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   Clark Kent said, 6 months ago

   No, you need to be roasted and served to the poor.
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   Chillbilly said, 6 months ago

   Try to represent people instead of projecting your morals. Try to serve the country instead of mythologizing it. Harder work, but it wins elections.
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   ARodney said, 6 months ago

   Obama has done his best to represent me. His ideas of raising taxes to pay for government are the best ideas on the table. His ideas of spending money to keep our country in competitive shape are the best ideas on the table. Reining in the financial sector would do a lot to help the middle class, but has seen GOP obstruction in everything ranging from funding to appointments, but the GOP would be a total disaster.
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   Robert Landers said, 6 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Too many poor, or too many Republicans??

   And if there is no compromise by either party in Congress on this fiscal cliff thingy, then you might just really see more and more poor. And that does go for both sides of the political spectrum!!

   Let us hope and pray that the looming cliff will wake up even some of the more extreme on both sides.

   Would it be even possible for you to agree on such a position?

   I would truly hope so, for the sake of the US itself if nothing else!!
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   MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago

   Just read something somewhere, not important what or where, but the gist of the GOP-official was “we need to do this and that to win back votes”.

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   WRONG!

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   First of all you need to get the crazies out. Then you need to get yourself into the position of the poor, the weak, the minorities, the disadvantaged. Then you need to re-learn what an average American really needs and wants. Then you need to re-learn how to govern. Then you need to apologize for GWB, the Neo-Cons and all the crazies you entertained over the last years. And then you might, MIGHT get a few people to vote for you, but only if you can convince them that you’re going to govern for the best of the country and all citizens (and that’s a tough sell…). Don’t focus on “getting votes” or you will lose those you still have!
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   Respectful Troll said, 6 months ago

   @Robert Landers

   Very good post, Robert.
   I have been frequently challenged by Howgozit who seems to feel I fail to place blame on Dems even tho I’m certain I do where warranted. That said, I have yet to see Howgozit post any criticism of conservative actions/inactions. If his stand is that there is only one party to blame for our nation’s problems, and that these problems only began on the day Obama took the oath of office, then I fear the answer he’d give eloquent question is going to be, No. A response we hear way too often from Republicans.
   Been enjoying your other posts too, Mr. Landers. Keep up the good work.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   Put a little lipstick on that pig.
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   NeoconMan said, 6 months ago

   We need to do a better sales job on our GOP message so the lazy, entitlement-minded, irresponsible rabble starts to believe it’s for their benefit.
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   dtroutma said, 6 months ago

   Joe McCarthy would be proud of them, well, maybe not, as they’re even more closed minded than he was, and they pick more issues to radicalize.
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    Kylop said, 6 months ago

    Ken, if that elephant uses the word “makeover” in front of others then its already started. I think NeoconMan has it figured out- as usual. If the elephant gets a few more votes in the correct places then there is celebration. But I don’t think there is a plan to be a party that reaches out to all…it will be to “just enough”
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    zekedog55 said, 6 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    Ah! To wake up each and every morning knowing that a man you so admire is President of the United States of America!

    You must be beside yourself with joy!!!
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    Make the elephant a little smaller, about Chris Christie size.
    He seems to want to do the right thing when the chips are down.
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    braindead08 said, 6 months ago

    Maybe Republicans would need less of a makeover if they actually supported the principles they claim to adhere to.
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    Smaller government? What Republican administration has reduced the size of government?
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    Fiscal responsibility? Wars, tax cuts, stimulus, Medicare Part D, all without paying for them.
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    Lower taxes? Lower INCOME taxes only, especially for the wealthy. Republicans have NO problem raising payroll taxes and sales taxes.
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    National security? Yeah, invade Iraq instead of finishing Afghanistan. Not to mention 9/11.
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    Friendly to business? Not according to the stock market, which doubled in the last four years.
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    Anti illegal immigration? They why do they scream if there is an attempt to prevent them from hiriing illegals?
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    If Republicans actually were the party they claim to be, I might even join them. But they’re not.
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    ansonia said, 6 months ago

    @ARodney

    How do you know if doing his best is working? He’s beenin control for 4 years and things have gotten worse. He blames Bush but he was incompetent to do anything to make it better.
    You are praising him for what MIGHT happen with his policies. Not based on his performance.
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    ansonia said, 6 months ago

    This is a different America. People want to know what their country can do for them. Republicans who believe in getting an opportunity instead of a handout are in the minority. Kids now believe in big govt.
    The bigger the government the fewer the freedoms but those who care appear to be in the minority.
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