The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

@hingehead,

You "read" you tube, heh? LOL

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@cicerone imposter,

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You "read" you tube, heh?

Um yeah - have you never noticed the comments beneath each vid CI? Often pages of them.

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@hingehead,

Tea party group compares Obama to a skunk

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“The skunk has replaced the eagle as the new symbol for the president,” the caption reads. “It is half black, it is half white, and almost everything it does, stinks.’

But the Tea Party is totally not racist. Right?

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@DrewDad,

I don't like the tea party and I don't like this kind of slander at all, I just don't see the point or effectiveness of it. That being said I don't see what's racist about the line you quoted. He is half black and half white... Since when is declaring someone's race racist? The stinks is referring, obviously, to their opinion on his ability to be president of this country and not his color.

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@DrewDad,

Glenn Beck seems to think that they are, indeed, racist:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/12/12/387451/glenn-beck-suggests-tea-party-is-racist/

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BECK: And I issued a challenge to Tea Party members. … [Gingrich] is a progressive. … If you have a big government progressive, or a big government progressive in Obama, one in Newt Gingrich, one in Obama, ask yourself this, Tea Party: is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears to be to me. If you’re against him but you’re for this guy, it must be about race.

Cycloptichorn

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@TheLeapist,

TheLeapist wrote:

I don't like the tea party and I don't like this kind of slander at all, I just don't see the point or effectiveness of it. That being said I don't see what's racist about the line you quoted. He is half black and half white... Since when is declaring someone's race racist? The stinks is referring, obviously, to their opinion on his ability to be president of this country and not his color.

You gotta be ******* kidding me.

Cycloptichorn

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Yep, the Obama democrat party is nothing if not a bunch of racists.

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@hingehead,

I guess I'm one of those that only watches and video, and move on.

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NPR this evening reported that some Repub party officials in Iowa are miffed at how little time the candidates are spending campaigning there. The "conventional wisdom" is that this could be because it looks like this will be a long slog for the nomination and the candidates are more focused on raising money in other places ahead of Iowa, NH etc.
I suspect that, in the case of Romney, he could end up in 3rd place in Iowa. It would look better, perhaps, if he can say he really didn't campaign all that hard and therefore had low expectations as he heads into NH.
There were a couple of new polls of Republicans taken in the last couple of days in Iowa. I averaged them together. 500+ Likely Voters each.
Gingrich: 25%; Paul: 19%; Romney: 14%; Perry: 11%; Bachmann: 10%; Santorum: 8%; Huntsman: 5%.

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@realjohnboy,

Well-- it is about time somebody took Iowa down a peg or two. It has been punching way over its weight due to hysterical commentators for far too long.

1% of the population and landlocked to boot.

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@spendius,

I don't disagree with that analysis, Spendi. Maybe at one time in the long ago past, Iowa might have mirrored the rest of America (maybe), and that allowed candidates to "test their wings" relatively cheaply with retail campaigning.
The Iowa caucus is largely irrelevant anymore, but no one dares to say that.

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@realjohnboy,

You and me just said it.

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@realjohnboy,

Especially Iowans. Mr. Green

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It's becoming increasingly clear that the possible nomination of Newt has the GOP establishment in full-bore panic mode.

And, even if Romney somehow defeats him, the base absolutely cannot stand the man, and will not work hard to support him.

Things couldn't be working out better for Obama if the DNC had choreographed this entire thing. My real hope is that Newt does in fact win it, because he's a fool who cannot beat Obama. Romney is less of a fool and LIKELY will not beat Obama...

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

I have mentioned before that I believe that there is a good possibility that the Republicans will have a convention that does not have a clear winner already selected.
Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics has an article on the subject written yesterday (Dec 13). He concludes that there is a slim chance of a brokered convention and details why. There is also a nifty chart of the Republican primaries/caucuses calendar.

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Fox News puts Obama's picture over Romney's name. Nothing subtle there.

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@engineer,

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the higher a monkey climbs...the more you can see his butt

True for everyone the GOP has put forth so far.

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@DrewDad,

The longer they are exposed to the public, the more people learn that they're in it only for personal power and nothing else. They'll say anything - even lies - to win voters. Big egos are their greatest shortcoming.

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@cicerone imposter,

Romney adopts KKK slogan: "Keep America American"

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I guess we now need to ask if Mitt Romney is a Ku Klux Klansman. Not whether Romney inadvertently is using the KKK's number one slogan from the 1920s on the stump, no, the Republicans would say, if this were a Democrat, that clearly the candidate was a closet member of the KKK. So, is Mitt Romney a closet member of the KKK? Keep in mind, that even Romney is now claiming, between the lines, that President Obama is a socialist. So why shouldnt' America be asking if Mitt Romney is a Klansman?

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@DrewDad,

The problem with that slogan is its basis for subjectivity by the KKK of who is "American." They ignore the simple fact that the majority of us living in the US are immigrants from other countries, and they refuse to acknowledge this.

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