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Campaign Crawlers
It’s Still Romney’s to Lose
But he really needs to work on his delivery.
Alright, we’re a month into the campaign and already things are looking more favorable for Mitt Romney than anyone might have expected. He’s pretty much wrapped up North Carolina and made Michigan and Wisconsin competitive. If nothing else, this will mean Obama must divert resources from Colorado and Ohio, which he’s absolutely going to have to have in order to win the electoral vote.
The stickler is going to be Virginia. It seems like it should be a Republican state, judging from the most recent gubernatorial election. But the vast reach of federal employment into northern Virginia seems to be having an impact. Washington, D.C. is the only city in the country that has prospered in the Obama Era and it appears as if enough of this prosperity might filter out to northern Virginia to win the whole state. It would be ironic indeed if the final impact from Obama’s financial blowout were to buy enough votes in his back yard to turn the election.
But not to worry. We’ve still got a long long way to go.
The most important thing about this election is that Obama has painted himself into a corner. He won in 2008 because he was able to widen his appeal to broad swathes of the electorate, including most of Wall Street and people making more than $100,000. With nothing to show for his four years, however, he’s turned to demonizing these people. Lots of luck. He’s managed to turn all that money against him on the wild gamble that somehow all this will appeal to the “middle class.”
But the middle class isn’t looking for handouts. It didn’t vote for him in 2008 and is even less likely to this time. Only the truly poor really respond to this “grow the government” stuff. Thus Obama’s only hope is that he has forced enough people out of the middle class and into poverty so that they will vote for him. With the generation just coming out of college, it may work. These kids have no memory of Reagan and don’t even know what a thriving private sector looks like. But anybody who can remember the “malaise” that hung over the nation during Jimmy Carter and the jolt of creativity that came when Reagan took over knows it can happen again.
In such a situation, Romney’s strategy is surpassingly simple. Be the happy warrior. Be positive, exude confidence, attract people to your cause. Tour the country spreading good cheer while The President remains huddled in a defensive crouch in the White House. ”America’s best days are still ahead of us.” That’s exactly right. I haven’t heard one false note out of this campaign and the people running it obviously know what they’re doing. This bus trip over the past week was a stroke of genius. I think he should do about six more before the end of the campaign. (Remember, it was a bus trip that launched Bill Clinton and Al Gore on the road to victory in 1992.) Romney has to mix it up with the public. He’s got to gain more of the common touch. It’s not just a matter of photo ops, it’s the education he’ll get himself.
Romney has obviously led a somewhat sheltered life. He’s been in prep school, Harvard, Bain Capital. There’s a lot he doesn’t know and a lot he has to learn. But he can learn and if he does, it will show through quickly. If Romney rolls into the fall having learned things on the road, with a much firmer grasp on the pulse of the country, he will prove not only that he can do the job but that he can learn on the job, which is something Obama hasn’t been able to do at all.
The only thing I worry about now is Romney’s speaking style. Here I think he could learn a lesson from the President. Barack Obama supposedly learned his intonations from the Reverend Wright and that’s not surprising. Anyone who ever heard a good African-American preacher rousing his flock has had to wonder, ”Gee, what would happen if one of these evangelizers decided to go into politics?”
It’s one of the strange and overlooked ironies of the age of Twitter and Facebook and instant communication that one of the biggest assets a candidate can have is the ability to give a good speech. Look at the Obama himself. He candidly admits his ability to give a good speech is his best (perhaps only?) asset. I was at a humdrum Washington event about a year ago when one of the speakers was a frumpy Tennessee Congressman who looked like he had just rolled out of bed. I was frankly wondering how he had ever got into his office when he took the podium and launched into a stem-winding oration that had everyone mesmerized.
The South has always been the home of great political speakers, but it’s true everywhere. The current Brooklyn Borough President is a politician named Marty Markowitz who has made an entire career out of firing up audiences with his tumultuous speaking style. I once saw him address an all-black church in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He climbed into the pulpit amid a few nervous titters and immediately roared, “I woke up this morning and knew it was going to be a beautiful day because I WAS GOING TO BE SPENDING IT WITH THE CONGREGATION OF THE AME ZIONIST CHURCH!!” He had the crowd on its feet within seconds.
Now I’m not saying Romney should try channeling Martin Luther King or William Jennings Bryan. That obviously wouldn’t be him. But he could be more poetic. I saw the news clips after Obama made his colossal gaffe in saying “the private sector is doing fine.” Romney picked it up but there was no cadence, no drama to his remarks. He sounded as if he were still addressing a seminar at Harvard Business School. “He thinks the private sector is doing just fine. Do you think the private sector is doing fine? I don’t think the private sector’s doing fine.”
Come on. This is the time to roll out the rhetoric: I look around me and I see unemployment lines filled with hard-working Americans who haven’t been able to find a job in two years. I see college graduates saddled with tens of thousand of dollars of debt and who realize their only hope is a two-year unpaid internship. I see families who never imagined themselves as anything but middle class applying for food stamps. I see a whole generation facing the prospect that they nay never be able to gain a foothold onto the ladder of success. And this President thinks the private sector is doing just fine? I don’t think this President even knows what a private sector is. He thinks the way to grow the economy is to have the federal government borrow more money from China and give it to state and local governments to hire more… “teachers and firemen”?
Whoa, wait a minute. How did we get to teachers and firemen? People in Wisconsin and Iowa aren’t objecting to hiring teachers and firemen. They just don’t want to be bankrupted paying for pensions so teachers and firemen can retire at age 55. You don’t criticize state and local governments by talking about people that everyone respects. You talk about an institution everybody hates — like THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. President Obama wants to tax people out of their earnings and borrow more money from China so we can HIRE MORE PEOPLE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. There, that’s it.
Oh well, it will take time. Fortunately, we’ve still got plenty of it. Martin Luther King didn’t think up his “I Have a Dream” speech standing on the Capital Mall that hot August afternoon He had given it dozens of times before to smaller audiences. William Jennings Bryan had given his “Cross of Gold” speech a hundred times before addressing the 1896 Democratic Convention. You try out different themes, different metaphors, different phrases and gauge the audience’s response until you find something that works.
It will happen, I have no doubt. At some point in the next few months, standing in front of the bus in some small town in Iowa, Romney is going to find the right words, the right phrases, the right tone of voice. Then everything will fall into place.
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Brooksifier | 6.22.12 @ 6:27AM
What you need is not an eloquent Romney, but a first-rate candidate, an Ike or Reagan.
chuck| 6.22.12 @ 7:01AM
Ike and Reagan are currently unavailable.
And Romney still is a helluva lot better than the current Idiot-in-chief.
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 7:23AM
Please go to Thomas Sowell's article, on see what He has to say about Style vs. Substance.
Jack in Wi| 6.22.12 @ 7:37AM
If Romney is the solution we have a hell of a problem. Lets face it Willard has a chance to win, only because Obama has been a horrible President. He has no program but what his consultants, big contributors, and pollsters tell him to say. In that, he like Obama. This country is headed for the dumpster, and all we have to choose from is twiddle dee and twiddle dumber.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:41AM
And if Jack ran for office, we'd have "Tweedle Nazi" to choose from...
Alan| 6.22.12 @ 8:11AM
Well then stay the F'uck home and don't vote.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:38PM
Thanks to the Wisconsin dumbarses who allowed their state to be confiscated by labor union thugs from the rest of the country. Romney will put a stop to that crapola and that's why your state was invaded!!!!!
chuck| 6.22.12 @ 8:09PM
Still haven't eaten a bullet, Jack? It would really do a lot to brighten your outlook.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:57AM
Exactly.
Fantasizing about Reagan is a pointless exercise.
It's Romney or Obama. THAT'S the choice.
And if you think they're the same then you don't deserve to vote.
Alan| 6.22.12 @ 8:23AM
Thank you. We didn't get here in one election and we aren't getting out of the hole in one election. I'n not a fan of Romney, but I am much less a fan of the marxist anti-american intellectual wannabe and his racist lap dog AG and the rest of the academic utopionistic incompetents he surrounds himself with.
irish19| 6.25.12 @ 1:27AM
"We didn't get here in one election and we aren't getting out of the hole in one election."
That is the key. It's going to be a long hard slog to undo all the damage that's been done. We have to start somewhere with someone. That the someone is Romney is just the way it is. Deal with it, Jack and Appleby and all the rest of the naysayers. We have to start somewhere. Staying home is not an option in this election. If you don't like the top of the ticket, then concentrate your efforts on the down ticket races and vote for conservatives in those. I'm not a big Romney fan either, but if the choice is Romney or four more years of zero with a chance he could put in a couple more Kagans or wise Latinas, then the choice is clear.
Von Mises Jr| 6.22.12 @ 8:50AM
The choice is between a de facto dictatorship and fascism versus a chance to regain our Constitution and free market capitalism.
Romney needs to choose the right team (Ryan for VP would be a great start).
But continuing down the road of lawlessness of the Obama regime is worse than serfdom. Serfs and slaves were treated better than the totalitarians such as Stalin and Mao (that this crowd worships) treated their Comrades.
But I have faith in the American people. Soros, Maurice Strong from the UN and the Progressive/liberal/socialist thought that a black president could enslave the nation and we would be too frozen with political correctness that we would not object. Guess again.
Al Adab| 6.22.12 @ 12:11PM
With apologies to Phyllis Schaffley, what we need is a Choice not an Echo. Sure a liberal republican is better than what we have, but it will not eliminate the social-welfare state. Incrementalism and small steps may yet bring us out and yes, we have to begin somewhere.
Stkman| 6.22.12 @ 4:07PM
There is that thrid candidate everyone seems scared to talk about, Revolution. After Romney traitous move to issue millions of greencards to people in the country illegally he's shown he's just the rich mans dictator. I'm not rich. I'm middle class and have more in common with the poor folk than the wall street crowd, but I don't want to be dirt poor nor do I want a government that puts me in the poor house. Both Roney and Obama seem destined to put the middle class in th epoor house.
I say hang them all, call a Continetal Congress of the remaining govenors and start over. Niether party cares for the American citizen anymore. We'll be okay, and no, our enemies wouldn't dare screw with us. The world knows all to well what ill temepered Americans can do.
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:27PM
I had my Nurse Practitioner talk to me about the dog on the roof story. She did not know of the saving the drowning family story, http://dailycaller.com/2012/04.....drowning/, nor did she know about the closing Bain down to save a partner's missing daughter story:
(Snopes says true) http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp.
This guy's very admirable as a human being, and very smart and decisive. I'm OK with him.
Kwan| 6.22.12 @ 9:09AM
"You go to war with the army you have not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."....Donald Rumsfeld
janetd| 6.22.12 @ 6:30AM
Sorry but I don't think Obama gives a good speech at all, but I do agree with you that this election will be Romney's to lose.
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.22.12 @ 10:36AM
No, I really think it's Obama's to lose, and he's going a good job of it. Romney brings zero to the table: no charisma, charm, sophistication; no ideas; no track record worth writing home about.
Republicans and conservatives are still in the wish-fulfillment stage regarding Romney: they want him to be what he isn't.
I keep thinking: okay say Obama loses and Romney becomes president. Then what? You've essentially got an empty suit running the country at that point. Stay tuned for disappointment after disappointment with Romney. Republicans had the chance to nominate a conservative, but instead decided on the safe choice, a moderate.
The next four years are going to be sheer hell for Republicans, politically speaking, and I'm glad of it. Republicans deserve Mitt Romney.
Alej| 6.22.12 @ 12:42PM
"Romney brings zero to the table: no charisma, charm, sophistication; no ideas; no track record worth writing home about."
No track record ! Did your mommy ever have any children that lived ?
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.22.12 @ 1:17PM
Did yours?
Crassus| 6.22.12 @ 4:47PM
I guess that means that the answer is no.
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.25.12 @ 4:05AM
@Alej
Yes, there are plenty of track record of Romney.
No. 1 in State Debt
No. 47 in Job Creation
As a MA governor.
This is just the preview of what Romney the Bully wants to make USofA!
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 1:51AM
I am confident that President Obama will be re-elected against this loony empty bubble cult Romney the Bully!
OBAMA 2012
Appleby| 6.22.12 @ 6:51AM
Don't try to remanufacture Romney into a Man Of The People; he is no such thing. The only time he "sees" all those other kinds of people you have mentioned is in arranged photo shoots or on television or maybe in "The Economist" magazine. For heaven's sake don't dress him up in Wal-Mart clothes and parade him through neighbourhoods he would never visit if he made his own agenda, with that Politician's Look of feigned interest and concern. True, it's better than parading through the back yards of Hollywood and donning a Dale Jr. leather jacket and wading into the crowd at Talladega; but please keep your mind on Dukakis in that tank and John Kerry in his Elmer Fudd garb pretending to the people of Ohio that a-hunting he would go.
Romney is not a "man of the people" and trying to fool people into thinking he is one will make him a cartoon character. If he's got to tour anything, send him to businesses that are struggling to stay afloat and show him dispensing his wisdom to people who will understand that on this subject he knows his stuff.
And by the way, keep him out of the Black Baptist Churches. Way too much baggage there.
chuck| 6.22.12 @ 7:07AM
Dumbest campaign ideas of all time:
1. Dukakis in the tank.
2. Al Gore in the earth-tone pants striking the gay-porn star pose.
3.Kerry in the hunting garb.
4.Kerry on the wind-surfing board.
5.Anything with Joe "Biteme" in it.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:52AM
You forgot "Obama is intelligent and accomplished."
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 8:20AM
"Can I get me a huntin license." Kerry.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 9:05AM
6. Romney baking a pie ... trying for the women's vote I guess.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 9:47AM
7. Democrat Candidate (insert name) pretending to be patriotic.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 11:42AM
8. Filthy Rich Republican (RobMe) pretending to care for the people.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 12:41PM
You do realize that "for the people" is a useless, meaningless phrase, don't you?
All kinds of things have been done by politicians "for the people."
Things like forced collectivization, famines, political purges, mass executions, etc.
These are the kinds of things that LEFTWING demagogues do "for the people."
In contrast, "Filthy Rich Republicans" like "RobMe" create jobs for millions through the creation of businesses.
And this is the REAL difference between the Right and the Left:
The RIGHT are Producers; the LEFT are TAKERS.
In other words, you're parasites.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 1:07PM
Actually, it is customers that create the jobs. Invest all you want - without customers, there is no business, and no jobs.
What do you think it means "a business failed" ... Failed to do what? Sell to it's customers and have customers buy their product or service. OMG you're brainwashed.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 1:29PM
Customers create jobs???
Really?
So...what do they buy?
Where did it come from? Thin air?
Who made that thing they bought? A Pixie?
Who owned the factory or company that markets the thing they bought? Santa Claus?
And who "creates" the customer base in the first place?
And HOW did they create it?
Do people suddenly wake-up one day and decide that they really want something called a "LEXUS Hybrid SUV," even though there isn't yet such a thing as a "Lexus Hybrid SUV," and it suddenly - POOF! - appears????
Seriously...how clueless are you??
Have you EVER actually worked?
You're embarrassing yourself.
Like all Libs, you have it EXACTLY backwards.
chuck| 6.22.12 @ 8:14PM
Dr,
Game, set, match. Purp thoroughly annihilated.
Think he'll respond?
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:00AM
Doctor - you have it upside down. Don't you know anything about Marketing? You can invest all you want, create fantastic products or services - but if you don't have customers to buy them, you go bust. You market to your customers to tell them what you have to sell and entice them. But first, my uninformed one, is that you must know if there is a market for what you want to produce or sell. No market (=customers), no business. The basis of this economy, over 70% of the economy is consumption - consumption by whom? Consumers (=customers), that's who.
Geesh, you righties are so wedded to your beliefs, you cannot fact facts.
And, what can government do to help in an economic downturn - give jobs to customers so they can buy goods and services in the private sector to re-start the engine - and then back off and let the private sector hum along again.
OMG it's so simple and you are so resistant. If you don't have a job, you don't have money, you don't become a customer which generates other jobs.
Creating wealth is NOT creating jobs.
If the rich are so great at job creation, and they have been enjoying the Bush tax cuts for a decade, where are the JOBS? Hmmmm?
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 2:06AM
So far, human-kind found the way to cure AIDS or Cancer, but still there is no hope to cure Repubs' brain. LMAO
Cobalt| 6.23.12 @ 8:32PM
And what about the business of finance?
Most people don't pay cash for consumer goods.
We live in a nation where people have to finance their lifestyles of consumption. Consumer credit is king. Without financing, most businesses would be not be able to stay open.
"Customers" live or die in the marketplace, based on their ability to qualify for financing.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:35PM
What customers? From 20% unemployment, a tanked real estate market, domestic terrorists screaming increased taxiation to pay for his governmental welfare?
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:32PM
Right. So Walmart had nothing to do with Sam Walton's marketing skill, and walgreen's doesn't know how to select store sites, and Ray Kroc sucked as a salesman.
While we're at it, Purp, Scipio Africanus had nothing to do with beating Carthage, George S. Patton knew shit about tank warfare, and Curtis LeMay wouldn't know one end of a bomber from another, and Cordwainer Smith knew NOTHING about psychological warfare. (You're so smart, tell me if I'm wrong on any of those, and, if so, why. I'm not, by the way---especially on the last one. No one knew more about psyops than Cordwainer Smith, and I doubt you know why.)
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:04AM
Ahhh, Marketing the magic word. Marketing to whom? For what?
Ice to an Eskimo? I think not.
If there is no market (customers), there is no sales, and if there is no sales, there is no jobs, and if there is no jobs, there is no customers, and there is no sales, there is no business.
Businessmen invest to make money (from customers). If there is no money, why invest?
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:31PM
9. Community organizing attorney-thugs representing Acorn and labor unions [and whose mommas are HO, HO, HOS]!!!!!!
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 11:59AM
Purpie, shocking to see such a sexist remark from a politically correct lefty. You will be sent for re-education and gender equality sensitivity training.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 1:13PM
I'm not the one trying soliciting the women's vote by degrading them ... with an apron on and flour on my face ... This is Romney's Dukakis moment, at women's expense.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 2:13PM
You are more stupid than I thought.
YOU said:
"Purp| 6.22.12 @ 9:05AM
6. Romney baking a pie ... trying for the women's vote I guess."
See, Purpie, you just assumed that Romney was trying for the women's vote because he was baking a pie. You are a sexist and must apologize.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:06AM
Oh, excuse me, he's soliciting the baker's vote. riiiggghhhttt. Don't make me laugh, he was a joke, while the President was helping solve the Eurozone crisis, Romney was spreading dough with a rolling pin - the every woman's man, rriiiggghhhttt...
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:30PM
What about ya boys making waitress sandwiches on a restaurant floor??????
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:06AM
Huh?
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 2:10AM
ROMNEY - Just another GOPuglypalooza of
Anti-LGBT Community
Anti-Women
Anti-Women's Rights
Anti- Poor
Anti-Middle Class
Anti-Senior Citizen
Anti-American Dream
Anti-American Worker
Anti-Peace
Anti-Military Service for them
Anti-Unemployed
Anti-Immigrants
Anti-Immigrant Children
Anti-Disabled
Anti-Banksters in PRlS0N
Anti-Environment
Anti-Safe Drinking Water
Anti-Arts
Anti-Science
Anti-Government
Anti-Public Education
Anti-Foreigners
Anti-Constitution
Anti-Atheists, Agnostics
Anti-Progressives
Anti-Regulation and Regulators
Anti-Truth
Anti-Scientific Data
Anti-Nation Building at home
Anti-any Conservative who choses not to march in lock step with them.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:32PM
Womens' vote as in some lesbian HO claiming she never worked a day in her life?????
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:07AM
You don't have that quite right, Chuckles.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:00PM
Prove it incorrect, moron!!!!
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 1:54AM
@chuck
You forgot this.
"I hate the Middle Class and the Poor, but I need their votes."
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 1:55AM
@chuck
You forgot this.
"I hate the Middle Class and the Poor, but I need their votes."
- Mitt Romney -
chuck| 6.24.12 @ 8:33AM
I doubt Romney ever said that, although you have it in quotes.
However there is no doubt whatsoever that the Bamster has written off middle-class white men.
BTW, on your Anti- list, for Obama, it is simply:
Obama: Anti-American
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.25.12 @ 4:10AM
Just read this!
http://discussions.latimes.com.....0120624/10
Basically, What Romney is saying is that he wants to cut everything from average Americans and put that money into already the strongest defense industry in the world.
Romney has no soul or concerns for average Americans.
Romney is Wrong for America.
Robert| 6.22.12 @ 9:22AM
Were ANY of your Democrat idols 'men of the people?' Kennedy? Roosevelt? Obama? Our Marxist Cheater in Chief is an elitist from the word go. Hasn't earned a day's worth of salary all his shameful, parasitic life! He schmoozes with Hollywood on the left coast and Crony capitalists on the east coast.
What hypocritical garbage is this about Man of the People??
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 11:47AM
Kennedy and Roosevelt were not - but they helped the people and showed true character with their concern for others. Obama certainly is from the people - a broken interracial marriage and home (hardly a step up ahead of the rest), working hard all his life.
Romney likes to "fire people", isn't "worried about the poor" and thinks illegal immigrants will be force to "self-deport" as his policies scare the crap out of them. Romney doesn't work, he lives off his "investments" ... and can't seem to win an election over at least the last 6 years.
Hmmmm, isn't that the real problem for RobMe?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 12:46PM
I love debating you because with each and every post you show how utterly IGNORANT you are.
Romney likes to fire people??? Proof??
Romney doesn't work???? Oh, really??? How's that? So much for his self-made fortune (he gave the entirety of his inheritance to charity...you knew that, didn't you???)
Obama is a hard-worker???? BWAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!
Obama is the laziest, most shiftless, most dishonest man to ever occupy the WH. He's never accomplished a thing on his own! He's been propelled through life because he's black - PERIOD.
In fact, we now know from Liberals that Obama is also a pathological liar who uses racial stereotypes to further his own agenda.
And JFK was, on a personal level, a deplorable, philandering scum-bag, and a sexual predator.
You're a walking mouthpiece for the Left's talking points.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 1:21PM
First, last year Rombot described : "I am also unemployed" http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.....nemployed/
Or if you prefer, he is this:
"Mitt Romney Declares Himself A Self-Employed Author In Campaign Filing Report" -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....15298.html
So which is it? Unemployed? An artist? A liar, I mean speaker? A cheat, I mean philanderer? In either case, a LOSER.
I'll put JFK up against any Republican and the R will lose. Apparently you accept FDR as a monumental president, as you should.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 3:48PM
Actually, I consider Roosevelt to be a disaster.
He was responsible for a HUGE expansion of the Federal Gov't, far beyond it's Constitutionally-ordained authority.
In fact, Roosevelt's idiotic Keynsian policies lengthened the Great depression by at least half a decade.
In that regard, he's very similar to the current moron in the WH.
Your heroes are all frauds.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:13AM
Actually, it was FDR's policy of austerity and restraint in 1937 that created the mini-Depression and lengthened the overall depression, that lasted until WWII - when GOVERNMENT spending ended the Great Depression.
Keynesian policies worked, still work and always will, when needed. Unregulated capitalism always fails and we have crashes every 10-15 years. By 1910 or so, we finally figured that out and created the Fed. When unfettered, capitalism always is the boom-bust cycle. Regulation smooths out the cycle to the advantage of all, not just the super rich.
You're heroes are whom?
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:28PM
What about his nephew whose wife recently hung herself? Will you pur him up too? What about his kinfolk who rape babysitters, or drown campaign workers or rape disagreeing females from the Oh-Bar????????
4mike| 6.23.12 @ 12:54AM
Wow if im not mistaken one of JFK's most famous lines was "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
If JFK were alive today it is safe to say he would not recognize the modern Democrat. Starting to wonder what else the democrats are going to try and give from the never ending government coffers to buy a few more votes.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:14AM
What have you done for your country today? The Democrats are the same, you are not the same Republicans.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:02PM
Me? What have I done? Worked and PAID TAXES that supported the indigents ie Democrats.....that what I did!!!!!
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 3:47PM
And, you do so willingly and without complaint, Fart?
Virtue| 6.22.12 @ 7:03AM
He's completely tone deaf to anything South of the Potomac. Don't patronize us.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 8:20AM
Explain.
Virtue| 6.22.12 @ 10:15AM
Don't talk about once having eaten catfish & corn pone like we're all ignorant buffons. Makes it perfectly obvious that the sum total of his knowledge of the South came from Dukes of Hazard vignettes in the Boston Globe. n.b., The last acceptable bigotry in this nation is against Southern white males.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 12:02PM
With a deficity of 15 trillion, unemployment of 10%, no drilling for oil/gas, a corrupt Justice Dept, an American murdered with guns sent by the Obama regime, a marxist president, and your feelings are hurt because of catfish/corn?
Where are your prioritites? Do you want Obama or Romney as president?
Virtue| 6.22.12 @ 3:43PM
Romney. But it his to lose....
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 3:50PM
Who cares?
He's not running for the Presidency of "the South."
It's Romney or Obama. Take your pick.
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:36PM
Virtue: will he help the Southern economy and revitalize B'ham better than Obama? I think so.
I'm a Chicago Yankee Jewboy whose wife graduated from the Capstone, who was on faculty of the U of Alabama School of Medicine, and who still has an Alabama Medical license. Hot Cornbread made well with butter is one of the best things on earth. And Southern men have saved my life.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.22.12 @ 7:12AM
What we have here is some more bad advice flowing Romney's way.
Why wouldn't he vocalize the problems inherent in running government? Yes, it's true and a fact that money is being borrowed from China to support local governments. The public is savvy enough to grasp the relationship and understand the ultimate end game. It may be here this October as we slip into another recession.
As far as the fire and brimstone approach in speech making, that would only go so far in appealing to the general public and the general public is where this election is to be decided.
So far, Romney has outwitted the Republican Party and the group of morons who ran against him. Now all he has to do is maintain the game and point out the failure of Obama, INC.
Dai Alanye | 6.22.12 @ 10:25AM
Hussein O'S is still mesmerized by Romney. The idea of Mitt outwitting anyone is ridiculous. His success in politics has only been bought, and often no amount of money has been sufficient to save him.
Romney can't win the election, but he has one advantage: the other guy can give it to him. If Barrack continues to break down, the public will be driven more and more to Romney so long as he makes no major error.
But as for a conservative liking Mitt Middleman for his political philosophy or charisma, that's little more than a symptom of naivete.
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.22.12 @ 10:40AM
Dittos....
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.22.12 @ 11:36AM
Actually, no mesmerization is needed. As far as Mitt outwitting someone he's gone a long way without your support.
All success is bought in one way or the other. Frankly, you sound like an OWS loser, jealous and mesmerized by your own internal class warfare.
If Romney does win the election be prepared for half baked truths about how he won because Obama is a loser, not because Romney is a winner.
The fascination with invisible conservatism continues. There never has been a conservative and it's a losing proposition. Talk about naivete!
I hope you don't handle your own finances.
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 7:14AM
You are the 2nd person in 2 days to write about STYLE. Lord, in his soliloquy on Vetting a potential Veep and now You and your Scarf, on the finer points of Public Speaking. I be thought your guys am be smarrt?
As hard as the Country's 5th Column Press tries to hide the TRUTH of Obamanation, they are no match for the Facts on the ground.
How many people are out of a job? 12 Million? How many are there when ALL OF THEM are counted?
That's a lotta Votes.
How many Union folks do ya suppose Voted for Scott Walker? How many folks do ya think work in the Oil and Gas Industries? How many are there in the Coal Industry? How many Dem Pols from West Virginia, are NOT going to the Democrat Convention? (You folks, don't be fooled. They're just puttin on a Show, to save their own asses. GET RID OF THEM, come November!) Ohio is a Coal State, with a good, strong Conservative Governor, in Kasich. Wisconsin and Michigan are DEFINATELY in play.
People wanna Work. They wanna feel the feeling one gets, when He, or She can provide for their Family. They don't want a Welfare Check or an Unemployment Check from The Food Stamp President. They want a PAYCHECK from where they WORK. I believe that Blacks, the hardest hit by this Sick Bastard, will mimic the Union Voters in Wisconsin and Vote their pocketbooks.
Every Corner of this Country has been adversely affected by the Muslim's Marxist ways and the Summer has yet to get HOT.
But it's gonna.
And it ain't gonna be pretty.
Nancy in NC| 6.22.12 @ 7:29AM
Tim, is there any chance you get a job working for Romney's campaign?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:44AM
Yes, I can see it now:
"People wanna Work."
That will be right up there with 'It's Morning in America," and "It's the Economy, Stupid"...
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 8:20AM
I see that you're still Sniffing my Ass.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 9:12AM
Not exactly.
More like shining a light on a cockroach.
Why? Does it bug you?
(Get it?? "Bug" you? 'Cuz you're a cockroach? LOL!!)
'Kay...Bye!
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 10:27AM
Now you're using my Cockroach analogy?
You really are obsessed with me.
I guess watching your Sister in the Shower, after a long hard day of Cashing your dead Mother's Social Security Checks, isn't enough, anymore.
Alan Brooks. If, by chance, you've managed to get all of the Handcuffs unlocked, and you're reading this on your Screen?
I think we might have found A Live One, for ya.
He's just Sniffing my @ss.
Imagine what he could do, with yours.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 12:50PM
I don't have a sister.
My mother is still alive.
Have you submitted your brilliant article to TASOnline, yet?
You know...the one that will make Mr. Tyrell stand-up and take notice of your brilliance, and give you your own weekly column??
Or are you too busy advising the Romney campaign??
...snicker...
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 2:18AM
Here is my boy Tim still bothering people with his nonsense!
In fact, Mitt Romney is a Cockroach.
He can't stay with average American people. He looks always anxious to hide and wants to stick with his kind, 1%ers.
Tim! My boy! I didn't raise you that way!
Try to have at least decent discussion with people.
I will see you soon, son!
Dai Alanye | 6.22.12 @ 10:32AM
TLP is another dreamer, alienated from reality. The ideas that blacks will desert Obama, or that Ohio is dominated by coal interests are efforts in fantasy.
Under present conditions Tucker is absolutely correct. Romney must be positive and avoid unforced errors, letting Obama defeat himself. It's Reagan/Carter all over again.
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 4:28PM
So, Blacks don't want jobs?
Blacks don't buy Gasoline?
Blacks don't buy Groceries?
Blacks aren't losing their Homes?
Blacks aren't losing their Businesses?
Blacks don't wanna send their Kids to College?
Blacks don't care that they've lost 40% of their Wealth?
Blacks don't have teenagers, who need Summer Jobs?
Black Unemployment is over 17%. Black Youth Unemployment is over 50%.
Ladies and Gentlemen. I give you the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations.
Courtesy of Dai Alanye.
Spoken like a True Liberal.
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:38PM
"People Wanna Work" is actually quite good. Gentlemen, might I remind you that we have a common enemy, and I value you both?
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 7:52PM
He's a MORON.
C'mon Occam.
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 7:54PM
Seriously.
This guy is BAD NEWS.
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 2:23AM
You just like to insult people, just because you don't see them face to face.
You are just a big fat wuss hiding behind the screen!
TLP| 6.24.12 @ 7:59AM
And, now he's becoming Sybil, right before our eyes.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:48AM
Since you still despise the columnists' topics, can you let us know when you're submitting an article for public scrutiny?
Better yet, why don't you have your own blog? And why aren't you a regular guest on "The Factor"?
Romney's boys will be calling soon; as the great philosopher Navin R. Johnson once said "Things are going to start happening now!"
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 8:21AM
"The Factor"?
Wow.
You're even Stupider than I thought.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 9:12AM
Really?
How so? Care to explain? Any insight?
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 4:34PM
O'Reilly's a MORON.
Just like You.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 6:32PM
What a snappy comeback!
I'm sure the editors are impressed with your wit...
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 9:07AM
And yet, over 130 million people are working .... almost 92% of the country+ ...
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 9:14AM
92% of the country would be something like 300 million.
Are you saying that Obama's magical grasp of economics has created sooooooo many jobs that even children and retirees are working??
Really...you're as clueless as they come.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 10:54AM
92% of the private sector employment population you idiot.
http://www.adp.com/media/press.....p-ner.aspx
I assume you can read a chart .... Notice the huge dip under Bush and how the economy has climbed back under Obama. Oh, my, Fixed News lies to you... Believe what you will - these are facts.
Drunken Sailor| 6.22.12 @ 12:53PM
My, my. Nice graph. It shows quite well when the numbers began to dip doesn't it. It would appear to start in Dec 2006. Isn't that about the same time the Democrats took control of Congress and started passing all of their stupid ideas? I'm sure that is just a coincidence.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 1:27PM
Passing? Do you know how a bill gets passed into LAW? You need to go back to school.
You righties constantly ignore you had President Bubblehead, I mean Bush, that wouldn't sign Democratic Legislation, just like Obama won't sign yours.
In 2006, the four years of Total Republican Control started having it's effect - tragically for America, I might add. Are you brain-dead?
Just like after 4 years of the Obama effect, we've reversed the Bush administration's crash and have produced 4.3 million jobs - more than in the entire Bush administration net. We'd be in even further along if the House wasn't Republican obstructionists for the last 2 years.
Drunken Sailor| 6.22.12 @ 2:17PM
I am fully aware of how a bill becomes a law. Have you ever heard of a Lame Duck President? Do you know where spending originates?
The problem with Bush was he spent to much. But hell, he is a rank amatuer compared to Obama. Bush's other downfall was he believed the bullshit from the left about compromise and reached across the aisle to work with the Dems. Guess old Bush forgot that the Left always promises to meet in the middle but never hold up their end of the deal. He was gullible. Obama is just plain destructive.
As for the rest of your rant. Pure garbage. From your beloved Factcheck.org
But — what the president didn’t mention — total employment in the U.S. remains nearly 1.7 million below where it was the month Obama took office, and more than 6 million below where it was at the best point in the Bush administration, in January 2008.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 3:56PM
Just once I wish we had a President like Reagan and complete control of the House and Senate.
The JOY of shoving it down the throats of liberals and watching them scream and cry would be priceless.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:18AM
Doctor - shoving it .... - that's really the American way, huh. What kind of unpatriotic idiot are you? We aren't in a football game, Sunshine. You're talking about your country and 1/2 it's citizens. You should be ashamed. But I have my Baretta, bring it on.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 10:48PM
You've had ROBERT BLAKE also? Shame shame shame!!!!!!!
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 4:37PM
You are absolutely right.
It's like the Iridium Deposit, that marked the Exact Moment that the Dinosaurs became Extinct.
It couldn't be any CLEARER.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:16AM
Drunk - since the employment figures were dropping from 2007 on, don't you think you're a little off? Can YOU read a chart?
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 3:37PM
Yeah, I CAN Read a Chart.
"The figures were dropping since 2007 on".
That's what I said.
Reid and Pelosi took power over Both Houses of Congress, January 21' 2007.
And, it's been DOWNHILL ever since.
Thank you for making my point.
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 3:52PM
TLP - yep, right after the Republicans were swept out, their 4 years of damage came to roost. What? You think the economy tanked just because there were Democrats in charge of Congress for a few months? Idiot... Bush wouldn't let them pass anything.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 3:54PM
Are you the kind of fool who thinks that we're all beter of when the Congress is running around passing all kinds of laws and regulations???
Once again, you have it exactly backwards.
We would all be better off if they stayed home and left us the hell alone.
GRIDLOCK is one of the best things that can happen to we, the people.
And BTW, Idiot-boy...between 2008-2010, the House Republicans were not able to block ONE SINGLE THING that the Democrats wanted...
...and the economy STILL cratered.
Gee...Why is that? Bush, again?
Or maybe it's the "Obama effect?" (LOL!)
You're a joke.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:20AM
Doctor - again you are oblivious - go learn what the filibuster in the Senate is, see how often the R's used it during Obama's term, and then maybe you'll know something. The House is a simple majority wins. The Senate is not. Got a clue now?
And, yes, it is still the Bush Depression. As it will always be known such, just the Great Depression is blamed on Hoover for 80 years and counting.
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 3:39PM
He's not "oblivious".
He's an IDIOT.
There's a difference.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 10:56PM
Bush wasn't POTUS when the CRA of 1977, the GREAT SOCIETY and the WAR ON POVERTY, the WELFARECARE of 2009 etc was passed. Once again for all of you LEWINSKYITES accpeting pizza and cigars from the domestic terrorists that have historically been in charge of this nation's government and legislating their governmental redistributed income from producers to indigent dregs of society........IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPID!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:25PM
Ya boy hasn't reversed anything, stupid! Ya boys started this in 1977 with the CRA and it cascaded downhill to today, stupid. It's called liberalism or Democratic welfare legislation, arswipe!!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:21AM
You really are a walking Fixed News ad, aren't you? You don't know anything, but Murdoch has done his job on you Fart!
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 10:47PM
At least I'm not LEWINSKIFYING BARRY like you constantly are doing!!!!!!
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 9:20AM
I might add that at 6% unemployment, you all would just shut up - that' 2% from where we are today. Quite a recovery from the Bush Depression - not perfect, not enough, and there are some people not counted, but way better off than 4 years ago under Bush Baby.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 9:49AM
Well since we haven't had 6% unemployment since Obowma became Prez, and won't have less than 8% as long as he is Prez, then I guess it's a useless debate, isn't it?
The "Bush depression"??? LOL!!! Yeah...I'd like to see you explain that one!
You're a walking cliche.'
A joke.
And during 8 years of Bush, we had full-employment, jackass.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 10:49AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/....._blog.html
Read it and weep - you are in denial...
Full Employment under Bush? You have forgotten the "jobless recovery" under Bush, haven't you? 4.5-6% unemployment is NOT Full Employment, but whatever. Believe what you will - you are only one vote.
Drunken Sailor| 6.22.12 @ 12:55PM
I know this is math and all but isn't 4.5-6% unemployment better than the 8+% we are currently in? And that's not even counting all the people that have fallen off the charts and are no longer counted.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 1:07PM
To a Liberal, 5% unemployment under a GOP President is BAD, BAD, BAD!!! People are starving!!! It's ARMAGEDDON!!!
But 8% unemployment under Obama = "Things are looking better!"
That's because Liberals are ill-informed fools.
EVERYTHING they think they know is a lie.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 1:04PM
You're confused.
"Jobless recovery" was a term used by Obama to describe his inability to understand Economics 101. It was NEVER spoken during Bush's Presidency.
Additionally, Dummy...there is actually no such thing as "FULL employment." There will always be a certain amount of people changing jobs/retiring/moving, etc.
FYI, Dimwit...that number is universally assumed to be...5%!!!
So when we have 5% unemployment, we actually have "FULL employment."
ONCE AGAIN...we have proven that:
You are ignorant of what you post, and that...
You're in way over your head.
But keep it coming, please!
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 1:29PM
Whoopsie - Facts refute your ridiculous pronouncements - http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi.....omy.usnews
Looks like your head is way under your ass! It's really not that much fun to fight with the unarmed brain.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:03PM
Hey, Dummy...
That's the U.K. Guardian...NOT Bush.
Additionally, Bush had to deal with the fall-out from 9/11.
That was the "man-caused disaster" that hit NYC on 9/11/2001...the one that was caused by 8 years of Bill Clinton.
EPIC FAI on your part...again.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:24AM
Doctor - did you bother to READ the UK article - it took 2 seconds to find it. You didn't, and you wouldn't look up the truth. I'm amazed you never heard the news talk about the "jobless recovery" under Bush. It was all over the news. Oh, maybe not on Fixed News, 'cause they "fix" the news for your sensitive right-wing revisionist history.
Go learn something.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:20PM
As opposed to the 20% unemployment presently due to ya boy!!!!!!
Von Mises Jr| 6.22.12 @ 10:49AM
Doc, ignore the troll Jefferson/Perpy/?/?.......
The real U3 is 11% per Jimmy Pethokoukis at AEI. The real U6 is probably in the 20% range.
But that still doesn't count all the people forced into retirement or the 99 weeks of unemployment that elapsed and they are now collecting Social Security Disability.
Garbage, half-educated trolls can even use statistics to deceive. If you have a room full of married, heterosexual couples, then on average everyone has one breast and one testicle.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 10:56AM
http://www.adp.com/media/press.....p-ner.aspx
You need an education... spin is not fact. I assume YOU can read a chart? Or is that a BIG asssumption in your Ivory Tower?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 1:10PM
Can we compare educations and experience?
Here's mine:
BS Biology, Graduated Cum Laude (that means "With Honors").
MBA in International Business, which naturally included a heavy emphasis on something called "Economics."
I've spent considerable time living and working overseas (Europe, Australia).
I've been working in the healthcare industry for almost 18 years (you know...EVIL pharmaceuticals, that kind of stuff).
OK...Your turn!!!
Von Mises Jr| 6.22.12 @ 2:08PM
Good Doctor, I have a BA in Management and an MBA in Accounting. I also graduated with Honors, just a tad below magna cum laude. I did not pick my handle by accident.
That is why I am telling you to forget Jefferson, Perp or whatever other name he uses as a MoveOn troll today. He is a waif, a neophyte and a bore.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 2:18PM
Von
Are you in Jersey?
You and Doc have impressive credentials.
Purpie failed his GED because he could not spell GED. Or else, he has a degree in "Sustainable Development."
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:30PM
I was thinking Women's Studies...
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 3:44PM
Of course you were.
That's what queers think about.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:25AM
Von M - what happened to "Simma cum laude" - your words not mine ... LOL .. you're so well educated.
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 3:46PM
That was his Initiation at College.
Give me cum alotta.
I thought everybody knew that.
TLP| 6.24.12 @ 8:04AM
Sorry Von M.
I thought that stupid Purp was referring to Doctor Dickwad.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 11:03PM
"Simma cum laude"? Is that similar to calling ya boy a LAW PROFESSOR? Hell, that's like claiming that Sharpton and Jackson are religious ministers. Ya boy has had his former law license non-renewed/eliminated by the state of Illinois, but I guess you don't need one of those to have your radical friends ghost-author DREAMS, huh???????
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 2:27PM
Wow you should be so smart ... apparently like the absent-minded professor - since you fall for the right-wing propaganda junk?
I have been in the professional ranks (requires advanced degrees) most of my life and run a couple of businesses. Why in the world are you right-wing? You surely can see through their lies, deceit and misinformation. I'm surprised, but I don't blame the lower uneducated types for being manipulated by propaganda - but you? Can you explain why?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:29PM
I am smart.
That's why I'm Conservative. I "get" things.
Maybe you should run your business empire the way you want the country to be run.
You'd be out-of-business in a week.
Or maybe you already are...which is why you love Obama.
I don't see how any thinking person, especially a man, can be a Liberal.
Liberalism is nothing but the politicization of femmie emotionalism.
It's also contrary to logic, history, and experience...and really, really dumb.
But I guess it works for you?
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:29AM
then you must believe that Conservatism is the opposite, the masculinization of the political. Is that what it is? Some men are afraid they are not Macho enough, so they have to be Republican, in the "Daddy Party", or they'll be called pansies or fags?
What a great reason to be Republican. "I'm no fag, I'm Republican" ... Hmmmm, Rep. "what are you wearing page boy? Mark Foley anyone? Ted Haggart? Senator "Wide Stance" Larry Craig?
Maybe Republicanism is a cover for your true feelings. It's okay, come out. It won't hurt (well maybe if you're a catcher it will) ... hahahaha
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:14PM
Was your business similar to the one Barney/Elmer Fudd's previous boyfriend was running from his Boston apartment????????
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 3:48PM
He's smart.
Apparently, "Smart" is the latest victim of "Dumbing Down in America".
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 11:05PM
Yeah, he's a real FART-SMELLER....I mean SMART-FELLER....sorry!!!!!
Von Mises Jr| 6.22.12 @ 4:32PM
Charlie Rose to Brokow: "Why we don't even know what books Perpie Jefferson read. We don't even know who influences his thoughts, his worldview."
Brokow to Rose: " Me neither. What has he read?"
Only Perpie Jefferson can answer that question. I am waiting.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:32AM
Point me to one successful economic system in the world, EVER, that followed Hayek, Von Mises or Ayn Rand's philosophy? How about one that failed even? Hmmmm?
I can point you to know many countries that have followed Keynesian philosophy economics that have been quite successful.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:16PM
Keynesian Economics? Sure Russia, Cuba, China come to mind perhaps??????
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:19PM
You don't know what Keynesian Economics is do you?
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 11:07PM
Economics was my minor in college, dumbars.....want to debate same, putz [make my day!] ?????????????
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 4:58PM
Ok Fart - what is Keynesian Economics? Where and how has it been successful?
Then tell us what & where Hayek's Economic Philosophy has been implemented and how successful it is?
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 9:28PM
'....Following World War II, one major economic question dealt with the appropriate role for government in the economy. John Maynard Keynes, an English economist, developed theories that called for a large role for government in the economy. Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw (1998), explain Keynes' argument in this way: "The government would borrow money to spend on such things as public works; and that deficit spending, in turn, would create jobs and increase purchasing power. Striving to balance the government's budget during a slump would make things worse, not better. Keynes's analysis laid the basis for the field of macroeconomics, which treats the economy as a whole and focuses on government's use of fiscal policy--spending, deficits, and tax. These tools could be used to manage aggregate demand and thus ensure full employment.....Keynes' views on economics were challenged by Friedrich von Hayek who argued that "The problem was that under central planning, there was no economic calculation--no way to make a rational decision to put this resource here or buy that good there, because there was no price system to weigh the alternatives." Central planners could make technical decisions but not economic ones. Over the rest of the century, that criticism would prove to be extraordinarily prescient......To Hayek, less government intervention meant more economic freedom. He believed that when people are free to choose, the economy runs more efficiently......'
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 9:34PM
And the above, excrement-head is why Keynesian based economies of Spain, Italy, Greece etc are now economically failing and requiring financial bailouts from Hayek oriented Germany etc......and also why you're a DUMBARS!!!!
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:10PM
Yeah UNDERWATER BASKET WEAVING being one of your degrees no doubt, which allows you to run your homeless shelters which net $5000/year from government subsidation. Of course you're an Obama supporter so you can get those government goodies via the alternative minimum tax, right????
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 4:40PM
Obviously you have a BS.
We see it in every post you make.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 6:35PM
Jealous?
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:44PM
Hey, I like Big Pharma...damn shame they won't feed my wife at meetings any more...
My BS in Biology was Magna Cum Laude, and I snagged my MD before turning 26.
However, on economics, I bow to both of you Gentlemen... (not purp; I'm talking about my fav doc and Von Mises...)
But my wife graduated B.S. in Accounting at the Capstone SUMMA CUM LAUDE, and then had the brains to marry a well off doc at age 26...
So, gentlemen, in the game of Spy V. Spy...the woman always wins! (Just like in the Comic.)
TLP| 6.22.12 @ 7:59PM
My fav Doc?
I feel like I don't know you anymore.
He's a Fcking Idiot, with No Job.
Just look at the Clock, next to his comments.
He's a LOSER.
C'mon.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 8:37PM
LOL!
Yeah, if it makes you feel good to think that, by all means, l'il Timmy!
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:22PM
According to ya boy, but according to reality 20%+ are unemployed. Ya boy controls the BLS, dummie!!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:33AM
Yeah, and there were more unemployed than registered under Bush, so what? Did you care then?
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:22PM
The unemployment rate under Bush was approximately 6-7% but under ya boy is 20% plus [we are now in a full scale depression thanks to his H&C crapola of governmental employment practices to benefit the labor unions so that Democrats can stay in power. The asinine correlation sadly is that governmental employment and welfare has increased under his mandated stupidity!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:23PM
You do know that the unemployment rate was 8% when Obama took office after Bush left the economy in shambles, and climbed to 10.2% until Obama's policies reversed it? You do know that, right?
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 11:15PM
Is 20% a REVERSAL of 8% idiot? Do you know why it's now 20% idiot? Do you know what non-stimulus and welfarecare legislations are idiot? Do you know what excessive governmental regulations are idiot? Do you know what threats of excessive taxiation are idiot? Do you know what ignoring illegal immigration law enforcement is idiot? Do you know what regulated non-issuance of oil drilling and coal mining permits are idiot? Can you read, think and rationally understand the truth idiot????????????????????????????
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:05PM
BS it more like 50%, and of those 40% work for the government!!!!!!!
Nancy in NC| 6.22.12 @ 7:37AM
Romney needs to take off the mittens and get tough. Call out this whiner in chief.
For example, use Maobama's own tactics against him. He loves to talk about fairness. I would talk about the unfairness of those who break in front of the line of immigration. After all there are over 4 million people waiting to get into this country legally, and have put money on the line to do so. Maobama loves to use class envy...how about the unfairness of waiting in the grocery line only to have some thug break into the line?
Personalize those stories. Tell about the families that are separated for years on end, trying to do the right thing, the legal way.
Personalize the people that have been out of work for a couple of years and desperately want a job. Tell about college graduates working at McDonalds just to be able to tell their children they are working.
Insteal of appealing to people's lowest instincts, appeal to their goodness and decency.
Maobama has given Romney so much ammunition to work with. All he has to do is pick up the pieces and run with it.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:51AM
It's June. Relax.
And Romney's team has been counter-punching Obama for weeks. And scoring points, too.
I don't know how Romney acquired this reputation as a softie. He ripped into Newt and Santorum during the primaries, and he's going to land many hard shots on the target-rich environment known as "Obama."
Bob Grant| 6.22.12 @ 9:09AM
D.R.,
I don't see Romney as a softie either. He played extreme hardball with his fellow republicans during the primaries in '08 and '12.
My, how many of us have selective amnesia!
I also like the way he defended those people who interrupted David Axlerod's MA speech an few weeks ago and obama's speech last week. It appears he's incorporating Alynsky tactics in his campaign.
Face it, he's been running for president for 6+ years. He apparently WANTS IT!!
Softie?...I don't think so.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 9:40AM
No, just a LOSER
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 10:28AM
What will you call im after he kicks Obowma's ass in November..?
Other than "President-Elect Romney," I mean?
You inhabit a fantasy world of little libby soundbites and talking-points. You know NOTHING about what you speak, as evidenced by your inability to respond to one of several queries I posed to you the other day about basic economics.
You ignorant little punks are one of the biggest problems our country faces today. You're full of outrage and indignation but completely lacking in insight, experience, and basic facts. And you're ignorance makes you susceptible to cute l'il catchphrases like "Bush lied, people died," or "Hope and Change" (LOL on that last one! How's that hope-n-change workin' out for ya?)
Unfortunately for you dim-wits, the rest of the country is buying the nonsense the left pedals anymore.
Enjoy the last 4 months of your commie-socialist-muslim-non-citizen's pathetic reign.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 11:01AM
I inhabit the world of facts, not spin. Unfortunately, for your kind, you are motivated by beliefs, not facts. But facts will kill you ever time. Both Ohio and Florida have increasingly better even better economies than the national averages under Obama, and he will be handsomely rewarded for the successes there. For Romney, it's game over if he loses either State. In both States, the Governors are a drag on the Republican ticket, so I wouldn't count my chickens if I were you. Richie is a LOSER.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 12:53PM
Which facts would those be?
Romney will win Ohio AND Florida.
Bank on it.
I actually feel sorry for you. You REALLY believe that Obama is a smart, accomplished, intelligent guy who is equipped to handle the burdens of leadership and economic downturns.
In short, you're a drone.
Drunken Sailor| 6.22.12 @ 12:57PM
Dr.
Give Purp a break. Remember he works in the insurance industry and is in a panic over the fact that Obamacare stand a better than even chance of being overturned. Hell, purp may have to actually work for a living.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 1:11PM
He actually has a job?
Funny...he writes like a 19-year old college student.
Drunken Sailor| 6.22.12 @ 2:19PM
That is his primary job. Now do you see his problem? He is in a panic because he sees Obama losing steam. With Obama out of office he will have to go back to actually working in the insurance field instead of being a professional lefty troll.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:35AM
Doctor - are you really a doctor? you sure sound like a rube.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:34AM
Drunk - you really have no clue what I do, do you?
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 3:50PM
Why don't you just tell us, what you "DO"?
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 2:33PM
Obama - he's already proven himself - he has kept us safe for 4 years - isn't that the #1 job for the President in your world? What gives you that confidence that Romney will answer the 3 am call? He'll delegate to his phone valet.
Under Bush the economy crashed badly into a Depression, and under Obama is has come back almost to where it was. Not bad for a first term.
The name calling is unnecessary, unless you have no arguments left, factual or non-factual. I see it as pointless, even tho I catch myself falling for it too.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 2:40PM
Tell Mr. and Mrs. Terry that Obama kept their son, Brian Terry, safe. Tell the families of the hundreds of dead Mexicans killed by the guns supplied by the Obama regime. Tell the families of the Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq why died since Obama has declared defeat and is withdrawing.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:36AM
CJ - Ask Mr. Bush about it - he started the secret pgm in 2006, and both of the wars.
Alan| 6.23.12 @ 1:10PM
No Idiot, Bush's program was a GUN TRACING program set up with the cooperation of the Mexican Government that involved putting tracking devices into the weapons to track their movement. The program was called Wide Receiver. It turned out that it was a failure and it was stopped and terminated in 2007, two year before the communist started his scheme. One had nothing to do with the other so drop the Bush started it bullshit, this gun walking scheme was your fearless leaders project from start to finish and the blood is on his hands and nobody elses.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:27PM
Alan, you are wrong. One pgm fed into the other, and both were to trace guns to the Mexican cartel buyers to get the "Big Fish". It was ill-conceived by the Bush Administration, kept under wraps by the AZ ATF and they admitted to Congress that they didn't inform the Obama administration it was going on, until Terry was killed. It was summarily ended by Eric Holder.
The Blood is Bush's to enjoy, just like the 4000+ dead in Iraq and the 3200 dead on 9/11 while Bush was asleep at the switch. He didn't want to "swat at flies" when he had Saddam in his sights.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:18PM
Yeah, he's kept us safe by shipping F&F arms to the ME so that they can futuristically use same against the rest of us!!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:36AM
to ME? Really, Maine? Huh? Ask Dubya - it was his pgm started in 2006.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:25PM
No to the Middle East, you dumbars!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 5:01PM
The Wide Receiver and F&F pgms didn't ship arms anywhere. And you call me a da. Fart - look in the mirror, you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:35PM
Yes...Obama has "proven himself."
That's why he has to go.
He's a PROVEN disaster.
FYI...The economy has not budged since Obama took office. In fact, it's gotten worse.
As far as name calling is concerned...
Cry me a river. If you're going to put yourself out there and say idiotic, stupid things on a website populated by people who disagree because they know better, than you're going to have to suffer the consequences.
Conservatives are generally nice people, but we're sick of being abused by the left, and we're NOT taking it anymore.
The Left has been robbing, stealing, picking our pockets, lying, and trashing our country for years...
...but now they're starting to get their just deserts. And like you, they're whining about it.
Tough. The world's changing.
Get used to it.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:38AM
Doctor - worse? Fixed News Fairy tell you that? Ask the Auto Industry about that one. Or the 4.3 million new jobs owners since he took over as President. OMG you are dense.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:29PM
The 'auto industry'? Do you mean Government Motors that still owes the taxpayers $billions of their borrowed money for the purpose of maintaining Detroit's labor union jobs? What about the former GM bondholders who were left with worthless pieces of paper after ya boy's government takeover?????????
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:28PM
GM doesn't owe the government squat now - they repaid their loan, and so has Chrysler. Get up with the real news, not the "Fixed News" channel.
Oh, NOW you're worried about the investors? And you want to vote for Romney? Funny...
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:47PM
Purp: asshole didn't keep me safe---I had a job lined up at Fort Hood, working in the Department of Psychiatry that I was ready to go to when Mama Minny called...started in March 2008 in the Star of the North, and under Obama Nidal has STILL not been convicted for murder and treason...
G-d kept me safe, not the jihadi lover.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:29PM
No my asshole didn't keep you safe ... where did you get that fairy tale?
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 5:02PM
Fort Hood, in 2009, oh that doesn't count. Just like 9/11 was 9 months after Bush took over, and he can't be blamed for that, right?
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:16PM
Obama will win the west [left] coast and the NE east coast. That's it! It will be a Romney landslide!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:39AM
Polls in FLA, OH, VA, CO, NV, NM and AZ say differently, FART.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:31PM
Polls/surveys are easily manipulated as numberal always are, dumbars. The polls showed Carter and Reagan even before that election also, moron!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:30PM
Huh? Fart, you're blowing wind again.
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 8:58PM
Nah Purp that was instead Jerry S. blowing on your tummy!!!!!!!!!!
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 4:00PM
The 1st Jimmy Carter led Reagan, right up until the end.
And, we all know how that turned out.
C'mon.
You just sound Stupid, when you say Dumb Sh*t, like that.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:24PM
Is he a 'loser' because he doesn't spend all of his time playing golf and basketball on the taxpayers' dime like ya boy conveniently does??????
Al Adab| 6.22.12 @ 9:44AM
He was indeed tough and vicious against his fellow republicans and Conservatives. If only he could stop being gentlmanly against the DEMs. Sadly that isn't the republican way. This is what we feared about Romney. He simply doesn't motivate the crowd. We need Demosthenes but find Mr. nice guy. Dewey, Ford, Bush, Dole, McCain, now this. Republicans always fear to upset anyone, so they stand for nothing.
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.22.12 @ 10:44AM
Exactly right....
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 11:06AM
Gentlemanly = Republican? What planet are you on? GW Bush buried McCain with false stories about out of wedlock black babies, Republicans lied about Vince Foster and how the Clintons killed him, and Karl Rove and his cronies promote wedge issue propaganda constantly. That's what you call gentlemanly? Seriously?
I find it amazing how you will so easily "believe" these liars all the time, without using a single fact to support their bs, when you know d* well they are trying to persuade you to support them.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 12:08PM
Name the Republicans that accused Clinton of killing Foster.
Al Adab| 6.22.12 @ 12:15PM
Good afternoon W;
As Marcus Aurelius said, "Don't waste time bantering with barbarians and idiots".
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 12:54PM
Al Adab
I know you are right, but Purpie is such an easy target. He repeats the Obama/MSNBC/lefty line like a good minimum wage employee. So we respond to him as a surrogate for the Obama regime.
There is no hope of educating him, we do it only to point out the stupidity of the Obama talking points.
Hope all is well with you, and have a pleasant weekend. Very hot here in Pgh.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 12:57PM
I'm not wasting time; I'm having fun!
Making Purp look like a clueless, misinformed liberal squawk-box is EASY!!!
And it's a great way to spend my lunch-break.
Does that make me a nasty, mean-spirited Conservative?
Whatever.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 2:41PM
You don't refute any facts with anything but innuendo and beliefs - that's not making anyone look clueless but you .
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:14PM
Liberal don't understand facts...since they're all stupid!!!!!!!
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:36PM
I've given you act after fact after fact.
You choose to ignore them.
Whatever. I don't care.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 12:54PM
The Liberals are getting SOOOOOOO desperate they even believe their own gibberish...
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 2:40PM
took about 15 seconds to find 2 of them. But that isn't all. One in Congress (Chairman) and one not in Congress ("I'm not a witch") . I'm sure you can find some more, if you take 1 minute to look.
Christine O'Donnell http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.....foster.php
Dan Burton -
http://content.usatoday.com/co.....-S7kbU7WLI
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:37PM
Christine O'Donnell has never been in Congress.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:40AM
He asked "Republican", not Congressmen - Read much Doc?
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 4:05PM
Better yet, tell us why Vince Foster's Office was rifled through by Maggie Williams, and others, and why his HARD DRIVE, from his Computer was DESTROYED, before the FBI could get to them.
I'll wait.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:31PM
Nobody knows, it's a mystery - so it must have been Clinton, huh?
TLP| 6.24.12 @ 8:08AM
His office was in the White House.
So, yeah.
It must have been The Rapist.
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 5:04PM
Rape? Consensual is not rape. He just liked getting his rocks off. Surely, you get that.
Teflon93 | 6.22.12 @ 7:52AM
Some day this RINO frog will turn into a conservative prince.
Some day.
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 7:58AM
Clint...You're back!
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:50PM
Teflon93 is NOT Clint. He may be mistaken in some things, but he is NOT an antisemite, etc.
Teflon: we have two choices. Which one would you rather have with a Republican House and a Republican Senate, as we can expect to get.
TLP| 6.23.12 @ 4:12PM
You're right. Teflon is not Clint.
Doctor Dumbass is Clint.
You can tell by the number of Stupid Posts he makes, every Freaking Day.
He's like Diahrea.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:11PM
Same day double-widers will grow a brain........NAH!!!!!
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 8:17AM
Romney will win in a landslide with a Republican Congress.
Obama and Holder's executive privilige stonewalling is a gift for the campaign. Obama is not a good campaigner, he looks angry and confused. He thought this would be another cakewalk with another weak campaigner like McCain.
Romney has responded to all of Obama's charges and knows to keep quiet as Obama self destructs.
If Romney gets a Rep Congress and cuts tax rates and the deficit, allows drilling for oil, and appoints conservative judges to the Supreme Court, he will accomplish close to Reagan.
Kwan| 6.22.12 @ 8:19AM
Obama is in the unenviable position of having to run around the country trying to convince the voters that he is not the incompetent left-wing moron that he actually is.
Appleby| 6.22.12 @ 8:44AM
Pay no attention to that man behind the TelePromTer!
Wouldn't that make a great commercial?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 10:36AM
It's not that hard to do, actually.
A great deal of our fellow citizens are lazy, worthless slobs who'd vote for anyone offering them free Big Gulps.
Among the rest are greedy union pigs, radical feminists who care only about the "right" to kill unborn children, various members of the racial/ethnic grievance-class who think that their failure to succeed is always some white guy's fault, scum-bag trial lawyers, psychotic Hollywood narcissists, dumb college students, scared retirees who think Republicans want to steal their soup and dentu-creme, teachers who can't teach, and worthless public employees.
That's a sizable portion of the electorate that's stuck in the Dem's camp - permanently.
An orange juice can with a "D" after his name would get those votes in election after election.
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 11:09AM
After reading your kill list, can you describe any workers, students or even just Americans that you LIKE?
Most of the people in this country on the public dole are the rural people of the RED states. Is that who you mean to degrade?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 1:20PM
Sure!
I like anyone of any race, creed, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual preference, eye color, hair color, sports team, etc, who believes that the proper role of Government is to stay out of our lives, and who also does NOT believe that they have a God-given right to pick my pocket in order to support their lifestyle.
That leaves out the people whom I listed above.
In short...I like people who aren't Libs.
But I even like some of them!
Purp| 6.22.12 @ 2:46PM
I actually like a lot of Republicans and Conservatives too. I just think they are ill-informed. Government should stay out of lives, but you don't really believe that do you? All you rail against is taxation, and that's just too bad if you are going to live in a modern society. You will NEVER pay only for taxes you agree with. NEVER! And that is all spectrums of government other than perhaps true libertarian, who believe in almost no government at all. They say 100 Billion dollars should be all that's needed to run the entire government. That wouldn't even pay for the defense department.
So, my friend, taxes are here to stay. That shipped sailed a long, long time ago.
Now for keeping government out of my bedroom, who I can marry, what I do with my body, what I can smoke or drink, how I drive, and where I can live. You okay with keeping government out of all of that?
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:00PM
No problem with taxiation, you say? Well consider this then, fool.......YOU and YOUR GENERATION WILL BE PAYING THOSE TAXES. Not my generation, since we've worked our butts off and paid more than our fair share of same. Now it's your turn, so add ya boy's desire for more taxiation to your $billions in college tuition loan payments, the lack of affordable housing, a non-existent stock market etc AND IT'S ALL YOU AND YOURS......SO ENJOY AND THANK THE BARRY'S FOR YOUR FINANCIAL BURDEN IN LIFE, OKAY?????????
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:42AM
Fart - your generation has run up 16 Trillion in debt. And most of it (10T) from Republican Presidents.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:39PM
No stupid, not my generation.....it's called the Democratic Party which was in control of this nation's government, dumbars. It's the government that runs up defecits/debt that is the discussion here, not that of private individuals. Republican presidents don't mean squat when congress is controlled by liberals and Democrats and their agenda is providing governmental welfare to indigents that has to be repaid by taxpayers. Don't be a dumbars!!!!
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 4:42PM
This country survived for almost 150 years without a Federal income tax, genius.
And when it was introduced, the rate was 3%...and the politicians promised it would never go higher.
And please...let's not compare taxation with your personal proclivities.
Frankly, most Conservatives, myself included, could care less what you do with your genitals, or who you do it with.
What we object to is when you insist on using the heavy hand of government to make us subsidize your "lifestyle," or force us to philosophically accept it.
As far as marriage is concerned...there's nothing stopping you from marrying the woman you love as long as she loves you, too.
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:44AM
Try it today without income tax, and you'll have a drone up your a** in no time. Or New York will become part of New Yorkistan. Idiot.
But if I want to marry a man - why can't I? Jesus still loves me and God accepts me. Why can't you? Are you better than they are?
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:45PM
You can immorally fornicate with a man if you wish, just don't term it MARRIAGE [which is a sacrament instituted by G-d between a man and a woman in order to propagate the earth]. No, Jesus does not love you and G-d does not accept you [and you will realize same at your death when the trap door opens beneath your feet]. Oh and if you also wish to marry your German Shepard, that's impossible as well!!!!
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 8:33PM
Show me in the Bible where it says "Marriage is between a man and a woman". Or that a woman cannot be ordained a priest. Or that you shouldn't eat Fish on Friday or dozens of other Church dogma invented by old men in robes to control the people.
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 8:44PM
Ever heard of the first two huma ns created by
G-d, dumbars? Think their names might have been ADAM & EVE. Ever heard of those things called the TEN COMMANDMENTS [several of which are HONOR THY '''''FATHER''''' AND THY ''''MOTHER'''' or IOW, a ''''man''''' and a ''''woman'''''; and THOU SHALT NOT COVET THEY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, as in ''''woman''''' and inferring a ''''man'''''']. you really are stupid, aren't you???????????????????
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 8:47PM
DON'T EAT FISH? No Ellen D. and Rachel M. coined that one!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.24.12 @ 5:05PM
Oh, so now Fart speaks for God ... you'll pay for that one, Fartblossom.
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 8:53PM
No fool, anyone raised within a religious and moral environment knows these things, and just because homosexuals take it upon themselves to misinterpret and attempt to bend moral teachings toward their way of life does not make same fact nor justified. Sorry, the truth usually hurts!!!!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:56PM
Hey, Purp, what's going on in NYC with Big Gulps? Is that Conservatives or Liberals protesting against that, son?
Purp| 6.23.12 @ 11:44AM
Well, a former Republican Mayor is promulgating the idea - I'm just saying.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:55PM
'Big gulps'? Isn't that what Wildhillbilly called that intern???????????
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:51PM
My fellow Bio major: I like you very much, as well. G-d Bless.
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 4:08PM
Me? I don't wish to kill anyone, BUT I do wish to de-link my current financial burden from same through governmental taxiation. If college students wish to increase their STUPIDITY by voting for ya boy's liberal governmental welfare increases, then they had better get their heads out of their anul cavities and understand that THEIR INCOME TAXES will pay for same. If dumbars workers support labor unions, they should realize that same results in manufacturing etc jobs being outsourced by corporations to India and China. As Forrest said, STUPID IS......!!!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 6:55PM
Social Security is listed as Welfare, by that definition that I looked at.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:50PM
That defination is incorrect and false. SS recipients PAID FOR their measly retirement benefit through lifetime payroll deductions until 65. Same with Medicare. What is welfare is MEDICAID that requires no payment from its recipients and has no age requirement for receipt of benefits. Of course if Medicaid was completely de-funded, many physicians would have to go on welfare no doubt!!!!!!!!!
Bob Grant| 6.22.12 @ 8:39AM
I would argue Romney is the most articulate republican nominee since Nixon.
Sure, Reagan connected to people much better but was more plainspoken. And that style obviously worked well for him. Romney is not plainspoken. He sounds more like a corporate lawyer, which COULD BE as effective as Reagan's style.
Who else ?
Ford?...With all due respect, I'm looking at a wooden credenza with more personality and communication skills
Bush 41? ... With all due respect, a sub-par communicator
Bob Dole?....See Gerald Ford
GW Bush...With all due respect, he was the most inarticulate president in my lifetime and that fact alone hurt his presidency to a large degree. I think deep down he knew this as well which prevented him from pushing his agenda more forcefully
John McCain...With all due respect, he was right down there with Ford and Bush; perhaps below
So, let's give credit to Romney for at least having this positive trait. Maybe he can enlist a top notch speech writer and communications guru - ala Peggy Noonan - to put him over the top.
Appleby| 6.22.12 @ 8:47AM
Since NIXON? Are you old enough to remember where NIXON ENDED UP? And that thanks only to a merciful God, we didn't end up with SPIRO AGNEW as President?
Yes, Obama is a nightmare, but think of the alternatives!
P.S. For all of you guessing who the VP nominee will be, think "life insurance." Romney will not pick anybody that a p erson of sense would want running the country, because by doing so he would be painting a big fat target on his back. Why do you think Obama clings to Biden? Same reason.
Bob Grant| 6.22.12 @ 8:48AM
I thought this article was about communication skills?
Doctor Right| 6.22.12 @ 10:30AM
The only alternative to Romney worth considering at this point is 4 more years of Obowma.
Al Adab| 6.22.12 @ 12:21PM
Appleby:
Nixon had the choice of Ford or Goldwater to replace Agnew. He thought by choosing Ford the DEMs would leave him alone. Now a Goldwater succession, that would have sent fear into their lefty hearts. Nixon, picking Goldwater, would have finished his term. The DEMs like republicans, they fear Conservatives.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 1:03PM
Great point, Al. Goldwater would have been approved by the House.
CJW| 6.22.12 @ 1:01PM
Spiro Agnew would have been an improvement over Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Obama. Spiro took his cash directly from the Maryland contractors as was the practice. He should have sold pardons like Clinton, or established a library like Clinton, or have a Rezko give him land, as a substitute for the cash.
Agnew would not have created an Energy and Educaton dept like Carter. Agnew would have supported the Shah in Iran so we would not have had a terrorrist state since 1979, and Agnew would certainly not send guns to Mexico that killed an American and hundreds of Mexicans.
Stay and vote in Canada, Appleby.
paintbrush| 6.22.12 @ 8:43AM
Well, I was going to post a reply, but forgot to take my cymbalta and spent three hours attempting to work out phrasing that was both evocative, staccato, florid, double-layered, simultaneously percussive also…...
WRTolkas| 6.22.12 @ 9:02AM
I was in the large crowd in Holland State Park, in - ta-da - Holland, Michigan, last Tuesday; the "Every Town Counts" tour. It was hot. I was carrying my two-year-old grandson so he wouldn't get lost in the crowd. Did I write it was hot? We waited and listened to our Representative to Congress speak for near fifteen-minutes - then Mr. Romney and his wife, for a few minutes, took to the podium. He was on fire and the audience fed the flames. Mr. Romney was in his own and delivering the thirty-minuet message like a circuit preacher. Mr. Romney didn't use the podium. He didn't use a teleprompter. He used the stage, his words, and gestures to belt out his epistle. My grandson watched and listened. There were a few protesters, but they were very quiet. We outnumbered them by at least 250-to-1. If he keeps this up to November, I will not worry.
Also, Maobama's Jay Gatsby's life story is starting to unravel.
Everyone have a safe weekend.
Daniel| 6.22.12 @ 11:10AM
I was in Santorum's camp during the primaries, but now that they are over I am 100% on the Romney bandwagon. I hope he'll win, and I'm sure he will too. That being said, will someone on his staff PLEASE tell him No More Singing? I was aghast when he sang America the Beautiful (a great song, but lousy delivery) and I won't even mention the Davy Crockett moment. Stick with your strengths, dude. Just because Obama can channel Al Greene doesn't compel you to try the same thing. And another thing, please no more of his dorky sons in the background with their huge teeth bared. And slow down when you talk, find a natural rhythm and relax.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.22.12 @ 11:46AM
I think his off handed goofiness is actually an asset.
cicero| 6.22.12 @ 12:43PM
Romney will do just fine, because he actually knows what he is talking about. Obama can only talk on script. His cadence is always the same - the voice rises at the end of every sentence. ( I wonder if the same happens when he asks Michelle for a cup of oc coffee? When you have nothing of substance to say, or you don't know what you are talking about, you need a script.
Anyone who talks for a living - salesmen, trial lawyers, engineers - know that preparation and knowledge are the key to a coherent, flowing talk. Everytime our fearless leader is caught in a candid moment, he stutters, or makes a fool of himself. The only time he speaks without a script, and is fluent, is when he is talking from his heart. These moments are usually a disaster, because his heart is in a socialist world, and his passion is the denigration of the culture, and freedons of this country.
Tom Kyba| 6.22.12 @ 1:48PM
Unintentionally funny comment of the day. Burp accusing others of being brainwashed. Puberty can't come too soon eh Burp? By the way, what's it like in that parallel universe of yours? At least on this site, Republicans don't always get a free pass. But in your own little lala land, Obama's economy is thriving. Can you say cuckoo for cocoa puffs?
Who Knows?| 6.22.12 @ 3:12PM
How to thread the needle?
As I ponder walking in Romney’s shoes, in his quest for president of the 50 states of America, my mind boggles. The detailed list of specific issues, both domestic and foreign, must run into the hundreds. Then, there are the thousands of powerful people in all the states to take into account.
How to make as many voters happy enough to vote for him as possible? So many simultaneous non-linear “equations” to solve! And, then, there are the daily happenings, as they morph into crises, and demand attention.
The NBA finals just ended. With Miami leading 2-1, game 4 was crucial. At the very end, with the game tied, Oklahoma City totally choked—a dribble off the foot, forced into bad shots by lesser players, etc. The Heat won 4-1, and it will always look like they were much better than the Thunder.
However, talent wise, it’s not like the Heat was four times better than OKC.
What about the Presidential “Finals”?
Romney has more “talent”. Obama is a “pretender”, who lucked out in 2008.
Mitt just has to make his shots, which he should work hard to make easy lay ups and/or open 3-pointers, while playing solid defense.
Above all, NO unforced errors, and he’ll stomp Obama.
BHO must be badly beaten, so the left can’t complain after the election!
Oldefarte| 6.22.12 @ 3:51PM
No, I think the Republicans could put forth a ham sandwich against this non-POTUS this time and win. I thought that McCain would win in 2008 also, but I over-estimated the STUPIDITY of the American voters sadly. Forrest Gump was right about that. Now, there's no escaping reality and truth. It is what it is, and the H&C bullexcrement won't wash anymore. Unemployment is officially at 8% and more realistically like 20%; the housing industry in in the crapper; the stock market is non-existent; the job market for college graduates is fast-food at best; illegals are pouring over the border in droves; gasoline prices are declining through political manipulation but will explode if the STUPIDS re-elect their version of JC; the middle east is politically being turned into one large Iran with an ever-increasing Muslim terrorism threat from same; etc. Nah, Rush or someone opined that survey-polled respondents claimed to like this POTUS personally etc out of not wanting to appear racist, but within the privacy of the voting booth would express their true feelings, which I think is the case. Romney will win by a landslide, with only the east and west coasts going for Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dilbert| 6.22.12 @ 4:40PM
Romney has the money, now he wants the power! How did the Republican Party ever let this clown in? When Republicans get standards, I will vote for them again.
One thing about Romney; he is on both sides of the argument!
I will concentrate on getting conservative congressmen elected,to keep whoever wins in check.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 1:53PM
'A Clown'? Try researching Obama, Pilosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank, Durbin, Waters, Lee, Jackson, etc for a start. If you get beyond those, I'll add to the listing!!!!!!!
obadiah| 6.22.12 @ 7:41PM
it's lather-whipping time for the gop
ReaganConservative4ever| 6.22.12 @ 8:42PM
Like I have stated before, Romney will the election not because Romney is so good, but because Obama is so bad. So what does that say about Romney.. exactly.. Romney is neither conservative, nor inspiring. He is to say the least another false hope like Obama.
Compare this election to the 1980 election between Carter and Reagan. Carter was as bad in the public's eye as Obama is now, but Ronald Reagan was not a Mass liberal progressive GOP establishment Republicrat RINO like Romney.
Ronald Reagan was a true conservative. He was highly educated in constitutional conservative politics and philosophy, and understood how to communicate to the people about the values and principles that we the majority, the conservatives hold dear, and why we adhere to them, and why we must ensure that Individual Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy never dies, by electing good candidates who represent and practice these values and principles, without sacrificing their principles that is wrapped in the guise of compromise.
For those GOP establishment RINOs who think that being moderate means compromising every piece of the Bill of Rights away from the People is a good thing, just to appease the liberal Democrats and play collusion footsy with them to maintain their little world of elitist political power in Washington DC, we have news for you at the ballot boxes.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 11:23PM
You stupid sack of excrement! That's the largest pile of horse manure possible. GM owes $billions of money to the government and will never repay same. All of the banks have now repaid their loans WITH INTEREST TO TAXPAYERS. Chrysler was sold to Fiat which will also never repay their loans. The auto bailouts were a taxpayer funded gift to the labor unions so that their workers wouldn't become unemployed, and were not essential to the national security interests as was the original TARP intended solely for the major banks in order to prevent a total collapse of our financial system and economy. you lie worse that Hillbilly Bill, but not as much as Barry [no one can out-lie that tojun-horsed POTUS]!!!!!!
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 1:58AM
I wonder why Romney's three sons used "surrogates" to have babies? What's wrong with them? Do they already have sister wives?
Toinfinityandbeyond| 6.24.12 @ 2:02AM
I don't understand people who blame President Obama for saving US Auto Industry.
Can you imagine if GM and Chrysler are owned by China now?
We now have huge pride for US Auto Industry, because it was saved and still they are US Auto Industry.
Just like children's education and US Auto Industry, there are something worth investing for.
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 10:33AM
BS! It was a taxpayer gift to the labor unions so that Detroit workers would not lose their jobs. If properly handled, Detroit's manufactures should have been allowed to either go bankrupt or better to be bought out by Japan [Toyota etc], which would have produced NON-UNIONIZED car manufacturing in this country totally. The workers' jobs would have been saved [but their wages etc would have been converted to non-unionized status] and the taxpayers would not have suffered the $billions in losses [and GM's bondholders would have not lost their entire investments] in the process. No it wasn't a good thing in any way shape or form, but instead of a political payoff to labor unions!!!!!!!!!