Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?
With unemployment still over 8 percent, household income continuing to fall and trillion-dollar deficits stretching out as far as the eye can see, the 2012 presidential race shouldn’t even be close. In fact, economic-based political models suggest that Mitt Romney ought to be strolling to an easy victory.
And yet Romney is losing. When your campaign pollster is forced to release an “OK, Nobody Panic!” memo, as Neil Newhouse did today, it’s never a good sign.
The same is true of the race to control the U.S. Senate. Of the 33 seats being contested this year, only 10 are held by the Republicans. That means that going into this election cycle, the GOP had 23 chances to pick up the four additional seats they need to claim a Senate majority. Given the public’s deep disenchantment with Congress and the willingness of wealthy conservatives to pump big money into those races, the GOP had every reason to be confident that Mitch McConnell would replace Harry Reid as Senate majority leader come January.
And yet that dream may also be slipping away.
It’s important to note that Election Day is still 57 days away, and things could change. But at this point, Romney and his fellow Republicans are falling well short of what history and logic suggest they should be able to achieve. That fact takes on still more relevance when you consider that going all the way back to 1992, the Republicans have won a plurality of the national presidential vote exactly once. That once-in-20-years moment came in 2004, when George W. Bush rode the post-9/11 wave of patriotic fervor to a very narrow victory over John Kerry.
The modern conservative enterprise is built around the certainty that they represent the mainstream, and that their philosophy and policies are the philosophy and policies of all true Americans. But there has to be a reason why, despite all the immense natural advantages that they enjoy this election cycle, they are in serious danger of falling short.
If they don’t rebound and win under these economic conditions, against this opponent, what would that tell you? To many conservatives, it would tell you that the media are liberal, voters are stupid, Romney’s a bum or the sun got in their eyes. It must never be interpreted as the fault of conservatives themselves, or as an honest conclusion by voters that as tough as things are, problems such as unemployment and the deficit would probably be worse under the leadership and policies offered by the modern Republican Party.
– Jay Bookman
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Ewrin's cat
September 10th, 2012
12:07 pm
I didn’t think anyone was winning or losing until the voting starts…
Pats by 3
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:08 pm
I think it’s too close to call to be sure….any number of variables can affect polls but voter turnout all that matters IMO
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:11 pm
Oh and BTW, I don’t think the general public who doesn’t spend more that a few minutes a month thinking about this stuff, simply see both as pretty much the same…same gigantic lies and impossible promises, an incumbent who’s best skill is public speaking which doesn’t equate to leadership or sellable ideas…a challenger who has a hard time planting his feet due to the polarized cash…..
I think most are sick and tired of a government who has our interests subordinated to themselves and special interests…
saywhat?
September 10th, 2012
12:14 pm
“Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?”
________________________________________________________
Perhaps we finally have proof that there is a God and he does love us?
Martin the Calvinist
September 10th, 2012
12:16 pm
Jay, I’ll agree that Romney should be winning, if you are right, then the America that John Kennedy believed in is gone. You can say I’m engaging in hyperbole all you want, but I think it’s bad if the majority of Americans want to control how much money a person makes by taxing him more so there can be “shared prosperity.” I honestly believe that Repubs have responsibility how the gov’t helps manage an economy but for you to say the Democrats have no fault in it, you are a blind partisan, I understand that you lean left Jay…..
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
September 10th, 2012
12:17 pm
He isn’t winning because most see him for what he is…a cheap political wh0re who will assume any position in order to get elected. He has no morals, no character, and no backbone. He is so disconnected from the average working American that he has nothing to relate to. Is this the kind of man you would hire to run your country and life?
JamVet
September 10th, 2012
12:20 pm
Because Flip is the new version of Michael Dukakis.
All he needs is an Army helmet three sizes too big…
Jay
September 10th, 2012
12:21 pm
Adam, that has become spam at this point. No more.
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:21 pm
To many conservatives, it would tell you that the media are liberal, voters are stupid, Romney’s a bum or the sun got in their eyes
Excuses to the very end. Mandates when they lose, mandates when they win. Mandates if their love life needs help. Mandates if a cold is coming on. Mandates if they write a pledge. Mandates if they ignore their pledge.
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:22 pm
Jay: Alright. I’ll just put it a different way, and shorter. Way shorter.
Bottom line is that the pay gap exists NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT THE DATA.
No matter what, even with the excuses given by Erwin. There’s still a pay gap.
b-troll
September 10th, 2012
12:23 pm
possibly bad polling, which is an inexact science of course.
who knows
we’ll decide after election day
jeffrey
September 10th, 2012
12:23 pm
Romney is a terrible candidate all of the candidates in the republican primary were terrible too. And their congressional candidates are legitimately terrible.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
September 10th, 2012
12:25 pm
I think most Americans can tell when someone is full of sh$$.
Martin the Calvinist
September 10th, 2012
12:25 pm
Watch the video, I’m surprised by the beliefs of the Democratic party, if Jay is right and this is the majority thinking, Republicans will never win again…..
http://www.examiner.com/article/peter-schiff-to-democrats-let-s-ban-limit-corporate-profits
Ewrin's cat
September 10th, 2012
12:26 pm
Adam…I gave reasons…you give excuses
So there’s a pay gap….so what??
there are legitimate reasons for them
b-troll
September 10th, 2012
12:27 pm
answer: the superficial “beer test”
Peadawg
September 10th, 2012
12:27 pm
“Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t.”
B/c he’s an out-of-touch 1-percenter who is only worried about himself and his fellow 1-percenters.
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:27 pm
I’ve offended blog god due to spam, Erwin. But the fact remains that the data you suggest hasn’t been accounted for, has in fact been accounted for in analysis, and is not making the pay gap 0.
Maybe I used the wrong word, regressive analysis, or maybe I used it correctly and didn’t realize it. But the analysis shows that even WITH those variables adjusted for – degree for degree, hourly pay by hourly pay, experience level by experience level – there is still a pay gap.
But don’t stop believin. Hold on to that feelin. Blog god insists I cannot persist anyway so I guess I’m done.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:27 pm
MARTIN,
Funny thing about JFK..he’s best know for “ask not what your country can do for you……” Seems President Trillions and the DEMS want voter blocks to ask the opposite…what can you do for me…
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:29 pm
there are legitimate reasons for them
Every reason you have given has been accounted for and there still remains a pay gap. You can’t explain that.
Policy should be about how we make that pay gap zero, not about blowing it off as “legitimate.” Seriously. That word has sting now.
HDB
September 10th, 2012
12:29 pm
If you want to understand why Romney isn’t winning:
1) Conservatives GOT us into this fiscal mess
2) Romney is a chameleon….and people want to see someone REAL…not a changeling!
3) Romney is rehashed Bush policies….and how many want to remember those years…..
4) History has shown that Republicans are NOT the most effective stewards of the national fiscal policy
5) Romney and the GOP are fomenting racial politics….a continuation of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”….and it’s not working
6) Many understand reality….knowing that Obama was dealt a bad hand by the Bush Administration and see the progess the nation is making out of the fiscal abyss
7) Romney and the GOP are further dividing the nation into segmented constituencies, i.e., women, Hispanics, et. al., and creating policies designed to further invoke separation of the populace….and people are seeing this for what it is…..
8.) Romney’s personality is shown to be less-than-emphatetic….and moreso pathetic…..
9) Romney’s disconnect with the preponderance of the American public
10) For some….dogs on the roof of a moving car doesn’t get it…
That’s just the beginning………………
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:29 pm
ADAM,
Women get screwed in the workplace, in pro choice debates etcetera..same as gays get unfair treatment….I did however read that the number of households where woman is prime breadwinner are rising geometrically…not sure what that says but it’s positive i think..
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:30 pm
Ok, done. Have the last word if you want Erwin.
ken
September 10th, 2012
12:30 pm
You mean more people like Obama than the election in 2010. Only in your dreams. It will be just like the 2010 elections, a referendum of Obama. Dog catcher, watch out.
Jack
September 10th, 2012
12:31 pm
Romney IS winning unless you read or listen to the liberal media. None of the small business owners I’ve talked will vote for Obama and they have good reason not to; they know the truth about Obamacare and they want to stay in business.
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:31 pm
Stevie Ray: Definitely a positive direction there. I think that may be a separate topic, breadwinners. But I am not sure and I don’t want to push too hard on this subject now that I am considered spamming on it.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 10th, 2012
12:31 pm
Romney 2012 = Kerry 2004.
Flip-flopping opposition party challenger with disjointed message and possibly dubious qualifications, ripe for the Rove treatment, going up against moderately weak incumbent President saddled with a moribund economy.
Long story short, Kerry didn’t give people enough reasons to vote FOR him, even though there were plenty of reasons to vote AGAINST President Bush.
And so it shall be with Obama. Unless Romney can give people enough reasons to vote FOR him, Obama will win re-election, just as Bush did. And the most significant reason Romney has given is just like the one Kerry gave — ‘hey, I’m not that bonehead in the White House.’
Didn’t work in 2004, won’t work today.
Martin the Calvinist
September 10th, 2012
12:31 pm
sorry, it was just an article, here’s the actual video…can’t make this stuff up. Again, if this is the majority of Americans believe, we are no longer a free nation economically….this is what I’m against…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fTsF5BiSM
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:32 pm
Jay says: To many conservatives, it would tell you that the media are liberal, voters are stupid, Romney’s a bum or the sun got in their eyes
Jack says: Romney IS winning unless you read or listen to the liberal media.
Hilarious.
Fly-On-The-Wall
September 10th, 2012
12:32 pm
I think the messaging is getting across to the voters, it just not the messaging that the candidates wanted. People see Romney for what he is and they’re not comfortable changing to him when it just looks like a Bush III term. He hasn’t set himself apart from Obama, he hasn’t come up with anything that is new which catches the voter so they’ll then believe he can improve things. He only talks of repealing this or repealing that but he hasn’t given people something to latch onto.
Mr_B
September 10th, 2012
12:32 pm
Martin:
” I think it’s bad if the majority of Americans want to control how much money a person makes by taxing him more so there can be “shared prosperity.”
If you think that’s what anybody outside of a vanishingly small portion of the electorate actually believes, and if you thinking is also reflected in thought processes of the Republican party, it would go a long way toward explaining why the party is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
JDWJIM
September 10th, 2012
12:32 pm
Well 30 years of bone headed policy eventually catches up. Add the debacle of Duhbya and the do nothingness of the current crop and you get a Republican brand in decline.
Of course the fact that Goldwater would be a moderate Republican today has an impact as well.
moonbat betty
September 10th, 2012
12:32 pm
Why is it?
Because Jesus was a liberal.
ragnar danneskjold
September 10th, 2012
12:33 pm
He is, the pollsters are still oversampling democrats by +6.
Once the populace realizes that Obama promises to continue doing the same things until he gets a different result, Romney will rise 10 points (leftists are unlikely to ever grasp the significance.) Or worse, once the populace realizes that Obama promises to continue doing the same things in order to obtain the same results, Romney will rise 15 points.
M
September 10th, 2012
12:33 pm
“If you vote against Obama because he can’t get stuff done, it’s kind of like saying ‘this guy can’t cure cancer. I’m gonna vote for cancer.’” ~Chris Rock
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:33 pm
I wonder if this election will still be “a referendum on Obama” after Obama wins? Or will that canard die like the “unconstitutional mandate” or “birth certificate” things?
#1 Foxy Lady
September 10th, 2012
12:33 pm
I told everyone earlier today why Obama is gonna is a winner.
“He is too powerful and strong for you silly little punks.” Unlike republicans to their intransigent fools, Obama has the guts to tell these idiots to “SUCK IT!”
… like he is doing now and will be doing for four more years.
moonbat betty
September 10th, 2012
12:34 pm
Amvet, did you find McCarthy under your bed this morning?
getalife
September 10th, 2012
12:34 pm
The polls are correcting like they normally do before the election.
They tried to keep it close but it never was close.
Last time they had mcain up by 10 but corrected right before the election.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:34 pm
HBD,
Many of your comments above can be arguably spoken of Obama..particularly the chamelian, rehash of policies, blame game, stewardship, race issue, Obama’s personality is not materially different and in many aspects has worse characteristis of leadership, polarization of voter blocks (they both like to give free stuff we can’t afford to voting blocks…) disconnect to public, and polarization of voting blocks although IMO those are caused 90% by where the cash originates..
JamVet
September 10th, 2012
12:35 pm
The fact is, Romney is probably the weakest Republican frontrunner since Leonard Wood in 1920. ~Leroy Gingrich
If they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future. ~Rick Santorum
Rick, I’ll tell you what, 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? ~Flip Robme
Fly-On-The-Wall
September 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
Martin – all that video proves is there are people who lean far to one side. I’m sure if someone had done this at the RNC we would have found voices that leaned far to one side. It proves nothing other than someone can go out and prove anything they want to.
Brosephus™
September 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?
Consider the scorched earth politics that we’ve been subjected to over the past 20 plus years. There comes a point where the country gets so divided that you no longer have a sizeable “middle” that has the potential to cause a big enough swing to have an effect on elections anymore.
Add the fact that you have a corporate owned media that is complicit in hiding the fact that one party has pretty much gone batsh*t crazy over the ideological cliff. The media willingly plays along with the ruse of being “liberally biased” all the while they are owned by the same monied interests that own our government. This gives the true power hungry group the perfect smokescreen to buy off as many politicians as possible. Can anybody honestly believe the media can not break through the smoke and mirrors on all the money being funneled to politicians and campaigns? The same media that broke Watergate and other scandals when far less technology was there to assist them?
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Perhaps we finally have proof that there is a God and he does love us?
Well, not according to one of our Founding Fathers.
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
–Benjamin Franklin
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
ADAM,
Suggest you post Monty Python skit entitled…SPAM..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
Jamvet found Jenny McCarthy under his bed this morning? Congrats!
Jay
September 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
And I’m sure that the fact that Chris Christie is headed to Iowa — home of the 2016 Iowa caucuses — says nothing about his confidence in a Romney victory.
http://www.kcautv.com/story/19502258/chris-christie-to-keynote-event-for-steve-king-in-sioux-city
yuzeyurbrane
September 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
Let’s not count our chickens yet. It is still going to be a very close election and 57 days can be an eternity in politics. My own view is that the average voter appears to be smarter than the Koch brothers think and they are aware of what has been going on and who has their best interests at heart. I hope so because God knows the right will control the TV and radio airwaves the more desperate they get. Maybe Lincoln was right–you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Krystal'sBalls
September 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
When there is no like for you and no real belief in you, you don’t stand a chance. This is Mitt Romney’s problem. The Republican party has no chance of winning this election without voter suppression (which is despicable in itself). I don’t care what anyone or any of the rhetoric says.
stands for decibels (Race Traitor)
September 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
“If you vote against Obama because he can’t get stuff done, it’s kind of like saying ‘this guy can’t cure cancer. I’m gonna vote for cancer.’” ~Chris Rock
not on topic, but Chris’ new film, 2 Days in New York, is very funny (and playing in Atlanta at the moment.)
He has a couple of funny bits where his character is talking to a life-sized cutout of Obama that he keeps in the corner of his home office for little heart-to-hearts.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
BRO,
I’m not a believer in invisible friends but I’d attend your political ministry….
uh-oh
September 10th, 2012
12:38 pm
http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/10/the-truth-about-mitt/
Martin the Calvinist
September 10th, 2012
12:38 pm
Mr B, all I can say is watch the youtube video I posted at 12:31
Steve, my dad keeps telling me all the time that Today’s Democratic party isn’t the same one he remembers when he was younger, my dad wasn’t old enough to vote for kennedy in 1960 but he remembers his policies and in most part supported them. He says today’s Democrat party kinda reminds him of the economic policies put forth from the Soviet Union in the late 60’s up to it’s fall…
H. E. Pennypacker
September 10th, 2012
12:38 pm
I can think of no better example than this weekend when the Republican voting pizza store owner went and hugged President Obama, lifting him into the air.
Can anyone even picture what that would look like, substituting Governor Romney?
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:38 pm
Krystal’sBalls
Uncalled for.
getalife
September 10th, 2012
12:39 pm
Also, I think Americans never bought the lie that the gop would help the middle class when they consistently vote against the middle class for decades to destroy the middle class.
Then the trust me on my taxes line and President Clinton telling the truth.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 10th, 2012
12:39 pm
Well, what do you expect. A N____r vs. a Mormon. You expect us rednecks to get all riled up about this choice? I never been so disgusted. We deserve something better than this. Heck, I should of went ahead and run. At least us people in the trailer parks would have somebody we could vote for.
And I see Bookman’s still letting this #1 Foxy Lady on this blog. I’m warning him right now. If she’s on here Nov. 7 I’m out.
JamVet
September 10th, 2012
12:39 pm
betty no, he lives in USMC’s underwear. And occasionally has a slumber party at the Sinkwich household.
I am not at all convinced that this neocon idiot will not be exactly like the last neocon idiot and get a whole sh*tload of American soldiers, sailor, airmen and marines killed for nothing.
By every measure, the man is unfit to lead.
And even you ODS cons know that…
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:39 pm
JAY,
Sadly and not matter what anyone thinks about Christy, he’s not long for this world if he doesn’t take better care of himself…one of the first times since I can remember when a candidates health is a major obstacle…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
“Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?”
Because such a large portion of the American electorate is naive, uniformed and ignorant of the real causes for problems as well as the best solutions. Most people vote like they would for a talent show.
Thus ………. we get Clintons and Obamas.
And ……….. this does not bode well for our future.
Jay
September 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
“Can anybody honestly believe the media can not break through the smoke and mirrors on all the money being funneled to politicians and campaigns?”
The media HAVE broken through most of that smoke and mirrors, and have reported extensively about all that.
What the media cannot do is make people care enough about it to do something.
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
Stevie Ray: My bad, I overdid it. I’ll be writing up on this subject anyway on my own blog and maybe it’ll be out of my system. And an easy response to those who suggest, even in small part, that there is some “legitimate” reason for pay inequality.
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:41 pm
What the media cannot do is make people care enough about it to do something.
It starts with moderates getting interested in voting in primaries again, IMO.
Martin the Calvinist
September 10th, 2012
12:41 pm
Fly on the wall, all I hear mostly is that the Democratic Party is mainstream and the Republican party is extremist…..
I’ll tell you this, Today’s Republican Party doesn’t represent what I hold to in terms of political thought/theory…..
GT
September 10th, 2012
12:42 pm
The Republicans themselves don’t like this candidate. I think the press has been more than fair with Romney, they seldom ever call him on his superpac’s lies, leaving them out there uncontested, so as not to cause a dust up with sponsors like Chick fila or one of the oil companies or the superpac itself which must be a major client this year for the networks. For this country to wade through this high dollar misdirection and come to the truth is a proud moment for this country, a sign it hasn’t sold out to the highest bidder. Cream still raises to the top.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 10th, 2012
12:43 pm
“I think he must have been overlooked for Oval Office guard duty and got stuck with running alongside the car instead.”
I wouldn’t expect you knuckleheads to know the difference but that is one and the same duty ……….. it you’re on the shift ………. your’re on the shift.
jewcowboy
September 10th, 2012
12:43 pm
Maybe because the GOP candidates are sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigots?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 10th, 2012
12:43 pm
Why?
It is very, very simple.
People don’t like Mitt.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:43 pm
KRYSTALSTESTES,
I have no idea how one can defend the concept that people need not have valid id to vote…it’s almost, on the surface, like giving guns to the bad guys, borrowing more money to maintain credit rating and the like..
I have not idea why anyone who votes according to the law would approve of allowing anyone who can’t validate citizenship to vote..unless it was for political gain…..ooops, there I go again..
Goldie
September 10th, 2012
12:44 pm
“The modern conservative enterprise is built around the certainty that they represent the mainstream, and that their philosophy and policies are the philosophy and policies of all true Americans.”
The Cons like to talk about America being “right of center” in its political leaning, and yet they spend all this time and effort to suppress the voting rights of many Americans — why is that? Seems to me they would want all the more voters to show up at the polls, if they truly felt that most Americans think like them. Just another talking point that has been shoved down our throats for so many years now!
JamVet
September 10th, 2012
12:44 pm
Keep, as long as it’s not betty! (grin)
Now, now RC.
You know you love Foxy.
She’s just a bit……………………………………………… opinionated!
Five words that perfectly explain why the coward is unfit to lead:
Corporations are people, my friend.
Mick
September 10th, 2012
12:44 pm
**an honest conclusion by voters that as tough as things are, problems such as unemployment and the deficit would probably be worse under the leadership and policies offered by the modern Republican Party88
Truth..
Joe Hussein Mama
September 10th, 2012
12:44 pm
R. Danneskjold — “He is, the pollsters are still oversampling democrats by +6.”
So?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
September 10th, 2012
12:46 pm
JAY,
What the media will never do is to make lobbying and campaign cash the number 1 priority among all of us…one of the only true bipartisan issues and the prime reason why our government, regardless of who is in office, if failing us…
Of course the reason is simple….
Mick
September 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
Also, another thing working against romney is the republican brand itself – it stinks to high heaven! Someone open a can of fresh air please…
Jerome Horwitz
September 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
MtC – That video looks pretty incriminating until you think about it. If you interview thousands and only include those comments you find outrageous then you have the video you reference. Mr.Shiff appears to have an agenda ala Micheal Moore. Not credible. Most manipulated.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
0311 — “you knuckleheads”
Hey, look! It’s more Republican outreach to undecided voters!
b-troll
September 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/10/are_democrats_really_the_pro-science_party_115367.html
Goldie
September 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
Granny G. @ 12:43 — yeah, they don’t like Mitt along with several other of their candidates for Senate… this should be a very interesting election in November, indeed!
Brosephus™
September 10th, 2012
12:49 pm
The media HAVE broken through most of that smoke and mirrors, and have reported extensively about all that.
I must be missing the juicy details. We hear about the Koch’s and Adelson’s, but there are far more people pumping huge sums of money into this election on both sides of the fence. At the same time, there are more than 10-20 Americans who are fed up over the auctioning off of our government.
When we have a candidate that will not disclose his financiers, where is the media frenzy beating the crap out of the Congressmen that legislate this kind of stuff into reality? As a government employee, I can lose my job for accepting a $5 lapel pin and not reporting it to someone. I don’t have nearly the power and lattitude of a member of Congress, yet I walk an ethical tightrope equal to a single strand of human hair while they get to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 10th, 2012
12:49 pm
“I have no idea how one can defend the concept that people need not have valid id to vote…it’s almost, on the surface, like giving guns to the bad guys, borrowing more money to maintain credit rating and the like..”
.
.
We are well aware that you have no idea.
I like the whole innocent until proven guilty thing.
Let everybody vote and if an election judge is uncomfortable with a person’s vote, prove it.
If not the vote stands.
b-troll
September 10th, 2012
12:50 pm
i’m so excited
http://washingtonexaminer.com/what-would-obamas-second-term-look-like/article/2507358#.UE4ZISJOenB
JamVet
September 10th, 2012
12:51 pm
I have lambasted Obama from before he was elected.
Yet the very thought of Caribou Barbie running around the White House is something right out of a Stephen King novel. Or maybe Oscar Wilde.
The republic did the right thing last time.
They will do so again, this November…
Jay
September 10th, 2012
12:52 pm
“What the media will never do is to make lobbying and campaign cash the number 1 priority among all of us…one of the only true bipartisan issues and the prime reason why our government, regardless of who is in office, if failing us…
Of course the reason is simple….”
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Stevie Ray, two responses:
1.) The voting public, not the media, has the power to make that the issue should it choose to do so. They’ve been given more than enough information on it.
2.) http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/fun-in-the-sun-for-lobbyists-and-legislators/nR5gs/
2.)
Fly-On-The-Wall
September 10th, 2012
12:52 pm
Brosephus – your 12:36 is spot on.
Jerome Horwitz
September 10th, 2012
12:52 pm
JCB -Please tell us what you really think. Stop sugarcoating it.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 10th, 2012
12:53 pm
Nothing lasts for ever ………….. just look at the once great countries in Europe.
We have probably seen our best day …………….. now we just manage the decline.
Just my opinion.
jewcowboy
September 10th, 2012
12:54 pm
“He says today’s Democrat party kinda reminds him of the economic policies put forth from the Soviet Union in the late 60’s up to it’s fall…”
I wonder if he is one of those old guys arguing with empty chairs.
b-troll
September 10th, 2012
12:54 pm
“People don’t like Mitt.” = beer test
Stupid basis for selecting a president.
hiram
September 10th, 2012
12:55 pm
“Silver’s final 2008 presidential election forecast accurately predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia (missing only the prediction for Indiana). As his model predicted, the races in Missouri and North Carolina were particularly close. He also correctly predicted the winners of every U.S. Senate race. The accuracy of his predictions won him further acclaim, including abroad, and added to his reputation as a leading political prognosticator.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver
CHANCE OF WINNING
Barack Obama – 80.7%
Mitt Romney – 19.3%
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/
Adam
September 10th, 2012
12:55 pm
LUNCH and then MEETING.
b-troll
September 10th, 2012
12:56 pm
“Add the fact that you have a corporate owned media that is complicit in hiding the fact that one party has pretty much gone batsh*t crazy over the ideological cliff. The media willingly plays along with the ruse of being “liberally biased” all the while they are owned by the same monied interests that own our government. This gives the true power hungry group the perfect smokescreen to buy off as many politicians as possible. ”
-rants of a madman
lynnie gal
September 10th, 2012
12:56 pm
Romney/Ryan are both sociopathic liars and Americans are starting to catch on to that fact. Even yesterday, on Meet the Press, Ryan blamed Obama for cutting the military budget when Ryan himself voted for the sequestration deal and praised it to the high hills after he voted for it. Then, he tries to deny that he voted for it, but he got caught when Nora O’Donnell grilled him:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/norah-odonnell-paul-ryan-defense-spending_n_1870369.html
Brosephus™
September 10th, 2012
12:56 pm
Jay
I’ll give the AJC it’s props on the coverage in Georgia. My question is why can’t we see such a concerted effort on the national level? I’m sure there are powerful people who would do anything to protect themselves, but maybe I just have to resign myself to living in the post-Citizen’s United world we find ourselves occupying now.
I can’t answer for anybody else, but I’ve sent many letters out in response to campaign finance to politicians on all levels of government.
Goldie
September 10th, 2012
12:56 pm
“We have probably seen our best day …………….. now we just manage the decline.”
Now THAT’S a real vote-getter in America– thanks for sharing, Con!
Jay
September 10th, 2012
12:56 pm
BTW, honest question:
Has anybody seen a Romney/Ryan bumper sticker? I’m still looking for my first one.
Towncrier
September 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
“Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?”
Might it be for some other reason than what simplistic “economic-based political models suggest”? Might it be because since 2000 or perhaps earlier, the country has become highly polarized over various issues in a way we have not seen in many, many decades? But such an explanation would not serve as a springboard for yet another bit of partisan propaganda.
Brosephus™
September 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
I’d rather be a madman than a troll for corporate owned media.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
September 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
Maybe there is a god after all:
Poll: Bachmann in danger
salon.com
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 10th, 2012
12:58 pm
We have probably seen our best day …………….. now we just manage the decline.
Well there is someone declaring defeat and giving up. So much for the prior expressions of “American Exceptionalism”
JF McNamara
September 10th, 2012
12:58 pm
People aren’t dumb. They are rightly attributing the poor conditions to the Republicans. They are the party that ran the country into the ground. That Obama hasn’t fixed it fast enough doesn’t mean you turn back to the cause of the initial problem.
The Republicans completely failed us in 2008, and they have yet to apologize or admit what they did wrong. They will do the same thing again. Absent strong evidence that they will enact different policies than before, no one should vote for them. Rational people are clearly saying they will not.