As a person who would like to have Medicare in 14 years, and as somebody who would like to start getting Social Security in 11 years, I feel quite threatened by Romney/Ryan. I also don’t quite buy into the notion that Obama will definitely win (easily or otherwise) in November. I don’t trust the Republicans not to have things fixed just enough to get by, and I don’t trust a large number of the voting public to not be a bunch of fucking morons. I guess it’s probably better that the Republicans aren’t coming across as “centrists,” because, times being what they are, a lot of disgruntled people would probably go for a change at the top – assuming they didn’t have to elect raving lunatics to do it. Still, the media wants this to be a “horse race” and so they’ll make it out to be one for as long as they can (step one, Ryan is a “bold” choice).
John McCain is on board with the “bold” meme. Just like his “bold” choice of Sarah Palin.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) heaped praise Sunday on Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, saying it was a “bold†decision as his choice of Sarah Palin in 2008 was.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,†McCain didn’t compare Ryan to Palin on substance, but instead described him as a similarly gusty choice because other candidates may have better helped Romney win their swing state.
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“I think that in this case it is also a bold choice,†he continued. “Many people thought that other people who were being considered might bring home those states into the Romney column. I think this is a pretty bold choice as well
Got it? Bold. Oh, and I’m assuming he meant “gutsy” and not “gusty,” but then again, Ryan is kind of a blowhard, so maybe not.
McCain also says Obama is doing a good job of making Romney seem “unacceptable.”
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday slammed President Obama’s reelection campaign as one of the most “disgraceful†and negative he’s ever seen, but conceded that the attacks have “succeeded to a certain degree†at disqualifying Mitt Romney with voters.
Personally, I think Romney is the one who’s doing a good job of making himself seem unacceptable.
I’ve noticed elsewhere that Andy has been busy training for Festivus performing feats of strength and Painting Girl just got hitched.
I’ve been an advocate for Rednekkkistan for a while. They have been a drain for too long
Is It Finally Time to Let the South Secede?
I’ve often thought that having the south secede would be a boon to the north. What makes me hesitate is the thought of what will happen to the people left in those southern states, especially poor people and people of color. But, it is certainly worth a try!
It would certainly clarify things for them. I think it might just energize them. There are a lot more people down there than you might think who do not embrace the right wing values and who might just get engaged to stop the grip the christo fascists and racists have in the South. The region might also get a clue when the revenues from the more progressive states stop flowing their way and the tourism and convention business steers only to the cultural oases down there like NOLa and Austin and nobody visits Hanging Tree, Mississippi.
I know there are many people in the south who are not wingnuts BUT the wingnuts would have no difficulty disenfranchising them. It could get really ugly with no counter force at all. I think we should try.
I agree with that. I just think this country is doomed if it does not jettison the south and move on. They really take more than they bring and the ignunce will drag the whole thing down in time, maybe sooner than later. Let ’em go and lets move on. I am sure they will be happy to subsidize the exodus of the undesirables and hopefully not reinstitute slavery.
As Obamacare breaks out, it would be better to keeps the $s in progressive states and not allow the gubment hating states to leach out benefit money that they eschew but always manage to suck up to rescue their revenue deficient ideology in action.
Since the Foghorn Leghorns of the genteel southern regions
have been essentially in charge of the congress for the last thirty-forty years
and have pretty much destroyed the right to organize along with the
social contract and created a large impoverished work force agreeable
to work for minimum wages in what’s left of our industrial manufacturing that still exists for the most part in the south, I don’t think it would be a good idea to sign-it all over to the plucky little sums-a-bitches saying in effect
“You Win”!
Ah say, Ah say, while wearing my Foghorn Leghorn shirt (I kid you not) I think they can have it. The rest of us don’t need them and they are really just sucking from the rest of us on every level. We can get passports and visit if we need to eat some BBQ or some Cajun food.
I just meant we should try to protect what’s left of
civilization for our downtrodden southern leeberal brotheren
from Colonel Cornpone and the repuglucans
I’m with you. Some of my best friends resemble that remark.
Vern
Wouldn’t you qualify for dual citizenship?
(I loves the idea of wearing a F.L. tee-shirt :rofl2: )
I have 2. I doubt they’ll get me dual citizenship though.
According to Chuck Thompson, the guy who wrote the book about letting the south secede, Texas stays with the north.
If we’re going to get rid of the wingnut south then Texas must go too.
Texas should be its own country.
Hope ya all grant me citizenship since I have a birth certificate from the north. I promise to drop ya all from my lexicon if you let me. I don’t think the folks around here will let me stay. Will ya all provide a ladder over your fence or a well lit tunnel for us refugees? :gate:
Fear not, Okat. Thompson proposes a 20 year period during which people can freely migrate in both directions.
I wonder what we’ll do with Alaska.
Sp, you are my Scarlet pimpernel!
I’ve tried to reassure my friends in Austin and NOLa that we might be able to go Berlin on them. I agree most of TX should go. Oklahoma was only part of TX during the war so I think it can pass as long as they are on good behavior and their creeps can be relocated to TX.
Devo to release ‘Don’t Roof Rack Me, Bro!’ — song about Mitt Romney’s dog Seamus
Ron Palillo, of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ fame, dies at 63
Actor best known as nerdy high school student Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom.
By MATT SEDENSKY | The Associated Press
West Palm Beach, Fla. • Ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 63.
Palillo suffered an apparent heart attack at his home about 4 a.m., said Karen Poindexter, a close friend of the actor. He was pronounced dead at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.
🙁 :gate:
I’ve never figured out why I lost my avatar. I just tried to get it back again. It worked at http://bluerootsradio.com/ and Proligarchy but still not here.
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