A really rotten start for the GOP national convention
Grafic by Dan
How bad could things get for the Republican Party? First, Hurricane Issac (note the Biblical name) forces the cancellation of the convention’s first day in Tampa.
Next, Missouri Rep. Todd Akin shows up in Tampa to meet with RWer activiists. This comes after he shot a metaphorical bird to Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan. They wanted him out of his Senate race and as far away from Florida as possible after his “legitimate rape” comments last week.
Finally, Charlie Crist, Florida’s former Republican governor, endorses Obama in the Tampa Bay Times. What an insult, just as all those GOPers are arriving in town. It starts out with praise for the president, then concludes with some body blows at those who pass themselves off as Republicans these days:
As Republicans gather in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney, Americans can expect to hear tales of how President Obama has failed to work with their party or turn the economy around.
But an element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they’ve proven incapable of governing for the people. Look no further than the inclusion of the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims.
The truth is that the party has failed to demonstrate the kind of leadership or seriousness voters deserve.
They say that trouble comes in threes, so maybe there won’t be any more laugh-a-minute embarrassment for Republicans and their convention.
But I wouldn’t bet on that. It hasn’t even kicked off yet!
August 26, 2012 - 2:18 PM
I can’t wait until after Romney’s landslide win to repost a whole bunch of quotes from you clowns. I’m saving them and categorizing them to pull out at the appropriate times. It should be great fun.
Of course Tampa and the Republican Convention could be spared by a slight shift to the left!! how ironic.
“Would it be wrong to ask people to pray? Would it be wrong if we asked people to pray for rain? O.K., not just rain, abundant rain. Torrential rain. Urban and small stream flood advisory rain. Would it be wrong if we prayed for rain on, say, a particular night at, say, a particular location? Ah, say the evening of August 28th, right here at Mile High Stadium here in Denver. During the prime time t.v. hour when a certain presumptive nominee is set to give a certain acceptance speech at a certain Democratic National Convention?”
Focus on the Family spokesman Stuart Shepherd, speaking in 2008.
Karma bites. Where is Pat Robertson to pray away the storm?
Post #1:
Saving and categorizing blog posts? Damn. I’m glad I have kids and grandkids to enjoy in my retirement.
However, should Florida not be spared by Hurrican Isaac, isn’t it wonderful that Pres. Obama can be called on to provide and approve “federal assistance” to the effected areas of the state???
Note the plan to attack ad Obama rather than champion their own.
http://tinyurl.com/boq78wt
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Echoes of Obama at Republican convention in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. — Republicans are two days from the start of their national convention — if a storm named Isaac cooperates — but the voice echoing through their convention hall here Saturday afternoon was that of their nemesis: President Obama.
As news crews readied their positions for the planned Monday convention start, convention workers ran through a video presentation that will likely be front and center once the now-empty seats are filled with delegates.
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The video played on multiple monitors on the convention stage, all of which were framed in wood, as though a collage of pictures on a living room wall. (Event organizers have said they used wood because of the comfy feelings it was meant to inspire.)
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Wonder why not hype how great one of their own is?
Or, could the video shown to the news crews have been a set up (such as mike o tried when he caught steve nelson back on http://tinyurl.com/c2kphp4 )?
Sad, sad, sad. I guess God is rendering his judgment on the Republicans. I hope they wake up before it’s took late.
Blacksburg Suz,
Perhaps Pat’s influence with God only applies to the Tidewater area of Virginia.
They can hardly champion their own candidate. They hate him. Heck they threw him aside for SARAH PALIN last election. I can’t think of a worse slap in the face.
#1 What a sad, pitiful life you must have, troll. I throw your quotes and predictions back at you — you know, like the one that the Giles Co. Ten Commandments case would be a HUGE factor in this election — as I remember them, but to save a file? Sad.
As I have said before I vote for individuals not platforms. However, I find this interesting — as it conflicts what the GOP candidate apparent has said.
http://tinyurl.com/d8hhgr7
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McDonnell defends platform’s abortion plank without rape exception
By: Andrew Cain | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: August 26, 2012
RICHMOND, Va. –
On the eve of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Gov. Bob McDonnell, head of the GOP platform committee, today defended the anti-abortion plank that does not include an exception for rape.
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A spokeswoman for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney recently said that a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in case of rape. The campaign made the point in a statement about the ticket’s disagreement with Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape.”
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I’m sure that the left are wishing that something would happen to cancel their farce of a convention…I think the that support for O is going to start dropping big time after that.
another murdered post…oh well, good thing I’m not running for President.
I mean this with all sincerity. Comment #1 makes me so sad for Suzie. This blog appears to be all he/she has in life.
Re: Dave Hick’s post of an excerpt from the Richmond TD, regarding Gov. Bob McDonell (chair of the platform committee), trying to have it both ways on the issue of abortion:
It’s a little more complicated than Romney disagreeing with the platform, Dave. The platform calls for a constitutional amendment — essentially an amendment to the 14th amendment (no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”) to include the unborn.
If they ever got that, it seems to me that abortion under ALL circumstances — including to save the life of the mother — would be prohibited.
So McDonnell’s just talking out of both sides of his mouth. Typical politician.
Debbie:
“Comment #1 makes me so sad for Suzie. This blog appears to be all he/she has in life.”
NO DOUBT.
Dan:
“Perhaps Pat’s influence with God only applies to the Tidewater area of Virginia.”
His praydar only reaches so far.
http://tinyurl.com/cg4t9nc
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Women’s Issues, Weather Crowd GOP Message
By Kate Ackley and Jason Dick
Roll Call Staff
Aug. 26, 2012, 12:41 p.m.
On the cusp of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Republicans are seeking to focus on the economy, but instead abortion, women’s health issues and even the weather dominated the narrative.
The recent comments of Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D), continued to dog the party. Akin, who opposes abortion rights including for victims of rape and incest, said last Sunday that women who are victims of “legitimate rape” have biological defenses against pregnancy. After a firestorm of controversy and calls for him to drop out of the race from all echelons of the Republican establishment, Akin apologized for the remarks, which have no basis in science. He has vowed, however, to stay in the race.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he worried Akin could cost his party control of the Senate. “I think he should get out of the race,” Priebus said, adding that Akin’s comments were “biologically stupid.”
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.,) put an exclamation point on the GOP establishment’s feelings on Akin. “He would not be welcomed by Republicans in the United States Senate,” the GOP’s 2008 presidential standard-bearer said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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BTW, Suzie, when are you going to reply to the question of documentation for your claim that Akin was right?
“His meaning was clear. And yes, the female body does have defenses which can prevent fertlization by an unwanted act.” Comment by Suzie — August 20, 2012 @ 10:53 am
Cue yet more crickets.
I mean this with all sincerity. Comment #1 makes me so sad for Suzie. This blog appears to be all he/she has in life.
Remember, folks. This is the woman who created an 85-year-old alter ego.
Dan…u sell Pat the man way too short. ..So far he has protected coastal Va from West African pirates..and untold numbers of raging Tsunamis calmed by just one of his gazes looking at the rising sun..he is the savior of Jamestown and all civilization to her west.
Re: Comment by Dan Casey — August 26, 2012 @ 3:40 pm
Yup. You are so right (sorry make that “so correct”).
I was just trying to deal with one issue at a time (given the criticism of run-on comments, of late).
You beat me to it.
One of the GOP’s problems w/ such an amendment is Mitt’s own family’s use of In-Vitro Fertilization and his personal support destroying surplus human embryos made during the IVF process — a “morally unacceptable” position according to the dictated of the Vatican.
http://tinyurl.com/8jcj6ct
http://tinyurl.com/9oo9omp
http://tinyurl.com/8jvkteg
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On can’t defend destroying fertilized eggs on one hand yet demand that all fertilized eggs have a right to protection and full individual due process of law on the other hand.
That’s a major gotcha for the GOP.
BTW, still nothing but crickets from Suzie on how she can support a candidate with such “morally unacceptable” values — by her professed beliefs.
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Last comment should have been:
“One can’t defend destroying fertilized eggs on one hand yet demand that all fertilized eggs have a right to protection and full individual due process of law on the other hand.”
More on the ideologues:
http://tinyurl.com/bpeomsd
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Tea Partiers Plan to Chill Out
By Ambreen Ali
CQ Roll Call Staff
Aug. 26, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
This article originally appeared in the CQ Weekly 2012 Republican Convention Guide.
Although many tea party activists denounced Mitt Romney during the primaries as an establishment Republican moderate who doesn’t reflect the diverse movement’s upstart ideals, tea partiers seemingly have no desire to play into the Democrats’ hands by hijacking the Republican convention.
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For their big event, the Patriots plan to cosponsor a concert with the conservative activist group Citizens United. Country singer and emphatic tea party backer Trace Adkins is expected to headline the Aug. 28 jam session at Liberty Plaza, a venue close to the convention site that is hosting many political events that week.
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“We’re not protesting either event, and we’re not supporting either event,” Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, said of the conventions.
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I really hope the storm wreaks no havoc on our people. I particularly hope if it continues west (as predicted) the levy’s in New Orleans hold (since Bush built them…lol).
Dan,
You, and others, continuely bring up abortion (which I understand is a “talking point”).
I would be interested in when you, and others like Shrill, Kris, Sandi actually believe “life” begins?
I hope that is pretty a specific question which begs a specific answer be it in days, weeks, months, (years?).
I’m not the one who has stated before about going under different names on different blogs. I have a full time job, I have neither the time, nor the desire to create a different persona.
Well, if it was a legitimate convention, they would nominate a hate filled wind bag to carry their banner…oh wait.
Spot On Dave Hicks, #22. Slippery slope has been breached.
Extreme, extreme, extreme, extreme. Do you Democrat spokesmen have any other words for “disagrees with us”?
Dan, Charlie Christ endorsement of Obama is meaningless. Christ ran for governor as a conservative but started changing his stripes once in office. Yet even when he ran for US Senate the majority of the state’s GOP leadership supported him to succeed Martinez. But his policy positions put him so at odds that every sector of the GOP leadership and electorate abandoned him during the campaign While people like you might get a tingle up your leg over this, for the people of Florida that know him best, his endorsement has no impact on the voters of Florida.
Ghost of Alexander Hamilton,
Perhaps you are right. Perhaps I went just a little far with CC’s endorsement of Obama. How about we sub him with another former governor, also from the GOP:
JEB BUSH: REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS TO REACH OUT TO A MUCH BROADER AUDIENCE
“On Sunday, the former Florida governor did not refer to the GOP’s need to appeal to any specific group, but said the party could find it seriously damaging if Republicans do not expand their base.
“I’m concerned about it over the long haul for sure,” Bush told “Meet The Press” host David Gregory. “Our demographics are changing and we have to change not necessarily our core beliefs, but how we — the tone of our message and the message and the intensity of it, for sure.”
mikeo, since the learned people who practice science, medicine, philosophy and religion can’t agree on an answer to that, I’d be foolish to try. And I’m not sure what the relevance is anyway…I mean, an amoeba is “life”. A single celled bacterium is “life”. Having an answer to that question doesn’t drive the argument either way, in my opinion.
The only reason the left is bringing up choice as a “talking point” is because of people like Todd Akin and others in the GOP getting out and making foolish and outrageous statements like the idiocy of a raped uterus magically repelling semen and preventing pregnancy. Roe was so long ago it’s easy to get complacent, so in an election year it’s important to remind everyone of what the stakes are and the mindset of those pursuing spots in the legislature.
RCP currently has McCaskill leading by 6, but two of the polls in the blend have her at +9 and +10, while one apparently polled Akin’s family and paid staffers and has him at +1. She should be leading by 20 points.
“Reince Priebus”
It sounds like one’s washing their junk.
Kristen,
The relevance is because that is the argument. If you are comparing an amoeba to “human life” I am ok with your argument. But you must have some consistency.
Running away from the question, or changing the subject, is not an answer.
You seem to believe that life is “not” at conception… please answer when life “IS”.
I wonder what Alexander Hamilton would of thought of members of congress signing oaths of allegiance to Grover Norquist?
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of
the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they
intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require
an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion
or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from
the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their
interests.”
― Alexander Hamilton
I think not…
Wonder what this convention would be like if, instead of nominating Mitt Romney, the Republicans switched to Sen. Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. Then the Democrats could dump Obama and nominate Sen. Mark Warner from Virginia. My view is that we would have a serious election about what really needs to be done to get our country headed in the right direction again.
“praydar”. You crack me up, JohnW.
Hurricane Isaac is keeping Biden out of Tampa…maybe God did hear their prayers.
Comments by a former Democrat:
All of us right-wingers bow (in awe) to the superior intellect of all you left-wingers who share your well thought-out, “fair and just,” never-insulting, eye-opening posts. You have helped us (the feeble-minded and deceived) see the light by your loving, kind examples. I know I want to associate with people who hold your esteemed values and who spread brotherly love so effectively to everyone, regardless of their beliefs. You do the Democratic Party and our fine president proud!
And the wisdom that literally flows from Dan Casey!!! (A former Republican—who would have thunk it)? Had the GOP only taken his sage advice in 1972 think of all the heartache that we, as a country, could have avoided (see this recent quote from Dan: “Before I ever got into yellow journalism I even worked for a presidential campaign. It was Nixon’s, in 1972. The only political campaign I ever worked on. And in ’76 I was urging the GOP to pick Reagan over Ford, even though I voted for Ford in that election”.
Why oh why could we not “see the light” from someone who has actually worked on ONE political campaign? (We may have even been able to keep Dan in our camp had we realized the value of his advice)! Once again, thanks Dan for your insights and the way you explain politics and economics in such simple terms that even we can understand it!
Dan, regarding another quote you made: “These days, if the inventory of lies was a playground seesaw, there would be a 400-pound dude on one side, representing the GOP, and 50-pound kid on the other, representing the Democrats.” Once again—using a clever word-picture—you simplified things so we could understand. However if YOU would just “jump on board” on the Democrat’s side of the seesaw, I’m sure it would quickly shift to your advantage.
Finally, Roanoke Valley is sooooo blessed to have you to keep us on the “straight and narrow”. As you recently quoted “Staying in the middle of the road” does not require one to accept (the right’s) lies as truth, however, or to brand (the left’s) truth as fiction. Staying in the middle of the road requires you to call them as you see them. So that’s what I do”.
Wow! SO THAT’S WHAT YOU DO—YOU CALL THEM AS YOU SEE THEM! Whoever thought the “Keeper of the Truth” would grace us with his presence, an actual physical presence—in Roanoke! Not even God himself can (or will) do that!!! Tell us, Dan, are YOU the one responsible for Hurricane Issac showing up? I wouldn’t doubt it!!!
Seriously, if you want to see Dan at his finest check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROO7xSTxfY
P.S. Post #4: Comment by 13 Suns
Post #1: Saving and categorizing blog posts? Damn. I’m glad I have kids and grandkids to enjoy in my retirement.
Before you and #10 (the troll counter) and #14 get your collective shorts in a twist allow me to quote your fearless leader Dan:
*“Even back then (1972), though, I kept an inventory of lies from each side”.
That’s FORTY YEARS of keeping records. (Makes Suzie look like a novice) Talk about pitiful! As gdad said “What a sad, pitiful life you must have, troll (Dan)”
P.S.S. Gdad: FYI. Definition of a troll:
T-Those
R-refuting
O-obnoxious
L-liberal
L-loud-mouths
#26 Comment by Sandi Saunders
WHO KNEW YOU WERE AVAILABLE???
Charlie Crist equals SOUR GRAPES! Who gives a rip?
* see http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2012/08/romneys-still-ducking-the-question-on-income-taxes/
L.D,
Thank you for the props, and for recognizing my genius. I would never have said it was deserved, but you have persuaded me otherwise.
I am on board with Ron’s Coburn nomination. He would be the most fantastic, 21st century GOP nominee EVER.
Dan, I did watch a good portion of Meet the Press today and I agree with Jeb – and by extension — you. OMG! The GOP is the party of opportunity and we cannot be closed to those who don’t look like us. We need to embrace all who support our laws, who are willing to work hard to build a dream and support their families. Likewise we need to respect those who come to this country along with their heritage and cultural differences as they assimilate into our society. By the way, Jeb Bush is supporting Romney!
# 39 Comment by Dan Casey: “Thank you for the props, and for recognizing my genius. I would never have said it was deserved, but you have persuaded me otherwise”.
Dan, kudos for your “tongue in cheek” response. I loved it!
NY Times Reports Romney Paid Federal Income Taxes-Will Harry Reid Apologize?
Will the Roanoke Times (a nyt wannabe) mention this article…(NYET..for those in obamaland…it means NO!.)
OBAMA CAMPAIGN CAUGHT PULLING ANOTHER FAST
‘Full Metal Jacket’ Drill Sergeant: Geico Fired Me For Criticizing Obama
CultureCNN Poll: Majority Of Americans Want Abortion Prohibited\
Susie GOT YOUR BACK..
You were not around during JIMMMMMYYY CARTER…$5.00 max gas purchase..Odd-even days to buy GAS…TURN up your thermostat to 72…democrat president jimmy carter.
Susie…It will be a landside…and glad you still hang in there but to me this blog is a waste of time and energy…like facebook stock…tanking.
The only reason I got on here was Dan posted an email to him, WP editor and RT..
Democrat President BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA resume
Guest Lecture at Uni. of Chicago
Elected DEMOCRAT State Senate (vote present on majority of bills)
Elected Democrat United States Senator (WORKED 144 DAY)
Elected Democrat President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
GAS price…pre Obama.. 2008
$1.71…now $3.65 (Roanoke Va)
46 MILLION on food stamps
42 months OF over 8.2 UNEMPLOYMENT
50% of College grads UNDER EMPLOYED
42 UNAUTHORIZED PAID CZARS on White House staff
1200 DAYS and DEMOCRAT SENATE has failed to pass a budget.(treason and an Impeachable offense)
Democrat President BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S budget GOT ZERO,ZIP,NADA votes..not sure of numbers..435 in Congress and 100 in Senate)
Violation of WELFARE REFORM bill BY EXECUTIVE ORDER..(unconstitutional and was PASSED by both Democrats and Republican in 1996…DESPERATE MOVE TO GET VOTES).
BLOCKING XL PIPELINE…(Even the UNIONS were against this bill)
DEMOCRAT President Barrack Hussein Obama told RUSSIAN Prime Minister on nuclear weapons.. ad libbing ” go easy on me until I get reelected ”
To France’s Prime Minister about Prime Minister Israel ad libbing..”he is a pain in my ass too”.
DEMOCRAT President BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA..PROMISED..cutting the budget in half.
Hope and Change.
TEA PARTY MOVEMENT versus OCCUPY WALL STREET comments from DEMOCRAT BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA…Nancy Pelosi, Democrat Senator Harry Reid endorsed OCCUPY WALL STREET….anarchy…
To my liberal friends…question…how many were arrested and how much damage was to done to PRIVATE businesses by the TEA PARTY and OCCUPY Wall Street…(forgot WHAT WAS THE WAR ON WOMEN at OCCUPY Wall Street…RAPES..drugs,squatter society.
Susie God Bless you for standing up and defending the CONSTITUTION.
The only ANGER and HATE is on the liberal side…the only game they got left..(I know these people)
See you on 9/6…Want to meet you..
Hang in there…”they ain’t got no game”. I went through the same thing with Jimmy Carter and Reagan…before ALGORE invented the “INTERNET”
God Bless ALGORE.. WE NOW have a non biased media…
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Conservative Republicans are the kind of people that if there was a weather disaster and people in need of help, they’d drop everything right then and there, arrange some buses and go to the hard-hit areas and help the people clean up. That’s who helped the Katrina victims. Church bus after church bus after church bus went to Louisiana. Didn’t see any liberal groups there, though. NOW didn’t send a bus. NARAL didn’t send a bus. The NAACP didn’t send a bus, The LGBT didn’t send a bus. Atheists didn’t send a bus. Hollywood types didn’t show up. It was all religious conservative Republicans.
There are two types of people. Those who will stop and help somebody and those who won’t. Conservatives are the ones who stop and help.
Re: Comment by Henry — August 26, 2012 @ 5:39 pm
Henry,
I know quite a few moderate Republicans and moderate conservatives. If you choice to put yourself in the extreme-right camp, that is your call.
FWIIW, I also know extreme Democrats and extreme liberals, as well as moderate Democrats and moderate liberals.
I also have friends that are Green Party, the Constitution Party, and the Libertarian Party — as well as quite a few that are independent.
That’s one of the great things about this country — our political freedom. Heck, you can even start your own party. True, our politics have been dominated by the two-party system — from nearly the beginning. However, other political parties have influenced our history — think the Prohibition Party. Other parties with wide range of ideologies have come and gone. Others like the GOP started over the slavery issue and grew into one of the big two.
BTW, I have even met avoid Nazis and Communists, for whatever that is worth.
We get to be what we identify with, in this country. We get to work within the two major parties to influence their foci along both the bell-shape curve of right-to-left economic theory and the bell-shape curve of authoritarianism v. non-authoritarianism. We get to split off (as the GOP did) and become a dominant party.
Ain’t it great!
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BTW, if you are not extreme, just publicity identify with moderate economic issues and non-extreme positions of authoritarianism. No problem. Again, it’s your call.
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When somebody is stopped with car trouble, liberals say ‘Screw them. I’ve got things to do”. Conservatives are the ones prepared with the jumper cables, the cell phones, the lift to a gas station, always willing to help.
This mindset extends to all personal charity. It’s why conservatives give more readily of their time and resources to charity. That may be where religion comes in. Doing the right thing is just a way of life.
With libs it’s always “I, me, and mine”. They don’t answer to a higher being. They don’t see life as larger than themselves. They are in their own little world. It’s never about others with those people. That may be why they are capable of destroying their own offspring in the womb. It takes a lot of years to build up that kind of callousness.
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Comment by L.D. — August 26, 2012 @ 7:29 pm
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Comment by Dan Casey — August 26, 2012 @ 7:39 pm
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Comment by L.D. — August 26, 2012 @ 8:01 pm
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Well done, both!
#1 What a sad, pitiful life you must have, troll.
If I’m a troll, what is a person called who responds to and about each and every post I make or is made to me? You call that a life worth living, Granddad?
course Tampa and the Republican Convention could be spared by a slight shift to the left!! how ironic.
There is no left/right in space, genius. It’s all in your perspective. From our vantage point looking south, the storm would be moving right.
AT #7 Kristen…yeah, god is really upset with the Republicans…a party that for the most part is for the biblical definition of family (man and woman in marriage), against the next day knee-jerk reaction for abortion (come on, don’t even play the card of rape/incest…which while is real, is NOT the reason for the vast majority of abortions), and hard work. Remember, idle hands are the devil’s work…and lord, you DEMS are sure doing a good job!
I agree with Suze…once this election is won (by Mitt, and not as close as many of you expect), I look forward to coming back to this blog and reading the shrill voices of many on this ridiculous blog.
By the way, the only reason to tune in here is to have fun with Dan and his group of Squealers (to borrow the term from old Biden himself). This is fun and entertaining actually. I do enjoy a little parlay with the Socialists (that would be you Dan…and fellow Dems).
LD, bless your heart. There’s quite a difference in keeping a journal/list/record of lies spoken by political candidates who, if elected, will part of our government and keeping a file of comments made by (mostly) ananymous bloggers. Miss Suzie has also said she keeps a file of all of her posts Dan has rejected. It’s both hilarious and sad. I like to read and post here every now and then when my schedule (and desire) permits, and occasionally I will go back a few days and pull a comment from someone, but I can’t imagine making such an elaborate hobby out of it that I keep files about it. I simply have better things to do with my time.
Oops! Please excuse my errors in my other post! I didn’t have my reading glasses on, obviously.
Good read on the internal situation in the Ohio GOP:
http://tinyurl.com/96escgk
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Going into a key election, Bennett tries to mend Ohio GOP
By Laura A. Bischoff — Staff Writer
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Just a few short months ago, the Ohio GOP faithful were worried that an ugly intra-family fight could be a catastrophic distraction during the crucial election season. Gov. John Kasich and his allies ran a campaign to take over the party’s central committee and force out then Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine.
In April, DeWine, a former lawmaker from Fairborn, stepped aside and Bennett returned to a role as familiar to him as a well-worn pair of work boots.
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Democratic political consultant Greg Haas said the Ohio GOP picked a capable leader in the wake of the internal fight.
“He won’t be able to mend all of that but certainly he is going to build a strong party. He has done it before, he’ll do it again,” Haas said.
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Devino, why does God hate Republicans? Clearly they’re not as godly as you’d like to sell them. Who knows what’s next after the hurricane…will there be toads raining down on Tampa? Sad sad sad.
By all means, come back after the election. My bet is you’ll be changing your name and hiding with the rest of the wing nuts.
Suzie…who is Dave Hicks…Dave and Sandi..Ok..WHO are these people…worrying about misspelled words, 8th grade education, name calling but NO SOLUTIONS..
Hang it there girl…lady …woman..
I do not know how to be politically correct under Democrat President Barrack Hussein Obama.
See you at TEA PARTY meeting on 9/6 and hope to meet you!
This blog says your have not identity…prove me wrong.
I simply have better things to do with my time.
Like driving across town in the middle of the night for no apparent reason?
#54 Comment by Kristen:
Devino, why does God hate Republicans? Clearly they’re not as godly as you’d like to sell them. Who knows what’s next after the hurricane…will there be toads raining down on Tampa? Sad sad sad.
Kristen, Biden and his party have cancelled their trip to Tampa so there’ll be no toads raining down on Tampa!
Devino, I’m praying for the GOP and that they see the error of their ways before it’s too late.
Heaven help me, Jony is starting to look normal.
#48 Another lie by suzie. Cool.
Kristen:
“Who knows what’s next after the hurricane…will there be toads raining down on Tampa?”
Does Pat Robertson’s praydar pick up toads too? Are praydar detectors illegal in Virginia? If not, I need one of those!
Wow, I just learned something about myself, thanks to Suzie. I am a conservative. I have given people a jump, a ride to a gas station, and even let them use my phone to call AAA. I’ve even changed a stranger’s flat tire. I can’t recall discussing politics during any of these situations. Thanks, Suzie, for clearing this up for me.
Re: Comment by steve nelson — August 26, 2012 @ 9:52 pm
steve,
When have I criticized anyone’s misspelling?
When have I castled aspersions on anyone’s educational level?
When have I called names — other than the tag that Dan hung on the biggest name caller on the blog (namely old Rants & Raves (w /lies)?
Re: Comment by steve nelson — August 26, 2012 @ 9:52 pm
Sometime back old Rants & Raves (w/ lies) asserted that she/he never attended/attends TP meetings.
If you actually meet him/her, please let us know.
Steve Nelson,
I don’t recall making any comments about your education – but I may have. Can you find such a comment?
Re: Comment by dobbs — August 26, 2012 @ 11:13 pm
ditto, here — on all those accounts.
Also, volunteered in a soup kitchen, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, done organized & semi-organized volunteer work cleaning up after ice storms & hurricanes, etc.
In that old Rants & Raves (w/ lies) has said that I am no conservative and said that only conservatives are the ones who stop and help, he/she is wrong on one account or the other.
“None so blind as those that will not see.” — an old (dating back to 1546) proverbial English saying popularize by Matthew Henry (1662-1714) an English Presbyterian minister and writer.
or
“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not” — Jeremiah 5:21
The other shot across the Romney bow in Florida comes from radical Governor Rick Scott who continues to defy the Mittster by touting how great his state is recovering economiv
cally under the Obama plan. The Romney folks are really agitated that he won’t stick with the message aboput how bad it is.
GAS price…pre Obama.. 2008
$1.71…now $3.65 (Roanoke Va)
Steve Nelson. That is so rich. I love it when Goppers use the collapse of the US economy under Bush to highlight low gas prices. US demand dropped 16% in 2008 because Bush tanked the Economy. You know it and are just spreading GOP propaganda. No need to read further. You just aren’t credible.
Just like Rmoney.
Obama landslide in November.
Dan@65
Hard to comment on what clearly doesn’t exist.
From YouTube, via Connie Shultz on Facebook. Support the troops, bring them home.
From Firedoglake, the 2012 RNC drinking game.
So if I had sex with a girl that doesn’t want it are you telling me I need not worry about paying child support because her body will reject my sperm….wow I guess ALL RAPISTS should be on the right wing nut job bandwagon.
Charlie Crist is about as Republican as Michael Bloomberg…..and I’m thinking a new drinking game can come of liberals and the term “Extreme”
It appears that the Repubs could possibly get one of the things they’re fervently praying for: a storm destructive enough to knock out some oil production and raise prices even more. Then they’ll falsely blame Obama.
Really, Jud? At this point I guess anyone who doesn’t goosestep around spitting on the homeless and making laughable statements about sex crimes against women doesn’t qualify as a ‘real’ Republican.
#73 A Repub wins a state like NJ and you guys are all aflutter about it. Then he or she steps out of line a little and, BAM, they’re commies.
hokie hater:
“wow I guess ALL RAPISTS should be on the right wing nut job bandwagon.”
I don’t judge all RWers to be like Suzie anymore than I judge all left wingers to be like hokie hater.
I’ve even changed a stranger’s flat tire.
That disproves your story right there. A liberal wouldn’t know a floor jack from a box of Cracker Jacks.
Steve Nelson, where do you get your gas facts? A simple google of 2008 National average gas prices. First one…
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) – 2 hours ago
Early Monday, the average prices of a gallon of regular gas hit $3.75, according to … site of this week’s Republican National Convention, the National Hurricane … 7% in August but are still down nearly 9% from the July 2008 record of $4.114.
I just used the scissor jack fom either my car or the one with the flat. I don’t carry a floor jack in the trunk of my car. Sure would make it easier. Which do you use, Suzie, when you change a stranger’s flat tire?
#68…
Democrats Harry Reid ran the Senate and Democrat Nancy Pelosi ran the house in 2007.
Wish Republican Dick Cheney and Haliburton were around now!
Again GAS price 2009 $1.71 now $3.60…(do you remember Democrat Chuck Shummer standing at a BP gas station) and Democrat squealer Nancy Pelosi going nuts and “How gas prices are HURTING middle class workers..
Where is the outrage by the Drive By Media…every night 2008..nightly news..GAS up again today…gas up again…
I do remember Republican George W Bush…said WE are drilling…Va, NC, ANWR.(sounds like a lovely vacation place)..gas began dropping immediately.
Where are those brave Democrat leaders ( leaderless) now screaming about gas prices..
(rumor has it Dick Cheney has been in contact with Haliburtion..Harry Reid told me)
And the economy is getting better…46M on food stamp up from 32M (I think that was the number) Democrat President Barrack Hussein Obama is the “food stamp president).
8.2 unemployment for 42 months
1200 days and Democrat Senator Harry Reid has not passed a budget.
50% college unemployment
I would suggest to anyone this blog and spend an hour at the government facility (old Sears store) on Williamson and see where your tax dollars are going.
“Church bus after church bus after church bus went to Louisiana. Didn’t see any liberal groups there, though. NOW didn’t send a bus. NARAL didn’t send a bus. The NAACP didn’t send a bus, The LGBT didn’t send a bus. Atheists didn’t send a bus. Hollywood types didn’t show up. It was all religious conservative Republicans.”
Because most church people have to promote their agenda/dogma as a condition of doling out help. ”We’re here to help, because Jesus told us to!”
It wasn’t only ‘religious conservative Republicans’ helping in Louisiana and you damn well know it. The difference is the people who belong to groups such as NOW, NAACP, or LGBT interests were there out of a genuine need and desire to help. They weren’t there to say, “Look at us! We’re members of NOW and we’re helping!” This concept will be lost on you, Miss Suzie, but some people help others because it’s the right thing to do, not because they want credit for doing it.
BTW, I didn’t see any Rush To The Rescue buses or Oregon Cheerleaders buses there.
I think at least one “Hollywood type” – Harry Connick Jr. – helped out after Katrina … but he is from New Orleans I think
Apparently all of the “Hollywood types aren’t helping out in NO” repeaters have completely missed the boat. For a change.
Google “Make it right NOLA” and learn something.
Or…http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-25/entertainment/katrina.new.orleans.celebrities_1_krewes-sweet-home-new-orleans-mardi-gras?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ
Oh snap.
“George Clooney donated $1 million to United Way and Oprah Winfrey added another million through her Angel Network and urged her famous friends to follow suit. Director Steven Spielberg gave $750,000 to the Red Cross and another $750,000 to the Bush-Clinton Fund.
Hip-hop stars P. Diddy and Jay Z pitched in with big checks, as did actor Nicholas Cage and singers Celine Dion and Hillary Duff.
Michael Jackson donated the proceeds of a song, “From the Bottom of My Heart,” to relief efforts and actor Jamie Foxx raised $600,000 — including $200,000 paid for a date with Paris Hilton — through a celebrity auction.
Others took more direct action.
John Travolta flew relief supplies into the region on his private plane, Sean Penn took a private boat (albeit a leaky one) into New Orleans to rescue people. Brad Pitt founded the Make It Right Foundation, an organization dedicated to rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans.”
Does anyone on the right here do anything but parrot whatever the last bit of nonsense someone else on the right parrotted?
i wonder if the piucture of suzie is of herself
i wonder if the piucture of suzie is of herself
A number of guys in here have blown that picture up, William. I probably shouldn’t speculate what they do with it.
WOW Kristen…all you talk about is “parrots”..
Democrat Vice President Joe Biden gave 1% of his salary to charity
Democrat President Barrack Hussein Obama gave what to charity.
Check Romney’s tax returns…14% and how about the MILLIONS he gave to charity.
Kristin..you mention the likes of JDIDDY, Sean Penn..(did he just get back from campaigning with Hugo Chavez..DICTATOR in Venezuela)
So the group you mentioned are your mentors…..did you see all of the tractor trailer trucks coming out of the CHURCHES and specifically Liberty University and Lynchburg.
I get my gas facts from AAA reports posted on CNBC….not to be confused with MSNBC. (CNBC is a capitalist network..not to be confused with the propaganda MSNBC President Barrack Hussein Obama network)
William Q, I’m sure Suzie just forgot to actually answer your question. That answer, by the way, is no. That’s a picture of a tramp ex-college cheerleader named Amanda Pflugrad.
“I get my gas facts from AAA reports posted on CNBC….not to be confused with MSNBC. (CNBC is a capitalist network..not to be confused with the propaganda MSNBC President Barrack Hussein Obama network)”
Steve Nelson,
Did you ever notice the similarity in those call letters. Like, those cable stations both end with NBC? They’re both part of the NBC Network, fyi.
2008 ain’t 2012…
let us deal with current issues..blaming BUSH ain’t so popular after 5 years of Democrat President Barrack Hussein Obama..(does Barry Soreto have a record)
Suzie…Hope there are no Democrat Bill Clinton’s in the audience..but you are way beyond the celebrity….not like Kristen..who favors JZ,JLO,PDIDDY and Sean Penn..great role models.!!
Bet you like Allman Brothers and Kenny Chesney!…At least you can understand the lyrics and no gangsta bovine scatology!
NBC’s reach goes far and deep…
Bain Capital has had a huge influence.
If you will ask any employee of any NBC
affiliate you will see just how much
devestation there is.
Our own weather department was outsourced..
and was further a victim of being “Bained”
The Weather Channel is too a part of this conglomeration.
Reference for the previous..
http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/12/msnbc-now-disclosing-bain-capital-connection-109077.html
@87 Steve N
We’d be glad to check Romney’s tax returns for that information. The problem, you see, is that he’s got something to hide so he won’t release them. We’ve seen ten years worth of Obama’s returns and yes he’s been very generous in his charitable contributions.
Comment by steve nelson — August 27, 2012 @ 7:11 pm @90
Just to keep you somewhat knowledgeable – according to the last survey done by Gallup, the majority of Americans continue to place more “blame” on George W. Bush than President Obama for the economy…
“Still, 68% of Americans say former President Bush should be given a great deal or a moderate amount of blame for the nation’s economic woes — substantially more than say the same about Obama. This suggests that Obama’s argument that he is on the right track and needs more time to turn the economy around could fall on receptive ears, particularly those of independents.”
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155177/Americans-Blame-Bush-Obama-Bad-Economy.aspx
Wow, Steve, where have I been? I thought presidential terms were four years, but you say we’ve had five years of Obama? I must have missed that amendment.
Now, to show you how any two people can find common ground. I love the Allman Brothers. Let me know if you want to trade shows. If you don’t have any, I’ll gladly hook you up. (For those who might not understand, this is a band that allows people to freely record their performances, and trade the recordings, as long as you don’t sell them. There’s no pirating.)
Isn’t there some ” completely bat-chit crazy” quota that we can execute on this blog. Maybe we can turf some out to the RT threads.
William Q, I’m sure Suzie just forgot to actually answer your question. That answer, by the way, is no. That’s a picture of a tramp ex-college cheerleader named Amanda Pflugrad.
Ol’ Dobbs has a grainy 8×10 of that pic right in front of his throne. It’s no longer in, shall we say, pristine condition.
http://tinyurl.com/9h9jgcn
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Will Romney Discover His Inner Nixon?
The coming GOP fight between realists and neocons.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | AUGUST 27, 2012
This past May, Colin Powell appeared on the Morning Joe show to plug his latest book, It Worked for Me. One thing that did not appear to be working for Powell that day, however, was Mitt Romney’s candidacy for the U.S. presidency. Losing his customary cool, Powell, one of the last realist grandees in the Republican Party (along with Brent Scowcroft, George Shultz, and Henry Kissinger), expressed his vexation with Romney’s proclivity for encircling himself with neocon advisors, not to mention declaring Russia America’s No. 1 geopolitical enemy. “C’mon, Mitt, think!” Powell said.
SNIP
Is Romney a plaything of the neocons? Or might he actually revert to a more moderate and pragmatic tradition of Republicans that began with Dwight Eisenhower (something that I myself was skeptical about in 2010 in Foreign Policy)? Might Romney, to put it bluntly, discover his inner Nixon?
Given the somersaults that previous presidents have performed in moving from the campaign trail to the Oval Office, it’s at least worth pondering whether Romney — the preeminent flip-flopper of our time, after all — might not perform yet another one. A potentially auspicious sign is that Romney has been longer on sweeping criticisms of Obama than on spelling out just where he would differ from the president. He has brayed about American exceptionalism, while hardly promising anything very exceptional. At most, he has backed a massive and antediluvian shipbuilding plan. While his campaign boasts a number of neocon stars, ranging from the intellectually deft Robert Kagan to the cantankerous John Bolton, he has also appointed Robert Zoellick, a bête noire of the neocons, to head his foreign-policy transition team. He has also successfully sought to water down some of the more reactionary planks that Tea Party types wanted to promulgate in the GOP’s official platform, as FP has reported, such as officially jettisoning the two-state solution. In short, the right’s fears about Romney — that he is something of a squish — may be justified not only on domestic policy, but also on foreign policy, the area where a president has the most unilateral authority as commander in chief.
SNIP
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Good stuff to think about!
Whatever, Suzie. You still act as if you expect people to actually believe that the sleezy blond in your avatar is really you. Beyond pathetic, and really kind of sad.
In 2004, who could assign any blame to jihadi terrorists for the condition of the WTC site in lower Manhattan? Who could assign any blame to the Nazi’s for the condition of Europe in 1948? Who could assign any blame to Gen. Sherman for the condition of Georgia in 1868?
Not steve nelson, mike o, or any other tea party “conservatives”. Nope, they’d blame the residents of Manhattan, and the people of Europe, and the farmers of Georgia. And, they blame Obama exclusively for the state of the U.S. from 2009-2012. Sad but true.
Whatever, Suzie. You still act as if you expect people to actually believe that the sleezy blond in your avatar is really you. Beyond pathetic, and really kind of sad.
Dobbs thought I was Sandra Dee when I had her picture up. Leftwingers aren’t real bright.
So the NYT admitted Romney DID pay income tax. Seems like Dan said Harry Reid WILL prove his assertions. But now we’re finding out Reid lied. Will Harry Reid apologize? Will Dan apologize for running with this despicable lie?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-york-times-reports-romney-paid-federal-taxes-will-harry-reid-apologize_650849.html
I can’t believe I had to actually warn a JOURNALIST about going with unfounded stories.
“A number of guys in here have blown that picture up, William. I probably shouldn’t speculate what they do with it.”
“Ol’ Dobbs has a grainy 8×10 of that pic right in front of his throne. It’s no longer in, shall we say, pristine condition”
A retired woman, who says she uses a much younger girl’s photo as her avatar because she used to look like the young lady and could now pass for her mother, gets a sick kind of pleasure from imagining men masturbating to that picture, and she speculates that I’M the one with dementia?!
LOL.
LOL.
LOL.
dobbs:
99.”Whatever, Suzie. You still act as if you expect people to actually believe that the sleezy blond in your avatar is really you.”
dobbs, that’s only the 99th most ridiculous thing Suzie has ever asked us to believe. At least Pflugrad is smokin’ hot and Contrasuzie is sometimes inspired to post proof of such! Pick your battles.
I never said Harry Reid would “prove his assertions” or anything remotely like that.
#84 Way to shut suzie down on that one, Kisten. See how she’s had to switch the focus?
Does anybody believe Reid will now reveal his lying source now that the NYT has discredited him? Dan said he would. I say he won’t.
imagining men masturbating to that picture
Nice of “Suns” to fill in the graphics. LOL. “From the mouths of grannies….”
I’m guessing “Suns” has experience with Dobbsie’s predicament. Dont’ be too hard on him, dear. Sometimes the alternatives just aren’t that pleasant. My only advice? He should go glossy on the paper next time.
John, sorry. You’re right. I’ll stop. I might have hurt her (his?) wittle feelings.
Suzie…”unfounded stories”??
If that wasnt the deepest richest pit of manure
spouted from you in oh, say , a week..
It might be pathetic..
Instead..you just keep raising your own liars bar.
There are a few on here who make assertions without
a whiff of documentation.
You , however, are the poster child (or grandma)
of this belly crawling club.
Umm, Dan??
“I never said Harry Reid would “prove his assertions” or anything remotely like that.”–Comment by Dan Casey — August 27, 2012 @ 10:28 pm
“Don’t you get it, will? Harry Reid WILL disclose his source, eventually. Or the source will come forward on his/her own. Or the allegations will be otherwise independently verified. Why is Reid holding back now? Because it prolongs the agony for Romney. This is a POLITICAL play, will. That is the whole point. I sincerely doubt Harry is lying. He’s a Mormon, too (and he’s a hell of lot less slippery that the Mittster).” –Comment by Dan Casey — August 3, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
Oops!
Just caught the Big Dog’s campaign commercial for the prez, good stuff. Wonder why the GOP won’t use W to pitch Romney?
Letterman; “The theme for the 2012 Republican National Convention. Fifty shades of white.”
Steve Nelson, terps, frank, leon, suzie, and myriad other flaming right wingers out there have their own set of “facts” about what a big spender Barack Obama is and how he has blown the federal budget to kingdom come with his “reckless spending”. This article, published in that bastion of “liberalism” FORBES MAGAZINE, explodes that myth and treats you to the real facts.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/?goback=%2Egde_1798981_member_147834962
The fact is, the deficit has increased under Obama. There are three main causes for that deficit increase.
1. The tre4mendous qmount of interest that the budget is saddled with due to the over 4 trillion dollaqrs in debt incurred by the Bush adsministration
2. The sharp decreases in revenue resultinf
g from the over 8 million jobs that were lost as a result of the bush depression.
3. Further exacerbation of the decrease in revenues as a result of the unnecessary tax cuts pushed by the Bush administration when we were on the way to surpluses and paying down the debt.
The fact is, to have dealt with these problems without deficits would have required a 50% reduction in defense spending and at least a 50% reduction in all other government spending, possibly even more.
Actual growth in federal spending for things other than the debt service incurred in the previoius 8 years is the lowest since Eisenhower in the 50′s and is vastly lower than the spending increases incurred under Presidents Reagan and GWB who had the highest percentages of increases in spending since Eisenhower. Those are the facts. The rest is just some of Steve Nelson’s oft repeated B.S.
@97 Suzie
I’m quite sure that the person that photo supposedly represents is “no longer in pristine condition” either.
That’s right, Matt. I said Harry Reid would disclose the source, eventually. That’s what I said, and that’s why I refuted Suzie, who said I had written something else. She acknowledged her error.
Face it, dave, the facts don’t matter to RWers.
If Obama hadn’t done the stimulus, the RWers here would be claiming that he hadn’t DONE ENOUGH, and they would be blaming the depression, or deepening recession, on him. It would be all his fault. Hell, some of them already blame stuff that Bush did on Obama.
They don’t care about facts. Facts are very inconvenient to their arguments. So they lie, and yell and lie and yell, and lie and yell. It’s the old Goebbels trick: tell a lie loudly, and enough times, and soon stupid people buy into it.
Suzie:
“78.I’ve even changed a stranger’s flat tire.
That disproves your story right there. A liberal wouldn’t know a floor jack from a box of Cracker Jacks.”
Where do you get this crap?! You once called me a “left wing poster fraud”, but I worked in a shop for years and not only used floor jacks, I also have rebuilt a few. So which is it?
dave:
“I’m quite sure that the person that photo supposedly represents is “no longer in pristine condition” either.”
Yeah dave, but unlike an old baseball glove or pickup truck, you can’t say that it gives it/her charcter.
#118 . . . tell a lie loudly, and enough times, and soon “stupid” people buy into it.
Dan,
YOU, gdad, Kristen, Warren, dave, Art Hillbilly, joe, etc. are all LIVING PROOF that theory works! As I have said before, How can you tell if a DIM is lying, because they are breathing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROO7xSTxfY
Steve Nelson, haven’t heard from you regarding the music. Check out this site:
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/
How bad could things get for the Republican Party? First, Hurricane Issac (note the Biblical name) forces the cancellation of the convention’s first day in Tampa.
Next, Missouri Rep. Todd Akin shows up in Tampa to meet with RWer activiists. This comes after he shot a metaphorical bird to Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan. They wanted him out of his Senate race and as far away from Florida as possible after his “legitimate rape” comments last week.
Finally, Charlie Crist, Florida’s former Republican governor, endorses Obama in the Tampa Bay Times. What an insult, just as all those GOPers are arriving in town. It starts out with praise for the president, then concludes with some body blows at those who pass themselves off as Republicans these days:
One week later: None of Dan’s doom and gloom forecasts amounted to anything:
1. The hurricane wasn’t as bad as forecast and the convention went on beautifully. Not derailed at all.
2. Todd Akin is ahead in Missouri again, and the state is back to light pink, leaning Romney.
3. Nobody gave a crap what liberal Charlie Crist said or did.
It ended up being a VERY good week. Romney padded his lead in all the polls.