Thanks just heaps and heaps and heaps.

Kent18 on March 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Well, being an absentee Republican voter from PA, it was just another election in a long line of throwing the lever for the lessor of two evils. I’m really quite used to it.

Seriously, we Republican, Independant and Libertarian Conservatives had best get our heads out of our butts and unite to present a candidate we cn all agree on. The Conservative priciples are the things. I don’t care if it’s R,I or L after the name. So long as it doesn’t come with a hammer and sickle.

Republicans! You mean like John McCain who suspended his campaign to rush to Washington to vote FOR TARP I? Yea…whatever!

sabbott on March 18, 2009 at 8:06 AM

I always prefer referring to him as John “We have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House” McCain, myself.

He actually told any/all still-wavering or undecided voters at that precise moment, essentially: “Hey, you wanna go ahead and vote for the openly unapologetic Socialist over there, just so we can all… y’know… feel all warm and snuggly ’bout ourselves, solely because of the color of his skin? S’cool, folks. S’cool. Party ON, dudes!”

He. Freaking. GAVE. Obama. The. Election. Right. THERE.

Thanks, Republicans.

Thanks just heaps and heaps and heaps.

Yay, they can destroy the economy again.

getalife on March 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM

If there’s one left when your fellas get finished.

Republicans: Borrow and Spend.

The key word in each definition is ‘SPEND.’

Most of the Republicans are Democrat Lite™ anyways. They will be pressured to do the same socialistic crap Bush did.

Investors now favor Republicans by a 46% to 36% margin, while non-investors societal leeches would vote Democratic by a 45% to 33% margin…

Fixed.

ddrintn on March 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM

Because you say so?

Give an example or three.

barkolounger on March 17, 2009 at 6:02 PM

I thought we were going to have 5 days to look at the stimulus bill before Obama signed it.

I thought there would be no lobbyists in this transparent administration. Copies of certain waivers in this regard withheld.

The Blago situation is still pretty murky.

Pretty much run of the mill. Nice rhetoric, though.

In my opinion (such as it is), revolutions (political, peaceful, bloody) have several players: One group sitting around a coffee pot trying to figure out what to do next; A group in power sitting around a coffee pot trying to figure out how to keep power and keep the other group from doing next; and a group of “fighters” with lots of romantic experience on revolutions. Why I said to get your base together – the third group are not warriors (regardless of their own perceptions), they are not soldiers, and they are not organized and trained. If you are going to go to civil war, you better know and trust who is standing next to you, whether in group 1 or group 3. Without an organized base, you will never know that. As a veteran, I can assure you that trained US soldiers beat armed civilians every time (if the soldiers have the backing of a population base).

Let your anger drive you to organization. You will then win the political game or the revolution, whichever happens. Logistics and training win every time. You know – “whoever gets there furstest with the mostest.”

I wan an idiot college kid in ‘96. I voted for Clinton.

myrenovations on March 17, 2009 at 6:01 PM

I was still an idiot college kid in 76 and I voted for Jimmy Carter. Please don’t hate me.

*ducks for cover*

Old Country Boy on March 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM

Take a look at how the Soviet Union fell… essentialy it was part economics, and part an crises of confidence in the system.

Or the various Warsaw Pact countries… like Poland… there were some riots, but no large scale insurrection, or Roman type outside barbarians at the gates…

Or heck, even the “awakening” in Iraq, when the people got fed up with the Jihadists…

In every “Revolution” there is a tipping point… it seems to come when enough (not even a majority) of the people get fed up with the status quo… and when the silent majority looses confidence in the existing system.

Sometimes that aciton is political, sometimes somthing else… and often it goes places the origional leaders of the movement did not want it to go (French revolution and Napoleon? Lennin and Stalin?)

The key quality the Founders put into our system was the ability to peacefully change that system… but the Two political parties have gerrymandered the system, and created laws whose intent is to preserve their dual power sharing structure (look at campaign laws, and especialy campaign finance laws).

Question now is can the ability to change be put back into the system.

Old Country Boy on March 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM

Ohhhh…. catastrophe like the realization that the GOVERNMENT is complicit, if not responsible, for most of the economic mess we find ourselves in?

The Catastrophe that will develop when suddenly the Baby boomers retire on HALF of what they had only a couple of years ago?

Or would that be the Cap and Trade, that Barrak AND McCain wanted? That the Whitehouse now admits will raise taxes by 1.9 trillion or so for just the first 8 years?

Those Catastrophes? The ones the Dems enabled, and the Repubs stood by and did nothing substantial about?

I really don’t think many understand the amount of pure anger out here…

Thinking you and your like minded friends are a viable base is self delusionment.

Old Country Boy on March 17, 2009 at 6:06 PM

Bet the Whigs said the exact same thing…

The stats speak for themselves… 2/3rds of the American voters say they want SMALLER Government, yet both Repubs and Dems consistantly GROW the Federal Gov.

41% now self identify as somthing other than Repub or Dem (last poll I saw… changes by who does the polling, and from State to State).

You may very soon see the binary decision set change. People are fed up with BOTH parties.