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02-19-2012, 01:36 PM | #1 |
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Dear Suicidal Republican Party
An open letter to the Republican Party Leadership--
Dear Leadership/candidates/other influencers, Let's try to stay on task kids. I don't want you to start steering the debate into the social/moral/conservative nanny realm. I want you to stay with the focus of limited government, rational taxes and the economy. I don't want you to divert the conversation into marriage, gays, abortion, religious freedom, contraception, god's place in your life or anything else. It's a loser and there is no persuading anyone. The republican party will lose the independents--they will walk away or stay home in droves come November. And we will lose the presidential election BY A LANDSLIDE. You've got to focus--making Obama a one-term president. Just for the next few months quick dicking around with the private choices of the people and get back on message and address the big picture, the main event. And if you can't get the radical right to cooperate at least have the balls to kick them to the curb and deal with the consequences. Nobody wants you in their personal lives--you aren't qualified for that duty. Damn! (OK, back to our regularly scheduled political programming....) |
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02-19-2012, 03:59 PM | #4 |
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I think that's a pretty fair way to put it... IMHO, who gives a shit about social issues in the first place on the political scene, these are the last things we should be worried about right now.
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![]() People car about the economy most of all, its dumb for conservative and republican nominees to say anything on social issues. They bitch when Obama does a stupid social program yet its okay to legislate social policy when your a republican? They need to get with the program, their is a massive amount of libertarian leaning people out there that are just hoping for the opportunity to get Obama out of office and right the ship. Did the whole tea party movement mean nothing to these people? I was at the Biggest one outside of Washington, in San Antonio, all the people their were concerned about the state of the economy, not gay marriage, not abortion but the economy. |
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The Republican "leadership" just can't help it - it's like telling a dog not to chase cars.
![]() I'm not giddy about Obama, but I'll take another 4 years of stalemates over throwing us back into the dark ages. Really, you're going to bring up condoms in 2012? ![]() |
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Seems to me any true fiscal conservative would have realized about 8 or 10 years ago when Bush & Co. were growing the gov't by leaps and bounds and spending money like it grew on trees that the GOP was no longer concerned with the economy. The GOP has become the American Taliban. They want the Christian version of Sharia law. The Dems are better about social issues, but they want to be everyone's fairy godmother no matter how undeserving the recipient. And they love the idea of a giant government octopus with its tentacles reaching into everything. So where does that leave those of us who just want some simple common sense in gov't?
Go ahead and tax me, but dammit, spend it wisely. Get out of the housing business. Get out of the bedrooms. Stop the Fascist bullshit you call "security." All I want to do is live my life, earn my pay, spend my money, and live in peace. I was able to do it 20 years or so ago. What the hell happened?
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is not a "D" v "R" thing....it's an elected class v rules class thing...we are all pawns... but your polical views are the mainstream and are not represented by either party
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It is amazing how some politicians that have done absolutely nothing since 2008. They have the nerve to boast about it actually think they have a chance of keeping their jobs like the former governor of California, Gray Davis. Americans remember what is going on right now more than anything, but they also remember how you laid down when you had a chance to work for your country like they did during September 11th, 2001 and not your party. Any Democrat or Republican that screwed us since 2008 will pay a price like so many Americans have and they will have the honor and priviledge of meeting them at the UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE!!!
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So the mideast is literally en fuego across 20 countries, screaming Death to America.. and the focus is Mitt's campaign?
The Pres says Egypt isn't our ally.. but Mitt has problems? The Administration is blaming a 3 month old video for a well-planned terrorist attack, on 9-11 no less, and the first Ambassador killed since 1979.. but Mitt is off message? Israel states they may attack Iran within months.. buuuuut Mitt is losing the election? ANNNNNNNDdddd...... - 8.1% Unemployment (43 months above 8%) - Less jobs created this year than in 2011 - 47 million people on FoodStamps - 1 in 6 Americans in Poverty - $5t in new debt since Obama took office - President's budget voted down 97-0 and 414-0 - Gitmo still open - Drone attacks killing American citizens (and you cried about waterboarding..lol) - Gas prices doubled in 4 years - Median income down $4,000 - 23 million either unemployed or underemployed - Lowest workforce participation rate in 30 years - Healthcare costs up 10% year over year in 2011 - $240k for each job created by Stimulus (3.3m) But with a record like this - Mitt damn near isn't even in the equation. Just like 2008 was anybody but Bush or anything remotely close to him.. this year will be anybody but Obama. Short of Mitt screamin "I hate black people" on video - Obama can't escape this record.
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Even in an any "anybody but the other guy" election year (which it is for Republicans) you need to have an acceptable alternative to the general electorate. Sadly, the Repblicans don't. It must be unbelieveably demoralizing for the entire party.
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Ironically, the same points you mention here, which are all continuing to suppress a vibrant economy, are the same points that are keeping Obama as popular as he is with a certain segment of the electorate. The more people who remain without a job at all, or are underemployed, are the same people who benefit from government entitlement programs. As the POTUS continues to fumble the ball on the economy, the longer these people are out of the workforce, the harder it becomes for them to get back in, and the more dependant they become on Uncle Sam's handouts. The whole thing feeds on itself. As that segment of the population continues to grow, (or fails to shrink), his actions are essentially creating more people who are primed to be more sympathetic to his message. When someone else comes along and starts talking about reducing the opportunities for people to suckle at the taxpayers teat, then those who are currently doing the suckling are hardly going to be receptive to that message, are they ? If you ask me, that is the biggest single reason the Republicans are failing to walk away with the contest to the degree that Obama's results suggest they should. |
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That’s up from 30% in the 1980s and 44.4% in the third quarter of 2008, a recent growth in part attributable to the bad economy of President Obama’s first term. What are these handouts, as determined by the census bureau? -Medicaid -Social Security -food stamps -Medicare -assistance with their rent -unemployment benefits -Elderly tax benefits (the extra standard deduction for the elderly, the exclusion of a portion of Social Security benefits, and the credit for the elderly) -child and dependent care tax credit -Earned Income Tax Credit -Exclusion of other cash transfers (such as welfare and disability payments) -Tax-exempt interest and some other deductions, such as for retirement savings -Itemized deductions -Education credits http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/0...s-47-comments/ |
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Obviously children cant vote, but their single moms can, and last I checked, their 1 vote counts just as much as Harold the laid-off engineer, even if Harold was making more per year than she did in 5 years. Thus, the single mom will influence the results of popularity polls today, and even more importantly, when in the actual voting booth in November. For every wealthy person (or middle class who ASPIRES to be wealthy) who might prefer Romney in a poll, there will be more new food stamp recipients than him who wont, and that ratio will get bigger and bigger with each passing quarter of financial misery. I still stand by my original assertion; the failure of Obamanomics to put folks back to work will ironically increase his chances to win as those folks dont want to cut off the only hand that remains feeding them. |
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