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DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 02:10 PM Sep 2012

Hey Republicans, WE GET IT

You are asking yourselves, why isn't Romney winning? The economy sucks, unemployment over 8%? This should be a gimme...right? Romney cant seem to get that magic bump. WHY?

Could it be your message?
Could it be the person delivering the message?

Do you want to know why Romney is not winning? WE GOT THE MESSAGE. We got the message and we are rejecting it.



NO.

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uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
1. I'm slightly more opotomistic about America's overall inteligence...slightly. KKKons thought they...
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 02:24 PM
Sep 2012

...could just ignore the fact that conservative econ policies screwed up America

socialindependocrat

(1,372 posts)
2. Message: tax the poor - give to the rich!
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 02:35 PM
Sep 2012

Cut Medicare, medicaid

Get rid of choice for health care

Impose the religious beliefs of the 1% on the rest of the country

Build debtors prisons

Privatize everything so some rich guy can make money

Lower the minimum wage.

Let pollution destroy the air, the water and the oceans

So some rich people can make more money!

Build castles to keep the poor away from the possessions of the wealthy

The poor go back to farming - in order to eat.

Reinstate 16 hour work days

Rewrite the bible to say the poor should feel lucky they have a job!

Then it rains for 40 days and 40 nights

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
10. I remember when Reagan brought in the Kemp-Roth tax cuts in 1981. Tip O'Neill went on TV and said
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:11 PM
Sep 2012

"This is Robin Hood in reverse. It takes from the poor and gives to the rich. It's that simple."

Yes, it really WAS that simple, and it still IS that simple. Welcome to feudal europe V2.0. This time all the indentured serfs are actually voting to keep the feudal system in place. The power of the spin is amazing, isn't it?

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Ask Boner,Mc Turtle and
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 02:48 PM
Sep 2012

Cantor were are the jobs. Presidents jobs bill==instant 7% or lower unemployment. Hay Pukes it bits doesn't it. Facts due matter.

mzmolly

(50,992 posts)
4. Romney isn't winning because people are figuring out the Republican solution
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 03:17 PM
Sep 2012

to all ills (tax cuts for the wealthy) is complete bull. Further, most people understand that President Obama has been met with nothing but obstruction.

 

Blue Meany

(1,947 posts)
5. Now listen, it's the right the message. You've just got a bad messenger.
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 03:18 PM
Sep 2012

But don't throw out your message, come back with it next election.

You see, we really do want to live out our lives impoverished, making slave wages, so that the 1% can have a little more. We really don't want health care, retirement, education, or a place to live. We really want breathe polluted air, and consume toxins in our food and water. In short, we are really stupid. Please, please don't forget that. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Next time just choose someone a little more likable, someone who oozes compassion, someone who has won the Idi Amin Milk of Human Kindness Award, a young fresh face like Mitch McConnell (sarcasm).

 

Rain Mcloud

(812 posts)
7. I talk a lot of sh*t about Republican's but
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 03:20 PM
Sep 2012

American Government is based on being a two party system.
It is sad to see one side failing,like a spouse succumbing to any of the various forms of dependency.
I believe greed and hatred to be addictive forms of lifestyles.
But to return to the point,it is never a case of just one spouse failing,the whole family suffers.
So too,is our nation suffering.

Until we can get everyone pulling together with shared priorities for the good of the country and not just the party,then we as a nation are bound to fail.
Aside from tax cuts,what is their message?.
Their message is NO,none for you and all for me.

What we need is an intervention,a big old nasty,tear stained,gut check where reality and its ugliness must intrude.

You raise a very important question that each of us will have to answer for at the voting booth.
Happily,they make it easy.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
America
Democrat >Yes
Republican >No
Independent >Maybe

Bake

(21,977 posts)
8. The two party system isn't failing.
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 03:53 PM
Sep 2012

The Rethugs are far from dead. They're still pulling 45% of the vote. And it MAY be closer than that.

Never, ever, ever assume that the Rethugs are done for.

Bake

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
9. I would say "The problem isn't that we 'don't get your message.' It's that we finally DID get it!"
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:07 PM
Sep 2012

American voters are FINALLY seeing THROUGH all the bullshit spin about 'compassionate conservatism,' 'trickle-down economics,' 'reverse discrimination,' 'the soft prejudice of low expectations,' and 'culture of dependence,' and see it for what it is: the same old mean-spirited, callous, racism and greed that we've seen all through history, suddenly dressed up with pretty new catch phrases.

Sorry guys, but there is a limit to the number of times you can cover a dog turd with chocolate sauce and trick the American voters into EATING it, and you've REACHED it.

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