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9456. bhelpuri - 9/1/2012 4:46:12 AM Yesterday was the first time in years I actually felt a twinge about pulling the plug on TV in our household. Would have liked to see that Clint bit live (course, at some point I'll youtube). Seems memorable Theatre American, like that rabid "spitballs" rant of a previous RNC.
But even from this distance - even only reading twits tweeting - it's obvious Romney is fundamentally unelectable even by the low standards plumbed recently by Americans. He performed his historical role yesterday for his "church" and now it is just a long and expensive dance to confirming that he was toast all along. 9457. bhelpuri - 9/1/2012 4:47:58 AM Yesterday was the first time in years I actually felt a twinge about pulling the plug on TV in our household. Would have liked to see that Clint bit live (course, at some point I'll youtube). Seems memorable Theatre American, like that rabid "spitballs" rant of a previous RNC.
But even from this distance - even only reading twits tweeting - it's obvious Romney is fundamentally unelectable even by the low standards plumbed recently by Americans. He performed his historical role yesterday for his "church" and now it is just a long and expensive dance to confirming that he was toast all along. 9458. bhelpuri - 9/1/2012 4:58:00 AM I concede that there will be ritual tension over the final outcome of the presidential election. How could there not be, with the US economy the way it is (among other grave systemic problems).
But the final analysis cannot be poll-driven. Even Americans - harried as they are by abysmally poor government management decisions since Reagan - have not been driven fully bat-shit.
The fact that a bat-shit option remains on the table is entirely due to historical accident, and a rapidly shrinking bat-shit "base" that is being rapidly eroded in plain sight, not least by irreversible demographic changes already underway. 9459. alistairconnor - 9/3/2012 3:48:36 PM The batshit factor would come back with a vengeance if Bibi gets his war. You don't re-elect a Muslim in wartime. Or batshit sentiments to that effect.
I don't believe he will, mind. But I'm sure that's the plan. 9460. vonKreedon - 9/4/2012 7:41:47 PM Bhel - I think you are quite a bit too complacent about the US electorate, particularly in the face of torrents of cash to convince them that Obama and the Dems will run their hopes and dreams into the ground given another four years. I expect Obama to lose, but have some small hope based on his '08 campaign and how he and the Dems have managed framing Romney and the Repubs so far this campaign. But still, I believe it's Romney's election to lose. 9461. judithathome - 9/6/2012 2:43:24 AM Seriously?
I think Romney made a BIG mistake not mentioning the troops in his keynote speech last week.
He AND his wife came off as entitled snobs. I've heard them both say "It's our turn" one too many times... 9462. bhelpuri - 9/6/2012 7:11:51 AM Naw, Kreedon. You seem addled by the echo chamber. Romney plays creakily like okay right now, but it is not going to last.
9463. bhelpuri - 9/6/2012 7:12:30 AM Not that I am any keen Obama supporter, jes' the facts. 9464. resonance - 9/11/2012 4:35:18 PM I don't think there's a hooting hope in hell for Romney to win. I think the smart money has Obama pulling close to 330 electoral votes. That lack of enthusiasm people can see among the Republican base ultimately boils down to a couple of things none of them want to say. One is that I think rank and file, working class Republicans do understand that the guy isn't looking out for them, and they aren't motivated to turn out to support him. The second is the fact that the Christian Right can't go full retard in favor of a Mormon.
There'll be a lot of analysis that dances around and tries to explain a Romney loss in other terms. But, at least if you ask me, those two are the ballgame, not counting all the unforced errors.
If you're thinking Romney has a chance, you're probably watching too much television. :) 9465. resonance - 9/11/2012 4:36:34 PM Who's in or near China these days, anyone? 9466. bhelpuri - 9/29/2012 7:23:58 AM How near are you talking about, Res?
I have gazed across its border three times in the last five years, and will (gulp) stray very, very close again in 2013.
9467. judithathome - 9/30/2012 8:45:11 PM The second is the fact that the Christian Right can't go full retard in favor of a Mormon.
No, but they might go full retatrd AGAINST a black person whom most believe is a Muslim.
9468. concerned - 10/1/2012 7:06:42 PM Naw, Kreedon. You seem addled by the echo chamber. Romney plays creakily like okay right now, but it is not going to last.
Why not?
9469. concerned - 10/1/2012 7:08:22 PM So 'not' 'bat-shit' means everybody on the dole and subsumed into the Socialist Borg mentality?
Ho-Kay. 9470. concerned - 10/1/2012 7:16:00 PM Here's some news from a relative 'social paradise':
British workers 'are the most depressed in Europe' as one in four is diagnosed with the illness
A comment from a British expat responding to the article:
Socialism equals shared misery not prosperity... 26%? you work and don't get rewarded for it... you don't work and you get even more... I'd be depressed to if my neighbor was sitting at home on his fat rear with five kids getting a free "council house" and cash and the govt was taking half "my" paycheck to pay for it... and gas was $12 a gallon because I'm paying through the nose to fight an imaginary temperature rise 100 years from now! i have a dozen engineer friends that came over here to work and they'll never go back... all working for their green cards now... socialistic brain drain... smart people get out.
Sounds very demotivational to me.
So who here is a Socialist brain-drainer - raise your hand. 9471. concerned - 10/1/2012 7:28:51 PM I don't think there's a hooting hope in hell for Romney to win.
Noted - resonance is doubling down on Zero. 9472. concerned - 10/1/2012 8:22:05 PM I believe poverty is different in the US than in some parts of the world. For instance, where the average standard of living is much closer to subsistence level, having a roof over one's head and something to eat on a regular basis is still a big deal for a lot of the population, so Socialist redistribution naturally more attractive in such societies.
However, in the US, more than 90% of people below the poverty level not only have food and shelter, they also have heat and private transportation (a car).
Not only that these 90%+ of people have conveniences and even luxuries that I (solidly middle class in the '60's - '80's never had). Air conditioning, cell phones, microwaves, big screen TV's and better health care than I had through most of my life (and I'm NOT referring to 0bamacare).
So, by today's US standards, I grew up in extreme poverty, which dilutes the one-size-fits-all argument regarding poverty. For most people in the US, poverty is more of a status issue than a survival issue. In fact, I would submit that, except for those who are marginally competent mentally or emotionally, most of the homeless are people who are out of a job and out of resources in this Democrat economy and trying to gain employment. To minimize real poverty in the US, what is needed is not more taxes and handouts, but a healthier private sector that is not oppressed by excessive taxation and overregulaion and that will put more people to work. 9473. concerned - 10/1/2012 8:34:26 PM What I mean by 'overregulation' is typically excessive and redundant paperwork, bureaucratic delay, and requirements for marginal studies (such as the one for syphilis wrt NY State fracking) that will have no impact on how safe or clean the final product or installation is but will send expenses and delays through the roof. My impression is that most of what we think is 'regulation' falls into this category and has nothing to do with actual improvements in the safety, reliability of cleanliness of what is regulated.
Btw, in my last, I didn't proofread at all, so some syntax is garbled. 9474. concerned - 10/2/2012 10:16:27 AM Obama waives sanctions on countries that use child soldiers
Of course, 0bama tries to snow it over with some good sounding rhetoric, but he is supporting 'trafficking in persons' in several countries as defined by the State Department. 9475. concerned - 10/2/2012 9:30:09 PM House committee: security requests denied in Libya
Ruh Roh! Darrell Issa is at it again. First Fast and Furious and now Libyagate.
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