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| February 3, 2008
| Salena Zito
Posted on 02/03/2008 5:13:20 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
I know I will get brickbats here, but I will probably vote for Obama over McCain. I would rather vote for an authentic liberal than a liberal dressing in drag as a conservative. To paraphrase Harry Truman, if my choices are a real Democrat or a fake one, why not vote for the real thing?
Obama will either turn out to be a great President or he will be a Jimmy Carter type disaster, and Mitt Romney will win in 2012. Either way we are finally rid of John McNasty. Mitch McConnell will hold down the fort in the Senate until 2012.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:21:58 AM PST
by
Dems_R_Losers
(Waiting for 2012 to vote for an actual Republican)
To: wtc911
I’m 25 and still a Republican, for now anyway. Obama isn’t as bad as Hillary but he has no appeal to me.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:23:21 AM PST
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: proudofthesouth
Most Americans do very little research. They choose candidates based on looks, style, and HOW they sound, and of course what the MSM tells them to think.
They don’t deserve good candidates, but the rest of us are stuck with what these nitwits pick (thank you to John Valentine for the perfect term for them).
susie
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:24:23 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: LowCountryJoe
It’s funny because last week he was the New Kennedy, and this week he’s the New Reagan?
susie
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:25:26 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: wtc911
This move to Obama, is a move to be in on the âfirsts.â The first real black prez (not Klintonâs BS); the first Muzzie elected prez; being in on change in America; going with the new pop culture of electing Obama. Obama is a rock star. He has no record to back him up. He has done nothing. A state representative a few years, a senator for 4. What experience does this guy have to run this country? What are his credentials? None. Everyone is jumping on the rock star band wagon. Wanting to be part of the “movement.” The NEW face of politics.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:25:53 AM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(America wants socialism. It wants it all for free. It wants the government to provide all.)
To: RipSawyer
Well, Mexico might be the place to go. It should soon be empty...
susie
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:28:50 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: Dems_R_Losers
If Obama can sink Hillary and McCain we have a twofer.
Then hope for a Carter-like stupid one-term Presidency that buries the Democrats for another twenty years and _we_ are back in business.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:29:42 AM PST
by
cgbg
("A skilled commander seeks victory from..situation..does not demand it of..subordinates." Sun Tzu)
To: RetiredArmy
You hit the nail on the head (meaning of course that we agree). I have been writing here for two weeks that the Obama campaign is not just that but a movement, and that is dangerous for many reasons.
IMO if we see McCain/Obama (a septagenarian, prototypical Angry White Male vs. a charismatic, YOUNG, 'new', blended, cool American) then we will see a series of debates that will make the 1960 JFK/RMN disaster look like a prom date.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:32:13 AM PST
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: darkangel82
Stay strong and talk sense to your peers...
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:32:52 AM PST
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: Kaslin
I’ll bet quite of few of these so-called rock-ribbed Pubbies have zero clue as to Obama’s hyper liberal record and that his nicey-nice sounding platitudes equal hyper liberal policies.
To: Theo
“Obama has no substance. Hes all just style.”
Yes, just an empty suit, but if McPain is the Republican
candidate, I will not bother to vote.
Either way, we are dead meat.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:35:04 AM PST
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: Kaslin
There’s a BIG...HUGE...difference here. Reagan won “disaffected democrats” to his side with IDEAS. With Obama, it isn’t ideas, it’s personality and cadenced preaching. And it isn’t “republicans” he’s “winning over”. This is a lie. The “republicans” following Obama are demonRATs in sheep’s clothing. Their single purpose is to vote in our primaries and sabotage our choices. They bleat to the media how “unhappy” they are with the party, how much more they like Obama, Hillary, etc. than their “own” candidates. They work long and hard to defeat us emotionally and intellectually, to make us wonder if we are wrong, to doubt ourselves. And BOY! are they good at it.
I am going to have to concede a point here: these leftists are incredibly good at what they have been doing to us for so long now- wearing us down like water on rock. They have managed to convince too many of us that we are antiquated, have old ideas, it’s time to move forward, blah blah blah...
How many republicans truly believe that we NEED government- to take care of the needy? to educate our kids? to respond to disasters? to manage “public lands” and keep the environment “healthy? to grant money for R&D? to build anything outside an Interstate? to assure our retirement and health? How many republicans believe that certain moral absolutes, like honor, honesty, fairness and faith, are no longer absolute?
Why do we believe it?
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:36:46 AM PST
by
13Sisters76
("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
To: brytlea
Actually, I found some information recently to the effect that a number of retired Americans are moving to select areas in Mexico to live because the dollar buys so much more there.
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posted on
02/03/2008 6:52:34 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
To: LowCountryJoe
That's not criteria that I concern myself with.And you are against big government?
Public employee retirement systems are insolvent. Congressmen retire as millionaires.
Keep flooding those illegals in for more public housing.
The check is in the mail. Yeah, right...
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
And you are against big government? In fact, I am. But you can be damned straight that when I volunteered to serve the Marine Corps for ten years, I do so on condition I received a government check for my efforts.
So, I answered your question now answer mine. Are you going to forgo the social security checks when you are eligible; you know, to keep your principled view on this matter?
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posted on
02/03/2008 7:23:52 AM PST
by
LowCountryJoe
(Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
To: LowCountryJoe
Are you going to forgo the social security checks when you are eligible; you know, to keep your principled view on this matter?I want the money returned with interest. I was robbed at gunpoint.
To: Drew68
You hit the nail on the head! Your post is worth repeating exactly as is. I don't think this story is entirely BS. I am hearing a lot of, "Despite the fact that I disagree with Obama on everything, I'm really starting to like the guy!" Obama generates warm feelings among Republicans who enjoy watching the Clintons lose their grip on power and then lash out publicly in red-faced anger towards the one person who is standing in their way. Given the disgust so many Republicans are feeling towards their own candidates, some of pleasure in watching Obama giving Hillary her comeuppance might actually carry over to a "maybe he might not be a bad president" attitude. I do feel that if the Democrats are smart enough to nominate Obama, they'll win in a landslide. The Clintons are bound and determined to not let this happen. They would rather destroy their party than lose power." Personally, I'm a Conservative with modest to strong Libertarian leanings. Limited government is the answer. Nevertheless, I relish seeing Obama beating Hillary for the nomination, even though I think he'll beat anyone the Republicans put forward.
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posted on
02/03/2008 7:46:04 AM PST
by
ktupper
To: Kaslin
If that jerk McCain rolls on Super-Tuesday I cross over in Ohio in March and vote for Obama as my effort to de-rail Hillary.
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posted on
02/03/2008 7:52:14 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
To: RipSawyer
Probably so. I think Costa Rica is also having that, and my son lived there for 6 months a couple of years ago and LOVED it. It is apparently pretty safe and they like Americans. He said their govt is patterned on ours (I cannot attest to the truth of that but he’s a double major poly sci/history so I take his word for it).
It’s a thought. It’s a beautiful place.
susie
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posted on
02/03/2008 7:56:35 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: LowCountryJoe
IIRC my Father in Law (also a retired Marine, he was a pilot, what a guy he was!) tried to decline his SS but there was something that forced him not to. I can’t remember what it was, but it may have been that he would lose medical coverage, which reverted to Medicare once he hit that age, rather than whatever the military was doing (CHAMPUS?)
You are sort of damned if you do...
BTW there is nothing wrong with some people receiving a govt check, and the military comes to mind. Thanks for your service and God bless you.
susie
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posted on
02/03/2008 7:59:46 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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