American people just not warming to Mitt
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll says a lot about the challenges facing Mitt Romney in his effort to remove Barack Obama from the White House.
According to the poll, Romney faces a 17-point deficit among registered voters: 35 percent view him favorably, 52 percent view him unfavorably. The splits for Barack Obama are 53 percent favorable; 45 percent unfavorable.
Complicating matters even further, the more that people see Romney, the less they appear to like him. Back in September, just 31 percent of Americans viewed him unfavorably, which means it has jumped almost 20 points since then.
And as ABC News points out, “Romney’s rated favorably by 44 percent of Americans with incomes of $100,000 or more, 13 points better than his score among those with less-than middle incomes. Obama’s favorable ratings exceed 50 percent across income groups.”
In the history of the poll, only one major candidate has had higher unfavorable numbers than Romney. That was Hillary Clinton in April of 2008, with 54 percent of Americans viewing her unfavorably. At the time, 39 percent had a strongly unfavorable view of the former First Lady, which is no surprise since by that point she had been the target of an intense, 15-year demonization effort by conservatives.
(That’s useful to remember when conservatives now try to claim that they would have been much more supportive of a President Hillary Clinton than of a President Obama. No, they would not. In fact, part of Obama’s appeal to many liberals was the hope that he would not inspire the blind, angry antipathy directed at Hillary Clinton and before that at her husband. That hope proved vain.)
– Jay Bookman
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Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
12:22 am
When I look at Romney I wonder if the R’s got tired of puppets so they went ahead and built a robot.
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
12:24 am
Yeah DF, Scruggs was something else. There are those who do a genre that maybe we don’t appreciate as much as maybe we “should” but they stand out anyway. I’m not a basketball fan but Jordan and Kobe stand out. Tiger will ALWAYS define Golf along with Jack and Arnie. No one will EVER talk about NASCAR without mentioning Dale Earnhardt. Some folks just transcend their medium……..
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
12:26 am
Bernie: You want your deliverance nightmare? No problem………. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhnAZFR1po
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
12:29 am
Fred – yup, I’d add to that list Jimi Hendrix, Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi ……..
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
12:33 am
Dude, that ain’t the nightmare part, thank gawd
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
12:33 am
DF: Squeal like a pig lol?
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
12:34 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8
Bernie
March 29th, 2012
12:35 am
Oscar @11:57 pm – If you want my honest opinion, JAY is another very STRANGE DUDE too! I cannot truly, rely, believe or trust anything he says or writes. For Petes sake, he is from PENNSYLVANIA!
if you ever go there and spend a long period of time…you will surely laugh and think of my posted comments here and will agree. Jay seems to have QUAKER issues. Quackers are another strange relgious sect that started the State of Pennsylvania. I have travelled and visited cities and countries from all over the world and trust me Pennsylvania is one strange place. LOOK at Rick SANATORUIM, need I say any more?
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
12:40 am
Yeah that’s it. Sure was glad to see that arrow fly.
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
12:44 am
Yeah, I could understand if Santorum was a rep but he actually won a statewide election. Wow. He’s a walking talking culture war from the 50’s.
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
12:45 am
Well I better hit the hay, nite all.
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
12:46 am
L8r DF
Oscar
March 29th, 2012
12:50 am
Bernie
___________
Pennsylvania Dutch country is strange. I had two ancestors that came there from Germany and the ‘Netherlands in the 1730’s. One of their sons moved to NC and then down to Georgia by the early 1800’s in time to fight for the south in the civil war. But that aside, it’s strange and that goes for Pittsburg and that area. Different kind of people.
ld
March 29th, 2012
1:04 am
The Romney problem is that people never get a second chance to make a first impression.
The first most of the GOP new of him politically, he was a liberal Boston MS Democrat;
The first most Dems (aside from a few Olympics fans) heard of him, he was/is/was/is/was/is a conservative running for the GOP nomination for president that half of his own political party do not trust. And he’s rich and most Dems are not. So…
What’s to like?
Bernie
March 29th, 2012
1:05 am
Oscar @11:57 pm – African Americans were persecuted far worse than any MORMAN. we were SLAVES, brought here in CHAINS, our women and children RAPED, forced to work under the threat of daily and hourly physical violence, denied our religon and language, All members of the family were subject to forcefullyly beaten to a pulp on the slightest whim. forced to worked from can’t see in the morning till can’t see in the evening, without any compensation and little food scraps. Family Members sold like cattle and property. we cleaned and bath the Masters and their children so they can grow to do the same thing over again to the next generation.
African AMERICANS wereTreated INHUMANELY in America for over 200 plus years and still to this day our children are being hunted down and shot like an animal in cold blood. the child lying dead on the ground with a can of ice tea in one pocket and candy in the other. Then the Shooter is treated like he was the victim of a vicious crime and then his vitimization is cheered on by the MOST WATCHED News Channel of 300 million people in AMERICA!
Then everyone goes to church on SUNDAY and PRETEND to worship GOD and PRETEND to call themselves CHRISTIANS. Now, Ask Jay to tell you again how the MORMANS were persecuted? and how that made them strange? that is one of the many reasons why I cannot trust anything Jay says or writes. He is unable to comprehend my very existence! he does not know anything about African American people,culture,history and way of LIFE. Yet he has an editorial column in a city in the SOUTH of the most popular newspapers with more than a 70% African American population. Now, HOW STRANGE IS THAT?
Oscar
March 29th, 2012
1:56 am
Bernie
___________
The only thing I can think of to say is that it is a strange world we live in. I am constantly trying to learn and understand but it seems hopeless sometimes. Only thing to do is cling to faith that things will get better. And I think they will.
Bernie
March 29th, 2012
2:15 am
Mitt “WILLARD” Romney – “a pea-brained, pith-headed simpleton with too much testosterone and too little common sense, with zero tact, no diplomacy and a paramount grasp on the intricacies of world politics. A prize, good-for-nothing ignoramus” – A quote recently from PRAVDA
It appears the majority of the American People share the same sentiment……..
Bernie
March 29th, 2012
2:52 am
Willard is Out-Of-Touch, Out-Of-Date, and Unelectable
Another very Recent Mitt Romney quote -
One of [the] most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors. … They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign. ” – Very Strange HUMOR indeed The STRANGE ONE HAS.
This is the same man that says he will end Planned Parenthood, Americans will be on their own in Healthcare and Housing foreclosures, repeal ROE vs WADE, support denial of insurance coverage for Women’s birth control, Willing and ready to keep troops in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, send troops to SYRIA and willing and will plan to go to war with IRAN when elected.
Maybe this STRANGE one is the “666″ we all have been waiting for………America we are at a cross road
where sound and intelligent LEADERSHIP is a necessary requirement to navigate these stormy waters.
which one will you choose? ” The STRANGE ONE” or The PRESIDENT that captured and killed the LEADER after (10) years on the run, that slaughterd 3,000 of your countrymen MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN on that clear and sunny Monday morning, September 11, 2001.
You Promised to remember them and that day…Now its your time to honor the Commander -in- Chief
that delivered that promise of capture.
JamVet
March 29th, 2012
6:06 am
Check this out – the corporal’s hero looking suspicious as hell…
http://tinyurl.com/6uowzbh
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
6:33 am
Jay hates Mitt
Pravada loves Obozo
Pravada = Jay
Enough said.
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
6:35 am
“The PRESIDENT that captured and killed the LEADER after (10) years…”
…and to think that the media had the internal fortitude to report that it was Seal Team 6 that actually did this.
Thanks for the clarification.
Normal, Plain and Simple
March 29th, 2012
6:49 am
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
6:35 am
Bless your heart.
President Obama was the ONLY one who said “make it so”.
If Seal Team 6 had missed, you’d be yelling a stink to high Heaven, blaming the President like the Republicans did to President Carter for his aborted rescue of the Iran hostages. Open your eyes, son…he may not be great, but President Obama is the best we have to choose from. He will win in November.
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
6:59 am
Carter was a perhaps the worst president all-time regardless of the Iranian epsidoe:
21% Inflation
Gave away the Panama Canal
Created the wonderful Dept of Energy
Created the wonderful Dept of Education
etc.
etc.
Even the libs turned on the idiot.
Progressive Humanist
March 29th, 2012
7:10 am
Yesterday on the radio Romney told what he called a “funny” Wisconsin story about how his father closed an auto factory in Michigan, laid off the workers, and then moved the plant to Wisconsin. The “funny” part is that the people of Michigan were upset about it and his father didn’t want to remind them of it because he was running for office in Michigan. This is why his unfavorability numbers continue to grow and why he has no shot in November; he’s completely out of touch and his own track record is one of putting employees out of work and shipping jobs overseas.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:17 am
I’ll translate:
etc.
etc.
is our resident sessionist’s way of saying “I actually have nothing to offer but my irrational hate for a decent man and an underrated President.”
Oh, and that America-hatin’ liberal John Wayne had a few choice words for people like you who cried about “giving away the Panama canal.” Shall I quote? Why not…
In a letter to Mr. Reagan dated Nov. 11, 1977, a copy of which was sent to Mr. Carter, the actor accused Mr. Reagan of spreading untruths about the Panama Canal Treaty in letters to his supporters.
”Now I have taken your letter, and I’ll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people,” Mr. Wayne told Mr. Reagan. ”If you continue these erroneous remarks, someone will publicize your letter to prove that you are not as thorough in your reviewing of this treaty as you say or are damned obtuse when it comes to reading the English language.”
He signed the letter ”Duke” and enclosed with it a five-page rebuttal – written on the stationery of the Republican National Committee – of Mr. Reagan’s stand on the canal issue.
Mr. Wayne wrote Mr. Carter in support of his stand on the treaty and the President wrote back in gratitude, saying, ”Your letter is great – tough and factual.”
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
7:22 am
Milton Man
The Devil wears Pravada
Jay = Meryl Streep
More than enough said.
nelson howard
March 29th, 2012
7:24 am
Mitt is a great fella and will make the finest president since George Washington and he is even more honest than George.
massachusetts refugee thug
March 29th, 2012
7:26 am
sort of off topic, but…if (when) mittens wins the nomination, won’t santorum and the newtster have to shake up their own etch-a-sketch to support him?
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:27 am
conservatives now try to claim that they would have been much more supportive of a President Hillary Clinton than of a President Obama
Yeah, that’s always makes me laugh. Had Hillary won, we’d surely be hearing now about how foolish we voters were not to have chosen that tall, dark, handsome gentleman from Chicago.
Oh, and I’ll say it again–casual misogyny is FAR more socially acceptable than casual racism in America in the early 21st century. Given this truth, one can only imagine the sorts of daily screeching about a President Hillary from the right wing noise machine, and their corporate media enablers. I’m certain it’d be even worse than the irrational crap tossed Obama’s way, hard as that is to imagine.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:28 am
if (when) mittens wins the nomination, won’t santorum and the newtster have to shake up their own etch-a-sketch to support him?
Well yeah. And we’ll have great merriment in tossing those cheap shots they took, right back at Newt and Frothy. “Hey, that etch-a-sketch of yours comes in real handy, don’t it?”
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:30 am
Mitt is a great fella and will make the finest president since George Washington and he is even more honest than George.
Mitt Romney is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
Mick
March 29th, 2012
7:35 am
jamvet – nice hoodie pic!
I like the mittsiah, just not as president. Bush said he wanted bin laden dead or alive; obama made it happen using his aces – seal team 6…thank you mr. president for keeping us safe…
Bud Wiser
March 29th, 2012
7:44 am
Apparently Mitt is not all “America is not warming…” to.
Latest Rasmussen Poll show that 62% of ALL Americans think, from what they have seen (although they didn’t have to pass it before they saw it) think that Obamacare IS unconstitutional, as opposed to 30% who do not.
Oh, I’ll ‘translate’…….. almost two out of every three Americansbelieve it is unconstitutional. Those percentages alone, if they demostrate absolutely nothing else, show exactly how out of touch the Democrat congress of 2008 was, and how much more so today, defending it against the odds.
And it is not a game.
It is not a ‘noble gesture’. In most circles, to be noble is to be, well, legal and constitutional, which this debacle is most certainly not.
And how about the performance of the Solicitor General before SCOTUS yesterday? Between the ‘er’s’ and ‘uhs’, it sounds like someone else is also heavily in need of a teleprompter. And the equally shameful performance by the apparently senile and addle-brained dedicated liberal Justice Ginsburg? She is the poster hag for changing the life-long appointment to the SCOTUS, literally trying to tell the SG that “I think what you should have said is…….”,or “I think you meant to say…”.
Oh well, its a no-doubter that she’ll never make it through the term of our next President, Mitt Romney, and another true conservative and constitutionalist judge will be appointed and confirmed by a newly conservative Senate and House.
Kagan?
Even the most hard core left knows she is a political appointee for her duties under Obama, serving as a previous Solicitor General herself, curiously enough during the crafting and passing of Obamacare, in which she played a major role.
The fact that this so-called ‘judge’ has not recused herself for that very reason shows two things: 1. she is no more than a left wing political hack that no more should have been on the SC any more than, say, James Carville; and 2. This disgrace of a judge and a woman has no real understanding of judicial process, and has no busines being on the SC, putting political ideology well ahead of constitutional legality, and her own hack opinion above the law.
Little wonder that the Obama administration and its ever expanding bureaucracy are the laughing stock of the world, and are so easily manipulated by the Chinese. So small minded. So very very small.
Mick
March 29th, 2012
7:49 am
**laughing stock of the world, and are so easily manipulated by the Chinese**
I believe the previous administration holds that title, remember america circa september, 2008?
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:50 am
I like the mittsiah, just not as president.
I suspect I’d find him perfectly likeable as well, in a way I never would find Newt or Frothy.
I didn’t read all the comments from last night so maybe someone’s covered this, but the whole notion of likability is one that I used to find repugnant–mostly, I suspect, because I was told time and again how “likable” Americans found W. Bush, and he always struck me as kind of creepy, about the last guy I’d want to have a beer with (even though neither of us actually drinks beer these days, but that’s another post.)
But beyond that, it always bristles that anyone, let alone a significant percentage of real-life voters, would base their vote on who they felt a closer emotional bond. It’s so stupid on so many levels, the most obvious being that a) you don’t actually KNOW the guy/gal, how can you have a bond? and b) personal feelings should have nothing to do with who you regard to be best suited for the job–have you never actually hired anyone? do you really give the work to someone you just like, rather than someone who is clearly better qualified?
But, people are complicated, and probably a third or so of the people who vote in a general election do so because they feel they ought to, not because they want to, and oh yeah, billions of dollars are spent buffing up the public images of these political superstars, so what should I expect? getting angry about this fact of life makes about as much sense as shoveling sewage against the tide with a pitchfork.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
7:51 am
Bud has it ON for Miss Elena.
Too funny.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:51 am
Rasmussen Poll show that 62% of ALL Americans think
They get bitter, and they cling to guns, and religion, and Rassmussen issue polling.
Becky
March 29th, 2012
7:59 am
I’m really curious who Mittens is going to choose as his vp candidate.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
7:59 am
Granny, which of the posters to this particular discussion page was our Bud?
Tom(Independent-Viet Vet)
March 29th, 2012
7:59 am
Looks like Jay is not warming to Mitt, so sad!!
Mick
March 29th, 2012
8:01 am
stands
Absolutely agree, the previous guy just reminded me of that kid down the street that was given everything and just thought thats the way life is. Hollow man of little substance, a complete disaster that most people knew would be the reality by the end of his term…
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:02 am
Stands: The Duke’s first wife was from Panama & his was good buddies with the President of the country.
Even the peanut farmers best buddy thought this was a give-away
I hope we never hear the word Panama again,” said Jody Powell, Jimmy Carter’s trusted aide. Supposedly this sentiment was shared by the “Deacon” the president himself. While sitting in his little study next to the Oval Office, listening to a Wagnerian opera, pondering communiqués from Tehran and Panama City Carter must have spent a lot of time wondering why one man he frequently called his “great friend,” the shah of lran, had lied to him, and why his “friend Omar Torrijos” was trying to blackmail him politically
Carter’s desire to forget Panama is understandable. As a presidential candidate, he said he would never lie to us. In regard to Panama, the question is whether he ever told us the truth.
To this day much of the real story about the two canal treaties (the first is meant to allow gradual Panamanian “control of the zone” through 1999; the second will completely relinquish it all to Panama in the year 2000) has been obfuscated by sophisticated propaganda.
In March 1978 the canal supporters gathered at the White House, opened bottles of champagne, cheered and patted each other on the back, and Jimmy let loose a four-square Baptist smile that signaled the salvation of his presidency The final count was in: the Senate, by one vote, endorsed the canal deal. They raised their glasses and toasted Panama: their first “foreign policy victory.”
Of course, no one is yet quite sure what, in fact, the Senate vote really meant: whether an international agreement, of doubtful legality distorted by propaganda, political sloganeering, special-interest lobbying, presidential arm twisting, corruption, deception, and cover-up signaled the salvation of the Carter presidency or a continuation of dirty politics and executive deception.
But the champagne toasts were just the wishful thoughts of born-again politicians who hope to fool all the people some of the time and pray to succeed all the time. Panama has now returned to haunt the man who staked his political career on the issue.
On June 16, 1978, Carter visited Panama and exchanged diplomatic documents giving that nation control of the canal. Carter did this despite the Senate’s having passed the Brooke Amendment, which said that any exchange of documents should not be effective earlier than March 31, 1979, and treaties should not enter into force prior to October 1,1979. Under international law the president’s actions create a de jure situation that makes the symbolic exchange binding. Many legal experts feel that by symbolically transferring U.S. property to Panama, Carter violated the Constitution of the United States. Under Article IV Section 3, Clause 2, Congress has exclusive power to dispose of federal property and territory.
Over the past year the House of Representatives has blocked all legislation and funds needed to implement the treaties. Members of the president’s own political party are turning against him. In January of this year Carter had told John Murphy a Democrat from New York and chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, to take care of the problem. At the time Murphy’s committee was about to debate proposals for funding the canal deal approved by the Senate because the House of Representatives has final approval on appropriations. The mood in the House was strongly anti-Carter on the issue, and Murphy was worried. Mail to members of Congress was still running 70 percent against the Panama treaties. Debate was still raging over the president’s disposing of federal property without congressional approval. So Murphy went to the White House for lunch with Carter carrying proposals and drafts of legislation reflecting opposition views as well as compromise agreements. After a short prayer and some political gossiping, Murphy began explaining the mood of the Congress on the Panama issue. He started to hand some of the revised legislation to the president. Carter waved it away “I don’t care about these proposals,” he told Murphy “Just get the legislation passed.”
But shortly after the lunch, Rep. John Dingell, expressing the mood of his fellow Democrats, told Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher: “We in the House are tired of you people in the State Department. If you expect me to vote for this travesty you’re sorely in error.” Two months later, in April of this year the Congress dealt the president another setback by solidly rejecting $14 million in aid to Panama.
To be sure, there have been, and will be, winners and losers in the canal debate, as assuredly as Teddy Roosevelt and his big-stick diplomacy wrested the Panamanian isthmus from Colombian control in 1903. But they will not be the winners and losers that the orators and pundits suggested.
Despite the fact that the stage managers of the morality play pitted the proud American citizen against the oppressed Yanqui-go-home Latino, neither the American taxpayer nor the Panamanian citizen is much of a winner. And the real story of the Panama Canal agreement of 1978 suggests that the treaties were not a negotiated revolution in United States policy toward Latin America so much as they were the refinement of that policy – a policy created by and for the traditionally narrow interests that have always benefited by the exploitation and manipulation, whether at home or abroad, of the average citizen, the “outsiders,” as Jimmy Carter used to call them.
What perhaps is most curious about the story is that, for all its rhetoric, the Carter administration from the beginning allied itself with the “insiders”- the bankers and entrepreneurs and Wall Street power brokers. And the story of the canal treaties becomes an enlightening glimpse at the machinations of insider politics orchestrated by the man who claimed to “owe special interests nothing,” to “owe the people everything,” and who promised “to keep it that way.” Panama – the word that the Carter administration would just as soon forget – reveals the hollowness of Carter’s declaration about who his creditors are and the emptiness of his promise not to kowtow to special interests.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
8:02 am
stands
wild guess….all of ‘em?
Donovan
March 29th, 2012
8:02 am
Gee,let’s see…a poll taken by the left leaning organizations of ABC/Washington Post. Gosh, what a surprise!
Yeah, we are really biting on this one, Jay.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:04 am
I’m really curious who Mittens is going to choose as his vp candidate.
NPR’s Morning Edition sure had me thinking it’d be Susana Martinez, but who knows.
Some creepy radical clerics will have veto over whoever he chooses, that’s all I know for sure.
Mick
March 29th, 2012
8:05 am
This 2012, we are way removed from carter, reagan, bush1 and clinton. Iran was lost not by carter, but by the blowback from the cia coup in the 50’s. Have we learned from that?
Becky
March 29th, 2012
8:05 am
Milton Man-From whom did you swipe the dissertation on the Panama Canal? We know YOU didn’t write that.
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:06 am
Carter = decent man as defined by the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, Chavez & Stands
Underrated President = as defined by the residents of Plains (all 800 of them) + Stands
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:07 am
a poll taken by the left leaning organizations of ABC/Washington Post
Donavon, feel free to go look up their polling methodology and pick it apart. I’ll wait.
By the way, Real Clear Politics, in their compendium of nationwide head-to-head matchups, has Mitt doing poorly. So I guess that makes them “left leaning” too, yes?
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:09 am
Becky, here’s where he swiped it.
(I’m sure he reads it for the ARTICLES…)
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:09 am
It was interesting watching Donald Trump last night on FOX talking about Obamacare. By his own admission, IF Obamacare is repealed, and the uncertainty surrounding it goes away, the economy could start a rapid recovery which would work strongly in favor of Obama getting re-elected for another 4 years. That’s gotta be the ultimate Catch 22 for the GOP faithful.
Mick
March 29th, 2012
8:09 am
Honestly, didn’t care much for carter as president, I voted for reagan. The 444 days of the hostage crisis took its toll. I voted for reagan again in 84 but the iran-contra boondoogle took some of the shine off of uncle ron…
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:10 am
Hey Milton–how’s that SEE-sesshun biness going with all your fellow bigot/ingrates?
Still think you’re going to convince a supermajority of GA legislators to let you get away with it?
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:10 am
Becky – a modern invention called Google. Try it some time.
Let me try to understand your logic:
If poster A who is a like minded liberal, uses an unoriginal piece to make an argument = brilliant; great prose
Poster B – who makes a counter-point in said like manner = swiping???
Love it.
Becky
March 29th, 2012
8:12 am
Milton Man-most learned people know to quote their sources otherwise it appears unseemly or in my world stolen.
Becky
March 29th, 2012
8:13 am
Stands-sorry, I couldn’t open the “source”
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:13 am
I voted for reagan.
I *always* saw him as a feeble-minded, irresponsible buffoon. During the 80s, the more I learned about him, the less I liked.
(It took his son to convince me that maybe he wasn’t a horrible person once you got to know him.)
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:14 am
“Hey Milton–how’s that SEE-sesshun biness going with all your fellow bigot/ingrates?
Still think you’re going to convince a supermajority of GA legislators to let you get away with it?”
Stands this was cute this first ten times you posted your juvenile name calling tactics; not so cute now that this has become a weekly habit of yours.
Your definition – some of the most financial successful, low crime, good school areas in the state is full of ingrates???
What does that say about your area pal???
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
8:16 am
MiltonMan
Plagerizer!
Scofflaw!
From Penthouse no less!
Nudie News?
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:16 am
Stnads:
Carter = decent man & underrated
Reagan = buffoon
Nice!
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:18 am
Granny, I figure it is one place where you will not appear & hey one of the few printed places remaining where both left-wing & right-wing nuts are kept at a minumun.
Becky
March 29th, 2012
8:20 am
MiltonMan-you have been busted!!! LOL
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:21 am
Becky, my page opened some guy’s cheesy web-reprint of an anti-Carter screed from 1979 published in Penthouse Magazine.
It was a cheap shot, but, well, this is MiltonMan we’re directing it toward, so it’s permissible.
Gale
March 29th, 2012
8:21 am
It will be an interesting summer. Once the Rep candidate is cast in brass and there are only the two to compare, we will likely see another facet of Romney. The question of who would I feel comfortable with –have a beer with– is crazy. Not one person at that level is someone I would feel comfortable with. I doubt we have much at all in common.
Mick
March 29th, 2012
8:24 am
stands
I was one of the reagan democrats, I voted for carter in 76 but like most americans, the hostage crisis just was an embarassment. I voted for bush1 also, dukakis just didn’t work for me either. I couldn’t stand bush jr. and never thought people would choose him over gore. Biggest mistake ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
8:24 am
What are copyright laws?
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See MiltonMan – This is how it’s done.
Remember horizontal stripes are not flattering…
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:25 am
not so cute now that this has become a weekly habit of yours.
I think I’ve called you and yours a “ingrates” perhaps three times now, but, whatever. It’s factual.
Milton was bailed out of financial disaster years ago, and their way of saying “thanks” is to now cut themselves loose. Allowing them to do this would set a horrible precedent, and you can bet your ass that EVERY dumbass legislator who is thinking about allowing you to break away is going to hear about it.
Let’s get real. If we were to permit every chunk of some county that happened to be doing better than the other, say, 2/3s of that same county to declare independence, it’d be chaos.
There’s nothing special about your situation, save for the level of grotesque historical ingratitude involved this time around.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
8:26 am
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:18 am
Granny, I figure it is one place where you will not appear & hey one of the few printed places remaining where both left-wing & right-wing nuts are kept at a minumun.
Translation: I read Penthouse for the articles
tee hee hee
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:27 am
SFD – “Becky, my page opened some guy’s cheesy web-reprint of an anti-Carter screed from 1979 published in Penthouse Magazine.”
So MiltonMan has to pull crap from 1979 to make a point in 2012? Hey Milton, how about some current dialogue. Trumps ascertion that repealing Obamacare may actually help Obama get re-elected for instance?
Becky
March 29th, 2012
8:28 am
Butch Cassidy-I must give you props for having the stomach to watch Fox News. Thanks for the report!
GT
March 29th, 2012
8:29 am
The Republicans keep draining water out of a swallow pool. They tried to enlarge that pool by including the Catholic, and supporting no public funds for birth control. 90 something percent of the women eligible to be pregnant in the U.S. Catholic population use birth control. I’m sure in their treatment of Mormons ,with Romney, they have manage to undermine the support of that church too. They ran a black guy who set back race relations 10 years with his stereotype, sexual appetite, and that was the best that party could find to represent their open mindedness. I almost think they may have done Cain on purpose to scare the fence sitters on Obama, but they managed to damage the party even more. Now Obama has a chance to carry Georgia, because the minority populations are feeling threaten. I see a landslide peeking at just the right time for O. What I don’t see is how the Republican Party rebuilds, and I see huge damage to Christian organizations that have been part of this. As the Democrats become more in power you may see traditional churches coming back into favor. You can’t taint the truth for political advantage and then lose. Some of those contemporary churches of multithousands may be lonely places in a year or so.
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:31 am
Butch, yet you have no issue with a letter from the 70s defending Carter?
Your lunacy is exemplary chief!
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:32 am
Becky – “I must give you props for having the stomach to watch Fox News. Thanks for the report!”
LOL, thanks Becky. I’m just following the teachings of Sun Tzu ; “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
Georgia on my mind...
March 29th, 2012
8:33 am
GT
March 29th, 2012
8:29 am
Best blog of the day!!
tireofit
March 29th, 2012
8:33 am
If Mitten’s get elected we can only hope the Mayan’s where right.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:34 am
MiltonMan – Your lunacy is exemplary chief!”
Says the man who quotes Penthouse 1979.
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:34 am
“Now Obama has a chance to carry Georgia, because the minority populations are feeling threaten.”
Yes, and Newtie has a chance winning the GOP nomination. Minorities showed up in record numbers at the poll in 08 and he still did not win Georgia.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:35 am
tireofit – “If Mitten’s get elected we can only hope the Mayan’s where right.”
Actually, if Romney gets elected, it will PROVE the Mayans were right.
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
8:36 am
“MiltonMan – Your lunacy is exemplary chief!”
Says the man who quotes Penthouse 1979″
Says the man who keeps his lip-sticked copy of the 1977 letter & sleeps with it under his pillow.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:38 am
copy of the 1977 letter
erm, Milton? Care to recall who brought up the Panama Frickin’ Canal in the first place?
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:39 am
MiltonMan – “Says the man who keeps his lip-sticked copy of the 1977 letter & sleeps with it under his pillow.”
Out of my 5 posts, two of which were in relation to Trumps interview last night on FOX, one quoting the Art of War, and two referring to your Penthouse sources, where do you get the “lip sticked copy” from?
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
8:41 am
MiltonMan
March 29th, 2012
6:33 am
Jay hates Mitt
Pravada loves Obozo
Pravada = Jay
Enough said.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What is Pravada? Intelligence FAIL.
Enough said.
http://www.imagepoop.com/image/1889/I-See-Stupid-People.html
poison pen
March 29th, 2012
8:42 am
Obamas budget was voted down, 414 to 0. Not one single Democrat voted for it. His own kind can’t stand him.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:43 am
They ran a black guy who set back race relations 10 years with his stereotype, sexual appetite, and that was the best that party could find to represent their open mindedness.
A modest proposal, and I’m not picking on GT here specifically, but…
Could we all — right, left, authoritarian, libertarian — agree to retire the “setting back [fill in the blank] relations [fill in the number] years” maxim?
Aside from its overuse, it implies that one boneheaded representative from some group magically affects majority opinions about that group for eons, and experience shows that really isn’t the case—people’s attention spans just aren’t wired that way.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:43 am
poison pen – “His own kind can’t stand him.”
I know, kind of like the GOP and Romney.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 29th, 2012
8:44 am
Fred
but I told him the Devil wears “pravada”
and that makes Jay = Meryl Streep
yet, he won’t even acknowledge it.
Talking Head
March 29th, 2012
8:45 am
This is a very likely scenerio to place for the rest of this year:
SCOTUS strikes down ObamaCare.
Gas prices will continue to rise.
Marco Rubio will join Mitt as his VP.
Mitt and Rubio win in Nov.
Joseph
March 29th, 2012
8:45 am
On the heels of a 414-0 budget defeat do you honestly think people are warming to Obama? Say what you will about this poll but Obama doesn’t even crack 50% in Gallop or Rasmussen for job approval. That is horrible for a sitting President. Think about when the ads when they begin to run and how Republicans will ask the folks are they better off now than they were four years ago. Many will certainly say no especially with Obama’s dismal record of record spending and little to show for it. Gas prices have more than doubled and he has absolutely no plan whatsoever except giving so called green companies millions to fail. I know the dems are desperate to cover for their failed leader but he being reelected defies logic….
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:46 am
I haven’t lived in Atlanta since 2001, But isn’t Milton just a little douchy side note between Roswell and Alpharetta?
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:47 am
His own kind can’t stand him.
Can someone more patient, and more capable of using simple, small words effectively, than I am, explain the legislative process to our poison pen?
Thanks.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:49 am
Joseph – Think about when the ads when they begin to run and how Republicans will ask the folks are they better off now than they were four years ago.”
You mean compared to this 4 years ago?:
1. Global Financial Crisis
It’s being called the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And like the Great Depression, the 2008 version began in the United States, but soon spread around the world.
Beginning with the subprime mortgage crisis of September, the situation soon escalated with the bankruptcy of the large investment bank Lehman Brothers. More banks failed. World stock markets plunged. Panic selling ensued. Companies collapsed or laid off workers — more than 500,000 jobs were lost in the United States in November alone.
The former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, put the unfolding drama into perspective in September when he called it a “once-in-a-century type of financial crisis.”
Iceland’s banking system collapsed in October, forcing it to ask for help from the International Monetary Fund. Other countries, such as Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Pakistan, also sought assistance from the IMF.
Leaders from 20 of the world’s rich and developing economies met in Washington in mid-November to discuss a unified response. Calls were made for a dramatic overhaul of the world’s financial architecture.
There are now fears for the collapse of the U.S. auto industry, one of the backbones of American industry.
The Fed’s key interest rate stands practically at zero, effectively eliminating it as a tool of monetary policy.
In the United States alone, it’s estimated that the government’s bailout effort has cost $8.5 trillion…and counting, as President Obama plans to enact his own rescue plan once he takes office on January 20.
Becky
March 29th, 2012
8:50 am
Now Butch-Milton is a quaint little town. Don’t go judging the area by one misguided fool.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:50 am
But isn’t Milton just a little douchy side note between Roswell and Alpharetta?
That section of the county has been crying big ol’ tears for years about how them
ni*CLANG*speople in southern fulton are “using them as an ATM.”They’re fed this crap from local right wing pundits, who are forever on the lookout for ways to screw working class people in more urbanized settings.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:51 am
And, like Becky, I actually LIKE Milton and its environs. I know lots of people from around there who aren’t the least bit ungrateful or douche-y.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:52 am
Oh and Joseph, you’ll note that this figure pre-dates Obama taking office. Just FYI:
In the United States alone, it’s estimated that the government’s bailout effort has cost $8.5 trillion…
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
8:52 am
anyway, gotta leave this time-suck. Later, gators, maybe when Jay has something new for us.
RB from Gwinnett
March 29th, 2012
8:53 am
Geez… More of Jays endless polls telling us how the whole planet hates republican candidates and loves Obama as is if we should too.
Notice he never gives any reason why anybody loves Obama?…
Fred ™
March 29th, 2012
8:54 am
Granny, I saw that. I think it went over his head as well.
timbo
March 29th, 2012
8:54 am
Obama’s 2 accomplishments in his 4 years were stimulus and health care. His stimulus package was a complete failure, and his health care package is about to get thrown out by the SCOTUS. Gas prices are running out of control, high unemployment for 4 years, and still no signs of a recovering economy. But yet Jay does his opinion piece on how unpopular Mitt Romney is using polling data from the left wing media? You guys are getting desperate. I can’t wait to see your articles in October.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
8:56 am
Timbo – “Gas prices are running out of control, high unemployment for 4 years, and still no signs of a recovering economy.”
I guess timbo misses the good old days as well:
Beginning with the subprime mortgage crisis of September, the situation soon escalated with the bankruptcy of the large investment bank Lehman Brothers. More banks failed. World stock markets plunged. Panic selling ensued. Companies collapsed or laid off workers — more than 500,000 jobs were lost in the United States in November alone.
The former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, put the unfolding drama into perspective in September when he called it a “once-in-a-century type of financial crisis.”
Iceland’s banking system collapsed in October, forcing it to ask for help from the International Monetary Fund. Other countries, such as Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Pakistan, also sought assistance from the IMF.
Leaders from 20 of the world’s rich and developing economies met in Washington in mid-November to discuss a unified response. Calls were made for a dramatic overhaul of the world’s financial architecture.
There are now fears for the collapse of the U.S. auto industry, one of the backbones of American industry.
The Fed’s key interest rate stands practically at zero, effectively eliminating it as a tool of monetary policy.
In the United States alone, it’s estimated that the government’s bailout effort has cost $8.5 trillion…and counting, as President Obama plans to enact his own rescue plan once he takes office on January 20.