Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalIndiana Gubernatorial
I do NOT want to see Pence as Governor for 4-8 years, particularly with a solid Republican majority in the Legislature. I haven't always been fond of Daniels but Pence would be waaaaaaaay worse IMHO. Hopefully, the union outrage over "right-to-work" and other anti-union initiatives signed into law over the past two sessions will rally enough people to put Dems back into the Governors Mansion and, hopefully, at least one part of the Legislature.
Typical Republicans
They tanked the economy hard in 2008, (probably) knew that they wouldn't get another term in office, so they figured that they'd have to put up with a Democrat in the WH for 4 years while he/she took all of the blame and suffered all of the hardship for the rotten economy he/she was stuck with. Now that the economy is recovering, they're trying to come in and take control of the economy back over so that they can wreck it all over again by removing more regulation, implementing more tax cuts, increasing defense spending, and, most importantly, implementing the kind of severe austerity measures to crush social programs they've only ever dreamed of. They've also managed to bottle up a lot of President Obama's agenda with severe abuse of procedural tactics so that he couldn't get everything that he wanted- though some of his un-enacted policies could very well have improved the recovery. Anytime Republicans opine that President Obama didn't do more to improve the economic recovery, we need to ask, "Him and what Congress?"
They want government out of rich people's wallets
they don't care about most peoples' wallets outside of their rhetoric. Remember, some of them actually feel like most of us pay too LITTLE taxes and the "bane of taxes" Grover Norquist didn't have any problems with refusing to extend the payroll tax cut (presumably, because it would affect mostly non-wealthy individuals). And yes, they definitely want government in women's vaginas and people's bedrooms in general.
Couldn't agree more
My only question is are they really in denial about what they are doing or are they basically conducting a political equivalent of a scorched earth/kamikaze run before November (and, hopefully, their demise)? After all, it's always easier to get something into law (assuming favorable political circumstances) than to get it repealed later- though I doubt that many of the laws that they're trying to push now will enjoy long-lasting popularity.
Exactly
It's not like Obama planned it this way. The wingnuts simply can't help themselves and end up overreaching every.single.time. Elections like 1994 and 2010 and the consequences thereof need to emphasized to every single person whom claims that a.)there is no difference between the two major parties and b.)voting doesn't make a difference
The Dems are far from perfect in a lot of respects but the Dems spent the previous two years in office trying to reform the health care system, staunching the bleeding from the 2008 meltdown, etc. NOT trying to defund Planned Parenthood and introduce a rash of anti-abortion/anti-contraception bills. This kind of stuff only seems to happen- or get significant prominence- whenever the Repubs are in charge. People ought to have learned this by now. Preventing this kind of junk from even being seriously considered would be so much easier than having to waste actual time debating it after the elections are over.
Wow!
just.......wow!
That has got to be one of the most offensive or tone deaf statements (or quite possibly both) that I've heard from a politician in quite some time.
What do you think gives with such people?
and what can we do to eliminate that "soft" Republican support that they enjoy. What can we do to get them to crossover? We have a group called "Republicans for Obama" but if they can support him, why don't they just become indies or Dems? 
Hahahahahahahahahaha
They tried this back in 2010 after the midterms, didn't they- trying to convince us that the market was responding "favorably" to the GOP taking back the House????
I know that they like to take credit for good things that they don't earn but pin the blame on everybody else for bad things but this is freakin' ridiculous. For all we know, the markets could be reacting favorably to the (more likely) prospect of President Obama winning a second term, right?
The outcome of Election 2012 may be a major turning point for the GOP as well
IF they win with Romney (because there is simply no other credible alternative), the "base" still won't like him much but he'll know that he can't afford to alienate the base for re-election in 2016, so he'll make sure to throw them some "bones" by surrounding himself with plenty of corporate hacks and neocons to keep everybody happy and Norquist will have somebody in the WH who will sign whatever Republicans, whom presumably will be controlling Congress if Romney were to win, send him to sign. He will be a willing puppet to them. In short, the alliance between the three major factions of the GOP will likely continue to be strained but they will endure IMHO.
if (when) they lose with Romney as the nominee, the "base" is likely to become full-on frothing mad (they're almost there now, of course, but this may finally push them off the cliff for good) and feel betrayed by the GOP "establishment" that, like in 2008, failed to provide a nominee who is "pure" enough and "severely conservative" enough to beat Barack Obama. If they feel really betrayed, they may choose to break away from the GOP and either form a third party (or series of third parties) to cater to their interests or simply lose all of their enthusiasm to vote for the GOP again.
If they somehow manage to get somebody like Santorum nominated and they lose in a blowout with him, that may just be enough for the "moderates" to be able to regain control of the party pull the party back from the edge of electoral oblivion and start to regain some sanity in order to recover some of their electoral viability that they are FAST pissing away with the GOP Tea Party currently in its ascendancy. Though, of course, their "bond" with the far right-wing is going to be likely to be broken either way and that's going to create new electoral headaches for them, so............
John McCain v.1.0 (ca. 2000)
is a Republican I probably could have tolerated as POTUS. John McCain v.2.0 (ca. 2008) sold out whatever principles he seemed to have in the name of winning and his campaign foisted the crazies on us big time by unleashing "pit-bull-with-lipstick" Palin on our political system. Lest anybody feel sorry for him, his attitude towards President Obama post-election has, with the exception of Election Night 2008, been atrocious and, frankly, not much better than the rest of the GOP.
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