of outcomes would go very far. Seeking Sanity always wants to deride anyone who would vote a fiscal conservative viewpoint or anybody but her candidate as an idiot. However, isnt the whole 99/1 percent debate all about cognitive ability? If you control for IQ scores, most of the issues of poverty, success etc can be explained including major issues like single motherhood. So it seems like a strange path to be taken by someone like Seeking Sanity.
As for intelligent woman who will vote for Romney, I guess I place my wife in that camp given that she is an accomplished lawyer with degrees from elite private institutions and I am pretty sure she has an IQ over 80. She is pro choice and doesnt really see this election having any impact on a woman's right to have an abortion as the chances of either Romney or Ryan having any impact on that as virtually zero. Since they both will have far more impact on the economy, those issues are far more critical and given Obama's four years of economic accomplishments, I think she is ready to try a different path and one far more likely to be successful.
As for generalizing and comparing anything this guy Adkins says and saying that applies to all GOP candidates do you realize how stupid that is? So you are going to take some of the asinine comments regarding Obama by Harry Reid or Joe Biden or Van Jones or all the left wing nut jobs who think 9/11 was an inside job consipiracy by Israel or Bush, or I could name left wing wacko after wacko and say those views are held by everyone in the democratic party including Obama is beyond even Jen who does some crazy things on behalf of her boss.
Doug Preisse, chairman of the Republican Party in Franklin County, which contains the city of Columbus, admitted in an email to the Columbus Dispatch that black voters would now have a more difficult time voting:
I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine. Let's be fair and reasonable.
Preisse was one of the Board of Elections members who blocked Democratic efforts in Franklin County to expand voting hours to evenings and weekends. According to the Dispatch, he called claims of unfairness "bull@!$%#. Quote me!"
Preisse also served on Newt Gingrich's leadership team in Ohio during the primary and is a top political consultant to Ohio Governor John Kasich (R).
In 2008, 82% of early voters in Franklin County voted on nights or weekends.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/08/19/fight-over-poll-hours-isnt-just-political.html
Hey Dennis--
The fact that you use The Ohio State University's logo makes me sick. As a life-long resident of Columbus I can only guess you were born in Ann Arbor and sent south by the state up north. Here's a little truth about your hero BHO and his tactics.
Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" explained Union organizers are often highly trained. In many unions this training includes indoctrination in Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."Saul Alinsky was a ruthless radical organizer. He would stop at nothing to win.Before he passed away in 1972 he published a book called "Rules for Radicals" in which he outlined his power tactics and questionable ethics.Anyone interested in staying, or becoming, Union Free, whether in an organizing campaign or in a de-certification or de-authorization election, ought to become familiar with these rules.This can be very valuable information. As one expert observer points out "Rules for Radicals are reversible and can be used against the Left."Here's a brief summary of the rules. We are indebted to the Public Service Research Foundation for this information.
Rules for Power Tactics:
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. Not your rules of course since you have none.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, and etc
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. The Cliff everyone is hammering on.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counter side. It has to be true or they wouldn't keep saying it
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Remember McCain/ Palin?
Sound familiar--name one thing BHO can hang his hat on which has made this country a better place to live--good luck with that loser! His only tactic (like yours) is to divide and conquer. I guess "Yes we can!" was replaced by "You didn't build that!"
Sports Side Note...
For the first time in its 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club has admitted 2 women as members...former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and investment banker Darla Moore.
As a golfer ... YAY! :)
If you tell a lie often enough, some nit-wit is going to believe it and Romney clearly doesn't care how he wins. We saw it in the primary where he blanketed states with negative ads on his opponents - and he won! So why would he change tactics now?
Exactly!
He is simply fighting fire with fire... dont like it? TOO BAD! hahahahah!
(show me the clown nose, fisty!)
You would know SOB.
SickOfTheBickering
Actually he is pouring gasoline on himself and the Dems are out cooking his chestnuts, the climate has become rather festive.
Short memories are a trait of the left. Short memories, denial, and spin. It's really quite amusing. When it catches up to you, as it is now with the Obama campaigns, first the cracks followed by implosion.
Negative campaigning is how Obama has ran every campaign he has ever been in.His latest is 95% negative.
So I suppose he didn't care how he won.
ConReb, there's a difference between negative campaigns and out-and-out lies. Romney's claim that Obama gutted welfare reform by removing the work requirement is a lie. Romney's been called out on it but he just doubles down and runs another ad spewing the same lie. And folks on the right lap it up like a dog and its vomit. Short memory, denial, spin -- beats the hell out of just plain stupid.
It's not a lie. Go to heritage.org. They have a great explanation. He "doubles down" because it's factual.
Now, out and out lies.
"Romney's a felon"
"Romney's a tax cheat"
"The Obama campaign does not push those lies"
all lies, all obama
Talk about not caring how you win, Obama imports his votes from Mexico, gives them amnesty, and makes it illegal to ID them at the Polls. Blames Bush for the bad economy, and then blames all GOPs for the economy. Wasn't it Bill Clinton who pushed and passed NAFTA and shipped jobs first to Mexico and later to China. He broke every promise he made except Obama care, and nobody wants it
I think the bigger story around the Akin remarks is how close Paul Ryan is to Akin's legislative record on issues affecting women's reproductive rights.
The Romney campaign is focusing very narrowly on the "legitimate rape" phrase, but ideologically Ryan is right there with Akin. I'd like someone in the press to ask Romney and Ryan about their position on the substantive issue, including Ryan's support for a "personhood" law.
Romney/Ryan - Zygotes and Corporations are people. Humans are simply a sloppy byproduct.
Scary, Ain't it?
Good Luck with that.
Romney will say he "doesn't want to talk about that." Ryan will just have the person arrested, as he tends to do with dissenters.
How about that Newsweek cover? Priceless.
Yes...an article by a consultant to the McCain campaign in 2008...no bias there, I'm sure.
Just like the cover they did on Romney.
Jul 30, 2012 – Newsweek is out with yet another controversial cover, this time callingMitt Romney a "wimp."
I'll even source that one...
newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/07/29/newsweek-cover-story-mitt-romney-candidate-serious-wimp-problem
Knew you would all blow it off and deflect. You always do. To do it to a candidate is one thing fine. They made it the cover story on the President. Guess they felt like he needed equal time.
Yup, and President Obama will win re-election, because the majority of America is not stupid enough to elect Willard Romney.
Yup, loved the Newsweek Mitt the Whip.
Funny...earlier this morning the Newsweek cover was "The Left-Wing Media Jumping Ship". Now it's about "Equal Time"?
I wish y'all would get your story straight.
President Obama looks cool, even on a cover dissing him.
PS What's the opposite of "The Golden Age of Journalism?" Whatever it is, I think we're living in it. Let's call it "The Puce Age of Journalism."
Who says you don't learn anything reading the comment section of a political blog:
Amy B. Portland, ME
Bedbugs leave the same stains from their droppings as part of their nightly wanderings on the surfaces of bedsheets, pillowcases and blankets. These colored stains on one's bedding after laundering are a bedbug alert
Amy
RepubliCons are accidentally honest.
The first was Todd Akin's comment that women who have been legitimately raped rarely get pregnant. This means the right wing nut jobs are intent on turning the clock back to 1950 and plan to overturn Roe v Wade when they should be focusing on the economy and J-0-B-S.
The second is Ohio elections official Doug Priesse's statement that ""I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine" (more here from the Columbus Dispatch). Every politically active person in this country is aware that many on the right agree with Messrs. Akin and Priesse, even if the GOP won't always come out so forthrightly a state these positions.
The third, Pennsylvania RepubliCon MikeTurzai said voter ID which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done ".
The fourth, Fla. Republican: We wanted to suppress black votes
Florida's disgraced former GOP chairman says the party had meetings about "keeping blacks from voting"
Of course there are numerous other displays of how stupidly repubs give away their alerts
Just saying..
While Romney lies to women about protecting the rights of raped women, he has signed the person-hood pledge that vows to make all abortions illegal no matter how the pregnancy happened.
During the 2010 elections the republicans promised jobs, jobs, jobs. Funny thing no jobs but lots of voter suppression and suppression of women's rights. Republicans would have you believe that women are so stupid that when they go in for an abortion, they don't even know they are pregnant, hence the ultra-sound and the 24 hour waiting period.
Once I see all the jobs that the republicans promised if elected in 2010 then I will believe that the republicans plan on protecting medicare and social security.
By the way where are the tax returns for the girlie man the republicans want for president. Not honorable enough to let the people see his taxes and see what kind of businessman he really was, but the republicans would have us believe he is honorable enough to lead our country.
Mitt the twit lives up to his name everyday.
VOTE FOR AMERICA....VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
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By the way where are the tax returns for the girlie man the republicans want for president. Not honorable enough to let the people see his taxes and see what kind of businessman he really was, but the republicans would have us believe he is honorable enough to lead our country.
Mitt Romney will release 2011 tax return by Oct. 15, campaign says
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/08/19/mitt-romney-will-release-tax-return-oct-campaign-says/kKlsaCXnl1WwlJOTQLfVCI/story.html
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Yea, right Oct 15th, 2016! RepubliCONs are dishonest cheaters voter suppression says so. Need I mention they are LIARS?
4more years 4 44
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Beverly - I almost laughed when I read 10/15. That's the last day for extensions to be filed with the IRS - of course they'll have them then - they have no choice. However, if the last day for extensions was 11/15 I'm sure that's when they would be filed.
Obama/Biden 2012
SeekingSanity
Beverly - I almost laughed when I read 10/15. That's the last day for extensions to be filed with the IRS - of course they'll have them then - they have no choice. However, if the last day for extensions was 11/15 I'm sure that's when they would be filed.
But, but, Ed Gillespie on
FOX NEWS'REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS said to Chris Wallace the returns will be released as soon as they’re ready, “And I believe they’ll be ready before that.”Wallace responded by asking suggestively, “The Friday after the Democratic convention?"
Gillespie laughed and smiled broadly, saying he didn’t he wasn’t sure but that it’s up to CPA’s, “not me.”
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Will getting a Form 1099-DIV from the Cayman Island timely? ROFL
4more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Tax extensions released on 10/15. Hmmm. While I've always said that the tax return issue was not important and harping on it could backfire, he is pushing the release to the last moment. What could his taxes show...Yes the guy made a lot of money and paid little taxes. Regarding taxes, what would happen if after months and months of Democrats calling for release, his 2011 ends us showing nothing wrong. Worse yet what if he releases many years showing a lot of income, limited tax rate percentages but nothing illegal? Romney could rightfully bash it over the Democrats heads and claim they wasted the entire campaign talking about taxes and not ideas. Could that be an October surprise no one saw coming?
Akin and Ryan, personhood/violation bills - Typically I would say, move on the substantial issues or the race could turn into noise with no economic solutions offered. However, the GOP are making their social hard core views hard to ignore. This will lose them independents, I am glad.
Obama/Biden - Continue climbing out of the GOP created hole while carrying the recovery on their back.
Romeny/Ryan - Free fall to disaster weighted down by more tax cuts and extremist social issues.
Mitt has already released a draft of 2011 so my guess is that the final version won't be that much different from the draft---no news there. The big question is still why won't Mitt release any years earlier than 2010? What is he hiding?
One birth certificate was not enough for the republicans for President Obama, but want us to think one year of tax returns is just fine for Mitt the twit.
So tell me righties would you have been satisfied with one year of President Obama's tax returns?
If Romney was half as honest as he would have us believe he would have already released his tax returns like all the rest of the people running for president do.
If tax returns weren't important then why did Mitt ask for more than one year from Ryan and his other VP contenders?
Just another lie from Romney and the republicans that he is an honest businessman and knows how to create jobs. Interesting how the whole world becomes small minded according to Mitt if they want proof of Mitt's honesty.
VOTE FOR SANITY...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
This is ridiculous. How many of you file your taxes before you're supposed to? If you're like me, you file early is you have a refund coming, and you file on the deadline if you have to pay in.
Really, you guys are reading way too much into this tax return "issue." That's why I think that Romney is doing exactly the right thing to withold as much of his tax information as he can. You're going to read some sinister intent into anything he does, and releasing additional tax returns only gives you more information.
The man is rich. Get over it.
I'm going out and buy a couple of copies of that issue of NEWSWEEK. Might even buy a subscpiption.
Great speech by President Romney today in New Hampshire.
He describes his vision for bringing America out of the Obama darkness and despair.
Romney/Ryan 2012/2016
Ryan 2020/2024
Only in the feeble mind of a teabagger!!!
Joseph, what a shame you didn't buy the Mitt the Wimp edition it so accurately summed up the bully/wimpy factor of Mitt Romney, who, as noted in the article above really doesn't care if the ads that are endorsed by him are true or not at this point. Nice candidate you have there!
In true Mitt like fashion measuring for drapes a bit prematurely... eh, JP?
ROFL...Oh, the irony. The same GOP that thought that people who voted for President Obama were under the misguided impression that they thought he was some kind of "Messiah" are now beginning to talk about how Mitt Romney is going to "SAVE" America.
Joseph E. Parent - keep telling yourself "President Romney." Only the feeble minded actually think he will be elected. Normal people know he would be the destruction of the US!
Anyway, we don't want a car elevator in the White House!
Obama/Biden 2012
DaNoid ... little Annie-kins started that comment last week when she was interviewed by Brian Williams . . .
Bill Maher (I know so left he's just divine) was all over that one this weekend. But it does bring up the fact that the R&R's are running around stating they will be "saving" America. From what exactly? The only thing I can see we need saving from are people like R&R stomping on the backs of the great people of this country to gain control for their puppet masters.
Joseph E. Parent
Great speech by President Romney today in New Hampshire.
He describes his vision for bringing America out of the Obama darkness and despair.
Joseph
The only problem there is Romney can't pour piss out of a boot. So how can he lead?
Joseph - listen tomorrow and Romney will have a totally different vision for this country- depending on where he is speaking and which 10 people show up to hear him.
Please the empty suit that IS Romney couldn't lead turtles across a street!
Obama/Biden 2012
Joseph E. Parent
Was that what Mitt was doing at a hardware store a few weeks ago, buying a flash light? Ooops, then he followed up by going to a grocery store to buy some batteries.
"Hey Ryan, do you know how to get this damned thing out of the wrap? Could someone call Staples for me, maybe they have a special thingie?
Joseph E Parent.
Have you noticed how this folks get when they see that our President is on the defensive and the tide is rurning toward Romney/Ryan?
As the song goes. The Hills are alive with the sound of Liberals. All they have is insults and made up stories about any opponent that does not think like them. The louder the music the better that the Romney ticket is doing.
Let me see, if you are a black woman that is not a Liberal, them you are stupid, however if you happen to be Hispanic, them you are an idiot that does not know what she writes or talks about. An example of this kind of behavior is seen in: SeekingSanitiy, Layton, Feisty, Job1, Blackcatwhitecat, RedDevs to name a few.
How on Earth do people like these expect that a President that tends to divide can win a second turn?
Concern - you amplify the stupidity of any woman who would support Romney/Ryan. You can't help yourself - you clearly were born dumb and just got dumber as you aged.
And, if you believe the Romney ticket is doing well - that confirms my suspicions!
Obama/Biden 2012
SeekingSanity, you don't fail me ever. Just named you for being one of those racist dog bi$#hes and you did not disappoint me. Just proved my Point and I love you for that.
Yes I do believe that the Romney ticket doing well, let's see how many more lies you can manifest. You are a sorry beep of a person.
next it would be Layton and the the rest of the female ---- no I'm not going to insult you anymore. But I will fight fire with fire.
Don't you mean Romney/Bryan? lmao
What a dumbfux!
SeekingSanity
Joseph - listen tomorrow and Romney will have a totally different vision for this country- depending on where he is speaking and which 10 people show up to hear him.
Please the empty suit that IS Romney couldn't lead turtles across a street!
Neither can Romney find his way out of a paper bag!!
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Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Don't you mean Romney/Bryan? lmao
What a dumbfux!
Willard chose Paul Ryan as his same-sex partner too!!!
Beverly, you did notice that I did not include you in the racist list. But now I guess you added yourself. Feisty you mean your laughing your big fat a&& lmfao.
Yes the Romney ticket which happens to be Romney Ryan. You are the saddest case of all of your Dogs (bi!@#es. How sad to have people like you in any Country. Actually the name DumbFUX fits you the most.
Bev I'm surprised at you. At the end of the Day November will bring us a winner.
Concern, I've had you on IGNORE for a reason but when I saw all of these, I opened it up ..
You fight "fire with fire" EXACTLY the way your presumptive nominee does! By WHINING AND CRYING AND CALLING NAMES! I've never called you anything on these boards and have been called a bit*h, moron, idiot by YOU. Knock it off and get over yourself. Nobody cares what you do at your weekly ravers. Crawl back under your GOP rock.
Concerned Citizen,
Yes, I saw that trait over and over whenever Sarah Palin gave an interview or made a speech.
Here was a woman who wasn't running for any office, and held no position whatsoever. But the mere fact that she was a woman, and a conservative, made her a traitor in the minds of the libbies.
Not too long ago, you merely had to mention Palin's name on these blogs, and the dumb libbies would go into a frenzy. Great entertainment. Like teasing a dumb bear chained to a tree.
Psssst.....hey libbies.....SARAH PALIN LOL.
Just to really make this upcoming week more interesting...some of the more reliable hurricane models are forecasting a tropical storm or hurricane to affect the Florida peninsula in about a week. Now, this far out, these models are subject to fairly large forecast errors (upwards of 300-500 miles)...but anyone wanna take a guess as to what might be going on a week from now in Florida? (Disclaimer...I am NOT saying it is going to happen, just that the possibility is out there. Really, really, really don't want it to happen though).
Frank - Fingers crossed it doesn't happen. We've had enough disasters for the year!
Maybe God is sending a message. Look out Tampa!
In a related story, strip clubs in the Tampa area have been renovating in anticipation of the convention. Many are installing anti foot tapping stalls in their restrooms.
Is it true the clubs are "beefing" up their inventory?
At least the Democrats won't pray for bad weather to disrupt the convention.
dang!... save "America" from who? ... from a boogeyman?
C'mon now people... i just transferred to the "Fleet Reserve"... i do not want to be recalled to "save" America from a boogeyman...
Okay, so the skinny-dipping congressman is just another shiny object distraction (wait, that came out ALL wrong) - but his one-year later "apology" is just so classic:
"I feel incredibly remorseful that I have caused embarrassment to my constituents and I have caused folks who believe in me to be disappointed,” Yoder told The Star Sunday night. “The gravity of the situation and the actions I’ve taken are not lost on me, and I feel certainly regret at what has occurred, and I just want to apologize to my constituents for a momentary lapse in judgment.
Yeah, the gravity of the situation was never "lost", it was just misplaced for a year until the story came out.
And further.....
"Yoder, 36, admitted he dove into the sea “without a swimsuit.” Christians consider the Sea of Galilee a holy site; it is where the Bible says Jesus walked on water.“Part of the reason I made that decision at that moment was there was really nobody in the vicinity who could see me,” he said. “I dove in, hopped right back out, put my clothes on and, regardless, that was still not the behavior people expected out of their congressman.”
Oh, I get it - as long as nobody could see you, then it was all okay, right? This from a representative of the party who wants to tell people what they can and can't do in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
And hey, Kevin? Have you seen Congress' poll numbers lately? This is EXACTLY the kind of behavior people expect out of their congressman.
Oops, forgot the link:
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/20/3769876/yoder-apologizes-for-swimming.html
Israel is the "in" spot for spring-break like behavior from right-wing Congresspeople (and their families?)
How bizarre.
PS. Do you think Romney's staffers go down to the Salt Lake to party?
Amy, it would be so perfect if they did party in the Great Salt Lake ... it stinks of dead brine flies and things tend to "float" in it if you get my drift . . . .
Notice that he doesn't apologize for the debacle of the debt crisis and then for taking a Congressional junket a week later. He also doesn't apologize for no jobs bills. Wonder if he has renamed any post offices.
JoAnne,
In ancient times, did the faithful wear some kind of swimsuits?? One piece or bikini??
Did they even go for a swim?? Or did they just hang out, and sweat like the dumb libbies on this site??
Tony Perkins warns Scott Brown "to be careful" about criticizing Todd Akin.
Tony Perkins is defending Akins! I guess rape is the GOP platform!!
Tommy - Tony Perkins - wasn't he in Psycho????
SeekingSanity - Must be the same person if be wants to defend Akin!! The GOP must be full of Psychos!!
Akin does not represent the republican party, just as most of the posters here don't represent the democrat party.
Peas in a pod.
Isn't Akin a republican congressperson? Just how does an elected congressperson not represent the republican party? Which party do you think he represents?
VOTE FOR SANITY...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
why do rep,dem,tea,etc, all act like their party is the answer to everything?when in reality they all suck.they all have been nonstop failures.no one beter than the other.you keep smashing into the wall without looking for a door.
Shouldn't we take a pro-active approach, and try discussing President Romney's agenda for the first of his glorius eight years in office??
I'm still ticked that I pay a much higher percentage of taxes than Romney and Romney/Ryan want to lower his tax rate to less than 1%. That really gets my panties in a wad. And geez, what about him talking up war with Iran --what is it about GOPers and sending off men and women to Godforsaken places to fight ridiculous and costly wars (and with Romney's 4 deferments to Vietnam, only Cheney was a bigger yellow belly than him :)? I noticed that Mittens again changed his position on rape (he was originally okay with abortions for rape victims, then he was against it and then he now is kind of for it again -- man, that guy has changed EVERY position on EVERY policy known to man......Geez, I've got a headache......have fun you all.........I love your posts!!!
Linda,
The only reason Romney pays a lower tax rate than you is that the money he uses for investments, has already been taxed at least once! And not only that, I bet your effective tax rate is higher than his!!!
Anyone remember when Obama was up by at least six points in these swing states??? Not any more!!!
Florida: Romney 45%, Obama 43%
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Mitt Romney and President Obama still run nearly even in Florida just days after the Republican named Congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Florida shows Romney earning 45% support to the president's 43%. Three percent (3%) like some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Florida was conducted on August 15, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The presidential race in Wisconsin is a little tighter this month following Mitt Romney's selection of hometown Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Romney with 48% support to President Obama's 47%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
In late July, it was Obama 49%, Romney 46%. This is the Republican's largest level of support yet in the Badger State. Prior to this survey, the president has earned 45% to 52% of the vote, while Romney has picked up 41% to 46% of the vote.
Iowa: Romney 46%, Obama 44%
Friday, August 10, 2012
The presidential race in the battleground state of Iowa remains a near tie.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters finds Mitt Romney with 46% support to President Obama's 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Iowa was conducted on August 8, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Four years ago, President Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Indiana. He looks unlikely to repeat that feat.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds challenger Mitt Romney picking up 51% of the vote while the president earns just 35%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and 11% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The Indiana survey of 400 Likely Voters was conducted July 31-August 1, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
In 1979, three months prior to the election, in a downtrending economy, first term President, Jimmy Carter led Ronald Regan by 17% in nation wide polls. Reagan's campain began to gain momentum and trailed by eight percentage points up untilearly October. Regan went on to defeat Carter by ten points on Election Day - a landslide in the electoral college.
In 1992, Three months prior to the election, in another downtrending economy, Bill Clinton trailed encumbant George Bush Sr. (adjusted for Perot) by five points and with Perot's withdrawl, Clinton began to slowly gain until the momentum put him out in front by five points just before election day. Clinton also won in a landslide in the electoral college...
The moral of the story? In bad economic times, momentum of the challenging candidate unseats incumbent presidents. There is not one swing state that Romney hasn't managed to establish momentum and close the large gaps Obama enjoyed in June... There are four where Romney has already overtaken Obama!
If politics didn't wear a little deception, it would be naked.