Santorum exits after a campaign that beat all expectations

Time to get out that etch a sketch Mr Romney.

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Maybe you and moonbase can get him back in the race now.

General Election: Romney vs. Obama IBD/CSM/TIPP Obama 46, Romney 38 Obama +8
General Election: Romney vs. Obama ABC News/Wash Post Obama 51, Romney 44 Obama +7

Two latest polls have Obama with a comfortable lead.

Obama will win most states other than the … ahem … Southern ones.

Wonder why ?

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From burying the hatchet to now slinging the dirt…..this will be one of the nastiest, dirtiest campaigns…and Karl Rove with the Koch Brothers will stop at nothing (particularly LIE anout EVERYTHING!) to keep the nation under their thumb!! The the conservative sheep will fall in line…….

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I can only jump to a conclusion that his dropping out has something to do with his daughter’s health. God Bless.

While you contend that positions “in an election year bound to be dominated by dollars and cents”, I also think those social issues will be a large factor in choosing the next President. That should concern the Repubs, but let the chest beating begin!

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No tears from me for this big government, social engineering, arrogant, repeat loser. I don’t think he added much to the discussion. Glad he is gone, and we can focus on eviction of the Blamer in Chief.

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When you “put your foot in your mouth” it means you say something stupid

that offends another people.

Most everyone has put their foot in their mouth at one time or another. Often,

this is done without malice, but sometimes people do disregard other people’s feelings.

It’s important to be aware of your surroundings before you talk, which can help prevent you from

making a conversational blunder.

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Look, Santorum was going to get beat again in his home state, and if he had allowed that to happen, his political goose would have been cooked forever. Romney had a $3 million ad buy waiting in the wings that talked about Santorum’s last loss and his fiscal spending record, both things he couldn’t challenge. Add in no money, no organization, a sick daughter, and the prospects of another shellacking in two weeks with some very big electoral states, and he had no choice but to suspend the Crusade.

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So you cons will vote for the corporatist, flip flopping, moderate magic underwear candidate who has a car elevator in one of his mansions, and who drove his dog across country on the top of the station wagon?

Glad to see you have such standards for the leader of our nation.

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Ernest Tee

You are going to be rock throwing mad this Nov, when your darling Romina is thrown out of the big house along with her bumbling husband.

According to Dick Morris his research, which goes back through modern times, suggests the undecided overwhelmingly go to the challenger. If they like what they have why are they undecided. It is like he says, if you ask your wife if she would marry you again and she responds, let me think about it, you have your answer.

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According to Dick Morris

I stopped reading right there.

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Steve,

Romney would not have to much at all to exceed the standards of the current Blamer in Chief.

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Romney will turn left or lose,

He will have to go faaar left to have a chance.

Bad thing is when he does that he will suppress the base’s turnout.

He cant win either way.

If he stays to the right he will lose all the independents and lose.

If he moves to the left the base will stay home and he will lose.

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“So you deny that Mormons have holy underwear?, Tiberius?”

Yes.

“How is that bigotry, that’s just a fact.”

Prove it.

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How is that bigotry, that’s just a fact.

They do in fact have holy underwear.

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I stopped reading right there.

Typical, another willfully uninformed liberal. Hard to argue with willful ignorance. Do you hold your hands over your ears and hum to keep from hearing criticism from Romina.

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Santorum just happened to be the last cardboard cutout “Anti-Romney” standing. His substance did not get him as many votes as who he was not … Mitt Romney. Good riddance. Romney needs to be able to focus solely on Obama.

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But I thought god was on Santorum’s side? No? I love that GA conservatives now have to vote for a mormon, Massachusetts moderate who has flip-flopped on literally every important issue over the past few years. I’d really feel back for conservatives if they weren’t such awful human beings.

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Oh Brother

April 10th, 2012
3:37 pm
“Compared to 2008 there isn’t a single area we are better off in… budget deficit, worse… gas prices, worse… personal finances, worse.. race relations, worse… international relations (Canada, UK, China, Germany, Obama has angered them all repeatedly), worse… health care (ask a doctor how many drugs are in short supply or unavailable), worse…”

Let’s see – a nation in economic recovery from a crisis that left unchecked was leading us into a depression; unemployment on the decline; from LOSING 750K jobs monthly to gaining 120K – 250K monthly!!
That’s a beginning!

Race relations are because of the negatives that conservatives, the Tea Party, Karl rove and the Koch Brothers have put into play!! This level of animus didn’t come forth until Obama came into office!!

Personal finances were in rapid decline under Bush…but there is a steady recovery in many circles! For as many that you say are in decline, there are that many in recovery (me, for one!)…..

Health care…which the GOP NEVER tackled…now insurance can’t consider pre-existing conditions and college students can stay covered on their parents’ coverage…these are good things!!

Drugs are in short supply due to the GOP’s refusal to negotiate with the drug companies on Medicare pricing…and the drug companies are holding back the supply!!

Things are improving…but when conservatives stated from the beginning that their main focus was to make Obama a “one-term President”, it was evident that there would be nothing but hostility rather than taking care of the nation’s business……

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Typical, another willfully uninformed liberal. Hard to argue with willful ignorance. Do you hold your hands over your ears and hum to keep from hearing criticism from Romina.

Not uninformed. By a long shot. Just dont give Dick Morris much credibility.

By the way tell Dick to pay his taxes. Typical Republican not doing his part.

from USA Today

“The IRS filed a $1.5 million tax lien against Bill Clinton’s former political adviser in 2003. The state of Connecticut reports Dick Morris owes $452,367 in back taxes and penalties.”

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2008-04-13-Taxcover_N.htm

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@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
3:44 pm
“So you deny that Mormons have holy underwear?, Tiberius?”

Yes.

“How is that bigotry, that’s just a fact.”

Prove it.
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GOGGLE – Mormon Underwear or Mormon Religion

To millions of Mormons around the world, garments are a special piece of clothing worn as a symbolic gesture of the promises that they have made to God. The garment is always worn under other clothing, next to the skin. For most people who wear it, the garment takes the place of regular underwear.

(For this reason, some people refer to the garment as Mormon undergarments or as Mormon underwear. Most LDS prefer simply using the term “garment” instead.)

The garment is directly related to Mormon temples. It is there that faithful members first receive the garment after individual instruction on what it stands for and how it should be cared for.

The garment is worn as part of a special ceremony called the temple endowment. The garment is worn at all times (day and night) by members as a constant reminder of the promises they have made to God in the Temple to be honest and faithful to the commandments of the Lord.
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“That’s just a fact.”

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Oh well. Let’s go Newt! Let’s go Newt! Let’s go Newt!

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@ Tiberius – Nice try. I would love to know what new and compelling information persuaded Mittens to completely change his opinions on abortion, health care, tax policy, the environment, etc. There wasn’t any. He wanted conservatives to vote for him, then he wanted MA democrats to vote for him, then he wanted Tea Party loons to vote for him, now he is going to want independents to vote for him. Whichever way the wind blows. Santorum was a lunatic but at least he had some conviction.

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KARMA will get you everytime.

You reap what you sow.

Santorum does not have to WORRY about giving black people other people’s money.

Santorum does have to WORRY about his next CAREER.

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HDB
The conservatives did not state from the beginning that their main focus was to make Obama a one term president. That came after he shoved Obamacare down their gullet without trying to get one GOP vote. Had he taken a different tact and tried to work with the GOP and incorporate them in the discussion, the effort to defeat him would have been postponed until closer to the election. He knew he had a Dem controlled House and Senate and he said to hell with the GOP from the getgo. He did not realize that you can’t govern against 50% of the population.

HOWEVER, Dems did go after GWB from the outset. Even before he was sworn in, they were screaming he stole the election. Not true, every recount showed he would have won Florida, even though Al Gore had disenfranchised the military vote. So, unless you are willing to criticize the Dems, you don’t need to bring up this tired old untruth about Mitch McConnell saying we need to make Barry Oblamer a one term President.

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Kyle, do you not grasp the irony of a liberal forcing a racist conservative to own up to their own racism? I could care less about Romney’s religion (except for the fact that it funded an anti-gay marriage movement in California). However, I do find it amusing that someone who thinks Obama is a “Muslim” wouldn’t have concerns about Romney’s Mormonism, since it’s about as different from Christianity as the Islamic faith is. You miss the reason we “liberals” point this out in the first place.

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Santorum does not have to WORRY about giving black people other people’s money. ?

huh?

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Holy undergarments, magic underwear, Obozo, the Kenyan…blah blah blah

It’s only ok when the right wing racists do it eh?

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The conservatives did not state from the beginning that their main focus was to make Obama a one term president.

We didn’t have to Rafe… the apologist and chief embarrassment made his one term Presidency very clear after about two months in office.

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However, I do find it amusing that someone who thinks Obama is a “Muslim” wouldn’t have concerns about Romney’s Mormonism, since it’s about as different from Christianity as the Islamic faith is. You miss the reason we “liberals” point this out in the first place

It is humorous. Watch how fast Wingfield and the Fox News nuts declare religion off the table this time around.

They will cry religious freedom and that its a personal matter.

Funny that didn’t apply to Obama.

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Kyle, you know Santorum was living in the 1920s and will never be president in this country. I am sure Mitt will not even think of him as a running mate.

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Mr. Liberty, Santorum has SUSPENDED his campaign, not ended it. His delegates are NOT up for grabs. And Ron Paul never had anywhere close to second place in delegates. EVER.

Ron Paul supporters are fervent, but simply delusional.

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Let’s stop talking about ANYONE’s “faith.” It’s all a crock of delusional garbage.

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Ernest: Find one instance on this blog of my talking about Obama’s faith. Just one.

I doubt I will.

But don’t act like it wasn’t going on. In spades.

And continues to this day.

Tell you what how many articles did you write condemning those that questioned his religion?

If you did then good for you.

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Religious bigotry always comes from the left.

That maybe the funniest thing I have ever heard.

Mormons also believe that Jesus came to America.
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See im not saying that is right or wrong. Im merely pointing it out.

THAT IS WHAT MORMONS BELIEVE !!!!

That is a long way from the hatred the right has for Muslims and the lies they will tell about Obama and his faith in order to move their agenda.

Big difference. Again I understand if you Republicans dont get it.

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@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
4:02 pm
Trash, a few points:

First, your comments never used the term “magic” at all, let alone “magic underwear”. First failure for you.

Second, so these “garments” are worn day and night, right? Let me ask you a question: Do you believe in God? If so, do you wear a cross? If so, do you wear it day and night? Against your skin?

Thought so. Failure number 2 for you.

The next time you attempt to denigrate another person’s religion, you might wish to bone up on the one you happen to practice. In short, if there is no cross as a religious symbol to wear, what else are you going to wear against your body?

Garments.
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He did say:

Steve
April 10th, 2012
3:42 pm
So you deny that Mormons have holy underwear?, Tiberius? How is that bigotry, that’s just a fact.

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Tiberius why are you getting so defensive?

Is it because……………………………………….

mormon underwear makes you feel UNCOMFORTABLE speaking about it?

Aint’ No SHAME IN THE GAME.

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Ernest Tee
Oblamer was raised as a Muslim, professes to be a Christian, what is he?

A complete failure as a President, regardless of what religion he is!

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@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
Rafe Hollister @ 4:08: Thanks for helping out! These religious bigots on the left are simply unbelievable.
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Religious bigots?

Kettle calling the Pot black (Obama is a muslim?)

heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee

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Trash, I had no problem with speaking about anyone’s religion. I just like to make sure that lies and hyperbole are kept to a minimum on this blog (a tough thing to do with he likes of you here).

Now, you failed once on this topic. Care to fail again? Or do I get the apology from you that I should receive for your being wrong about what Mormons believe?

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Rafe Hollister @ 4:08: Thanks for helping out! These religious bigots on the left are simply unbelievable.

I can’t say much better things in regards to the religious bigots on the right either.
My faith disagrees with both Mormon and Catholics on Biblical doctrines but I respect the rights of people of both these particular beliefs. The 1st amendment protects religious plurality, Mr. Rick Warren of Saddleback. I think we should do the same, not only as born again believers but as Americans as well.

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@@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
Rafe Hollister @ 4:08: Thanks for helping out! These religious bigots on the left are simply unbelievable.

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RELIGIOUS BIGOTS? WHO DAT?

Rafe Hollister
April 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
Ernest Tee
Oblamer was raised as a Muslim, professes to be a Christian, what is he?

A complete failure as a President, regardless of what religion he is!

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The only RELIGIOUS BIGOTS and FAILURES aroung here are YOU AND RAFE.

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Since you wouldn’t back up your “magic underwear” claim, why don’t you try doing so for this one, Ernest?

third paragraph down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon

The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve,[5] the nature of the Atonement,[6] eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death,[7] and the organization of the latter-day church. The pivotal event of the book is an appearance of Jesus Christ to the Americas shortly after his resurrection.

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eschatology?

Ernst, I know what the word means and you might as well but I doubt five other people who read this blog haves the slightest clue, unless they attend a Bible college or seminary.

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Here is one on the underwear.

http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/mormon/underwear/

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Thank you, Ernest T.

Now, do Mormons actually believe that? As in, do all (or a majority, even) of Christians actually believe that Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt?

Really?

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Steve, not you.

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“Garments are a symbolic gesture of the promises that Mormons have made to God. The garment is always worn under other clothing, next to the skin. In fact, for most people who wear it, the garment takes the place of regular underwear. Mormons begin wearing it during their first visit to the temple, wherein they receive individual instruction on how the garment should be worn and cared for, and furthermore, they undergo a sacred ceremony called the temple endowment. Solely during this ritual, additional special clothing is put on; by contrast, the garment or special underwear is worn at all times, both day and night, from then on. It serves as a constant reminder of the covenants made during the temple endowment.”

So, this is ok, but socialism is bad. Muslim is bad.

(again, Obama is not any more of a socialist than Reagan, Bush, or any preceding Republican President – reality check, people).

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@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
Trash, I had no problem with speaking about anyone’s religion. I just like to make sure that lies and hyperbole are kept to a minimum on this blog (a tough thing to do with he likes of you here).

Now, you failed once on this topic. Care to fail again? Or do I get the apology from you that I should receive for your being wrong about what Mormons believe?

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Tiberius I thought Kyle was AGAINST name calling?

Who are you calling TRASH?

REMEMBER THIS:

@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!
March 14th, 2012
9:43 pm
“So now YOU ALL are the BLOG POLICE.”

YOUR WORDS: Nope. Just issuing friendly warnings based on Kyle’s recent posts regarding civility.

“I can’t help if some of US are creative and some of YOU are mediocre”

YOUR WORDS: Trust me. There is NOTHING about you that is even remotely associated with the word creative. Creepy? Yes. Creative? Not so much.

“YOU AIN’T THE BOSS OF ME.”

YOUR WORDS: Good thing, too. I would have fired your a$$ long ago

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Republicans ARE HYPOCRITES

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Ernest, I will copy my 4:02 response to Trashman regarding the “magic underwear” nonsense you like to spout:

“Trash, a few points:

First, your comments never used the term “magic” at all, let alone “magic underwear”. First failure for you.

Second, so these “garments” are worn day and night, right? Let me ask you a question: Do you believe in God? If so, do you wear a cross? If so, do you wear it day and night? Against your skin?

Thought so. Failure number 2 for you.

The next time you attempt to denigrate another person’s religion, you might wish to bone up on the one you happen to practice. In short, if there is no cross as a religious symbol to wear, what else are you going to wear against your body?

Garments.”

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Is anyone offended by the “possibility” that Harry Reid may wear “magic underwear”?

There are a lot of things about Harry Reid that offend me, but what he wears under his clothing isn’t one of ‘em.

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Do you believe in God?

No.

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Fundamental Decency, I’m calling you Trash because we all know that you’re the blogger formerly known as God Hates Trash – Superstar. There is no sense in you denying it.

So I use your former handle because keeping up with your rather childish name changing is boring and unproductive to me. And the fact that you copy and store people’s posts from this blog is creepy to the max. You’re really an Internet stalker in training, and I wonder when you’re going to take the next step in that regard.

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Just show how, WOW, you put your foot in your mouth trying to defend Obama’s Marxism.

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Just Saying

How can anyone claim that Romney is Obamalite? One wants to enforce Obamacare, the other repeal it. One wants to stop the spending, the other wants to increase it. One wants to balance the budget, the other thinks that is just silly. One wants to redistribute income, the other wants a flatter fairer tax system. One wants to appoint liberal justices to the SCOTUS, one wants to appoint justices that believe in the Constitution and not try to stretch it.

Guess you will be voting to reelect the Blamer in Chief, otherwise, you wouldn’t be trying to equate two opposing forces.

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Whats wrong with a little income redistribution ?

The estate tax did that quite nicely for years.

Ernest is an advocate for double taxation?

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I’m not much of a fan of Romney but I don’t really care what kind of drawers somebody wears and I still ain’t figured out what the big deal is about putting a dog in a cage, on top of a car. From the account I read, he even went to the trouble to fashion a makeshift windshield for the cage, which is more than I probably would’ve done.

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@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
Fundamental Decency, I’m calling you Trash because we all know that you’re the blogger formerly known as God Hates Trash – Superstar. There is no sense in you denying it.

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Kyle knows who I am.

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Hillbilly:

Rarely, if ever, have I asked you to elaborate, but I’m curious this time. What prevents you from being a fan of Romney?

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Rafe Hollister
April 10th, 2012
4:56 pm:
“How can anyone claim that Romney is Obamalite? One wants to enforce Obamacare, the other repeal it. One wants to stop the spending, the other wants to increase it. One wants to balance the budget, the other thinks that is just silly. One wants to redistribute income, the other wants a flatter fairer tax system. One wants to appoint liberal justices to the SCOTUS, one wants to appoint justices that believe in the Constitution and not try to stretch it.”

Today. But his record as a politician is that of a “watch this space” kind of guy.

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and I still ain’t figured out what the big deal is about putting a dog in a cage, on top of a car.

I still haven’t figured out how anyone would come up with the idea.

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“a campaign that beat all expectations”
“leave the applause to Santroum himself”
“pushed Mitt Romney to the brink”

Well, Kyle, I guess we know which Republican you wanted to get the nomination. Incidentally, this preference doesn’t make you look too good.

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Michael H. Smith
April 10th, 2012
5:24 pm:
“Oh and by the way, to all those who get hung up on this flip-flop business, I have two questions for you:
1) Name a politician that has never once changed his or her mind on or about anything, or on or about any issue?
2) Have you never once changed your mind on or about anything, or on or about any issue?

Yeah, thought so’

Seemed really important to many Republicans in the 2008 election.

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Just Saying
I will take the guy who is saying the right things presently, over one who spent his youth “gravitating to the Marxist professors” and governing like he learned his lessons well.

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Well, it does look like the election liberal propaganda group has been put in action already. They were just waiting for the last dropout. But they sound so familiar.

Remember Mz Godzilla who was a liberal employee and posted something Bush/negative almost every five minutes on Bookman’s blog (before Kyle came) as IN The News. There were 20 of those folks paid to work in Georgia for Obama in the last election. No telling how many are ready now.

So here comes Ernest T. Bass. Didn’t he bring up “underwear” and keep asking about it like he was puzzled. Typical!

I’d say “Fundamental Decency” is on his own. Nobody would pay him for such stuff. You have to be cheery, kinda “pert” and halfway clever ( all with a straight face)..

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@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!

April 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
Fundamental Decency, I’m calling you Trash because we all know that you’re the blogger formerly known as God Hates Trash – Superstar. There is no sense in you denying it.

So I use your former handle because keeping up with your rather childish name changing is boring and unproductive to me. And the fact that you copy and store people’s posts from this blog is creepy to the max. You’re really an Internet stalker in training, and I wonder when you’re going to take the next step in that regard.

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You would be SURPRISED AT who I am.

When you put your comments out there in the public it is FAIR GAME.

I am not a stalker, just smart enough to use your OWN words against you.

Be careful what you say if you don’t want it REPEATED.

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I still haven’t figured out how anyone would come up with the idea.

You have a car, a cage and a dog. The family is in the car (I have no idea the size of the car), where else you going to put the dog?

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I see that the koward liberals are manning up against Mormonism, courage that they seem to be sorely lacking when it comes to Islamism.

And there is a hidden message in all this manufactured hysteria, it means that Mormons are totally harmless. If they weren’t, all these little pipsqueak liberals would fall silent.

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Dusty@ 5:44 pm

Congratulations to being able to read the posts about the “underwear.” I gave up in the middle of the first one.

Since many posts today are off the topic anyway, I will remind you of your post late last night. Did you believe I would leave it unchallenged?

Dusty @11:51 pm: ”Don’t you have to give some reason for your assertion that he is wrong? You did give some reasons but they were educated guesses, not what we call proven facts.”

I did not? Read td’s argument (@5:50 pm): “You have to have a photo id to buy a beer, buy tobacco, get in a bar,…” Now be honest: Is that true or false? Just a simple question of facts you know well.

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MarkV

Glad to answer “last night” for you. I am always honest, thank you. So let me tell you, I can’t stand the taste of beer, have never smoked but have been in restaurants that served alcohol that also had a bar and I don’t think they asked for ID.. I don’t drink alcohol except Manichevitz with fruitcake once a year. (Yeah, I know. A real dud!)

I do know teenagers have to show ids to prove they are old enough to buy beer or alcohol. I knew someone who worked at a convenience store who told me that. Not sure about cigarettes.

Does that help?

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where else you going to put the dog?

In his back yard
At a friend’s house
In a kennel
….there’s plenty of places. And why would you take the dog if there’s no room? Is Mitt spatially challenged?

Honey,”You aint got no dog in this hunt!”

True. I also don’t have one $#!^^ing down the back of my car either, thank goodness.

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Ooops. changed name back.

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In his back yard
At a friend’s house
In a kennel

Those won’t get the dog from point A to point B.

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Leeeeroy Jenkins, 6:23

Gotta say it. You are one sick puppy.

You don’t use your sick child as a propup for publicity. You love and cherish them and suffer with them when they are ill. Go hide your face somewhere.

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MarkV

I’m very much an adult but don’t live in a rural community. Never have. But according to @@s comment, she was checked (or almost) for age at a city grocery when buying beer. .

Perhaps, if age is the only restriction, they don’t bother to check if one has gray hairr, etc. etc. etc.

PS Got lotsa good mountain air today. Good mountain food! A good time altogether. Now we have to eat yesterday’s leftovers. I’m gonna hear complaints!!! Maybe I won’t claim ‘em as my offspring and make ‘em show their ID. Yes!

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Kroger cards you no matter how old you look.

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My hair isn’t gray. IT’S BROWN!!!

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New research comes out and its bad news for conservatives. It certainly explains ALOT about the people on this blog though…. http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/03/16/0146167212439213.abstract
Look on the bright side conservatives. If you just stop drinking so much, focus a little, and work a little harder, you may eventually see the light.

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It was certainly a stretch when describing the liberals on this blog, ragnar.

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That is about as contrived a conclusion as I have ever read, saywhat.

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Pizzaman, you’re late. The bigots like you have already been chased away.

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As John F. Kennedy put it in 1963 when he endorsed a cut in this tax: “The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital” as well as “the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”

Today’s Democrats in Washington are no Jack Kennedys. As President Obama told Charlie Gibson of ABC News in 2008, whether or not a higher capital-gains tax raises more revenue is irrelevant to him. He wants a higher rate as a matter of “fairness.” The soup may be lousy but he wants more of it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203918304577241513296604128.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Pretty much sums up the difference between a Democrat and a Liberal.

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Chain restaurants require wait staff to ask for ID. Had a future son-in-law fired when he forgot once and the sixty year old guy he was waiting on was a big wig with the chain. No argument, broke the rules, outta there.

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Saywhat, in a contest of deep thinking, you wouldn’t even be in my same zip code. I’ve read your posts.

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Oblama wants the capital gains tax raised because he feels it is “unfair”. Charles Gibson asked him something to the effect, since stats show that raising the capital gains rate reduces the amount of capital gain revenue the government receives, why would you want to raise it. Obama said because it is unfair.

So, he is for the Buffet rule because it strikes him as fair even though it will result in less money coming into the government. Talk about delusional economical policies. Much of the liberal economic plan involves punishing the rich, not increasing revenue.

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Oblamer is also dishonest when he lies through omission. He often points out that he wants the rich to pay the same rate as their secretaries. He deliberately leads the willfully uninformed to believe that the rich are paying a lower income tax rate than the middle class. He knows the rich have little income and pay mainly capital gains. Class warfare is his game and election strategy.

The Buffet rule brings in about 4 B a year, we spend that much on a daily basis. He has this as his chief economic policy for the 2012 campaign. Only the willfully uninformed would thing that this man has a plan or economic policy.

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Kyle wrote: “First, he had a way of talking about social issues that, in my view, was unnecessarily abrasive. As I considered whether to vote for him, I couldn’t escape the belief that he could have made the same points in a more appealing way”

So, help me understand something, Kyle. You don’t actually have a problem with the content of his extremist views on social issues, you merely have a problem with how he presented those views?

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Romney’s “Mormon moment” was bound to happen sooner or later in this campaign. Four years ago, during his first presidential campaign, it happened when the chatter over Mormonism got loud enough that the former Massachusetts governor saw fit to deliver a major speech on faith. Most memorably, it was presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, who made headlines by wondering out loud if Mormons believe Jesus and the devil are brothers. He later apologized to Romney, but the damage may already have been done.

I just don’t accept any claim from Kyle that “liberals” will be at the forefront of the attacks on another’s religion.

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@@Rafe Hollister

April 10th, 2012
4:28 pm
Kyle, the Trashman Superstar is back. Is it Ok to use multiple names, like Republicans Beware, Trashman Superstar, Fred, Fundamental Decency? He has a new name for every blog. Just wondering what the rules are.

@Linda

April 10th, 2012
7:25 pm
Rafe@4:28, I made a comment to Kyle yesterday about the problem, but he has completely ignored it.

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Maybe the reason he has not answered is because I AM NOT the Trashman Superstar.

Multiple names are not prohibited.

Anyone can change their blog name if they choose.

As long as it does not infringe on anyone’s rights.

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@Rafe Hollister

April 10th, 2012
7:51 pm
Linda
His blog, he makes the decisions. Guess we will have just have to ignore or step over it when the Trashman Cometh.
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The Trashman must be a pain to you and Linda.

However, I AM NOT THE TRASHMAN.

Kyle knows who I am.

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“I AM NOT THE TRASHMAN”

Yeah, and the Zapruder film proved that JFK shot first .. .

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ten percent
Take this blog as a microcosm and go back and count who brought up Mormonism. Liberals, all.

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New word for you libs to chew on for a while:

Ineptocracy

*_Ineptocracy_****(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least
capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded
with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number
of producers*

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“You have to have a photo id to buy a beer, buy tobacco, get in a bar,…”

False.

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Tiberius & Linda:

Ignore him/her…then watch him/her create a new persona with whom he/she can converse. I’ve witnessed it before. It’s hilarious.

He/she will have to work overtime to avoid mistakes.

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Rafe@7:52, Comments that I made since 7:25 prove what we have been talking about & complaining about since the weekend. Kyle has lost his desire & ability to control his blog & censor inappropriate comments from commenters that seek to shut down comments from conservatives by intimidation. It’s really a loss to Kyle, the newspaper, our city & our state. Personally, I am insulted.

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tiberius and Linda,

This is not unique to this blog. I have noticed over the past few weeks that there are a great deal of blogs being invaded by progressives and it seems that their main objective is to shut down conservative political thought by intimidation or just being outright nasty.

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Its because their Messiah can’t run on his record, so they’ve got nothing else but to attack us personally.

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@@ @8:30, You would need to view the comments from over the weekend to understand the extent of the problem. Their was nothing to be “ignored.” It was harassment & other commenters referred to it as stalking. He/it DID create a new personna as he/it has done over & over again, for weeks & months. It’s time for Kyle to stop it.

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@Linda

April 10th, 2012
8:35 pm
Rafe@7:52, Comments that I made since 7:25 prove what we have been talking about & complaining about since the weekend.

Kyle has lost his desire & ability to control his blog & censor inappropriate comments from commenters that seek to shut down comments from conservatives by intimidation. It’s really a loss to Kyle, the newspaper, our city & our state. Personally, I am insulted.
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LINDA you have a HABIT of trying to ban people who do not agree with YOU.

You are a habitual WHINNER.

We are INSULTED that you keep trying to SILENCE people who don’t agree
with you.

REMEMBER THIS:

Linda
January 13th, 2012
10:26 pm
Vampire@9:59 & 10:17, Get off this blog NOW or I’ll hit “Report This Comment” to Kyle. He knows who you are & where you are blogging from. You are not in any shape to continue.

Linda
January 13th, 2012
10:29 pm
Vampire@10:26, This is my last warning. It’s for your own good.

getalife
January 13th, 2012
11:38 pm
What?
No freedom of speech on this blog because Linda said to get off the blog?
Too funny.

td
January 13th, 2012
11:59 pm
@getalife
January 13th, 2012
11:38 pm
What?
No freedom of speech on this blog because Linda said to get off the blog?

Too funny.

Please, how many times have I been told by people to get off of Jim’s or Jay’s blog each week?

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“Let me you ask you: what’s the better way to make our economy stronger? Do we give another $150,000 tax break to every millionaire and billionaire in the country?” the president said.

“Or should we make investments in education and research and health care and our veterans?”

Simple talk for the simple minded.

How much more money can you pour into education and continue to watch our children get outperformed by Zimbabwe?

Or is education even the priority of the tax money grubbing liberal bureaucrats?

Gimme, gimme, gimme, is obozo’s answer to every question.

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Well let’s see Trashman. You add nothing of substance. You lack even the most basic form needed for civil discussion. You are nothing but run on sentence after run on sentence of insults. You never address the topic. And you personally attack everyone you address.

Why shouldn’t you be banned for not even remotely following Kyle’s rules?

Add to that your creepy stalker mode, and you’re really not welcome here due to your current and likely future behavior

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Was puzzled by why I didn’t care whether I was liked or not.

That’s kind of like the 15 minutes of fame thing. Somebody else can have 30 minutes cause I don’t want any. (IW&SH)

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@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…

April 10th, 2012
9:28 pm
“Let me you ask you: what’s the better way to make our economy stronger? Do we give another $150,000 tax break to every millionaire and billionaire in the country?” the president said.

“Or should we make investments in education and research and health care and our veterans?”

Simple talk for the simple minded.

How much more money can you pour into education and continue to watch our children get outperformed by Zimbabwe?

Or is education even the priority of the tax money grubbing liberal bureaucrats?

Gimme, gimme, gimme, is obozo’s answer to every question.

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You are RIGHT……your comments are simple talk by a simple minded.

“How much more money can you pour into education? ”

As MUCH as it TAKES.

You should know that “A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE”.

“Tax money grubbing liberal bureaucrats?”

Reagan’s tax legacy fits neither the right-wing nor left-wing pigeonholes.

Although he cut taxes when he could, he raised them when he had to.

“Tax money grubbing RIGHT-WING bureaucrats.”

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Kyle, 3:45, tell me what’s wrong with my logic? The proof of the pudding will be with the results of 2012 election combined with nomination process starting about 2014. I think you will see my predictions come true. Bet you a beer on it.

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Well, the Tent Revivalists lost their campaign to bring back the Dark Ages.

That leaves the Serial Philanderer, the addled Dr. Paul and the Second Coming of John McCain.

You neocons desperately need some new candidates.

The twenty or so that you have trotted out the last four years have sucked.

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AmVet

April 10th, 2012
10:04 pm

And tell us all again what made Obama qualified to be President? Community organizer? 2 years as Senator? Adjunct Constitutional professor? This made him qualified? How about the fact that if he was not African American then he would not have received more then 5% of the Democratic primary vote.

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He’s from Roger???

Redact to read he’s from Georgia.

LOL.

td, go pout over at stormfront…

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Lil One, you’re one of those moronic birthers???

That explains a great deal.

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CBO says Obozocare will cost $350 billion more over ten years than Obozo claimed.

How is he going to pay for it?

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Tiberius: your 7:37 exemplifies (you’ll should look up the meaning) what I’m saying. Your not capable of informed, intelligent debate only Limbaugh/Hannity/Boortz debate. You’ve never had an original idea in your life. Get a life. Don’t do something because someone else has told you what to think.

TD your 7: 58 makes no sense.

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TD: Christ said ” Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are God’s”. This is the highest command for separation of Church and State. I fully believe this and will never combine or confuse or debate religious politics.

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Progressive Humanist

April 10th, 2012
11:30 pm

It is certainly is a states right to develop any type of healthcare system they want but it is unconstitutional for the Federal Government to create a mandate. Yes, we know that pesky little Constitution gets in the way of you progressives from taking us down the road to socialism.

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The Republicans insist on having one train wreck after another
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Train wreck? Like Obozo’s new normal of 8-10% unemployment?

Get real and focus on things that matter.

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1 Samuel 16:7 For The Lord does not see as man sees. The Lord sees the heart. See Oblama for what he is not what he appears to be. Oblama is all smoke and mirrors. He will be known as the “Great Divider”. Oblamacrat strategy is to give us smoke and mirrors. This election is about the economy, jobs and how to reduce this alarming Fed debt. Oblamacrats plan is to cause class warfare, sex warfare and race warfare. Oblama is the “Great Divider”. Create a smoke screen to hide the truth. Oblama is no Ronald Reagan, yet he has starting to praise Reagan even though in one of Oblama’s books he said Reagan did “dirty deeds” in The White House. Why the sudden love for Reagen by the Oblamacrats? They are trying to paint Oblama as a moderate. Oblama is no Reagan. Reagan was for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Oblama is for a government of the government, by the government and for the government. Oblama is a socialist. See Oblama for what he is – not what he appears to be. See who Oblama associates with – the radical left, The New Black Panther Party, Reverunt Rat, etc., etc., etc. Oblama’s voting record in Congress was as far left as it gets. See Oblama’s heart for what he is. – not what he appears to be. A divider – not a uniter. Smoke and mirrors.

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Oblama is no Reagan. Reagan was for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Oblama is for a government of the government, by the government and for the government.
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You’ve nailed the difference between our President Reagan and the Idiot Klown.

I would say it a slightly different way–”Oblama is for a people of the government, by the government and for the government.”

Welcome to Idiot Klown’s disastrous regime. Now shuffle on down the road to serfdom, Obozo receptacles.

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But given that the women in this country are gonna vote against Romney in epic, probably historic proportions, I suspect this election is already over…

Geez! The way AmVet goes on and on about women defeating Romney, I’d almost believe he (AmVet) was one. The “stalker” also believes that the woman’s vote will defeat Romney. Come to think of it, AmVet has been a stalker from day one.

Could it be….

schnirt

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And anyone relying on polls taken in early April of any election year is a fool.

In addition, while women occasionally get it wrong when choosing a President (see Clinton, Bill and Obama, Barack) the recent firestorm generated by both the lamestream media and fueled by Rick Santorm was largely ignored by the GOP nominee, Mitt Romney. A such, Romney has time to repair the damage done in a generic sense by the above-mentioned sources, and can’t be painted with the same brush as Santorum could be.

Finally, AmVet’s political prognostication skills are seriously lacking, in that he has predicted huge losses for the GOP time and time again, only to be proven wrong each and every time. I wouldn’t bet a single $1 on any of AmVet’s picks in any election.

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…only to be proven wrong each and every time.

The next time you prove anything on one of these forums, it will be the very first time. LOL.

But it is interesting how the word *proven* is just some made up nonsense to you.

The new party-wide malady known as Republispeak…

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And AmVet, the difference between you and me is that I separate my opinions from my facts.

My facts are ALWAYS proven, because they are facts.

And my opinions are usually correct because they are based on facts.

Which always makes my predictions closer to reality than anything you’ve ever done.

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Anyone can remember that the 2008 dummycrat Tower of Babble featured the horrors of war, lists of dead US soldiers trotted out and shook in our faces, videos of dead babies accompanied by menacing accusatory tones, but now that their “president” does the killing, the liberals couldn’t give a rat’s ass.

Shoulda got your family out of the way of the drone, Ackmed, is what they’re sayin…

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I Report,

How about all those stories in 2008 about how rising gas prices are ruining the economy and Bush was making his friends in the oil industry rich and could lower gas prices. What are the stories today about gas prices? Yes, Obama can not control gas prices and it is not his fault.

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Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!
April 10th, 2012
11:45 pm:”…which is why we have the current Disaster-in-Chief residing in the White House.

But HOPEFULLY not for long.”

Tib visits reality.

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What’s the difference between “baby mommas”, “job creators”, and “government contractors”….?

NOTHING….They all have their hands out…waiting on that government welfare….!!!!!

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Job creators employ people, government contractors perform needed services, baby mommas create more dependent baby mommas and more baby daddys, but more important to the Dems, future voters.

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just for you uga 1999

WAR ON WOMEN backfired

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Great quote:

“People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.” – Thomas Sowell

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So what have we learned from the posts responding to Kyle’s column of Rick Santorum exiting the GOP primary race?

First and foremost, we have learned that liberals claim to be more tolerant than conservatives on issues, but in reality they are more intolerant than anyone, especially as it regards religious views.

We have learned that there is no such thing as “magic underpants” in the Mormon religion, and that it is just a derisive term used to denigrate Mormons in general, and Mitt Romney in particular.

We have learned that liberals do not understand the significance of religious symbology one little bit.

We have learned the this campaign will not be run on the incumbent’s record, but that he and his myrmidons will be running AWAY from his record.

And we have learned that despite all pleas to provide substance, liberals will still resort to personal attacks on the candidates and the bloggers, rather than make their case with logic or truth.

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Tiberius….that is politics and attempting to win a nomination. I still think he will choose Ryan.

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UGA 1999

April 11th, 2012
9:47 am

Job Creators contribute to society. Baby’s mommas are a parasite.

Absolutely.

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