You only wanted to attack me because of the evolution thread. Just let it go. You can't disprove anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMC
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You only wanted to attack me because of the evolution thread. Just let it go. You can't disprove anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMC
He's a Republican if you go by the GOP's traditional, pre-neocon platform.... he's Libertarian compared to the country-bumpkin warmongering evangelicals, Tea Party racists, and slimy slick-talking crooks that populate today's GOP.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
So, maybe he should give one of those "I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me," and just move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clipper Nation
LOL...Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
I was never with the republican party. I just have more in common with them that the lilliass liberals.
They should have walked him off the stage and straight to Bellevue.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
For good or bad, he was the only one that didn't look like a robot, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
The sad reality is that both him and the empty chair probably appeal more to voters than anything that came afterwards...
Gecko got a tiny bounce of about 2% lead in popular vote, but is still trending down in electoral vote.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes...r/nate-silver/
Repug voter suppression of Dem voters, now getting knocked down by the courts, and Rove/Kock Bros/USCoC/Wall St $Bs have a very steep incline against them.
Indeed. I had no idea Florida struck it down too.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
FL will very probably still do the crap Katherine Harris and accomplices did in 2000, setup construction roadblocks in poor areas, falsely exlude ex-felons from registered voters, etc, etc.
The GOP steal elections in this day and age? nah....Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
http://www.examiner.com/article/how-...ction_ref_map=[]
^If it weren't for his son Rand, Ron could sabotage the whole thing for Romney by running 3rd party.
Well Ron Paul is making a special announcement on Jay Leno on Tuesday. I wonder what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by mavs>spurs
How bad is it? GOP consultant on Romney “We should be pressing the panic button”
When Republican consultant Ana Navarro says of Romney that “Where his numbers are right now, we should be pressing the panic button,”, well, things like that tend to catch my attention.
Basically, Mitt Romney needs to win a higher percentage of white people than Ronald Reagan did. Good luck with that. Say what you will about Reagan, but I think we can all agree that Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan.
So what happens when you place all your eggs in the shrinking demographic of "Angry White Guys" while entirely ignoring and alienating the quickly growing Latino demographic? You end up with statements coming out of GOP pollster's that sound like this . . .
. . . if Republicans do not do better among Latinos, the party won’t just be worrying about holding on to Florida, he said. “We’re going to be talking about how not to lose Texas.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...e-panic-button
That right there is why a guy like Castro has a prominent speaking role in the Democratic convention and why he is likely to get a Cabinet or other prominent position in the Obama Administration...lets hope he doesn't get Cisneroed....the GOP is scared shit-less of a motivated Latino vote...so they will do anything to sabotage anyone who even resembles any shade of Cesar Chavez...Quote:
. . if Republicans do not do better among Latinos, the party won’t just be worrying about holding on to Florida, he said. “We’re going to be talking about how not to lose Texas.”
To little too late...there are already surveillance camera's tracking all your moves...everywhere you go...
Do you guys really think that Cuban Latinos are on the same sheet of music as those south of our border?
I've lost faith in the Democrat party a long time ago and it's gotten to the point of no return. I'm glad that Castro will be speaking, but I'm afraid he'll end up being just like them and beholden to Obama.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nbadan
Either way, he has a possible future in the White House because of this, I said it back when this was announced, I hope he uses his opportunity to be honest and good.
I'll say one thing, Republicans will hate him because he's a Dem "Mexican", and we will all see them hate on his name "Castro", in a "Hussein" Obama kind of way.
I hope Julian has a spine and stands up to them, unlike this current Democrat Party.
I doubt JC will stand up to anybody. He's up and coming so will alienate as few as possible.
The question is whether he can appeal to white people as well as brown.
GOP platform curiosity:
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB...581700788.htmlQuote:
The 2012 Republican Platform calls for a complete overhaul of the federal tax system. No surprise there. But then it endorses a value-added tax or national sales tax as one possible solution to the nation's budget problems. This is shocking.
The VAT would be adopted only if it is accompanied by "the simultaneous repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, which established the federal income tax," the platform states. A Republican-controlled Congress passed that amendment in 1909, and the states ratified it in 1913. The tax was aimed squarely at the ultra-wealthy, targeting the top 1% of wage earners.
Removal of the 99-year-old tax amendment is so unlikely that the platform plank seems facetious. As for the VAT, perhaps it was inserted in the document for yucks, too. A mere two years ago, "VAT" was an obscenity in GOP circles. The Republican National Committee, which produced the 2012 platform in 2010, vigorously attacked the value-added tax after Obama advisor Paul Volcker said that a VAT or a carbon tax might be needed to narrow the budget deficit. The RNC assumed that the Democrats would add the regressive VAT to existing taxes and consequently soak the middle class.
sales and VAT taxes are horribly regressive, which is a truth the Repugs hide.
Why not just try to appeal to people?Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Senior Romney adviser: It wasn’t necessary to thank troops at convention
Senior Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom on Sunday defended his boss for not thanking U.S. troops or even mentioning the war in Afghanistan while accepting the Republican presidential nomination during the GOP convention on Thursday.
During an interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked Fehrnstrom if Mitt Romney snubbed the troops on purpose or if it was an oversight.
“Well, the day before the convention speech, Candy, Gov. Romney traveled to Indianapolis on Wednesday, and he gave a speech before the American Legion,” the senior adviser explained. “That was an invitation that President [Barack] Obama declined. … And in that speech he talked about Afghanistan.”
Crowley pointed out that even conservative Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol also blasted the former Massachusetts governor for failing to “utter a word of appreciation to the troops fighting.”
“It has been since 1952 when a Republican did not mention troops serving overseas,” the CNN host told Fehrnstrom. “In hindsight, he should have said something.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/0...=Google+Reader
Not only are Gecko and Ryan sucky politicians their advisors suck, too, the GOP convention being a example of botchitude.