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		<title>By: DrSteve</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6319934</link>
		<dc:creator>DrSteve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at ...&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Concern troll is concerned.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at &#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Concern troll is concerned.</p>
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		<title>By: p_incorrect</title>
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		<dc:creator>p_incorrect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Oh, and congratulations on becoming an American citizen.

magicbeans on October 2, 2012 at 9:15 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Thanks! Unlike many who have resorted to cheap attacks here, I chose to be an American. I worked very hard, through entirely legal means, for my right to call the US my country. I don&#039;t need lectures about this or that. I will not vote for Romney/Ryan, that&#039;s the en of the story. 

Those who are defending the lesser of two evils approach should think about how that worked out with traitors like John Roberts, the court that produced that travesty known as &quot;Roe v Wade&quot;, or closeted liberals such as Anthony Kennedy and David Souter. No sir, RINOs are not a blessing. They are like a cancer. I never felt very strongly about Romney to begin with. Not because I don&#039;t think he lacks qualifications -although given the incompetence with which he is running his campaign I am beginning to question even that- but because he has absolutely no core principles. I saw the addition to Ryan to the ticket as a positive sign but here are the facts: instead of witnessing the &quot;conservatization&quot; of Romney we are witnessing the RINO-ization of Ryan. Picking Ted Olson as his debate coach was the last straw. 

Looking at the history of conservatism in the US, it didn&#039;t advance through the Nixons, Fords or Bushes of the world but through principled conservatives like Ronald Reagan. Those who are defending the Romney/Ryan ticket blindly should ask themselves why is that the Republican Party is ashamed of its two living former Presidents so much so that they don&#039;t want them to show up at any campaign event. That&#039;s what RINOs give us.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Oh, and congratulations on becoming an American citizen.</p>
<p>magicbeans on October 2, 2012 at 9:15 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks! Unlike many who have resorted to cheap attacks here, I chose to be an American. I worked very hard, through entirely legal means, for my right to call the US my country. I don&#8217;t need lectures about this or that. I will not vote for Romney/Ryan, that&#8217;s the en of the story. </p>
<p>Those who are defending the lesser of two evils approach should think about how that worked out with traitors like John Roberts, the court that produced that travesty known as &#8220;Roe v Wade&#8221;, or closeted liberals such as Anthony Kennedy and David Souter. No sir, RINOs are not a blessing. They are like a cancer. I never felt very strongly about Romney to begin with. Not because I don&#8217;t think he lacks qualifications -although given the incompetence with which he is running his campaign I am beginning to question even that- but because he has absolutely no core principles. I saw the addition to Ryan to the ticket as a positive sign but here are the facts: instead of witnessing the &#8220;conservatization&#8221; of Romney we are witnessing the RINO-ization of Ryan. Picking Ted Olson as his debate coach was the last straw. </p>
<p>Looking at the history of conservatism in the US, it didn&#8217;t advance through the Nixons, Fords or Bushes of the world but through principled conservatives like Ronald Reagan. Those who are defending the Romney/Ryan ticket blindly should ask themselves why is that the Republican Party is ashamed of its two living former Presidents so much so that they don&#8217;t want them to show up at any campaign event. That&#8217;s what RINOs give us.</p>
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		<title>By: Voter from WA State</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6319640</link>
		<dc:creator>Voter from WA State</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.

p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;


If you are not voting for Romney/Ryan, you are voting for Obama/Biden.

This &quot;RINO&quot; stuff os what gave us O&#039;Donnell and Angle.  Lot of good that it did for us.

If Obama is re-elected and our nation continues to go down the road to destruction, you will be part of the fault.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.</p>
<p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>If you are not voting for Romney/Ryan, you are voting for Obama/Biden.</p>
<p>This &#8220;RINO&#8221; stuff os what gave us O&#8217;Donnell and Angle.  Lot of good that it did for us.</p>
<p>If Obama is re-elected and our nation continues to go down the road to destruction, you will be part of the fault.</p>
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		<title>By: magicbeans</title>
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		<dc:creator>magicbeans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.

p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I wish you would reconsider. We have a lot of unemployed people hurting really bad. I think Romney/Ryan would do wonders for our economy. Just consider it. We need to begin with small steps pulling our country back to the right of center. Oh, and congratulations on becoming an American citizen.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.</p>
<p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>I wish you would reconsider. We have a lot of unemployed people hurting really bad. I think Romney/Ryan would do wonders for our economy. Just consider it. We need to begin with small steps pulling our country back to the right of center. Oh, and congratulations on becoming an American citizen.</p>
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		<title>By: Mitoch55</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6319168</link>
		<dc:creator>Mitoch55</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Great, now we have self-appointed guardians of the conservative cause :D. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The right to vote is a right, not an obligation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; And it’s certainly not an obligation to vote for RINOs. I will be filling out the initiatives ballot, which is the only place where my vote will really count. But let me be clear about one thing: even if I was living in Ohio, I would not be voting for Romney/Ryan. Romney has never been a conservative. The theatrics he showed during the primary were just that. The base was not easily fooled, and tried non Romneys for a while until they finally caved in to the wishes of the Republican Party elite. Guess what, now we have him showing his true colors. And he hasn’t won the election yet! Maybe the best that could happen to the conservative cause is another 4 years of Obama so people really wake up and bury RINOs for once and for all.

p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 5:03 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

Wrong again.  It is a citizen&#039;s &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;responsibility&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to vote.  Moreover, it is that citizen&#039;s &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;obligation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to make an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;informed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; choice.  Yeah, you may dislike RINOs.  Most of us do.  But if you can&#039;t see the bigger picture of voting for a RINO senatorial candidate to help gain control of the currently do-nothing Senate, then you&#039;re beyond help.  Go back to school.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Great, now we have self-appointed guardians of the conservative cause :D. <strong><em>The right to vote is a right, not an obligation.</em></strong> And it’s certainly not an obligation to vote for RINOs. I will be filling out the initiatives ballot, which is the only place where my vote will really count. But let me be clear about one thing: even if I was living in Ohio, I would not be voting for Romney/Ryan. Romney has never been a conservative. The theatrics he showed during the primary were just that. The base was not easily fooled, and tried non Romneys for a while until they finally caved in to the wishes of the Republican Party elite. Guess what, now we have him showing his true colors. And he hasn’t won the election yet! Maybe the best that could happen to the conservative cause is another 4 years of Obama so people really wake up and bury RINOs for once and for all.</p>
<p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 5:03 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Wrong again.  It is a citizen&#8217;s <strong><em>responsibility</em></strong> to vote.  Moreover, it is that citizen&#8217;s <strong><em>obligation</em></strong> to make an <strong><em>informed</em></strong> choice.  Yeah, you may dislike RINOs.  Most of us do.  But if you can&#8217;t see the bigger picture of voting for a RINO senatorial candidate to help gain control of the currently do-nothing Senate, then you&#8217;re beyond help.  Go back to school.</p>
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		<title>By: Mitoch55</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6319121</link>
		<dc:creator>Mitoch55</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I came from a socialist country, whose citizenship I explicitly renounced after becoming American&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, so I don’t need to be lectured about that. This thing about voting for the lesser of two evils will not work with me. 4 more years of Obama will be a disaster to be sure but that’s probably what we conservatives, and America, need to wake up. No matter how you look at it, the fact that the Romney campaign is using Theodore Olson to coach Paul Ryan is a complete travesty. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My vote doesn’t matter anyway&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but it makes me sick to my stomach that the Romney campaign is using the services of a man who has spent the most part of the last two years trying to nullify the will of California voters on traditional marriage. I learned about that over the weekend on Fox News Sunday. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;

p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Obviously you didn&#039;t learn a damn thing in your citizenship classes.  If it&#039;s so bad, renounce your American citizenship and go somewhere else.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong><em>I came from a socialist country, whose citizenship I explicitly renounced after becoming American</em></strong>, so I don’t need to be lectured about that. This thing about voting for the lesser of two evils will not work with me. 4 more years of Obama will be a disaster to be sure but that’s probably what we conservatives, and America, need to wake up. No matter how you look at it, the fact that the Romney campaign is using Theodore Olson to coach Paul Ryan is a complete travesty. <strong><em>My vote doesn’t matter anyway</em></strong> but it makes me sick to my stomach that the Romney campaign is using the services of a man who has spent the most part of the last two years trying to nullify the will of California voters on traditional marriage. I learned about that over the weekend on Fox News Sunday. <em><strong>My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.</strong></em></p>
<p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously you didn&#8217;t learn a damn thing in your citizenship classes.  If it&#8217;s so bad, renounce your American citizenship and go somewhere else.</p>
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		<title>By: mxt</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6319072</link>
		<dc:creator>mxt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;I sincerely hope that Scott Brown loses to Warren. RINOs are a cancer to the Republican Party. He, and his pals from Maine, gave us the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. I take somebody like Joe Manchin over Brown any time. In addition, this weekend I learned that Paul Ryan is being coached for his debate by Theodore Olson, of “anti Prop 8″ fame. So, it makes me question whether I will be voting for Romney/Ryan after all. Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (“decline to state” as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.

p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM &lt;/blockquote&gt;

I used to agree with this but no longer. Brown, Snow, and Collins are what I call &quot;gateway conservatives&quot;- they give historically Democrat-identified New Englanders a socially acceptable GOP voting choice, which is pretty damn important if you&#039;re from here. They take the &quot;scary&quot; out of the GOP if you will...  The Democrat/liberal prejudice against all things GOP or conservative is drilled into us through the schools at a very young age. You can stand back and be disgusted or you can be impressed that Scott Brown has successfully walked a political tightrope like none other in the country. The fact is, once these new Brown voters start paying attention to how biased the Boston Globe coverage (and national media coverage) is against Brown, they start to see the political landscape for what it really is. That is no small feat and while I&#039;ve made my share of Brown jokes in the past,]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I sincerely hope that Scott Brown loses to Warren. RINOs are a cancer to the Republican Party. He, and his pals from Maine, gave us the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. I take somebody like Joe Manchin over Brown any time. In addition, this weekend I learned that Paul Ryan is being coached for his debate by Theodore Olson, of “anti Prop 8″ fame. So, it makes me question whether I will be voting for Romney/Ryan after all. Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (“decline to state” as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.</p>
<p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM </p></blockquote>
<p>I used to agree with this but no longer. Brown, Snow, and Collins are what I call &#8220;gateway conservatives&#8221;- they give historically Democrat-identified New Englanders a socially acceptable GOP voting choice, which is pretty damn important if you&#8217;re from here. They take the &#8220;scary&#8221; out of the GOP if you will&#8230;  The Democrat/liberal prejudice against all things GOP or conservative is drilled into us through the schools at a very young age. You can stand back and be disgusted or you can be impressed that Scott Brown has successfully walked a political tightrope like none other in the country. The fact is, once these new Brown voters start paying attention to how biased the Boston Globe coverage (and national media coverage) is against Brown, they start to see the political landscape for what it really is. That is no small feat and while I&#8217;ve made my share of Brown jokes in the past,</p>
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		<title>By: clnurnberg</title>
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		<dc:creator>clnurnberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;I sincerely hope that Scott Brown loses to Warren. RINOs are a cancer to the Republican Party. He, and his pals from Maine, gave us the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. I take somebody like Joe Manchin over Brown any time. In addition, this weekend I learned that Paul Ryan is being coached for his debate by Theodore Olson, of “anti Prop 8″ fame. So, it makes me question whether I will be voting for Romney/Ryan after all. Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (“decline to state” as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.

p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM &lt;/blockquote&gt;

This is the attitude thatwil lead to  loss. If they&#039;re not perfect it is better to have a catastrophe with a (D) after its name. Of course this is infantile sulking in &quot;conservatives&quot;, but it is also a demoralizing lib ploy to encourage GOP voters to &quot;each the party  lesson&quot;. It got us Obamacare and just generally Obama. It got us this dependency chic which might prove harder for the nation to kick thann heroin. p.correct smells of obamunism]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I sincerely hope that Scott Brown loses to Warren. RINOs are a cancer to the Republican Party. He, and his pals from Maine, gave us the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. I take somebody like Joe Manchin over Brown any time. In addition, this weekend I learned that Paul Ryan is being coached for his debate by Theodore Olson, of “anti Prop 8″ fame. So, it makes me question whether I will be voting for Romney/Ryan after all. Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (“decline to state” as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.</p>
<p>p_incorrect on October 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM </p></blockquote>
<p>This is the attitude thatwil lead to  loss. If they&#8217;re not perfect it is better to have a catastrophe with a (D) after its name. Of course this is infantile sulking in &#8220;conservatives&#8221;, but it is also a demoralizing lib ploy to encourage GOP voters to &#8220;each the party  lesson&#8221;. It got us Obamacare and just generally Obama. It got us this dependency chic which might prove harder for the nation to kick thann heroin. p.correct smells of obamunism</p>
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		<title>By: p_incorrect</title>
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		<dc:creator>p_incorrect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Respectfully, you are no conservative. No conservative would be so blasé about the right to vote– defended by the blood of millions, over the past 200-plus years.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Great, now we have self-appointed guardians of the conservative cause :D. The right to vote is a right, not an obligation. And it&#039;s certainly not an obligation to vote for RINOs. I will be filling out the initiatives ballot, which is the only place where my vote will really count. But let me be clear about one thing: even if I was living in Ohio, I would not be voting for Romney/Ryan. Romney has never been a conservative. The theatrics he showed during the primary were just that. The base was not easily fooled, and tried non Romneys for a while until they finally caved in to the wishes of the Republican Party elite. Guess what, now we have him showing his true colors. And he hasn&#039;t won the election yet! Maybe the best that could happen to the conservative cause is another 4 years of Obama so people really wake up and bury RINOs for once and for all.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Respectfully, you are no conservative. No conservative would be so blasé about the right to vote– defended by the blood of millions, over the past 200-plus years.</p></blockquote>
<p>Great, now we have self-appointed guardians of the conservative cause :D. The right to vote is a right, not an obligation. And it&#8217;s certainly not an obligation to vote for RINOs. I will be filling out the initiatives ballot, which is the only place where my vote will really count. But let me be clear about one thing: even if I was living in Ohio, I would not be voting for Romney/Ryan. Romney has never been a conservative. The theatrics he showed during the primary were just that. The base was not easily fooled, and tried non Romneys for a while until they finally caved in to the wishes of the Republican Party elite. Guess what, now we have him showing his true colors. And he hasn&#8217;t won the election yet! Maybe the best that could happen to the conservative cause is another 4 years of Obama so people really wake up and bury RINOs for once and for all.</p>
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		<title>By: socalcon</title>
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		<dc:creator>socalcon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt; My vote doesn’t matter anyway ...




&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Respectfully, you are no conservative.  No conservative would be so blasé about the right to vote-- defended by the blood of millions, over the past 200-plus years.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p> My vote doesn’t matter anyway &#8230;</p>
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<p>Respectfully, you are no conservative.  No conservative would be so blasé about the right to vote&#8211; defended by the blood of millions, over the past 200-plus years.</p>
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		<title>By: p_incorrect</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318987</link>
		<dc:creator>p_incorrect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;If you think you are sick of voting for “RINO’s,” just imagine how sick you would be after 4 more years of President Obama’s socialist policies.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I came from a socialist country, whose citizenship I explicitly renounced after becoming American, so I don&#039;t need to be lectured about that. This thing about voting for the lesser of two evils will not work with me. 4 more years of Obama will be a disaster to be sure but that&#039;s probably what we conservatives, and America, need to wake up. No matter how you look at it, the fact that the Romney campaign is using Theodore Olson to coach Paul Ryan is a complete travesty. My vote doesn&#039;t matter anyway but it makes me sick to my stomach that the Romney campaign is using the services of a man who has spent the most part of the last two years trying to nullify the will of California voters on traditional marriage. I learned about that over the weekend on Fox News Sunday. My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If you think you are sick of voting for “RINO’s,” just imagine how sick you would be after 4 more years of President Obama’s socialist policies.</p></blockquote>
<p>I came from a socialist country, whose citizenship I explicitly renounced after becoming American, so I don&#8217;t need to be lectured about that. This thing about voting for the lesser of two evils will not work with me. 4 more years of Obama will be a disaster to be sure but that&#8217;s probably what we conservatives, and America, need to wake up. No matter how you look at it, the fact that the Romney campaign is using Theodore Olson to coach Paul Ryan is a complete travesty. My vote doesn&#8217;t matter anyway but it makes me sick to my stomach that the Romney campaign is using the services of a man who has spent the most part of the last two years trying to nullify the will of California voters on traditional marriage. I learned about that over the weekend on Fox News Sunday. My vote will not go to neither Obama/Biden nor Romney/Ryan.</p>
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		<title>By: wren</title>
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		<dc:creator>wren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (“decline to state” as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.

&lt;strong&gt;p_incorrect&lt;/strong&gt; on October 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM &lt;/blockquote&gt;

If you think you are sick of voting for &quot;RINO&#039;s,&quot; &lt;strong&gt;just imagine how sick you would be after 4 more years of President Obama&#039;s socialist policies.&lt;/strong&gt;

If you have any questions about living in a Socialist country, &lt;strong&gt;talk to a couple of the millions of immigrants who have fled Socialist countries&lt;/strong&gt;, so you have a better appreciation of what we are fighting for in this election.

This is not an optional election!  If Americans make a tragic decision to re-elect President Obama, our country really may not be able to ever recover the freedom we have already lost, let alone &lt;strong&gt;the additional damage Obama will do in a second term when he has already said he would have &quot;more flexibility.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;

Californian votes may or may not make a difference in the electoral vote.  But &lt;strong&gt;Californian votes absolutely make a difference in the popular vote&lt;/strong&gt;.  And we should all be working hard to avoid the possibility of having different candidates win the electoral v. popular votes. 

&lt;strong&gt;None of us are ever so lucky to be able to vote for candidates who agree with us 100% of the time.&lt;/strong&gt;

So take a serious look at the options that are available in this election, and get out there to vote for the candidates who will do the best job of governing your country for the next 4 years.

&lt;strong&gt;If you want a different set of candidates in future elections then you will have to work harder to support your favorite candidates during future Primary seasons.&lt;/strong&gt;

Let&#039;s roll!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (“decline to state” as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.</p>
<p><strong>p_incorrect</strong> on October 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM </p></blockquote>
<p>If you think you are sick of voting for &#8220;RINO&#8217;s,&#8221; <strong>just imagine how sick you would be after 4 more years of President Obama&#8217;s socialist policies.</strong></p>
<p>If you have any questions about living in a Socialist country, <strong>talk to a couple of the millions of immigrants who have fled Socialist countries</strong>, so you have a better appreciation of what we are fighting for in this election.</p>
<p>This is not an optional election!  If Americans make a tragic decision to re-elect President Obama, our country really may not be able to ever recover the freedom we have already lost, let alone <strong>the additional damage Obama will do in a second term when he has already said he would have &#8220;more flexibility.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Californian votes may or may not make a difference in the electoral vote.  But <strong>Californian votes absolutely make a difference in the popular vote</strong>.  And we should all be working hard to avoid the possibility of having different candidates win the electoral v. popular votes. </p>
<p><strong>None of us are ever so lucky to be able to vote for candidates who agree with us 100% of the time.</strong></p>
<p>So take a serious look at the options that are available in this election, and get out there to vote for the candidates who will do the best job of governing your country for the next 4 years.</p>
<p><strong>If you want a different set of candidates in future elections then you will have to work harder to support your favorite candidates during future Primary seasons.</strong></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s roll!</p>
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		<title>By: p_incorrect</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318958</link>
		<dc:creator>p_incorrect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sincerely hope that Scott Brown loses to Warren. RINOs are a cancer to the Republican Party. He, and his pals from Maine, gave us the repeal of Don&#039;t Ask Don&#039;t Tell. I take somebody like Joe Manchin over Brown any time. In addition, this weekend I learned that Paul Ryan is being coached for his debate by Theodore Olson, of &quot;anti Prop 8&quot; fame. So, it makes me question whether I will be voting for Romney/Ryan after all. Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (&quot;decline to state&quot; as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sincerely hope that Scott Brown loses to Warren. RINOs are a cancer to the Republican Party. He, and his pals from Maine, gave us the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell. I take somebody like Joe Manchin over Brown any time. In addition, this weekend I learned that Paul Ryan is being coached for his debate by Theodore Olson, of &#8220;anti Prop 8&#8243; fame. So, it makes me question whether I will be voting for Romney/Ryan after all. Not that it matters in my state of California, but I am sick of voting for RINOs. In fact, after the DADT RINO debacle, I decided to switch my party registration from Republican to Independent (&#8220;decline to state&#8221; as we are called in California). It sucks all around the place.</p>
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		<title>By: 98ZJUSMC</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318929</link>
		<dc:creator>98ZJUSMC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s disappointing that Scott Brown couldn’t trounce Fauxcahontas. David Gregory didn’t help. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott would do a lot better if he stopped avoiding conservatism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and stood for more than ‘bipartisanship’ and ‘independence’. Still, I’ve a Brown sign up on the road and on my car (here in Ed Malarkey moonbat country), and am keeping my fingers crossed that Scott can pull it off. Fauxcahontas is a lot more articulate than Coakley was, and Scott doesn’t have the 2010 Tea-Party wave behind him, so I’m not optimistic. But there may be a strong, silent, anti-Obambi vote here that will surprise everyone. Or maybe I’m just dreaming. . .

MrLynn on October 2, 2012 at 12:24 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

He can&#039;t.  In order to win/maintain the seat, he has to be RINO-ish.  C&#039;mon, it&#039;s Taxachusetts.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It’s disappointing that Scott Brown couldn’t trounce Fauxcahontas. David Gregory didn’t help. <em><strong>Scott would do a lot better if he stopped avoiding conservatism</strong></em> and stood for more than ‘bipartisanship’ and ‘independence’. Still, I’ve a Brown sign up on the road and on my car (here in Ed Malarkey moonbat country), and am keeping my fingers crossed that Scott can pull it off. Fauxcahontas is a lot more articulate than Coakley was, and Scott doesn’t have the 2010 Tea-Party wave behind him, so I’m not optimistic. But there may be a strong, silent, anti-Obambi vote here that will surprise everyone. Or maybe I’m just dreaming. . .</p>
<p>MrLynn on October 2, 2012 at 12:24 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>He can&#8217;t.  In order to win/maintain the seat, he has to be RINO-ish.  C&#8217;mon, it&#8217;s Taxachusetts.</p>
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		<title>By: annoyinglittletwerp</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318860</link>
		<dc:creator>annoyinglittletwerp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[32 other Senate Races going on, why is this one so special? Is Allahpundit going to have a open debate thread for the other 30+ debates? Is CBS’s David Gregory going to moderate the other 30+ debates?

    Talk about your self important east coast mentality.

    lowandslow on October 1, 2012 at 7:52 PM

.

He doesn&#039;t need to show the Cruz/Stadler debate-because Stadler has no shot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>32 other Senate Races going on, why is this one so special? Is Allahpundit going to have a open debate thread for the other 30+ debates? Is CBS’s David Gregory going to moderate the other 30+ debates?</p>
<p>    Talk about your self important east coast mentality.</p>
<p>    lowandslow on October 1, 2012 at 7:52 PM</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>He doesn&#8217;t need to show the Cruz/Stadler debate-because Stadler has no shot.</p>
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		<title>By: MrLynn</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318773</link>
		<dc:creator>MrLynn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s disappointing that Scott Brown couldn&#039;t trounce Fauxcahontas.  David Gregory didn&#039;t help.  Scott would do a lot better if he stopped avoiding conservatism and stood for more than &#039;bipartisanship&#039; and &#039;independence&#039;.  Still, I&#039;ve a Brown sign up on the road and on my car (here in Ed Malarkey moonbat country), and am keeping my fingers crossed that Scott can pull it off.  Fauxcahontas is a lot more articulate than Coakley was, and Scott doesn&#039;t have the 2010 Tea-Party wave behind him, so I&#039;m not optimistic.  But there may be a strong, silent, anti-Obambi vote here that will surprise everyone.  Or maybe I&#039;m just dreaming. . .]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s disappointing that Scott Brown couldn&#8217;t trounce Fauxcahontas.  David Gregory didn&#8217;t help.  Scott would do a lot better if he stopped avoiding conservatism and stood for more than &#8216;bipartisanship&#8217; and &#8216;independence&#8217;.  Still, I&#8217;ve a Brown sign up on the road and on my car (here in Ed Malarkey moonbat country), and am keeping my fingers crossed that Scott can pull it off.  Fauxcahontas is a lot more articulate than Coakley was, and Scott doesn&#8217;t have the 2010 Tea-Party wave behind him, so I&#8217;m not optimistic.  But there may be a strong, silent, anti-Obambi vote here that will surprise everyone.  Or maybe I&#8217;m just dreaming. . .</p>
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		<title>By: bflat879</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318655</link>
		<dc:creator>bflat879</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You really have to wonder how Republicans allow themselves to be in debates with anyone from NBC.  Of all the networks, NBC is by far the worst and Gregory has yet to show me he&#039;s not much more than a partisan hack.  

That being said, I watched as much as I could of this debate, about half, and Brown did just fine. The only think I would bring out, if I were Brown, was that there was a real minority that was second in line behing Warren, who got shafted because Harvard hired her as a minority.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You really have to wonder how Republicans allow themselves to be in debates with anyone from NBC.  Of all the networks, NBC is by far the worst and Gregory has yet to show me he&#8217;s not much more than a partisan hack.  </p>
<p>That being said, I watched as much as I could of this debate, about half, and Brown did just fine. The only think I would bring out, if I were Brown, was that there was a real minority that was second in line behing Warren, who got shafted because Harvard hired her as a minority.</p>
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		<title>By: JohnGalt23</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318536</link>
		<dc:creator>JohnGalt23</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Just caught a few minutes of Romney in Colorado, but it looked like a very upbeat crowd!!

bluefox on October 1, 2012 at 10:02 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Upbeat is good...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Just caught a few minutes of Romney in Colorado, but it looked like a very upbeat crowd!!</p>
<p>bluefox on October 1, 2012 at 10:02 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Upbeat is good&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: mittens</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318480</link>
		<dc:creator>mittens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;that Coakley is a better politician, and has actually successfully been elected to statewide office. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

because no one ever runs against her. no one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>that Coakley is a better politician, and has actually successfully been elected to statewide office. </p></blockquote>
<p>because no one ever runs against her. no one.</p>
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		<title>By: bluefox</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318421</link>
		<dc:creator>bluefox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Why do all these Republican candidates get into these forums run by idiots on the left?
 
dirtseller on October 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I asked the same question during the Brown/Warren debate. You would think they would negotiate better. Same thing happened during the Primaries for the most part. It&#039;s really stupid on their part in my opinion. 

The Brown/Warren &quot;debate&quot; using Gregory is a perfect example of allowing the leftists to moderate. There is no moderation. 2 against 1 isn&#039;t moderate, or is that the definition of a Moderate?
LOL]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Why do all these Republican candidates get into these forums run by idiots on the left?</p>
<p>dirtseller on October 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM
</p></blockquote>
<p>I asked the same question during the Brown/Warren debate. You would think they would negotiate better. Same thing happened during the Primaries for the most part. It&#8217;s really stupid on their part in my opinion. </p>
<p>The Brown/Warren &#8220;debate&#8221; using Gregory is a perfect example of allowing the leftists to moderate. There is no moderation. 2 against 1 isn&#8217;t moderate, or is that the definition of a Moderate?<br />
LOL</p>
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		<title>By: rrpjr</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318344</link>
		<dc:creator>rrpjr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Why do all these Republican candidates get into these forums run by idiots on the left?

dirtseller on October 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt; 


Because they&#039;re another kind of idiot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Why do all these Republican candidates get into these forums run by idiots on the left?</p>
<p>dirtseller on October 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Because they&#8217;re another kind of idiot.</p>
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		<title>By: bluefox</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318339</link>
		<dc:creator>bluefox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;My mom always told me I was a princess. That surely means I’m from the House of Windsor and I’m probably 10th in line for the throne or something!

Oink on October 1, 2012 at 10:00 PM 

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

LOL, good one!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>My mom always told me I was a princess. That surely means I’m from the House of Windsor and I’m probably 10th in line for the throne or something!</p>
<p>Oink on October 1, 2012 at 10:00 PM </p>
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<p>LOL, good one!</p>
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		<title>By: bluefox</title>
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		<dc:creator>bluefox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just caught a few minutes of Romney in Colorado, but it looked like a very upbeat crowd!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just caught a few minutes of Romney in Colorado, but it looked like a very upbeat crowd!!</p>
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		<title>By: Oink</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318326</link>
		<dc:creator>Oink</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom always told me I was a princess.  That surely means I&#039;m from the House of Windsor and I&#039;m probably 10th in line for the throne or something!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mom always told me I was a princess.  That surely means I&#8217;m from the House of Windsor and I&#8217;m probably 10th in line for the throne or something!</p>
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		<title>By: bluefox</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/open-thread-the-second-massachusetts-senate-debate/comment-page-3/#comment-6318319</link>
		<dc:creator>bluefox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Deb Fischer impresed me tonight. She would represent Nebraska well as a Senator!

wren on October 1, 2012 at 9:24 PM 

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

She impressed me as well. She was well informed and stated her positions clearly. Also she is very in touch with the Voters of Nebraskans, unlike Kerry.

Go Deb!!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Deb Fischer impresed me tonight. She would represent Nebraska well as a Senator!</p>
<p>wren on October 1, 2012 at 9:24 PM </p>
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<p>She impressed me as well. She was well informed and stated her positions clearly. Also she is very in touch with the Voters of Nebraskans, unlike Kerry.</p>
<p>Go Deb!!!!</p>
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