The Democrats Gloat Thread

I must admit to a weakness to that kind of speculation, I even made a thread about it once -- you might find it interesting:

What would you vote if you lived in ...?

I geuss your right, I should have known that. I smoked alot of pot in high school.

Yes, the Green party. I forgot about them. I was invited to one of their meetings a long time ago. At this time we can't afford to split the vote. It's the Bush people Vs. the rest of us. The A.B.B.A. party, Anybody But Bush Again.

If you were Bush, what would you do tomorrow? (you don't have to answer. I'm just bull$hiting)

Two questions: Where is the heartland? And is the zip code e i e i o?

The one thing you have to remember when looking at polls and the people who conduct them is that the pollster doesn't care what the results will be, the pollster wants to get it right. (Obviously, there are push-polls wherein the questioner IS seeking a particular view, but to my mind those aren't really polls, those are false advertising.)

Having worked on creating a statewide political poll for a news organization (in the heartland of Oklahoma), I can assure you that we worked on getting the questions formed properly and the demographics spread as widely as possible.

What good would it be to conduct a poll that constantly got it wrong? It would be like selling compasses that only occasionally indicated North, fairly soon you would have no buyers.

(BTW: one result that surprised me was (this was in the late 70's) the more rural a district the more likely voters were to be in favor of better relations with the USSR. Folks in Oklahoma City and Tulsa were neutral or opposed. Hmmm, whys-dat? Mebee rural farmers sell big shiploads of wheat to bad bad commie people. Red wheat means big green for the boondocks so let's make nice. Yah neveh know.)

Joe(who are you? Who who?)Nation

Shoot myself...

Interesting policy, foreign and domestic all rapped into one. You know, it's so crazy, it just might work.

"Chicken-hawks" don't kill themselves.

Joe

Is that your original joke?

Blatham:

He stole it from Old MacDonald (Had a Farm)!

I think "stole" is a little harsh... LOL

God no, heard it forty years at Thee Coffe House, San Angelo, TX. I stole it right away. I worked up a little riff on it to use while re-tuning the twelve string to explain just where my house was.

"We live so far out in the country the zip code is e i e i o. The place is 50 miles west of Jesus!-where-are-we, Texas, but it's not in the middle of nowhere. No. The middle of nowhere is where we make the turn North towards the house.

But we don't live on the edge of nowhere, no, we don't. You can see the edge from the barntop, but it's still a ways down the road.

It's lonely out there, but we like it. The voices in my head and I really like it. There's a tree and a stream. The tree is about a thirty minute drive south and the stream shuts down in mid-April till about December but it has a nice oily sheen on it when it's wet. Brings a little color to the place.

I brought a girl out there and hoped we'd settle down together, but somehow the chain snapped . I tried to follow her tracks but along came the June-July-August dust storm and I had to give her up for lost.

So, it's just me and Buck, my faithful dog, sitting on the porch baying up at the moon and stars. Yeah. Though, I can't spend too much time looking up at the stars, the last time I did ol Buck bit the hell out of my leash hand and ran off toward East Jesus.

Now lemme play you a little "Dough-re-mi"..... "


Joe(Starts with a 'C-chord)Nation

Crap, that was supposed to be a PM to Blatham.. .

Sorry, back to gloating.



Joe( )

Joe(quick with the post finger)Nation. You can delete a post before somebody adds another post.

I enjoyed it tho!

LOL...all very funny indeed, joe. And yup, I'll now steal the joke too.

Actor Ed Begley Jr said that when he did standup, the places he played were so far out in the sticks that he was reviewed by Field & Stream.

Breaking from NewsMax.com

Ann Coulter Censored Again By Newspaper

Editor & Publisher, a newspaper trade magazine, slammed Ann Coulter again.

The latest installments in the magazine's jihad against Coulter includes a story that Georgia's Augusta Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Coulter's nationally syndicated column. The magazine said Coulter's "stridency" has crossed the line.

Since Coulter's new book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," shot to the top of the best-seller lists, liberal media outlets have been furious that Coulter criticized four of the 9/11 widows for their political activities.

I was heartened to note that Mr.Nimh, if he was able to vote in the US presidential election, might have voted for Nader. I am delighted that there are people with principles who would vote for someone like Nader.

I urged many people I knew to vote Nader in the last election(but only if I was fairly certain that they would have voted for Kerry).

I am hopeful that Nader( or a surrogate) will run on a "GREEN" platform in 2008. Keeping in mind the closeness of the races in 2000 and 2004, a Green Candidate may indeed get the votes that would have gone to Hillary Rodham Clinton in a close election.

GO-NADER-GO!!

I'm afraid you have misread me. What I wrote was, "Whenever the race between Dem and Rep would not seem extremely tight, one way or another, I would vote Green or the like (but not Nader)." (emphasis added).

I like the politics of the Green Party - but I don't like those of Nader, personally, not the ones he's developed since he continued his campaign in earnest in 2000. Some of my beef with Nader was summarised in this 2000 article: Ralph the Leninist.


Here I'd like to point out that Nader was actually denied the Green Party's nomination in the last elections. Instead, in 2004 the Green Party ran its own candidate, David Cobb, a sympathetic fellow.