Here’s THE math behind the 2012 presidential race
After all the speeches and campaign ads and debates, politics comes down to cold hard numbers. It always has; it always will.
In fact, when you get right down to it, only one number really counts, and every politician and political strategist knows it: 50 percent of those who turn out, plus one more vote to put you over the top. That’s the goal;, that’s the Holy Grail; that’s the number that your entire campaign strategy is designed to achieve because it guarantees election.
Just ask President Al Gore.
OK, in that one instance, getting the most votes earns you a divorce and an ownership stake in a cable channel that no one’s ever watched. But that’s because the presidency is different. To become leader of the free world, a candidate needs a minimum of 270 votes in the electoral college. Failing that, five votes on the U.S. Supreme Court will do.
Today, with the 2012 presidential campaign at full throttle, it seems as though every political scientist in the country hoping to get on Fox or CNN (which is every political scientist in the country) is out there touting his or her own computerized, highly sophisticated predictive model for how this election will turn out.
Me, I already know.
While others may have math, I have THE math, in the form of my own statistical model. It has been carefully calibrated over the years to the point that after the fact, it has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race dating back to Grover Cleveland. In the interest of transparency, I’m about to let you in on the secret details of how it works:
In my model, as in most such models, we start with the basics: The number of women to whom the GOP candidate’s grandfather was married at any one time, which in this case would be (4). You multiply that by the number of extramarital affairs conducted over a lifetime by the spouse of the current secretary of state (237). (CAUTION: This number could shift at any moment.)
You then add the number of emails sent in the past four years depicting the Democratic nominee with a bone through his nose, which would be 457,283. You divide that by the total number of beers and cigarettes tried by the GOP nominee in his lifetime (2), divided again by the total number of beers and cigarettes consumed by the Democrat (58,399).
You multiply that by the square root of the number of hair follicles transplanted into the Democratic VP (√6,798=83.53) divided by the best marathon time fraudulently claimed by the Republican VP nominee (2.55).
Subtract the percentage of Americans gratuitously insulted by the GOP nominee (47), add the number of times in a best-two-out-of-three match that the First Lady would beat you arm-wrestling (3), and then also add the number of dog-lover votes — in units of tens of thousands — lost by the Republican for transporting an aptly named Irish setter (Seamus) on the station-wagon roof (236.5).
Finally, you add the number of percentage points that all polls but Rasmussen are skewed in favor of Democrats (10). Voila!
You now have the mortal-lock number of electoral college votes that the Democratic nominee will win in any given year.
– Jay Bookman
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Jm
September 28th, 2012
9:29 am
Oscar 9:22
Usinuk – exactly like that
Oscar
September 28th, 2012
9:30 am
So you guys want to go to war with Iran and Libya. That’s the two wars. Romney would match W. Bush with that.
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
9:30 am
I can only imagine what his version of Green Eggs and Ham would sound like.
Good thing for you i can
Green Eggs And Ham — A La Samuel L. Jackson.
Green eggs and ham? Green eggs and effin ham?!
Who the F*** Do you think you’re talking to Sam Iam?
I ain’t gonna eat that sh##t on a train
I ain’t gonna eat that Sh## in the rain
I ain’t gonna eat that sh##t in car
I ain’t gonna eat that sh##t near or far!!
Now I’ve told you to leave me alone
Now I’ve told you to hang up that damn phone
Now I’m trying to be nice to your silly azz, trying not to catch a case
But you gonna make me throw that green eggs and ham sh###t in yo damn face!
Green eggs and ham? Green eggs and effin ham?!
Who the F*** Do you think you’re talking to Sam Iam?
Then you see Samuel L. bit####ch slapping Sam Iam with that piece of ham…. The End.
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
9:31 am
Sam: Ask the fact checkers, those two are fact duckers…
Grandma: What do you want us to do?
Sam: SAY HELL NO MUTHA@#*!&s!!
Now I gotta go watch that again…
Fred ™
September 28th, 2012
9:32 am
Brocephus: My daughter was sick yesterday and by the time you FINALLY dragged your sorry ass out of bed and linked that thing I was long gone out of here………..
Just Saying..
September 28th, 2012
9:32 am
You’re having took much fun, Jay.
Enjoy your weekend…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 28th, 2012
9:32 am
williebkind
please explain to us how
the gop goes all squishy on national security = gop in control of national security
right after you admit your parole violation cuteness wasn’t in the least bit cute.
kthxbye
Mick
September 28th, 2012
9:32 am
Obama definitely wears some cool teflon coating cuz no matter what the conned wingers are throwing – nothing seems to stick!!!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 28th, 2012
9:33 am
BRO,
There is no evidence left at embassy..our classified information is gone and the place is in shambles..the purpose is to clarify who had a role and how deep it goes and whether the government there really got whoever is responsible…
Regarding spending 40% more than we take in..I argue it is by far our most significant security risk. we are already overdependent on debt to finance these annual deficits..it won’t take much at all for our interest costs to rise beyond 50% of our annual take..rendering us at the mercy of other countries in a large sense to have cash to continue to dictate our security policy…of course the other key issue is the money supply and our continued strategy to print money..we already have more than double the currency in circulation than 10 years ago…only a matter of time if we continue this tactic, our interests cost will increase…
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 28th, 2012
9:35 am
I heard the Samuel Jackson ad on America Left this morning..it is a classic although rought with the usual scare tatics and outright lies…
The kid at the end using the dirty word is hilarious.
Aquagirl
September 28th, 2012
9:35 am
apparently you are not getting any blood to the brain and you’re just ranting nonsense without fact, reason or thought.
That happens to guys when all the blood rushes to their outraged pen!s.
Next are the delusions he knows all about international relations and covert operations. Oh, wait, he’s having those already.
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
9:36 am
Fred
Well, considering that Jay didn’t post his first thread until after 9am, it ain’t my fault you got your ass out of the house before then!!!!!
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DDR
That post is officially bookmarked. I damn near fell out of my chair reading that. And, yes, that’s about how I imagined Sam doing Green Eggs and Ham would go.
Soldier Mom
September 28th, 2012
9:36 am
Williebkind – “Cowboy diplomacy? Is that a term used by liberals when they get Americans killed due to incompetence.”
No. That is a term I use when I look back at the 6,606 American men and woman killed in the two wars started by Bush – due to incompetence. You don’t nilly willy start wars, you don’t nilly willy invade countries, and you don’t nilly willy draw red lines. I much rather have a POTUS that calmly looks at the evidence before he bungles things up with other peoples children by sending them to wars.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 28th, 2012
9:37 am
MICK,
That’s your opinion…of course you would likely defend his farts as well..
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
9:37 am
C’mon, Jay, you’ve got to give the Republicans SOME hope.
Here’s how you figure it: in 56 elections, Americans have chosen the rich white guy 55 times. Therefore, Romney is the OVERWHELMING favorite and Obama’s got less than a 2% chance of winning.
Now watch them run with that and try to convince themselves it’s true.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
September 28th, 2012
9:37 am
Confucius say, “man who shoot first and think last, end up with bullet in foot”.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 28th, 2012
9:38 am
SOLDIER,
Agreed but we are not even on the ground getting evidence..when do you suppose this will commence?
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
9:38 am
Regarding spending 40% more than we take in..I argue it is by far our most significant security risk.
It’s a risk that has a easy remedy. We simply need to pay for more ourselves. You know, raise more revenue domestically. As long as we are the reserve currency of the world, we are safe. What’s making things unsafe are the jackasses in DC who would much rather destroy everything in their paths just to keep their offices. It’s not our borrowing that’s the problem at all.
Fred ™
September 28th, 2012
9:39 am
DDR: You got one line wrong. It SHOULD be……
I ain’t gonna eat that sh##t in a motherf….. car
Try it out, it goes better with the last line lol.
barking frog
September 28th, 2012
9:40 am
Morning Jay
It’s about time,
you finally crossed the
silly line. Welcome.
Fred ™
September 28th, 2012
9:41 am
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am…
September 28th, 2012
9:37 am
MICK,
That’s your opinion…of course you would likely defend his farts as well..
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And you would still hate him if he suddenly was granted the ability to lay hands on people and cure them of all sicknesses. You’re claim then is that he was a lazy no good SOB for not curing people 24 hours a day (he’s President, he doesn’t need sleep right?), and if he DID do it 24 hours a day you would deride him because he didn’t meet with the leader of Istanbul one day…….
Simple Truths
September 28th, 2012
9:42 am
Jay’s morning email from Media Matters must not have arrived yet.
Fred ™
September 28th, 2012
9:44 am
Simple Truths
September 28th, 2012
9:42 am
Jay’s morning email from Media Matters must not have arrived yet.
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Thanks Simple Minds.
Mick
September 28th, 2012
9:46 am
stevie
You took the bait and your response is symptomatic of obama haters. The new “reach” is to try to blame the libyan ambassadors death on the president. No matter who maybe president at any given time, it is 100% impossible to control all events all over the world, just look back at the original teflon president – reagan. Fail, on your part…
Cosby
September 28th, 2012
9:46 am
Makes as much sense as all polls..and heavly skewed in favor of the Dems..but I still cannot figure out why the News Media – so called main street – are bending over backward to protect Barry…but maye they are salavating over being the Government News media after the others are considered illegal in Barry’s second term..but then Jay may find out his services are worth about $10,000 per year..after all he should pay his fair share!!
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
9:47 am
Seems that the overall GOP campaign style of 2012 can best be described as the Etch-A-Sketch technique….
But the movement’s biggest RINO hunter is now changing his tune as he tries to woo moderate voters in a tight race that stands as a key test of the tea party’s ability to win outside the nation’s most conservative states.
Mourdock is matched in the general election against moderate Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly, who is running even in recent polls despite Indiana’s Republican tilt. Suddenly, gone is the strident rhetoric in which Mourdock proclaimed that bipartisanship meant Democrats coming over to Republicans’ thinking and that winning meant he would “inflict my opinion on someone else.” In its place are support for parts of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, pledges to protect Democratic-championed programs like Social Security and Medicare, and even the once-shunned notion of compromise.
Welcome to “Extreme Makeover: Mourdock Edition.”
Shake… shake… shake… shake…
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
9:48 am
Cosby — “..and heavly skewed in favor of the Dems..”
I’ve been waiting for two weeks now for any conservative to show me their mathematical analysis of how, precisely, any of the Presidential polls are skewed in any way.
So far, no substantive response.
TiredOfIt
September 28th, 2012
9:49 am
“I recall Carter was leading Reagan by double digits..”
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Romney is certainly no Reagan!
getalife
September 28th, 2012
9:50 am
Not much more to say.
Americans have started voting.
Let us pray for our country that the gop do not win so I don’t have to go to Sam’s club to stock up for a total collapse.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
9:50 am
TiredOfIt — “Romney is certainly no Reagan!”
Ain’t it the truth!
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
9:51 am
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/09/26/tea-party-politician-in-fight-for-job-for-keeping-budget-vow/
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Shortly after newly elected Rep. Dan Benishek arrived in Washington, staffers raised a banner in his Capitol Hill suite that proclaimed: “If you are here to ask for more money, you’re in the wrong office!”
The message was fitting for a tea party favorite who had railed against federal spending and a “nanny-state mentality” during the 2010 campaign that led to a Republican takeover of the House. But it was something new for his constituents in northern Michigan, a largely rural area where a spirit of self-reliance coexists with the reality that government — popular or not — is a crucial economic player.
So, he rides the Tea Party Express to DC vowing to cut federal spending, and the people vote for him to do that. Now, the people realized that cutting federal spending meant getting less money at home. Ooops!!! Now, the locals are mad because he didn’t bring home the bacon.
I think this is the part where the rhetorical cold front meets with the reality warm front and all kinds of severe weather breaks out. Funny how people are against doing something until it affects them personally.
barking frog
September 28th, 2012
9:57 am
Also Jay,
This is more evidence of
your mystical ability to see
what we are typing before
we post it.
southpaw
September 28th, 2012
9:57 am
Jay –
You forgot to add the number of budget-busting bills voted for by the Republican VP nominee and subtract the number of chain links needed to make the Democratic VP’s “put y’all back in chains” prediction come true. I’m still working on the exact numbers.
Rightwing Troll
September 28th, 2012
10:01 am
If you take your final figure and divide it by the number of pills Rush pops a day, the numbers are much more palatable to wingnuts…
Jm
September 28th, 2012
10:01 am
So Jay believes Obama will get 331.014 electoral college votes.
Putting aside the decimals, jay’s model says he will win most swing states
In fact, unless he believes Romney loses republican leaning Missouri (which can be combined with a loss in Iowa or Nevada to get 331), jay’s model says Obama will win the swing states except for Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
Given Obama’s current lead in Iowa and Nevada (up by 4%), I would say there are problems with Jay’s model
Jm
September 28th, 2012
10:03 am
The fact that Jay’s model suggests Obama will win NC is also suspect.
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
10:04 am
Morning all! I see Aquagirl is in rare form this a.m. and I’m glad Jay took a side trip into the outer limits with the rest of us. Sometimes you gotta laugh in order to not go insane.
Every day that it gets closer and closer to the actual election, people are getting crazier and crazier, (especially the cons — if that’s possible). For instance:
Man on Radio this a.m. — “I’m not voting” DJ- “Why?” Man – “Because Obama likes Gays and gays are sinning against God.” DJ – “So that means you’re gonna vote for Mitt?” Man – “Hell naw! Mitt is a mormon! That ain’t even no real religion man!” DJ – “Huh?” Man – “Look, if I ain’t gonna vote for Obama, a black man like me ’cause he likes gays, I DEFINITELY ain’t gonna vote for a white man who likes lizards!!!” DJ – “Huh?” Man – “You heard me.”
Random thoughts (in no particular order):
Right now I’m despondent because the REAL referees have decided to take the offer the NFL made — I was hoping for a longer hold out……say about 6 -7 more weeks………..long enough for Miami to “win” a few and be able to vie for a playoff spot. Oh well.
Saw a “Bama” fan the other day riding around in a yellow car — I thought to myself, “A Yellow Bammer — how appropriate.”
Wednesday was a very rough day for me, found out that Brittany Griner got drafted into some suck azz team instead of coming to Atlanta to play with the Dreams. With Griner and Angel, the dreams would’ve been unstoppable.
Monday I got kicked off of Schultz’s blog — again. I would’ve felt bad, but I’m doing him a favor anyway by even READING that crap he calls “reporting”.
Today is Friday — TGIF. Gin and tonics for all.
Fred ™
September 28th, 2012
10:05 am
Jm
September 28th, 2012
10:01 am
So Jay believes Obama will get 331.014 electoral college votes.
Putting aside the decimals, jay’s model says he will win most swing states
In fact, unless he believes Romney loses republican leaning Missouri (which can be combined with a loss in Iowa or Nevada to get 331), jay’s model says Obama will win the swing states except for Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
Given Obama’s current lead in Iowa and Nevada (up by 4%), I would say there are problems with Jay’s model
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Of course you would. You get bored there in your mom’s basement and are always looking for someone to argue with. You are even trying to argue with a jocular article.
Sad. Really sad………
Fred ™
September 28th, 2012
10:08 am
Monday I got kicked off of Schultz’s blog — again. I would’ve felt bad, but I’m doing him a favor anyway by even READING that crap he calls “reporting”.
LOL I got kicked off Schultz’s blog and didn’t realize it for about a year I read him so rarely. He wrote a weak ass column and I said, “Ok, that was weak. I guess your mom was sick or something last night and you had to make her soup.”
Boom baby. Banned. Can you believe it?
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
10:12 am
Let us pray for our country that the gop do not win so I don’t have to go to Sam’s club to stock up for a total collapse.
I’m stockpiling bacon even as we speak. Me and the family (ALL of us here in atlanta); usually go in to buy a whole cow, (grass fed, no hormones, etc.); and split the bounty amongst ourselves.
I’ve been searching the internet trying to find a pig farm that has “organically fed pigs”, (meaning no mob boss, hitman, or drug dealer, has tried to loose a couple of people via chopping them up and feeding them to the pigs); and so far haven’t found any near here.
If i do, i’m gonna order that the whole pig be turned into Bacon. No hamhocks, (bacon hocks only), no hog maws, (bacon maws only), and no snouts, (baconouts only); just bacon.
Gotta be prepared for the upcoming bacon apocalypse.
Oh and I’m stockpiling weapons too. Never know when those cons go off the deep end when Obama wins and start shooting at all Dems, while muttering about Satan and wide stances…………….
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
10:14 am
Boom baby. Banned. Can you believe it?
Yep – Schultz has a weak chin and a weak ego. He can’t STAND to be wrong, (even though he is 98.5% of the time). Everytime I read his column I’m like, “They PAY him for this crap!?!?”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 28th, 2012
10:15 am
“Here’s THE math behind the 2012 presidential race”
Here’s the VOTES behind the 2012 presidential race ………. but it won’t happen until election day !
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
10:15 am
DDR
There’s an organic farm in SW Georgia that has cows and chickens. I’ll have to go back and see if they have pigs too.
HUH?????
September 28th, 2012
10:15 am
“Of course you would. You get bored there in your mom’s basement and are always looking for someone to argue with. You are even trying to argue with a jocular article.”
Stay classy, child.
Road Scholar
September 28th, 2012
10:17 am
Jay : Chuck Todd reported this AM about voter registration fraud in Florida….by the…wait for it…REPUBLICANS!!!! Please follow up. This is priceless if it is true!
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
10:17 am
http://whiteoakpastures.com/product-overview.html
They do cows, chicken, and lamb…. No bacon though.
Pizza
September 28th, 2012
10:18 am
I’m seeing more Obama bumper stickers in North Fulton. I know there are more Romney supporters, are they embarrased to come forward ?
Goldie
September 28th, 2012
10:19 am
“You then add the number of emails sent in the past four years depicting the Democratic nominee with a bone through his nose, which would be 457,283. You divide that by the total number of beers and cigarettes tried by the GOP nominee in his lifetime (2), divided again by the total number of beers and cigarettes consumed by the Democrat (58,399).”
Yep, the Dems and beers win in November!
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
10:19 am
Thanks Bro! Gotta have bacon though!! By Organically fed hogs – don’t want to find out that I accidentally ate Jimmy Hoffa!
Road Scholar
September 28th, 2012
10:20 am
The Republican National Committee has abruptly cut ties to a consulting firm hired for get-out-the-vote efforts in seven presidential election swing states after Florida prosecutors launched an investigation into possible fraud in voter registration forms.
Working through state parties, the RNC has sent more than $3.1 million this year to Strategic Allied Consulting, a company formed in June by Nathan Sproul, an Arizona voting consultant. Sproul has operated other firms that have been accused in past elections of improprieties designed to help Republican candidates, including dumping registration forms filled out by Democrats, but none of those allegations led to any criminal charges.
Road Scholar
September 28th, 2012
10:21 am
Source: LA Times
Oscar
September 28th, 2012
10:23 am
Obama has the lead in enough states to give him 347 electoral votes. Beginning to look like a landslide.
Jm
September 28th, 2012
10:24 am
Fred’s humormeter is broken
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:24 am
“I’m seeing more Obama bumper stickers in North Fulton. I know there are more Romney supporters, are they embarrased to come forward ?”–Pizzaman
No Pizzaman, we don’t want our cars vandalized by democRats like this when we come down to Virginia-Highlands for the Art’s Festival, etc., silly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio
East Lake Ira
September 28th, 2012
10:24 am
PORKOPALYPSE!!!
Oscar
September 28th, 2012
10:25 am
By Organically fed hogs – don’t want to find out that I accidentally ate Jimmy Hoffa!
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FBI has a tip that he is buried under a paved driveway in a Michigan surburb. Will be digging it up today.
May find Hoffa, or maybe buried treasure.
Erwin's cat
September 28th, 2012
10:25 am
They do cows, chicken, and lamb…. No bacon though.
and sadly no goat either
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:25 am
“Fred’s humormeter is broken”
Go easy on Fred, he sounds like he has a serious case of Dick-Do.
Tom
September 28th, 2012
10:27 am
Hey Oscar, haven’t you heard the Dick Morris has his hands on the Double-Secret Polls that demonstrate the coming Romney tidal wave?
Madmax
September 28th, 2012
10:27 am
Jay – you can do better than that. I’m ashamed for you.
Erwin's cat
September 28th, 2012
10:28 am
you forgot to divide by the number of states the incumbent has visited (57) and multiply the number of years the challenger paid no taxes (10)
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 28th, 2012
10:28 am
How about the RNC considering taking Todd Akin back into the fold?
Party over priciples, Party over community, Party over our daughters.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 28th, 2012
10:29 am
I think you missed the all important birth certificate box 23/26 numerator.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:31 am
USMC — “No Pizzaman, we don’t want our cars vandalized by democRats like this when we come down to Virginia-Highlands for the Art’s Festival, etc., silly.”
FWIW, I’ve never — and *would never* vandalize someone’s car, for that reason or any other. But my car’s been vandalized, and I suspect it was by a con, angry at my Veterans For Kerry bumper sticker.
By the same token, I’ve never picketed a church, but I’ve been at atheist functions that have been picketed by theists.
Perhaps you should consider that some people on your side are just as bad as you imagine some people on my side to be.
the cat
September 28th, 2012
10:31 am
Newt and Santorum campaigning for Todd Akin. Can it get anymore perverse than that? The ick factor is beyond the stars!!
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:31 am
E. Cat — “and sadly no goat either:
I have found goat to be surprisingly tasty and I heartily recommend it.
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:32 am
“Perhaps you should consider that some people on your side are just as bad as you imagine some people on my side to be.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
10:33 am
DDR
Found the pig for you…
http://www.grassfedcow.com/products.html
Here’s their contact info
http://www.grassfedcow.com/contact.html
They sell at the Peachtree Road Farmer’s Market and the East Atlanta Farmer’s Market.
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EC
Working on tracking down that goat.
Pizza
September 28th, 2012
10:33 am
Hilarious ! So, USMC, conservatives feel threatened in North Fulton ?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 28th, 2012
10:33 am
Oh and
Have you heard W is speaking at an investment seminar in the Cayman Islands the week before the election.
I think it was Jeb’s idea. Planning ahead.
Bush the Brother V Clinton the Wife 2016
The Thrilla in Vanilla!
ROTFLMFAO
September 28th, 2012
10:34 am
When are you liberals going to listen to the “secret” tape of Mitt Romney and then report on what he really said?
He DID NOT SAY he doesn’t care about 47% of the people in America. He said that 47% of American people either pay no income tax, so they don’t care if he lowers taxes because they pay none, or that they are so dependent on government programs for assistance that they won’t vote for anyone who might reduce, or eliminate, the programs that they are so dependent on.
He said that those 47% of Americans are NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM no matter what he says or what policies he would implement if elected.
Therefore, it isn’t his job to worry about those 47% because it would be a waste of his time and resources to try to convince them to vote for him.
THAT’S WHAT HE REALLY SAID!!!!!!
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:34 am
MORE TURMOIL WITHIN THE DEMOCrAT PARTY…
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/09/28/your-morning-jolt-democrats-to-seek-rick-crawford%E2%80%99s-removal-from-ballot/
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:35 am
USMC — Can’t view it here, so your point remains unmade.
I make no excuses for people on my side who misbehave. Perhaps you could follow that example.
Tundra Dude
September 28th, 2012
10:35 am
Obama definitely wears some cool teflon coating cuz no matter what the conned wingers are throwing – nothing seems to stick!!!
trivia Q:
If nothing sticks to a teflon-coated pan…how does the teflon stick to the pan….??
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:36 am
Pizza — “Hilarious ! So, USMC, conservatives feel threatened in North Fulton ?”
I’m sure they do. Didn’t you read the news this morning?
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/georgia/many-more-ga-residents-call-themselves-mixed-race/nSNt6/
getalife
September 28th, 2012
10:36 am
The quality of poo slung from the right is low.
Just need better poo cons.
deegee
September 28th, 2012
10:37 am
Romney reminds people of a boss they had/have that makes them want to quit their job. He reminds them of the boss that would make you come in on the weekend to prepare a report that could have waited until Monday. He’s the kind of boss that would expect you to work late at night then ding you for coming in a little later in the morning. He’s the kind of boss that would deny you a raise then tell you how lucky you are to have a job. That’s how Romney connects with the voters.
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:37 am
“Hilarious ! So, USMC, conservatives feel threatened in North Fulton ?:–Pizzaman
I guess reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit???
What part of “when we come down to Virginia-Highlands, etc.” didn’t you get???
We will give you a pass seeing that the weekend is here.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:38 am
T. Dude — “If nothing sticks to a teflon-coated pan…how does the teflon stick to the pan….??”
Must be some kind of jebus magic or something.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 28th, 2012
10:38 am
USMC
I had so much vandalism on my car and home last election season we have developed a booby trap/low tech security system this year.
A few batteries, some lights and sounds, a bit of a shock and a spray nozzle…
Can’t wait for it to be sprung…..
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:39 am
“Just need better poo cons.”
Go easy on me Getalife, everyone else is busy right now. I am manning the post all by myself!
Geax Dawgs!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 28th, 2012
10:41 am
By mid-October Romney is going to start showing up late to his rallies, unshaven, wearing a robe and smoking a cigarette because why bother?
Heh, heh, heh.
Doggone/GA
September 28th, 2012
10:41 am
“He DID NOT SAY he doesn’t care about 47% of the people in America”
“[M]y job is not to worry about those people. ”
You need to get your ears cleaned
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
10:41 am
EC
Here’s one for you…
East of Eden Farms
2002 Haydenbrook Dr NW
Acworth, Georgia 30101
6786412042
From what I’ve found, they have goat and rabbit.
USMC
September 28th, 2012
10:42 am
“I’m sure they do. Didn’t you read the news this morning?”
Yes, I did read the news this morning and I noted the good news that might help you get up off of the couch and finally get a job, Joe.
100 new jobs coming to Atlanta…
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/new-animation-studio-opens-in-atlanta/nSNyj/
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
10:42 am
http://eastofedenfarms.wordpress.com/nigerian-dwarf-goats/
weetamoe
September 28th, 2012
10:44 am
Of course you know that even the NYT concluded that Bush won the 2000 election.. Had the court not acted (as it should have) democrat election officials would still be manhandling and massaging blank ballots trying to figure out how to prove the intent of non-existent voters. Now that Nakoula has been designated scapegoat of the month it appears more and more likely that the sum of all math calculations is some rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem..
Oscar
September 28th, 2012
10:44 am
Listen to the tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B9xCCaseop4
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
10:44 am
Wow! Thanks Bro!! this is great — especially since they come to Atlanta (Piedmont Park it seems) weekly!
You know Bro, you’re o.k. for a “Bammer”!
PS: I hope that wasn’t you in that yella car. If it was, I just wanted you to know, that yellow looks very good on you, (except for those mouse ears attached to the roof — but I won’t mention that….)
Shawny
September 28th, 2012
10:45 am
When are we going to get rid of that electoral college crap? It makes people in states that are not close feel like their vote doesn’t count.
Brosephus™
September 28th, 2012
10:48 am
DDR
Nah, you’re not gonna see me driving a yellow car, even though Alabama is the Yellowhammer State. A man has his limits. I have links to all kinds of farms and stuff. Having my daughter made me step back and really take a look at what I was eating. My goal is to eventually get to the point of getting rid of most pre-packaged and pre-prepared foods altogether. I think it’s healthier to do things with fresh ingredients, but right now it’s just more expensive to do so.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:49 am
GG — “Can’t wait for it to be sprung…..”
A couple of motion-sensitive floodlights, strategically positioned near your car, will deny the miscreants the cover of darkness. You can get solar ones, too, which simplify installation greatly.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 28th, 2012
10:50 am
weetamoe
Yes, the gray lady did make that stand. It may be the only time
a conservative would link to them.
They however may still be wrong.
http://www.alternet.org/story/86585/new_york_times_perpetuates_the_myth_that_george_bush_won_the_2000_election/
getalife
September 28th, 2012
10:50 am
USMC,
As this cycle winds down so will I .
No more con bashing from me.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:51 am
USMC — “Yes, I did read the news this morning and I noted the good news that might help you get up off of the couch and finally get a job, Joe.”
You know, regulars stooping to the old ‘you’re unemployed’ desperation insult — especially when you already know I have a job — well, that’s just pathetic, USMC.
Insert quarter, try again. (pointing, laughing)
Dunwoody Granny but because USinUK is doing a BST riff, call me Lucretia McEvil today
September 28th, 2012
10:52 am
Jay, I actually did the math. You forgot to subtract the age of the current vice president’s wife (61). That crucial step makes the answer 270.
Any actual difference after December 17 would be due to late changes in the number of affairs by the secretary of state’s husband or the number of angry dog lovers, or perhaps to faithless electors.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 28th, 2012
10:53 am
weetamoe — “Had the court not acted (as it should have)”
Elections are Constitutionally a state matter. For the federal government to intervene in a state matter — well, it’s amazing that cons didn’t lose their collective minds over it. But clearly, some government overreach is just dandy with y’all.
Jerome Horwitz
September 28th, 2012
10:54 am
Fred – re your ban by Schultz. It was proabably due to the fact his mother passed about the time of your remark. He had written a column about her and evidently she was active in the French Resistance or some other group that the resisted the Germans in WW II. Quite the brave lady.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 28th, 2012
10:54 am
JHM
Got that covered….
but ya’ see….I’m planning on “covering” the culprit
Don’t mess with Granny, know what I mean?
DebbieDoRight - Conservatives have always been great storytellers; it is their fatal weakness. They love casting their eyes back to the past to avoid seeing what lies right under their noses.
September 28th, 2012
10:56 am
Joe @ 10:36 – Good one!
degee: He’s the kind of boss that would expect you to work late at night then ding you for coming in a little later in the morning. He’s the kind of boss that would deny you a raise then tell you how lucky you are to have a job.
Yep — he reminds me of this guy:
http://tinyurl.com/9jk9qku