New TIME Poll: In Senate Battlegrounds, Independent Voters Boost Republican Prospects

Vote for Angle: One more addition to the Liars’ Club.

Don’t you just love the irony of it all? In 2008, when independents were the catalyst in electing Obama, democrats fell all over themselves, praising the wisdom of our choice. Now, after two years of inept and dishonest government, we are poised to start dismantling his machine and democrats are saying some pretty unflattering things. Stupid, ignorant independents, being some of the milder retorts, but we take your nasty disposition with a grain of salt. Independents are playing a significant role in “righting” (pun intended) the ship! The leftward list MUST be corrected and we are just the one’s to do it. Progressives, start manning the lifeboats. Your brand of politics has foundered on the rocks. Goodbye (good riddance) and happy rowing.

“Stupid, ignorant independents, being some of the milder retorts…”
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Absolutely not true.
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Please show a link to when independents as a group have been condemned in Swampland.
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Stupid, Ignorant and pathological liar is what we say of you, but, among other fairly obvious lies of yours after claiming to be a doctor is that you claim to be an independent or anything other than a Republican ideologue who, possibly, did not register Republican despite constantly voting Republican.

Stupid, no. But they sure as hell are fickle drama queens.

Progressives are notoriously poor losers and when you combine that tendency with the mental illness obviously afflicting fatpatrick ,you get his patented response. Fatpatrick is a balding,myopic, obese recluse who has never had any success and lives a very lonely life. He probably has never had a relationship and gets his perverse thrill by attacking other people. Your symptoms are fairly straight forward fatpatrick, but without medication, you will remain the loser you have always been. Do get some help…it could give you a new lease on life.

“…you will remain the loser you have always been.”
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Then you tell me that you are the face people see and the voice they will hear at an Emergency Room to tell them that their loved one didn’t make it?
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I can see it now.
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Patient’s daughter: “Doctor, is my father still alive?”
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Dr Earl Mengle Jr: “No, your stupid Mother falking dad didn’t wear his seat belt. No falking personal responsibility! You’d be better off without the dead mother falker.”
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Earl, with one – just one – college biology class I have been running circles around you when it comes to questions about medicine as well, just in case anybody believed that you are a doctor.
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If I were seeking to be recluse, working in sales and living in Queens would be the last place in the world I would do so.
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I do wonder who you really are and if they let you out very often.
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I can rule out anything in the medical profession.

Back on topic, Dr. Earl Mengle Jr: please link us to a place in Swampland when liberals were speaking poorly of independents or, if you mean Democratic Elected officials, please send us a link to them insulting independent voters.
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If not, admit that you are a sad little man in a sad little world of your own who goes online to play doctor since you don’t have any woman to play doctor with.
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It is obvious that you, yourself project very often. So, I can not imagine you being at all a happy person if you have so many bad things to say about everybody.
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Also, keep in mind that Swampland is more liberal than conservative. If somebody has the goal of upsetting people, it would be a liberal on a conservative blog or, like you, a conservative on a liberal blog. Clearly you must be telling me something about yourself in your claims about me.

You are a fraud earl.

Mr. Sartor –

As much as it pains me to even remotely lend any type of credence to EarlJr., here are a couple snippets from Tuesday’s thread “How Obama is Spinning the Midterms”:

3.1 Chupkar: “It tells me independents “beliefs” shift with the wind. It’s sickening.”

3.2 Jsfox: “That Independent voters pay little or no attention and are swayed by the wind rather than facts.”

3.3 Nflfoghorn: “As I always say, independent = indecisive. They get way too much credit for the inability to make up their minds.”

As someone who considers himself an independent, I have to admit that the above comments struck me as “speaking poorly of.” I’m sure there are lots of “independents” that these comments apply to, but for myself (and, I’m sure, many others), it’s not a case of indecisiveness or wishy-washyness, but rather we take our time, research the candidates, and vote for the one we feel best represents us.

Again, sorry for seeming to take Earl’s side on this. I hate giving any fuel to the agitators here, but I thought it needed to be said.

Cheers!

There are independent and then there are indecisive. I’d say that most that call themselves independent are in fact people who usually vote for one part or another but can’t really decide why. And there’s certainly no reason to talk down on independent, but as mentioned…less than a week left and some folks are going to make up their mind not based on facts but their emotions and in the voting booth.
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Then there are the cowards; the people such as earl that call themselves independent but show absolutely not one single independent bone in their body. That use the same talking points, the same ‘facts’ and the same sources for their information as people who call themselves conservative. They’re usually more of the libertarian types. Trying to co-opt the conservative movement but see themselves as not part of it. More like the real deal – the center of the earth types. But the fact is that they’re a fringe and I bet some of them kind of feel that way. It’s always important for these types to call themselves independent as if they don’t take specific sides, but are persuaded by some ‘reality’ outside the usual political squabble. Unfortunately armed with the same political BS and nonsense as the most diehard conservative.
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Earl exemplifies this; he’s hoping for the indecisive and their fears to win, so he can get his libertarian hopes up. And he’s definitely not a doctor, in any way shape or form. At best some kind of alternative medicine kind of guy like Rand Paul. But I doubt even that. I think he pretends to be a doctor so he can tell us how bad the HR. There’s nothing that persuades me more than someone calling me names like libtard and that they’re a ‘doctor’.

“Again, sorry for seeming to take Earl’s side on this. I hate giving any fuel to the agitators here, but I thought it needed to be said.”
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There is a world of difference between you and Earl, so, I do not at all lump you in with him.
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My favorite of Earl’s was saying that liberals were “a waste of a life”.
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With that previous statement in mind, in terms of normal human discussions, indeed, you found examples during days I was not online or, possibly, comments I did not notice when online which were negative about independents.
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I can see that they could be seen as mildly alienating, but, for Earl to say something without being hypocritical with his own remarks in mind, they would have had have been something extreme like wishing death on independents (which, thankfully was never said).
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Both sides in this very polarized political environment find independents very confusing since Democrats are leaning towards using government to create a more stable economy via a means similar to someplace like Canada, England or one of the less socialistic countries of the Western World (not like, say, Sweden which is too extreme for nearly all Democrats) and Republicans who aim for a pre-New Deal world of the government of the 1920s despite many successes in government over the past 80 years. So, to me, I see independents like a hitchhiker first thumbing a ride to go ten miles North, then thumbing a ride to go twelve miles South….
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Independents, obviously not defined by a party or spokesperson of any kind, either, I find confusing.
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I do stand by “confusing” since that is my subjective view and I do not, unlike how conservatives say of us, that I have any idea who you are, what your income is, how you dress, who you sleep with… nor how you come to the conclusion to switch your vote between two diametrically opposed ideologies today.
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In the late 1960s (from what I understand – before my birth), the 1970s (when I was still a young child) and even into the 1980s when the two parties were more like at a 90 degree angle from one another, I can more easily understand somebody switching between parties.

earljr1,

Poor losers? It isn’t the progressives or liberals or Democrats saying they will “use their second amendment rights” if they country doesn’t go their way.