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beagledave wrote:
I think I'm going to lie down a take a nap while those GOP boys sort this all out.
It could take awhile. Be careful. Remember what happened to Rip Van Winkle?
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Just remember that election day in 2012 is on Wednesday, November 7th for all Democrats. Remember to set your iPhone to wake you up :biggrin:
(No, I know better. And since I don't see a Republican candidate that won't screw things up worse that the current President, I encourage you to vote on November 6th.)
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Santorum has a good point...
I can't stand the guy, but I believe he is genuine. I believe that he really believes that crap he slings and if wins the nomination, he will NOT pander to the middle.
Mitt is most certainly pretending to be a far rightwinger, but we all know better... of COURSE he will reboot after he wins the nomination. And that means he will then pander to the middle instead of the far right.
Keep fightin' boys...
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This is all shorthand to say that he will do anything it takes, even agree with both sides of an issue, to win.
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Funny. With well-paid advisers like those who needs enemies?
Did anyone catch Mitt's speech last night in Illinois? If that's going to be the general, and I think it is, it's going to be a tiresome nastyfest of personal putdowns of the president and his background and distortions of his record on the economy.
Mitt's speech was mean in tone, almost childish, and expects the audience to believe that his one-percenter-give-aways and anti-regulatory stances are the answer to all that ails everyone.
I'm also wondering if some of the questioners, especially young women, at his campaign appearances are plants, because they ask silly questions and then Mitt slams them, personally, with some pre-packaged applause line. Doesn't come across like a natural exchange at all, but more like some of the fake call-ins you hear on conservative talk radio.
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hal wrote:
Santorum has a good point...
I can't stand the guy, but I believe he is genuine. I believe that he really believes that crap he slings and if wins the nomination, he will NOT pander to the middle.
I can't believe that someone with the intelligence necessary to rise to his political acumen genuinely believes most of the sh!t he promulgates. I do think he's playing his cards for a nomination. Were he ever to get it, it would be (IMO) very difficult for him to back down toward a more centrist position. In that regard, he may be stupid or naive to think he could win a general, but I just don't think he really believes all that religious crap he tosses around now.
I suspect that makes ME the naive one.
I should defer to people from Pennsylvania who have had more first hand experience with him.
