1 NOBODY I know.

I do know of many that feel stupid for voting for 0bama.

2
Nope.

But I run into lots of Obama's true believers.

3 If anybody really does know someone, they should get a prize!

4 good question
I had voted for clinton (yeah i know). didn't vote Bush the first go around. voted Bush in second term.

5 Ummmm....FUCK NO?

6 If I find one, I'll let you know.

I suspect the subset of the population you're talking about is probably smaller than that which spends two hours each night scourging themselves.  For that matter, there's probably significant overlap there.

7 Just the opposite. Know some that immediately regretted the vote they made and apologize every time I see them.

8 No converts among those I know, but I do know Obamabots who are already sporting shiny new Barky '12 bumper stickers.  I do know a few who are regretting their votes.

9 If we find one, should we express sympathy for the recent closed-head injury?

10 You better believe I'm no longer supporting Obama, or should I say the Black Hayek.

11

Nope. But I did see my first Ron Paul yard sign today.

*sigh*

12 Most of the Obama supporters I  know aren't really supporters of him.  They just hate Republicans more. 

13 In three letters.....HELLNO..... Apologies to slojo.

14 My neighbor's a convert but he also suffered a massive head wound in a recent car accident and thinks the Cowboys will win the Super Bowl.

15 Umpossible.

Unless they have to marque el numero dos para espanol, I cannot envision anyone going the other way around.

16 My sister in law is a true believer, even though I point out to her that all the things she hated about Bush are the things Obama has kept doing and is expanding.  She is also REALLY anti-war (thinks she's a hippie) and has some serious doublethink going on about that.

17 It was my Great-Great-Great Grandfather that suggested in 1856 that the new political party call itself 'Republican', but after I saw the way the Tea party held the nation hostage, I feel I have no other choice but to support Mr Obama's re-election.

18 "4 good question
I had voted for clinton (yeah i know). didn't vote Bush the first go around. voted Bush in second term."

My lost twin?

19 This is a trick question.  Right?

20 Nope. But I did see my first Ron Paul yard sign today.

Hmm, sadness.

You could live by me and see Rand Paul bumperstickers on cars.

Now that's hot.

21

I know lots of disgruntled Obama voters (here in Boulder) who are centrists, but they are so ideologically insecure, that once a Republican name and face is front and center as the potential president (and starts getting savaged by the media), they will run back to Obama instead of being a "troglodyte" republican voter.

22 I'm willing to do it if there's some upfront money in it.

Just so they can say they found one.

23 11

Nope. But I did see my first Ron Paul yard sign today.

*sigh*

that's one of my friends! 

24 Just the opposite.

25

I think I know a guy...last name: Dover, first name: Ben

26 Oh hell no. Even the liberal wife is disgusted with him. I think only blacks and leftist true believers still cling to him, and nobody has gone from no to yes on electing the Clown-in-Chief.

27

Nobody I know.  In fact, I'm seeing the opposite. 

28 Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012? Ignorant ginch Ann Althouse's pussy-whipped husband, Meade. Both of 'em need a fuckin' slap.

29 I don't understand the harsh tone so many of you are taking here. Being President is a really hard job and it's not Obama's fault that he was handed the worst economy in 300 years and that 1/2 of 1/3 of the government is filled with terrorists trying to bring him down. We should all get together civilly and hope for him to succeed like good patriots.

30 Don't know anyone, but I like seeing the old '08 bumper stickers on cars that have been scratched up and are peeling away due to the driver's frequent parallel parking in the city. I like to think that these people just took their ice scrapers to them in frustration or remorse.

31 My grandfather, a life long conservative, died last year so he'll obviously be voting for Obama and a the Dems. from now on.

32 Are you kidding. It's tough enough to find anyone who will admit to voting for him the first time!

33 President Obama has provided the forward looking vision that will lead America to a bright and prosperous tomorrow. He has my full support in 2012.

34 WTF is that picture in the sidebar?? Geezus.

35 Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?

I don't know anyone who fits that exact description. 

The closest I know is an old family friend who lives and works in the DC metro area who had been a registered Republican for years who switched in 2008.  I'm not sure if he switched before or after Obama got elected.  I *think* he voted in the GOP primary. 

His wife is a flaming fruit-bat lib, but he had described himself as a fiscal conservative (but social lib).  He said that McCain-Palin (I think particularly Palin) pushed him over the edge to registering Democrat.  I saw him a few months ago and he was still supporting Obama. 

The ironic thing (to me) is he's a real estate columnist.  How you could be a nationally-syndicated real estate columnist and not blame the Democrats for the housing crisis is beyond me. 

36 My grandfather, a life long conservative, died last year so he'll obviously be voting for Obama and a the Dems. from now on.

OMG! You made me laugh. And, I'm sorry about your grandfather.

37 Tricksie, tricksie question! Nasty hobbitses!

38 Any Recent Obama Converts?
his Notre Dame speech made me cream

was that recent enough?

39 @28
Ah, yes, EoJ is right about that one. 

40 Oh, that'll be me. I mean, the guy has given me the keys to the Treasury, it's the least I could do. I've got morals, after all.

41 I see "Empire of Jeff" already mentioned Meade.

42 While I do admit that President Obama has had a couple of rough years, I've been doing alright under him.

43

Posted by: flyonthewall at August 03, 2011 03:15 PM (/wdUP)

How sad and yet so true, although unless you live near a big city, more than likely your grandfather won't be joining the ranks of the undead to vote for the Dems.

Condolences for your loss.

44 Gabby Giffords?

45 People who voted for Nader are his only market for expansion.

46 No, but I heard from somebody recently who thinks they're being poisoned by the corn in store-bought meat, and that they caught diabetes from a toilet. I'll ask them.

47 The guy's name is Meade and he's not queer? Sure about that?

48 4  I voted for Clinton too.  I was eighteen at the time.  A few years later, I joined the Air Force and had to serve under the SOB.  That was a hard lesson learned.  I know a few folks who voted for Obama and will again.  They are all teachers.  I also have a few cousins in their early twenties who voted for him the first time.  They won't be voting for him again.  The bad news is, they love Ron Paul.

49 "Hey, I didn't think much of this chap but now that I see what he's done - I want 4 more years of it"?

You can put me down as a new found supporter Arthur. I consider Barry a worth protege.

50 42 While I do admit that President Obama has had a couple of rough years, I've been doing alright under him.

Posted by: KY wholesaler at August 03, 2011 03:18 PM (GKQDR)

Not me.

51 I believe all lobotomy records are sealed under HIPPA

52 I wouldn't convert even if they put a cage of hungry rats on my head.

53 I dare someone to go over to Althouse and ask Meade for a sample of his brain matter. 

54 42 While I do admit that President Obama has had a couple of rough years, I've been doing alright under him. Posted by: KY wholesaler at August 03, 2011 03:18 PM (GKQDR) Now, be honest, is that only because of government contracts?

55 I only know two people who said they voted FOR him. They both still worship him and all commies.

56

David Brooks? Oh, wait, he was for Obama all along.

Meghan McCain? Yes. Meghan McCain. I claim victory - and whatever prize is associated with it!!

57 Corzine as the Jig-Saw puppet from Saw?  That is freaking hilarious, rdbrewer! 

Corzine must have gotten tired of being a futures and bond dealer...

58 they love Ron Paul.

Yay! Here, have some champagne *hic*

59 54 I dare someone to go over to Althouse and ask Meade for a sample of his brain matter. 

Posted by: Y-not at August 03, 2011 03:20 PM (5H6zj)

--Heh,

OT but I went back to Virginia recently and saw that there is a Y-not pizza chain.  Is that your namesake?

60

Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?

It's not likely that readers of this blog will be among the converts. But the Army of Morons know all sorts of people. Is there ANYBODY who thinks, "Hey, I didn't think much of this chap but now that I see what he's done - I want 4 more years of it"?

Megan McCain.

61

Not many in almost 50 posts.

If only we had posters with a TON of progressive friends.

62 There might be a few Hillary supporters who were too disgusted by the thuggish tactics that Obama used in the states with caucuses to vote for him in 2008, who will vote for him in 2012 because time heals all wounds.

But I don't know any.

Most of the first-time Obama voters in '12 will be 18 to 21 year olds who were too young in 2008.  And I bet he won't do as well in that demographic as he did in '08 -- there are one hell of a lot of 21 year olds out there who have yet to find their first job.

63 Obama seems pretty earnest to me. I think I could support him this time around.

64 David Frum is the only person who might qualify.  He claimed to vote for McCain and is probably more likely to vote for Soetero this time around.

65 I'm considering voting for Obama because I'm pissed off at the GOP and would prefer a quick death over a slow one. I wouldn't call it a Conversion.

66 I can't see voting for O this time, but if that Jimmy Carter fellow runs again, he's got real potential.  We need to give him a second look.

67 I know a number of bitter clingers who are sticking with Obama because admitting to themselves that he's a tool would cause their entire worlds to collapse.  I know some 2008 Obama supporters who are willing to let go.  But I don't believe I've yet encountered an actual convert to Obama.

He really had only one job to do to ensure his reelection, and that was to drive unemployment back down to less than six percent.  That he didn't even understand why that was imperative shows that he's beyond hopeless.

68

Posted by: buzzion at August 03, 2011 03:22 PM (oVQFe)

Sorry buddy, I got there first.

69 OT but I went back to Virginia recently and saw that there is a Y-not pizza chain.  Is that your namesake?

Did it look prosperous, because if so I am so on that gravy train. 

'Anyone have the number of a good attorney who specializes in paternity cases? 

70 I have friends that didn't vote for him but will be.  But I have friends for every situation you can think up.

71 56
Meghan McCain? Yes. Meghan McCain. I claim victory - and whatever prize is associated with it!!
Posted by: DC Zombie at August 03, 2011 03:20 PM (b96e6)

A night out with Meggers and her funbags, sans earplugs, and you foot the entire bill for food and drink ... come back here, young man!

72 My friends, I'm surprised you didn't think of me. Last time I let foolish self-interest keep me from voting for this great American, but not in 2012. After all, the man has pissed on even more Republicans than I have!

73 I am pretty sure that Lucy commentor is a convert to OdipO.

74 While I do admit that President Obama has had a couple of rough years, I've been doing alright under him. Posted by: KY wholesaler

Us too.

75 Maybe Kathleen Parker, too. Megan McCain was the only one I could come up with, but I'm late on that.

76 56

Meghan McCain? Yes. Meghan McCain. I claim victory - and whatever prize is associated with it!!

Posted by: DC Zombie at August 03, 2011 03:20 PM (b96e6)

All the Republicans who aren't, like, my dad are racist and stuff, you know?  Republicans don't, like, understand hip young people like me and my friends.  I have friends with tattoos!!! 

77 No.
But I dd stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

78 How do we know Meggy Baby didn't vote for him before?

79

Jehovah Witness converts? No. Mormon converts? No. O-bah-muhh converts? Is that where the person has to be bitten twice?

80 Empire of Jeff, comment 28:  No, Meade never said he'd vote for Obama in '12.  In fact, that's laughable.  He just indicated that he now considers his wife Althouse's choice to vote for Obama in '08 to be the correct choice.

Which is stupid, yes, but a big part of her rationale was the fact that McCain would have been almost as disastrously liberal as Obama, but McCain would have tarnished the Republican brand for a generation.   Of course, I expect her to come up with some other excuse why she has to vote for Obama in '12; but Meade, no way in hell.

81 72 My friends, I'm surprised you didn't think of me. Last time I let foolish self-interest keep me from voting for this great American, but not in 2012. After all, the man has pissed on even more Republicans than I have!

Posted by: John McCain at August 03, 2011 03:24 PM (2PTT7)

John, you're such a Maverick that I wouldn't be surprised if you zagged when everyone thought you would zig by voting for Obama in 2008. 

82 I was, uh, busy at the time and didn't get a chance to vote in 2008.

But I hear that  he likes people that throw babies born alive in the trashcan. So I can get on board with that.

83 I can't see voting for O this time, but if that Jimmy Carter fellow runs again, he's got real potential.  We need to give him a second look.

He can legally run, you know.

That said, the current (insane) version of J.C. is one of the few people I might vote for Obama over.

84 The guy's name is Meade and he's not queer? Sure about that? No. I'm not. Look at the pinch-faced, pseudo-intellectual, obtuse, uptight, boring, flabby hunk of hippo shit he married. Guaranteed everyone pees sitting down in that household.

85 No.

86

Hey, the manufacturer's of guns, ammo and the owner's of gun shops!!

While I can't imagine many of them voting for Obama, I know business has been amazing for them while he's been in offfice. Don't know if that qualifies as 'converts'.

87 There's a bunch of 17 year olds who were only 14 when he was elected that can't wait to vote for him. The old believe every thing. The middle aged are suspect of everything. The young know everything.

88 OT - Not unexpectedly:

More: Lebanon disassociates itself from UN Security Council statement on Syria -

The Cedar Revolution has been effectively over for several years now. 

89 Section 27, Rows 15-36 of Greenwood Cemetery. ACORN missed signing them up in 2008 but assures us they will vote for King Putt in '12!

90 The true believers are still blaming Bush. Obama just hasn't had enough time.

91 I really was not convinced he was one of the faithful. But ever since he used Keynes as a useful idiot to destroy the economy and undemocratic processes to pass health care I am sold.

92 Super Size me! lololololol

93 Some of us out in the DOOM brigade might be convinced to vote for BarryOchus Epiphanes on account that we want this rotten edifice to fall down on a commie's watch.

94 ArthurK, you win this round of "Stump The Audience".

95 I know of none, but I do know plenty of die-hard O-voters.  Even as they complain about the economy, it's all the Republicans' fault.

96 btw
Is it my imagination, but are 2012 Obama stickers only allowed on a Toyota Prius?

97 Anyone have the number of a good attorney who specializes in paternity cases?

Litigating them, or getting slapped with them?

98 I can't vouch for whether they'll change their vote or - ideally, stay home - but our daughter and daughter-in-law to be, both recent graduates with Masters degrees, have come up with bupkis looking for employment. Caring soul that I am, I point out, "Hey, this is exactly what you voted for!"

99 I don't know if he's a convert or not but I was surprised that Girth Brooks is a big Obama fan.

100 I try to convince people to vote for him everyday because he is doing the Lords work in trying to help peeple.

101

Well...I know a brother in law and his hideous radical commune loving wife, who did not vote for the President in the last election, but...think that he and the wife will not only vote for him next time, they are joining some sort of cause to relocate to Wisconsin, specifically to Madison.

And there, they plan to join a commune.

What is worse was her bragging about possibly getting a part-time job at a bakery for...$500 a month! When I heard that, I let her know that it amounted to $6.25/hour and most likely had no benefits (less than 26 hrs/week).

She still did not get it.

I know it probably does not pass the sniff test of non-voter/now supporter test, but I thought everyone may want to know about nuts who do nothing and now are active in the "movement", for whatever that is...

102 Old and busted; Hope and change

New hotness; Sloth and Plunge.

103 91 The true believers are still blaming Bush. Obama just hasn't had enough time.

Posted by: kansas at August 03, 2011 03:28 PM (mka2b)

Communism Obamaism hasn't failed, it hasn't been tried!

104 Litigating them, or getting slapped with them?

Well, if that pizza chain is successful, I'm thinking of popping up as the long-lost love child of the owner. 

105 My organization is behind Obama 100%.

106 Is it my imagination, but are 2012 Obama stickers only allowed on a Toyota Prius?

It's your imagination. I saw one on a freakin' BMW SUV the other day.

(Off topic: is that a car that self-selects for a-holes, or what?)

107

Most of the first-time Obama voters in '12 will be 18 to 21 year olds who were too young in 2008.  And I bet he won't do as well in that demographic as he did in '08 -- there are one hell of a lot of 21 year olds out there who have yet to find their first job.

 

Yeah, that damn unemployment thing is going to be a bitch to overcome this next campaign.  But as a wacked out leftist little bitch told me once:  Fuck you, Obama is awesome.

108

I'm sure Curious has a friend or two that fit the mold.  She does have a lot of friends, you know!

109 The guy's name is Meade and he's not queer? Sure about that?

Posted by: laceyunderalls

 

Blow me.

110 My future ex-wife.

111 101 I don't know if he's a convert or not but I was surprised that Girth Brooks is a big Obama fan.

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at August 03, 2011 03:29 PM (4136b)

--Makes sense to me: Garth Brooks also has no talent and never been in a position of responsibility either.

112 I stopped volunteering at the insane asylum 3 years ago so no.

113 Is it my imagination, but are 2012 Obama stickers only allowed on a Toyota Prius?

It's your imagination, chum.  I routinely see them on SUVs, generally Lexuses (Lexi?) but even the occasional Escalade, because people are that stupid. 

114

Anyone have the number of a good attorney who specializes in paternity cases?

Litigating them, or getting slapped with them?

 

 

I fail to find any humor in that statment.

115 110 That braindead twittroll is either pimping out The Donald, Ron Paul, or Rudy Guiliani.

Speaking of the latter, he's hosting Mob Week on AMC this week. #winning, Rudy, winning

116 OK, I assume Empire of Jeff is a Moby spewing poison.  Someone help me out here, this isn't a regular here, is it?

117 @56 - You win a lifetime supply of conversations with her.

118 In 2008 I din't realize what a skilled destroyer of good he was but now that I know, I'm definitely an Obama ancient god-like reptile with wings and tenacles.  Four more years, puny Earthlings, four more years.

119 Frick. Off psychopath sock, off.

120 Yo! Barack all the way in '12!!! He didn't get all my votes last time because I thought the Party for Socialism and Liberation would win big in '08.

121 It's your imagination, chum.  I routinely see them on SUVs, generally Lexuses (Lexi?) but even the occasional Escalade, because people are that stupid.

Don't forget self-hating and delusional. 

122 Pastafarian - EOJ is a great American.

123

Hey, the manufacturer's of guns, ammo and the owner's of gun shops!!

While I can't imagine many of them voting for Obama, I know business has been amazing for them while he's been in offfice. Don't know if that qualifies as 'converts'.

 

Don't forget about us either!

124 Around here they are still using the Obama 08 stickers.

125 118 OK, I assume Empire of Jeff is a Moby spewing poison.  Someone help me out here, this isn't a regular here, is it?
Posted by: Pastafarian at August 03, 2011 03:33 PM (p7jpu)

Tangle not with EOJ, for he is a regular here and his powers of invective are legendary!

126 @That braindead twittroll is either pimping out The Donald, Ron Paul, or Rudy Guiliani.

Or Bachmann.  S/he/it was on a real Bachmann kick at one point.

127

"Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?"

That question is the equivalent of asking, at a white-tie gala dinner for the Oakland Raiders, "who broke off the wind-monster?"

Who would confess to either action?

128 I converted to Obama- Brand Toilet Paper. It's soft and absorbs ass-funk just like Our President absorbs the future earnings of our children and grandchildren. And his smiling face on each and every sheet of Obama Brand Toilet Paper lets you have the confidence that he's cleaning out your bunghole just as thoroughly as he's cleaning out your wallet. Obama Brand Toilet Paper - For that cleaned out feeling!

129 Me like him now!

130

It's not likely that readers of this blog will be among the converts.

I've gotten to kind of like the guy.  There's something about being exposed as a stuttering clusterfuck of failure that just tickles my heart.

131 That guy in Chicago that died a few weeks back will probably vote for Odumbo in 2012.

132 If the nominee is Huckabee...

133 ...But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?

Anyone that could actually be classified in this category can be called, "Truly Stupid".

134 118 OK, I assume Empire of Jeff is a Moby spewing poison.  Someone help me out here, this isn't a regular here, is it? ----------------------------------------------- Empire Of Jeff? Never heard of him.

135 S/he/it was on a real Bachmann kick at one point.

I don't take too much stock in this. After all Sybil was on the Palin bandwagon one day and literally the very next day was linking Trig Truther websites.

136 NO

137 Posted by: Mongo at August 03, 2011 03:36 PM (ursg4) Punching a dead horse just don't cut it, son.

138 On the other side of the coin, is there a single liberal black columnist that doesn't continue to play the "Opposition to Obama is Racist" card?

139 >>I don't take too much stock in this

You are a wise woman.

I'm sure it's a group now.  Too many inconsistencies and too stable of a hash. 

140 I don't know anyone, but I have booked myself to receive a lobotomy early next year, so you never can tell ...

141

 Caring soul that I am, I point out, "Hey, this is exactly what you voted for!"

 

That's what I tell each and every person that I know who voted for the man-child when I hear them bitching that they can't find a decent job.  You can actually see their breathing quickening and observe the seething in their eyes.  It's glorious. 

142 Not a one.

143

In 2008 I din't realize what a skilled destroyer of good he was but now that I know, I'm definitely an Obama ancient god-like reptile with wings and tenacles.  Four more years, puny Earthlings, four more years.

Personally, I'm voting for Kang.

 

144
re: Obama's fading popularity

"We all knew it was going to happen. When one, or in this case Teh One., starts at the top, there's nowhere to go but down."
--Posted by: Me at March 28, 2009

145 I agree with whoever said up thread that there are probably Hillary supporters who will vote for him this time.  It's all about the power. 

146 I kind of like the guy.

147 No Whining at 127:  Maybe Empire of Jeff should read Althouse's blog before spouting shit like "Look at the pinch-faced, pseudo-intellectual, obtuse, uptight, boring, flabby hunk of hippo shit he married. Guaranteed everyone pees sitting down in that household."

Or is that what passes for legendary invective in this joint?

148 Or Bachmann.  S/he/it was on a real Bachmann kick at one point.

Didn't Pat endorse Fuckabee at one point?

I cannot keep track of all of Pat's iterations - to even attempt such a Herculean task would induce madness. 

149 If I find one I'll swiftly kick 'em in the dick

150 I know people whose conditioned fight! response to anything even rumored to be Republican-related has been greatly intensified since '08, to the point where their everyday life is a constant metaphorical vote against all things non-Democratic, and so they're probably more likely to vote-vote too.

But I'm in a state Obama's taking by ten if he runs against God, so those people doesn't count.

But but, Obama doesn't need any converts. He won, and he has no legitimate competition (as of now).

And but but but, converts are an insignificant fraction of any vote. Non-habitual voters who either show up on fleeting enthusiasm or stay home because fuck-all-this are going to decide this one. Obama's losing a lot of those (as of now), but he has a lot to lose.

And no one else wants them (as of now), so... So.

151 I'll be mailing my ballot in.

152 I didn't  vote for him in 2008, but apparently I'm needed in 2012. So off to vote I go.

153 I know one who would vote for him again, but she was a Kool-Aid drinker in 2008.  The rest are too depressed by how awful he is.  I'm hoping that if they can't vote republican they stay home.

154
I've been perusing the AoS archives and I found more nuggets of wisdom from me.

(I don't remember being hooked on Oxy)


"I had tiger barbs when I was a kid. They always had some sort of stringy thing hanging from their ass like a long fish-turd they couldn't get rid of.

I was embarrassed for my tiger barbs...and so were my neons."
Posted by: Me at March 16, 2009

155

118 OK, I assume Empire of Jeff is a Moby spewing poison.  Someone help me out here, this isn't a regular here, is it?
-----------------------------------------------

 

With a nic like that, it's gotta be a fucking troll. 

156 Um, how will his crease look? *Fap fap fap!*

157 Maybe Empire of Jeff should read Althouse's blog before spouting shit like "Look at the pinch-faced, pseudo-intellectual, obtuse, uptight, boring, flabby hunk of hippo shit he married. Guaranteed everyone pees sitting down in that household."

We don't read THIS blog, you want us to read other ones?

158 Now that racial harmony and unicorns are about the land, most folks I know want somebody else .. too much unicorn poop.

159 I don't think Obama will run . He will raise millions that he will be allowed to keep and say that he wants to spend more time with the wookie and wookets. The Soros machine will not allow a guaranteed loser to run and will make him an offer he cannot refuse.

160 Can we wait until 48 hours before the election to name a candidate? That way the MSM won't have months to pound him.

161 Are you kidding? This turd-blossom is going to vindicate me once and for all!

162 Who are these "people" you keep referring to?

163 118 OK, I assume Empire of Jeff is a Moby spewing poison.  Someone help me out here, this isn't a regular here, is it?

No, Jeff is the janitor. He makes sure all the bit and bytes are picked up. He also uses a compressor to blow-out the T1 line to the server. Gets rid of the plaque build up from trolls. It's like "Dirty Jobs" only dirty. Ace lets him post here to work on his typing skills.

164

Personally, I'm voting for Kang.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 03, 2011 03:39 PM (VtjlW)

Go ahead, throw your vote away!

165 Posted by: Pastafarian at August 03, 2011 03:39 PM (p7jpu)

Why do you feel it necessary to monitor Ace for references to Althouse's blog and come onto a thread to defend a grown man against a charge that you cannot disprove? 

Incidentally, from my occasional read of the comments over there you are not exactly a very popular figure.  Maybe it's time to start your own blog, bud. 

166

If only we had posters with a TON of progressive friends.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel

 

I used to. Then I started responding when they shot their mouths off about evvvvvviiill insurance companies and how Iraq was bad yadda yadda. After about five minutes of me tearing in, they seemed to fade away. The one who latesed longest was the jerk who revelled in using 'teabagger'. I noted that his arguments were exceedingly pathetic since he had to resort to such filth and that here I was, a Marine Corps veteran who learned at 17 how to curse, from professionals. And that none of them would ever consider using such filfth in such a setting, but yet Mr Genius thought it downright upright. Coincidence?

167 We don't read THIS blog, you want us to read other ones?

Posted by: nickless

+1

168

I've polled about 800 of my close friends here in New York City, the world capital of finance and business and sophisticated people and all that shit.  They all tell me that Obama is cooked.  All of them.

169 164
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 03, 2011 03:42 PM (0OJd9)

I'll have what you're having ...

170 David has soured a bit on him but O still gets us all tingly so we'll convince him to pull the lever again for that zexy trouser crease.  Grrrrrrowl baby, grrrrrowl.

171 In my lib neighborhood Toonces is still revered. He's black, doncha know... so he's a victim. Who would revictimize a victim? The dude's gonna wage the filthiest 2012 Chicago-style campaign this country has ever seen. It will be ugly and dangerous.

172 Empire of Jeff - definitely a troll.

173 Something else for Barry to consider:  It's not 'historic' to re-elect the black guy.

174
"What the fuck is wrong with them? Have they no pride? I mean they'd have that fish turd hanging from their fish ass for days. And when that one disappeared, they'd make a new one.

I remember as a dumb kid, I was hoping they were having a little fish. But my brother was like, "No dummy, it's shit.""

175 I am the one true emperor.  that other guy is new, never heard of him.

176 Most of my family voted against him the only inclinations I am picking up generally is a shift away from him. My granny (I'm not young BTW, she's just old, has a great grand kid starting HS), who is a Dem through and through, lived through the original great depression, loves FDR, who voted against him for racist reasons last time might be a convert. Well I guess probably would have been right up until he sent her a nice little notice threatening her SS check may not show up. She's all sorts of pissed at him now.

177 Does anyone think that David Brooks would even have to make the 'switch' in 2012? Puhlease.

178

Personally, I'm voting for Kang.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 03, 2011 03:39 PM (VtjlW)

Go ahead, throw your vote away!

Posted by: Kodos

You better show up at the Rigellian meet and greet. Or we won't support you.

179

Well, as a 20 something progressive repulican, I'm totally voting O this time around.  My dad isn't running this election and Obama has moved to the center so much, he's practially a republican himself!  Plus I heard lipo is going to be covered in obamacare. 

4 more years and free lipo!!!

180 I dunno, Obama is so mellifluous...tee hee. This lazy and boring fuck is so tone deaf that I can't imagine anyone not on the take will vote for him. So, that means he gets what 51% of the vote?

181
Every now and then I still see a "I can no longer be a Republican" diary at Kos -- presumably the type of person you're asking about. I never bother reading anything but the title.

182

I know a lotsa lotsa former kool-aid drinkers who will stick up for him, but they won't say if they will vote for him again.  Most are black, but as you know black jesus is presiding over some of the worst unemployment in that communtiy.  He just got more money for his stash, but he seems to be keeping the big bucks for himself, leaving his and Holder's people out in the cold..

No one in their right mind will vote for this nut, they might stick up for him in public, but no one can see you in the voting booth.  My father was once a staunch Democrat, but he voted for Regan and many of his friends did the same.  Don't believe the hype.

183 i'm still trying to figure out who the 40% are who supposedly still support him!

184 184 Does anyone think that David Brooks would even have to make the 'switch' in 2012? Puhlease.

Posted by: laceyunderall at August 03, 2011 03:46 PM (zs313)

No, I'm a bottom. Always will be. Obama is my top.

185 Or is that what passes for legendary invective in this joint?

You're free to up the ante.

Any. Second. Now.

186 I didn't vote for him the first time, but after he's employed me in his frequent speeches this time he gets my vote! 

It's all about the jobs!

187 Well, as a 20 something -stone progressive repulican, I'm totally voting O this time around.

FIFY.

188 I've learned my lesson. I've grown. He has my vote.

189 I don't know one, but the comments made me laugh! Well, I got to get back to being a douche. The Douche

190

No, I'm a bottom. Always will be. Obama is my top.

Posted by: David Brooks at August 03, 2011 03:48 PM (136wp)

Top man.  Top.  Man.

191 I'm still trying to figure out who the 40% are who supposedly still support him!

Easy. They're called LIARS.

192 My friend, Captain Howdy.

193

My granny (I'm not young BTW, she's just old, has a great grand kid starting HS), who is a Dem through and through, lived through the original great depression, loves FDR, who voted against him for racist reasons last time might be a convert. Well I guess probably would have been right up until he sent her a nice little notice threatening her SS check may not show up. She's all sorts of pissed at him now.

 

So. Which half was she racist against?

194 On the original question, do I know of any McLettuce+Palin voters of 2008 who switched, no I do not.

I note that all of the Obangwa voters from 2008 that I am compelled to interact with have grown more feral and radical. It will NOT be pretty when Dear Reader will be dinged.

195

Does anyone think that David Brooks would even have to make the 'switch' in 2012? Puhlease.

David Brooks rides the wave wherever it takes him. In the 1980s he was a free market reaganite, in the 1990s supported clinton, in the 2000s he supported Bush(until he became unpopular) and in 2008 he supported Obama.

He's like a weathervain.

196 I'm a convert to a steady diet of Obama;  to Good Stuff's Michelle Melt Free Range Fatty-Fat Turkey Burger, jumbo fucking fries, and artery clogging marshmallow shake.  Biznitches.

197 We will

198 I don't know. My niece believes in global warming, so she might vote for O. But she probably did last time, too.

Can't think of anyone who actually switched to the guy -- but there are plenty of masochists in the world, so someone probably will.

199 I didn't vote in 08, and have never voted for a republican before 2010 when the leftardia army scared the shit out of me.

That said, if my dream of getting play the real life version of Fallout and then getting to meet Jesus as the endgame is going to happen while I am still young enough to enjoy it then Obama probably needs to be reelected.  


I say "probably" because events are already in motion regardless of who gets elected, with what has transpired in the middle east over the last 18 months, dwarfs Carters Iran mess.  In less then a decade Israel will surrounded by a nuclear armed radical Islamist people (no western funded governments to restrain them)  that outnumber Israelis hundreds to one.  Somewhere between there the Anti-Christ shows up and creates a brief period of "false peace."

Time of Jacob's tribulation indeed.

200 Every now and then I still see a "I can no longer be a Republican" diary at Kos -- presumably the type of person you're asking about. I never bother reading anything but the title.

Posted by: arhooley

Writing something that's still called a diary, at Kos no less, is usually a telling sign. In those cases, I'd reccomend canister shot. It always worked for me.

201

I deed not vote for heem, for I was en Mehico.

I weel vote for heem.  And Maria, she make menny beybees.

202 The dude's gonna wage the filthiest 2012 Chicago-style campaign this country has ever seen. It will be ugly and dangerous.

Posted by: Nickie Goomba at August 03, 2011 03:45 PM (jeLTI)

This. The protests at the GOP convention will probably be a sight to behold.

203 199 I know 2 people who voted for Obama..  they arent voting for him again

I know one (an elderly aunt) who was browbeaten into voting for him by her kids. She definitely won't. But she is going into assisted living so I don't know if she'll get to vote at all.

My liberal-rich-educated elite godmother sounds like she's considering voting for someone else.  She asked a lot of questions about Huntsman, but I think/hope I put her off that idea.  She would never vote for a really blatantly out there "social conservative," but Rick Perry's "states rights" approach might be what she'd need to ignore that stuff and vote for him.  I gotta start working on her on that.

204 Y-not at 171:  That sounds a little paranoid, the idea that I monitor this blog, just waiting to pounce.

I read two blogs daily -- this one and Althouse.  So if the topic of one arises on the other, I'm apt to comment.

If you read Althouse too, then you know how absurd Empire of Jeff's opinion of Meade is.  Meade's been commenting there for years, and he's a bona fide conservative.

Althouse is a classical liberal; which means she could go either way.  And she represents the "rational middle" -- swing voters who can be picked up, can be convinced, and who we need to convince to come over to our side.  She's also a pretty influential blogger with a large readership.  So by all means, let's refer to her with 7th-grade level insults.  Because it makes Empire of Jeff feel good about his small cock.

205 Well this has been fun. But keep in mind, $5 Trillion has been put on the nation's credit cards. There are many Democrats that have been paid off handsomely with that money. Them and many of their dependents will be pulling for Obama nightly in 2012 - and they'll vote for him too.

206

I don't know. My niece believes in global warming, so she might vote for O. But she probably did last time, too.

 

I still marvel at how people say "I believe in global warming" in the exact same way that another might express belief in reincarnation, loch Ness monster, tooth fairy, whatever. I have fun pointing this out.

207 I voted McCain last time, but I am going with the a true conservative this time, Barack Obama.

208

Yeah, it seems AA has done something to pique EoJ's ire.

I like both of them so I'm staying out of it. (She was an idiot to vote for him.)

My artsy friend from the dog park--I never talk politics except to laugh uproariously at the Obama defenders--had a bumpersticker on her car that read: Liberalism--Such good ideas they have to be mandatory.

Found out she owns, like, 6 guns. In New Jersey, no less.

209

If only we had posters with a TON of progressive friends.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel

 

Ugh, I do because I don't think there are other conservatives or libertarians in Raleigh, NC.  All the progs do anymore is bitch about racist republicans trying to rob and rape granny and destroy womyn's rights.  At least his little Libya action has shut them the fuck up about Bush and wars.  I probably won't say this ever again but Thanks Barry!

210 Another day, another sock fail.

211 Because it makes Empire of Jeff feel good about his small cock.

We're not all hung like Althouse.

212 214 Y-not at 171:  That sounds a little paranoid, the idea that I monitor this blog, just waiting to pounce.

Well, the only other time I recall you commenting here was another heated defense of Althouse. 

But how about this?  Run back to your home blog and tell Meade that his reputation has been smeared by EoJ (and the rest of us) and Meade can decide for himself if he wants to defend his honor.  You look foolish defending a grown man, particularly against a charge that is based on a prediction. 

213 @218 EoJ is a known nutter so I suppose her screed against nutting might be part of it. 

214 212
The '12 election will be very difficult for the challenger because President Obama's team will bring out the Greek columns, reverberating voice amplification, super TOTUS, and Snoop Dog to make the difference.

Posted by: Fish the Impaler at August 03, 2011 03:52 PM (Lt/Za)

 

What about Slash and Fergie?!!

215
Or is that what passes for legendary invective in this joint?
Posted by: Pastafarian at August 03, 2011 03:39 PM

Hell no, that's what passes for a friendly greeting here.

216 Althouse, yub-yub.

217 They all tell me that Obama is cooked.  All of them.

So what does that leave ?  Lyndon LaRouche, Democrat for President ?

218 Guys, just wanted to issue a news bulletin: Three Chicago police cars buzzed down Lake Shore Drive about an hour ago, clearing a path for three school buses heading (presumably) up to Zero's birthday party on the North Side. Even as presidebt, he still has to have his supporters bused in. He's a pitiful loser, and I think everyone but him knows it by now.

219 I did such a cracker jack job with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Barney Frank for President

220 I know some people who voted for BO and are voting for him again. Interestingly, I also know some libtards who used to jump into full foam-flecked crazy mode at any slight criticism of Obama who now just give a kind of wan smile and try to redirect the conversation. The won't vote Republican but Obama has pissed the bed. If the Green Party were to run someone with the name recognition of a Ralph Nader, that would be awesome. The hemorrhage of Dim voters at the Presidential level would be biblical.

221 jeLTI

I read that as "jet Li".  Not as great as Jackie Chan, but still awesome in his own right. 

222 Well, I live in California, we might as well send in our electoral votes now.

223
She's also a pretty influential blogger with a large readership.  So by all means, let's refer to her with 7th-grade level insults. 

Oh man, I knew my cat didn't die of natural causes. And that job interview I didn't get last week -- please tell Ann Althouse to stop!!!!

224 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 03, 2011 04:00 PM (9hSKh)

Whatchoo talkin about, Willis?

225

I read two blogs daily -- this one and Althouse. So if the topic of one arises on the other, I'm apt to comment.

If you read Althouse too, then you know how absurd Empire of Jeff's opinion of Meade is. Meade's been commenting there for years, and he's a bona fide conservative.

If you read this blog like you claimed you would know EoJ is not a sock.  You're a dipshit and a liar.

226

Oblablah is still very popular out here in the Seattle area (where we in the suburbs of the Eastside are pretty well insulated from the recession for now--thanks to Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Starbucks and Boeing doing well at this point).  I'm sure that could change on a dime, though with all the volatility. 

Still, it warmed my little black bean heart when one of my running bff's (a pretty liberal demotard who was a big fan of Ohaha in 200 was bitching about having to switch one of her kids off her husband's healthcare plan (they have 2) and putting him on hers because of "that stupid Obamacare shit" come 2013.   (It will be better for them financially to have one kid on each plan instead of both on one).  I had a smile on my face the rest of the afternoon. 

They also just refi'd to a jumbo arm loan (for 2 houses).  I am sure the poop will hit the fan with them when the interest rates go up precipitously.  I told her I thought that was a risky thing to do, but it was the only way they could get financing. 

227 /sock

228

If you read this blog like you claimed you would know EoJ is not a sock.  You're a dipshit and a liar.

 

Geez, I so hope that isn't Breitart you are dressing down!

229 I know nothing about her husband, but I usually insult Ann Althouse because she refuses to take some responsibility for voting for Obama - everyone else was fooled, but she, SHE made the cool rational choice and its not her fault that he turned out to be exactly the kind of left-wing ideologue that we warned her about. We just got lucky with our guesses apparently.

230

>>>I suppose her screed against nutting might be part of it.

You know, I had forgotten about that. She really took the, "That's not funny!" angle that day, didn't she? Something that women do that torques me off badly. Like they get to define funny each and every day.

231

This is like asking how many new Hitler supporters there were in 1945.

(oh hell yes I went there!  screw that civility shit.)

232 Breitbart would read the comments enough to know not to ask if EoJ were a troll, so I think I'm safe.

233

Does Obama have a Campaign Theme Song yet?

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest "Takin' it to the Streets" because it just cracks me up in this context

You don't know me, but I'm Obama

234 Nope, no one. I do know a guy who thinks he saw a UFO recently, though. I bet we can find more like him than new Obabamba supporters. I live in a college town and I've only seen one re-elect bumper sticker too. He's just not cool anymore.

235 I ain't votin' for that jive turkey next time. Mofo still hasn't paid my mofoing mortgage.

236 Y-not at 222:  So one person can make a prediction; but if someone counters with a negation, they "look foolish."  Interesting.

Y-not, suppose I make a prediction involving your mother, and my love juices.  Now, I won't be more graphic, because I'm not a woman-hating nincompoop like Empire of Jeff, but use your imagination. Please, don't bother to defend her, she's perfectly capable of defending herself, she's an adult, and it will just make you look foolish.   Run home and fetch her.

237

If only we had posters with a TON of progressive friends.

 

I have a ton of progressive friends living here in the People's Republic of Seattle.  I can say with certainty that the vast majority of my friends voted for Teh Won.  That is why my small circle of conservative friends and I will glom on to eachother for life!

238 So Meade is your Daddy?  Do you get excited when you tell him you've been bad so he has to spank you?

239 That would be a HELL NO! And those who were stupid enough to go with hope and change still think he's doing it right. What the hell are they smoking and can I have some?  It's simply beyond ridiculous the way these people have their heads in the sand.

240

So far, Obama has, in his "win" column.....Seal Team Six.

 

His "loss" column is overflowing and very long.

 

Only a concerned life-long concerned Christian Republican would convert.

241

The JEF can still count on the Smart car and Prius drivers with the peace sign and fading Coexist stickers on thier cars.

242 Oh, and it's so bad out here, I recently saw a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on a car when I was driving home from work!  What kind of loser wouldn't peel that sucker off after all that stuff came out about Edwards?

243 curiously stupid at 235:  Aptly named.  I read the blog, not the comments.  Sort of the inverse of Andrew Breitbart.

The comments here are often entertaining, but they're frequently peppered with damned ugly comments like Jeff's.  And comedy is hard, I get that, you can't make mayo without breaking eggs; but he wasn't even trying for comedy there, it was just an ugly, stupid string of insults.

244 I have no fucking idea who Althouse even is. I just looked her up on Google images (shouda used bing but I forgot). From what I can tell from the images, she needs a new haircut and Meade, at a minimum, stands like a ghey.

245

and Meade, at a minimum, stands like a ghey.

 

Hmm, a little wide in the stance?

246 Ryan Frank and spongeworthy, those are perfectly rational critiques of Althouse that I've made on her blog many times.  "Pinched-face" and "flabby" are not.

247
Welcome to AoS, Pastafarian.

This is who the fuck we are.

248

From what I can tell from the images, she needs a new haircut and Meade, at a minimum, stands like a ghey.

Posted by: dagny at August 03, 2011 04:12 PM (ovmsi)

Well I guess now we know why Pasta is defending him.

249 @253 Oh, and it's so bad out here, I recently saw a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on a car when I was driving home from work! What kind of loser wouldn't peel that sucker off after all that stuff came out about Edwards? Posted by: runningrn at August 03, 2011 04:11 PM (jfHyQ) That's so he/she/it could prove just how long they've been smarter than everyone else.

250 Depends on the Republican nominee. If it is Romney or any other squish, then yes, I will be voting Obama, and I will get most of my close family to follow suit.

251 The Kerry/Edwards sticker is just ridiculous.  It is a public service though.  It warns everyone not to drive too close.

252

Hi, Pastafarian.

I can't reconcile "Meade thinks in hindsight that Althouse made the correct choice to vote for Obama" with "no way in hell would he ever vote for him". 

Paraphrasing you, of course.

I really would not be surprised if they both voted for Obama in '12. Think of the endless blogging possibilities!  "How Obama won us again!"  "We still believe we made the right choice!"  "Annnnd...still digging in!"

;-)

 

253 Pasta-- If Althouse is a "classical liberal", she hides it well. A classical liberal is very distrustful of government. She's not a kumbaya liberal but she is still that '60s hippie chick at heart in a lot of ways. I think people WAY over-estimate the importance of politics to her. Her blog is basically "The Althouse Show". Politics is just driving traffic at the moment.

254

Hmm, a little wide in the stance?

No, one hip thrown forward and up, shoulders back and open, head tilted. Very feminine.

255

I voted for the other guy in '08, but this time around I'm a dead solid lock to vote for Obama. 

256 Up here in Iowa, there are actually more than a few cars with Wellstone bumper stickers.

257
That makes sense.

If the GOP nominee isn't conservative enough, by golly they'll pull the lever for a radical left winger!

258

52% is his peak, and of those:

Some voted for him because they agree with his Marxist program. He'll keep all of those'

Some voted for him because they thought he was conservative enough and competent. He'll lose most of those.

Some voted for him because he's one of them, clean, articulate and with creased trousers. He'll keep many of them.

Some voted for him because he's black. He'll keep most of these.

Some voted for him because it was historic. He'll lose many of these. 

Some voted for him because he was the winning team.  He'll lose many of those.

Some voted because they were motivated.  They won't vote in 2012.

 

2012 is the "Fool me Twice" election for Obama.

259 I was wondering the same thing, but in the context of rembering a time on msnbc in 04 where an media type said they didn't know a soul who voted for Al Gore but was supporting Bush's reelection. I was one Gore voter who was grateful for W's wot. That said, I'm sure there are some low information voters who just like McCain better but would vote Obama depending on who the other guy is.

260 Creepy Althouse acolytes. 

--Shudder--

261
Staunch conservatives won't just stay home. Nosiree. That would be unamerican.

Everyone has the civic duty to vote. So dammit, those hardcore conservatives will have to march down to the polling station and pull that lever for Obama.

262 Empire of Jeff and I have a 'history' I should let you in on, to help explain his gratuitous slanders and foul smears; he offered me a position as a 'Bunker Fun Bunny', and I turned him down flat. He's held a grudge to this day.

Come to think of it, Meade turned him down, too. But he had to think about it overnight. Hmmmmm....

263 Darcy, I fully expect to read a "How Romney lost me" post on Althouse in about 15 months.

But Meade?  No way in hell.  I understand what you're saying about his supporting her decision, in hind sight; and I don't agree.  But I can see the rationality of it.  We're just damned lucky that Ted Kennedy died when he did, and that they didn't win one or two more senators, or they could have pushed through crap-and-tax, card check, everything.

But whether it was  luck or foresight, we're not in a post-apocalyptic hell, at least not yet; and things are looking pretty good for 2012 and maybe 2016.  Had McCain won...who knows.  The pendulum must be allowed to swing every once in a while, or next time we'll end up with President Bill Ayers.

I think you have to have been reading Meade's comments for the last 5 or 6 years -- he once commented there much more than he does now.  Dude's to the right of Trooper York.

264 As a concerned christian conservative, I understand that America will never be great (if indeed it ever was) until we tax the fuck out of corporate jet owners, because although doing so would hurt the jet builders, maintenance crews, pilots, parts manufacturers, and fuel personnel, it's a small price to pay for bringing back fairness to America. So, count me in as a convert for Obama.

265 Is there ANYBODY who thinks, "Hey, I didn't think much of this chap but now that I see what he's done - I want 4 more years of it"?

Well, yeah, frankly.  He is starting to grow on me.  I mean, I'm not saying I like him a whole lot.  But, I could learn to live with him.

Obama 2012!

266 Pasty ,,,,,tremble before the wrath of our dread lord the "dick flavored pez dispenser" .

267 All the black people I know are going to vote again for him.  But mostly because they hate white people.

268 A Facebook friend of mine is in a tailspin into Monbiot lefty loony territory. She left the Republican party (after a lifelong association) just a couple of months ago because they have been fiscally irresponsible, and she actually thinks that health care is a right and that Obamacare is a Good Thing. She argues for *more* statism and stimulus spending, citing FDR and Krugman. It's fascinating, watching someone who once had a working brain descend into lunacy. I can see the Dem talking points filtering into her thinking, and she's biting *hard* on the class warfare propaganda. Crazy things happen when your baseline assumptions about the role of government change.

269 I don't know that Ron Paul would be a good executive, but he is easily my most beloved politician. Basically the only guy I think actually gives a crap about me.

270 And he tastes like Strawberries when I lick him.  Yum!

271 Empire of Jeff and I have a 'history' I should let you in on, to help explain his gratuitous slanders and foul smears; he offered me a position as a 'Bunker Fun Bunny', and I turned him down flat. He's held a grudge to this day.

Come to think of it, Meade turned him down, too. But he had to think about it overnight. Hmmmmm....

Posted by: Anne Althouse

 

I did not! He never offered.

272 I just went to the blog. It's influential, really? Men read it? There are post right now with lollypops and lavendar.

273 But do even lefties believe in lefty talking points? I mean, it's all upper class twits parroting populist bullshit in a way that suggests that they don't think their backs will be against the wall when the revolution comes.

274 Althouse has a post bashing the Cardinals on her front page.

Fuck her and her frilly boyqueen.

275 Meade, at a minimum, stands like a ghey.

Posted by: dagny at August 03, 2011 04:12 PM (ovmsi)

 

I was in the saddle all day! On a horse saddle!

276 Barack Obama + Mitt Romney 2012 is my dream ticket.

Hope + Expertise. Yes, We Can Again

277

The comments here are often entertaining, but they're frequently peppered with damned ugly comments like Jeff's.  And comedy is hard, I get that, you can't make mayo without breaking eggs; but he wasn't even trying for comedy there, it was just an ugly, stupid string of insults.

 

From time to time, the commenters here do say stuff that is stupid (myself included).  That's why we are called morons.  And we are definitely not a cookie cutter group--people feel free to speak exactly what is on their mind instead of kow-towing to a bunch of talking points or politically correct b.s.  It's what makes this blog so unique and fun.  You can't take some of the stuff said too seriously.  And you can't let yourself be easily offended. 

This blog is full of people who are waaay smarter than me, funnier than me, and raunchier than me, and that is why I love coming here.  (We also have a few moby's and trolls so we do get the occasional stupid too).  One thing you should know, though, that when the chips are down, and there is someone in pain, the morons and moronettes on this blog will go to the mat for you. 

We've had one person actively contemplate suicide while commenting on this blog, and some really amazing people came immediately to his aid.  We've had several deaths (both commenters and family members of commenters) and several births.  AoSHQ peeps have been incredibly supportive and caring during good and bad times.  It makes me proud to be associated with this amazing, amazing blog.

278 my mom, a lifelong libtard voted for mccain because:

my grandma, another lifelong libtard said she couldn't vote for obama because he's black. (meaning the only racist thing i've ever heard about obama came from a lifelong democrat). my grandma got sick and unaware of her surroundings, so my mom used my grandma's absentee ballot to vote for obama without her knowing. when grandma slipped into a coma, mom felt guilty and told God she'd vote for mccain with her own vote (swearing me to secrecy lest her husband be pissed at her) if He would heal grandma. grandma died and mom swore to vote for the dems from then on no matter what because God had told her to by taking grandma home. or something.

so to answer the question: do i know anyone who didn't vote for obama in 2008 that will vote for him in 2012? kind of.

279 dagny at 286:  And baseball, and the tea party, and Kurt Vonnegut, and Egypt, and Boehner.  But those don't support your thesis, so leave those out.  Very Kos of you.

280 I live in DC, the land of true believers. Just about everyone I know voted for Obama. Those Obama stickers were Crazy Glued to their vehicles. Rather than admitting that they were wrong, they probably won't vote.

281 Ann Outhouse at 291:  That's funny, because that's how they refer to her on leftist blogs, where she's hated as an apostate.

282 Obviously there is a whole cohort of probable Democrat-by-demographic young persons entering into voting age in 2012 who will probably pull the lever for Obama.   But those are just "new Democrats" not individuals whose opinion about Obama has changed.

While there will inevitably be a FEW individuals who voted for McCain in 2008 who will pull the lever for Obama in 2012, that's really the wrong question.

Obama (unfortunately) carried 2008 so convincingly, that he doesn't really need to convert former Republican voters to win in 2012.

The question is, how many people who voted for him in 2008 are so utterly disgusted by him now that they'll vote Republican.

And the better question is, how many of those people are in Florida, Ohio, and other key swing states.

I think the answer is "a lot".

283 Leave Althouse and Meade alone!  They don't let me do the puppy role-play when they're pissed off from being insulted by comments here.

284

Oh, uh, I didn't vote in 2008. Yeah, that's the ticket. I mean, what was the point, right? Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum.

Say, anybody here know about dissolving hardened bumper sticker adhesive?

285 #295
Why on earth not?

Because of massive Federal expansion, Obama has been the best President EVER, if you live and work in or around DC.

286

It makes me proud to be associated with this amazing, amazing blog.

Kudos for being positive runningn.

Now, for the negative, it pisses me off for some tool to come in here and attack a regular whom I know to be ok and pretty damn consistently funny. Esp if said tool "never reads the comments", doesn't know one commenter from another yet seems to know the intimate workings of another blog that it only shows up to defend in the comments. EofJ is one of the best commenters here, so MYOB.

287 Leave Brittany Althouse alone!

She's a human being!

288 If I knew of anyone who didn't vote for him in 2008 and decided to vote for him in 2012 I would slap him/her from here to Sunday.

289 Empire Of Jeff has been strangely quiet in the face of these attacks. Too quiet...................(cue foreboding music)

290
  Don't know a soul who has been "converted". But then I make a point of not stepping in dogshit, too.

291

Fine. Add Kurt Vonnegut to my thesis as well as "New Yorker humor", "Super-sad movies", Gabby Giffords (sigh), and "Men in shorts". The ladies magazine topics far outweigh the other.

 

292 88 There's a bunch of 17 year olds who were only 14 when he was elected that can't wait to vote for him.

I'm doing my part to save the country - my 17yo will be voting R next year.

293 I'm failing to see why we're supposed to care about some twat blogger that voted for Obama in '08.

What am I missing here?

Oh right, nothing. She's part of the problem; not the solution.

294 He won me over when he ate all those waffles!

295 12 Most of the Obama supporters I  know aren't really supporters of him.  They just hate Republicans more.
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I know lots of disgruntled Obama voters (here in Boulder) who are centrists, but they are so ideologically insecure, that once a Republican name and face is front and center as the potential president (and starts getting savaged by the media), they will run back to Obama instead of being a "troglodyte" republican voter.

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These. I know Obama voters that are probably disappointed but they hate Palin/Bachmann( and to a lesser extent the other possible nominees) far more.

296 Hmm My last post didnt show.

297 lacyunderall at 308:  If you think we can win in 2012 without converting people like Althouse...you're mistaken.  Where do you suppose those 4% are coming from?  Hard leftists?  People on welfare?

Which brings us mercifully back to the topic of the post, or at least closer to it.

298

I think there is a factory someplace where new Obama converts have their entire brain removed from their skull.  It is then stuffed with cheetohs.  Orange leakage from the nostrils or ears is a definate sign of Obama supporting.

 

299 Somebody up there mentione dthat Obama has his 5 trillion credit card, and that he's using it to spread among the Dem base. Problem is, he's not. He's hoarding his stash (or giving it to, shudder, corporations) and letting foolish pride try to carry him again in that community. I don't think  it will work this time.

300 OK, I assume Empire of Jeff is a Moby spewing poison.

You will not be on the protected rolls.

301

Ok lets try this again, Nope I dont know anyone that beleives that dope . I have a friend , young man who was all for obama. He is now a conservative and wants nothing to do with the demorats. Granted he had to take over the family business and now that he has to PAY the bills, Pay the employees, make the customers happy,fill in when employees dont show. NOW he is all about being a conservative. Funny how you grow up when you HAVE to become BOSS.

302 If you think we can win in 2012 without converting people like Althouse...you're mistaken.

You spend an inordinate amount of time defending someone who helped put this Marxist lunatic in the WH. I find that odd. Very odd.

303 I know dis guy down on da South Side uv Chicaaago, and he heard about deez two or tree thousand recently deceased guys that voted for Bush, but were voting for Obama in 2012.

304 I think the President is doing a fine job "converting" those votes all by himself. 

305 lacey at 317:  Not on that decision, which I still think was either too clever by half, or just a rationalization for her real reason, white guilt.  But attacks on a woman based on personal appearance...OK, if they're really funny, fine.  But they have to be funny to be justified.  Otherwise they're just assholery.

306 My 80 year old mother did not vote for Obama, but after the constant brainwashing of the Democrat-Media Complex and my Yellow Dog sister, I bet she will vote for Obama. But, I won't be driving them to the polls.

307 Twig at 293: sorry but your Mom sounds like a typical Obama voter: delusional.  no disrespect intended.  I know because one of my siblings has a similar affliction.

308 Otherwise they're just assholery.

Now Tedious Troll gets it.

309 The few that I know that supported him have been silent as of late, probably out of embarrasment. But I know next time around (if they vote) they'll vote for his dumb ass again. Those people don't ever convert. Their brain is incapable of learning.

310

I hate to say I MAY know someone. a good friend of mine who thinks Dubya was the awesome voted for Mac in 08 and GOP again in 2010 but says he's starting to think Obama's trying hardand maybe needs a little more time. He's vietnamese and a manager of a buissness. he's not the most politically astute guys and has a bunch of college libs around him. I hope he doesn't vote for Obama in 2012.

THAT said, my dad voted Obama and now LOATHES him. he's a new GOP voter come 2012. I have friends who voted for Obama and now hate the guy and have been telling me they should have listened to me. My gf voted for Obama (I didn't know her at the time) and will vote for a twinkie over him come next year.

Obama seems to be losing voters which is unusual for a President who seeks re-election. The rule of History is that a incumbent President is re-elected w/ converts and states he lost the last time around. The only times I believe an incumbent won re-election while losing voters and states he won  from the last election was Madison in 1812, Wilson in 1916, and FDR in 1940

311 Twig at 293: sorry but your Mom sounds like a typical Obama voter: delusional.  no disrespect intended.  I know because one of my siblings has a similar affliction.

none taken. just glad i didn't inherit the sickness.

312 > 282 A Facebook friend of mine is in a tailspin into Monbiot lefty loony territory. She left the Republican party (after a lifelong association) just a couple of months ago because they have been fiscally irresponsible, and she actually thinks that health care is a right and that Obamacare is a Good Thing. ... Posted by: Tesh 286 comments as I post this and we have 2 reports of converts. Meghan McCain and Tesh's friend. It's not that you need converts to win re-election. But I'm just curious.

313 Mebbe Jay Leno, and all the other comedians in need of source material? Obama and his team ... the gifts that keep on giving .... Team-O: Featuring Gaffe-Tastic Joe, now with movable mouth parts. Your mileage may vary. Actual economic results will be massively inflated by partisan media, with occasional "unexpected" results.

314 check that Wilson gained voters in 1916 but lost states he won in 1912

315

I don't.

However, Philadelphia is full of lefties who will vote for him again, no matter what, no matter how bad their situation.  D voting is largely tribal voting.

316

NO, but I know countless Republicans who now look back on Bill Clinton with fondness. 

Bubba may have been a fat, lecherous, left-wing Hillbilly, but at least he lived in the real world, unlike the current nutcase.  

Clinton signed Republican-produced balanced budgets, signed Welfare reform, and cut capital gains taxes. 

I'd take Bill Clinton and a conservative congress over Bush/Delay and Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Boehner ANY DAY.   

317 I'm a life-long Republican, conservative Christian, and pro-life.  I voted McCain/Palin in 2008, but the actions of these Tea Party Terrorists in comparison to Obama's cool, no-drama approach to big problems has changed my mind. Obama has shown his mettle, and I love what I see, so YES, I'm a convert to Obama! 

318 For those of you with children in college. It's important to send away for their absentee ballot. It's also helpful to fill it out for them, put it in a stamped envelope and then, on parents weekend, have them sign it. It evens out the black panthers a bit.

319 Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?

Charles Johnson.

320 Hey dumbshit, I wasn't trying to be funny. Althouse disgusts me, because she wallows in her willful ignorance, wrapped in a smug layer of intellectually superior bitchery. You must serve the same function over there that soothsayer serves here for ace: virtuous defender of the blogdaddy. One of her many, many commenters who titter at the implied sexual byplay you invent between her and Meade, that reads like an erotic novel as written and read aloud by George Will. PENIS MOOD: ASLEEP. Now why don't you run back over there and hump her hamhock, muttface, before you get your shit pushed in. Apologies to the Morons for being late, the IT squirrels were showing off their new "productivity" program for the last 2 hours.

321 @332, as a concerned catholic conservative, I also have to congratulate Obama for his gutsy call in ordering the death of Osama Bin Laden, if only Bush hadn't personally blown the chance we had at Tora Bora by getting bogged down in needless oil pipelines. And I realize that many working middle class families, like Wisconsin public school teachers will need to regain their lost right to collective bargaining in order to restore the middle class as it was and always should be, a secure, non-performance related, path to earning 6 figures for 9 months of work. without end, amen.

322 Why all the Althouse hate?  I read her when the Wisconsin circus was going down.  I thought she was pretty good there.

323 338 Why all the Althouse hate? I read her when the Wisconsin circus was going down. I thought she was pretty good there.

Posted by: Where're my ping pong balls? at August 03, 2011 05:24 PM (XIXhw)

Broken clock, blind squirrel, yadda yadda yadda.  For someone that claims to be so smart she sure got taken in by Obama and still refuses to see it apparently.  I don't know, I don't read her silly blog.  It ain't worth nuttin' on.

324 Why all the Althouse hate?

It's the unpardonable sin.  In the face of all reason, evidence, logic and instinct, she voted to send the stuttering clusterfuck of no particular distinction or accomplishment to the highest office in the land.  She voted to put him in the same chair as Washington, Lincoln, Reagan and Truman.

That pretty much makes all her views suspect as hormonal fluxes.

YMMV.

325 @337 - as an equally concerned catholic conservative, I feel it is my duty to inform you that taking Bin Laden down the same day we beatified of Pope John Paul II was not cool. NOT COOL.

326 C'est tout Mr. Jeff

327

As a concerned Muslim I think that Obama's involvement in the Arab spring, where he made room for the many freedoms we can now enjoy because he pushed aside that horrible madman Mubarak.

 

He also is getting kineticky with that existential threat Muomar Khaddafi and has made democracy come alive in Turkey. He has also shown prudence in allowing self determination of the reformist leadership of Syria, Iran and Hamas, not spoiling the Arab Spring with too much extremism.

328 @341 as a concerned catholic conservative, I am heartened that there is finally a christian president like Obama who is blissfully unaware of things like the pope's beatification because the most important thing to America, aside from diversity, is stamping out our Christian heritage. Therefore, I can no longer support politicians who are so distasteful as to actually share my beliefs.

329

Broken clock, blind squirrel, yadda yadda yadda.  For someone that claims to be so smart she sure got taken in by Obama and still refuses to see it apparently.  I don't know, I don't read her silly blog.  It ain't worth nuttin' on.

Posted by: buzzion at August 03, 2011 05:26 PM (oVQFe)

I get the distrust from the Obama vote, which to be honest I was unaware of.  But broken clock?  John Stewart is a broken clock.  To my knowledge, Althouse has been consistently good about Wisconsin.  I don't need to read or agree with all of her stuff.  I don't need to read George Will for politics or baseball, but I'd sure as hell seek him out for advice on Country Club fashion.

330 I know a true believer who voted for Obama and will vote again for him. The guy is a University Prof. and let me tell you a tried and true commie, he doesn't see it though. Believes all, I mean all union workers should get paid above $45 dollars and hour. Please, I know we had words but this guy does not see the free market working. They completely love the control and don't see the suffocation of business it causes. Anyhow for him to change it would cause a complete nervous breakdown, for he as Obama lives in his own mind.

331 My youngest daughter, bless her little liberal heart, graduated from Michigan State University with her teaching degree in June 2008, and spent quite a bit of her time over that summer attempting to convince me to go to the dark side. Over the last two years, she has found a good job (TG), gotten her masters, and experienced an epiphany of realization. No more Mr O for her. She is a Bachman fan, won over during the debate a few months ago, and will work for her locally.

332 Over the last two years, she has found a good job (TG), gotten her masters, and experienced an epiphany of realization.

Nothing like actually working for a living and looking at that pay stub to make a convert.

333 Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?

I don't know anyone who fits that exact description. 

The closest I know is a friend who lives and works in Pensacola area who had been a registered Republican for years who switched in 2008.  I'm sure he switched before Obama got elected.  Though I *think* he voted in the GOP primary. 

His wife is as anti-Obama as they come, and he had described himself as a fiscal conservative (but social lib).  He said that McCain-Palin (I think particularly Palin) pushed him over the edge to registering Democrat.  I saw him a few months ago and he was still supporting Obama. 

The ironic thing (to me) is he's a retired Navy Chief.  How you could be a retired military and not blame the Democrats for the (cough Chuck Shumer cough) economy tanking and retired military not receiving a COLA in the last two years?  

334 Why all the Althouse hate?

A douchebag comes in and says we can't, it's obligatory.

335 No, I do not know of anybody who was against Obama in 2008 and has changed their mind.

However, I do know a lot of people who were for Obama in 2008 and have changed their mind.

336 As a white republican I am racist ( well, aren't we all?)l I have one black friend. You know, to make it look like I'm not so racist. Sure, I could end my racism by voting democrat, but well, I like being racist There at lots and lots of colored jokes (we can say 'colored,' right?) out there...it would be a shame if no one was around the laugh at them. Anyway, the point of my story is that my one black friend --- I convinced him 6 months ago that JEF is a POS. And yeah, you are probably thinking that my black friend, turning on the JEF, is an uncle Tom who deserves to be lynched. But funny thing, I checked and he's still a democrat, so he can't be racist and does not deserve to be lynch, right?

337 Bumper stickers. Couple years back, there were ooh ... say a trillion Obiemessiah bumper stickers [snarf (or don't) to taste]. Now? Most every single one around h'yar ... has disappeared. Gone.

338 Me, because no one that the GOP is running or likely to run in 2012 is any good and because, if there's a chance that the GOP will have both the Senate and House in 2012, you want a Dem in the WH to have divided government with blockage potential.

339 That is why the bucktoothed dipshit in chief doesn't stand a chance of reelection. He's lost massive amounts of the passive support that elected his worthless ass the first time around and he has picked up no one to make up for it.

340 Should be "the Army of Morons knows." The relevant noun is "Army." But no, I don't know anyone who now wants Obama. Don't think any rational person would make that switch.

341 I have a new, fun driving game. Whenever I see an Obama 2008 bumper sticker, I point my finger (no, not that one, moron), cover my mouth, and laugh and laugh. You should see them pointing back (yes, that finger). Ah, good times!!!!

342

 althouse is a complete fucking dickhead.

343 Couldnt standing the lying cockholster in 08 - hate the POS even more now. 

FBO - Im voting Honey Badger!

344 I don't talk to the guys who voted for it in 2008.  They displayed a degree of cognizant dissonance that just wasn't worth drinking with anymore.

345 Yeah, members of the CPUSA and CISPES.

346 <sup>335 Do You Know Anybody Who Voted Against Obama in 2008 But Has Been Converted and Will Vote For Him in 2012?

Charles Johnson.</sup>

^{Posted by: RoboMonkey at August 03, 2011 05:15 PM}

I'm quite certain he did not vote for McCain/Palin. He'd already gone loony by then.

347

@ 359 Couldnt standing the lying cockholster in 08 - hate the POS even more now. FBO - Im voting Honey Badger! WOW you really need to work on your anger issues. Repressed anger can lead to many issues, learn to vent more brother DONT HOLD IT IN!  Tell us how you really feel. We will listen and not judge you.

348 I'd vote for honey badger over Romney.

349 And then there's this!

350 The only group that I can imagine didn't vote for Barack Black Jesus Ocarter in 2008 but will in 2012 is..... those who just turned 18.

Now if we could only raise the minimum voting age to 30 (and while we're at it, add a maximum age of 70) maybe we'd have some good presidents again.  I say that as a 40-ish male who voted for Democrats up to and including.... John Kerry.  Ugh.

351 Jeff at 336:  Really?  That's it?  That's the legendary rhetorical smackdown?

Oh, burrrn.

"... wrapped in a smug layer of intellectually superior bitchery."

Do you know why you might perceive it thus, Jeffy?  Because maybe, just maybe, she actually is intellectually superior to you.  I know that's hard to imagine, because she's just a professor of law at one of the more prominent law schools in the country, and you're...whatever the hell you are, leader of the IT squirrel brigade, I guess.  Plus she's a woman, or as you call them, a bitch, ginch, or flabby piece of hippo shit.  Because that's how you roll, all intellectual and shit.

"PENIS MOOD: ASLEEP."

See, Jeffy, some of us use the internet for things other than fevered masturbation to tentacle porn.  Maybe you'll understand when all your pubes come in, son.

"Now why don't you run back over there and hump her hamhock, muttface, before you get your shit pushed in."

Oh noes, an internet tough guy.  And one that gets debriefed by IT squirrels.  I'm done for now.  I've heard about you internet tough guys.  In between MMA fights and mayhem arraignments, you guys all comment on political blogs and get really bad-ass debriefings from the IT department.  I don't know whether I should shit or go blind.

One question, though:  By "get your shit pushed in," you're actually making a homosexual pass at me, aren't you?  You're offering to compact the feces in my colon with your PENIS MOOD:WIDE AWAKE?  See, that gay stuff, that doesn't really fit in with the internet tough guy pose.  I respect your lifestyle choices and all, and to each his own, but it just doesn't seem very intimidating.  You might want to work on that, Jeff.

352

I suspect that Obama will pick up a few voters in the "Pre-Senile" block.  These are seniors who believed him when he intimated that the GOP was going to cut off their Social Security checks.  Many of these voted for McCain, back when they had functional fore-brain neurons.

Also, there will be long-term unemployed who think that the safest way to keep getting the government checks is with continued Democrat rule.  After all, there might be something to this "funemployment" gig. 

353

Well there's Charles Johnson. And then there's, um, uh... hmmmm.... Ummmmmm..... Uhhhhh.... maybe possibly, uhhhhh... David Frum? Just guessing, I really have nothing to base that on other than the fact he doesn't like the tea party.

354 For me, it depends on who the nominee is. Santorum or Paul might cause me to vote for Obama, but more likely than not, I'd just stay home. In a more realistic scenario, if Palin, Bachmann or Cain get it, I'll probably stay home too. I'm in Texas so I can afford to be ambivalent if the GOP nominates a shitty candidate.

355 Few holdouts at the VFW. But they hate facts and statistics. Why do they get upset when I state them? I even had pictures and graphs. All three of them got mad and said bad things. I'm confused!!!!

356 If Libya wasn't such a shitshow, national security/foreign affairs types who give a fuck-all about domestic issues (ie, lots of folks in the military) might think Obama isn't a bad deal in 2012.  A lot of them were McCain voters in '08. Iraq is shaky, but OK. Afghanistan probably could easily have been handled worse. UBL's dead. KSM will get a military commission. Obama's been steady in those areas. But Libya is a shitshow.  And it looks like Obama's only idea about deficit reduction is to gut the Perntagon.  So...unless a complete fool is at the top of the GOP ticket, tough to see even someone who has been pleasantly surprised by Obama in some national security areas voting for him in '12.

357 No! If I'll come across one,I'll make sure to place their names on Darwin awards.

358 I anticipate that there will be quite a few McCain voters in Chicago and some other big blue cities who have died between now and then who will be "converted" and vote for Obama the next time around.

359 This info is a terrific read. Thanks for the info.I am looking forward for more updates.

360 You may not be able to find "Obama converts" now, but just wait until summer and fall of 2012. Then we will see lots of comments on blogs from people who voted for McCain-Palin in 2008 but who are appalled by whoever the Republican nominee is and as a result feel that it necessary to change their vote to Obama.

361

Nohype (#379):  You're partially right. There WILL be a lot of coment on blogs from people who say they voted for McCain in '08 but can't support the current nominee because the GOP has been taken over by tea bagging extremists yada yada. The thing is, those people will be LIARS -- lefties posing as "concerned" conservatives and/or RINOS who abandoned the ticket in 2008.

They'll also be a fair amount of commentary from the usual RINO talking heads about the "extreme" GOP nominee in 2012 and how much worse he was from the more reasonable John McCain -- all of whom (with the exception of David Frum) voted for The Whine in 2008. I've already got my tar and feathers ready for the first one to publish that drivel.

362

I disagree with you on the politics of Meade, Pastafarian, but geez, you didn't deserve any of that.

Nasty stuff. I don't think you should even bother.

363

"I anticipate that there will be quite a few McCain voters in Chicago and some other big blue cities who have died between now and then who will be "converted" and vote for Obama the next time around."

Aint that the goddamn truth.

Actually, though, I hope that's true. That would mean Obama's failure as a President is so obvious that he's forced to resort to voter fraud to win the dark blue states, which would mean the light blue states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, etc. would all be lost causes.