Your daily jolt: Republicans absorb Tuesday’s lessons

bigotry and hate lost last night…

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You’re correct shakal, but I doubt it happens. Some of the leaders of the party will try – Chris Christie, Marco Rubio – but most of the base gets their news from Boortz and Hannity and Limbaugh and Cain and Erickson. Those guys sure aren’t going to admit they were wrong…

And I wonder what Karl Rove is telling all those billionaires who trusted him with their money? They didn’t get to be wealthy because they’re stupid, but they sure made a bad bet giving their cash to Rove.

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Lindsey Graham was right… there aren’t enough old, angry white men anymore.

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Yes you were. How many times did you say Romney would win? More than I can count.
CC WAS WRONG! How can I believe anything you say anymore?

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What harold said.

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Where are CC & Trisha this morning? At the new international terminal at Hartsfield maybe?

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To jenny beth whatever:

Please, bring on the most extremist conserrrrrrrvative nutcase you can find.
Apparently you didn’t get the message, but the MOST CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES LOST BY THE BIGGEST MARGINS.
Defeating a backward looking knuckle dragger in 2016 will be easier and cheaper, allowing more concentration on House and Senate races.

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What I don’t understand is why so many people in the middle class voted Republican. They do not care about you at all. They claim to when it is time to cast your vote but their record doesn’t back that up. It’s like the middle class has gotten used to and now wants to be beaten at every turn by the Republican Party. It also dumbfounds me on how this party has harnessed the “supposed” Christians in this country while spouting so much hate towards most Americans…and getting them to still follow the party. Can’t wait to hear all of the excuses FOX news and the Republican Party cme up with about this loss.

Also, Republicans state that they stadn for self sufficience. So do most people, we just don’t hate half of the country or and we don’t bring God into politics where God doesn’t belong.

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@ liberallefty: Don’t kid yourself; “bigotry and hate” exist on both sides of the spectrum.

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Look, to us adults, what happened last night was expected. Look at what the GOP has been rolling out over the years:
1. A candidate with a desire to be in an open marriage.
2. A court jester of a candidate giving money to a woman without his wife’s knowledge and not knowing the issues regarding Libya.
3. A candidate more interested in asking Pakistan’s permission for us to pursue our enemies, seeking approval of our foreign policy in Jerusalem, and insulting our allies on their own soil while they are in the middle of hosting international events.
3. An obsession with voter fraud (myth) and silly issues like birth certificates, loyalty oaths, and telepromters.

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Where mi bamy pnhone

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In 2 years another 2 years worth of crusty old white dudes will have died and another 2 years of open minded young people will have reached voting age. Double that over the next 4 years. The G-O-P is D-O-N-E for a generation.

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Obama will have three choices to fix the economy, 1 Cut spending, 2 cut taxes , 3 raise taxes. I really don’t think he will do the first two so that leaves rasie taxes. There is already talk of raising taxes on Stock Dividends. If you think that only affect the “rich People” take look at your 401K.

In additon, we will not enjoy the social security tax break after Jan. That is a tax increase

Also, companies are looking at ways to CUT position and hours so they won’t be fined under Obama Care. Result: Part time workers without any benfits. The parent company of Olive Garden has this plan in place. They will not be the only ones.

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The only lessons learned were these. Democrats have been on an agenda to create new voters for several decades. Those under 21 who have not one damn clue as to what society and our government should be! Those who are on the government freebie handout list that PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX AND IN FACT GET A PAYMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT FUNDED BY ACTUAL TAXPAYERS!
The blind clueless voting or the racist blacks, Hispanics and other minorities who actually believe that we who work AND pay income tax owes them something! 25, maybe 50 million criminal illegals! And a group of clueless whites and brainless so called celebrities who feel that they must vote for a black man because they are guilty for previous wrongs against minorities! And finally, those who believe that is I am successful and make lots of money, I OWE THEM SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE I AM SUCCESSFUL!

Tragedy is, that this election may end the position of the USA as the light of the World, second to none, free, and prosperous! Contrary to Obama’s belief, AMERICANS, U.S. CITIZENS ARE EXCEPTIONAL!!!

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”I’m sorry about Mitt, but I’ve already gone to work on the next two-year election. I’m happy about my nephew Hunter winning. We’re going to take over the Senate in 2014. I’ve already started to work on the next election.”

Mr. McCutchen, I am confident that you mean every word. And that’s the problem — the American people would much rather you start working on the country, not the election. Focus on coming up with solutions, based on what we have in common, instead of a crusade to “take over the Senate.” In short, we are all in a mess, you included, so grab the rope and start pulling. Until you do, I’m with Harold.

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How can you lose when you spend four years working as hard as you can to ensure the economy looks as bad as possible by saying “no” and filibustering, then base the whole ballgame on pointing out the economy looks bad and your opponent did it? Cynical manipulation in order to gain power.

I wonder what the House will sabotage this time for a basis for the next election? People, this is not the “good old Republican Party”, it’s a front for a group of the most insidious power-trippers this country has seen in a century. Their program is vague because they depend on getting your vote before they reveal it. They know you won’t like it. Once you give them your vote, your usefulness is over.

Who was Romney? Oh, just a guy who can “hold a pen and sign his name”… Once the election was over, his usefulness was, too.

Rub the sleep out of your eyes and behold the obvious. Dey’re not really your friends, are dey?

How could they lose?

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Oh… it stings doesn’t it? That Hate and Fear stuff just isn’t being purchased by the majority of Americans.

The lie that the Obama is responsible for the economy just didn’t fly either.

Almost 3 straight years of job growth, housing starts, robust stock market, and recovering housing market trumped blatant lies.

Note to “Jenny Beth Martin” Tea Party whacko: Please, please run Todd Akin or Mourdock or some other neanderthal for President. Hillary will crush a whatever right wing whack candidate you think would win.

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three choices to fix the economy, 1 Cut spending, 2 cut taxes , 3 raise taxes

Obama proposal is a hybrid of #1 & #3. GOP has been unwilling to accept even a 10:1 ratio of #1 to #3.

In additon, we will not enjoy the social security tax break after Jan. That is a tax increase

The SS withholding was reduced from 6% to 4% as a temporary measure to put more money in consumers pocket and had bipartisan support. Allowing a temporary reduction to expire and return to the previous rate is not a tax increase. Just like the 2 Bush tax cuts (while financing 2 wars) were temporary with an expiration date and have been extended twice with bipartisan support. Allowing temporary reductions to return to previous levels is not a tax increase. We have all been getting these breaks at the expense of higher debt. Now we can all begin to pay for that debt.

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Hey below is the formula for a Republican victory in 2016

1. Compromise on the immigration issue (Reagan did it)
2. Look to broaden the Republican base – but in order to do this you will need to move a little more to the middle on issue of abortion, entitlement programs and gay rights.
3. Have a plan that will address the needs (unemployment, crime, education) for low and middle income folks.
4. Start becoming a party of inclusion (stop prmoting the us against them philosophy). For example, when you have a candidate that runs on “Let’s take back our Country” – what are you talking about…where did it go. – We know that slogan is code for ……….
5. Embrace the diversity within the U.S. don’t run from hit.

Can you do these things?

Can you do some of them?

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The Old Confederacy. Really talk about closet racists. If they want to take it there the progressive North & West will kick your asses once again. GTFO with that.

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Could Georgia ever move beyond the 1860’s? Perhaps not, but the GOP will go the way of the dinosaur if it excludes half the electorate and lords it over the other half. Georgia could be relevant in subsequent elections in joining the national dialogue instead of being completely predictable, and thus ignored. But she’ll have to join this century in order to get there.

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Lyndon Johnson was correct when after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill he said “I fear we have lost the South for a century.” When the Democratic Party dropped the mantle of hate and bigotry, the Republican Party picked it up and ran with it. Fortunately this country as a whole is better than that, and the mantle is not carrying them far, except in the Old Confederacy. Interesting that there is a strong correlation between educational achievements and red states. What did ole Forest Gump have to say about stupid?

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@ I tried to tell everyone Obama 12……

BINGO……..that’s how Obama won in 2012……

Repubs must learn from the DEMS………..if they want to have a shot at 2016

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The bigger story to me is the Senate races; clearly a mandate for the ideas of the Democratic Party and Moderation in general. The Republicans need to move to the middle and focus on economic issues and leave the Tea Baggers, & extreme ideologies behind. Karl Rove is past his time and clearly was out played last night. I’m beginning to believe that the biggest issue before us is Campaign Finance Reform; we have to do something about the amount of money spent in these campaigns; the money has got to go.

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All of you looking for an escape plan ala Neal Boortz. Do us a favor leave quietly, so we won’t miss you.
Remember this is not your father’s America any longer.

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So the balance of power remains unchanged with the GOP fimly in control of the House, where the law says budgets must originate. What is different though is that in 2008 Obama beat the GOP by 7.2% and in 2012 he only beat the GOP by 1.86%. Obama has more Americans against him now. That’s the lesson.

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Republicans did not learn the lesson, that is why they lost. They will lose in 4 years again. Yes Newt, you were wrong again. How sad, to be wrong in the business of politics over, and over again.

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“Republicans won every state in the Old Confederacy, and a few border concerns besides.” Okay, so that list constitutes the New Confederacy. Am I truly reading “The Atlanta Constitution”? The publication that led the fight to de-fang the Dixiecrats? Does anybody in my town of birth realize that the Republican party died the day that Dick Nixon handed the reigns of the GOP over to the Dixiecrats? Does anybody care? Or are you all wallowing happily in the offal of the New Confederacy and whistling Dixie?

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Isn’t it interesting that both Romney and Ryan couldn’t even carry their respective home states of Massachusetts and Wisconsin? The GOP is going to have to broaden their base if they expect to win the Presidency again. They lost women, minorities, and gays by large margins. They need to quit nominating wackos like Akin, Murdoch, Christine O’Donnell, and Sharron Angle who can’t win. We need to realize that in the south we are out of the political mainstream. The rest of the country is more moderate. And, Jenny, go ahead and nominate a Bachmann or a Santorum next time. You’ll get trounced by whomever the Dems nominate.

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This country is definitely mildly conservative leaning (see Fox News ratings and Wall Street Journal circulation). What this election proves is this:
1 – Republicans have been drawn too far to the right. If abortion, same sex marriage, gun rights, religion, throwing out imigrants or cutting taxes for the wealthy continues to be part of their message, they will lose. If their message turns towards improved economy, improved education, smaller government, helping with immigration, etc, they can win. Americans like fiscal conservatism, but are largely turning against social conservatism.
2 – Part 2 follows on part 1: Once you have actually given up on appeasing the old south with social conservatism, you can actually appeal to the growing voting blocks with a practical message – youth, women, minorities. Social conservativism is about southern white guys, fiscal conservatism is about everyone.

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East Cobb RINO – STOP IT!!! You are using facts, it’s not fair!

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Sweet!!! I can’t wait to listen to Hannity’s vitriolic barking ! OK Sean – another 4 years to go! Hope you would get fired for all the poison you have been feeding us!!!!!

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Zeke’s tirade at 11:49 am is what is wrong with the GOP. They keep promoting these false numbers about entitlement and illegals (criminals?). Fifty million illegal criminals … really? The real entitlement people are those who think they are entitled to a job or income as a birthright. Those same people who you see smoking in their office parking deck every 45 minutes while other people do their work, those same people who get and keep they job by going on early morning motorcycle rides with their married boss; those same people who redistribute income by bankrupting their business and keeping their investor’s money in Cayman Island bank accounts.

As far a Mitt Romney goes, he signaled his economic strategy in how he ran his campaign in Ohio. Team Obama placed and paid for boots on the ground while Gov. Romney did the old fashion top-down economic strategy – he gave is top 7 managers bonuses.

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Bigotry and hate won big time last night! Bigotry and hate of successful and productive Americans flowing from the slacker parasite moocher class who are determined not to work for the things the rest of us devote our lives to providing for our families. The poor have voted to destroy liberty and the free enterprise system, so they can narcissitically “get paid” for merely existing. THUSLY, I am calling on a grassroots movement to end all private contributions and charity for the poor. You want class warfare? Then let’s get it on! Productive American should have a charity boycott. Let the poor who’ve voted to end our prosperity be hoisted on their own pitard. You hate people who work and provide the taxes that are used for your free ride through life? WELL…it’s time we fight back by pulling the rug out from under you. You want the government to provide? Okay, then I’m not going to help fund any extras via charitable assistance. Let your “god” Obama pay you for laziness. I won’t ever help a poor person ever again.

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All I see is a bunch of Dems on here gloating their behinds off and shouting vitriol at Republicans, Southern White Males, and a few others. I thought you were the party of inclusion and tolerance? You jacklegs are just as sick and demented as the Repubs…especially East Cobb RINO and his little circle jerk he’s performing in here.

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The Republicans have too many masters. Most Republican politicians are scared to death of being called out by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Grover Nordquist, or Wayne LaPierre. Until they learn to ignore these people, they will continue to get dragged further and further to the right and lose whatever independent and moderate Republican support they have.

I also see this election as a complete repudiation of the Tea Party (is this woman Jenny Beth Martin a piece of work or what?). As long as they run the GOP, the GOP will continue to lose.

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Regardless of your opinions, it is still about the economy. I guess in the final analysis, people are only concerned about what affects them personally. As long as i get what is rightfully mine, nothing else matters!!

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The southern states need to consider peaceful secession. The north will agree to it. Just take on part of the national debt,work out a deal on military bases,give the north northern Va while the south takes West Virginia. Give each group of citizens 10 years to decide if they want to move or stay. Texas goes with the South. The North will have natural gas for energy as well as coal. The South will have oil and coal. Really, the union is like a bad marriage, that’s harming the children. Time for an amicable divorce.

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Sorry for the typo. That should have read …”he gave his top 7 managers bonuses.

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Independant
November 7th, 2012
12:36 pm

. I thought you were the party of inclusion and tolerance?

We are, we just don’t include bigots or tolerate stupidity. We leave that for people like you, zeke, thog man, and norris t.

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Zeke you have it a&& backwards!! The majority of people on welfare and foodstamps are actually white and this has been the case for some time. First black people account for 55% of all spending in this country and we pay our taxes. Now Hispanics do the same. Make a legal pathway for all and stop the half stepping on immigration. If I come from Mexico I should have the same pathway as someone from Cuba. Nothing less. Next, the world views us in a more favorable light than at any other time in history except for Clinton Years. Now your so-called 50 million illegal criminals just who are these people. Your thinking is the reason why the GOP lost last night. The US is becoming a microcosm of the real world. Once the GOP stays out of bedrooms and womens privates then they may add a little more to their cup. In addition, when you look around your party and the only thing you see is people like you then obviously your message is not getting through to anyone else.

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THis all sounds like the KKK- preserving our birthright and those people are ruining our country and our lifestyle.

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It was a tragic day for the US. One day the morons and deadbeats who voted for Democrats will understand the consequences, but it will be too late to save the country then.

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I’m getting a kick out of the neo-cons on here who all up in arms talking about “America is dying a slow death” and all that jazz. When will you guys wake up and smell the coffee? It’s been said several times now, but it bears repeating: The country has changed, but the GOP hasn’t. Over the past 4 years, they have let the inmates take over the asylum. The crazier you are, the more you’re taken seriously. The further right the GOP moves, the quicker it will go the way of the dodo bird.

I do believe that a lot of people who identify themselves as liberals actually do have a sense of fiscal conservatism and wouldn’t mind supporting candidates who have the same ideas. Problem is, those same candidates go about the business of alienating the people who might vote for them. Bottom line, stop whining about how America is on its way out the door and start learning to adapt.

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When will the GOP realize that the USA is not a white country?!!! This country was built on the backs of immigrants and when they realize that it’s decendants have made their voice heard, hopefully they can right their ship. When their candidates stop running trying to please the Hannity’s, Limbaugh’s and O’Reilley’s of the world and think about those working and trying to provide for their families, maybe they will see their mistakes. We all want the best for our families and country Right or Left, can we just find a way to work together to make it happen? Respectfully.

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Thank God Big Bird is safe…@ cc…Big bird will stay away from GA, just to be safe.

To all the GOP (repukes slime) that lost good riddance.
To the new ones remember the word Recall
To the New Democrats welcome to the old ones …Damned better get it right!

Congratulations To our commander and Chief…Welcome back!
Good Job Mr..President

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cc, Jesus was a liberal so what is your point!
No comment from td? He must be nursing a hell of a hangover!
Today is a great day for America!
Obama the people’s choice and voice!!!!

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“bigotry and hate lost last night…”

Right. We ALL lost last night. Obama will continue his assault on the finances of this country creating massive debt our grandchildren will be paying for. But then gay people dont have grandchildren.

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I do hope responsible conservatism is not dead. But the GOP’s reliance on a base of old white men (i.e., the old Confederacy) is not a winning approach, obviously. The party has got to get away from its members who insist on signing anti-tax pledges and get into the mainstream with its sometimes messy mix of Hispanics, gays and other minorities. There ought to be a viable alternative to the Democrats. There have to be other choices than Newt, Bachman and some of the others. The party needs to look forward, not backward. And hopefully — prayerfully — Republicans and Democrats will try nonpartisanship for a change.

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I’m getting a kick out of the neo-cons on here who all up in arms talking about “America is dying a slow death” and all that jazz.

The inner drama queen is bustin’ out all over. Let it all out guys or you’ll be prancing in front of RuPaul before you know it.

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As a Republican I am very concerned about my party. I am sure Limbaugh and Erikson will tell everyone that the reason we lost was because we weren’t conservative enough. Lunacy. As if single females in the upper midwest and latinos in Colorado looked at the ballott yesterday and said “I don’t like Obama, but the Repulican candidate is too moderate. So I’ll vote for Obama.” What planet are you people living on? We better put the immigraion issue behind us, give those here a path to citizenship, and for god’s sake, drop the issue of abortion as a national political issue. It has been settled law now for almost 50 years. Get the hell over it. If we don’t do those two things, we are done. In two or three election cycles we are in danger of no longer having Texas in the bag if we don’t bring in Latinos. If that happens, we will be a permnent minority party. Deal with it.

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The Central Scrutinizer
November 7th, 2012
12:51 pm

We have seen the last of America as we know it…

cc
November 7th, 2012
12:47 pm

I was wrong.
I placed my faith in an America that no longer exists,

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You and the rest on here and elsewhere echoing this thought are exactly right, the America ruled by the angry, white, bible-thumping, homophobic male is gone with the wind. Finally, thankfully. At your own risk and detriment, keep nominating those who preach divisiveness, exclusion and stereotypes of lazy Black and Hispanic folks living off the hard-working White man. You will continue to be marginalized, and your days of influence outside of anything but rural, backward enclaves is over. So many of your ilk are threatening to “go galt.” Please do, and do it quickly. You’ll be shocked at how well we prosper without you.

This aint gloating, this is cold, hard facts. Get over it.

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So true Hopper. All this whining and carrying on about how many stupid people voted and how America is on the decline is par for the course with them.

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Thanks for the quote from Jenny Beth Martin. It meshes nicely with the statement that Republicans can’t win the White House by just winning the Old Confederacy. And that’s what this woman represents.

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Jenny Beth Martin represents what is so wrong with the GOP today. There are many GOP candidates who can win fiscally conservative votes without impeding on social issues. As long as Jenny Martin and the GOP only want white heterosexual male votes, they will continue losing and eventually become a party of true insignificance. Martin needs to take the log out of her eye.

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@RGB, well GWB can’t run again, you’ve painted a picture of America 2000 to 2008!

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Patriot #1
November 7th, 2012
1:14 pm

It was a tragic day for the US. One day the morons and deadbeats who voted for Democrats will understand the consequences, but it will be too late to save the country then.
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It was a stupid comment when you posted it at 1:03. Did you think it would be less stupid if you posted it again?

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ps the blue states are net financial givers, the red states financial takers, how about that?

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self reliance and personal responsibility lost last night.

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I’m reading and hearing over and over that it was “demographics” that defeated M. R. and elected Obama. That is of course nonsense. The demographics are what they are, and did not change at the last minute. The fact is that the Republican party adopted positions and policies that are unappealing to the majority of citizens, and no amount of rich man’s money could overcome that fatal flaw.

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Hey Robert E. Lee. Any state that wants to secede should. That’s less federal money spent on a lost cause. Go for it.

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Obama’s victory is only going to hurt his supporters in the long run. Companies will have to lay off workers to accommodate Obamacare costs. Doctors won’t be taking new Medicare patients. I saw many people crying last night during his acceptance speech. It’s too bad they didn’t stop to think what was going to happen in his next four years and how every American will be adversely affected.

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I’m anxious to hear the Romney campaign post mortem over the next few weeks. I understand that Mitt the Twit took a hands-on approach to the daily operations, i.e., Clint Eastwood taking the spotlight at the convention. If this is true, we can certainly be happy that he lost. The last thing we need is someone that can’t leave it up to the experts to do their job. Mitt was certainly no expert at politics. Some of the smartest businessmen are the stupidest SOBs when it comes to politics.

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Donna P.
Au contraire.
I am planning to HIRE more employees now that I have access to a greater number of insurance alternatives.
Now if we could only get a Public Option and be free from the bony grasp of the for-profit health insurance industry, that hiring could increase further.
You see, covering the healthcare costs of Employees is and always has been A COST OF DOING BUSINESS!

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Mitt will approach the post mortem the same way any CEO would….blame the underlings.

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And, to the text and video of the article, can we just forget that noot getrich exists?
He is always wrong and has nothing of value to add to the discussion.
If either party bases their policies and strategy on those with nothing to offer, how can anyone be surprised when the result is a massive failure?

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Another interesting statistic is that there are only 8 percentage points separating Obama and Romney in Georgia. If you look at the county map you can see that there is a potential for that swath of real estate that extends from Augusta to Columbus to turn completely blue. Gwinnett, Meriwether and Henry counties are now peach rather than red. It might not be too long before Georgia is a swing state.

http://www.bing.com/elections/state?q=elections+2012+presidential+ga&form=MSNEL6&state=ga#13001

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The Republicans lost, but won 57 milion votes out of 117 million voters. The GOP controls the House and is close in the Senate. There are more Republicsn State Governors than Democrats. To act as if the entire GOP message must be changed is wrong. Half our country votes GOP.

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What is a secular, fiscal conservative, anti-public sector union, pro-science guy supposed to do? The party of Michael Moore and the party of Mike Huckabee don’t represent me.

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To Auntie…half the country voted against this person. Some mandate, huh? I respect your right to express your opinion as well as your right to disagree with me. For now, at least, I have the same rights. Keep the racist garbage to yourself. You are your “ilk” are why there will never be constructive cooperation in this country.

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The GOP needs to figure out how to get the uneducated women vote.

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There’s no lesson to be learned. Most people, includes some politicians, won’t just say whatever they want to be elected, like the Democrats will. Especially hussein obama, who will say anything. Look at all the promises he made in 2008. Gas prices were $1.80, now $4.30+. Say whatever you want about the economy but that has nothing to do about getting a budget and spending less government money. That’s all on obama and his czars. We’re now at $16 trillion. At some point the people who voted for obama will realize what a “liar” he is. He has received a free education and now will receive a free job and retirement for the rest of his life. He learned well from his “socialist” teachers. The problem is eventually the money runs out. Look at greece, look at the the former soviet union, look at europe. it doesn’t work. taxing the rich more will not help. wake up people!

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With Obama’s election the Dow continues to plummet from fear of the same Obama policies.

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Liberal Lefty. You are quite correct re bigotery and hate…..That 90+ % of black voters would vote for a black person rather than a white person when the overall vote reflcected a 52-48 split leaves no doubt that bigitory and hate are clearly in play.

I am already over the result of the election but continue to be concerned about the consequences of the election. Oh well, we survived Jimmy Carter and I suspose we will survive Obama as well.

Your headdline for this article is misleading. If you look at a national county by county vote you will find that the vast majority of the map will be red with blue limited to high population centers. That may be the locations where the 47% live.

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@Nopper – I see that. But like @Bobby says, “The US will survive just fine. We will continue to move forward in the correct direction the next four years.” We’re fine. Apparently Wall Street, doesn’t agree. What a mess and what a bigger mess we’re headed for. Let’s see how the people dance in the next few years and see who hussein obama blames now.

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It suck to be the Koch(COKE) brothers today all those PAC”s got you a terd in the toilet this election just took 5 years of they’re lives and Good riddance Neal you closet racist I think a black man broke up his1st marriage he is the definition of old angry white male bye Neal live the good life in Naples haha

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The GOP cannot win. If they move more toward the middle, they anger their base (and boy, can those wingnuts get angry). If they satisfy their base, there is no way they can win any moderate independents. And, until they determine that small government also means staying out of women’s vaginas, they will never carry the women’s vote. And, per Rick Santorum, they will never have the support of “college types.” Bless their poor ignorant hearts.

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The only reason why the majority of Republicans voted for Romney is because he is white. There is no other reason. I praise God that those red necked racists are mostly old as heck and when they die and go to hell…they will have to nerve to be shocked!!! Confederacy…so sad…really sad… OBAMA 2012!

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@ Nopper, Voter, Sore Loserman, etc. Said it once, I’ll say it again until you bigots get it through your dinosaur thick skulls and small brains.

Black people don’t vote for Obama because hes black, they vote for him because he does not espouse hate and he is the highly intelligent leader of the most progressive, organized party in existence. If the candidates were both white, don’t you think the black people would vote for the one who obviously didn’t despise their existence for the color of their skin alone. Don’t you think the Latinos would vote for the candidate who didn’t propose “self-deportation” as the answer to the immigration problem? The republican party is so deeply imbued with white supremacist ideology, that they can’t realize that Neither Blacks, Latinos, Asians, or even the White people with any sense, or moral character will fall for it. I am a professional, I have worked hard for my position in life, but I realize that alienating a growing majority of the population just won’t work. It is increasingly apparent that this is no longer a white mans world.

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Losing the election does not mean we are wrong. It means only that the people do not like the truth. The end is coming and in a hurry. 5 years ten years at the most til we reach the economic and cultural cliff.

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Evan: please be careful when you are insulting people’s intelligence. If you read my post you might realize that I am slightly to the Left of Eugene V. Debs and have voted Democrat in every presidential election since Bush stole it from Gore.

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All of this talk about demographics is utter nonsense. If you look at a map of the country, it is mostly conservative except for the cities where you have large populations of minorities. Republicans ran a horrible campaign with a sub par candidate and bad senate candidates as well. The issue here is finding a message that effectively counters the liberal message of giving people their neighbor’s labor and property. Obama is very effective at campaigning on this idea because he has no conscious but he’s a once a generation politician. Regroup and run better candidates in the next election and don’t give the media ammunition or they will use it against you as they did many times during this election cycle.

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We all know the USA was fouded on NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION but it should be changed to NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION

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I love democracy and the USA. I hope that the newly elected representatives decide to do what’s in the best interest of our country. I hope they ignore old farts like Boehner, Reid, and McConnell. I hope they collaborate and for goodness sakes compromise to avert the fiscal cliff. I hope they sincerely reform the tax code to close some loopholes thereby raising revenues responsibly while concurrently appropriately cutting spending (and tweaking social security to solidify it for another 50 years). I also hope they pass the DREAM Act or something like it, which would actually save the GOP by removing the issue that they are on the wrong side of (just like they were on the wrong side of the civil rights movement in the 60s which is why African-Americans do not historically support the GOP—same thing will happen with Latinos unless the GOP gets a C-L-U-E).

(By the way, did anyone tell Karl Rove all the votes are in from Ohio and his guy still lost?)

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@Evan – you need help. and not just one doctor but a whole team. Oh wait, obamacare will help you

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@Sore Loserman. – Are you serious? You think higher gas prices, higher unemployment, no budget, no limit on spending is good for us? Seriously, get some help or have your girlfriend slap you, hard.

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I voted for Obama the first thing but he failed on his promises…it was not a Black -white thing -r- Demo-Repub-thing it was all about the economy, 24 millions without jobs 42 million on food stamps and losing our Constitutional freedoms. …thats why I didn’t vote for Big O!

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The Republicans deserved to lose….why did they select a candidate that was a wealthy investment banker whose wife talks about Cadillacs and taking her horses to the London Olympics during a period of recession that was partially caused by the excesses of Wall Street? Unfortunately, the rest of the Country are the real losers. With another four years of Obama and expanding welfare & food stamp rolls, the non-taxpaying 47% will continue to grow and become a voting majority. At which point, say good night America, as we will be on our way to becoming another Greece.

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Also take note of comments such as those by Pandora regarding voting by whites. Blacks voted 97% for obama. Based on Pandora’s logic, that makes blacks overtly biased and says that they fail to judge people on their ideas but instead only look at skin color.

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All the votes from OHIO are not in and wont be for 10 more days..Military votes and 2oo,ooo contested votes…do your home work.

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Just as many rednecks up North as in the South!!

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“Are you serious? You think higher gas prices, higher unemployment, no budget, no limit on spending is good for us?”

Of course I don’t you insipid fool. I think that the problems we face as a society would be much worse if Republicans had been allowed to continue their legacy of poor governance in the white house. And a big part of the problem is ignorant people like yourself who continue to insist on statements that have been repeatedly and effectively disproven time and time again–such as, “The President controls gas prices.”

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Sore Loserman: I wasnt able to finish my thought due to a glitch but wanted to pose the question….if you are part of the non-taxpaying 47%, don’t you have the incentive to continue to vote for those individuals that promise you continued handouts? The poor 2012 economy stats would have predicted defeat for Obama just like it did for Carter in 1980. The difference? In 1980, the amount of entitlement programs were not as generous as in 2012. Hence, the unemployed realized the need for a President that had a plan to rejuvenate the economy by cutting taxes and regulations. Unfortunately, in 2012 the unemployed electorate had been seduced by generous unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc.

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Only people like Nopper are stupid enough not to realize that Gas prices are a simple economic issue, a supply and demand problem. Supply of oil is constrained Prices go up. The days of unlimited oil resources are long gone. Prices go up. Let alone the fact that gas is highly subsidized in this country to begin with. Only idiots like this guy think that gas really costs $1.80. These retards don’t realize that it is not conducive to economic health to subsidize gas this heavily for these Southern Morons. Where I’m from, we are comfortable paying 4+ a gallon for gas, because this is much closer to the actual price. These guys have never studied economics a day in their lives but they know what gas prices should be. Try graduating from High School, Then go to college. Then get a graduate degree. Study Economics online do whatever you need to. Oh wait, they would clearly rather stop learning all together and just let Bill O’ Reilly and Fox News tell them the truth. Yet they still wonder why Obama won.

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Well, the GOP still controls the House, so maybe your duly elected officials can go to Washington and spend your tax dollars doing nothing for four more years, and then you can whine and blame the President again. Then you can say I told you so.
Meanwhile, we’ll just be ignoring you like the ugly step-child that you are.
when you send somebody to sabotage the President’s efforts to lead, you ultimately get what you pay for. Enjoy your failure. It won’t change the trend in future elections.

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I quit school in the second grade so i don’t know much about the history of our country or race relations.
So I’m just going to comment on blacks voting for blacks and whites voting for whites as though they were the same thing.
I have no basic understanding of any principles of sociology or civics.

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Amen Evan, amen. Too bad they still don’t get it. It’s much easier to blame Obama for everything.

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Americans vote Race first and foremost. Colon Powell is a pure example of this. It has always been about race and it always will be. It is about past sins and new retribution. The fallacy of man is a global truth, their is no union of races on earth and never will be. There is no forgiveness, only guilt, debt, revenge and retribution. Race is wrapped up and masked by economics, by politics, and by mostly religion. Ask the Taliban and Al Quieda. The post-racial President, the first bi-racial leader of the free world…..would be the first neck in their noose. The American experiment of a color blind society is over, and it is failed.

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Where should repubs go ? Should they propose more welfare and entitlements ? Should they run on a platform to let illegals come and go as they please ? Why have two parties if they both race to sink the place ? At least Obama will have to answer to the ambassador situation, now that he is elected the press may start to do its job.

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Anyone with half a brain could see Obama is going to spend this country out of existence. Unfortunately for this country, a lot of people don’t have half a brain. They just want the government to do everything for them instead of doing things for themselves. It doesn’t work that way. If you want all of these stupid wasteful spending items, you have to pay for it. I don’t know anyone that could get away with the spending and borrowing that the government does, but hey, we think we’re all special and can do whatever we want. We are in for very tough times ahead.

Oh and by the way. Most of those people that have higher degrees that voted for Obama (see the exit poles) are the ones that have educated themselves out of the workforce into jobs that don’t and shouldn’t exist. They’re just too stupid to actually realize it instead of doing a job that can and will actually make money and provide benefits in the real world. Don’t whine about college debt for master and doctor degrees that you can’t pay back.

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@ Butch, wtf is this guy talking about. Do us all a favor, read your post. It makes zero sense. “Educated themselves out of the workforce into jobs that shouldn’t exist” This is nonsense. This guys probably from Alabama, has a fourth grade education, his cousin is his wife and he more than likely owns 20,000 guns. Seriously just stop. It’s not cool to just talk without any factual foundation.

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It would be much better for the GA republican party to get out in front on issues like gay marriage or get out of the marriage business all together and call the license “Civil Unions”. The local church can call it what they want. I even have a slogan for it “OUT-front”. Adopt an immigration friendly policy to issue state ID’s to students regardless of their status. Energy = JOBS ; we are building a new reactor in GA; bring more energy resouces to GA; if obama likes wind power; GA should act on a wind farm off the coast. Pipelines, refineries, natural gas storage facilities, natural gas filling stations; Don’t get me wrong I love being in GA; but the Good Ole boy network is alive and well here.

If you want a T-spost fund; make it for a complete subway system for Atl and at the same time you can redo some water lines.

A thousand ideas and no one to listen; Oh, and make HSA be able to roll over year to year to help with Obamacare.

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Colon Powell is a political opportunist who sold any honor earned by his military service for the price of racial retribution once in a position of power. A hack so low of an inside the beltway sleaze that he actually knowingly and willingly let an innocent man be erroneously persecuted by a political justice system and go to jail having the full knowledge of the actual true criminal and power to come forth and clear him. Instead, Powell covered for his friend Armitage and let Libby and his family hang in the wind over the Plame affair. THAT is having no honor. THAT violates everything the militar code of honor teaches and is Unforgivable. Powell is a weak old racially revengeful honor-less scab.

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This election/debate process is due for a major overhaul.
We live in an information age whereas data can be obtained any day, anytime anywhere. When I wanted to know what Romney stood for, all I needed to do was Wiki Mormon Church and this information was damning on what that cult’s belief are and it’s foundation was rooted in hate, prejudice and racism. Just as I Wiki’d this information, so could anyone around the world can do the same in an era where our country has a multitude of ethnic backgrounds.
Second, I Youtube’d the the republican candidate debates to see what other republicans thought of Governor Romney and this was an eye opener when he was accused of being a flip flopper-
I then looked up Romney’s approval rating for the State of Massachusetts and saw that Romney was losing by a landslide in his own State in addition to his birth State of Michigan.
I then google’d quotes of Romney which is one of the main reasons that he lost Michigan when out of his own mouth he suggested to let Detroit go bankrupt. Then during the debates he flips his position on letting Detroit go bankrupt as he did on each and every position that he ran his entire campaign on…the damage was already done and then there was the 47% statement that came out of his multi-billionaire mouth.
Romney obviously needed to study basic geography also stated in the 3rd debate the “Syria is Iran’s path to the sea” when a simple glance at a map will show that Iran is boarded by 3 seas, not Syria. This statement that Romney made raised the incompetent red flag with me in that how can you protect our country as commander and chief if he doesn’t know where the enemy is on a map?

Look at the horrible quality of candidates the republican party has presented to the American public just in recent years:

George Bush=Wealthy but incompetent
Dick Cheney=Thief, Ruthless, Dishonest and Heartless
Ron Paul=Intelligent but too old
Chris Christy=Strong contender, Morbidly obese
Sarah Palin=Incompetent
George H. Bush=Prejudice
Condelezza Rice=Uses big words to make it seem like she’s intelligent
John McCain=Too old
Herman Cain=Too old, too many skeletons in the closet
Mitt Romney=Incompetent with Geography and how Government works, fails to stand for anything
Paul Ryan=Wet behind the ears and needs a lesson in Social Studies on how Government works-

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@Evan

But it was ok for Democrats to blame Bush for EVERYTHING including high gas prices at the time he was in office. Don’t try to spin it, you know its true.

Think before you type idiot!!!!!

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The party of NO. Of “angry white men” needs to wake up. The whole anry white male things doesn’t work anymore. Come back to the center and leave the hard right wakos to themselves or find yourselves the new 3rd party!

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@ Timus – Be happy to…assuming, of course, you do the same for leftist element within YOUR party who despise this country and have no intention of truly offering real help to those in need. Perpetual entitlements aren’t it.

The Democrats stopped being the part of JFK long ago…shame.

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One day historians will be talking about Republicans, Whigs,Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in the same breath and saying “they were pretty fair political parties in their time but couldn’t change and died out.”

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Al @ 3:39 pm:
But Mr. Bush opened up that opportunity. During the campaign for the 2004 election he claimed that if we vote for John Kerry we will be paying $2.00 for a gallon of gas. He was right – I voted for John Kerry and we started paying over $2.00 for a gallon of gas.

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you people are all awful. Left and Right wingers both suck. Right wing Christian Moralists lost the election for Romney. Had Romney been pro choice, pro gay marraige, etc etc. I believe many gay/lesbian, socially liberal people would have voted for the GOP. I have gay friends who bust their butts and make a ton of money while not coming from a wealthy upbringing. Look at Log Cabin Republicans It is moronic to say that the GOP did not run a conservative enough candidate. Most people are one issue voters which is silly. Abortion, welfare check, guns, taxes, etc. I tossed my vote away with the libetarian, but they will never win unless they come up with a sensible drug policy . Even though I feel drugs should be legal that is a difficult argument to win. Hail Zues

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I think we pretty much shut things down for the day. Good work guys.

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zeke’s post on Page 1 is the reason why the GOP didn’t win this year and why they won’t win 2016 if the sane members of the party don’t take control.

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No no Evan..lets not run out the door yet after your little temper tantrum. Lets back up to Butchs comment. Now start over and debate what he said rather than act like a child crying..whining and name calling. Try again…debate the facts stated Evan. I know you cannot.

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Joke on Us the Republicans lost the support of African-Americans in 1964 when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed 1964 Civil Right BIll. This signing along with President Kennedy and his brother AG Bobby Kennedy calling up Judge Oscar Mitchell and getting King out of prison and also standing down Geoege Wallace at the School House Door and helping Mr. Meredith at Ole Miss and FDR’s New Deal combined to get us to switch over to the Democrats. The process took from 1932 until 1964. The Republican were slow to help us and the Democrats stepped in and helped us at crucial times. The fact that Storm Thurmond a racist segregationist who raped a 15 year old African-American girl in his parents’ home and then switched over to the Republicans in the mid fifties.
The Republicans should have kicked the racist Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms and other redneck garbage. The party of Lincoln should not let a white rapist who rasped a 15 yeear old African-American girl in it or that dog Jesse Helms. In 1968 Nixon came up with a stupid idea called “Southern Strategy” Why any one would try to get rednecks from the old confederacy to vote from them is racist. In 1980 Reagan went down to Philadelphia, Mississippi to kick of his 1980 presidential campaign. Again why would any fool go down to Philadelpia, Mississippi when the Ku Klux Klansmen there were not hanging from a tree for the murder of the Civil Rights Workers is a big Fool. Also ask many Republicans why they will not pander to us on the subject of Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Affirmative Action, Racial Quotas and Set a Sides, Jobs, Education, Housing, Welfare, and Medical Care and the fools refuse to do it. If you want our votes give us what we want. When the racist Tea Party tells the Republicans to jump, the Republicans always jump. Well when we tell the Republicans to jump, jump. Otherwise we will stay with the Democrats who not only nominated an African-American as their presidential nominee, but helped elect an African-American as the 44th President as well.
If you can support the filthy Rich, the NRA, and the racist Tea Party, you can support us on what we want. Lastly, we do not like to a white congressman from the Deep South to call our hero a liar. Never call an African-American hero a liar if you want our vote. That is plain common sense. Do not call us Liars if you want our Votes.

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Oh nice work Evan???? pfffftttt

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@Nativebird – Well said. Amen!

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Evan, Alabama has two (2) high schools ranked national in the top ten – where was Georgia’s rankings?

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@ Zeke….

Dude, what in the hell are you talking about? You are living in a dream world. No one thinks you suck and you owe them because you are successful! You probably (might) suck because you are closed minded, fearful, and a tad bit insecure. America is for ALL, my brother. Immigrants that landed on Ellis Island AND the ones that make it across the boarder. Non-whites want the same as you– safe, quality schools for their kids, jobs, etc…basically a chance to make it in this country. Stop the lies man! Spread the Love!

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Evan’s gone. He had to leave his basement to outside and squint at the sun for a while. Big world outside.

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@ Mr. Thomas

Why was a Black Panther at a polling station in Philly yesterday?
Why was a mural of Obama on the wall at polling building?
Why is it a black person can say mean,hateful things about Romney or any other white politician and its fine(not racist) but a white person says something bad about Obama automatically they are considered a racist? Can you answer these questions? Maybe Jesse jackson or Al Sharpton can help.

Look in the mirror first before you go playing the race card!!!

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@Mr Thomas Anthony Jones

Also….

Ron Reagan did not want to sign the MLK holiday – but there were enough votes in Congress to overturn a veto so he signed it by default.

You want the B vote start including us and stop excluding us….

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The United States did not become the greatest country on the planet by taking money from the people (taxes) and then redistributing that money through stimulus plans, food stamps, etc. I worked for a small government agency and they could always find a way to spend the peoples money, but it was rare that they looked for a way not to. We’ve re-elected a president that says he’s created 5 million jobs, but since the unemployment rate is higher than when he took office, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that we must have lost more than 5 million jobs over the same period. I guess the electorate is not concerned with net results. We have 23 million people out of work, more people below the poverty level, and more people on food stamps. You can take every penny from the top one percent and you won’t put a dent in the deficit Mr. Obama has run up in four years. He criticized George Bush for the deficit he ran up in eight years and then proceeded to run up more debt in four years than all of the men that held the office before him including George Bush. Just as individuals are eventually held accountable for running up more debt than they can pay back, the government will be held accountable eventually. You can’t give away more than you collect from the American people forever. My fear is that instead of cutting non-essential programs (yes like the half billion that goes to public television every year) the administration is going to ask for more from all of us. The president said he cut taxes for the middle class by almost $3000.00, but gasoline costs $2,000.00 more per year, health care costs $2,500.00 more per year, and income is down by an average of $4000.00 per year. That is a net loss for the middle class. I love this country, but we are on a steady course to loose it.

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I’m so glad the Fascists didn’t win the Presidency.

For all of you authoritarian, fascist-enablers, Love it Or Leave it.

Go. Get out. Head on over to Somalia, you should love it there.

Buh-bye!

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The yound White and Black voters voted for Obama in record numbers…Wow REPUBS – There goes the REPUB party.

The young generation is for inclusion – wow go figure (is that not the American way)………..

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@Hilarious

Unfortunately, a Fascist did win…or does government control of private industry not meet that definition?

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@Evan

One of the states where marijuana was legalized? Certainly explains a bit..

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Nice point. @ Evan who? Try again. that was really, really lame. I would actually like to have an intellectual discussion but it seems like you GOPers are too racist and brainwashed to even communicate effectively.

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@Evan

So…you’re ‘back’ from your lunch break to blog? Does that mean you’re spending time blogging instead of doing what you are getting paid for? Tsk tsk.

The one obsessed with stereotypes unfortunately seems to be you…but we poor, illiterate uneducated Southerners certainly appreciate you painting us all with the same brush. Kinda speaks volumes.

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Down closes down 300+ today…..

Anyone surprised?

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Just give me a choice of a fiscal conservative who believes in individual freedoms and doesn’t want to be the world’s policeman and I’m there.

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It’s truly unfortunate that people don’t read anymore and that they blindly follow someone like sheep. I am very disappointed that Obama was re-elected because of his beliefs, policies, and ideologies. Racism and Bigotry has nothing to do with facts and numbers. The numbers and facts point to him failing on all fronts, and if you think that Obama-care is going to be ‘the best thing since slice bread,’ you have another thing coming. Your kids will suffer and feel the effect of your uniformed and impulsive vote. Many corporations will revamp their hiring procedures. Full time jobs will be a thing of the past! Corporations will circumvent the law with PART TIME employees ONLY! They will NOT pay higher premiums and you won’t be able to afford Healthcare; however, YOU will STILL have to pay a TAX for NOT having Health Insurance.

Obama won STRICTLY because of MARKETING! The media was against Mitt Romney. It skewed the public perception and demonized him for being a wealthy business man. It’s sad that so many people are jealous of success and hard work.

This years will be a DIRECT result of Obama’s politics. He will not have the luxury to blame Bush anymore. We will see if your “beloved Leader” really is a “Leader.” I don’t see it. Never have and never will!

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Mike, get a grip, pal.

The Dow closes up and down points every single day.

If you weren’t obviously a conservative who lives in his own reality, I’d tell you to look at Europe’s market, which started the drop that the US markets followed.

Oh, and here is what the stock market has done in the less-than-4 years the Kenyan Usurper Communist Muslim Atheist Socialist Blah Man has been president:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EeXxOx1X3Y4/UJmiYn4hxmI/AAAAAAAAIks/MN5Bnxwpz6w/s1600/dow%2Bfour%2Byr.png

One day, when conservatives stop supporting fascists, and come back to reality, maybe then you’ll be worth addressing. Until then, keep screaming what your masters tell you to scream, and occasionally wipe the spittle from your chin.

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I just laugh at all the die hard righties who keep bashing Obama about dividing the country. The county was divided long before Obama.

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I’m a christian and I voted Obama. I voted against the racist rhetoric of the Republican Party. I’ve always worked full-time, own my own home & pay taxes. Yet, Mitt Romney labeled me with 47% of American’s looking for a handout. I was laid-off for (2) months & received un-employment benefits. Since I’ve paid in this tax system since I was 17 year old worker; i feel in my time of need I should be able to use my benefits. I was able to find another job after 2 months. 47% of people aren’t looking for a handout. They want to work; if all the billionaire’s & business owners are so concerned for America; quit sending jobs oversees to other countries and pay your fair share of taxes accordingly..i.e. like the rest of us. **Instead they send jobs to India, China etc..& find loopholes to pay less taxes. Republicans for America & Values…yeah right….

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zeke

November 7th, 2012
11:49 am

Dude, you do know that Mr. Obama got most of the college educated votes? I guess they’re ignorant and don’t have a clue about how government works either. Please get a copy of “Snow Storm in August”, and get back to me.

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Last week, I felt sorry for the northeastern states with the storm damage and power outages. Not any more. The blue states can rot, for all I care.

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Unfortunately, decency and honesty took a beating yesterday as morons, deadbeats, union goons, and jerkoffs ruled the day.

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I’m sorry Meh, that your fascist buddies weren’t able to take power.

Too bad.

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@Hilarious

Please come back when your Xanax has kicked in, Perhaps then a rational discussion *might* be possible,

And while you’re waiting, give some thought the dealers forced to close-profitable ones, of course-as part of this scenario. Or perhaps the inventory forced out to boost production numbers, 75 days average currently. Or maybe, the Chevy Volt topping out at 40K, less incentives we are paying for, naturally.

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Decency and Honesty. What hell do you come from? The GOP is the most dishonest, self-interested, bigoted party of them all. Why do you think you lost after all. I am continually amazed at the sheer willpower these republicans have which enables them to ignore the writing clearly on the wall. The American people, hell, most of the World doesn’t want you. Nazism died with the Third Reich. Step into the light or just kill yourselves already. Actually, it would appear as though your policies and stances on major issues are actually doing that job for the rest of us.

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“Funny that the Blue states are doing quite well, Sandy and all, while the Red states actually are rotting.”

Very true, and they lose population every census as people leave in droves. But liberals never let a few facts spoil their cozy little beliefs.

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@Hilarious

Take a breath-it’s “You’re”.

Thanks.

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Outside of Atlanta, how can rural farmers and people living in poverty vote republican. It’s puzzling.its still the old south. Same old play just a new script.

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Hey Mike, you aren’t interested in a conversation. You’re interested in screaming about SOSHALISM! and the Kenyan Muslim Atheist Blah Man who took away your country.

GM controls itself, it isn’t controlled by the government. Period.

Oh, and Fascism is based on ethnic, religious, and moral purity and ultra-nationalism. Fascists prohibit labor unions. They assign non-majority ethnic groups into second class status. They deny rights to people who don’t follow whichever morality they espouse.

As an example, The Nazis prohibited labor unions, put homosexuals, communists, gypsies, Jews, and many other non-Aryan people into prison. They outlawed abortion, and started pre-emptive wars to protect their homeland. Here’s a hint, dirty libs and Democrats don’t do any of that. But the…fascist party does.

But hey, ‘ol Rush gushes on and on about the Chevy Volt, and like a good German, you’re able to somewhat trot out a few figures about it. Congrats, dittohead!

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These guys are really crying about states like West Virginia (the hillbilly, animal rapist capital of the world. ) Losing brain cells from all those coal fumes. Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas. Who gives a flying fu*k about these states other than you losers. Dixie can die along with the rest of you.

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Oil Boom in the Dakotas. Keep em, they will be poorer than the dirt they live on in 100 years once oil is obsolete. Face it. Everything you guys stand for sucks, is worthless, and wouldn’t sustain the nation even if you cut spending on “your” welfare queens well into the future. The South is worthless that’s why the economy is bad. If you extrapolate the Southern states from the economy, sure you lose some measure of productivity, but you also cut out the overly obese, racist, less cohesive elements of our society right out of the picture as well. We would be better of without you.

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Let me know when Cain’s plane leaves for another counrty. I want to see him off. He promised to leave the country if The President was elected

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@Evan

You can’t be serious. I really feel sorry for you.

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I need to change my name, because this year I actually voted for a democratic president. I am ashamed of the republicans who represent the party now. It’s time for major CHANGES in the republican party.

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@rider said the same thing I saw: the Republican victory camp was all-white last night (and NOT having a good time), while the Democratic version of the same thing was a blur of every kind of person and dancing and music and people having fun. It reminded me of those class-oriented movies from the 80s where the rich folks had their boring dull party with people standing around having no fun, while the poor kids and everybody else would invariably have a band, booze, and an actual party going on. Clearly winning had something to do with this but the point is clear that you cannot narrow your appeal to one group and expect to have the support of all.

By the way, this same problem is affecting Israel as well. The Palestinians aren’t winning on the war front. But they are winning in the bedrooms. The generational slide is going to hit Israel in the next 20 years when vast numbers of Palestinian Israelis achieve voting age, and the same thing will happen in the US in a generation or two.

There IS no way to stop it unless white republicans put their money where their mouth is and put their republican wives back in the bedrooms giving up any ideas about work-family balance. No. If you expect to retain power, you will have to focus on making more republicans and drop the ideas about working for a living. You want a return to family values? Prepare to sacrifice. And understand it will take 20 years and you may still lose. Good luck.

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@Ron Paul for Life – you miss the point about raising taxes on the rich. You could tax ALL the wealthy 60% and it would not match up to what the white house and this obama administration is spending.

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Hey Don,

Nice patriotism.

It’s true what they say. Patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel, and now you’re left without a refuge, or any patriotism.

Love it or leave it, pal.

So, GET OUT.

Bye!

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And one more thing. I keep reading “Republicans should change this and change that to get elected.” Where are you from? Real people of faith and moral and ethics don’t change their beliefs just to get votes and elected. That’s the democrat/hussein obama way. Tell them what they want to hear, promise them real change, let’s keeping moving forward. Hear that before? Real Republicans and some Democrats will hold and fight for what they believe in. They are not going to lie and cowtail to the pro-choice, or pro-gay or pro-welfare crowd just to win votes. What kind of household were you raised in?

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Voter
November 7th, 2012
7:46 pm
Real Republicans and some Democrats will hold and fight for what they believe in. They are not going to lie and cowtail to the pro-choice, or pro-gay or pro-welfare crowd just to win votes.
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Great advice voter, the 18th century was a real hoot You probably wouldn’t like it here in the 21st Century. Gays are achieving full citizenship,, rape is condemned rather than parsed as legitimate or illegitimate, women have jobs outside the home and demand equal pay and health care is no longer reserved for just the well off.

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I think that most people realize that we have a government that is based on checks and balances. Nothing will get done unless the President and Congress work together. The President tried to do some things that MAY have helped the economy, but he was blocked by Congress. Unfortunately, they probably stood in his way because they thought that blocking him would result in him losing his re-election bid. Hopefully the Republicans in congress realize that the public will blame them too, if the the economy doesn’t improve, and they could face losing their seats. Unfortunately, people like Bill O’Reilly, Hanity, and Carl Rove are going to try and convince these Representatives that if they work with the President, even if the result is the economy getting stronger, that the end result will be them losing their seats to Democrats.

And people, the President doesn’t have anything to do with gas prices.

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Republicans WILL NOT absorb Tuesday’s lessons but will turn further to the right, conduct a “Night of the Long Knives” purge of any member who isn’t completely borderline-psychotic blackshirt extremist. Never underestimate the right-wing’s capacity to commit murder-suicide, just because they can.

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Don Abernethy How old are you- fifteen??? Gonna take your ball and go home now??? Waaaaa waaaahhh waahhh. Love to whine do ya?

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To jenny beth martin of the tea party patriots…. ‘America’s demographic is changing. The old south is gone forever, and it aint comming back. America spoke very loud and clear last night. You better get on board the train with the rest of us, or get your a$$ left behind! In the famous words of Chuck D from the rap group Public Enemy: “It takes a nation of millions to
hold us back”! You can’t stop the bumrush….!

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@David – America did not speak loud and clear. Check again, it was virtually a 50/50 split. That’s not good.

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@Hilarious – “The Republican Party of the 1990s-Present has decided to run on paranoia, fear, and hatred.” That, by the way, was exactly what the Democrats ran on. Hope, Change, Forward. Hate ads towards Romney, his wife, Ryan. More negative ads were run by obama than any before him. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Wake up and smell what your shoveling.

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Voter
November 8th, 2012
12:49 am

And what was decided behind closed doors between Cheney & the oil executives back in 2001?
We’ll probably never know but my guess is a deal was struck to keep prices down to help with reelection. Once Obama won in 2008, the deal lapsed. How soon did prices skyrocket? Call me paranoid, but there is a word that describes paranoid people.

Perceptive.

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@Buckhead Boy – Let’s see how well you take others people money in the next couple of years. I’m sure you think obamacare is profitable too.

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@Voter- Just face it. We Republicans basically represent one main demographic, white America. And, that won’t ever be enough to win major elections again in our country. I trust that you are not one, but it should be clear to all that the racists, bigots and haters have infiltrated our ranks, and it has cost us major elections. Denial does not help. It’s time to genuinely accept the foundational principles of our country, freedom, diversity, inclusion, civil rights, and inclusion. To argue that Obama is the problem is really pointless now. The real problem is us.

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Obama care is nothing more than healthcare that helps out people who dont want to work (like all obamas other brothers) and think we the tax payers should flip the bill

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@garyc – remember garyc, the so healthcare/obamacare wasn’t even read before they passed the bill. Why do you believe it’s just regular healthcare? Who do you think pays for it? If you have a job with benefits, watch you medical deduction carefully over the next couple of years. Then watch what you will be co-paying for what you receive. Employers will pass the cost to you. Then when employers/employees don’t pay, they will be fined by the IRS. Watch how the collections start then. Know what you are talking about before you vent. Read some of the obamacare bill. Wake up!

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@Democrat/Liberals – and some proof again for you why dems/libs will say anything to get your vote but never follow through. Case in Point – Hurricane Sandy,hussein obama goes and visits and says and I quote ” We’re going to cut though red tape. We’re not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules” Chris Matthews from MSNBC – “So glad we had that storm” Ask the people in the northeast who voted for hussein obama because he looked so presidential, he cares, FEMA will save us, how they feel now? FEMA has left, volunteers were rejected in NJ. Now all the people have are themselves, true heros who are helping each other. Election over, back to usual

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Fiscal responsible Party? Look in the mirror! The Democrats and Obama had control of the entire government for 2 years and couldn’t pass ONE single budget. The Senate, controlled by the Democrats since 2006, hasnt passed a budget in 4 years. Obama has spent $5 trillion dollars in new spending for what? 8% unemployment, millions STILL unemployed, the national debt (which he said he was going to cut in half by the end of his first term) is going more everyday. You dont have the mantle to discuss being the fiscal responsible party.

Stop supporting communists and listening to Chris Matthews and try to do some thinking for yourself!

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