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Oldefarte| 9.30.12 @ 11:21AM
Romney is "lagging in Key States" due to the STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!
Ralphie| 9.30.12 @ 12:11PM
The average voter has always been accused of being ill-informed, it was one of George Mason's complaints, and I think basically true. I have a friend that is a devote Obama voter who argued with me that Warren Buffet made his money making furniture. I doubt she looked it up later, she is just always right about everything.
Dem voters tend to use ad hominem arguments, very difficult to combat. You cannot argue with an emotional person, there is no getting through. A Democrat told me that. Most Democrats appeal to the emotion. The argument, I'm going to do this for you is much stronger than I'm going to let you do for yourself.
What emotional chord can be struck for Republicans? When you look at the videos of Obama supporters who are happy for a free phone, or think an Ambassador deserved to die, how in the world can you even begin to make the argument for American exceptionalism?
mike 3/505| 9.30.12 @ 1:52PM
Which is why the Founders thought that only property owners should be able to vote....property owners had skin in the game....In the modern day, only Federal Income Tax payers (or combat veterans) should be allowed to vote in Federal elections.
There is no moral reasoning whatsoever that supports the concept that someone who pays nothing into the kitty, has a right to vote for how the money is spent, much less, that folks who do pay, should pay more.
Fiscal| 9.30.12 @ 4:22PM
So, you would leave out seniors, the working poor, and retired non-combat veterans from the voting rolls as well as those who pay into social security and Medicare. Can you imagine what would happen to the Republican party if seniors didn't vote? That's the only block that went strongly to McCain in the last election.
RCV| 9.30.12 @ 4:22PM
Here's a news flash, Mike. It's 2012. The majority of the people who live in this country aren't going to let you decide that a small minority will govern the rest. Just ain't gonna happen.
Warrior| 9.30.12 @ 8:15PM
Even a half witted liberal agrees that taxpayers are now in the minority.
Fiscal| 9.30.12 @ 4:20PM
Yes, Ralphie, that used to be the case. However, I find that now the Republicans do the same and vote on the basis of emotion. This comes from the religious right takeover of the Republican party. They won't look at the data concerning tax cuts and only believe the rhetoric and will only watch the highly slanted and untruthful Fox News.
The fact is that a majority of people on both the right and left are ill informed and vote on emotion and belief rather than data and analysis. For example, EVERY analysis of Romney's budget shows that he will have a greater deficit/debt than Obama, yet, you never see that here, do you?
Yes, Obama is a failure as a leader, but Romney is only slightly better. We don't have any TRUE fiscal conservatives running for President -- and that is the problem.
Oldefarte| 9.30.12 @ 9:09PM
I would much prefer an UN "TRUE fiscal conservative" as "President" named Romney than I would name Obama, and therein lies the difference!!!!!
Kingofthenet| 9.30.12 @ 2:35PM
It's Mitt's Tax plan, Ryan himself today on Fox just said it's too hard to explain quickly, but I will try:
1 for you, one for me...
2 for you, 1,2 for me...
3 for you, 1,2,3 for me...
SYAsked| 9.30.12 @ 4:46PM
Ryan did not say anything of the sort, but it is good to see you trying to listen. Obviously you did not.
16 trillion in debt and counting. That has no future. Romney would do better. Only people wanting to destroy the Country to which the poor come, with hope in their hearts, would continue this spendaholic behavior.
Fiscal| 9.30.12 @ 5:07PM
Actually, virtually all of the analysts that have reviewed the Romney plan say that it puts us deeper in debt than Obama's. There are several reasons for that. First, historically tax cuts have not had a significant impact on growth as assumed (but with not numbers), in the Romney plan. To confirm this, just take a look at GDP (normalized for inflation), over the past 50 years or so. Therefore, as with Reagan and Bush, tax cuts historically have added a huge amount of money to the national debt. In addition, Romney spends much more on defense and has said that he will let people choose whether they want the traditional Medicare or vouchers. The people with health problems will opt for the traditional while the people with better health will opt for vouchers (because the market does work). Therefore, much less will be paid in and more will be used.
Ironically, the Ryan budget, which Romney has jettisoned, does a better job at reducing the debt but no where near as good as Simpson-Bowles.
Oldefarte| 9.30.12 @ 9:12PM
Of course Ryan did not say anything of the sort, but the KINGFISH [just like his boss SUPER KINGFISH BARRY who pays him to blog here] do what is commonly referred to as ......LIES!!!!
geronl| 9.30.12 @ 4:03PM
The media would have us believe that Obama is winning this thing walking away.
http://asspos.blogspot.com/201.....ready.html
Fiscal| 9.30.12 @ 4:25PM
Obama isn't winning -- Romney is losing because he doesn't know how to run a campaign and most people, including a lot of Republicans, just don't like him as a person. If Romney can't even run his own campaign when he has nothing else to do and has been preparing for this for more than 5 years, how is he going to run the country? I'm voting for him but I'm holding my nose in the process.
Oldefarte| 9.30.12 @ 9:17PM
No, if what you claim is true, it's simply because Americans are STUPID. They want to become mesmerized aka Matthews with his GD TINGLE UP HIS LEG. They're so stupid they don't have the mental ability to seperate fact from fiction, truth from untruth, and need [due to their stupidity] to be moved, inspired, motivated, mesmerized, levitated etc by the candidate. Thats why we now have an administration who are domestic terrorists, who are lying to this nation and are allowed to get away with it. If people would get their heads out of their rears and think for themselves, they'd realize they're getting played/screwed/manipulated/brainwashed 24-7. WAKE THE F**K UP!!!!!!
Jack in Wi| 9.30.12 @ 5:11PM
Amen Fiscal. Romney is tanking the elction. The Republicans have given us in last 7 elections 4 Bush runs and 3 Bush wantabes in Dole, McCain and Romney. If he can't figure out how to win in the next 5 weeks he deserves to lose. He should be beating Obama by at least 5 points.
Warrior| 9.30.12 @ 8:19PM
You can do better Jack. Reagan was down in the polls to Carter around double digits at this point in 80. Romney may have warts but he is clearly a better choice than the Frank Marshall Davis/Bill Ayers/Saul Alinsky disciple currently occupying the White House.
Oldefarte| 9.30.12 @ 9:20PM
Yeah DA and if he does lose, guess who pays? You do DA, you do [as does all taxpayers who this administration will turn into peasants wandering the street of Cuba within the next two years]. Go ahead and stay home and wait for your Paulista messiah with his newletter manna, and you'll be eating dirt from this group now in charge!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 9.30.12 @ 9:22PM
All of you idiots chew on Caddell's truth and try and comprehend same:
http://youtu.be/brDZJA8j-8c
Herald7| 9.30.12 @ 11:23PM
Which party has tried to pass a budget and curtail the Federal government's spending rate? No new expenditures without corresponding budget cuts.
Which candidate would pick less radically liberal Supreme Court nominees?
Republican.