Democracy in America

Eau de Stupidity? (on the part of the producer)

More bad news for Dems on Tuesday. Forecast, not polls but weather.
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In more bad news for Democrats, rain is in the forecast for much of the country on Election Day.
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Weather tracking websites, including weather.com and The Old Farmer’s Almanac, are calling for rain in the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast regions, with chances for precipitation in other parts of the country as well.
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According to Laurel Harbridge, a Northwestern University political science professor, GOP voters are not typically discouraged by rain. “Republicans are helped by bad weather … it does harm Democratic prospects.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/125791-more-bad-news-for-dems-rain-in-the-forecast-for-election-day

Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University, echoed Harbridge. “Bad weather almost always hurts Democrats,” she said. “The traditional Democratic base tends to include lower-income people and the elderly. Both of those demographic groups have a hard time getting to the polls.”
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Celebrating disenfranchising the poor and the old?
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Besides the landslide is a sure thing, no need for Mother Nature, right?

Sooo, you want rain so that democrats get fewer votes? You don’t really care about the democratic process, just about the winning part?
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Are your ideas so rotten that you’re afraid that you might not win as big as you thought?
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Don’t worry – you’re suppose to win by landslide or lose because of Acorn. No need to hope for rain.

To get back our country away from you FREAKS, I’ll hope and pray for any advantage what-so-ever!! Count on it!!

Who is the “our”?

According to this blog, this tactic is not a “first.” Didn’t I read on this blog a few weeks ago that someone from New York, (Paladino?) sent out a scratch and sniff regarding Cuomo and the stink of scandal, or backroom dealmaking, or something like that? And that olfactory sense is very effective and people really remember it so this might be a very effective campaign tool? I am almost positive I read it here in Swampland.
Not saying that this story from Orange County, CA isn’t; just saying that it isn’t a “first.” Maybe a better angle could have been: Stinky electioneering tactic spread coast to coast,” or “Does New York stink smell any different from Orange County stink” or “Will this end up being an effective tactic, or will it just turn people off”?

Rusty @ 2.3~
To quote your hero: “There you go again…”

Sometimes you write some very good entries with facts and figures which at least make me stop and think, or, better yet, head me toward some research.

But then you go and ruin your credibility with an entry which simply contains name calling and tantrum-like behavior. “Freaks??” Foolish, sometimes, I’ll give. But “freaks”??

Could write an entire dissertation on how this moniker is undeserved, but because of lack of space I’ll just simply say you’re back to square one with me.

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow shall deter the Sleeping White Giant (TM).

“FREAKS”
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Huh?
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You are simply not all there. No wonder why you and Freeinpa etc don’t really see yourself as bigots and racists; very much like people have done historically you see others as different and not really the same as you. So hitting them, step on their necks, use violance to get your way including hoping for the worst condition possible to win is all par for the course.
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It’s all about you and yours. You couldn’t really give a sh!t about the rest, which is by definition ‘our’ America. So using your logic – you’re the freak; as un-american as it gets.
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But I tolerate you (with a laugh) ’cause that’s my nature and the way we do here in our America. Have you ordered your ticket to Somalia yet?

How right you are.

This sort of thing just doesn’t attract independents. It only gives base supporters a chance to snicker and opponents a chance to be royally offended. Those in the middle rightly end up thinking they don’t want the sort of boor who would send this ad to be in office.

Rusty Newfreakenblog,
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Voting is what makes America America.
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If there is bad weather preventing people from voting, it is bad for America.
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Yet, you cheer like a little school girl getting a new barbie doll at this news.
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Why do you hate America, Rusty?
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America haters like you who, also, hate government can go to tax free, no gun control Somalia.
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Want a ticket? I’ll buy you a one way ticket to Somalia any time you want.

“If there is bad weather preventing people from voting, it is bad for America.”
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Quick call for a Congressional investigation. Undoubtedly a Republican conspiracy plot.

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Or some other delusion you can dream up like liberals are the true Americans for ascribing to socialist ideas of equal outcome and not equal opportunity, wealth re-distribution and entitlements for all while conservatives who want liberty and freedom are anti-American.
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You are still testing positive for stupid!

“Or some other delusion you can dream up like liberals are the true Americans for ascribing to socialist ideas of equal outcome and not equal opportunity..”
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Your idea of “socialism”:
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Social Security. Invented by Democrats in 1933.
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Transitional Assistance (IE food stamps, public housing and known as welfare) and related programs invented by Democrats from 1933 through 1968.
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Bailing out companies, first done by Richard Nixon, last done by Bush and Obama are part of your definition of “socialism” from the 1970s to today.
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Health Care Reform.
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Unemployment benefits, invented by Democrats in the 1930s to be one half of previous earnings.
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A taxpayer on average earns about $50,000 a year while a welfare recipient makes on average $10,000 per year. $10,000 is equal to $50,000 and, hence, “equal outcome”. Great, I’ll trade you my ten thousand dollars for your fifty thousand dollars any time.
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For unemployment benefits: half is equal to all?
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Social Security… let’s not even bother with that.
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These programs are about if you lose your job through no fault of your own, you get six months to live on half of your old income so that you will not starve and become homeless while looking for a new job or, if you are too ill to work that you will not die of starvation.
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For bailing out car companies and banks, that is the most pro-corporate anti-socialist agenda one can have. It is about allowing companies a second chance since these companies were run by morons, they can be replaced by intelligent managers and not have the tens of thousands of workers and tens of thousands of subordinate businesses go bankrupt.
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If liberals are not the “true Americans” then America has not been America since 1930.

“Or some other delusion you can dream up like liberals are the true Americans for ascribing to socialist ideas of equal outcome and not equal opportunity, wealth re-distribution and entitlements for all while conservatives who want liberty and freedom are anti-American.”
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That’s a mindboggling leap of faith from wishing for rain so democrats don’t vote to whatever this means. I’m guessing you’re with freedom here that rain is a good thing, as long as it stops anyone from voting for the democratic party.
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“You are still testing positive for stupid!”
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Interesting point of view after such journey.

hmm sounds to me like if they want to call people out as socialists i guess it’s ok to call them fascists since they don’t really believe in the democratic process at all. to them i guess voting is only for people with the black shirts who like to goosestep.

“For bailing out car companies and banks, that is the most pro-corporate anti-socialist agenda one can have.”
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With that exquisite reasoning every failing business should knock on the doors of Congress with the hand out. It’s the American way (your version). No responsibility, no risk, equal outcome.

Your stupidity reigns.
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“from wishing for rain so democrats don’t vote to whatever this means”
. Again with reading comprehension issues. I never wished for rain that was the Rev Jim. Who you are now rivaling for absolute stupidity.

They may have gotten the idea from Sestak’s crappy ad (no pun intended)
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In the ad, Sestak compares cleaning up after his family dog Belle to cleaning up the economic mess that he says his GOP rival Pat Toomey and former President George W. Bush played a big part in creating.

Rusty,

What do you mean, “Take back our country”? From whom are you taking “our” country back? Last time I looked Barack Obama won the presidential election by a sizable margin. If I remember correctly, he didn’t get elected by a technically by the Supreme Court, like, say, George Bush in 2000. Despite the shinanigans of the 2000 race, Al Gore accepted defeat gracefully, and Liberals were not ralling in the streets.

Just imagine if Barack Obama had won the way Bush did? Man, the Right Wing with its crazy conspiracies would have gone mad. We already know extreme wingnuts are already hoarding guns for when the “Communists” (who no longer exist) come to take “our” country under their control.

The “FREAKS” that you speak about have never controlled anything worth while in this country. This country has always been controlled by monied interests. If you have been paying attention, you would notice that Goldman Sachs have controlled our economy since the Clinton administration. I would hardly classify them as “Socialists”.

Do you really think electing Republicans is “taking back our country”? Somehow, I don’t remember the Bush years, when Republicans controlled the White House and Congress as years of great fiscal discipline. Maybe having a Republican house with a Democratic president is good for the country, since that was the last time the budget was balanced. Actually, having a Republican House will increase the chances of re-electing Obama (See 1996) and maybe we can all be happy after November 2. (By the way, since 1961, all our balanced budgets, have been under Democratic presidents.)

You what would be nice. If politicians could stick to issues and not resort to gimmicks to get elected. Unfortunately, Newt Gingich re-instituted the art of nastiness into American national politics. Instead of my “honorable opponent”, he taught the tactics of branding your opponent as “weird”, “bizarre”, and “extreme”. Now Democrats are just as bad, however, the Tea Party has taken it to a new level. Now it is a battle of “good” vs. “evil” with no room to compromise. Unfortunately, Compromise is the only way to effectively govern and no one side had all the answers.

It would be nice for Democrats to listen to Republicans. It would be nice if Republicans would work with Obama to make this nation better, instead of worrying that if they do the right thing, he will get all the credit.

But I guess that is a lot to hope for.

“With that exquisite reasoning every failing business should knock on the doors of Congress with the hand out. It’s the American way (your version). No responsibility, no risk, equal outcome.”
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Wrong once again.
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Almost everybody made jokes about getting bailed out starting when your man Dubbya started bailing out banks and continued through our current president with the car companies since only the largest companies like Redwood trees are so large that their fall will crush many others in the process which get bailed out despite incompetent managers.
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There are three problems:
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First, small banks got eaten by bigger banks starting with Reagan loosening anti-trust regulations creating a few Redwood Tree sized banks instead of a forest full of pine tree sized banks.
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Second, due to economies of scale – which no government can prevent – only a few car companies can exist at the same time. With the massive amounts of capital to create car factories, open dealerships and so on, it hasn’t been since the mid 1920s when America had a large number of car companies. So with cars, airplane manufacturers (two worldwide) the set costs are so astronomically high that only a huge company making a very large number of cars will survive.
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Third, with redwood tree sized businesses ready to crush half the forest with a collapse, in order to prevent catastrophe, you must ignore what economists call “moral hazard” and give these businesses a second change to remove all of the dumb managers and the dumb ideas to replace them with people who do things like exclusively lend money to people who will pay them back (who thought that the government needed to require this?) and, say – call this a wacky idea, but – have Americans design and build cars that people really want to drive rather than producing yesterday’s Japanese and German cars with an American car company name on it today.
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One aspect of industries which have such a high entry cost (huge amounts of capital like car companies) leading to a tiny industry with limited competition is that these car companies without any known natural predators become like the Australian duck billed platypus – a freak of nature or, a freak of business. They no longer have to be lean, mean and efficient. They can be lame and still make sales in the billions.
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“I never wished for rain that was the Rev Jim. Who you are now rivaling for absolute stupidity.”
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First, I can not imagine why you compare a commercial real estate agent to a fictional stoner from a 1970s TV show and call me “Rev Jim”.
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Second, it was your buddy Rusty who you are rivaling for insanity who wished for rain on election day.

“In the ad, Sestak compares cleaning up after his family dog Belle to cleaning up the economic mess…”
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First, Sestak wasn’t bringing foul odors into people’s homes.
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Second, Sestak is right about what your party did to our economy.
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Third, cleaning up a right winger’s crap is exactly what I feel like I am doing when I respond to you and the rest of the wingnuts.

No one knew, but they sent bales of those flyers to Sarah Palin.
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Every day, when she went to the bathroom, she rubbed as many as she could on her possy…

“It would be nice for Democrats to listen to Republicans. It would be nice if Republicans would work with Obama to make this nation better, instead of worrying that if they do the right thing, he will get all the credit.”
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Remember Bob Dole?
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I disagreed with him more often than I agreed with him, but, he was a bright man who negotiated with Democrats and was always a gentleman.
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I believe that if was after his 1996 defeat to Clinton that Republicans discovered that telling the truth, not using scare tactics and not convincing your base that your opponent is your enemy, they lose and brought in Karl Rove.
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Dole: boring, apparently sexually impotent (until he discovered Viagra) significantly too conservative for me, but bright and honest. Where are those Republicans today?
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Personally, I think that, for now, Democrats need to know how to fight dirty until the Republicans buried by both facts and appropriate insults cry uncle and go back to the Bob Dole ways of losing with their integrity in tact.

First you underestimate the ability of a liberal to smell up th eplace even through a TV screen.

Second, if Sestak couldn’t control that wimpy little dog (who had a striking resemblance to D. Wasserman Schultz) he has no chance of handling the economy.

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Third You may have finally found something you aren’t a failure —cleaning up crap. Quite suited to you intellectual abilities. Rev Jim goes Septic Man!.

“Almost everybody made jokes about getting bailed out starting when your man Dubbya started bailing out banks and continued through our current president with the car companies since only the largest companies like Redwood trees are so large that their fall will crush many others in the process which get bailed out despite incompetent managers”
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In your typical way to sound erudite and intelligent you once again succeed in being a babbling fool making less sense than usual. The only Redwood is that block head of yours.

You are tedious again

“I believe that if was after his 1996 defeat to Clinton that Republicans discovered that telling the truth, not using scare tactics and not convincing your base that your opponent is your enemy, they lose and brought in Karl Rove.”
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Yes and they discovered it from Clinton courtesy of Begala (Cro-magnon man) and Carville (Serpent Head).

“First you underestimate the ability of a liberal to smell up the place even through a TV screen.”
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Or how far the smell reaches from Pat’s basement. He hasn’t let his mom down there for months to clean up.
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Sanchez, definitely has the aroma of dumb. She said that the republicans and the Vietnamese were trying to take her seat, so she made up for the statement by wearing the colors of the Vietnamese flag to her debate.

“Or how far the smell reaches from Pat’s basement.”
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Hey, meltdown, if you had an IQ above 11, you might realize that New York City homes are apartments, condos and coops, not stand alone houses. So, I don’t have a basement, but, you have reminded me that conservative intellectual is an oxymoron.
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So, Freak, at least you admit that I am very good at cleaning up after the crap you put online.
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In about six months, if you really want to, I’ll show you my tax returns and we’ll see which one of us is a failure.

“The only Redwood is that block head of yours.”
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“The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) towers over all other trees in the world. At 112.1 meters (367.8 feet) the coast redwood discovered on the banks of Redwood Creek by the National Geographic Society in 1963 was the tallest known tree, known as the Stratosphere Giant. However, in 2006 the world’s reigning tallest living tree, seems to have lost its title to not one but three contenders.”
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Your saying that my cranium is large enough to contain a 367.8 foot tree?
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http://sunnyfortuna.com/explore/redwoods_facts.htm
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You know insults are more insulting if they are not so moronic.
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It reminds me of how dumb you are, freakinpa.
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A redwood tree can crush homes if it falls.
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GM can crush the economies of cities and towns.
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If my cranium contains so much that a Redwood could fit inside, then you are crushed by the relative difference in intelligence.
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Please finish the 6th grade and then post after you have some knowledge of the world around you.

To freshen up?

“Yes and they discovered it from Clinton courtesy of Begala (Cro-magnon man) and Carville (Serpent Head).”
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So, while Ken Star with a staff full of muckrakers on the federal payroll spent full time trying to prove that the Clintons were terrible people because they lost their shirts on a real estate deal until they discovered about a blow job, what lies were the Clintons saying about Dole?
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The Clinton-Dole campaign was, mutually, one of the cleanest campaigns on both sides in decades – no significant lies.

It’s an Odarama Rorschact test. You’ll notice that Teabaggers will love the “eau de ahem, ahem” whilest those receiving the recycled ones in their mail will say they smell like dead fish.