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    the JINO SCOTUS elected dubya. Was more "interested" in imposing state law than in getting an accurate count that had a chance of beating JINO's candidate. SCOTUS was badly, vehemently split, and the REPUG JINOs won.

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    the JINO SCOTUS elected dubya. Was more "interested" in imposing state law than in getting an accurate count that had a chance of beating JINO's candidate. SCOTUS was badly, vehemently split, and the REPUG JINOs won.
    So... you are suggesting that the Florida election law needed to be violated to elect Gore?

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    no

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    But that is the problem Florida election law was violated. The recount method was not only bogus, but went for too long a time.

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    With gecko's campaingn bitterly divided internally,

    shifting strategies from week to week (or is it "weak to weak"? ),

    Repug campaign financers,

    Repug mucky mucks wringing their sweaty hands,

    gecko comes up with his BEST STRATEGY YET!

    In New Campaign Strategy, Romney to Have Mouth Wired Shut Until November

    In what his campaign described today as a bold strategy to insure victory in the Presidential contest, Republican nominee Mitt Romney will undergo a procedure to have his mouth wired shut until Tuesday, November 6th.

    The decision reportedly was made in response to the release earlier in the day of rare video footage showing Mr. Romney saying what he really thinks.

    In the video, Mr. Romney blasts the American people for being “insanely obsessed with food, clothing, and shelter,” and asserts that many of them are “too lazy to hide their money overseas.”

    At another point in the video, Mr. Romney refers to his own hardscrabble childhood: “I was never handed anything in life. If I wanted to cut a gay kid’s hair off, I had to pin him to the ground myself.”

    Romney campaign aides were upbeat about the mouth-wiring procedure today, with some saying they wished they had thought of it months ago.

    When asked about the procedure at a campaign stop in Ohio, Mr. Romney said, “Mmmnff ffnn mmfff nnnnnff.”


    http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...itz%20%2822%29

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    Thanks to the 2009 bill that removed income caps on who could do a roth ira conversion, I'm sure a good chunk of those Romney supporters will find themselves not paying any income taxes in retirement and they'll have Obama to thank for it.

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    I think you've misrepresented the statement in your thread le. He's not saying that Obama voters don't pay income taxes. He's saying people who don't pay income taxes only vote Democrat. Which is almost worse.

    It's just baffling. How do you serve as a Republican in government for 20 years and think there are no Republicans in the bottom income tax bracket?
    Even worse.
    To paraphrase:

    If you are poor, you are lazy.

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    Why for me?

    Do you think those people will now not vote for Romney because of his comments?
    it's possible some of them could get turned off and stay home. particularly if Romney continues his losing trajectory.

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    None.

    He's spot on.

    Somewhere between 47% to 48% have no federal tax liability, and will vote for all tax increases because they are not affected. In fact, any time these tax increases are said to aid them in any way...

    They are bought.

    They are just s for the democrats.
    You do realize that medicare and social security taxes are "federal tax liabilities", right?

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    it's possible some of them could get turned off and stay home. particularly if Romney continues his losing trajectory.
    Its possible but not likely. Too much of the base cannot stand Obama and will turn out just to vote against him. It was a stupid thing to say and unlike some of the Romney voters on this site I think it was factually wrong. Many poor people vote republican for social reasons, not economic reasons. Romney would have been right to say there is 40-45% of the population that is going to vote for Obama no matter what. Romney can't focus on those people because he knows he will never win them over. They are similar to the 40-45% of the population who will vote for Romney. The key is winning over at least 50% of the remaining that last 10-20%.

    If he had said that or something similar to that, he would have a smaller headach right now.

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    If he wanted to get his jabs in he could have used a word like "some" or even "many" within that 40-45% are there because they depend on government. No one would get too worked up about that, especially if he then said that the remaining 10-20% are made up of all different demographics and backgrounds but keep an open mind and are unhappy with the past 4 years. All that would have been fine and true.

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    So, class warfare is actually OK to Team Red.

    Thanks for confirming.

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    Well, this takes a giant dump on what Romney said.

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    Bill . It's only going to piss off people who will not vote for him anyway. He's preaching to the choir.

    I agree some wealthy don't pay taxes for one reason or another, but there is an IRS statistic that this number comes from. 47%+ of income tax filers pay no federal income tax, and many of them get more money back than they had taken out.
    There is a stat, maybe you should look it up.

    To paraphrase what you just said:


    Bull .

    What you said is correct.

    I'll change the subject

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    Well, this takes a giant dump on what Romney said.
    Yeah, that's basically his base.

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    one of these guys is going to win, in spite of everything.

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    Its possible but not likely. Too much of the base cannot stand Obama and will turn out just to vote against him. It was a stupid thing to say and unlike some of the Romney voters on this site I think it was factually wrong. Many poor people vote republican for social reasons, not economic reasons. Romney would have been right to say there is 40-45% of the population that is going to vote for Obama no matter what. Romney can't focus on those people because he knows he will never win them over. They are similar to the 40-45% of the population who will vote for Romney. The key is winning over at least 50% of the remaining that last 10-20%.

    If he had said that or something similar to that, he would have a smaller headach right now.
    Hatred for Obama is undeniably strong, but characterizing people who pay no income taxes as a class of parasites and moochers was monumentally stupid. also, as you pointed out, factually incorrect.

    Message discipline seems not to be there for Romney. He did much better in the primaries, tbh.

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    So, class warfare is actually OK to Team Red.

    Thanks for confirming.
    It seems like fair game for both parties. Would you disagree?

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    Hatred for Obama is undeniably strong, but characterizing people who pay no income taxes as a class of parasites and moochers was monumentally stupid. also, as you pointed out, factually incorrect.

    Message discipline seems not to be there for Romney. He did much better in the primaries, tbh.
    There is a lot of stupid factually incorrect bull going down on both sides.

    This campaign silly season seems even worse than usual.

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    It seems like fair game for both parties. Would you disagree?
    Team Red was against it before they were for it.

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    It seems like fair game for both parties. Would you disagree?
    Is the 3% proposed tax hike for households earning greater than $250K the class warfare you're referring to?

    So far, only one campaign has actually come out and said that approximately half the country is made up of free-loading bums and that half is voting for Obama.

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    There is a lot of stupid factually incorrect bull going down on both sides.
    sure, but you've been flogging this meme to death the past couple of years, even did so upstream.

    (better check your boots; you're tracking something around with you)

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    Message discipline seems not to be there for Romney. He did much better in the primaries, tbh.
    Was he really better in the primaries, or did he just look better because he was running against the likes of Perry, Santorum & Bachman?

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    Gecko says his "job" (I thought he said he was unemployed? ) is not to work about that 47% (in all those red states, because they will stupidly vote Repug no matter much Repug policies screw them OVER AND OVER AND OVER )

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    good question, CG. to me it seems he was better in the primaries at giving very little away and avoiding dumb comments. now it seems like he's falling over his own feet and flailing a bit.

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