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Subscribe to RSSBARNESVILLE, Ohio -- Rick Santorum on Saturday said the entire Republican Party should voice its support for Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri -- including the top of the party's presidential ticket.
After holding a rally for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney here in the heart of Ohio's coal country, Santorum told NBC News that an Akin victory is essential for the GOP to regain control of the Senate and repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. The only way for that to happen, Santorum said, is for the GOP establishment to give the embattled Akin its full-fledged support.
"The entire Republican Party should stand up and say, 'You know what? He's our candidate, it's too important for the future of our country not to have a majority of the Senate in this upcoming election," Santorum said when asked if Romney needs to publicly support Akin. "I'm hoping everybody will join in and support the cause."
The former Pennsylvania senator and unsuccessful president candidate joined South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint in announcing their support of Akin on Wednesday.
"I don't know what the Republican establishment -- what their objective is, but if they want to repeal Obamacare, we better hold the Senate. And to hold the Senate, we better win Missouri," Santorum said.
Akin has taken heat from both sides of the aisle after using the term "legitimate rape" and saying women have a biological way of preventing unwanted pregnancies while he gave a now-notorious explanation of his views on abortion.
"My feeling is that we can win the presidency, but if we don't have 51 senators, we're not going to be able to repeal Obamacare," said Santorum.
Romney's former rival has been active campaigning for the presidential candidate in the Buckeye State. It's a primary Santorum nearly won on Super Tuesday, and his support was particularly strong in this part of the state, heavy with blue-collar workers and not far from his home of Pittsburgh.
Despite recent polls showing Romney needing to make up significant ground in Ohio, the former senator remained optimistic about the state turning red. "I'm confident that Mitt Romney will win Ohio, will when the presidency," he said. "People here understand how dangerous this president is."
That danger, Santorum said, stems from the president's energy policy, which he claims makes the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil. It is a message the Romney campaign hopes will resonate in this coal-rich part of the state. It is here where Republicans go to hammer Obama for waging a "war on coal."
"This is a president that is going to drive this country to economic ruin because of a phony ideology that, you know, somehow or another he has to control the seas rising and falling," Santorum said.
While Santorum has been traveling as a Romney surrogate, he also has been holding events in places like Iowa independent of the presidential race. It has fueled speculation that he could be eyeing another run.
Asked about his political future, Santorum would only say that he will be happy in 2016 to continue his work as a Romney surrogate. "I'll be happy to come back and campaign for Gov. Romney in four years," he said.
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Santorum/Aiken 2016
That would be wonderful :)
Well .. as long as they didn't win.
Samuel L. Jackson "Wake the F up."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4CsCuMcSPs
spread the word !!!
Republicans are the biggest threat to the future and security of this country. I'm not sure what the Christian equivalent is to Sharia Law, but the Republicans are writing a bill for it right now. Akin is scum, Santorum is opportunistic bible beating scum, and Romney is an empty suit already bought and paid for by the corrupt wealthy elites + Grover Norquist. Our country cannot afford to keep Republicans in office!
VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET THIS YEAR!!!
hehehe.....good one Leroy...that's funny. Then maybe Satan and Saddam in 2020.
Re elect Obama and you may find out more about Sharia law than you want to know.
The lamestream media has chosen to ignore and cover up events in the middle east these last two weeks.
Wake up and look around at the dangerous people in this world that have no respect for you or any other living person.
Rick Sanitorium has always agreed with Todd in every way and is not about to back down now. The key here is control over women. Then you get to tell them how to vote along with how to control their own bodies. Men like Rick and Todd want women to worry about nothing. Just let the men in you life, and that includes all the men in the republican Congress, make all of your decisions for you.
Let me ask you one simple question. An honest answer is all I request in return. Are you an idiot, or just plain stupid?
Both of these are LUNATICS!!! I wonder what kind of BIMBOS are married to this scum!!!!
Santorum is the Republican fountain of BS............
Hey leroy brown .. His last name is AKIN and by the by .... the man is such a PIG!
And I so hope that your comment was sarcastic!
Obama/Biden 2012
Hey Tony...I hope you're well. I haven't had much time to post lately but have read some. You've done some fine work. Kudos.
These tools must know they are going to lose big:
Senators Jim Demint and lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma are hosting a fundraiser for Todd Akin on October 3rd.
Do you think anyone is going to fall for this crap and donate to this boat anchor?
Yes...yes I do...
Thomas - I'm fine, thanks for asking. I don't have as much time as I'd like either, but I do enjoy seeing the rwnj's heads explode as they watch their candidates sink deeper and deeper into that hole. So, I post when and where I can.
Tony...
Your comment is so typical of loonie libs when confronted by facts, just deny what you see and hurl sarcastic insults.
I am sure it makes you feel like such an intelligent man.
I hear you loud and clear,brother. Keep the faith. I think the Romnuts are fading into the sunset. The question now is whether the American people will exorcise these demons from Congress as well.
Man, I sure do hope so. That would be the coup d' gras if we could win back the House and increase the majority in the Senate. Wouldn't hurt if one or two right leaning Chief Justices stepped down either.
Oh really old fat guy? Tell us, are you birther? Do you believe that Obama redecorated the Oval Office in Muslim gold and curtains with arabic symbols?
Pray tell us - what events has the media ignored?
What facts were those, fat man because I didn't see any. Lemme guess, you're afraid of Muslims and that everyone is trying to either take away what you have or make you conform to their way of life?
Fatoldguy,
There are a lot of very dangerous people out there who have no respect for anyone. They are called Republicans.
Old Fat Guy:
It is obvious that you are writing your tripe from a card prepared for you by your handlers. Next you'll be writing that Clinton caused 911.
You need to get away from the lamestream right wing media for a while.
oldfatguy ...
Here we go again! When you can't support your party you just hurl insults. Why on earth are you supporting the Romney/Ryan ticket?????
I know why I am supporting my President. DOW up ... economy growing ... slow but STEADY .. housing market up ... and Romney wants to do WHAT exactly???
Obama/Biden 2012
I guess this is conceding the Presidency so the GOP rally is to take the Senate to continue their nightmare in Washington.
Don't blame old fat guy for his posts. Blame Bill Gates. Thanks to him, people too stupid to work the buttons on an elevator can still get on the internet.
Translation: Republicans believe that getting control of all branches of government must be accomplished at any cost, even if they have to support a guy who doesn't know his a$$ from a hole in the ground.
Santorum, you had your 15 minutes. Now please, STFU and go home! You are an embarassment to your party and to your country.
Let's send a clear message, that we are sick of the lies of the Republican Party. They created our financial mess and now their men Romney/Ryan want to follow the same paths. Lets cut the taxes on the wealthy, lets increase defense spending, lets privitize social security, vouchers for Medicare. I am sick of all of them including Santorum, Aiken, Cheney, Bush and the rest. President Obama has been working to stop a world financial meltdown from the Republicans and they want to go back to the same crap. Send the whole bunch packing and vote straight democratic ticket and move our great U.S. forward. Obama/Biden 2012
SANtorum is inSANe.
TODD Akin is a Childish TODDler, so juvenile.
Romney has actually created jobs and done so using nearly bankrupt companies winning 77 percent of the time.
His energy independence by 2020 will create millions of private sector jobs that pay big wages and big taxes
The DOW is only a measure of 30 stocks and is not a measure of the economy, Americans net worth has declined, seems like around 40% under Obama.
IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE!!
Both Santorum and Akin need some help from The rapists - I mean -Therapists.
This fricken IDIOT wanted to be president and doesn't know if you win the presidency all you need is 50 Senators since the vice president is the President of the Senate. In that capacity, he or she is allowed to vote in the Senate when necessary to break a tie. While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power those rules can be changed.
As President of the Senate, the Vice President has two primary duties: to cast a vote in the event of a Senate deadlock and to preside over and certify the official vote count of the U.S. Electoral College. For example, in the first half of 2001, the Senators were divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority.
It's a sad day when you can't get excited about the candidate slate. I'm not fond of Claire McCaskill, but Todd Aiken's stupidity simply terrifies me. In fact, most of the Republican Party terrifies me. I'd hate to think about the Michelle Bachman theocracy we'd have to live under if those nuts got elected. They are off their rockers.
old fat guy; using the phrase "lamestream media" instantly destroys your credibility and generates automatic disrespect from anyone with any intelligence.
Imagine the unlikely scenario where Akin wins and gets into the Senate - how would they introduce him everytime?
The Honorable Rapist from Missouri?
They are not going to win the senate the house or the presidency. Day after election they will be wandering around looking for their hat. The american peope are finally seeing just what fools are running the Republican party today and they are throwing up. Vomitt can go back to swindling dieing companies out of what ever blood he can suck out of them while Obama finoshes fixing thew mess they left us in.
I hope there wives or daughters don't get raped, if they don't get pregnant that would mean that they are just whores, as Rush Limpdick would say.
Robert Warner-3092405, You'll have to forgive "old fat guy" his programing kicks in sometimes and he just loops "lame stream media" over and over. It's a defect with Fox News Cylons. It will be fixed in the 2.0 edition due out on Nov.7, 2012.
Nobody but a hateful theocrat like Santorum would call for the faithful to support an ignorant misogynist like Akin. Santorum/Akin; now that is a marriage made in hell itself, isn't it?
Both men are out of their freaking minds. Sho-Me voters, don't vote for this nutcase.
That would be the Honorable Legitimate Rapist from Missouri, of course!
Believe it or not, Santorum used to work well with many Democrats while in Senate.
What has happened then? Why this palpable madness from the GNOP?
We don't need a new president, we need a new congress. Santorum and Akin will help us on that account.
Rick Santorum is the man that certainly knows what legitimate rape is, he gave one to Pennsylvanians daily for quite awhile.
Santorum and Aiken in the same headline? I didn't even bother to read the article because both of them are idiots and have absolutely NOTHING to say that would be worth reading!!! These two have to be the biggest imbeciles in the entire world regardless of Party affiliation!!! Of course they support one another! LOL!!! If I was a Republican, I would not utter either of their names and would distance myself as far as possible from both of them.
Obama/Biden... the only SANE choice!!
Theo-3270314 ...
AMEN! Great post!
Obama/Biden 2012
OFG is just a troll people, ignore trolls and they go away. Feeding them only feeds their mental problems and the come back as hairy ogres for the next would-be-knight to slay.
It is pretty amazing of the Repubs, actually, not only are they tanking their chances at winning the Presidency, now they are actively working on losing the Senate and House of Reps. Amazing that how, when these guys open their mouths, the truth of their ACTUAL ideology spills out, and it ain't pretty. Do these folks realize that with today's speed of information transmission, the millions of phones with cameras (and mics), computers everywhere and YouTube and Facebook, that they can actually get away with their lies not being seen, and debunked within less than 24 hours, and posted everywhere?? Simply Amazing!
Santorum says "Support Aiken".... a man that believes in Legitimate Rape. Okay GOP... Supporters what are you thinking??? Shaking my head. It's clear the GOP has gone off the deep end.
Santorum/Akin??? Now there is a recipe for economic disaster for our country. It's also a recipe for giving up your rights as a US citizen. It's a shame so many are blind to that reality.
Hey, leBoy Brown, it's Akin, not Aiken
Why does Akin the Moron has this kind of supporters....birds of a feather
oldfatguy ...
Really? and that helped this country HOW???? JM&J!!! If Romney and his crones had all of that wealth and wanted to create jobs .... WHY DIDN'T THEY? Why were they waiting???? Answer me that .... because I'm not a Koch or Sheldon Adelson ... I'm just someone who works and pays taxes.
Obama/Biden 2012
Two outcasts with advice for the rest.
Is this a legitimate endorsement?
Oldfatguy
Think you need to get hold of Rove. The talking points that he is handing out to you reich wingers is not holding up any more. BTW - where are the others of your ilk. The silence is deafening!!!
Wow! This thread is Alice in Wonderland. Go ahead and enjoy your government bennies for another generation. When the national debt hits $30Trillion and the world dumps the Dollar as the reserve currency I hope you all have a good generator and a pocket knife.
The GOP is once again spreading fear and lies to get the votes of the poor and uneducated. The TRUTH is that the GOP wants their votes, and then will take away the aid that keeps them able to feed their families and get medical care when needed. They have no shame... lie to the faces of those that they're going to destroy if they get a majority or into the White House.
Well if that's not birds of a feather I don't know what is. The scary part is that with all the GOP voter fraud coming to light it could actually happen. We should be voting every republican out of office
"Wake up and look around at the dangerous people in this world that have no respect for you or any other living person."
Old Fat Guy - That would be the CORPORATE ELITE as well as the ZIONIST RIGHT WING CHRISTIANS/TEABAGGERS here in the US - as well as the jewish zionists IN ISRAEL!
Absurdity to the nth degree.........one crazy as hell republican (Santorum) calling for his lunatic brethren to support a certifiably insane (Akin) fellow republican! So interesting watching these idiots implode. It's sorta sad but then I remember it's the nutjob GOP and laugh myself silly!
The Republicans are toast from this day forward. They have shown time and time again they do not care about the middle class except to build the economy so the Republicans can steal it from them to put their stolen money in offshore bank accounts and start wars so they can contract services to the DOD. Vote Obama/Biden 2012!
Straight out of Santorum's mouth....even *top Republicans* have no freakin' clue what their party is doing.
Who would vote for any of these guys, esp after seeing that ringing endorsement of the Republican platform?
I'm curious as just what do You know about it, from first hand experience.
Santorum and DeMutt will say this kind of stuff down in any little wide place in the road in Ohio that will have them, but will they come to Dayton and Cleveland and Toledo and say it in front of people? I suspect no. They would be laughed out of town.
This is 100% sour grapes from Mr. Frothy... he couldn't f up the US from the top post, so he'll back the mentally impotent Mr. Illegitmate.
Rich Santorum is like a bad rash that just won't go away............
"My DEAR republicants,.. You MUST throw away your morals, let loose your scruples, release those convictions you HELD so dear, drop the beliefs you HELD about whatever it is you hate about the republicant party now. You must not stay Christian all in the NAME of NOT God, but in the name of Santorum telling you in the name of the gop party to drop your beliefs...SO we can take control of the government".. lols. ;] said Rick Santorum in ones mind.
The fact is that these bunglers are asking people to throw away convictions ideas and beliefs for POWER. Because that is all the goper's care about. Is POWER to pay back the favors owed to the lobby's and those they are beholden to. ; ] You have seen the party disintegrate before your eyes as I prophesied. You see how the goper's allowed crazy tea baggers to take control of the party and run it immediately in to the ground. At least the Democrats don't hand control over to the far extremist in that party. ; ]
The gop is done and there is NO coming back and it is all thanks to me and those in REAL power know this to be true as I proclaimed what has happened five years ago. [you know who you all are] Simply THINK about what it is they are asking you to do... ;]
Cheers
Cheers!
How does an irrelevant person make himself relevant?
Santorum??????
Let us not forget who co-sponsored Akin's regressive congressional bills to limit the rights of women who have been raped or victims of incest:
The GOP candidate for Vice President of the United States, Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan is as clueless and backward as Akin and Santorum.
Sarah-3043284
The human body (the brain) has this power, as I understand it, and as doctors have told me, to reject any endorsement that is not "legitimate". What that means is that if you accept any endorsement that was not truly legitimate, that is, that you therefore ENJOYED, then if that endorsement makes you pregnant with thoughts of idiocy, then it is your own fault... not that of the endorser.
Before you know it we'll have a bunch of little bastard candidates running around... all spawned from these illegitimate endorsements.
They're called Tea Party Republicans... and if these illegitimate endorsements truly go national, these little bastard candidates will just be called "Republicans".
If this isn't clear proof that the Republican Party has totally lost it's way, I don't know what is.
Reject this. Let them know that money to endorse trash nets trash.
And yes, Kaybeetoys, we need to include Ryan in that "little bastard candidate" list.
obama will LOSE in Nov. if he doesn't get inpeached of the Libya scandal first.
Obama retires to recently purchased home in Hawaii - 2013.
Source, please? See, people have gone looking to see just how much of the time Bain was successful, but Bain is not very forthcoming with any hard numbers. They just claim that 77% number you quote.
Wall Street Journal went looking (source: here) and came up with different numbers. Out of 77 companies taken over while Romney was at the helm, just 10 provided the majority of profit made. 4 of those later went bankrupt. Of that 77 companies, 30% either went bankrupt within 8 years or failed so badly that Bain lost all the money invested in them.
Again, source, please? All Romney has offered is vague promises - no specifics. Given that most of his plan includes the development of oil reserves in this country and that big oil companies get $40B per year tax breaks Romney's plan may consume more tax money, not generate it!
Gross misinterpretation of facts. The report you reference with your "40% decline in net worth":
The Federal Reserve released a report, the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances. This is a report on household wealth from 2007-2010, removing effects of inflation. No surprise, median net worth declined by 38.8% from 2007 to 2010 and is down to 1992 levels. Why this should be no surprise is due to the housing bubble and declining home values. A home is the largest asset many people have.
Get that? 2007 to 2010! This time period includes the huge 2008 downturn and the bursting of the housing bubble, which didn't happen on Obama's watch. In fact, most of that decline in net worth can be pinned directly to George W. Bush specifically and Republicans in general with the stupid policies they enacted to cause it. There is a reason many economists call it the "Bush Recession".
old fat guy - you really need to do more research before just regurgitating the latest Republican talking points!
Whoa guys! Isn't it a wee bit early to be falling-down drunk on a Sunday morning? (Still drunk from Saturday night maybe?)
Get cleaned up and go to church, boys! :)
Nut for a Nut, I have no respect for the two face phony GOP and their Crazy sick Teabaggers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only will he NOT be elected...
Many other Republicans running for re election will not win!
We are tired of a do nothing... super majority Congress!
Old fat guy. Typical Tuh -Odd supporter without the facts. Don't count on your hormones to keep you safe.
Rick Santorum and Todd Akin - just two of the many members of the "American Taliban" formerly known as the GOP.
7.62x39mm:
Nice to meet you.
I'm 9 mm Parabellum +P 135 grain JHP.
I wonder what being "inpeached" is like... Is it like being covered in peach jam?
Hey, Fat Guy - I saw onFox Nw yesterday that the S&P 500 is up 113% from it's March 2009 low. Here's a link for you to peruse:
http://online.barrons.com/article/fund_of_information.html
How about you reciprocating by backing up your assertions?
Regarding your claim about net worth dropping under Obama:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/11/news/economy/fed-family-net-worth/index.htm
Note that net worth dropped from 2007 - 2010 and was attributed to the recession, which began before Obama took office.
Once again, you spew your ignorance for all to see. Some people never learn - they become Right Wing Lunatics.
OldFatGuy,
Well, Santorum did say they'd never have intelligent people on their side.
One anti woman wacko supporting another anti woman wacko what else is new. Sad little men who are so very very afraid of women.
Party over all others.
Can u say cult?
Democrats are not much different.
Party affiliation has no place on the ballot.
Primaries are for parties, they should not be paid for by the public.
words from frothy santorum (kicked out of office by Pennsylvania in 2006 and failed RETHUG candidate for the RETHUG presidential nomination in 2012) - FUC KING IDIOTS (BOTH OF THEM)
Correction, the Republican party should back Akin in Missouri if they want to lose the Senate forever.
Yeah, Sarah, we all remember Santorum saying that those who want kids to go to college are 'snobs'.
Then we have "Wake up now" above saying that Obama wants to blow the debt up big time. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It's like the guy who throws his junk everywhere and won't pick anything up, complaining about his wife not keeping the house clean enough. How many times have the Dems cleaned up the big stinky budget messes left by repubs in the last 40 years?
Sorry guys, but you had your party, and the party's over. You trashed the house, pissed off the neighbors, and loudly proclaimed your drunken self-righteousness to God himself. Now it's time to sit in a corner for a while while the adults take over.
old fat guy-1144960 Rmoney created jobs alright. In CHINA!!! Here in the U.S.?
Not so much.
Please fellow Missourians, please vote Akin out. We have enough problems already, let's not make it worse
Santorum and the rest of the surrogates just need to keep talking. This is the best thing that could possibly happen for President Obama the other Democrats running for office. The Republicans are the gift that just keeps on giving.
If you are talking about what is happening in FL I think you are a little confused. According to our local news here in FL, the way the fraud worked was that because a third party mishandled voter registrations a lot of republicans might not have been able to vote in the election. So this was not about republicans helping their cause at all-unless something new came to light that I'm not aware of.
I think Claire said it best when she said, "Todd Akin is so far right that he makes Michelle Bachman look like a hippy".
So...according to Santorum, Romney will still be known as "governor" in 2016.
Yep...sounds like Romney will (yet again) be running for POTUS. Should Hillary run in '16, poor Mitt won't even get as far as he did this year.
And neither will Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Perry, or Santorum. I think Ron Paul has finally read the writing on the wall.
I probably would have voted for McCaskill anyway, but this idiot just makes the decision way too easy...
This seems to be the battle cry of the republicans - vote for any republican no matter how bad or damaging he is! Can't believe that Santorum said this (oh wait, yes I can...after all, the right are not the "elite smart people") and there are actually repubs out there thinking "yeah he's right". If that was happening in my party, I'd be calling to get that idiot out of office before he embarrassed us further. But Santorum and others are calling to get him elected. For power. No matter how dumb he is or how poorly he'll represent his state. Same thing with Romney. He had absolutely no support until he bought the nomination. Now all of these people have to eat their words and try to go back and say how great he is.
It really is time to vote Republicans out of office. Twelve years ago they allowed the Neo-Conservatives to take over their party and we're still living with the results. Two years ago they allowed the Teabaggers to take over and they refused to help fix the nation.
It's time to tell the Republican party that until the learn to keep their unruly children at bay, they're not allowed to hold public office. Governing is about Country first...not profit. We need to remind the Koch Brothers and Wall Street that...WE ARE THEIR CUSTOMERS AND THEY NEED TO STFU and leave the governing to us.
The line must be fixed to 'how dangerous this presidential candidate is".
The farther right they go, the crazier they get !!!
Exit Santorum, exit Akin.
you republicans are afraid. It is fear that drives you to be conservatives. As children you never ventured very far from the hem of your mother's skirt.
Afraid of what you don't understand.
Afraid of what you cannot control.
Afraid of the new.
Clinging to the old.
Fearing "brown people"
Fear of "the other"
Fear of the future
Fear of unpredictability
Fear of helplessness
Fear of those who would chide your backwardness
If you people want to take us back to 1950 again then maybe you need to move to Afghanistan. Those people have no problem living in a world without electric lights, communication or penicillin. Everything is simple. Anachronistic. Easy. Non-cerebral. You sip lemonade on the porch and wave to the neighbors passing by on the sidewalk, and "golly-gee Mom,....isn't that swell?"
Now stand aside. Because the rest of us want to advance into the light of the 21st Century, and that place does not include you.
We don't want to be slaves to rich people.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
We dumped Santorum in Pennsylvania and we didn't want this nut as President. What doesn't he understand? As far as Aiken goes, you tick me off. I have daughters and for you to even talk of such a thing as" legitimate rape" verses a not legitmate rape is just plain sick. You really have the women's concerns at heart with theis garbage. I hope they through you out on your ear from your state.
Obama/Biden 2012
I almost wish to see Toddler Akin to win and get into the Senate - and then to wait for Akin to be introduced - everytime - as the 'rapist' from the Repugnant Party.
But I know I won't be able to have this wish of mine satisfied - because no way Akin is to win it. Or, wait, some Americans have always proved me wrong - common sense is often raped - so there is a chance to get my wish.
Rick was also confident that he would win the nomination and the presidency! He should have been confident after all god told him too run.
I guess that all changed when Romney bought his support by paying off his campaign's debt and promised him a job when he won.
The majority of people in the republican party picked the loser Mitt over this guy who said Romney was the worst candidate they could run and was just like Obama which was a lie. Now he is beating the drum for him so they can stick it to the 47% they hate Included in that are the 46 million people who will get screwed out of health care so the HC providers can still feast on them when they go to the emergency rooms and ge charged 12 bucks for an aspirin we the tax payers have to pay for. What ever happened to that personal responisibility they preach? What a bunch of losers and it is gettin worse@!
What's refreshing about Ryan's statements are that they make you realize Ryan and others think they've lost the White House and are desperate to keep some power hold in Washington.
I hope their fears and my wishes are right.
If Romney/Ryan gets in I truly fear it could be the Fourth Reich in America. The decisive factor that would put two such horrible men in a position to implement such awful plans would be predominately racism. Since we're in an Oligarchy Fascism is what often follows, as in Germany in the 1930's.
If Obama is reelected there's hope America won't turn into a nightmare.
This time, it really is about hope for America.
Obama/Biden 2012
My mistake, I switched Ryan for Santorum (they are of the same cloth, don't ya think?). Anyhow, I stand by the rest of my statement. I fear these guys more than I did Bush and Cheney who were predominately just big crooks. Romney is a not real swift mouthpiece for the Military Industrial Complex and other Crony Corporate Criminals and Ryan scares me. I can just see him-a heartbeat away from the Presidency-suddenly sporting a little, neat mustache, no wider than his nose and his salute would kind of shoot upward in a sieg heil fashion.
I see the #1 definition of Rick Santorum is still coming up on google
santorum
noun
"that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."
Let me see if I have this right.....President Obama is a Marxist, a Communist, a Socialist, a Muslim, born in Kenya, and a black man. If he gets another term, our country will go to hell in a hand-basket faster than fast.
Mitt Romney is an honest, up-standing, God fearing, great businessman, and white.
But he's a republican, so I know he's a rich, lying scumbag who can't wait to start more wars that he nor his family will have to fight in so he and his Bain like buddies can make HUGE profits and change laws to benefit themselves and their even richer supporters which is why they're spending so much money to get him elected.
I DON'T THINK SO!!
And all you rwnj's who complain abou AG Holder, you're just pissed because the only AG's to go to prision for crimes committed while holding office were 2 REPUBLICAN dirtbags.
I'll just be happy when all this is over, I'm about sick of all of it, But I WILL continue to vote EVERY election day, and just try to stop me or try to intimidate me to vote for someone.
Samuel L. Jackson "Wake the F up." campaign for Obama
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4CsCuMcSPs
spread the word !!!
GOPisextinct post2.3
Man did you nail it; that is a perfect description of the average brain dead "conservative".
BTW: We should start a pool to see who can guess when the Republican Party packs up it's very small tent and moves back to the 16th century.
Internal polls on both sides say Obama will not win in November. Most of the polls you see on the internet are using 2008 mix of voters to 2008 trends on steroids.
Pritzker (an Obama campaign bundler) says so. 2008 Donors are not returning calls and not donating. Just saw the Election funding, Obama funding is behind Romney in the majority industries.
Remember who is purchasing the polls. Most of them are paid for and specified how to be done by the news media.
Yes, Gallup shows an increase in Obama's lead, but they are being investigated by the DOJ. One other thing about pollsters. When numbers are so far separated, they adjust how they poll. They cannot afford to be an outlier or they will not get the money. Yes, Rasmussen adjusts too!
I'll let you find the articles this time. You have more time to be on here than me.
Santorum is one sick baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pot to Kettle: as with Rick to Todd, both of you are idiots and out of touch!
DB,
And 9/11 was an inside job, right? Enough with the conspiracy theories.
DB, have you lost your sense of reality? I am a Buckeye living in a conservative part of the state due to work, but my point is President Obama has a solid 10 point lead over Mittwit. Mittwit is the nickname the Europeans have christened Willard with by the way. So the rhetorical conspiracy theory you are espousing sounds like something that would come from Akron. FYI, I was born and reared on The Lake so from experience you seem to be an anomaly for my hometown area. Take a trip to Brecksville and get your prescription renewed straight away!
"My feeling is that we can win the presidency, but if we don't have 51 senators, we're not going to be able to repeal Obamacare," said Santorum.
There's a reason, well, actually many more than one, why this guy isn't the rethugli-con nominee. They could win the Presidency, have a slight majority in the Senate and they still couldn't repeal Obamacare. The reason: the same one the rethugs have used for the last two years to insure very little got through the Senate: the filibuster.
All I see when I look at the right wingers in this country any more are a bunch of extremests.
Hey dj, slight case of denial, eh?
The DOJ investigation concerns how Gallup billed the government for some work and has nothing to do with the firm's results.
The major polling firms don't have an incentive to fake results. If they put out one set of results, but the actual voting is totally different, they've taken a huge hit to their credibility. Political polling is only a part of their business. What company would hire a polling firm with a history of wrong results? Their credibility is far more important than the business thrown their way by one presidential campaign.
Yes DB, I'm sure Fox news is all about wanting to make sure President Obama looks good. /s
Santorum wants a stupid Senate on top of an already stupid House. Sad, a country of lowering expectations. Santorum for stupid - that is what he advocates.
Yeah. It's more important to have 51 senators in the red than to be sure that those 51 are qualified and not knuckle-dragging cave-men
I know this guy Santorum has made a semi-quasi living saying stupid things, but this one tops them all. But then again, I wouldn't put it past Mitt to try and run again even after losing.
Santorum hates the free birth control in Obamacare.....he'll go any length to control women's bodies.
Santorum understands that the elite, the smart people will never support his party, so he delves even deeper into the black hole of right wing ignorance for a constituency to support this obviously intellectually challenged candidate. Robme is already way down in the polls. It would be campaign suicide for him to flippity floppity floo on his asking Akin to withdraw.
"He is our candidate" - apparently, for better or for worse. "The general has to go to war with the army that he has". Isn't it plain misery in the republican party?
Sam...he's not intellectually challenged. He's intellectually bankrupt. And Romney is toast no matter what. The only way Obama can lose now is for the economy to collapse ala Bushco or for Obama to develop Romnitis during the debates. It must be annoying for the Rover to have voters reject his bequests to them in California and now nationwide. What a criminal. I hope he and Chainy get a trip to Hague soon.
RedDevPS
Your right "stupid is as stupid does". I think Forest Gump was referring to Rick Santorum when he said that. Of course he could have been referring to Mitt Romney. I'm pretty sure good old Mitt will never be accused of being the brightest bulb on the tree.
The Republican Party looks more and more like a bunch of the donkey's rear end? They are turning out to be the fodder for the jokers/comedians. If they want to take over Congress, then why don't they nominate respectable candidates with good moral traits to include honesty, integrity, and the sincere desire to work for the people?
Three years in a row Santorum won the title, Biggest Crook, when he was in the Senate. It appears Santorum has a deep seated anger towards all Democratics and Independents because of their acceptance of imperfections in humans, of which he, himself, has none.
And why he especially hates women, taking the side of Akin and Ryan (yes, Ryan & Akin worked together on that anti-women bill) is learning that his wife (God bless her innocent soul) lived for 6 years with a Doctor who performed abortions when necessary. Vanity Fair. Ah! the failings in humanity!
P.S. Santorum did say, "We'll never have the smart people on our side."
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 and a Strong Democratic Congress
Romney 1040 You were right - your tax returns should be hidden from honest, hardworking Americans.
tonybeen: Not only will Mitt be back, he'll be bringing Sarah, Michelle and all the other kooks with him. These folks are the relatives you invited for the week-end and they were still at your house 2 months later. They don't hear what they don't like. If you say to them, please leave, don't stay, they hear please stay, don't leave.
I guess Akin wasn't satisfied with giving rape a pass.He now thinks its ok to pay women less for doing the same work as a man.I guarantee if he made that argument to my wife and daughter he'd be lucky to get out on his feet.I can't understand how a woman can vote for a party that wants them as second class citizens.I feel the same when I see a Black or Latino Republican.How is it they would vote for a party that doesn't accept them as equal citizens,it makes no sense.
Obama/Biden 2012
You must be talking about the ReRectum Party? The party that sticks it to you when you don't see it coming. The party that can talk out both sides of their mouth depending on who they are talking to. If they are in front of coal people then they love coal, even though they pushed the EPA restrictions. If they are in front of wealthy people in the ReRectum party then the 47% are lazy and won't work. If you are in Florida, then we love Social Security and Medicare and we will take care of you. The party of LIES AND NO'S. People could have been working if it were not for the ReRectum Party.
Vote Straight Democratic ticket and lets move America forward. Obama 2012
Just more evidence that the Tea Party driven Republican Party is totally lacking in ethics, morality, and principles.
Amused - you left out brain matter as well. Education is not a requirement for the Tea Party.
@ Tony
It doesnt matter how educated you are if you fail to use it. My mom is just a few credits shy of a doctorate in education and I must shamefully admit she is tea bagging. Is there a 12 step group like Al-anon for those of us saddled with family members infected with this disease?
As for the article it just goes to show that all the GOP cares about is power at any cost, even the destruction of everything this country stands for.
edandbunny- I feel your pain. I have family members who are fervent Obama haters for one reason only. I'll let you guess what that is. They try and rationalize and make excuses, but deep down I know what the truth is. I have a feeling that a lot of the folks who share the same sentiment here are the same way.
@tonybeeerm #4.1 - No, but a full frontal lobotomy is.
Those Tea Baggers have steeped long enough. It's time to throw them out!!
They are pulling money from Romney and trying to win the senate. He was not there for Romney the Repubs have tossed that clown.
There are no Republicans anymore. This proves it.
Of course Amused. And considering how TIGHT the teabaggers/christian right are with that zionist SCUMBAG Netanyahu - it's no SUPRISE that they are COMPLETELY DEVOID of any MORALITY, VALUES , or ETHICS!
My dad would NEVER vote for Obama, because he's BLACK.
Roll, roll in your grave, old fart, because I'm voting for America!
I am Killbucket of Air-sharp, and I approved this message.
Haven't you heard? Flip-flopper Romney and Lyin' Ryan have started a new party, an offshoot of Republicanism:
They're calling it the Recantation Party.
The Republican Party looks more and more like a bunch of the donkey's rear end? They are turning out to be the fodder for the jokers/comedians. If they want to take over Congress, then why don't they nominate respectable candidates with good moral traits to include honesty, integrity, and the sincere desire to work for the people?
WE will have to be very careful with this coming election. The company that was just caught registering only repub/Tparty came out with a dozen excuses. But, they were also the company that were involved in the 2000 and 2004 elections counting the votes, changing the votes, finding 10,000 votes, operating under different names. All republican paid. We'll have to make a big stink if the elections go awry - be prepared.
"Said at a repub/tparty fundraiser, paraphrased, We have to win this election, this is the most important election in history. We are turning a corner and we're almost there. Do whatever it takes, say whatever it takes, write whatever to make sure we come out on top in all races. Remember what Norquist said and do your part for our party [repub/tparty]."
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 and a Strong Democratic Congress
The alternative is unbearable.
Independent: Uh, because they have chased all those decent people out of the party or so intimidated them to keep quiet or be chastized by the loonies in control.
That IDIOT?! Oh yeah, a Republican, never mind that he is a MORON!
I wouldn't for a GOP candidate for dog catcher. However I have enough class to not refer to someone as an idiot or moron. Try showing a little class yourself.
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Rodant Kapoor! My hat is off to you for your message as well as your homage to the old Ruby radio shows! Well done, sir!
This BS about holding their own accountable...yeah, RIGHT!
Romney+Ryan=TOOLS
Hi! Our candidates are old, stale and male. But, you "must" vote for them or our conservative establishment will scare you into thinking that Armageddon is at hand and the Muslims are taking over. Please believe us because these policies worked so well for eight years under the Bush Administration. Yes, the world is coming to an end along with our economy because there is a war on coal. Yaddah Yaddah Yaddah. The Republican Party...we have nothing to offer but fear and we cannot understand why it does not work as well as it used to....
Funny, but you left out pale. Especially Ryan who looks like death warmed over. He should hang with the Jersey Shore crowd and get in on a little GTL, lol.
That war on coal is aimed at the Democrats but it should be aimed at the Republicans. Who is behind moving ahead the EPA on coal? Not the democrats but the republicans. They want their gas and oil and their big money. Romney even switched his state to gas when he was governor because he didn't want the coal air in his state and blowing into other states. So when he stands up to you coal miners and says he supports coal, think again. Check it out on the web if you don't think I am telling you the truth.
Obama/Biden and vote straight democrat.
Why aren't you republicans proud of George W. Bush?
Why don't you goddamn republican people pull him out and trot him around like a thoroughbred pony,.....hmmmmmmmmm?
Not too damn proud of George W Bush are you?
Why not?
Because you remember only too well where we were in the last year or two of his disastrous "appointed" presidency.
Unfortunately for you,.......so does America.
This is what 8 full years of total republican dominance did to us:
failed banks
foreclosed homes
businesses bankrupt
Lehman Brothers
Unemployment skyrocketing
Deficits hidden from the people
Two useless wars
World Trade Centers destroyed
Three jet airliners gone
Pentagon attacked
5,000 American kids DEAD in the Middle East
3,300 Americans dead in New York
1,100 people dead in New Orleans
Valerie Plame
America shamed and disgraced, and hated
......and all to make a few hundred Americans, including Romney, rich.
And you people want an instant replay of this,......to the 4th power?
HELL NO!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
tonybeeerm
Maybe Ryan the pale could get some of the tanning cream that Mittens had on when he was on Univision tying to pass for a Mexican.
Why didn't the Republicans run Palin again?
Because if Palin has to answer 5 questions back to back.......her head will explode!
I find it ironic that no former Palin supporters seem to exist.
GOPis extinct--- add Enron to that list. The Bush family was in bed with Enron from the beginning.
Wow ... Palin looking pretty bright lately ! Whoda thunk it !
GOPisextinct. If you are male you are my next "bromance." If you are female please don't tell me wife!" LOL. Great post!
Roll Taps. youtu.be/Wn_iz8z2AGw
RanDog: 100% grade AA, American male, and I am flattered by your kind comment.
Let's have a bromance. Drives the RWNJ's fargin' nuts.
All Republicans are alike. They just want to play social dictators and will back anyone that will allow them to do so. They're no different than the Taliban.
VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET THIS YEAR!!!
AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD TO LET REPUBLICANS BACK IN OFFICE!!!
EXACTLY! Vote a straight Democratic ticket. And where there's no Democratic candidate, vote for the Independent. And if all else fails, vote for the female candidate.
Like minds Zardoz....like minds indeed!
I wish it were that simple,Sleuth and Zardoz. It may be that cut and dry this year but after November, the reality is that neither the dems or repugnicans are really serving us. The dems come closer than the 'pugs but still miss badly. Pelosi needs to go. Reid is an idiot. They (the dems) were given power in 2006 to stop bushco and the wars and they rolled over as easy as 10$ hookers. They failed miserably. Even with majorities in 2008 and control of both houses, they failed. Reid should have changed the filibuster. The dems aren't our real answer.
Yeah we get it sleuth. Rah Rah Go Team! You love the Giants; you hate the Dolphins. You love Chevys; you hate Fords. You love the Democrats; you hate the Republicans.
Blind loyalty to a sports team is cute. Blind loyalty to a brand of automobile is unwise. Blind loyalty to a political party is dangerous.
Thomas Blue - I generally agree with you except for your statement about the Democrats having control of the Senate - you forget Al Franken's holdup for months - and Ted Kennedy's illness and the amount of fillibusters that the Republicans had used to stop any progress
Next Reid is not an idiot - he is a fellow Mormon of Willard 's who was trying to "flush" the bird out of his hiding place
Now we come to Nancy Pelosi - a workhorse who had more bills passed in her short time - then the Tea Party Idiots did in twice the time
So we may agree to disagree - but on my two heroes I stand solid
Kannin ...
Loyal to a fault over my team ... Saints. Loyal to Toyota (which by the way the cars are built in America!) Blind loyalty to a political party ...
How is that "party" working out for you? The Tea Party has so disenfranchised most of the voters. Your party is so fractured. How can you ever stand and present yourselves to the USA with a platform???
The GOP needs to get their act together ...
Obama/Biden 2012
I didn't forget,Barbara. But the dems had the votes to change the Senate rules rules with a simple 51 vote majority. They could have made the filibuster threshold 55 or even 51 or even less. The threshold has not always been 60 votes. In fact, that is a somewhat recent change. Reid and the dems should have changed that rather than wring their hands. That, to me, was an inexcusable mistake. They ALLOWED the pugs to tie them up. This is why I say Reid is an idiot.
I am certain that had the pugs had these majorities, the dems could not have stopped them. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
That's what we thought after bush/cheney's first term and guess what, they got in again. The fact the election was stolen, fixed, paid off - made no difference. There was very little or nothing from the millions of Americans who knew our votes were stolen. 3 months later it was proven, but bush/cheney stayed in.
We have our country to lose. If a repub/tparty is in power, they will adjudicate laws that will keep the Fourth Reich in power for a long time. An appointment for a US Supreme Court Justice will be certain to come up this coming term. That will spell the end of justice in this country for a very long time. There is no question that WE need to re-elect President Obama.
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 and a Strong Democratic Congress
Maybe I wasn't clear.Reid is a clever tactician in a campaign and what he said about Romney's taxes was brilliant. But as far as running the Senate, I think he's done a poor job. I like him personally. But that doesn't make him any better than he is. Changing the Senate procedural rules is a no brainer. Furthermore, if the repugs take a majority this year, you can be certain that the first time the dems filibuster, the pugs will do exactly this rule change to lock out the dems ability to stop them.
Pelosi has quite a few conflict charges against her and I'm not sure that all are without merit. She has been pretty good at hammering through legislation but if she's dirty- and I think she MIGHT be- then she needs to go. At least from a leadership position. It appears from what I've read that she profited on stocks from insider knowledge of pending Congressional actions. If true, this is unacceptable. She should go and lose that money. That's a clear conflict of interest.
All of this notwithstanding, there is nothing more important at this moment than to show the repugnicans, not just to the door, but to the border. They are more suited to a Taliban mentality. We should pay for their flight to Afghanistan...one way. And then seal the borders. And then clean up any in Congress who are personally profiting from "serving" us. This sounds like Will Rogers' description of govt service to me. And we need to stop allowing the revolving door from corp. America to regulatory agencies and back again. This is much like allowing the fox to design the security for the henhouse. The dems have been soft on this as well,IMO. The dems cannot place corporate America first and us at the same time. They should choose. For all of my contempt for the pugs, I must give them credit for this: they have chosen their master. It's not us. The dems should choose as well. Obama has, I think, but I'm not sure that most of the Dems in Congress have.
Thomas Blue - you above all should know that Congress is exempt from insider trading laws
Now if you want to nail Nancy Pelosi to the Cross - get a bigger cross - Eric Cantor for one - and most of any and all in Congress who sit on Committees have profited from insider knowledge
These rules were discussed to be changed - but again the Republicans resisted
So my girl is DIRTY? - than so is all of Congress
And by the way there are no conflict charges against her - Maxine Waters had a few and she was vindicated
Sorry you don't care for Pelosi - might be a personality conflict - she is one tough lady - most men hate her
Kannin....
If there were 2 football teams in the NFL, I would chose 1 to root for, and if there were 2 automobile manufacturers in the world, I would buy from the 1 that made the best vehicles. I understand your point, but I'm not simple minded like you. I understand the reality of this election and the impact it will have on our nation for the next 20-30 years to come. Now is a time to vote a straight Democratic ticket, because Republicans have succeeded only in obstructing progress from being made in the last 2 years. Progress in cleaning up the mess that they willingly left us after 8 years of Bush. Democrats need to support only the Democratic party right now, as does anyone else that wants to have a chance to get REAL work done. I also prefer to get some moderate Republicans back in office and the only way to do that is send a clear message to the Tea Baggers and right wing extremists in office now: WE DON'T WANT YOU RUINING OUR COUNTRY, AND WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR YOU OR YOUR PARTY OF NO!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
Don't vote for the candidate that is best for the country.
Supporting and voting for a totally worthless, inept, inferior and moralistic politician like Aiken is preferable just to "take the Senate" and force a move to the Right?
Great reasoning!!
So basically, screw the future of the GOP and Screw America so long as the ultra-right get their agenda pushed down America's throat!
These people truly are the American Taliban!!
Obama- Biden 2012. Should win a landslide. We may be in trouble if we don't. I just can't believe 40 some percent of Americans will be voting for Romney. The man is a dufus.
The frightening thing is that the right wing lunatic fringe is only a few sheets away from returning to the bad old days of Jim Crow, institutionalized bigotry, and violently enforced social behavior that is rooted in their narrow-minded, intolerant religious beliefs and practices. The only thing that keeps the US from becoming a hyper-extreme christian theocracy are the rational voices of the middle and center left in America. Fortunately, most Americans are moderates and we reject the GOP's failed religio-political ideology. Even though the GOP/TP/Neo-Fascist Party is being marginalized by their insane agendas, we cannot afford to pretend they will go away: we must vote and we must remain involved in America or our freedoms will be snatched away by a crazed minority of right wing lunatics just as Afghanistan is terrorized by a minority of dangerous religious fanatics.
Vote for the rational choice in November as though your freedoms are depending on it: President Obama and Joltin' Joe Biden! It's morning again in America!
Actually, I give Santorum a big "Attaboy!", as all democrats should. The more that the entire GOP is tied to Todd Akin, the better chance democrats in various states are helped in their election efforts. Santorum is simply pointing out the truth that the rest of the GOP is trying to hide- the GOP IS Todd Akin, and Todd Akin IS the GOP.
Well put.
It's like keeping a pervert at a day care center, only because he still has a front door key.
References, please? I.e., please give me examples of laws they support that are equivalent to Jim Crow, institutionalized bigotry, etc. I'd be very interested to know about them.
Actually, seen too much, all you need to do is look to the Dubya years and the Abramoff scandal to extrapolate the Jim Crow days. Didn't Dubya and his Secretary of the Interior provide full access to Abramoff to set the budget for DOI? Didn't Abramoff denigrate American Indians by calling them troglodytes? I believe this instance alone qualifies to be labeled as Jim Crow racist events which provides proof positive since Abramoff went to prison along with other Senators, Congressmen and Griles from DOI. Is this proof enough for you or are you still in denial that the GOP is the party of racists and bigots?
The Republican party is the party of:
Racist, bigots and crooks, oh my!... Racist, bigots and crooks, oh my!
It has a sound that ring true to it. That yellow brick road is what happens when you let trickle down policies run the country and it ain't gold we have been stepping in.
In other words, you don't have any specific laws to reference that have anything to do with Jim Crow. It looks like you can only refer to certain discredited people from the past administration as well. Not a lot for me to go on for this election...
That's fine and all, but maybe Santorum should back Todd Akin as well. :)
Samuel L. Jackson "Wake the F up."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4CsCuMcSPs
spread the word !!!
Santorum is another embarrassment to the Republican Party! That right wing mess has almost destroyed the GOP.
Not embarrassment, COFFIN NAIL.
The last one, at that.
Who in their right mind (no pun intended) would contribute to this party of hate NOW?
As a Democrat, I believe putting aiken front and center in this election, is a GREAT IDEA.
I would urge the tea party to force romney to appear at aiken rallies.
As well as getting Santorum in the news as much as possible.
Santorum said...sex is only for married couples and the reason to have is to have children....OK...People........Is that not CRAZY? No to birth control, NO TO SEX?
Repubs had this nut case on top for awhile?.......That is how crazy dangerous the rt wingers are.
Yes, Aiken should be Romney's "sign".
The TPGOP is ONE BIG flustercuck.
The difference between an upset chicken and the GOTP? One is a flustered cluck, the other......
Wanna have FUN?
Ask a Republican what their party stands for now. In front of other people.
LOL....I'm gonna do that today!!!!!
We Women and our magical vaginas, that can detect "legitimate rape" and our little shields go up to detect "legitimate rape sperm" will be out in force to VOTE a straight Democrat ticket!
Hey people abortion is legal, don't believe in abortion? Don't have one!
Don't believe in gay marriage, don't marry someone of the same sex!
Women will not go back to 1950, let alone the 1850's!
O&JOE
Hummbird. My wife has a Magical Vagina too(according to me and that's the way i like it!) I always love your posts.......smart but never stupid or hateful. Keep it real for all of us who like a little bit of common sense in our daily lives.
RandogM- Thank-you but I have been known to go to the dark side and retaliate, I have been trying to be more like Phinephancy (flamingo's) who was a poster who was always full of grace, serenity and wanted everyone to be treated with respect no matter what their party or beliefs.
I will never reach that goal, I am a smart a$$ at heart!
I really appreciate you taking the time, and the compliment! ***~~***
O&JOE
In my hometown, EVERYBODY Knew Dave was abusing his daughters, but he was important to the community.
He's still there. Never been charged.
Hummbird. Thanks for the response. I always appreciated "Phines" posts and you are right that she had a gift for making a point without making it personal. From some of the recent post's on "First Read," I take it that she passed away. Sorry to hear that as she seemed to be a person with a heart...maybe we can all carry the torch for her.....
For Republicans to boast about wanting smaller government, they're sure cool with big government when it comes to a woman's body. How do they address this? And who gave them the right to decide what women should be able to do with our bodies? Todd and Santorum and Ryan are extremists. The Republican party has more nut cases now than ever before. They used to be smart and civilized and made sense. Those days are over. Hence, Mitt and Todd, et al.
That's right. Pretty interesting for a party that decries government meddling in our lives (e.g. forcing us to give up incadescent light bulbs), but when it comes to marriage, and what goes on in the bedrooms, well, that's a different story.
Sorry to disagree Terry - the Republican Party have never been civilized - smart maybe - they always had a "bag of tricks" up their sleeve
If you ever listened to FDR's famous speech about Social Security - he had them pegged for the liars they are
And thank god - after thirty years of denigrating Jimmy Carter a man who did serve - versus a B-Actor that only made speeches about serving - he finally got his revenge - via his grandson
I equate Republicans to "teenagers or possibly 2 year olds" who think they are the center of the UNIVERSE - whereas Democrats know we are part of the UNIVERSE
Barbara - One qualification. The Republican party has been bereft of civility in our lifetimes. You and I go back to Eisenhower (I go back to Truman). Eisenhower had a sense of civility, though his VP was the first of the modern Republicans to screw the pooch.
Remember that this is the party of Lincoln, a man of substance, determination, and civility.
Yes Dr. JBA, however, Lincoln would NOT recognize there folks as being Republican. of any sort!
Exactly what I've been saying. No new Politician will ever call themselves Republican after Nov. 4.
To do so invites the Tea Party to put words into your mouth.
If Republicans could go back in time, all those 1955 ads showing housewives getting new cars would not exist.
The Saudis are learning the same thing now, btw.
Hell hath no fury...
The repub/tparty is using the abortion issue as a distraction from the real issue - CHOICE. CHOICE that will impact all Americans in other areas eventually if they get elected. The repub/tparty is relying heavily on the use of "person, unborn feeling pain, murder" and other terms I can't remember right now, but Luntz has a pageful of terms to evoke maternal emotion in women and anger in men, not necessarily christians or other faith based, just the populace in general. The repub/tparty goes into great detail of this medical procedure only to see people cringe, bring on tears - most of their spiel is either not true or over the top scientifically. In any event, if the repub/tparty was true in their feeling of the unborn person, where are they after the birth? Gone. Out with social programs that would stabilize this baby and mother, out with health care and basic food needs. The repub/tparty is playing both sides of their sword and it's working on this abortion distraction.
The republicans played this same ploy with schools. Today we have Charter Schools, profit makers on taxpayer money. Christian and other faith based schools receive subsidies for lunch programs, free school bus rides, subsidized books. Charter schools have already proven that they are not what the republicans claimed when they first tooted their horns.
The republican money bags wove a web that reaches into every realm in our U.S., from the environment to religion. The Tparty is the brass knuckles of the republican party. Their moves parallel the third reich, make no mistake.
The wish for Democratics to stay in the White House and take control of Congress is not just a wish, it's a necessity for the future of our U.S.
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 and a Strong Democratic Congress
The alternative is unbearable.
I'm afraid that you're being too optimistic. When Romney loses, the taliban wing of the GOP will claim it is because Romney wasn't conservative enough. I wish Santorum had been the candidate. His loss would finally wake up enough of the GOP and force them to realize that the party has gone over the cliff. As it is, I'm afraid that it'll linger in its death throes for another decade or two until the old white, male (and supposedly straight) fogey's die off.
Mitt and Todd and Ryan and Newt and Boehner and Cantor and McConnell are dangerous because they care more about party than they do this country. And their base believes every word that comes out of their mouths. Running a country requires a different set of skills than running a business. You need a heart and compassion to run a country. Mitt is so rich the only thing left for him to achieve is the White House. This is about his ego, not patriotism.
It appears that: conservatives cannot sleep if they know there's dissenting opinion out there.
Terry - I think you nailed it just perfect. This is about Mittens getting what he wants, not about the well being of the country.
Oh, GOP, you tried. Put all your patsies out there in a row, they had their little fight, and the "Business Guy" came out on top. Problem is, he has no soul, and now all your followers are wringing their hands.
So the goal is to repeal National Health care - so take away the removal of pre-existing condition requirement, coverage of chillden under 26, preventive services, etc? really?? so how is this helpful to the american people? oh woops I mean the insurance companies. now I get it!
The entire thing is more complex than that. You are oversimplifying things. There are consequences to our legislation. If we were to pass a law requiring all people to be paid $200K a year, would you complain if someone said that it isn't reasonable and won't work as planned?
If you could pass out $200k a year, while saving money as ObamaCare does, I'd say "OK". Romney/Ryan CUTS 716 billion dollars from Medicare, Obama SAVES 716 billion dollars FOR Medicare.
Be careful what you vote for.
We can all agree that Rape is not Sex. But if we make that LAW...
There will be so such thing as a "Sex Offense" or "Sexual Predator".
I usually don't correct myself...NO such thing.
I blame Cafe Britt for this mistake.
recent ads for repealing Obamacare saying the middle class will be paying new taxes. However, you must keep in mind that Romney considers the middle class to be people pulling down $250,000. per year or more.
So, when you hear the ads saying the middle class will be paying more, remember who they are talking about. And I always thought the middle class was between $75,000 and $100,000. per year.
New Consumers Report has a breakdown in it's most recent publication of who pays and who doesn't.
Does anyone know if Akin has made any other flubs than his rape comment? I don't know the individual story line well, but I am willing to forgive a guy for one or two mistakes. Is there more to the story?
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I love in MO, and this dude had been against anything that helps the middle class. He hates social security, medicare, birth control and basically any independent woman. He wants women pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen...
The only bill this moron has ever introduced was one that would make certain that the words "under God" remain in the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm not making this up, I'm unfortunate enough to live in his district. He won't even have a dialogue with anyone who has viewpoints different from his own. He's nothing but a simpering little coward, but that sums up most of the Republican party I suppose.
PUT....you need to do a search on Aiken and get sincere,.
Put...you are lying...yuo have 63 posts on Aiken before today....YOU KNOW the storyline....Take a hike!
You are REALLY forgiving then.
And your opinion of women is also apparent. A DUMB line of reasoning in Aiken's case.
Look at it this way, what's just another stupid thing coming out of Rick's mouth?
But it's pretty consistent with Rick's shrill lamentation that the Devil is attacking America because Americans are practicing birth control.
The comment we KNOW about is bad enough. I'm willing to believe that he may not have immediately been aware of all the terrible implications of his words-an implied accusation that if a woman got pregnant then it must not have "really" been rape-but for heaven's sake, a politician should know better than to make a comment like that about a politically charged issue like abortion unless he had several peer reviewed studies supporting what he said! When you get asked a question like the one he was asked, as a politician he should have a good answer. Say "yes," say "no," say, "I'll get back to you," if you don't want to make a statement right then-but don't give out pseudoscience!
I'll take your advice Santorum. You said it was better to vote to for Obama than Romney when you running for the presidential ticket.
I'll further interpret your words and also assume it's better to vote for a Democrat than a Republican. We can't have any bad republicans in government, and right now everyone is trying to figure out who exactly is a good or bad republican.
Thanks Santorum! You are a very wise man!
That's right, he did say that.
Santorum is RIGHT. Vote O and Joe.
Yes Mitt, you should come out and support Aiken. PUT THE LAST NAIL IN YOUR COFFIN.
Santorum, your own party didn't want you so shut the F up. Why would they listen to a word you say?
Santorum, you are such a phoney! As a matter of fact, you seem to think you're better than Romoney, but you're the same. As a matter of fact, you're worse.
He forgot to say 'and continue the war on women' Missouri you are better than that.
I don't know, we have a hell of a lot of red-necked bigots in this backwater of a state.
Red neck bigots are all over the place, from Boston to Bakersfield, from Seattle to Savanah. Its' always been that way. Mark Twain commented on that saying to the effect, it's a great disadvantage to the human race that lightning strikes aren't so well distributed.
Tell one Red Necked Idiot that another Red Necked Idiot just called him a Red Necked Idiot, and see what happens.
S'fun! (50% of the time they become a couple).
Wow - politics of desperation. This man is Neanderthal - he does not represent the entire Western Civilization and its understanding of biology since......we started making babies. Are these men witches? More like arrogant control freaks - no human has any measure of control over life like Republicans think they can have. Do the math! And, Jesus isn't on your side - he threw the money lenders out of the temple, you clowns. Look for all the Conspiracy theories you want on the left or the right. It doesn't matter - by the time you figure it out, you are left behind. Republicans hate history because it doesn't allow them to write their own fiction. History shows that change is the one constant - no change is an aberration.
Roz, no need to go giving the Neanderthals a bad name, they have been found to have a decent culture, compassion for their dead, Music, art and many things that we have, til now, thought only belonged to Homo Sapiens. In short, they were not quite so backwards as we are finding the Repub/TPers party to be!
Neanderthal in a sweater vest. Heck of a picture in my mind.
"A Caveman could do it...but Romney can't."
Far-right religious pervert Republicans say to the country: "You know you like it, b**ch!"
To be fair, not all religious perverts are Republicans.
More than what you'd expect due to chance alone, Bucket!