A little context to Romney’s proposed Navy expansion
As part of his plan to increase defense spending by $2 trillion over the next decade, Mitt Romney has repeatedly cited the factoid that the United States has fewer ships in its Navy today than it did in 1916, suggesting that our naval power has declined since then. He is also campaigning on a pledge to boost the number of ships from 285 to 313. saying “I will restore our Navy to the size needed to fulfill our missions by building 15 ships per year, including three submarines.”
Our current ship-building rate is 9 to 10 per year.
Two points regarding that issue:
1.) As it happens, two political scientists at Florida State University recently completed a historical study that compares naval strength among the major powers from 1865 to 2011. They conclude:
“In 1916, the U.S. controlled roughly 11% of the world’s naval power. This is an impressive number that ranks the US third in naval strength behind the UK (34%) and Germany (19%), and just ahead of France (10%). What about the US navy in 2011? In 2011, the US controlled roughly 50% of the world’s naval power putting it in a comfortable lead in naval power ahead of Russia (11%).”
In Romney’s view, the fact that 4 percent of the world’s population controls a mere 50 percent of the world’s naval firepower, almost five times the amount of the second-ranked power, leaves that 4 percent dangerously vulnerable.
2.) Why is Romney stressing naval expansion in his campaign remarks? Take a look at the map of swing states. Virginia is critical to his election hopes. Virginia is also home to Newport News Shipbuilding, which with 21,000 employees is a major contractor with the U.S. Navy. The additional submarines that Romney keeps mentioning are nuclear-powered Virginia-class subs, built in part at Newport News at a cost of $2.5 billion per copy.
In other words, Romney is dangling billions of taxpayers dollars and government-financed jobs in front of Virginia voters, hoping that it wins him the presidency.
– Jay Bookman
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ragnar danneskjold
October 25th, 2012
6:47 am
Or since his specialty is election fraud, maybe Chauncey can put him on the road to talk about YouTube videos and their relevance to Libya.
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
7:02 am
Some days this blog sounds like a sack of brass door knobs being tossed around in a cement mixer.
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
7:15 am
…difference being that brass door knobs themselves have some utility.
Answer man.
October 25th, 2012
7:20 am
Why are we trying to confuse the issues with facts? That’s in direct conflict with the Ryan/Romney campaign. Please disregard all that, Georgia. Get out there and vote against your own best interests.
Mamoru
October 25th, 2012
7:21 am
Here is some numbers I would like to see… Size of Navy, vs. the Responsibility we put on it. Not only is it used for defense and offense, its used for humanitarian aid.
What is the age of the over all fleet…. Whats facing mandatory retirement etc….
Then we can discuss pardoning.
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
7:29 am
dB
There is that!!!
Bill Orvis White
October 25th, 2012
7:37 am
Most of America says that it makes perfect sense to do what it takes to protect our soil, interest abroad while expanding freedom throughout the world. This is why we will thankfully have a President Romney come this January. You libs just need to give it up and accept the fact that King Hussein Obama’s socialistic expansion experiment has failed; will become a blip in world history (thankfully be forgotten) and will be quickly erased in late January 2013 by President Romney and Vice President Ryan.
I think the larger question will be: How should President Romney prosecute Hussein Obama and his administration. I suggest that they all be escorted to Gitmo, be quickly tried for their crimes including and not limited to Ca$h for Clunkers, Fannie/Freddie & Solyndra failures, Fast & Furious and now the Benghazi debacle (that is the Grand Poobah of all of this fool’s incompetence). I’m serious that this “administration” needs to be held accountable for destroying so many lives.
Amen,
Bill
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
7:45 am
Kyle’s Part V of his “we have to destroy the public school districts in order to save them” case is up this morning, if anyone’s interested.
(I’m trying to be nice, over there. y’all do the same, y’hear?)
Paul
October 25th, 2012
7:49 am
Morning all –
A while back the topic was whether or not the Catholic Church had to provide birth control under health care to employees of businesses. I made the point to those who said ‘no’ that that would lead to any business owner who objected to anything having to do with health care under Obamacare from having an exemption.
I was pretty much told that wouldn’t be possible (well, that’s for the cons who disagreed and didn’t divert or ignore).
Well, guess what? “Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts retailer founded by evangelical Christians, sued the Obama administration on Wednesday to stop a mandate under the federal healthcare reform law to provide drugs such as the morning-after pill to employees through their health insurance.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Oklahoma, seeks a permanent injunction against the government on behalf of Hobby Lobby and other companies that have religious convictions against abortion.
“These abortion-causing drugs go against our faith,” said David Green, founder and chief executive officer of Hobby Lobby Stores Inc, in a call with reporters. “We simply cannot abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate.”
http://www.newsmax.com/US/hobby-lobby-sues-obamacare/2012/09/13/id/451695
The owners also object to related education and counseling.
I’d also noted if that occurred, why not expect the owners of businesses who objected to, say, cancer treatment or other fatal-disease treatment, hospice care, etc to seek relief because their personal religious belief is that such things intefere with God’s will? After all, it’s a personal religious belief so no one has the right to judge if it’s valid or not -
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 25th, 2012
7:50 am
Colin Powell has just endorsed President Obama.
Smart guy, that Mr. Powell.
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
7:51 am
Paul
I didn’t think much about it before, but now I think the Evangelical Christians are paving the way for us to end up with a Single Payer System. I guess the goal is to whine and b*tch about government run healthcare until the only option is to institute government run healthcare.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
7:51 am
A business can save a lot of employee-related costs by reducing insurance costs based on religious objections.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 25th, 2012
7:52 am
Fannie/Freddie & Solyndra failures
Fannie And Freddie?
You Cons ask us to stop blaming W for everything but you won’t stop blaming Obama for things that happened during W’s presidency. Which one is it, cons?
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
7:52 am
Paul – it would be interesting to know if they currently provide health insurance for their employees and if they do, does that insurance currently cover those “objectionable” drugs.
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 25th, 2012
7:55 am
Another great corker there, Bill Orvis White! I don’t know how you do it but you really could give Colbert a run for his money. What wonderful satire you have. Very good!
TaxPayer
October 25th, 2012
7:55 am
The Rev. Samuel Wynn admired Billy Graham and his evangelistic association for decades, joining its spiritual crusades and urging fellow Christians to do the same. But no more.
“I will never again support anything by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,” said Wynn, the superintendent of a United Methodist Church district in Fayetteville, N.C.
The source of Wynn’s ire: The BGEA’s recent removal of language on its website calling Mormonism a “cult.”
Uh Oh.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 25th, 2012
7:57 am
Paul
About the time that Dan Cathy blinked and I could go back to getting his chicken nuggets for Toddler G (his very favorite) I learned that
the Green family at Hobby Lobby was taking the position you describe.
This Granny had to quit Hobby Lobby just before the annual costume
making extravaganza.
Thank heavens for JoAnnes and Michaels…Our little tin man don’t need no stinking Hobby Lobby.
(Scary thought, how many Christian Scientists are business owners?)
Paul
October 25th, 2012
7:57 am
Granny
Good news. Been having an ongoing discussion with my sister, who was leaning Obama (she supported Hillary last time around) who had a visceral response to the ‘he knew otherwise about the attack, that it wasn’t spontaneous, and he lied to avoid the charge there were deaths as a result of a terrorist attack” charge. I didn’t say so, but it was almost like a flashback to a bad marriage with the ex lying.
Any thoughts on what to say to her, other than “well, Colin Powell had been pretty muted about Obama and after all that he still endorsed him”?
Morning, Brosephus
Who says God doesn’t bring light from darkness?
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 25th, 2012
8:02 am
Just before Reagan espoused his 600 ship Navy, my shipmates and I were working our tails off to meet sailing commitments and regular ship maintenance. For example, I was stationed on a destroyer that had a crew requirement of 265 souls. We were doing the job with 155 crew members. It meant wearing many different hats and 21 hour days on the average. We wondered if all those extra ships were going to be automated. I’m wondering the same thing now. I’m also wondering how this is going to fix the deficit? Will all of us old folks taken off of Medicare and Social Security be allowed to crew Romney’s Navy? I bet we would be glad to sail for just food and meds. I bet that’s his plan…yeah, that’s the ticket…
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:02 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUJ_HhIz8OY
after preaching from the Holy Bible for years, Billy Graham receives new attitude….
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:02 am
Doggone/GA
Gasp… you’re not saying these devout people are opportunistic, are you?
Frankly, I’d be surprised if they were doing anything other than offering a bare-bones policy and if many of the Hobby Lobby employees weren’t kept at 32 hours or less to be classified as part timers and exempt from benefits.
TaxPayer
Always thought Graham the Elder was progressive in a Christian sense.
Granny Godzilla
So Christian Science business owners could refuse to provide any health care coverage to employees? Let’s see, if I’m American Airlines I’d set up this front company run by the Scientists….
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:04 am
“Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts retailer
you forgot to add “and a place in which Mrs. sfd, likely, will never again set foot.”
What’s going to suck is explaining why to the kid. But such things have to be done.
Duper
October 25th, 2012
8:06 am
These must be the end days if ‘bama is hyping himself
as the trust president. He of the we will not vote on a healthcare
overhaul until public debates can be arranged. He of the no more earmarks claim. He of the cut the deficit in half in the first term.
And if we are to trust that what he wrote in his books is factual, he doesn’t particularly care for the USA. He of the blaming the Libya attack on youtube. It just goes on & on & on…
We are to trust him to “take care of (us)” No thanks Nanny Barry…
I’ll take care of myself.
Either these are the end days or the great media mindf*ck just shifted into overdrive.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 25th, 2012
8:08 am
Response to someone, even a beloved sister, who falls for that balderdash ….is a hug, a kiss and a bless your heart.
You might also point out that under a Romney Ryan administration there is a real possibility that access to oral contraceptives may go away.
Low doses are excellent for menapause symptoms. (Best done in an overly
warm room)
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:08 am
the day
I’ve yet to hear how the ignorant evangelicals deal with the fact LDS use both the Bible and the Book of Mormon (the youtube said ‘pick one” – the oldest, dumbest argument in the world) and that the B of M’s cover says “The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ” (think I got that right, I’m sure plenty here will correct me if I didn’t.)
What it gets down to is, whenever Christianity gets discussed, it’s the conservative, evangelical/fundamentalist types who scream “but I’m the one who determines what a real Christian is and I say they’re not!!!” Happens on this blog all the time.
Mike Huckabee’s a notable exception. He soundly rejects your bigotry. My respect for him has increased the last few years. Oh, I still think he’s off on lots of stuff, but he’s not a religious bigot.
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:08 am
people have listened to his sermons for years…people from all around the world…was money involved in hi$ change of $pirit and attitude? Ha$ he not quoted the Holy Bible?
catlady
October 25th, 2012
8:10 am
Which big contributor makes Navy ships or their parts?
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:11 am
sfd
I’m going to have to wait for the right moment to tell Mrs. Paul. We have a Michael’s nearby. That may work.
TaxPayer
October 25th, 2012
8:11 am
Duper,
You didn’t need to build that internet connection, etc., just so you could log on here and tell us all how you will take care of yourself. Honest.
Jm
October 25th, 2012
8:11 am
Saggy pants banned in Cocoa Beach
How silly
America is loco
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:11 am
Thanks, Granny.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
8:12 am
Duper – “These must be the end days if ‘bama is hyping himself
as the trust president.”
Better have a tissue handy for when your head explodes: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Pres/Maps/Oct25.html
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:13 am
the day
Maybe he realized there are a lot of interpretations – it’s why we have so many denominations and nondenominations – and he realized he was wrong.
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:14 am
and he realized he was wrong.
____
Yes, and his timing i$ perfect…right in the middle of election $eason!!!
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
8:15 am
“Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts retailer
you forgot to add “and a place in which Mrs. sfd, likely, will never again set foot.”
Sounds a bit like Newton’s Laws of Physics. For every action, there is an equal, but opposite, reaction.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:19 am
Cons who were just a few months ago touting Colin Powell as a win for their side because he wouldn’t endorse Obama at the time can all eat crow now:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2012/10/25/obama-colin-powell-endorsement/1656491/
TaxPayer
October 25th, 2012
8:20 am
Sounds a bit like Newton’s Laws of Physics. For every action, there is an equal, but opposite, reaction.
Well Newton and his silliness certainly have no place in faith-based science. He probably didn’t even believe that the earth was 9000 years old. How silly is that.
USMC
October 25th, 2012
8:20 am
DemocRat VOTER FRAUD!
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/video-captures-dem-campaign-chief-plotting-vote-fraud/
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:22 am
the day
Okay, I’m having a bit of difficulty discerning what you’re saying.
Are you saying Graham was correct to be accepting?
Or that he’s doing it for financial gain?
Cant’ tell if you were agreeing or disagreeing with TaxPayer’s 7:55.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:24 am
TaxPayer
I’d always wondered if Newton ever calculated how many apples can fall off trees in 9000 years -
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 25th, 2012
8:24 am
Elizabeth Warren has a 5-point lead over Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) according to a MassINC/WBUR poll released Wednesday.
Sorry Scott Brown….but there is always nude modeling.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:25 am
USMC and the fringe elements are working overtime the past few days. Could it be because Obama is gaining in the polls and Romney is losing ground?
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:25 am
Since Billy Graham has received a new “Revelation” from God, the Christian Bible should be used as a reference guide as well as the Book of Mormon? I was born into a “Christian” family and the Holy Bible was the ONLY guide that we had.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 25th, 2012
8:25 am
USMC, you can’t arrest someone for plotting. Come back when he gets caught in the act.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 25th, 2012
8:26 am
USMC
October 25th, 2012
8:20 am
DemocRat VOTER FRAUD!
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/video-captures-dem-campaign-chief-plotting-vote-fraud/
.
.
.
.
I CONDEMN THIS ACTION.
Now USMC how do you feel about Nathan Sproul and Colin Small?
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:27 am
Today at a gas station, an old white man saw my myriad of Obama bumper stickers and magnets on my car and came up to me and said “Make sure you vote!”
You guys don’t have the vote as locked up as you think
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 25th, 2012
8:27 am
“Sorry Scott Brown….but there is always nude modeling.” EEWWWW! But funny.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:27 am
Granny: High five!
Ol' Timer
October 25th, 2012
8:28 am
Pentagon spending is out of control when compared to the rest of the world. I did a little research when Rick Perry was talking about the Texas Miracle and found that in addition to being an energy rich state Texas is home to 15,500 defense contractor who received over $350,000,000 in government contracts from 2001-2011. This makes the Texas Miracle a little more understandable.
If the U.S. debt/deficit issue is to be intelligently addressed, everything has to be on the table — including defense cuts and increased revenues. To do otherwise is to perpetrate an additional fraud on the American peoiple. But since the vandals that took office with the Tea Party onslaught of 2010 signed the Grover Norquist pledge, we know how this story is going to turn out regardless of who wins the election.
And, so it goes. . . .”Get all the fools on you side and you can be elected to anything” as p; Frank Dane used to say.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:28 am
“Calling someone a professor is not a devastating zinger if the person you are calling a professor is ACTUALLY a professor!”
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:28 am
Are you saying Graham was correct to be accepting?
_____
I can not judge if he is wrong or not. I am not a “very religious” person but I am “very spiritual”. I am just confused on how Christians can preach one thing and then turn with whatever way the wind is blowing??
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
8:30 am
“USMC, you can’t arrest someone for plotting”
That isn’t universally true though…it depends on WHAT is being plotted.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:30 am
the day
I take it you’ve never attended Episcopalian services? Up until a few years ago The Book of Common Prayer formed the basis for most readings. Some old-timers were pretty upset when they started using the Bible.
But hey, you’re an offshoot that changed doctrines from the original, as are Episcopalians. So Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox can make the same charges of heresy against you that you make against LDS, eh?
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:31 am
I’m going to have to wait for the right moment to tell Mrs. Paul.
For the record, I just got this little issue cleared up via email.
quoting Mrs. sfd directly: “I can live without Hobby Lobby.”
(By the way, tell your Mrs. I love her frozen seafood.)
.
.
((I’m sorry. If I didn’t go there someone else would.))
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 25th, 2012
8:31 am
Adam,
With an early voting place opening up at our Library, the family is meeting Saturday to vote…and to show the young’uns what its all about. Yep, President Obama will gain a few more Georgia votes then.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:31 am
Adam
Love it!
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:31 am
Anti-Drudgey Spam:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2012/10/25/obama-colin-powell-endorsement/1656491/
Colin Powell endorses Obama. Again. After the cons said he wouldn’t.
Cons, why did Colin Powell endorse Obama AFTER the foreign policy debate and AFTER the Benghazi kerfuffle? Only cons may answer, don’t help them liberals.
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:32 am
Sorry Scott Brown…
I’m not. Not since he played the “she don’t look like no Injuhn” card. He can FOAD for that, frankly.
TaxPayer
October 25th, 2012
8:32 am
Paul,
A falling petrified apple follows its own Laws of Physics.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:32 am
Normal: Saturday the gf and I are going to vote early as well.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:34 am
stands: FOADIAF or “FOAD in a ditch covered in petrol on fire” I think is better.
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:34 am
So Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox can make the same charges of heresy against you that you make against LDS, eh?
____
There are “several” religions in the U.S. I am only referring to the timing of Billy Graham. Has anyone ever died and was able to come back and tell the story of life on the other side? Yes, we have had near death situations but can ANYONE give a true description?
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
8:34 am
Just curious, how does Romney plan to crew all his new ships. Or, if he uses the new ones to replace the old ones, how will he maintain his fleet quota? Thoughts?
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
8:34 am
“Not since he played the “she don’t look like no Injuhn” card”
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know just what he thinks an “Injuhn” should look like?
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:34 am
I am not a “very religious” person but I am “very spiritual”.
oddly enough, I’m basically the opposite. Not terribly interested in what the Sky Friend may or may not think about what those two-legged critters are doing on the third rock from the sun. But I’m totally into binding together what has been torn apart, which is what is at the root of the word “religion”, and what is what churches do when they are at their best.
/soapbox
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:36 am
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know just what he thinks an “Injuhn” should look like?
I think it would be more interesting to know just what he was thinking when he decided to pick up a fetid bucket of right wing swamp water and carry it into a televised debate, TWICE.
“Desperation” doesn’t make sense, because he was doing pretty well polling-wise before he went there. I honestly don’t know.
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
8:37 am
“I think it would be more interesting to know just what he was thinking when he decided to pick up a fetid bucket of right wing swamp water and carry it into a televised debate, TWICE”
Think “dog whistle”
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
8:38 am
But I’m totally into binding together what has been torn apart, which is what is at the root of the word “religion”, and what is what churches do when they are at their best.
____
That is the reason that we have a freedom of choice!
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 25th, 2012
8:38 am
USMC how do you feel about Nathan Sproul and Colin Small?
TaxPayer
October 25th, 2012
8:42 am
Just this week, Franklin Graham published an editorial entitled “Can An Evangelical Christian Vote for a Mormon?” The answer was an enthusiastic yes.
How about a Muslim or a Kenyan.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:42 am
Granny: I like your efforts. At least he’s not like another guy I met on FB that continually says stuff like “Will you stand behind Romney and unite the country if he’s elected” to which I respond with “Is that what you’re doing right now? Uniting behind Obama? Burying the hatchet? Can I expect you to unite behind Obama if he wins a second term?” so he says something like “I asked you first” or “This isn’t about me” and then poses his stupid question again.
Goldie
October 25th, 2012
8:42 am
Surprise — Romney/Ryan are arithmetically-challenged!
GT
October 25th, 2012
8:45 am
Someone called Obama disingenuous last night on an interview representing Romney, think it was Trump. I started thinking they must do polls in that GOP camps and find out what bad things people are hanging on Romney and then send their missionaries out into the campaign describing Obama as the very same negative the polls hang on Romney, as if they can rub their smell off on him. And it seems to sick sometimes. You see an army of young lady spokesmen representing the Romney camp very aggressively with the exact same rhythm of conversation and talking points, never breathing as they machine gun it out.
Disingenuous is the word women better be thinking of Romney in this election. He is not a moderate he is a mouthpiece of whatever wind is blowing that day. He does not have the backbone to stand up against the tea party for women’s rights, it is too easy to join the men’s club he now plays in. He has no dog in the women’s hunt, he has sons, his wife is a kept woman who tries to intimidate you into not calling her that. He and a common waitress have nothing in common. The economy is going to get better no matter who is president next term, it is heading that way now like it was heading down at the end of the Bush administration. No one could save it then and no one can stop it from recovery now, it is the women that will be irrevocably harmed if Republicans are elected, they have done it before, have a track record for it, so be fairly warn.
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:47 am
That is the reason that we have a freedom of choice!
well, the Calvinists might take issue with that, but I’m with ya.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:48 am
The day 8:28
I wonder if it’s not $$ driven, the decision of the Billy Graham Association to no longer label LDS as a cult, but if it’s more along the lines of, say, attitudes towards racial minorities or gays – the more people know them, understand them, the more the old perceptions and stereotypes fall away.
sfd
“(By the way, tell your Mrs. I love her frozen seafood.)”
Will do, thanks,
It’s something we agree to disagree on ’cause I can’t stand it.
Which is why I do the cooking at home -
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:50 am
Think “dog whistle”
But the Teapers were already on his side. He had to know it would come off as crude race-baiting. There are plenty of other whistles he could’ve blown–tax “fairness”, etc.–that would’ve had the same effect without making him look like a racist prick (which, for the record, I find hard to believe he is).
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:51 am
the day – 8:34
Sorry, didn’t mean to use the personal pronoun meaning of ‘you’ – meant it more towards those who so easily judge others.
Hey… aren’t we missing a favorite blogger who’s supposed to pop in with Bible verses telling us what the Bible really means?
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:51 am
…then again, I’d like to think the Senator isn’t a *sexist* prick either, but when he blurted out “thank God” when it was mentioned that Elizabeth Warren hadn’t posed nude, it’s kinda hard not to.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:52 am
the day 8:34
Which is why I’m a ‘live and let live’ kind of guy. If believing whatever works for a person and leads to a life of doing good, I’d call that a good thing.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
8:52 am
GT: I started thinking they must do polls in that GOP camps and find out what bad things people are hanging on Romney and then send their missionaries out into the campaign describing Obama as the very same negative the polls hang on Romney, as if they can rub their smell off on him.
The Karl rove strategy, AKA “I never stopped being a bully from the time I was 6″ – “I know you are, but what am I” strategy.
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
8:53 am
“But the Teapers were already on his side. He had to know it would come off as crude race-baiting”
Sure, but he’s got to make sure he doesn’t LOSE those votes. Not that they’ll vote for Warren, but they might not vote at all if he doesn’t feed them meat now and then.
Of course the problem with “dog whistle” words is that they don’t seem to realize that cats can hear them too.
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
8:54 am
It’s something we agree to disagree on ’cause I can’t stand it.
That’s a tad strong, but yeah–I really don’t get the point of frozen, cooked seafood, since fish is so easy to cook.
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
8:55 am
“If believing whatever works for a person and leads to a life of doing good, I’d call that a good thing”
Even Jesus said that, when his disciples complained that others who were not followers were healing people in Jesus name.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:56 am
TaxPayer
“How about a Muslim or a Kenyan.”
Or how about a Mormon turned Catholic?
Like Marco Rubio?
I don’t see how evangelicals could ever support him!
Paul
October 25th, 2012
8:58 am
Doggone/GA
I thought I’d heard that somewhere…….
Thomas
October 25th, 2012
8:59 am
Disingenuous is the word women better be thinking of Romney in this election.
Another example of the extreme telling/preaching/demanding how folks should think and act. When you cannot articulate and build consensus around a strategy- simply (try to) demand.
the day Billy Graham turned his back on God
October 25th, 2012
9:01 am
Sorry, didn’t mean to use the personal pronoun meaning of ‘you’ – meant it more towards those who so easily judge others.
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No problem. I did say that I am not a very religious person but I am spiritual. I grew up in a praying family with several ministers and women that were devoted to God. Their prayers and God’s grace is probably why I have survived over the years. I can not quote scripture, feel bad that I do not have a regular place of worship; just know what is morally right and wrong. I can say that Psalms 24 keeps me grounded!
Mick
October 25th, 2012
9:04 am
Colin powell endorses obama – boom! As doomy would say, called romney’s foreign policy ” a moving target” bullseye…
Mighty Righty
October 25th, 2012
9:06 am
“The economy is going to get better no matter who is president next term, it is heading that way now like it was heading down at the end of the Bush administration”
The Democrats are already setting the stage to take credit for the Romney recovery that is sure to take place. The economy is beginning to slightly improve as the business community begins to believe Romney will replace the economicly challeneged Obama just as the economy began to worsen when it was apparent Obama was to be the next president. Less than two weeks from now, the stench we have suffered with over the last four years is removed once and for all. Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Nazism, Obamaism all piled on the ash heap of historical economic failures.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
9:07 am
Mighty Righty – “The economy is beginning to slightly improve as the business community begins to believe Romney will replace the economicly challeneged Obama”
Better hope they don’t see this: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Pres/Maps/Oct25.html
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
9:08 am
Mick
Going from Powell’s statement, “I think there are some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the governor that I have some trouble with,”, I think most anybody should question Romney’s foreign policy advisors. Powell’s had personal dealing with the neo-conservatives, and has the battle scars to prove it. If he has trouble with it, I would think there’s something bad underneath the surface.
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
9:10 am
The economy is beginning to slightly improve as the business community begins to believe Romney will replace the economicly challeneged Obama just as the economy began to worsen when it was apparent Obama was to be the next president.
I find it amazing that someone could peddle such bullsh*t this early in the morning. If you honestly believe that, then I have a business investment opportunity that you might wanna take advantage of since there’s promise on the horizon. It involves selling beachfront property in Omaha, Nebraska.
GT
October 25th, 2012
9:10 am
Adam totally dead on. The right all sound like union organizers, thugs daring you to think anything but what they think. They spin the augment with “what America does not want” leading into every thing they the GOP do want. They are telling you what you should think and if you don’t you are out of touch. Then they will tell you even after a tape of the exact quote, that is not what he was saying, when they are caught with their pants down. It’s you with a hearing problem not Romney being a flip flopper, he never flip flopped, he never wrote that Detroit should go bankrupt, you misread it. That’s the man I want protected me in Washington, he doesn’t even know his own mind more less little me. That is the straight talk of a teenager coming in late facing his parents not the character of a man this country is seriously thinking about for its president. It is like the Alex Hawkins story on steroids,” that is my story and I am sticking with it”.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
9:11 am
the day 9:01
At the risk of sounding judgmental, that sounds pretty darn good to me -
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 25th, 2012
9:11 am
Mighty Righty – “The economy is beginning to slightly improve as the business community begins to believe Romney will replace the economicly challeneged Obama”
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DuPont apparently didn’t get the memo.
Paul
October 25th, 2012
9:11 am
sheets -
Verbal Kint
October 25th, 2012
9:14 am
Writing’s on the wall. From Detroit, MICHIGAN:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121025/OPINION01/210250332/1008/opinion01/Editorial-Mitt-Romney-President
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
9:14 am
Paul
Not just any sheets… It’s Republican welfare, in the form of giving away pay-per-view movie for free, sheetz!!
loyd george
October 25th, 2012
9:14 am
Lot’s of comments this mornnig,the usual rabble from you yanks, we brits have long been wary of organized religion.. Can be an exceedingly shifty crowd…Worse yet are the poorly informed moralist,I believe the psychology field referrs to them as borderline personality. Need to go ask sigmund…
When you listen to opinions that you can only parrott, you really learn nothing from discussion…if you can even call it that-
Can’t wait to see what Jay has in store for us today, …. Awake good man ,fill us with knowledge(polly wants a cracker)
Steve-USA
October 25th, 2012
9:15 am
“Today at a gas station, an old white man saw my myriad of Obama bumper stickers and magnets on my car and came up to me and said “Make sure you vote!””
I read an article not to long ago that said that people who put bumper stickers and personal statements on their car tend to be mentally unbalanced and you should avoid them.