Snarf
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Walker wrote >>
Snarf wrote >>
^Nice.
I didn't fall for the Shepard Fairey poster or catchy slogan last time around, don't know why I would a second.Good to know you're keeping up with your quota of at least one "my team is better than your team" posts per political thread. ;)
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Core_Models
Columbus
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And less than half of the same people polled believe that to significantly cut government spending would require making major changes in National Security, Social Security, and Medicare.
I'm thinking they may have polled an elementary school.
ChrisSunami
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I thought the flying unicorn leaving a rainbow trail was a nice touch...
It was a bit of a light touch for a hatchet job. I could have created a more bitter and scathing parody of an Obama ad, despite the fact I'm almost certainly going to vote for him for the second time. I know the joke was that it was supposed to seem just like a pro-Obama ad, but it really did seem like one. You had to pay close attention to even know it was making fun of him.
Of course subtlety has never been my strong suit --but then, it never seemed like a Republican strong suit either.
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It has become such a pain to run for office that we get stuck with these losers.
Huckabee is a hack who will say whatever to get elected. He plays the simpleton man of the Arkansas people bit that is annoying as hell.
Romney is a phony who has been running for 4+ years now. Damaged goods.
Obama is a phony who will say whatever to get elected (obviously). He might have a better chance if he kicked Biden to the curb.
I would love to see someone primary Obama.
And maybe Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, or someone yet to be named will give some cause for optimism or else we will be stuck choosing from a list of warmed over losers.
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If I had to pick someone from the list of possible Republican nominees that Reuters provided, I would pick Jon Huntsman.
StowCbusCleveland
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While I have been at times disappointed by some decisions, I think President Obama has generally done an admirable job steering through an economic crisis at home and two wars + Mideast turmoil abroad. He hasn't always taken the approach I would, but I am at least convinced he is smart and reality-based more than ideology-based. On domestic issues he shows a willingness to cherry-pick good ideas from the other "team" and compromise (sometimes too quickly depending on the issue). My ideal President is basically a smart pragmatist, and so far I think he fits the bill best. I think he is intellectually up to the task.
There are some GOP candidates I'm interested to learn more about (Jon Huntsman, Mitch Daniels), but I fear we'll get either a nut job or a weathervane from their primary. Republican politics is in a weird place right now, and I don't see them picking the type of Republican I could support. I'll probably vote in their primary this time around to help push for a sane candidate, but I think I'll be outnumbered.
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ColumbusTime wrote >>
It has become such a pain to run for office that we get stuck with these losers.
Huckabee is a hack who will say whatever to get elected. He plays the simpleton man of the Arkansas people bit that is annoying as hell.
Romney is a phony who has been running for 4+ years now. Damaged goods.
Obama is a phony who will say whatever to get elected (obviously). He might have a better chance if he kicked Biden to the curb.
I would love to see someone primary Obama.
And maybe Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, or someone yet to be named will give some cause for optimism or else we will be stuck choosing from a list of warmed over losers.
Maybe he'll step up and challenge Obama.
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Country will really be screwed up by then.
myliftkk
Columbus, OH
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@joev - There's some real demographic/electoral problems with that thought. Closed early primaries and a winner-take-all system empower the R candidates that can generate the most buzz in short bursts, and that's not moderate R candidates (when's the last moderate R who even made it through that process, Eisenhower?). That and a lot of the moderate rationalists left the R party to the devices of the fanatics.
'10 taught moderate R's that if they don't get on board with "teh crazy", they're going to get primaried, and since a number of moderates were primaried out this last round, there's already chum in the water. The only way they're gonna put a stop to that spiral is for one of the R leadership to stand up and change direction. Which one of the feckless bunch do you expect it to be? Cantor, Boehner, McConnell? They ain't got no Lyndon Johnson over there...
Their one shot, minus a major change in US fortunes, might be what's left of the business side of the R establishment drafting Petraeus, but it isn't the 1950s anymore.
Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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That reminds me of this little gem.
"This is the second poll in as many weeks to show Trump giving the establishment candidates a run for their money. Last week, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed Trump running in second place at 17%, just behind frontrunner Romney's 21%."
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It's getting ugly very early...
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I wish we would go to a parlimentary system of government sometimes. Elections over and done within weeks instead of years.
Red Sun Rising
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ColumbusTime wrote >>
It has become such a pain to run for office that we get stuck with these losers.
Huckabee is a hack who will say whatever to get elected. He plays the simpleton man of the Arkansas people bit that is annoying as hell.
Romney is a phony who has been running for 4+ years now. Damaged goods.
Obama is a phony who will say whatever to get elected (obviously). He might have a better chance if he kicked Biden to the curb.
I would love to see someone primary Obama.
And maybe Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, or someone yet to be named will give some cause for optimism or else we will be stuck choosing from a list of warmed over losers.
I'd like to see Dennis Kucinich run again, and finish the race, but the press will always marginalize him because he isn't tall enough or "presidential" enough.
myliftkk
Columbus, OH
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joev wrote >>
@myliftkk There are so many types of crazy on the far right of the Republican Party, that I think there's a good shot for a moderate. God help us if less than a third of Republicans haven't evolved past the pitchfork mentality.
I don't think it's a question of evolution, so much as it is who's left even voting in R primaries. If enough moderates bailed on party identification, and there's reason to think a lot have, then candidates are going to skew towards the fringe.
Check out this gem from Alan Simpson though (he of "Social Security = Cow w/ 300m tits" fame):
"That's the kind of guys that are going to be on my ticket, you know, makes you sort out hard what Reagan said, you know, 'stick with your folks,'" explained Simpson to Matthews. "But I'm not sticking with people who are homophobic, anti-women, you know, moral values while you're diddling your secretary while you're giving a speech on moral values. Come on. Get off of it."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/12/alan-simpson-abortion-gay-rights_n_848270.html
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Although the election is many months from now, Obama taking a beating in the polls. Especially troubling for him is the independents; drops to a new all time low of 35% approval.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147140/Obama-Job-Approval-Tying-Low.aspx
myliftkk
Columbus, OH
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@brant - here's a partially transcript of trump's quotes.
Once while discussing Iraq.
"We build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road they blow them up, we build again, in the meantime we can't get a f***ing school in Brooklyn," Trump says.To the audiences approval, while talking oil.
"We have nobody in Washington that sits back and said, you're not going to raise that f****ing price," he says.
And finally, while speaking about taxing Chinese goods.
"Listen you mother f***ers we're going to tax you 25 percent," Trump says.
@walker - It was a speech he gave in vegas last night
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