I’m starting to think Obama’s plan to win reelection was to somehow get all these caucuses and whatevers stuffed into the beginning of the year so we’d be so fed up with seeing these jokers that we’d vote for him just so we wouldn’t have to see them again.
Romney won 39 percent of the votes of those who took part in a presidential poll at Maine caucus sites; Paul took 36 percent of the vote, while former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum captured 18 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won 6 percent.
So the consensus we seemed to have reached is that if they held an election tomorrow, we couldn’t be bothered because we’re so disillusioned with the whole process.
Heart attack or Cancer. Who will you vote for?
Gotta go with heart attack. This implies an urgency to get on a better diet and exercise.
A teapublican vote appears Cancerous which is the final Death of the middle class => class warfare that WILL be won by the poor => Venezuela.
The biggest threat to America is the dying middle class followed by the Christian Taliban.
Class warfare WILL be won by the poor NOT!
Who’s got all the money? The 12,400 billionaires, not the 1%ers and certainly not the 99%ers,
The theory now goes that the poor get the modern version of trickle down, a thin yellow liquid running down their backs and between their bare ass cheeks…
Given how things are going, its only a matter of time until the 99%ers are joined by the 1%ers.
Class warfare has already been waged (since Nixon, since Reagan and since Shrub [aka Bush II]) and has been over for decades.
The poor have most decisively lost.
It just needed a Shrub (Bush II) to wake us up and smell the fetid, festering cadaver. (The schmuck retard with the Alfred E Newman ears and the vocabulary of Li’l Abner was such a fuck up that he couldn’t avoid the collapse of the financial system for a few more months until he’d safely got out of office.)
Now he’s left the nigger in charge to sweep the floor, turn off the lights and lock up the door on his way out the door.
The sign on America front door is switching from “Immigrants Welcome” to “Foreclosed due to Bankruptcy.“
The reality is that if tomorrow ALL of the money of the top 1% was suddenly put in the treasury, It would make NO DIFFERENCE because our debt is so high.
Keep on drinkin that kool-aide.
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You are being disingenuous. First, this mess was 20 years in the making, and nothing can clean it up immediately.
Second, you could take EVERY PENNY we spend on entitelments in a year and it wouldn’t put a dent in the debt, either. I guess by your “logic” we shouldn’t do anything!
The problem is not that the top 0.1% have the wealth, but that the same 0.1% dictate spending policy, which just happens to be massive deficit spending.
The spending is the problem, the national debt is the problem, and the 0.1% are responsible for this problem.
The Republican ideal is similar to that of North Korea. A wealthy ruling oligarchy, no middle class to speak of, and a destitute powerless poor that is controlled by powerful media and a police state.
Ah, paradise, and don’t forget to lay flowers before Dear Leader’s victory statue.
That is in our future if we let the GOP win.
No matter who wins, bend over, here it comes.
If somebody thinks he’s won anything, we’re all losing.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: Only Republicans will figure out how to loose an otherwise winning campaign. All Obama has to do is sit back and watch the “change” happen.
And if you think America’s problems are all about politics, think again. All our politics do is mirror our collective values. Only problem is, corporate America is holding the mirror. And as long as we value total bullshit then that’s what we get – total bullshit!
Once Romney gets the nomination, whether he legitimately wins it or buys it, all Obama has to do is point out how evil and out of touch Romney is. And he’s right! But then again, so is Obama!!!
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
-Albert Einstein.
The problem isn’t the candidates, per se.
Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc all got elected because they were pretty clear on what they would and wouldn’t do if elected.
John Kerry, Bob Dole, McCain were all rather unclear on exactly what they would do if elected.
I couldn’t tell you the first thing any of them Ron Paul would do, and if Ron Paul were 50 instead of 80 he could be a viable candidate. But he’s not. So he isn’t.
To beat an incumbent, one must communicate what they would do, why it would be better, etc. It is not enough for the incumbent to be arguably somewhat unpopular.
John Kerry tried the “I don’t have a plan” method for trying to beat an incumbent and it didn’t work.
Note: When Reagan beat Carter when the economy was really bad in 1980, he only won 51% to 49%.
Beating an incumbent President is very tough to do because everyone does at least know what to expect from them.
Actually Reagan won 51-41, with Republican John Anderson taking 7.
That is unusual then … the last 2 defeated incumbent presidents had a 3rd party candidate in the fold and Jimmy Carter’s was a Republican.
Anderson was great, his speeches were fiery and quite refreshing from the dreck you heard from democrats and republicans. Unfortunately the winner take all system we have for the electoral college meant that Anderson would have no chance. I was amazed he even won a state. 3rd parties just can’t gain traction due to the way we elect our leaders.
Funny you would mention Kerry’s “I don’t have a plan” campaign. John Stewart of the Daily Show gave a 2 minute loop of Kerry’s speeches with him saying “I have a plan” at every one.
Seems the Republican disinformation machine is great at what it does.
Oh yeah. Research fail on my part then.
Maine is contested. Apparently the guy who ran the vote tallying is a Romney supporter, made sure that the Ron Paul votes would never make it to the final tally, thus handing Romney his victory.
You could get more accurate vote counting in a central american dictatorship. The GOP is pathetic, but with such powerful money behind Romney, I’m sure the unmarked envelopes of money to unnamed local officials has done its job.