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A Further Perspective
Still My Akin Heart
Republicans are not going to win until they recognize the Democrats are playing a different game.
The news this week brought back the old joke about the European immigrant attending college in New York City. Every time he had to address the teacher, he would stand up and make a courtly bow before asking if the “honored Professor” would honor him with a response. A classmate who was a local decided to disabuse the poor greenhorn of his Old World notions.
“That’s not how we do things here in the United States of America,” he said. “Just ask a question in a casual tone without preliminaries.”
“Sir,” the immigrant countered. “You can get your A your way and let me get mine my way.”
The Republican Party thinks it understands how to score A in politics. You identify the major issues of the day and you develop positions consistent with the pertinent information, the U.S. Constitution, existing laws, traditional practices, morals, ethics and ideals. Then you go out to communicate those views to the public and hope the people react to them by casting votes in your favor.
The Democrat Party has a different approach to acquiring the desired A grade. First you cultivate a series of trite clichés that artfully misrepresent reality in such a manner that all the wrong choices sound exactly right. Should the government spend money it does not have? “To do less would be to abandon the unfortunate.” Should the government interfere in what food we eat, what soft drinks we imbibe, what we smoke, what fuel we drill and mine for, what light bulbs we use, what toilets we use, what shower heads we use, what cars we drive? “To do less would be to abandon the planet.” That concludes the substantive debate.
Then you start the smearing and the scoffing and the sniggering and the scorning, the mocking and the marking and the mucking and the muddying, the putdowns and the potshots, the detractions and the detractions. Laugh at the Republicans, who are anyway all dummies; berate the Republicans, who are anyway all meanies; taunt the Republicans, who are anyway all squares.
This week’s flap over something misguided a Republican candidate said followed the familiar pattern. Mister Akin, running for the post of U.S. Senator from Missouri, acted a mite too Trumanesque in making a preposterous assertion during an interview. He tried to walk the comment back and to change the subject to matters of importance, but to little avail.
It seems to me there are two ways to win, but the Republicans always take the third way. One way to win is by resolutely refusing to get involved in nonsense talk, to never give stupid interviews to ambushing reporters. Just stay on message, speak only about the issues, and make them come to play on your side of the field. With both sides playing the same game, you have a fair shot of winning, and when it is the substance game, the Republican has the home court advantage.
The other way is to play only the other guy’s game. Dredge up his dirt, bait him into talking out of turn, sneer at him with a lip that can match his curl for curl and a nose that can match his upturn for upturn. He says you’re inaccurate, you say he’s a liar; he says you’re a racist, you say he’s a racist and a sexist; he says you’re willing to help the rich at the expense of the poor, you say he actually takes from the poor with his policies and gives to the rich with his government contracts.
One thing is for sure, Republicans are not going to win until they recognize the Democrats are playing a different game. It does not make you look more noble when he’s smashing you but you’re respecting him; it just makes you look naïve and unschooled and misplaced.
I’ll conclude with a story from my own life experience, one I have mentioned here before in detail. Briefly, I was in a store selling Jewish religious articles and I witnessed a quirky sort of negotiation. The store owner kept explaining to the customer the high quality and value of the item he wanted, while the customer just kept trying to haggle down the price. Eventually a young Yeshiva student jumped in and told the storekeeper the following: “Rabbi Cohen, don’t feel bad. The two of you are not actually having a discussion. You are talking about religion but he is talking about money.”
In honor of the birth August 22 of my 9th grandchild, first male who shares my last name, born to Aaron and Devora Homnick of New Jersey.
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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Suzyqpie| 8.24.12 @ 6:47AM
The recipient class owns the dialogue in the Obama administration. The worker/producer is vilified, illustrated by the perpetual "millionaires , billionaire, Corp jet owners." Cliches, banalities , and platitudes can not deliver a healthy economy no matter how much Pres Obama tries.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 7:39AM
Remember, Suzyqpidoll: President Praise be to Allah has a New Economic Plan, out there. It's a Bottom Up Plan, whereby he takes from the Rich and gives it to the Poor, who will then Trickle it UP through their Purchases of Liquor, Cigarettes, $300 Sneakers, Dirty Books, and Popeye's Chicken, thus giving a Shot in the Arm to all of the Indian and Pakistani Quickie Marts, from Sea to Shining Sea.
Understand?
Of course you don't. You're Racist.
Why do you Hate Black People?
The Avenger| 8.25.12 @ 4:36AM
Exactly. The argument cannot be won when the other side controls the language.
RCV| 8.24.12 @ 11:26AM
TAS's resident Anders Breivik adds his usual racist rant to the morning.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 11:41AM
He who pulls the race card IS the racist. Always.
And by the way...it is and has always been YOUR side that wants to mass murder people who do not agree with you.
Skippy| 8.24.12 @ 1:40PM
Be afraid, RCV.
He will be a free man in 10 years.
We are sending him your address.
RCV| 8.24.12 @ 2:49PM
No, Skippy. He was sentenced to 21 years, which in Norway is a minimum. At the end of that term, he will be evaluated as to whether he's a danger to society; if so, he can be held for a few more years, ad infiniteum. Too bad we can't make the same evaluation for you.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 5:54PM
"Too bad we can't make the same evaluation for you."
How Prophetic.
A coupla weeks ago, your Boy, the Muslim, named for Mohammed's Horse, and the Son of an Atheist Communist Whore, and A Muslim Marxist Whore Chaser, who died Drunk in a Kenyan Gutter riddled with AIDS, had his FBI Gestapo pull an American Citizen out of his Home, and Forcibly Interned in a Psychiatric Fascility - WITHOUT A WARRANT - because of the Tweets he had written, on Twitter.
No Warrant.
No Charges.
No Trial, by a Jury of his peers, ala Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, Castro's Cuba, and Pol Pot's Cambodia.
Is that the kind of country that you want to live in?
IS IT, you stupid Mthrfckr?
This is who The Muslim is.
Who are YOU?
And, WTF are you thinking?
RCV| 8.25.12 @ 12:08PM
This is exactly the kind of country I want to live in, TLP, the USA. A democratic republic, freer than ever in its history, with compassion for all it's citizens, and a dwindling minority of foul-mouthed, Whitney xenophobes like you.
Making criminal threats is a crime in most any civilized country. Getting mentally disturbed people treatment before they head to the multiplex with a semi-automatic is a good thing.
RCV| 8.25.12 @ 12:10PM
Thanks, spellcheck. Should have been, "all its citizens, and a dwindling minority of foul-mouthed, whiney xenophobes like you."
Jeffrey| 8.25.12 @ 10:39PM
Thanks for pointing out the errors but I would ask him why he's picking on a dead black woman, Whitney may have been messed up but I never knew her to be a xenophobe... /sarc
TLP| 8.25.12 @ 3:34PM
WARRANT.
Do you understand the difference between getting a WARRANT, and kicking in the door, in the middle of the night?
Obviously, you don't.
SIEG HEIL and ARBEIT MACHT FREI, you Stupid Bastard.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:09PM
That is correct, RCV. I despise Obama with all my heart and soul, and am pulling and donating for Romney to win. But we don't make physical threats against the POTUS, even in joking, and all the characters on your side of the fence should have been jailed for their threats against W, as well.
Obama is the POTUS. You don't make threats against him physically. Threaten to release the Khalidi tapes, sure. Threaten to sue him for bad insurance calls with ObamaCare, yabba dabba doo. Threaten to discuss the fact that Marijuana/cocaine use led to possible brain damage and the inability to remember show to pronounce simple words like "corpman," sure. Threaten to subpeona a certain bathhouse for its membership records, yowza. Threaten him with jail for not releasing adequate details on how a convicted felon helped him buy his dream house in Chicago, sure.
But we don't do violence in our politics here.
In the meantime, again, I agree with you that someone should have acted on the Batman killer, ESPECIALLY as the psychiatrist made a Tarasoff warning to the local cops. We Psychiatrists DO NOT do this lightly---in 23 years of practice, both post residency and residency, I have done a Tarasoff fewer than 20 times total, and I have worked with a very rough crowd.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:11PM
The President, by the way, does not get involved in decisions on this type of stuff---it's handled at a much lower level---for example, one does not call in a Tarasoff warning (Warning of potential danger) to the POTUS, one calls it in to the Secret Service. I know---I had to hospitalize someone who made threats towards Dan Quayle when I was a Resident at the "request" of the USSS. Dan was in the San Fernando Valley at the time, and the person was in their Looney file and was acting up a bit. I complied, of course, as I figured the Men in Black had more knowledge on this than I did. The number of people I have hospitalized at the request of the USSS in a long and busy career? Just one.
Now, I like Tim, and think he's awesome. But that stuff regarding the FBI and dangerous TWITTERS doesn't bother me, because you HAVE TO BE A BRAIN DAMAGED/MENTALLY ILL/OR BOTH MORON TO PHYSICALLY THREATEN THE POTUS OR VPOTUS.
And there you go. By the way, Tim, otherwise, keep it dirty and low. RCV, who I like as a person even though he has never given me a good child's guide to the Constitution Book suggestion, doesn't like dirty and low being done to his side, but I love it.
And come on now, RCV. Comparing Tim to Breivik is rude and wrong, just like me saying that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marxist and that explains a lot of things about RCV would also be wrong.
But again, NAD punching is a lot of fun, ain't it? Relieves my stress, at any rate.
TLP| 8.25.12 @ 5:11PM
NO WARRENT, Occam.
Do you see the difference?
They came for this Nut Job, without a WARRANT, and nobody said anything, including, YOU.
What happens when YOUR DOOR gets Kicked In?
Who will Speak For You?
This is a Slippery Slope - Like putting Dissidents in Asylums during the Last Worker's Paradise, or Rounding up Jews, in Nazi Germany.
Every Journey into TYRANNY, begins with a Single Step. Think: Kristallnacht, followed by a Yellow Star of David, followed by the Ghettos, followed by the Railway Cars, followed by the Camps, that led to the Showers, and ended in the Crematoriums.
He should have been WATCHED, until the Proper Legal Requirements had been fulfilled.
That you don't seem to comprehend the SIGNIFICANCE of what this Bunch of Marxists just did, is ASTOUNDING to me.
Who's next?
Or, do you even care?
RCV| 8.25.12 @ 5:40PM
Your ignorance is utterly appalling, TLP. Here are the FACTS: Mr. Coluori wrote to the FBI on Tuesday that "I will kill the President. I don't give a fuck but you know that." He included his address in the message and told them to "get here now." They did so. They knocked on his door. He answered the door wearing a bandolier filled with 12 guage shotgun shells, and a large knife attached. He had a revolver strapped to his leg. In his right hand was a stockless pump-action shotgun, which he raised and pointed at the officers, who wrestled him to the ground. Inside the house they found an AK-47, AK-15 rifle and ammunition for both. Any federal officer who didn't do what these guys did should be fired immediately.
RCV| 8.27.12 @ 12:58PM
Cat got your tongue, TLP?
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 12:00PM
All this and still the right has nothing better to offer America than the left. It's is unfathomable how lame the right is right now. Where is the "healthy economy" from the right?
A pro-collectivist despotism over us populace can only be cured by ignoring our marxist medias, fascist schools, communist government unions in nearly every capacity, and socialist dictators. Our lives can be cure by keeping the status quo, and placing a rich white guy elite further exploitation of the taxpayer bandaid over the top of a fully functional marxist nanny state America? I think not. You watch the convention. Romney is not qualified to lead a kindergardener to his or her bus, let alone America to real recovery. I pity you if you are fooled by him.
Skippy| 8.24.12 @ 1:41PM
"Thanks for the help!"
BHO
George True| 8.24.12 @ 5:51PM
Who cares about Romney's relative level of qualification? Virtually anyone picked at random from the phone book would be an order of magnitude better and better qualified than Obama.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 5:56PM
Hat Tip - William F. Buckley.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 5:58PM
I got a Sh*t Stain in my underwear, that's more quallified than that Piece of Garbage.
And, so do you!
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:15PM
George:
Romney is a business genius who was Valedictorian of his class at BYU, graduated with honors in both with double degrees from Harvard Law and Business school, and has a great vision of Middle East politics, especially as he has been good friends with Bibi on a personal level for 40 years.
He's qualified. And in his first major Presidential level decision, he picked Paul Ryan as VEEP. The guy has the potential to be excellent. I am getting increasingly stoked. How one deals as Governor with the MASSHOLES one governs over is considerably different than what one does as President of Alabama/Tennessee/Louisiana/Missisippi, to name 4 bedrock states.
George True| 8.25.12 @ 6:44PM
Occam: I agree that Romney's qualifications are excellent. Several orders of magnitude better than those of Harrison J Bounell aka Barry Barack Hussein Obama. The point I was trying to make to the leftist TrollPartyNow individual is that in 2008 Obama was the singularly most unqualified person ever to run for president. Not just bad qualifications, but no qualifications or experience of any kind that would even remotely qualify him for any position of leadership or authority, let alone the presidency.
And yet now, to the leftist zombie hoards, qualifications all of a sudden seemingly matter now that Romney is leading in the polls. So my point was since qualifications did not matter in 2008, why do they suddenly matter now?
Appleby| 8.24.12 @ 6:57AM
Of course, there is the option of not blurting out your ignorance in front of an open microphone...there are many times when simply saying nothing is a much better option than asserting as gospel in a public, broadcast forum, that your frat boy friends believed a thousand years ago. Let Calvin Coolidge be your guide: Just Say Nothing.
Yes, it is exasperating that the Toddlers rule; but the way to defeat them is not to continually give them ammunition.
Dai Alanye | 8.24.12 @ 8:32AM
I think each of us needs to look in a mirror before criticizing anyone else's stupid mistakes, Appleby no less than the rest of us.
But it's beside the point, anyway. We still need to gain control of the Senate, and defeating McCaskill is a step down that path. Criticizing Akin gives the conservative cause no advantage at this time.
fmm| 8.24.12 @ 10:13AM
Have you looked at the polls in Missouri lately? Not only has Akin dropped by about 15-20 points which gives McCaskill a 5-10 point lead, but the state has changed from leans Romney to tossup in the presidential election. Your comment is a perfect example of the articles message, and you don't even see it.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:44AM
Your comment is a clear example of the American People going on one word, one sentence, over a persons whole life history. That is allot of why we are here. We are driven by news cycles, not indepth knowledge of who are governments are being run by.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:46AM
Sorry, no edit button as usual. it's "our" governments, though you might have guessed.
The American People are all mushrooms. We are kept in the dark, and fed nothing but b.s-
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 6:04PM
Ed Koch used to always say: "If you agree with me 100% of the time? See a Psychiatrist. If you agree with me more than 50%? Vote for me.
If the Idiots of Missouri are gonna cast their vote for a women that their own Polls show, they disagree with by an Overwhelming Margin?
Then Fck'em.
They will Sow, what they have Reaped.
They will get the Government that they Deserve.
BOYCOTT MISSOURI!
RCV| 8.25.12 @ 1:11PM
How would anyone be able to tell if a boycott of Missouri was effective or not?
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:17PM
Dear RCV: One would be able to tell if the boycott was effective from a reduction in the number of billboards advertising Hustler Magazine's Stripper Club. It is embarrassing driving through Missouri with young children, as I have.
RCV| 8.25.12 @ 5:35PM
Isn't that the truth. Have you ever happened upon Branson?
Al Adab| 8.24.12 @ 2:18PM
fmm:
You are likely correct here. Neither Akin nor any appointed successor can pull out this seat now. Akin has cost his party this Senate seat and in all probability has cost the GOP MOs' electoral votes and thereby the election. One stupid foot-in-mouth action resembles the missing horseshoe nail. Debate about what to so is simply academic. This "small thing" was a disaster for America.
Steve C| 8.24.12 @ 2:59PM
Sadly, it wasn't a stupid foot in the mouth action. Step back for a moment and think about what he said. It was factually wrong, insensitive and not needed. No right thinking person could vote for him now because either he is stupid or not very smart. Yep. Stupid or not very smart.
DRed| 8.24.12 @ 3:54PM
It's not the 'legitimate rape' comment that's really bad. That, maybe, could have been a slip up. But saying that doctor told you that raped women don't get pregnant because they have a way of shutting that whole thing down is offensively stupid. First of all, you're implying that women who get pregnant weren't really raped. Second, it's just factually wrong. This is a man, remember, who wants to legislate what women do with their bodies, but he has no fucking idea what he's talking about. And it's not like information on rape and pregnancy is particularly difficult to find. This bozo sits on the Committee on Science, for god's sake.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 6:14PM
Bill Clinton RAPED Juanita Broddrick.
Period.
He MOLESTED Kathleen Willey.
Period.
He used a young Intern to Soak his Penis, and his Cigars, and then BLAMED HER for being a Stalker.
He lost his Law Liscence, and had to pay $900,000 to Paula Jones, for Pulling his Pants Down, and EXPOSING HIS GENITALS to her, minutes after he had just met her.
This Rapist, Serial Misogenyst, Pathological Liar SCUMBAG, is gonna Introduce the Democrat President, at the Democrat Convention, for Renomination.
And, that's okay with you?
WTF is wrong with you Stupid Mthrfckrs?
Answer me, DRed.
What the Fck are you trying to pull?
Are you Fckng Kidding Me?
Keep your Beers.
I don't Drink with SCUMBAGS.
DRed| 8.24.12 @ 7:19PM
If Juanita Broddrick or Kathleen Willey had made those exact accusations against, I dunno, Herman Cain, you would call them LYING WHORES or something pithy like that. Let's be real here, Timmy. Bill Clinton's crime in your eyes is not being a womanizing dirtbag (which he is), it's being a Democrat.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 8:59PM
The sitting President of the United States was accused of RAPE, on National Television, in Prime Time, on the #1 Television Show in the Country - 60 Minutes - and he DID NOTHING.
What would you do, if younwere the Most Powerful Man in the World, and some Broad accused YOU, of RAPE, on National Television?
You would SUE THE SHIT out of her, and everybody knows it.
Don't waste my time with your Bullshit Hyperbolae about what I would do, of this was about someone else.
It wasn't.
And, it ISN'T.
It's about the Democrat PIECE OF SH*T, that's gonna be Center Stage, at the Democrat National Convention, introducing your Piece of Sh*t, Marxist, America Hating President.
STFU, and don't waste my time, until you've got something to say, besides your Suck Up, Obama's Dick in your mouth, Bullsh*t.
Get the Fck outta my face.
DRed| 8.25.12 @ 12:49AM
Don't waste your time? Look, if talking to me keeps you from asking your wife for your allowance, than please, stop talking to me. Spend more time with your kids. Maybe you can tell them what happened to America when there were more non-white kids born last year than white kids. Your own kids, Timmy, you ignorant bigot. Tell your own kids how they make America into Yugoslavia.
As far as Clinton, why would waste your time suing a woman who had already sworn an affidavit saying you didn't touch her. A woman who couldn't even remember when you allegedly raped her. Unlike you, Timmy, Bill Clinton had better things to do.
So, Timmy, back when you were a junkie, how did you afford all that coke? It's not a cheap habit. But that's a low blow on my part. I'm sure it has nothing to do with your obsession with homosexual activity.
TLP| 8.25.12 @ 9:25AM
Goodbye.
Von Mises Jr| 8.25.12 @ 3:46PM
Hey TLP, it looks like D'Red Communist is masquerading as himself today. Do you think Masseur Monster Taliban is DTOM also?
It is him or Perp. DTOM is as annoying and persistent as D'Red Communist, but sound too smart for him. Must be collaboration.
DRed| 8.25.12 @ 4:04PM
Masseur? hahaha
Von Mises Jr| 8.26.12 @ 8:39AM
Hahaha. You got me there, D'Redful. I used the wrong word.
This demonstrates liberal logic: I call you a dirty, low-life, cheating, drunkard and a welfare whore; and you win the point since everybody in the hood knows you got aids and won't touch you.
Perhaps you should learn massage techniques.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:21PM
Yes, but they could vote for the guy who was afraid Guam could tip over. I'd vote for Akin in a second. He's pro-lowered taxes, pro-strong defense, pro-American power and prestige, pro-Israel. His opionion on abortion will be significant only so far as his Senate vote on Judges will matter, and he will vote pro-Life every time.
HELLO, it's about the job he's hired to do, right? It doesn't matter if Bill Clinton was a vicious rapist scumbag who lost his law license for perjury as long as he did his job well, right? Akin made a stupid comment which he retracted and apologized for, but his morality is lower than Bill's?
Please.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:51AM
I know young men who are in prison for consensual intercourse. This Akin thing is being driven by leftist insanity. Instead of just going with the flow, maybe sometimes step back, and look at another possibility. What you are saying is that people are guilty in every case. What Akin tried to say is that some cases are not rape even though they are labeled as and treated as rape.
The rape laws for youths really need to be looked at. Consensual should not be considered rape. It just is not the same at all in real life o.k..
Mike G| 8.24.12 @ 12:24PM
I don't disagree that some cases of rape are not really rape. An 18 year old who has consensual sex with a 17 year old is not guilty of rape. However, what should be done with the 18 year old who has consensual sex with a 13 year old? If it's not rape, what is it? There has to be something to protect youngsters who agree , through naivette', to have sex with predators.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 2:59PM
It needs to be looked at, the laws that we have on the books today are not working for the real world. Unfortunately, the socially marxist, um, I mean liberal America that we live in actually promotes anyone having sex with just about anything, and 13 year old girls are not excluded. This society that we live in is a very sick place. In a better world a 13 year old girl is not old enough to consent herself, and therefor, that would be rape in any case.
But my point is that not all claims of rape are where a rape actually occurred. And so why is everyone freaking out about a guy who says this?
It's just a game that the right hasn't learned to fight and win yet, is all that it is.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 7:22AM
Of all the things that you put in your Excellent Article, by far the most profound of all of your profundities (and, something I've been pounding the table about for a long time) is "STOP GOING ON THESE SHOWS"! And, if you must? (and I can't imagine why you would 'Must') Don't play the Game. At least, not the Liberal Hatchet Man Host's Game. Play Frightface Wasserman Schutlz' Game.
No matter what the question is, stick to YOUR Plan. Get out YOUR Numbers. Get out YOUR Facts. Go after YOUR Opponents with a Single-mindedness rivaling The Muslim's Ideological Crusade against this Country - Economically, Culturally, Socially, and otherwise.
"Barack will CHANGE the way we live our lives. Change our History, and our Traditions. Change the way that we see things."
That would be Bow legged, Wookie looking! Lady Macbeth, with her $600 Sneakers, her $3,000 Pocket Book, and her $5,000 Dress, who prefers her Lamb - Braized, with a Mint Julip Sauce - and her Caviar - from Iran, before heading out to express the Need for Everyone to SHARE in the SACRIFICE.
Anyone ever hear Word 1 from this Media about the Excesses of everybody's Favourite George and Wheezy?
And, you never will. They're too busy announcing the Audaciousness, and the Lack of Common Ground with the Common Man, exhibited by Ann Romney, because she likes to Ride Horses to boost her Spirits, as she deals with HER CANCER.
That Bitch!
Stay off their Shows.
Don't go on their Shows.
scotchieguy| 8.24.12 @ 9:25AM
One of the biggest mistakes republicans make is trying to get democrats to like them. Democrats have zero intention of liking them or respecting them unless they believe 100% in what they say. There are no exceptions.
You could be the biggest supporter of gays and gay rights and have a million gay friends until gay marriage became an issue, and if you are opposed to it, it is as if you truly hate gays in all aspects. There is no nuance at all to the "tolerant" party. All they can do is call you a homophobe until, like General Mills, who finally caved to the peer pressure, you relent.
Like petulant brats, they always get their way because the easiest thing is to cave, and say, "yeah, let's just let them get married," "yeah, let's let Casey Martin take a cart in the golf tournament even though the rules prohibit carts," "yeah let's give more goodies to poor people for engaging in stupid behavior because it is compassionate, and besides, we are not racists."
This article is excellent because it is exactly spot on--we ARE playing a different game.
Just ask Sarah Palin when she had the stupidity to go into the lion's den by agreeing to be mocked on SNL as guest.
We are the adults in the room and we are trying to be "buddies" with the children. It never works. They are laughing at us and mocking us and we are too stupid to even notice.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 9:50AM
I ask you - Scotchieguy - Is it that You and I are so Smart?
Or, are these people that Goddamn Stupid?
Then again, it could be Both.
I'm thinking it's Both.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:23PM
Both, Tim.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:29PM
Casey Martin had a severe CONGENITAL disease which rendered his leg particularly susceptible to breaking and then amputation. Most golfers who played with him are glad he won his suit and recognized that they were wrong.
Gay Marriage is problematic because traditional marriage, which serves excellently in its traditional role of sublimating men's aggressive drives into building civilization and proper raising of children, is already under attack and requires no further dilution.
NO ONE pays to watch Tiger Woods walk from hole to hole.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:34AM
Calling republicans who do what they do, which is throw conservatism under the bus to get elected adults, is too much of a stretch. I was just thinking last night, what if McCain had won. He wouldn't have bent over in from of our enemies, in front of a camera. McCain would have bent over and bared his backside for our enemies in the closet. That is the difference between the left and the right. The liberal republican right is worse than the left today, but it is still in the closet about is own politicalality. (a word play on sexuality. back in the sixties, guys who were gay had "questions about their sexuality". It's an American history thing) But anyway, the right today is wholly spineless. Case in point romney/ryan. Liberal/liberal, sick sad, gross...
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 6:20PM
You really need to get your mind right.
It's Red Pill/Blue Pill, Dumbass.
There aren't anymore Primaries. IT IS, WHAT IT IS.
Now, Shut Up, Pull the Lever for Obama's Opponent, and Save the Country.
God, you people are Pathetic.
Wake the Fck Up!
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 2:31PM
Straight GOP vote in Minnesota from me, Tim.
PLus, I plan to give a final contribution of $50 in October to Kurt Bills, Romney, Cravaack, and Bachmann.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:41AM
The biggest case showing that republicans are only capable of sucking up to liberal ideology is romney himself. Well McCain didn't work, lets try a liberal from Massachusetts says the right. No one on the right even believes that conservatism can win anymore. Mark Levin said on his radio show during the republican primaries, "conservatism can't win in America anymore". That is a direct quote. You seem to be blaming the left for a disease clearly growing from the ranks of the right. You can blame the left for what they do. But you can't blame the left for the right going full on liberal in 2012.
Kwan| 8.24.12 @ 7:34AM
This statement by Akin seems to be so stupid that unless the man has suddenly come down with dementia, it leads me to suspect he received a rather large deposit in his Swiss bank account from the always benevolent George Soros.
Nancy in NC| 8.24.12 @ 7:52AM
Republicans SAY stupid things (and occasionally do them as well).
Dims DO stupid things...like letting their girl friends drown or have sex in the WH. But they get a pass on their stupid things.
We all know the main stream media is in the tank. IGNORE the main street media. It is the 21st century. Act like it.
jothepro| 8.24.12 @ 8:16AM
Inside out, bottom up, top down, end of America..
scotchieguy| 8.24.12 @ 9:36AM
Yesterday Rush was on a roll. He called those who are riding in the cart the "moron votes." It is abouts as simple as that. Even if Romney wins, like with Reagan, all we are doing is buying a few years as we slide towards the cliff. The Federal Govt grew under Reagan, and it has doubled in size in the last decade even with a republican in the WH.
Eventually those hauling the cart will just quit, just like in Atlas Shrugged, but unlike the moochers in that book, the moochers here are openly mocking those hauling the cart and throwing rocks at them defying them to quit. And they have the hypocrites in the MSM on their side. What a country.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:24AM
So why do Rush, Sean, and Mark always keep telling us to look to guys like Romney for recovery? It isn't working, and yet, the right keeps pushing our decline. Why? Because they are so far from freedom, that they no longer can feel that it only comes from us, we the people.
America will be in decline, and yes, further decline is eminent. Because the American People refuse to look to the American People. We are in the habit of looking to our enemies for shelter from exploitation, and never stand up when they give us even further exploitation as a way of staying safe. Case in point, romney/ryan.
lsudolemite| 8.24.12 @ 11:52AM
Until the American People reject the most overtly radical leftist president in history, I will continue to hold them in the same regard I have now: none.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:01PM
The American People are not capable of rejecting anything that the whole of their governments do today. Left, right, anything. The American People just can't govern anymore.
Jade12| 8.24.12 @ 9:51AM
Way to go Nancy!
FarmersDaughter| 8.24.12 @ 8:12AM
The debate over whether or not Akin got a fair shake from the GOP can wage on forever, but 2 key developments suggest the Missouri Senate seat goes back to the Left: (1) Akin reports the influx of $100k to his campaign which suggests he holds onto some of his support. (2) Rasmussen polling shows him now trailing McCaskill by 10 pts, which indicates he's lost ground with a large share of his support.
Loose lips sink ships and stupid one-liner's end campaigns. He has no one to blame but himself. We're out of time before Nov to try and change the media or defeat the hypocrisy of the Left as far as unfair double standards and the fact that they ignore the log in their own eyes. It would be great to stand on principle now and say we all support Akin because overall, he's just and good and that we don't need that Senate seat in MO this time around, but America's future is on the line and a man has to take responsibility for his errant comments. He needs to bow out. The future of my grandchildren hangs in the balance. Sad situation, for sure. Unfair in many ways, of course. However, the clock is ticking; we need to take control of the Senate in a matter of weeks and if we don't, will Rep Akin feel good, knowing he stood on principle?
fmm| 8.24.12 @ 10:20AM
If Akin stays in the race there will be a special corner of hell set aside for him, which will be more pleasant than most spots because he will have sided with the devil.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:17AM
I bet that you have zero knowledge of who Akins is, and what he has done in his life. You stand there as if you were god, and judge him literally by one word. The word is "legitimate". Are you aware that when a person is charger with rapes, many in fact are not legitimately rape. We send many young men to prison today for having consensual intercourse with young women. It is amazing how shallow, and desperate to attack you are. I mean, you have every reason to be frustrated with your nation today, but you certainly don't need to start playing god for us. You seriously just need to relax sometimes. Have a nice day. : )~
fmm| 8.24.12 @ 11:27AM
Excellent! I got the reaction I wanted. My post the other day says exactly the same thing about legitimate rape versus false claims of rape. I have read his bio and understand where he is coming from and agree with most of his stances. The point is that the other primary GOP candidates are also acceptable conservatives and this guy is so inept in his ability to wage a political campaign that he will give the state away, thereby defeating his announced positions. Better that he keeps his seat as a representative with less national prominence and allow the GOP to unseat McCaskill with someone of more general competence.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:04PM
That's all good and well but I was replying your post about him going to hell. So, whatever.
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 9:01PM
God, you're an idiot.
Anthony| 8.24.12 @ 10:25AM
Couldn't agree more. This is about the fate of America, not Akins.We're at war, and Akins is all about Akins.
I'm sick of self indulgent pols who think nothing about what they claim to believe in,especially when the shit hits the fan, it's ALL ABOUT THEM. What ever happened to the greater good???
Well, Akins had damn well better win this election and get rid of that POS lefty, McCaskill.
If you lose, Atkins, and the Ds retain the senate, you damn well better find a deep hole to spend the rest of your life in.
RCV| 8.24.12 @ 2:52PM
Not only that, but this mornings Rasmussen poll shows that Obama now leads in Missouri. Only recently, Romney had a double-digit lead in the state. The ticket's off to a great start.
George True| 8.25.12 @ 6:52PM
Romney leading in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida. Ohio is now leaning Republican, and even Pennsylvania is trending that way. Yes indeed, the ticket IS off to a good start.
RCV| 8.25.12 @ 10:32PM
Don't know what polls you're purporting to read, but go to RealClearPolitics.com and get a dose of reality, George. The electoral numbers aren't adding up for your boys.
George True| 8.26.12 @ 5:53PM
Sorry, but RealMurkyPolitics has never distinguished itself as much of an authority where accurate polling data is concerned.
RCV| 8.27.12 @ 11:58AM
George, it simply reports the polls. Your philosophy seems to be to ignore any fact that interferes with your own version of reality.
RCV| 8.27.12 @ 12:03PM
Rasmussen this morning has Obama up by 3%, his biggest lead in three months. Your ticket is really picking up steam, George.
Cloudbuster | 8.24.12 @ 8:16AM
It seems related that somehow the Republicans -- again! -- allowed all the upcoming Presidential and vice-Presidential debates to be moderated by liberals on liberal networks. They might as well smack themselves in the faces with bricks.
Who Knows?| 8.24.12 @ 11:28AM
Amen.
JimH| 8.24.12 @ 8:21AM
Unfair as it may be,Talleyrand’s phrase perfectly expresses what Akin did, particularly in this media saturated age, as compared to say, the rape by Tyrrell’s lovable lug and the lion of the Senates leaving the scene. ‘It was worse than a crime. It was a blunder’.
Mimi | 8.24.12 @ 8:33AM
Jay... 1st things 1st...Congrats on the new grandson...9th? and the bearer of the Homnick name..great gift!
The world is waiting for the U.S. to recover so it can. So it all depends on Truth and Honor to stand up to scumbags?...And voters honorable enough to know who to choose? I certainly hope that is so. Like "RUSH" worries the country is going to the dogs because of who the voters are. Let us pray 2008 was an anomaly and those who enter the booth this year have one goal and that is to recapture the country from its downspiral and return it on the path to GREATNESS!
" NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY"
hmm...( that line typed easy)...still it goes!
Kelly Staples| 8.24.12 @ 8:33AM
Brother Todd hath sinned. Many believe Jesus will forgive him; the rest of us won't be so understanding.
Mimi | 8.24.12 @ 8:55AM
This nonsense DISTRACTION will end!...Lets leave it up to the good, honorable people in Missouri to fix all this....Have faith that they will!
We can't project what will happen..too many analyzers, and stratagist out there...expect surprises ...who knows what will happen next week...Take today and do the best you can with it as long as God is with us. Prepare well...but life goes on!
cicero| 8.24.12 @ 9:10AM
They throw a spitball, and we stare at it while they steal the furniture. For crying out loud. The Republicans have dragged this dead cat around the room for ove
r a week, now. Enough, already. Lincoln said something about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time. Maybe he should have added something like, "But you can fool the conservatives all of the time, because they fixate on every little mistake they make, and keep apologizing for them until everyone else has forgotten their core message."
Von Mises Jr| 8.24.12 @ 11:09AM
As our Dear Leader would say "this is a teachable moment."
Akin is for life of a baby even in the case of rape. Obama is for killing the baby even if it is born alive if abortion was the desired result. Let's have the debate.
Akin is clearly against taxpayer funded abortion. Obama's Purveyor of Death and her "Death Panel" gives the Queen of the Silent Scream and her Czars the decision over a woman's pregnancy. If the doctor writes in his electronic medical record that there are possible complications, will she need to have a Kennedy-style back alley delivery?
Or we can do Obama's contemporary version of the Spartans throwing the weakling off the cliff.
Al Adab| 8.24.12 @ 2:29PM
True enough Jr. if elections were decided on issues and/or facts. However, the majority votes on emotion which plays right into the hands of the DEMs who foster only emotion while pursuing statist policies. That such a strategy is disingenuous at best means nothing to those whose only goal is the continuance of their power.
Von Mises Jr| 8.24.12 @ 7:12PM
Al, I just saw the movie “2016.” It was great.
I am sure you know many of the facts, as I did; but D'Souza ties it all together in a tremendous presentation and overall plan.
I don't want to ruin the ending, but it all makes sense the lack of drilling, Islamic Summer (or was that Arab Spring?), the currency and budget issues and nuclear policies.
Again we all knew the details, but his bringing cohesion was great. A MUST see.
Denver Todd| 8.24.12 @ 9:20AM
Whenever I read great essays like this, I aways say to myself "I sure hope that Romney reads this, or listens to Rush, etc." I always wonder.
Jade12| 8.24.12 @ 10:03AM
It is just as Rush has said the Dems circle the wagons around their own we circle the firing squad around ours.
Maybe God is just waiting to see how deep our principles really are. It is He who decides who is in power and who is not.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:08AM
If you look at the right wing media, it does exactly the same thing. Negatives about the left, and painting halos over the right. Romney/Ryan do not have a record that they can run on. So the right is forced into the leftists ways of thugery. Sad. Just sad.
Alej| 8.24.12 @ 1:00PM
"Romney/Ryan do not have a record that they can run on."
-Teapartynow
If you hurry, you can catch up with the turnip truck you fell off of.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:13PM
The only example of romney/ryan running on their record is the fantasy budget that got passed by the republican majority, and killed as the same republican majority house raised current spending levels since 2010.
But if you have another example, please feel free to show it now. Romney/ryan have to go negative, their records are not good enough to run on.
How about ryan again, lied about spending stimulus money. Paul Ryan did in fact personally waste stimulus funds, as then later condemned obama for giving them to him to use.
If you have a coherent response feel free. Otherwise keep drinking the kool-aid.
MK48| 8.26.12 @ 11:21AM
TPN..........the truth comes out a Ron Paul supporter.....kool-aid what flavor do you drink ?
Anthony| 8.24.12 @ 10:07AM
As I've said repeatedly, with the left, it's always heads we win, tails you lose. No matter what Rs say or do, the left always have a negative response.
Nominate Palin, she's stupid, unqualified, and hates women. Nominate Ryan, he's stupid, unqualified, and hates women. Nominate Jesus Himself, he's stupid, unqualified, and hates women.
The sooner the R establishment burns the Marquess of Queensbury's rule book, and starts kicking leftist ass, the sooner we'll finally get our country back.
Not a moment sooner!
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 11:05AM
You can say that it is the left, but the right always falls for it. Look at who the nominee is, a liberal republican, with no idea how to help America recover. Why do we have him? Because the right is playing into the lefts hand. The right actually believes that if it stood up for itself with a true conservative, it would get slaughtered. And so we lose now, even if we win.
Romney won't win, he can neither fight nor help the American People recover from her decline. We are no where near the bottom, consciously. But I'll tell you what, we are a communist nation. We are still in decline. And both obama and romney would bring us even more decline.
The American People need to wake up to the truth. Because no media left or right, and no government can help us now.
We the People need to stop looking to them, and start looking to ourselves. Because our future is bleak indeed.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 10:25AM
You're funny. All you complain about the Democrats were taught first by Rovian REPUBLICAN politics ... Your opponent has learned to fight YOUR way, and now you don't like it.
The reason it is you had to resort to those tactics of divisive, derisive politics is that the issues are not on your side. And, NOW, the reason the Democratic tactics are so successful is the same - you don't have issues on your side. Wanna talk about the economy? - let's talk about BAIN, and people losing jobs, pensions and healthcare. Wanna talk about the deficit? - Let's talk about Ryan's budget that doesn't balance for 40 years. Wanna talk about Entitlements? Let's talk about dismantling Medicare for Romney/Ryan VoucherCare. Wanna talk about National Defense? - let's talk about Iraq War ended and Osama Bin Laden dead. Wanna talk about tax policy? Let's talk about releasing Tax Returns, the Cayman Islands, Swiss Bank Accounts. Wanna talk about Immigration? Let's talk about the Dream Act. Wanna talk about gay rights? Let's talk about Don't ask Don't tell and Marriage Equality. Wanna talk about Women's Rights? Let's talk about Lily Ledbetter and Todd Akin "Legitimate Rape" - notice he didn't change his views, just apologized for using the wrong words.
So, you have lost this election, unless you cheat, deceive and lie. And, even then you are lost.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 10:56AM
It's like you don't know whether to laugh or cry anymore with the right. And you don't know if the idiots on the right actually believe all of their own lies or not. Romney has done nothing but promise to exploit the poor, on order to pay back his elite friends. Check out his plans to spend on his buddies who supply us with a brand new military, and we can just throw out the old one, the American Poor have so much to give. And his plan to give federal lands to the states so big oil can exploit them. Watch the convention, it will be sickening. But sometimes you have to see the sickness for yourself, before you can understand what it is. He will stroke everyone saying that we'll all be rich because he invested everything we had in his elite connections. And then the right wing media will unanimously agree. The right is on the kool-aid in 2012.
fmm| 8.24.12 @ 11:30AM
LOL perfect example of transference.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 12:20PM
Whew! What a screed!
First things first. Learn to use paragraphs.
As to the rest of your parroted talking points:
Bain is not the issue. The issue is the massive loss of jobs due to Obama's sad devotion to the utterly failed doctrine of Keynesianism.
Ryan's proposed budget is not the issue. The issue is a Democrat controlled senate that has refused to even have a budget for four years in a row now. The issue is Obama's proposed budget that not even a single Democrat was willing to vote for.
The issue is not entitlements good/entitlements bad. The issue is a government that is borrowing 40% of the money it spends each and every month, thus debasing the currency we all get paid in.
Mitt Romney's tax returns are not the issue. The issue is four TRILLION dollar deficits in a row under Obama, and the resultant destruction of the economy and debasement of the currency.
The issue is not gay rights, equal pay, women's rights, or a Republican pol who used a poor choice of words. The issue is the destruction of our economy, destruction of jobs, destruction of income levels, and the debasement of our money that affects gays, women, minorities just as much as everyone else.
Now, leftist PurpTroll, see how much better a few bullet points read when you use paragraphs? And see how much clearer things become when you focus on the real, actual, and dare I say, a la Todd Akin, the legitimate issues?
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 2:40PM
White space is good - I agree.
Bain is THE rationale Romney gives for his qualification to be President, so ya, it IS the issue.
Keynesian economics has worked, many times. Even Reagan had to resort to good ol' stimulus. Voodoo supply side economic theory of Hayek, Von Mises and Friedman has not.
Romney said he's sign Ryan's budget plan, so ya, that IS the issue. He doesn't balance the budget for 30 years and racks up continual deficits and debt. THAT's a fiscal conservative? uh-uh.
10 Trillion of the debt came from Reagan and the Bush Twins. Conservatives have no room to lecture when we face recovery from the Bush Depression. Entitlements are Insurance programs and are not the problem. Not paying for them is.
Romney pays 13% on 20 million dollars! And he wants to set tax policy as President. You betcha THAT's an issue.
You're right about the economy, but neither Obama or Romney will fix it - the economy will work itself out, as over-extended credit is deleveraged over time. But who is going to relieve the most pain over that time - sure not Romney. The other issues therefore come to the forefront.
Notice how neither Akin or Ryan have been able to explain their stance on no choice, no options whether RAPE or INCEST, nor on the personhood bill that would criminalize all birth control. put a rubber on- you go to jail. No thanks.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 3:06PM
No, Bain is most assuredly NOT the issue. The issue is the destruction of the American middle class in terms of the real unemployment rate (currently north of 12% when you factor in those who have given up looking for a job).
The issue is the 5% decline in median household income over the last four years. And that does not include the loss of buying power from inflation, the real rate of which is currently approaching 10%.
Keynesian stimulus spending has NEVER worked, ever in the history of mankind. For you to allege such a thing demonstrates how completely self-deluded you and your kind actually are.
How much tax Romney paid is absolutely NOT an issue no matter how much you would like to make it one. Again, THE ISSUE IS, an out of control federal government that is actively stifling the economy that it claims it wants to stimulate, through reckless, irresponsible, and massively out-of-control spending, which will ultimately visit financial ruination on each and every one of us. THAT IS THE ISSUE......NOT how much or how little tax Romney or anyone else paid, NOT abortion or rape, NOT women's rights, NOT gay rights, NOT any of these things.
No matter how many Bizarro World factoids you cite, you and your ilk are absolutely and unequivocally wrong about everything. And no matter how much you would like to pretend that these sideshows are the real issues, all the adults know what the real issues actually are.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 6:29PM
As I said, whoever is President has little effect on the economy, and neither man will affect the economy much. Only time will squeeze the over-extended credit in this country to restore confidence. Once people are confident, they spend money and generate demand, which generates new jobs and we're off and running. THAT will happen whomever is President.
The Middle Class has been gradually destroyed since Reagan came to office, and started the onslaught on the unions. The fall of unions charts exactly with the fall of the middle class. As good paying, good benefit union jobs were decimated, so was the middle class. It's a fact and even YOU can look it up.
Keynesian spending was used by both Bushes, Reagan, Nixon, Ford, and all Presidents since the 1930's. Richard Nixon famously said "We are all Keynesians now" .
Almost all of what you describe "The issue is the 5% decline in median household income over the last four years. And that does not include the loss of buying power from inflation, the real rate of which is currently approaching 10%." have been going on for 3 decades, not just 4 years. YOU can look that up too.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 6:29PM
Continued ...
Any man that can sign any changes to American tax policy absolutely MUST show America how he feels about, how he handles, and how he avoids paying taxes. I mean he already admits to paying 13% in taxes. Kinda low for a multi-millionaire, isn't it?
There isn't massive out of control spending. It's a massive economic depression that is depressing revenue and increasing safety net expenses that we face.
But you on the right wing are just using our economic downturn to push an agenda. America knows that and that's why it's not working against the President.
You sound like the fervent religious fanatic that no matter what is presented to him, he will not falter, he will not waiver in his beliefs. Well, George, they are YOUR beliefs and you are welcome to them. But you aren't welcome to your own facts, and the fact is that many of the issues you discount ARE important to Americans.
Just like in the Stock Market, the economic downturn and slow recovery is already baked into the election. That is why the President will win - he cares more about those weaker, sicker, older, younger and generally less well off that need our help now.
Romney/Ryan with VoucherCare to end Medicare, end of Medicaid, and raising taxes on the Middle Class are not concerned about the average voter. Not to mention they are wrong on the social issues you don't want to discuss.
Obama 2012!
George True| 8.24.12 @ 2:43PM
I notice PurpTroll did not engage on any of the real issues.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 2:54PM
Are you unable to read ? Answer why my comments are not real issues for this campaign.
I've laid out serious ideas why the President leads Romney all year, and if the election were held today would win handily. Maybe you can't answer them.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 3:22PM
Again, you continue to cite things that are not the real issues threatening all of us, including you.
Sideshows are exactly that...sideshows. Not the main event by any stretch. A politician in Missouri who used a poor choice of words is now the main issue? Really??? How much or how little tax Romney paid, by LEGALLY using whatever LEGAL deductions were available to him, as any of us would have done, is now the real issue? Really???
But the fact that a trillion dollar stimulus did not stimulate anything is not an issue? Four years of deficits in excess of a trillion dollars a year is not an issue? A real rate of unemployment mired above 12% is not an issue? A real rate of inflation north of 8% is not an issue? Only in leftist Bizarro World are these things not the real issues.
I don't blame the Obama campaign and their mainstream media propaganda arm for trying to distract attention from the real issues. Because if enough people begin to pay attention to the real issues and the real record of Obama, he is sunk.
Sideshows, bread and circuses, manufactured controversies, race-baiting, and class warfare. That's all the left has. Because to run on Obama's and the Democrats' actual record would spell massive defeat. And you know it, PurpTroll.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:28PM
Name once when romney/ryan ran one their records. They have not, and they will not. They can not, just like obama. The only thing that comes close is not the record, but a fantasy ryan wrote as he raised spending along with the boehner majority house. Name one record romney/ryan is running on or can run on. It does not exist. Romney/ryan is lockstep with obama/biden, and even more pathetic because even Sarah Palin had a record that she wasn't ashamed of. Don't give me your b.s. Just name one. And yes, I'll wait. You are pathetic.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 6:03PM
What record, exactly, did Obama run on in 2008? His experience as a community organizer (read: communist agitator)? Even at that job, he failed miserably. How about his experience in the private sector? Oh that's right, he has none. His record of 'present' votes in the Illinois state senate? His non-attendance at his job as a US senator, being as how he began campaigning for the presidency six months after becoming a senator?
It is breathtakingly infantile that you would carp about Romney's or Ryan's qualifications, when somehow it did not seem to matter at all that Obama's qualifications were (and still are) singularly non-existent. Amazing that you would call anybody pathetic, TrollPartyNow, when everything coming out of your own mouth is regurgitated leftist pink slime.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 6:32PM
Poor George, you are such a victim of the Right Wing Mythology of Barack Obama. I have neither the patience or willingness to correct you on his history. But you can buy his books and READ them.
Before you complain about ANYONE's experience or qualifications - Remember, in this election, only ONE MAN has experience being PRESIDENT. ONLY ONE - President Barack Obama, your next President. Salute him! Obama 2012!
George True| 8.24.12 @ 7:07PM
Based on your logic, why not put a monkey in charge of a Fortune 500 company? And then, after the corporation goes in the toilet as a result, make the case that the monkey should nevertheless be retained as CEO because only he has the 'experience' of running the company.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 9:27PM
What a nice racist comment George. You do know that African Americans were compared to monkeys and Tea Party rallies had signs of Obama as a monkey, don't you? Of course you do. You did that purposely, didn't you?
You should kiss the President's feet for the guts to save this economy from complete meltdown. If you weren't so ideologically compromised, you would see that. I feel sorry for you that you can't see what is crystal clear to all that don't exclusively watch Fixed News and Rush Loudmouth.
But, no matter, that you are ungrateful - he is still winning and will continue to win.
Even God is showing his displeasure with the Republicans by smiting them with a Hurricane in Florida next week. They reap the whirlwind because their hearts are black.
George True| 8.25.12 @ 7:01PM
He who pulls the race card IS THE RACIST. Always. Every time. YOU are the racist.
What the Keynesian Wonder did with his non-stimulating Stimulus and six trillion dollars of deficit spending in 3 1/2 years time was far more damaging than anything that came before. (Bush 43: 1.8 trillion dollars of deficit spending over eight years.)
The One is actually losing, according to all the polls.
And it looks like the hurricane, which has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, will miss Tampa after all. I guess God is not so displeased with the Republicans after all.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:23PM
Most of the people who write on the right wing boards are not going to be able to see what romney/ryan really is because they only watch right wing media outlets. Their minds are closed to the real world outside almost completely. I used to be that way myself, romney is so bad, I now see what the right has been doing all along.
No one one the right today cares about the future of America. All that they want is to win, even if it ultimately causes America to cease being. You have to know that. There are many conservatives who care enough about America to oppose romney like myself, but most are too disgusted with the right to even try anymore.
49% of all Americans hate romneys guts. And that is because Mitt Romney, minus the right wing spin, is a monster. A parasitic destructive, power hungry, end of America completely, monster.
But these guys won't know that, they are locked in to levin and the like.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 6:04PM
Projecting much, are we, TrollPartyNow?
CJW| 8.24.12 @ 6:03PM
Purpie, the Village Idiot a/k/a commie jack,etc
Please explain:
1. How and why Chicago felon Tony Rezko partially paid for Obama's house?
2. How and why Michele received a raise from $100,000 to $317,000 per year as a community relations lawyer for a Chicago hospital that Obama requested a million dollar earmark, and how that "job" was eliminated in Jan 2009?
3. How and why Obama funneled 500 million to Solyndra, his campaign contributors?
4. How and why Obama in Obamcare took 717 Billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare? Explain how paying doctors and hospitals less because of the 717 Billion Heist will improve health care for Medicare patients?
5. Why doesn't Obama spread some of his wealth to his broher and other relatives livingn in poverty in Kenya?
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 6:39PM
I'll answer #4 - the rest aren't worth an answer, because they aren't factual at all.
The 716 Billion, not 717, was re-directed from overpayment of 114% of Medicare Advantage providers (hospitals, clinics, physicians) and given to SENIORS in the form of closing the drug Donut Hole (you know what that is, right?) and giving SENIORS access to free preventive and wellness care, something to keep them healthier longer and reducing costs at the same time. In addition, the CBO estimates that 8 years have been added to the solvency of Medicare by this redirection.
Now, Romney/Ryan Steals the same 716 Billion dollars. But they actually STEAL it! They take it from Medicare providers,but don't give it to SENIORS. They use it to give tax breaks to the millionaires and billionaires, while turning Medicare into VoucherCare.
Now you know the truth. But you won't here it on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh.
CJW| 8.24.12 @ 7:40PM
Purpie
BS.
The only correct statement is 716. Obama is reducing the amount paid to providers. Period.
Purp| 8.25.12 @ 9:34AM
Actually, this is fact. You can see it in the Affordable Care Act. Of course, the idiot fringe in the right wing wouldn't believe that St.Ryan and St.Romney (can a MORMON be a saint?) would take away Medicare, but they do.
And if they repeal Obamacare, they destroy Medicare in 4 YEARS. 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 .... no more Medicare, according to the CBO.
CJW| 8.24.12 @ 7:42PM
Purpie
You cannot answer 1 thru 3 because you have no thruthful answer because they are factual.
Liar.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 1:50PM
Purp: Providers are leaving Medicare in droves. There is a difference, fool, between health INSURANCE and health CARE. People with Medicaid have insurance, but have difficult access to providers. That will soon be the case with Medicare, which grossly underpays providers. I know. I was a Nursing home doc and got out because the making of a decent living involved too much work for too little reward.
George True| 8.25.12 @ 7:08PM
I have been in the insurance field for 24 years. I have worked extensively with Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Medicare Part D plans. Have also worked with individual and small group Major Medical plans. I have forgotten more about health insurance than people like Purp will ever know. And yet to them, they have all the answers, and people like us with decades of experience and expertise in the field know nothing. Typical leftist/Progressive/Socialist mindset.
Anthony| 8.24.12 @ 2:08PM
Hey Purp, did you know that the Kenyan Muslim Marxist actually led to raid on Bin Laden?
Yup, he commanded one of the helicopters, jumped out with guns blazing, a la lefty Rambo Jean-Francois Kerry, shot the bastard with one shot between the eyes.
He then managed to get back to the USA in time for round 100 of golf and pose for his famous picture!!
Ah yes, all's well in lefty la la land.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 2:31PM
You know who launched D-Day? Do you know who dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima? Do you know who attacked the U.S. on 9/11?
The man at the top gets the credit or the blame. Simple, even the simple-minded can understand that, can't you?
Oh, and who invaded Iraq and Afghanistan? - yep he gets blamed for that too.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:35PM
Romney is a loser, the right has to sink to new lows now, just to post on a message board. Anthony there doesn't fit into the real world anymore, so at least take that to heart. It forgoes being human and honest, just to win an election. The right today is just gross. But I am glad that you take us under your wing for the sake of America. Thank you. You are truly, a great American. God knows, even if the retards on the right miss it completely.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 6:07PM
TrollPartyNow along with PurpTroll, is an inhabitant of LeftBizarroWorld, where everything is the opposite of reality.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 6:40PM
All I have to see is the hundreds of thousands of bloggers on Huffingtonpost and the few hundred here to know where the electorate is today. And it isn't with Mitt RobMe.
George True| 8.24.12 @ 7:08PM
Wanna bet?
Purp| 8.25.12 @ 9:37AM
You betcha! The big wind in Tampa will die down, just like it did with the Witch Sarah Palin. Then, we'll get back to Medicare Killing, RAPE is Good, Self-Deportation, BAIN, RomneyCare, Tax Evasion, Death Panels and other goodies in the Republican plans for America.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 1:47PM
Death Panels are a Democrat invention, with the IPAB. Unlike you, Purp, I've seen these things in action overseas. Ain't pretty. Minnesota provides much better health care than New Zealand.
Tom Kyba| 8.25.12 @ 12:11PM
Chicken-sh** liar. The only interest you create is in trying to predict your self-serving excuses when Romney wins.
Tom Kyba| 8.25.12 @ 12:06PM
Let's talk about parallel universes.
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 10:47AM
I think it is disturbing that there is so little truth in the whole of Americas' medias, that a guy can get thrown out for one misspoken sentence, with zero regard for his lifes works, or what he would really bring to the American People.
The right wing media is lockstep with the left wing media this year. With the only exception being that the right doesn't have enough power to do gotcha interviews. But the right is just as deceitful as the left now. All of the right wing sites are driven by negatives because romney/ryan can't run on their records.
Romney himself is almost always lockstep with obama. Romney has his right wing exploitation of the American Peoples money, whereas obama is left. But the two politically are twins. Obama lite. More fatal than kool-aid, drink up right, & to Americas' health.
The right can neither see itself, nor win. It doesn't fight to win anymore. Or govern to recover. Sorry.
MikeBee| 8.24.12 @ 11:11AM
Candidates need to remember (or LEARN) that the leftist Press is our enemy. Today, the mainstream Press is nothing more than propaganda mouthpieces for the Democrat party. So, you don't answer their questions about highly-divisive topics, like abortion. Unless you can couch your answer in emotional terms that pushes only one part of the argument.
The Press asks your opinion about abortion? Tell them that you are concerned that most abortion mills seem to be located in poor black areas and seem to be fulfilling the wishes of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, to lower the population of blacks. Or, tell them that the state of Michigan has found that many abortion mills there today have the same quality of care and cleanliness that yesterday's back-alley abortion mills had, and that you're concerned whether we've made any progress since the 1960s on this. Don't talk about whether abortion should be or shouldn't be legal, or allowed. Bring up your concerns about a part of the picture, or SHUT UP.
If you can't think of anything good to say, simply ask the reporter a question, in answer to their question. The reporterette asks you about whether you think abortion should be legal, and you find yourself blanking on a good response, simply say, "Abortion is the law of the land, today, right?" Let her answer, and try to get the reporterette to give you HER opinion, instead.
You can't engage the enemy in battle on its terms, period.
MikeBee| 8.24.12 @ 11:12AM
(continued, due to lack of space) You must engage always on your terms, or don't engage at all today.
Purp| 8.24.12 @ 3:01PM
Not so, Mike. Not telling the truth is red meat for the press.
Todd Akin told the truth, but the truth is so shocking, so appalling, THAT becomes red meat for the press. Ryan agrees with Akin, but not publicly. He voted with him and sponsored the same shocking legislation.
It's that simple.
Romney lies about Welfare - Press is all over it.
Romney won't release taxes, and seems concerned he'd be attacked (according to Ann) - Press irresistibly has to investigate that one.
Romney lies about the President's birthplace (by innuendo) - Press is all over that.
Romney disses the Olympics and their London Host - Press sees a huge story of flubbing his trip and keeps an eye out for more gaffes - like praising Israel for their Universal Healthcare plan, cheaper and better than ours. Press is all over that one.
Romney says he'll sign Paul Ryan's budget, but after picking Ryan backs off - Press is all over hypocrisy.
And, so it goes ... they are not the enemy - YOUR IDEAS ARE .
TeaPartyNow| 8.24.12 @ 3:47PM
The press choose what they will and will not report according to which side they are on. Your statements are true, they do report news. But it is so converted into propaganda for one side or the other by countless opinion pieces, that is doesn't result in any better understanding of how our nation is doing almost always, and this is both sides.
The problem with the press is what it omits. The left purposefully leaves out any damaging info that might lead to the left losing power. The right purposefully leaves out anything not in absolute worship of its agenda. We no longer have any objective ways to hear about what is going on in this nation. Each side has its spin. And each sides followers stay within those sides boundaries almost completely.
Hence, a nation of people without a real clue as to what is really going on. And our continuing decline, by left, AND RIGHT! (the right still thinks its medias are honest. that'll be the day)
CJW| 8.24.12 @ 6:07PM
Welcome the tag team of purpie/tea party. Desperate when you have to talk to yourself, purpie?
Purp| 8.25.12 @ 9:38AM
Can't argue, so ridicule. It's an old Conservative canard because most people are appalled at Conservative thinking.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 1:46PM
Purp: you pain me. Tea Party folks clean up after themselves, and children are welcome to, and perfectly safe in, their meetings.
Occupy subhumans rape women, commit violence, and defecate on police cars, while beating people up in shops and behaving like vermin.
That's my argument, backable with photos and facts. Your lifestyle flows from your values and beliefs. Leftists are scum.
Who Knows?| 8.24.12 @ 11:47AM
Who, or what, is in charge?
How does the average person come to believe ANYTHING? There are “training wheels” for the mind, which are constantly in place.
How do they get there? Who maintains them?
In America, most newbies spend their freshest years getting mind imprints, being subject to Pavlovian programming, especially their socializing and socialistic public “schooling”. So many reflexive “dogs”, or “cogs”!
Some humans are too sensitive to forever go with the flow, and essentially become open minded enough for a mind boggling “transplant”. Mugged by reality, and all that.
Like me, they go through their feelings-only “hippy” or communistic phase, and convert to a Libertarian or conservative point of view. Ah, but there are so many well-programmed “old dogs”, who can’t seem to learn new tricks.
The solution?
It’s not nice, to be a nice guy!
In truth, by NOT matching the actions of liberals---calling them a racist when they call you one, for example—you are being a wimp! Indeed, by failing to give back to a Jesse Jackson what he lays on you, you are missing a choice chance to shock even him---to wake up, HIMSELF!
At least, muddy the waters.
Who Knows?| 8.24.12 @ 12:05PM
It’s all about REFLECTION.
Just act like a mirror. For example, when an Al Sharpton type finishes his accusations of racism, simply retort that that was an example of racism, ITSELF.
After all, we DO seem to live in a postmodern world, so why not deconstruct those idiots on the left---force-feed them their own medicine!
Society is in a many faceted crisis. Name any dimension, and there are myriad problems, all screaming for attention and solutions.
Remember, though: crisis = danger AND opportunity.
Probably THE most essential all pervading core crisis is in the mental dimension. That is, the ideas that are communicated and debated and, therefore, believed---that’s where the HUMAN aspect is fought.
The battlefield of thoughts, the noosphere, which continues to be ruled by the MSM, the Academy, the universities, et al, must be engaged---and ravaged by attacks at least as brutal as the ones it makes.
Eventually, to avoid the suicide of the freedom loving countries, more highly evolved and less programmed humans must leap over the present “politeness” norm, and savage the bringers of death.
Let them have it---give better than you get!
Call their bluff---call them out!
George True| 8.24.12 @ 6:10PM
Hear, hear! Well said, Dr Who.
Dave Williams| 8.24.12 @ 12:55PM
Somebody who is more computer-savvy than I am....PLEASE get this column into the hands of Rince Preibus, along with the trenchant comments!! Well, except for the usual lefty trip from Purp the Twerp....
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 1:43PM
Myself, I believe in Nad punching the Chicago way, as explained by Sean Connery in The Untouchables. Get the Khalidi tape, doing it the Joel Cairo way, "with discretion," and release it on You Tube. Find the Bathhouse records and release them, too. Obama plays filthy, and he needs to be beaten efficiently and precisely.
Petronius| 8.24.12 @ 1:11PM
Demoncrats win because they don't pretend to be honest. Republicans lose because they do. Demoncrats win because they know the way to garner votes is raw emotion. Republicans are unaware that emotion trumps reason and refuse to learn that.
Steve C| 8.24.12 @ 3:21PM
They win? What?
There are currently 29 Republicans, 20 Democrats, and 1 Independent holding the office of governor in the states, and 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans (one is also a member of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico) as governor of United States Territories and mayor of Washington, D.C.
There is a Republican majority in the House.
We have crushed them again and again.
Petronius| 8.24.12 @ 3:49PM
If We Won, name one liberal policy which ruins our lives that has been reversed or law that's been repealed.
David| 8.24.12 @ 2:21PM
The democrats are not playing a different "game" as you say.
The democrats advantage is that they realize politics is WAR - not a game. The never quit - they never let up.
As I have said over and over, the dems go for the whole ball of wax on the issues, and when we hold them to 10% of what they want, we claim victory. Until we get rid of that f_cking mindset and realize we didn't win sh_t, but in fact lost 10% this time, and another 10 or 15% the next time, this country will continue moving to the left.
Steve C| 8.24.12 @ 2:45PM
THE DEMOCRATS???? NEVER GIVE UP???? WTF. Really? Now they are some unbeatable machine who never give up??? What in the world. We need to remember who we are. What happened to us?
Steve C| 8.24.12 @ 2:36PM
Is this what we are doing:
The Republican Party thinks it understands how to score A in politics. You identify the major issues of the day and you develop positions consistent with the pertinent information, the U.S. Constitution, existing laws, traditional practices, morals, ethics and ideals. Then you go out to communicate those views to the public and hope the people react to them by casting votes in your favor.
It sure doesn't seem like it. Kind of weird you would write that.
Steve C| 8.24.12 @ 2:54PM
Oh. This was satire. I feel dumb. My bad.
ReaganConservative| 8.25.12 @ 2:01AM
Mr Homnick, I see you refer to Republicans as the "opposition" to the Democrats, thus tell the political Republican strategy and attitude of winning elections. But never once mentioned Conservatives the Tea Party. Are you not aware, or refuse to acknowledge Conservatives existence.
The GOP Republican party is just that, a political party. But there are 2 factions in that party, the Republican establishment RINOs, and the Reagan Conservatives, aka Tea Party folks/grass roots movement.
If you noticed the description you gave about Republicans is a fair description, but when you stated what they should and shouldn't do, but you never mentioned anything about Conservatives do, as opposed or compared to what Republicans do.
Reagan Conservatives/Tea Party folks are the ground forces in elections all across America today, which the GOP takes credit for, instead of being partners with. They are the ones who act like immature petulant children and are detrimental in their attitude and thinking when it comes to defeating the Democrats, because more often than not, they side with the Democrats against us Conservatives. That's why they are more of a hinderance than help to our goal of ridding the nation of Democrats/Obamacrats .
Purp| 8.25.12 @ 9:39AM
Most Reagan conservatives are dead, thankfully. He destroyed more in this country then you will ever know - simply because you won't be able to get past the glow of St.Reagan in your own mind.
Tom Kyba| 8.25.12 @ 12:12PM
Take your hand out of your pants sonny.
ansonheath| 8.25.12 @ 11:56AM
It always feels like I'm intruding on what seem to be some private p..ing contests among the commenters, but if Akin had some smart campaign advisors, he could turn this mistake into a huge gainer for himself. How so?
McCaskill is on record (video) saying 'she doesn't trust Bill Clinton with her daughter' during the Lewinsky affair, yet Slick Willie was her primary campaign money raiser. Furthermore, the Dem party has had actual rapists as prominent members of congress (Read Jack Cashill).
Unfortunately, turning lemons into lemonade is not a strong suit of the average GOP campaign.
David| 8.25.12 @ 12:00PM
Steve C, I didn't say they were unbeatable. They are winning and have been steadily moving the country left for decades.
We have allowed them to do that and it is because of the above-stated reason.
Hopefully with more and more conservatives and Tea Partiers getting into office, we can reverse some of it. But, as we know, it is soooo difficult to get rid of what is already in place. That is why it is so important for our side to stop giving up the 5, 10, or 15% at a time.
Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 1:40PM
Mazel-Tov, Jay! May G-d Bless and keep the little one!
And may we beat the Dhimmicrats.
Will| 8.25.12 @ 7:42PM
Sorry, but I don't buy this idea that the GOP somehow conduct politics in a nobler way than the Dems. Have we all forgotten swift boat? Calling sandra fluke a slut? Or, just the other day, Romney making a joke about Obama's birthplace. This election looks to me like a repeat of 2004- incumbent wins by driving his own voters to the polls through demonisation of the other side, while vicious character assassination reduces opposition turnout. Independent voters turn away in disgust. The problem for the GOP is that the Dems have real Karl Rove's playbook very thoroughly.
ChasB| 8.26.12 @ 11:13PM
This column was interesting and informative, Mr. Homnick. I always learn something from reading you, even when you're writing about a topic as familiar as "Democrats play differently, and dirtier, than Republicans."
Congratulations on your new grandson. And, 9 grandchildren already! You're a blessed man, and I'm jealous.
neo-libertarian| 8.27.12 @ 8:27AM
I need some feed back; having been in a quandary now since the Akin debacle. The election cycle award for stupidest thing said to date had been hands down Sandra Fluke’s lament as to the funding shortage to her nether regions.
(1) Did Akin wrest the title as the “War on Women” champion and get the slut slot at the democratic podium?
(2) Do physiological challenged incumbents have a built in mechanism to get voters to pull the adjacent lever in Missouri voting booths as did Gore?
(3) Finally, what is greater, the chance of a zygote reaching term from Hillary’s womb or Akin being elected to the Senate?
Chief_Cabioch| 8.30.12 @ 7:16PM
Republicans wont win as long as they remain on the defensive, they need to point out that if mispeaking was a crime, Biden would get Life, and Akin has prominent doctors backing his claims, he is trying to SAVE Lives, not destroy them and Akin has a viable point, his point illegitimate" rape claims such as a female who has sex, then changes her mind...and files charges.....yet the media will only let the worst parts heard not his entire speech.