August 20, 2012
— Ace Every company comes to resemble the virtues or faults of its CEO.
I assume someone has said that before or it's like a business thing or something. It sounds like it should be.
his has produced a campaign being animated by one thing above all. It is not exclusively about hope and change anymore, words that seem like distant echoes even to Obama’s original loyalists — and to the president himself. It is not the solidarity of a hard-fought cause, often absent in this mostly joyless campaign. It is Obama’s own burning competitiveness, with his remorseless focus on beating Mitt Romney — an opponent he genuinely views with contempt and fears will be unfit to run the country.Obama is sometimes portrayed as a reluctant warrior, sorry to see 2012 marked by so much partisan warfare but forced by circumstance to go along. But this perception is by most evidence untrue. In the interviews with current and former Obama aides, not one said he expressed any reservations about the negativity. He views it as a necessary part of campaigning, as a natural — if unpleasant — rotation of the cyclical political wheel.
Obama’s trash-talking competitiveness, a trait that has defined him since his days on the court as a basketball-obsessed teenager in Hawaii, was on display one night last February, when the president spotted a woman he knew was close to Sen. Marco Rubio in a Florida hotel lobby. “Is your boy going to go for [vice president]?” the president asked her. Maybe, she replied.
“Well,” he said, chuckling, according to a person who witnessed the encounter. “Tell your boy to watch it. He might get his ass kicked.”
Meanwhile, Stephanie Cutter and David Axelrod can't even talk to each other to decide what lies each will tell:
As Team Obama was gearing up to face Romney after the GOP primaries, Axelrod and Cutter — close friends who oversee the campaign’s massive messaging and communications operations — clashed over a minor incident that left them barely on speaking terms during a critical early part of the campaign.The spark, according to people close to the situation: Axelrod suspected Cutter of taking a network TV appearance he had been asked to do. The conflict, well-known inside Obamaland but not outside the inner circle — was really the reflection of a grinding campaign, Cutter’s propensity for stepping on toes, and Axelrod’s elliptical and disorganized management style.
And:
Many of Obama’s advisers have quietly begun questioning whether they should have picked Wasserman Schultz, an outspoken Florida congresswoman, as his DNC chairwoman. She has clashed with Chicago over her choice of staff and air-time on national TV shows — and they think she comes across as too partisan over the airwaves.
They ran a poll on her; she comes in last. Now, here's something a bit alarming for Team Obama: David Gibbs is actually their most popular surrogate, then Stephanie cutter, than some "Psakai" or something I've seen mentioned but I've never seen on TV.
That's not a Yankees-style Murderers Row.
More stuff in the article. Actually worth a read in full.
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Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, Vt at August 20, 2012 09:26 AM (48wze)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 20, 2012 09:27 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:28 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:28 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Capt. Smith at August 20, 2012 09:28 AM (NuPNl)
Posted by: Vic at August 20, 2012 09:28 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:29 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 20, 2012 09:29 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Roy at August 20, 2012 09:29 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: madamex at August 20, 2012 09:29 AM (e9LVX)
Posted by: Soona at August 20, 2012 09:29 AM (7POpr)
Too partisan and stupid. Well, mostly stupid.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:30 AM (QKKT0)
Omg....
Barky is holding a 'surprise press conference'....to talk about Akin's remark on rape.
Fuck.
Posted by: wheatie at August 20, 2012 09:31 AM (mtRB0)
Posted by: thunderb at August 20, 2012 09:31 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 09:31 AM (jm/9g)
Posted by: Whoever this is, it's definitely not Michael at August 20, 2012 09:31 AM (qA5G4)
Posted by: s☺mej☼e at August 20, 2012 09:31 AM (HNn1q)
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 20, 2012 09:32 AM (d6TfZ)
Next question is Romney's tax returns and felon statement.
The lame stream media is pathetic.
Posted by: TexBob at August 20, 2012 09:32 AM (vNiOJ)
Posted by: Dr. Gergenfly Tardyaso at August 20, 2012 09:32 AM (aHR5E)
President Barack ObamaÂ’s campaign team, celebrated four years ago for its exceptional cohesion and eyes-on-the-prize strategic focus, has been shadowed this time by a succession of political disagreements and personal rivalries that haunted the effort at the outset.
They weren't that good last time. They had an incompetent opponent and the MFM in their back pocket. Hell, what more could they ask for?
Posted by: Vic at August 20, 2012 09:33 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 20, 2012 09:33 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 09:33 AM (oZfic)
Now, Barky's stream of own-goals? People will remember those all the way thru November...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 20, 2012 09:33 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: ernst blofeld at August 20, 2012 09:33 AM (XZWie)
Many of ObamaÂ’s advisers have quietly begun questioning whether they
should have picked Wasserman Schultz, an outspoken Florida
congresswoman, as his DNC chairwoman. She has clashed with Chicago over
her choice of staff and air-time on national TV shows — and they think
she comes across as too partisan over the airwaves.
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All of you knew I was a snake.
Posted by: DWS at August 20, 2012 09:34 AM (7POpr)
http://tinyurl.com/yk7n7bv
I want to hear the laminations of DWS!
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 20, 2012 09:34 AM (3ZjAP)
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Since the latter will never change, it's a damn good thing the former has.
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:34 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: Justamom at August 20, 2012 09:34 AM (Sptt8)
Posted by: thunderb at August 20, 2012 09:34 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Justamom at August 20, 2012 09:35 AM (Sptt8)
Posted by: Fred at August 20, 2012 09:35 AM (ETWo2)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 20, 2012 09:35 AM (8y9MW)
Folks, Akin is 1) not a well-known person, and 2) his remarks are not going to resonate with America.
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Missourans are probably more concerned about Jimmy Johnson not talking to the press after his engine blew out on the last lap than whatever Akins said about rape/not-rape.
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 09:35 AM (jm/9g)
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Like how we never heard of, say, Ted Haggard or the Koch brothers until the left started demonizing them?
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:35 AM (aHR5E)
He is The Smiler made flesh.
Posted by: Karusky at August 20, 2012 09:35 AM (dKyuh)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (YjDyJ)
Posted by: wierd flunky at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (X+nFp)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Vic at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (YdQQY)
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Well, Urkel is the first gay president, after all.
(Leftists have zero capacity for irony.)
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: The Q at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (B/yDO)
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 20, 2012 01:32 PM (d6TfZ)
Pretty sure O believes these things "just happen" and it all depends on wether you have the good luck to be President during an up-swing or bad luck to be on the down-swing. I don't think he understands *at all* that policy decisions hugely affect the basis of the economy.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (8sEhR)
Well, they should just put teh SCOAMF in charge of the campaign exclusively. After all, he did say he could do their jobs better than they could.
And running and managing a winning campaign was his justification for being a good ruler, not accomplishment in the legislative arena.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2012 09:37 AM (d0Tfm)
Mary, put down the bong. The pizza guys don't start delivering until 5 PM.
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 20, 2012 09:37 AM (3ZjAP)
>>ace, did I just read you were writing a book?
It's a fanBio of the London Boys entitled 'I'm Gonna Give My Heart (Remix)'.
Posted by: garrett at August 20, 2012 09:37 AM (apgKV)
So that makes RMoney different from the 300 million plus Americans this dentskulled freak purportedly leads in which way, exactly?
Also, article talks about how earflaps has this hatred of RMoney because he never served in the military. Right.
Wonder if the sky is blue in the world this mincing clown lives in?
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 20, 2012 09:37 AM (ksERZ)
That's because for all of the blogospheres might the MSM still defines what gets public and what stays hidden.
Akin is a top story on the BBC UK website.
THE BBC!!
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 20, 2012 09:37 AM (06lNq)
Nice. Ace, you are the Chaucer of the digital age, but without the royal benefices and shit.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:37 AM (QKKT0)
Obama at "surprise appearance" to WH briefing. I just tuned in to catch him say (about the campaign):
"You can't just make stuff up."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Posted by: Optimizer at August 20, 2012 09:38 AM (As94z)
Excellent. Outstanding.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 09:38 AM (LK8M1)
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Hard to see the sky when your head's up your own ass.
Ask Gerg.
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:38 AM (aHR5E)
How many votes will the demonization of Haggard or the Kochs cost Romney?
I'd bet the low side of zero...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 20, 2012 09:39 AM (wtvvX)
Yeah, I am amazed at how huge the Kenyan's ears are. They are massive in HD.
Posted by: TexBob at August 20, 2012 09:39 AM (vNiOJ)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 09:39 AM (oZfic)
OMG....that's rich.
Wait. Barky whacked bin Laden. To this day he still goes to staff meetings in a camo vest holding a dagger in his teeth.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:39 AM (QKKT0)
^^^^
Oh lord, I forgot about these guys and ace's infatuation until I googled them. Now my pc is vomiting all sorts of gayness....
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 20, 2012 09:39 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Things Shakespeare would say at August 20, 2012 09:40 AM (NuPNl)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 09:40 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 09:40 AM (LK8M1)
Not at all my point, but I'm not wailing and gnashing my teeth over this one, either.
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:40 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 01:39 PM (QKKT0)
That's not a dagger....it's the nine iron he was holding when they pulled him off the golf course to watch the kill.
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2012 09:40 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: Justamom at August 20, 2012 09:40 AM (Sptt8)
Posted by: Crazy Uncle Joe at August 20, 2012 09:41 AM (B5y+v)
Posted by: madamex at August 20, 2012 01:29 PM (e9LVX)
I just turned the tv on for 10 seconds and saw this. And apparently, Obama came out as anti-rape.
That's leadership. Bravo
golf clap
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 20, 2012 09:41 AM (8UijS)
I just checked the remaining group and neither is one of ours.
Posted by: Zombie Maurice Gibbs at August 20, 2012 09:42 AM (QKKT0)
Period.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 20, 2012 09:42 AM (wtvvX)
Twitter just reminded me that McCaskill is a supporter of Planned Parenthood, which refuses to report statutory rape to the police when young girls come in for abortions.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 09:42 AM (/kI1Q)
"...an opponent he genuinely views with contempt and fears will be unfit to run the country."
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Boy...ain't that rich.
Pot meet kettle.
Posted by: dananjcon at August 20, 2012 09:42 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at August 20, 2012 09:43 AM (mxnUd)
Reposted from the ass end of the last thread....
Who do republicans like Akin's have advising them?
The way it should have been handled is this:
"There has been some contraversy over a term I used in an interview yesterday. I mentioned "legitimate rape" in the context of the abortion debate where advocates speak of exceptions torestrictions on abortion in the case of "rape, incest and the life of the mother". Most republicans support exceptions to any abortion restrictions based on these circumstances.
I mentioned "legitimate rape" to define that belief that a rape victim should have immediate access to the morning after pill or the option of abortion in the first trimester. What I don't believe is that a woman who is 8 months pregnant should be able to claim rape as an excuse to have a late term abortion, if the real reason is something else."
My personal view is that all life is sacred, so I tend to look at the subject from the perspective of the unborn child. However, the liberal press should not be allowed to twist my position into something that it is not."
A response along these lines would clear up the "legitimate rape" remark and shift the conversation to late term abortion, which he could win on.
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 09:43 AM (ZDsRL)
Posted by: Jean at August 20, 2012 09:43 AM (WkuV6)
Posted by: MJ at August 20, 2012 09:43 AM (TR60b)
The similarity just confirms that this will be a blowout.
Posted by: keninnorcal at August 20, 2012 09:43 AM (MZxBc)
Posted by: Chicago Zoo Gibbons Union Local # 112 at August 20, 2012 09:44 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: wheatie at August 20, 2012 01:38 PM (mtRB0)
Amazing, isn't it? Like last time when *Biden* was claiming Palin had made up her biography and said almost exactly the same thing.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 20, 2012 09:44 AM (8sEhR)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:44 AM (cubpP)
The "writer" should have pulled his nose out of Barky's ass while he was trying to write this. He messed it all up. It was close, though:
Barky views America and Americans (of which Mitt Romney is but one) with utter contempt (mostly because the Indonesian retard is jealous of normal, intelligent, civilized people) and fears that everyone knows that he's totally unfit to run a lemonade stand.
And Barky isn't competitve, in any way at all. He's anti-competitive. He just loves cheating and stealing ... as the koran instructs its cannon fodder.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 09:44 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: The littl shyning man at August 20, 2012 09:44 AM (PH+2B)
Posted by: Todd Akin at August 20, 2012 01:35 PM (60GaT)"
It's legitimate. You were askin' for it.
Posted by: DeMSM at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (QjSgY)
Obama came out as anti-rape.
Do you see the way he's dressed? He's asking for it.
Why else would he have had a pinball machine put in the Oval Office?
Posted by: Reggie 'Forget the Glove' Love at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (apgKV)
Posted by: Truman North, iPhone reprobate at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (V3hr1)
Now they're talking about the importance of releasing tax returns. What a bunch of bathering idiots.
Posted by: Optimizer at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (As94z)
The JEF thinks he and Biden are both fit to be President. And they join the jackass writing this who thinks the Pres. runs the country. None of their judgements are useful.
Posted by: DaveA at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (DVJEd)
Chuck Toad. aaarrrgggh
Are they so short on money that this is now how he's going to stump? Unbelievable.
Posted by: 56 and loving RR at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (e9kQC)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy's fading libido at August 20, 2012 09:45 AM (3niml)
Don't have to wait too long.
Posted by: all the Dems not going to the convention because they have to do their hair or something at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (SATYo)
Period.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 20, 2012 01:42 PM (wtvvX)
Too late, the eeyores are rolling.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (6BgmB)
This Politico piece timed with the Newsweak cover story taunting Brack to hit the bricks look an awful lot like The Good Ship HopeyChangey scraped an iceberg below the waterline.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of marxists.
Posted by: ontherocks at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (aZ6ew)
that's why I went nuts yesterday...
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: madamex at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (e9LVX)
I'm looking forward to pointing and laughing starting about, oh, 9:15 pm on November 6, 2012. I intend to keep it up until 12:01 a.m. on January 21, 2013.
Then....game face.
Time to fix this shit.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: The littl shyning man at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (PH+2B)
Bammy is starting to respond to everything the media says. He was being criticized for not having any press conferences and giving interviews to People mag, ET, ESPN. He is feeling the heat.
Time for some three level chess
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 20, 2012 09:46 AM (nTgAI)
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And in other news, water continues to be wet.
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:47 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: Justamom at August 20, 2012 09:47 AM (Sptt8)
@philipaklein Obama: People assume that if you want to be POTUS, "your life is an open book"
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 20, 2012 09:47 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: tasker at August 20, 2012 09:47 AM (r2PLg)
Asking for the police report, 911 call records, or evidence of a hospital visit and rape kit should tamp down the fakers quite a bit. Even a modest request for the thinnest documentation is all it would take.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 09:47 AM (LK8M1)
That's not the pot calling the kettle black, that's the pot calling the fine china black.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 20, 2012 09:48 AM (8y9MW)
This Politico piece timed with the Newsweak cover story taunting Brack to hit the bricks look an awful lot like The Good Ship HopeyChangey scraped an iceberg below the waterline.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of marxists.
Posted by: ontherocks at August 20, 2012 01:46 PM (aZ6ew)
When do we declare the whole preference cascade thing active ? Seems like it might be getting a bit of traction
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 20, 2012 09:48 AM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 20, 2012 09:48 AM (wtvvX)
101Posted by: wheatie at August 20, 2012 01:38 PM (mtRB0)
Amazing, isn't it? Like last time when *Biden* was claiming Palin had made up her biography and said almost exactly the same thing.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 20, 2012 01:44 PM (8sEhR)
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Yeah.
And he followed with...."As president, you would expect that people will call you to account for what you say".
[or words to that effect]
Gah!
This is why I don't usually even watch this fucker.
He has no shame....none whatsoever.
Posted by: wheatie at August 20, 2012 09:48 AM (mtRB0)
that's why I have altered my posting style to a narrower band and less cheerleady...
AP's gonna have a cow. Essentially the Squishes are gonna decide how long this game goes on. When they joined in the Palin stomping boot show they softened up our chances to let McCain knock himself out w/quitting.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 09:48 AM (LRFds)
Are you posting from the Shady Acres rehab clinic at the corner of Canal and Elm Streets, right downtown?
Posted by: alwyr at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (Oh5R1)
"111He just blathers on and on saying nothing. This is a campaign appearance instead of a press conference. Shameful."
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. The worst part is that all his previous ones have been campaign speechs too.
Ooh... he used the word "calculus". He must be so SMART...
Posted by: Optimizer at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (As94z)
During secret Sunday Roosevelt Room meetings with his top political and White House advisers, Obama has expressed concerns that the enthusiasm gap between his 2008 and 2012 support could cost him the election. He often peppers participants with pointed questions about campaign metrics — he’s especially interested in gauges of base enthusiasm, including the latest reports on volunteer enrollment in swing states and college campuses.
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Interesting. Wonder if there is any reporting out there about these numbers.
Posted by: tasker at August 20, 2012 01:47 PM (r2PLg)
There is data on enthusiasm and voter registration among dems. Its all bad
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (nTgAI)
Besides Wasserman-Test's obvious intellectual failings, not to mention that "poodle before the fleabath" hairdo, who in their right mind would have thought that making a sitting Congressperson your DNC chair would be a good idea? Presumably, the DNC job is a more than full time affair.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (TIIx5)
Posted by: Dave S. at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (+z6SD)
I know they're fun to read, but they might alert the Obama re-election team to the problems, and they might fix them, and be better and stronger and more dangerously efficient.
I prefer that my enemies not be interrupted while they're making mistakes.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (xm1A1)
So said the Ineligible Retard from Indonesia whose bio had claimed he was born in Kenya for years and years, who sealed every single record, refused to even try to prove his eligibility in any way, let a colonel go to jail rather than provide the simple documents proving his eligibility (that should have been submitted and available long ago).
This press conference has been a smorgasbord of transparent lies and blatant stupidity from Barky. As usual.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 09:49 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 09:50 AM (9TTOe)
Next question is Romney's tax returns and felon statement.
The lame stream media is pathetic.
Posted by: TexBob at August 20, 2012 01:32 PM (vNiOJ)
Have the asked him about his superpowers yet?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 20, 2012 09:50 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 09:50 AM (oZfic)
I am now thinking of writing a story about a total meltdown of a country caused by their Dear Leader getting the boot. And the only people left after the cannibals have eaten themselves are the ones who fled seaward. Living on nice boats. Coming ashore about a week after the meltdown. And setting up a new country backed with common sense and weapons discipline.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:50 AM (cubpP)
"Your boy might get his ass kicked."
If I'm Ryan, I'm responding that, "You might want to outsource that task, motherfucker. Because you ain't carrying enough ass for the job.
But by all means, PLEASE give it a go."
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (APmL9)
Dude, you do not give the papoose your rickshaw if you want to keep your jelly beans!!! Capiche??
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (06lNq)
No matter. Everybody loves him since he is so fucking likable. Posted by: The littl shyning man
Yeah, I think whatever dislike he has for Romney (again, this is Politico and the flunkies known as 'journolists so it could be bogus) is because there is no easy label by which to diminish Romney.
Can't call him stupid or old and senile. He's not a bible-thumping extremist.
And that could be infuriating for Obama and crew.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (Q/1Jp)
When do we declare the whole preference cascade thing active ? Seems like it might be getting a bit of traction
Hey, I've been hanging ten on this wave for weeks now.
Cowabunga, y'all!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (d0Tfm)
it is why I went full pessimist....they set this for months and will use the Aiken thing to yell "ROMNEY IS HIDING STUFF!" and the goddamned media will never remind folks of Secret Agent Choom King....
that was why I was raging on our hatred of the double standard not defeating the double standard.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Barky at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (1qHOu)
Obama: People assume that if you want to be POTUS, "your life is an open book"
Of course it should be. Mine was. It was all in the autobiography. Nobody cared to read it, and it wasn't all necessarily *my* autobiography, but hey, it's all there.
Now, I have important things to address...
...Fore!
Posted by: SCOAMF at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (SATYo)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (QupBk)
The right answer to that comment from Obama would have been, "Who you callin' 'boy', boy?"
Betcha that would have taken the starch out of Mr. Glass Jaw's sails.
Of course, we all know what the story would have been at that point.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (sbV1u)
Is the campaign news so slow today that we have to be talking about a MO repub gaffe. McCaskill is going down even if Akin admitted to serial rape.
Let the dems get sidetracked and start screaming about this. Meanwhile, RR will be out telling people about the total destruction of the economy that the SCOAMT and his regime has wreaked. Go for it, Team O.
Posted by: Soona at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (7POpr)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (Qzk6N)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (kqGWM)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 01:50 PM (/kI1Q)
You know they're looking up your skirt, right?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (da5Wo)
Ooh... he used the word "calculus". He must be so SMART...
Posted by: Optimizer at August 20, 2012 01:49 PM (As94z)
"Calculus" is Barky's new "strategic". Barky understands both terms as well as he understands "profit and earnings ratios".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 09:51 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Luap Nor is GAWD~! at August 20, 2012 09:52 AM (aHR5E)
Oh my god!
We are really going to start talking about rape!
Damn your eyes Akin, DAMN YOUR EYES!!!!
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 20, 2012 09:52 AM (06lNq)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 09:52 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 20, 2012 01:49 PM (UK9cE)
And young Barry ate puppies
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 20, 2012 09:53 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 09:53 AM (9TTOe)
Actually this is exactly the kind of situation that does not need any government interfearance. It's between a woman, her doctor and her family and maybe her clergyman if she brings him/her into it. In other words, the woman and her doctor first and any others she deems to include, period. Romny should probably come out and say this.
Please be sure to ask the child...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2012 09:53 AM (d0Tfm)
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Unless said Hispanic man is a Democrat. Or the speaker isn't. Then it's racist.
(Though when Hispanic became a "race" is anyone's guess.)
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:54 AM (aHR5E)
And, somehow, the Feminazis always go nuts if you suggest things like that. Remember when the name of the woman who accused the Duke lax players of rape had to be embargoed, because she might be "demonized" and other rape victims might not come forward?
And we were told of all those women who already don't get medical help or go to the police (though, if they don't get medical help, and don't go to the police, how do we know about them)?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 20, 2012 09:54 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 09:54 AM (EflcN)
Just to be safe, I'd recommend you issue an Executive Order keeping blue states as free fire zones for an extra 120 days.
I know AtC would do that.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 09:54 AM (sbV1u)
If we were to be honest about it, we'd have to admit that we're ALL plagued by Debbie Whatshername-Shultz.
Posted by: Marmo at August 20, 2012 09:54 AM (QW+AD)
The only questions now are:
a. Before or after the 1st week in November?
b. Public or private?
Posted by: ontherocks at August 20, 2012 09:54 AM (aZ6ew)
It's a non-story.
Back to Obama being a SCOAMT.
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (xAtAj)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (Qzk6N)
It's another way he lets you know he's really smart and stuff.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: tasker at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (r2PLg)
yup evidently....
ladies and gentlemen be sure to thank Huckadoodle and the fine GOP voters of MO for not trying to get the materials for attacking the pro-choice closet position before arguing the "legitimate rape" issue...
"thanks Huckabee"
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Marmo at August 20, 2012 01:54 PM (QW+AD)
WHO BROKE INTO MY MEDICAL RECORDS?!?! YOU NAZI!!!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (xAtAj)
Yes, a shitty fictional novel full of composite characters and lies about everything imaginable written by someone else in your name. And yours for only $24.95!!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 09:55 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 09:56 AM (QupBk)
Akin --> 8==D (_(!)_) <-- Women's Magic Vagina Powers
Today:
MSM --> 8==D (_O_) <-- Akin's Not so Magic Mangina
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 09:56 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 20, 2012 09:56 AM (kqGWM)
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Well, it's not like he's ever going to rape a woman, am I right?
Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 20, 2012 09:57 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 01:51 PM (X3lox)
Yeah, but his constituants have no clue WTF he is talking about.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 01:53 PM (9TTOe)
His constituents have no fucking clue. Period
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 20, 2012 09:57 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 01:55 PM (QKKT0)
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What happened to: "Let me be clear"...?
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 09:57 AM (jm/9g)
Yet, and yet, there were actually people defending him this morning right here at AoSHQ on that point.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 09:58 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy's fading libido at August 20, 2012 01:45 PM (3niml)
Now, that'll peel back some laminations.
Posted by: 66chevelle at August 20, 2012 09:58 AM (QjSgY)
Posted by: jewells45 at August 20, 2012 09:58 AM (l/N7H)
I'm thinking I don't even know who Psakai is, and Cutter I only noticed in the last week or so.
Could be respondents favored Gibbs because they thought he was the late Bee-Gee.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 20, 2012 09:58 AM (yxz7s)
If we were to be honest about it, we'd have to admit that we're ALL plagued by Debbie Whatshername-Shultz.
Posted by: Marmo at August 20, 2012 01:54 PM (QW+AD)
Her and Axelrod got in fight because he prefers Best Foods mayonaise in his hair and she likes the store brand to save money.
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 20, 2012 09:58 AM (nTgAI)
With rape there was no choice on the woman's part, and her freedoms are being infringed due to the actions of the other party.
Luckily this deals with .00003% of all pregnancies, so I can focus on the other 99.99997% first.
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at August 20, 2012 09:58 AM (xAtAj)
Did Barky release 10 years of Tax Returns in 2008?
I don't think he did.
I remember them trying to make a big deal out of McCain's wife's money.
But I don't remember if anyone was demanding 10 years of Tax Returns for Teh One....not anyone in his adoring chorus in the media.
Posted by: wheatie at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (mtRB0)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (cubpP)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy's fading libido at August 20, 2012 01:45 PM (3niml)
Now, that'll peel back some laminations.
Posted by: 66chevelle at August 20, 2012 01:58 PM (QjSgY
Looks like you already did in her hair
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (nTgAI)
The response I posted above that Akin should have given wasn't meant to be a comment about abortion, but just an example of how he could have come out of this gaffe.
What that reply did was pivot the conversation from the media's line that Akin was saying rape was illegimate to a position that is fairly mainstream and places the late term abortion advocates on the defensive.
When will republicans learn to contact me before they say anything?
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (ZDsRL)
Thank you! I was getting worried!
I'm back in bizness!
Posted by: Reggie Love at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy's fading libido at August 20, 2012 01:45 PM (3niml)
Thats like dangling a hotdog infront of a rabid pit bull....you sure you want to do that?
You might end up peeing sitting down forevermore
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 20, 2012 09:59 AM (p9J/w)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:00 AM (oZfic)
Well I don't know who to send the bill for my worst case wasted donation to Mitt....
1) the M$M for being so on Barry's jock they engage in over the top consumption of nonsense
2)Akin for either being a mole of a retard
3)Huckadoodle for thinking anyone NEEDS "his" 'help'
or just let it go and understand Choom was gonna steal it anyway in winning....?
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:00 AM (LRFds)
THE BBC. This is now THE top story.
Will it blow over?
I don't fucking know!!
CAN WE PLEASE, PLEASE HAVE STRATEGY SESSIONS.
All it takes is but a single slip up and the Leftist both here and abroad get on message and in attack mode toot sweet.
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 20, 2012 10:01 AM (06lNq)
Posted by: teej at August 20, 2012 10:01 AM (6Zy+s)
Then you'll be the Royal Loadmaster.
.....
Erm, make that Crew Chief instead.
Posted by: Reggie Love at August 20, 2012 10:01 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 01:59 PM (9TTOe)
___
lol, at first glance that looked like:
"Let me be taupe"
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 10:01 AM (jm/9g)
The state has no place in a discussion about its erstwhile citizens being killed?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 10:01 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: William Kennedy Smith at August 20, 2012 10:01 AM (DrWcr)
Nor has anyone else. But it doesn't matter. He'll be portrayed by the Dem-MBM complex as a very well known congressman whom all Republicans and conservatives look up to and admire.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 20, 2012 10:02 AM (xm1A1)
Posted by: Cicero
Unless its one of my liberal buddy hollywood surrogates like Sandra Bernhardt who said Palin should be raped by a gang of black men, which I will neither disavow nor condemn because you know rape is ok for republican women cause they like it.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:02 AM (ovpNn)
Barry on the mission ranks right up there when Hillary claimed she had to dodge sniper fire in Bosnia.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:02 AM (cubpP)
Catpiss thinks the state should butt out of your decision to kill someone.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 10:03 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 20, 2012 10:03 AM (p9J/w)
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 10:03 AM (EflcN)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:04 AM (oZfic)
Well, let's be consistent and extend that to all age groups.
Hmmmm....where to start? Where to start???
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 10:04 AM (sbV1u)
Does the child?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 02:02 PM (da5Wo)
Let me be perfectly clear. The child's place is drawing its last few breaths in a bucket in a storage closet.
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at August 20, 2012 10:04 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 20, 2012 10:04 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 20, 2012 02:01 PM (06lNq)
I'm hoping the Republicans and Romney are planning "Sweet 16" events to mark $16 Trillion dollars of debt about to appear on the usdebtclock next week.
Hard to believe $15 Trillion showed up November 16, 2011. Not even a year.
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 20, 2012 10:04 AM (8UijS)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 02:03 PM (QKKT0)
But she'll say rosaries for the dead babies, right?
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 10:04 AM (EflcN)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 01:50 PM (oZfic)
Eight months?! Holy crap! Are you outta your friggin' mind?!
Oh, what am I saying....it's you.
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (X6akg)
THE BBC. This is now THE top story.
Will it blow over?
I don't fucking know!!
CAN WE PLEASE, PLEASE HAVE STRATEGY SESSIONS.
All it takes is but a single slip up and the Leftist both here and abroad get on message and in attack mode toot sweet.
Posted by: General Woundwort
we dont need a strategy session. all we need is for him to drop out of the race before tomorrow and be replaced by steelman.
But our republican leaders are too clueless...
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (ovpNn)
35Folks, Akin is
1) not a well-known person, and 2) his remarks are not going to resonate with
America.
Now, Barky's stream of own-goals? People will remember those all the way thru
November...
This is as much about abortion as it is rape.
Just the Obama abortion own goals such as his creepy clinical discussion on tape of why it is justified to let babies who survive botched abortions die since that was the intention of the Dr. and `mother`, and of course the punishing of his own kids (he dragged them into it) with a baby. You don't even have to be pro-life to be against that stuff.
Tying his extreme abortion stands with the gay marriage evolution in an add targeting family values African Americans could up the disgust factor.
None of this is even dirty tricks.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (VLifP)
Posted by: Erst While at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (yxz7s)
Lots of threats to move to France. I hope they do, and discover that 75 percent taxation really cuts into the cocaine spending
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (oZfic)
I really think the state has no place in this discussion.
You're just a bit late to the party. The state has already inserted itself into this argument. See Wade, Roe, versus.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (d0Tfm)
Y'all know what I meant, though, right?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (/kI1Q)
No one is giving the state control over your health issues, you dumb shit. Killing a child is not a health issue.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (da5Wo)
Unreported rapes just enable rapists to continue raping. The DNA samples collected from rape kits allow for match hits that may happen years later when someone is picked up for unrelated crimes.
People need to step up to their civic obligations to support civilized society.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (LK8M1)
You do grasp there is NO chance to overturn Roe v Wade in one bite sans a Constitutional Amendment yes? That being ackowledged I hop, you do understand we must reeducate the electorate and use science to show brain use by the child to continue to remind people of the morality involved. Akin's actions undermine even the potential to undo Barack's baby in the closet method he voted to uphold.
I respect your view, but do please understand that Akin is the one who harmed any pro-life position not us.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:05 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:06 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:06 AM (cubpP)
So much for the one true conservative BS.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 10:06 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:06 AM (Qzk6N)
Wonder how many times Moochelle will bounce?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 20, 2012 10:06 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (8y9MW)
Pixy didn't already do that?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (da5Wo)
Is this one of them disorganized ellipticals or do crazy cat ladies fall into a different category?
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (SDkq3)
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (ZDsRL)
Good thing Akin was there to run interference for team obama and change the discussion....
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (oZfic)
Obama Campaign Plagued By Two Things: A Candidate Who Has Accomplished "Jack" and "Squat"
Posted by: Joey Choo-Choo, VP De Luxe at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (7GfKM)
Calculus" is Barky's new "strategic". Barky understands both terms as well as he understands "profit and earnings ratios".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 01:51 PM (X3lox)
Barack dos math skilz as good as better Pol Ryun. bank on it...bankster.
An he said ekw...equision, also.
Posted by: Obama constichuant at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (QjSgY)
I know they're fun to read, but they might alert the Obama re-election team to the problems, and they might fix them, and be better and stronger and more dangerously efficient.
I prefer that my enemies not be interrupted while they're making mistakes.
Posted by: Meathammer at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (W2qJe)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (p9J/w)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 02:05 PM (/kI1Q)
___
That's OK, I realized after I hit "post" that I'd spelled JJ's name like the football coach, not the NASCAR driver. It's all good in the hood.
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (jm/9g)
Murder is not a "health issue", but yes, I appreciate that the state will show some interest if my bullet-ridden body turns up in the woods.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (/kI1Q)
Catpiss thinks the state should butt out of your decision to kill someone.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 02:03 PM (QKKT0)
show me where I said exactly that?
Why don't you learn how to read english
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 02:05 PM (oZfic)
It comes to it's name now. Progress ?
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 20, 2012 10:07 AM (nTgAI)
Go over to the BBC.
THE BBC. This is now THE top story.
Yes, the BBC has a lot of influence over Missouri voters.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (6BgmB)
Since he's an R, it'll be all they'll talk about until they figure it's not helping their boyfriend's poll numbers or their ratings
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (wwsoB)
M-2? C'mon Anna, can't I man the CIWS?? Please!??!?!?!?
We do have a CIWS, don't we?
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (Qzk6N)
Posted by: just asking at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (l3RZ9)
I hate it when they publish stories like this.
I know they're fun to read, but they might alert the Obama re-election team to the problems, and they might fix them, and be better and stronger and more dangerously efficient.
I prefer that my enemies not be interrupted while they're making mistakes.
_____________
Agree. Interesting timing as well as stories of GOP chaos never seem to come out until the eve of the election and too late to make necessary correction.
Posted by: Meathammer at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (W2qJe)
"Good afternoon Professor Falkins, the only smart move is not to play."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (cubpP)
Why don't you learn how to read english
If your mom came to share the same view, she arrived there too late.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Sen. Dick "Blood and Guts" Blumenthal at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (SATYo)
I'm sorry, what are you talking about? And who is "us"?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:08 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 02:07 PM (/kI1Q)
The state should butt out. That's a strictly private matter between you and your killer.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2012 10:09 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 02:04 PM (oZfic)<<<<<<
So all your priest friends are on board with abortion as well? Tell us some more about what a knowledgeable and devout Catholic you are, stupid-ass.
Better yet, just fuck off, you worthless twat.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (APmL9)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (p9J/w)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (cubpP)
Any chance you're not going to continue the excitable bitch routine all day?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (Q/1Jp)
the problem is that our party seems to never understand the concept of coalition politics...dear lord the donks have created a unified mutual assisted suicide machine and we can't even get a coherent support exchange between RINOs who don't deliver EVs and conservatives...
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (LRFds)
With rape there was no choice on the woman's part, and her freedoms are being infringed due to the actions of the other party.
Luckily this deals with .00003% of all pregnancies, so I can focus on the other 99.99997% first.
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at August 20, 2012 01:58 PM (xAtAj)
... until you make abortion illegal but allow a rape exception. THen you;ll find the reports of rapes going through the roof. Think of medical marijuana, which is really just "recreational", with added kickbacks to doctors who write prescriptions for anyone who pays them that claim they "need" pot. Originally, it was argued to only be for the poor cancer patients who needed their weed ...
Further, men accused of rape have all of their COnstitutional rights stripped of them and are immediately branded "guilty" and fucked for life. Having rape exceptions for abortion will just encourage women who want abortions to claim rape - i.e. illegitimate claims of rape - and many of those will eventually make their way to courts, ensnaring many innocent men. Also, don't forget that the left defines rape as "feeling pressured" or even just changing your mind about the sex after a day or a week or so.
No. We don't even bother punishing women who bear false witness about fake rapes and ruin people's lives, which means that women suffer nothign from making those accusations which then turn the accused lives' inside out without any recourse or redress. To make calls of "rape" the only exception for abortions would be nothing short of inviting total disaster and chaos.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: ejo at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (pYluB)
Wow. Until now I never recognized exactly how clueless you are.
Doubt. Removed.
You're calling people here libs and dems, and YOU are the one espousing the lib position on abortion.
There are no words.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 20, 2012 10:10 AM (p9J/w)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 02:08 PM (/kI1Q)
That's damn right. Why should I have to spend thousands of dollars on contraceptives when you rich rightwingnuts can pay for it instead?
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 20, 2012 10:11 AM (DrWcr)
And the guy who drives the getaway vehicle, and maybe my clergyman, if I choose to bring hir into it.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 10:11 AM (/kI1Q)
How I digest my meat of orphan children is my business!!!
Posted by: cynder piss at August 20, 2012 10:11 AM (xAtAj)
I didn't care for Lou Dobbs' commentary. I just didn't seem to recognize the way this whole thing is played. The Dems say "we didn't call Romney a felon and a murder", and they didn't. What they actually DID was suggest he had committed a felony, and that he was responsible for a woman's death. Dropping hints and making actual accusations are different things. Dobbs didn't point out how Clinton-esque they were being, and instead just implied that they were simply liars.
Then he complained about Obama not apologizing, when he knows that these things are generally done by PACs (although I'm not sure about the recent ones), and are not his responsibilty. Obama can only say "I don't approve of such ads" (wink, wink, nod, nod). I think they said he at least went as far as saying that Romney wasn't a felon and a murderer (pretty impressive, huh?), but that happened before I tuned in.
He DIDN'T complain about this being essentially an unpaid campaign ad.
Posted by: Optimizer at August 20, 2012 10:11 AM (As94z)
It's like basking in yesterday's farts.
After the initial stink they're just passed gas.
Let the MFM run themselves in circles with it.
Posted by: ontherocks at August 20, 2012 10:11 AM (aZ6ew)
Posted by: tasker at August 20, 2012 10:12 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:12 AM (oZfic)
Because apparently this place is full of MORONS who can't get the simple fact that the baby is not guilty of the sperm launchers crimes.
You can disagree with the Pope on when life begins but once it's life the rest follows 100%.
Posted by: DaveA at August 20, 2012 10:12 AM (DVJEd)
Posted by: Ammo Dump at August 20, 2012 10:12 AM (YYyqq)
Any chance you're not going to continue the excitable bitch routine all day?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 20, 2012 02:10 PM (Q/1Jp)
I can use MOAR CAPS if it makes you happy....just let me know...
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:12 AM (ovpNn)
I'm so glad to hear that you want to give the state control over your health issues, your body. Well good for you.
Killing an innocent child is a "health issue" to you? Yours is a typical Leftarded overreaction and shows just how much you are unqualified to discuss the issue.
Just so you know, pregnancy is not some sort of abnormal condition, as much as you'd like to think it is. The abortion issue is about more than the mother's health, it's also about the life of an innocent child, something you conveniently and blithely ignore.
Or is that too much for you to grasp?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2012 10:13 AM (d0Tfm)
This is a Moron Approved pontoon boat. There are more than enough structural engineers here to make it so.
Or....
Looks like we need to get a bigger boat.
Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Roy Scheider at August 20, 2012 10:13 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:13 AM (QupBk)
Shockpoll: Obama could lose IL (http://tinyurl.com/9h6f55g).
What makes it interesting and almost believable outside of being a bad sample is that the numbers he gets out of Chicago proper are just under the typical at 60-30 Obama. Almost believable.
The swing has happened in the suburbs where Romney goes 45-38 -- which is what many of us (Jeff, myself) predicted Romney would do to that demographic slice (white, suburban, married, middle+ class).
"Across the county as a whole, Romney leads 43-31 among independent voters, a crucial voting bloc. Romney also holds a 44-38 lead among male voters, and a 53-40 lead among white voters."
Verdict: Shit Just Got Real
Posted by: Uriah Heep at August 20, 2012 10:13 AM (Wa+Fw)
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 02:11 PM (ZDsRL)
If thats true the ball has started rolling downhill and its going to pick up steam fast.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:13 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:14 AM (QupBk)
That doesn't bear even a passing resemblance to reality/sanity.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:14 AM (da5Wo)
Geez are you all libs/dems...you sure as heck sound like them.
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 02:07 PM (oZfic)
My gawd, you're a dimwit. You are seriously going to argue that the state should not be involved in the murder of an 8 month old baby in utero? Seriously? What about 8 1/2 months? 8 months 3 weeks? 8 months 3 weeks and 6 days? The day before delivery date?
Go have a chat with your priest friend....idiot.
I'd give ace my house if he'd ban you.
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2012 10:14 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 20, 2012 10:14 AM (p9J/w)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:14 AM (cubpP)
We're not gonna go all pirate here.
CIWS or nothing!
Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Roy Scheider at August 20, 2012 10:14 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:15 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: ejo at August 20, 2012 10:15 AM (pYluB)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 10:15 AM (9TTOe)
I am discussing "the BABY!" smack, and the GOP.
Abortion will not be defeated in one big bite, and our political coalition reaches from positions encompassing a soft pro-choice to hardest pro-life bent.
I respect your intelligence enough to not insult you by asking whether or not you understand the media is desperate to feed into Barry's war on women desperation gambit....
so please since you are so pure in your belief, which I largely share with some nod to political realities can you explain to me how what Akin did is in any way shape or form a help to stopping a borderline Marxist, aids the pro-life position getting any action, or convinces any "independent" woman who has been programmed to accept that "choice" are the white hats of the choice versus life position by her school time and the media?
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:15 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:15 AM (Qzk6N)
I could give one fuckel about what the BBC thinks, I only used it to show how the Lib/Prog/MSM machine works in synchronicity.
After giving no substantive interviews for months the President holds a hsty press conference and isn't it helpful that all of the questions play to his agenda.
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 20, 2012 10:15 AM (06lNq)
Good thing Akin was there to run interference for team obama and change the discussion.... Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 02:07 PM (ovpNn)
Right. And what national GOP figure do you see defending Akin? Have R/R done so? Hell, Romney should make a point of saying that when a GOP candidate says reprehensible things, he get admonished by other Republicans and apologizes immediately. When a Dem VP says reprehensible things - Obama and Co. defend him and his stupid comments. Another contrast between the adults and the children in this campaign.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 10:16 AM (EflcN)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 10:16 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:16 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:16 AM (Qzk6N)
You are so fucking stupid I don't know how you manage to flip the power switch on your computer successfully.
Once you've made assumptions about my stand on abortion that you had absolutely no right to make based on my comment
I quoted your own fucking words at you, then pointed out you don't even have a third-grade understanding of the social contract between the state and the citizenry. If you don't want people pointing and laughing at how stupid you are, don't say stupid shit.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 20, 2012 10:17 AM (/kI1Q)
>>>Wonder if the sky is blue in the world this mincing clown lives in?
Hey! What the fuck did we ever do to you?
Posted by: Mincing Clowns at August 20, 2012 10:17 AM (NF2Bf)
that is why the dark retarded conspiracy nut in me wonders if Akin is not a Huckabee stooge and Huck is trying to hurt the GOP for 2016.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:17 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:17 AM (cubpP)
Posted by: SFGoth at August 20, 2012 10:17 AM (dZ756)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 02:16 PM (oZfic)
You cannot walk back what you've said. You try to do this every single time. It NEVER works. You are sick....in so many ways.
Would he like 8500 sq ft. on 2 1/2 acres? Bite me.
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2012 10:18 AM (X6akg)
WTF? When did I say any of that? I was responding specifically to cat piss. And responded in exactly the same way as other commenters here did.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:18 AM (da5Wo)
You can call it "libertarian" so you can lie to yourself. Feel free. I'm sure it helps you sleep at night. But your position is the exact same as the Democrat party.
I'm not adding anything to your comment, because I don't have to. It is the left liberal position that there should be no restrictions on abortion.
Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Roy Scheider at August 20, 2012 10:19 AM (sbV1u)
LOLOLOL
All three Republican nominees were beating Claire in head to head by wide wide margins.
Akins was the slimmest of the three If i recall what i read that night when he won.
Pretty sure that 11 point lead he had on Claire is going to take a major hit now.
I have no doubt replacing this moron with Steelman would deffuse the issue, have great optics (replacing a moron male with a female) and get us the seat.
If you think Akin is guarnteed to do anything but bring down the national ticket, tie the GOP to his stupid rape comments for weeks and weeks and potentially cost us the senate race in Missouri...you my friend are looney toons...but i still love you.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:19 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Uriah Heep at August 20, 2012 02:13 PM (Wa+Fw)
____
wow. Last week there was a guy posting from IL predicting the state would go red. I'm going to the Ryan rally tomorrow in the Philly burbs to get a vibe from the attendees, see how much of the soccer mom contingent show up. It looks like they're the ones in IL moving to RR.
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 10:20 AM (jm/9g)
Akin made two mistakes, so maybe he should get out of the race.
First, he made a small gaffe in the way he phrased something on abortion to a local channel.
Second (and the reason he should go) is that he apologized for what he said.
In politics, you never, NEVER apologize. If you do, it confirms everything your opponents are saying. It says you agree with the way they are characterizing what you said, what they interpret your mindset to be and whatever extrapolations they've made in connection to the statement.
There are a lot of stupid politicians out there, but the ones who get ahead are those who know enough to have someone smart get them out of tight spots like this.
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 10:20 AM (ZDsRL)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:20 AM (QupBk)
8 month on demand abortion no questions asked in case of claimed rape (with no evidence offered to support the rape claim).
You never responded to my counter that there's a civic duty to report rapes and have rape kits collected for later comparison in the DNA data base. Nor do I expect I'll ever get a rational response about that.
Let me pose a simpler question - do you believe its in the best interest of civil society to track down and prosecute rapists? Yes or no? Not much middle ground there.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 10:20 AM (LK8M1)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 02:02 PM (da5Wo)
Let me be perfectly clear. The child's place is drawing its lastfew breathsin a bucket in a storage closet.
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at August 20, 2012 02:04 PM (DrWcr)
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This might be a God-send topic. If the dems make too much hay about this, then the SCOAMT's vote on live-birth abortions while he was in the IL legislature can be brought down out of the attic. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Soona at August 20, 2012 10:21 AM (7POpr)
Posted by: Marmo at August 20, 2012 10:21 AM (QW+AD)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:22 AM (Qzk6N)
Posted by: the Butcher at August 20, 2012 10:23 AM (8g9qq)
Posted by: wierd flunky at August 20, 2012 10:23 AM (X+nFp)
http://hnsa.org/ships/pcf1.htm
I wonder if he avoids that boat?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:23 AM (cubpP)
Right. And what national GOP figure do you see defending Akin? Have R/R done so? Hell, Romney should make a point of saying that when a GOP candidate says reprehensible things, he get admonished by other Republicans and apologizes immediately. When a Dem VP says reprehensible things - Obama and Co. defend him and his stupid comments. Another contrast between the adults and the children in this campaign.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 02:16 PM (EflcN)
Donna Donna Donna
My dear dear Donna,
How many times must it be said that Rs dont get to ploay the game by the same rules as Ds.
You cant win THEIR GAME playing by their rules because its THEIR RULES and as long as they control the media its never going to change.
We dont get passes like they do, and you might as well stop expecting to.
This guy needs to go.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:23 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: thunderb at August 20, 2012 10:23 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 20, 2012 10:24 AM (YjDyJ)
Posted by: Marmo at August 20, 2012 02:21 PM (QW+AD)
It's not rape if you have Hollywood support!
Posted by: Roman Polanski at August 20, 2012 10:24 AM (DrWcr)
Last month we had Romney at 87% of GOP vote in Wisconsin, now 93%. That is probably the true Ryan effect- party unification
Posted by: tasker at August 20, 2012 02:12 PM (r2PLg)
Two other factors: Tommy Thompson is leading Madison scrunt Tammy Baldwin by double digits in the Senate race. Tommy will have coattails. And the Walker recall election in Wisconsin really made the state GOP organization into a formidable one. If R/R take Wisconsin, they should send flowers and chocolates to the Democrats, particularly Mike Tate, Graeme what's-his-face and the fleebaggers, who ended up strengthing the GOP like nothing else could have.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (EflcN)
I'm sorry I am not picking at just you, you used IIRC the child as a rebuttal to the idiot.
If it is not your sincere position, I am sorry.
People who bust out "the child smack" in sincerely defending Akin strike me as at best naive about the obstacles we face, and at worst idiots.(not inferring YOU)
"does the child" yes....
never mind if we are just playing "bash the troll" fine, for any serious discussion by a GOP candidate such acidity is often a detriment IMHO.
In personal life I argue the moral case hard, I do draw the line at rape/incest but I think the RU-486 pill eliminates the need for mechanical abortion as a procedure. Politically it is important to respond with an answer as dishonest in its own way as the democrats' magically granted by the media one.
"Abortion is the law, I am opposed to it in inverse proportion to the probability the child can be safely brought to health if delivered as a preemie."
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (UU0OF)
Posted by: Jason M at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (Be0fb)
the principle that matters
My hunch is if you get rid of him it's a non-story by tomorrow or the day after.
Unfortunately, he's killing the media momentum on the Medicare Offensive. It's of number one importance right now and needs to keep on going until the convention picks up the slack.
The media itself just started going anti-Obama with the Newsweek cover, Biden-being himself, the quasi-story about Obama hiding, it was all picking up steam and now we're talking about fucking abortion?
Any Republican can win in MO this turn if you stamp an 'R' to them with McCaskill as opposition and Romney's coattails. Last polling was like R+10.
Posted by: Uriah Heep at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (Wa+Fw)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at August 20, 2012 02:04 PM (DrWcr)
Let's not misrepresent the Obama platform, please.
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 10:25 AM (QKKT0)
Akin withdraws. Steelman is appointed as the replacement candidate. Issue is neutralized. A just-as-conservative candidate beats McCaskill. Fellow Republicans can boast that they ousted a retard from the party.
Win-win.
Posted by: angler at August 20, 2012 10:26 AM (SwjAj)
meaning if a baby is past the 6th month point I am totally against it and as science advances more so the longer we can bring a preemie forward.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:27 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: thunderb at August 20, 2012 10:27 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: the Butcher at August 20, 2012 10:27 AM (8g9qq)
Akin withdraws. Steelman is appointed as the replacement candidate. Issue is neutralized. A just-as-conservative candidate beats McCaskill. Fellow Republicans can boast that they ousted a retard from the party.
Win-win.
Posted by: angler at August 20, 2012 02:26 PM (SwjAj)
^This
As obvious as the trunk on the elephants face.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:27 AM (ovpNn)
If I was Rubio, I'd box that jughead's ears so bad he'd be dizzy until election day.
Posted by: Fritz at August 20, 2012 10:27 AM (RuVpG)
"Led the mission" is, of course, a reference to his technically being in command of it. The joke is that his "leading" amounted to being dragged off the golf course, to sit off on the side in a room where he pretty much didn't belong, because his underlings (who were really running things) might need him to OK something. But there's a nice picture of him being irked at having his game interrupted.
I still chuckle at the bizarre gushing by CNN over that photo. They celebrated "diversity", even though there would have been more black people (real ones!) and women in the room back in the Bush days. Then they threw out a bunch of racial stereotypes (that would have occurred to nobody else), but apparently that's "OK" if you're saying that this is disproving them.
Kind of like how the folks claiming that voter ID is racist are ACTUALLY saying that they think minorities are too incompetent to manage to obtain a driver's license or free ID card.
Posted by: Optimizer at August 20, 2012 10:27 AM (As94z)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:28 AM (oZfic)
One unclaimed Mega Millions jackpot, worth $52 million, was hit July 27 in Freemont, Calif.
California also has an unclaimed $23 million jackpot from its May 30 SuperLotto Plus game.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:28 AM (cubpP)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:28 AM (QupBk)
If you can abort after that, then there's some serious thinking you should be doing.
None of which will necessarily reflect well on you.
(I use the "editorial you" here)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 20, 2012 10:28 AM (sbV1u)
I used the child, because that's the point. Abortion is murder. Period. End of story. I don't need to back that up with some sort of explanation or political expediency or anything else.
I never defended Akin. What he said was stupid. But abortion? I. WILL. NOT. GIVE. ONE. INCH. If you don't like my stance.../shrug.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:28 AM (da5Wo)
As a MO resident, I can tell you that you are exactly right. Either Steelman or Bruner would easily beat McCaskill. It's a no-brainer that Akin should withdraw immediately.
Posted by: angler at August 20, 2012 10:29 AM (SwjAj)
exactly...one of the signs that had me go from wanting to not donate to McCain to going nuts in donations was when I studied Obama's "record"....
gotta love Akin so "pro life" he helped that moster try to change the topic and keep his job....
I mean if the media asked Obama to justify his vote on the matter spelling out what the vote was over Akin made a good play....otherwise back to "the understood you" of "well barack hates abortion but wants it legal" the media magically grants all donks being the idiot undecided wing's baseline.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:29 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:29 AM (Qzk6N)
Cool, let us know! IL will likely not go red, right, but we can learn a lot from the demographics that applies to states that do matter such as IA, OH or WI or PA!
The Silent Majority....
Posted by: Uriah Heep at August 20, 2012 10:30 AM (Wa+Fw)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 10:30 AM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:30 AM (QupBk)
Unstated in the article, is the cause of the internal conflict within the administration.
Massive glitches and delays in the
Unicorn Distribution Program.
Many democratic voters are upset that they have yet to receive their Unicorn.
Posted by: og oglesby at August 20, 2012 10:30 AM (cGWDQ)
Vallerie Jarret: I am sorry but His Highness is on the 12th hole, can you fly around for a few hours while he finishes his game and has lunch? They are serving his favorite today at the country club, Lobster on a bed of fresh arugula.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:30 AM (ovpNn)
: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 02:23 PM (ovpNn)
First of all, cut your fucking condescension, you ass, like you're telling me something I don't know. Of course, the MSM has double standard, duh. What I'm saying is that R/R should throw that right back at them - we disowned our guy's remarks, why didn't you do that with Biden's? Again, turn it around and play offense instead of this endless cringing and apologizing and panty-wetting.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 10:31 AM (EflcN)
Posted by: toby928© at August 20, 2012 10:32 AM (QupBk)
Akin withdraws. Steelman is appointed as the replacement candidate. Issue is neutralized. A just-as-conservative candidate beats McCaskill. Fellow Republicans can boast that they ousted a retard from the party.
Win-win.
Posted by: angler at August 20, 2012 02:26 PM (SwjAj)
More like lose-lose.
Akin said nothing wrong, save his attemptd PC runaround espousing the lefty idea of "mind-over-body", which every lefty holds as a fundamental fact of Nature. He made a mistake in saying "legitimate rape" when he meant "actual rape" verusus "illegitimate claims of rape to get the abortion exception".
Don't let the PC left push you around. What Akin said was generally correct. His mistake was trying to tone down his opposition to the abortion exception (since women will then be making illegitimate claims of rape just to get the abortion exception) and taking on the idiotic leftist idea of mind-over-body - remember all those books about how you can laugh your way to a cure in cancer and how people only get sick if they really want to? Lefty ideas that most of them take seriously.
Akin shouldn't be pushed out because people don't understand what he said. His main point was correct - an abortion exception would be inviting disaster and pregnancies from actual rapes is exceedingly tiny - not by the left's definition of rape, though, which includes claiming that one "felt pressured" to have sex or a woman who just changed her mind after the sex.
Leftists destroy law and society through "exceptions". They've been doing this for a long time and I'm surprised that anyone would fail to recognize this.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 10:32 AM (X3lox)
I think it is murder as well, friend but yelling at the top of your lungs especially as a politician with the unfair environment created by the alliance of the media, teachers, and democrats simply shouting MURDER! does less than nothing in breaking our coalition....
I dislike asparagus immensely, if in moral outrage of my hatred of asparagus I force the matter in such a way it guarantees I am served asparagus to prove a point I have won my war on pointy mushy green veggies precisely in what way?
We must be guarded enough not to alienate the middle ground, and win our position over time. Vacating seats over righteous moral outrage further empowers the Barack of the broom closet dying room wing of America.
regards,
sven
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:33 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: wierd flunky at August 20, 2012 10:33 AM (X+nFp)
"Akin said nothing wrong..."
Then the fucking idiot shouldn't have came out the next day apologizing for it. He's apparently too stupid to realize this, so it's better he drop out.
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 10:35 AM (ZDsRL)
Aw Geez---Little Debbie only came in "last" in the polls for Obama campaign surrogates?
Where else would Little Debbie come in dead last? Howabout:
Dead Last for "Miss Congeniality"
Dead last in an American history class.
Dead last in integrity and truth telling in the Obama campaign (admittedly that's a bar that's lower then whale shit in the bottom of the ocean, but our Little Debbie is a competitor).
And hopefully dead last in her campaign for re-election in Florida. Karma is a bitch--and so is Little Debbie.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at August 20, 2012 10:35 AM (oe1aw)
First of all, cut your fucking condescension, you ass, like you're telling me something I don't know. Of course, the MSM has double standard, duh. What I'm saying is that R/R should throw that right back at them - we disowned our guy's remarks, why didn't you do that with Biden's? Again, turn it around and play offense instead of this endless cringing and apologizing and panty-wetting. Posted by: Donna V
Donna dear, I wasnt condescending, I was trying to sound comforting. Please don't call me an ass especially when i have not attacked you personally in any way.
Now on to the point you counterpointed, you just did it again.
Do you actually think complaining to the press that they arent making obama denounce biden is going to phase them? THey dont care my dear, they are in it to win it for their lovely barack.
They dont care if we cry like a bunch of babies that our opponents got a free pass. They arent fair. They are in the tank.
You cant win calling for an umpire. The umpire is baught and paid for and you get to start the game 27 points down before the whistle blows.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 10:36 AM (ovpNn)
The ones claiming rape as a reason on an 8 month abortion who never reported the supposed rape.
Obviously, they think their shame/guilt/whatever trumps the civic responsibility to track down and prosecute rapists.
Of course, it COULD just be that the vast majority of such claims that can't produce any supporting documentation of the past "rape" are in fact phony as a $3 bill.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 10:39 AM (LK8M1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 10:40 AM (Qzk6N)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:41 AM (oZfic)
Bull. Shit. There is no "middle ground" here either politically or in belief. You either support abortion or you oppose it.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 10:41 AM (da5Wo)
Re: Romney / Illinois
State of IL is ______
Cook County is ______
City of Chicago is ________
answer : broke, in the red, scroomed
MATH is easy
Posted by: copernicus at August 20, 2012 10:42 AM (cGWDQ)
Posted by: Uriah Heep at August 20, 2012 02:30 PM (Wa+Fw)
___
If I get any decent pics I'll post them.
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2012 10:43 AM (jm/9g)
Then the fucking idiot shouldn't have came out the next day apologizing for it.
Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2012 02:35 PM (ZDsRL)
That's true. He should have just clarified, which he didn't fully do. But, then, so many people on the center-right force these people to "apologize" for having done nothing wrong. Joe Wilson was forced to apologize for accurately calling the Indonesian Imbecile a liar about giving illegals health care (and that was even before the Dog-Eater's illegal and impeachable rape of American law to just leaglize illegals on his whim). Joe Barton was forced to apologize for correctly identifying Barky's extortion of BP from inside the Oval Office (one of the most repulsive and disgusting acts from inside the White House, ever - also a clearly impeachable act).
I get sick of GOPers apologizing for stuff that is correct and not only shouldn't be apologized for but should be said over and over. But ... the squishes on the center-right constantly demand this becuase they're a bunch of cowardly idiots who know how to lose better than anything and don't give a shit about principles or truth.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 10:43 AM (X3lox)
And then you list the things he said that were wrong. Rape victims supernaturally and magically undergo a mystical process which prohibits conception? Come on. Just because lefties believe in those kinds of things doesn't make it right. And his legitimate, illegitimate distinction is unexplainable. If this is an issue he truly cares about, and he has been a multiple-term congressman, you would think that he would be able to explain his position in a way other than the most offensive possible manner.
In addition, in an election which hinges on key issues - the economy, the debt, jobs, entitlements - why the f*ck is he talking about abortion? Is he too stupid to realize that his comments would be used over and over again against him and every other Republican. Jeebus, Romney/Ryan had to come out immediately and distance themselves from him.
If he is too stupid to realize that you should be disciplined in your campaign message, how and when to pick your battles, or that if sex really is non-consentual you likely won't get pregnant, he shouldn't be running. I don't care that you think what the Democrats are doing to him is unfair. Maybe it is. But I care that neither he or you realized that they would. This was a stupid, unforced error that gift-wrapped the election for McCaskill.
Posted by: angler at August 20, 2012 10:43 AM (SwjAj)
And then you list the things he said that were wrong.
Posted by: angler at August 20, 2012 02:43 PM (SwjAj)
Do me a favor and quote me correctly and fully enough to address whatever point you are trying to make. You cut off the exact and explicit caveat I provided to the snippet you pasted. What I actually wrote was:
Akin said nothing wrong, save his attemptd PC runaround
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 10:48 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:48 AM (oZfic)
So all the results the Innocence Project has gotten are untrustworthy?
Right. I didn't think so. You are 100% full of shit. You positions are so inconsistent they're irreconcilably schizophrenic. Seek professional help.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 10:51 AM (LK8M1)
Bullshit right back at you. I am realistic enough to know you can not beat the alliance we face by standing in front of a train moving with the force of 39 years of bullshit backing it in a single election. I will not allow myself to blow up on this again and I will decide if/when Akin steps down whether to go on.
No child will be saved through politics played so dumbly it further empowers the baby butchers, PERIOD.
I respectfully yield to your brilliance on thinking as you do.
regards,
sven
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 10:53 AM (LRFds)
Obama, leading from behind, even in his own re-election bid.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2012 10:53 AM (hSm+F)
Please be specific. I don't see rape prosecution as a "health care" issue.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 10:54 AM (LK8M1)
Neither do I believe a word of what the MFM says about anything.
For me, it's a wash.
Posted by: trainer at August 20, 2012 10:55 AM (IVoJS)
They want it all, and they want it now. They got no long game.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 10:56 AM (LK8M1)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:57 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 10:59 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Haiku Guy at August 20, 2012 10:59 AM (vdbff)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 11:02 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 11:03 AM (EflcN)
Radio morning deejay: So Mr. President, if you had a super power, what would it be?
BHO: What do you mean "if"?
(By the way, someone upthread asked about the red/green question, whether it was code. Actually, it was New Mexico, and the question had to do with what type of chile sauce one prefers. Obviously a burning issue in presidential politics!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 20, 2012 11:06 AM (hgSh3)
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 03:03 PM (EflcN)
_____________________________
Exhibit A: see 392. Catpiss and jeremiah think as one on this issue.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 20, 2012 11:07 AM (EflcN)
Our beloved President Obama, who I support completely, will go on to four more years of leading us to a better future.
<br>
WITH NO THANKS TO #1 UP THERE- IF YOU'RE GOING TO IMPERSONATE ME, YOU VILE RIGHT WING WHORE, SPELL MY NAME RIGHT!!!!
<br>
And I drive a Subaru station wagon when it is necessary.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 20, 2012 11:08 AM (jCQ+I)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 11:08 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: cynder ella at August 20, 2012 11:10 AM (oZfic)
Ha, ha, ha....right. You're unbelievable, just unbelievable. My recommendation to seek professional help stands.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 11:12 AM (LK8M1)
She's gotten 40% of the public to agree that Dog-Poop Flavored Ice Cream tastes great, which has got to count as one of the greatest marketing triumphs of all time.
Posted by: Haiku Guy
Less filling!
Posted by: Debbie What's-her - name Schultz! at August 20, 2012 11:22 AM (RFeQD)
"ObamaÂ’s trash-talking competitiveness, a trait that has defined him since his days on the court as a basketball-obsessed teenager in Hawaii . . ."
I've done some of my best trash-talking riding the pine . . .
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at August 20, 2012 12:17 PM (qwK3S)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at August 20, 2012 12:17 PM (qwK3S)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at August 20, 2012 12:19 PM (qwK3S)
Good job, rons, defend Akin, paint us all as stupid ass Neanderthals, and we can all cheer the great GOP boat Titanic as it sinks in November!
Let's grab some defeat from the jaws of victory!
Posted by: Bulldog in Kansas at August 20, 2012 12:53 PM (z1C58)
Posted by: Baldy at August 20, 2012 01:47 PM (opS9C)
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Posted by: willow at August 20, 2012 09:26 AM (TomZ9)