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None of that is that important. everynametaken Send a noteboard - 14/08/2012 08:53:10 PM
No thanks.

Not as if anything could make me ever vote Rep if I was American, but it's nice of them to regularly remind me why that thought is such a Nono.


Putting food on the table and keeping electricity is. And many americans are not able to do that anymore. Obama's Keynesian boot in the ass and the auto bailout may have prevented disaster but his continuing economic policies have pretty much been a failure to stimiulate new jobs and growth.

No birth control? What are you talking about, anybody can go buy birth control over the counter all around this country including the Catholics.

No right to choose? again, what are you talking about? Every attempt to restrict the choice of an abortion pretty much gets drop-kicked from the top rope once it gets to the federal appeals level. The protection of a woman's right to choose isn't going to be overturned any time soon if ever.

No Planned Parenthood? Um, let me explain. Planned Parenthood is a favorite scapegoat of the anti-abortion movement and always has been. They have been picketed forever, protested against, held hostage in budget debates and on and on since before I was born. Planned Parenthood is going nowhere.

America needs jobs NOW. We need somebody who has actually created a business and understands the principles of business to take our little spurts and sputters and push our nation into a full blown recovery. Everytime it does (recover and boom that is) the culture wars take a back seat because everybody is simply too damned busy working to worry about things like a new Planned Parenthood clinic opening or not opening because of picketing or whether some lady can go get an IUD if she wants one or pills. Hell, if she's working she can just go buy them with cash regardless of whether her medical plan refuses to pay for them, imagine that!

The culture wars are overblown. They heat up during economic tough times because there isn't work too keep idle hands busy, so people have nothign better to do than daydream about the good ol' days when societ "was better".
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Paul Ryan is selected as Republican VP candidate - 11/08/2012 05:01:47 PM 1845 Views
Personally? No, I'm not voting Republican at all this year. - 11/08/2012 05:18:06 PM 877 Views
Ya know that narrative of the right getting further right is pretty ridicolous - 11/08/2012 06:43:44 PM 835 Views
it could possibly be the "all or nothing" budget fights and gay marriage among other things - 11/08/2012 08:19:11 PM 880 Views
Yeah, I forgot the Dems are very enlightened about gay marriage now for what? 2 Months? - 11/08/2012 08:59:17 PM 944 Views
+1 - Great post! *NM* - 12/08/2012 04:32:21 AM 525 Views
We're on a roll here Isaac. I agree with you again. - 12/08/2012 08:18:32 AM 882 Views
yet despite that, dems didn't put referenda and push bills discriminating against gay people - 12/08/2012 07:55:38 PM 955 Views
They certainly have, they've just done it less and less recently - 12/08/2012 09:39:53 PM 840 Views
Fred Phelps is 82 - 13/08/2012 01:28:01 AM 779 Views
So is Pat Robertson *NM* - 13/08/2012 02:41:28 AM 503 Views
They're not enlightened at all. - 21/08/2012 02:04:09 PM 1045 Views
Agreed, but ya'll continue doing it anyway. - 11/08/2012 08:24:09 PM 866 Views
Thank you for making sense. - 12/08/2012 08:01:53 AM 849 Views
voting third party is a good idea - 11/08/2012 08:15:41 PM 831 Views
I'm sorry, but anyone that votes for Obama after the past 3 and 1/2 years is a moron..... - 12/08/2012 03:30:47 AM 780 Views
If you are proud of not voting, please shut up: The adults have a country to run. - 12/08/2012 04:11:49 AM 809 Views
Candidates have to earn my vote - I'm not a slave like you to the 2 party system. - 12/08/2012 04:24:02 AM 947 Views
Who said anything about the two-party system? - 12/08/2012 04:29:36 AM 771 Views
No offense intended, but voting third party is as stupid as not voting. - 12/08/2012 04:42:28 AM 1029 Views
I strongly disagree. - 12/08/2012 05:11:52 AM 863 Views
as the saying goes "the lesser of two evils is still evil" - 12/08/2012 08:06:20 PM 861 Views
Nice asshatery. - 12/08/2012 07:56:57 AM 1016 Views
Wouldn't you love to have a "none of the above" option..... - 12/08/2012 03:36:54 PM 792 Views
Or you could use a PR system and act like responsible adults. *NM* - 12/08/2012 05:47:14 PM 415 Views
Oh dear. - 11/08/2012 06:26:07 PM 833 Views
I'm happy with it, I like Ryan - 11/08/2012 06:47:21 PM 851 Views
What a shock. - 11/08/2012 08:18:35 PM 983 Views
Re: What a shock. - 11/08/2012 08:51:12 PM 951 Views
ryan isn't going to help rmoney win wisconsin - 11/08/2012 08:21:27 PM 950 Views
Picking Ryan was an olive branch to the GOP rank and file. - 11/08/2012 08:05:41 PM 1076 Views
definitely a bold pick but not going to help him enough in november - 11/08/2012 08:27:59 PM 893 Views
Who cares? He's hot. - 11/08/2012 11:53:42 PM 1048 Views
So are you a fan of David Cameron? - 12/08/2012 12:12:50 AM 710 Views
Lol. Nice one. *NM* - 12/08/2012 08:22:01 AM 460 Views
- 13/08/2012 03:31:38 PM 923 Views
Wonderful choice! Truly wonderful.....check the video. - 12/08/2012 03:22:48 AM 778 Views
Nice video. - 12/08/2012 06:52:59 PM 874 Views
Can you explain your fascination with Ryans ideas, please? - 13/08/2012 04:08:35 AM 836 Views
No, it doesn't change my opinion any - 12/08/2012 07:50:21 AM 955 Views
I hear even the DNC has rejected its TN Senate nominee. - 12/08/2012 05:46:37 PM 880 Views
Yes, they disavowed him - 12/08/2012 08:00:33 PM 874 Views
Does not work in the US - 13/08/2012 01:17:58 AM 826 Views
We do not need most of the populace to cast protest votes, only most voters. - 13/08/2012 01:33:41 AM 776 Views
Your distinction misses my greater point - 13/08/2012 01:51:26 AM 828 Views
*shrugs* Vote absentee then. - 13/08/2012 02:28:32 AM 858 Views
I was going to vote Romney anyway, so no, it doesn't change anything. - 12/08/2012 10:39:15 PM 856 Views
But I'm guessing you're glad with Ryan? Prefer him over the alternatives? Or not? - 12/08/2012 10:49:35 PM 1014 Views
I disagree - 13/08/2012 12:52:07 AM 878 Views
Bloomberg has imploded - 13/08/2012 07:12:56 PM 784 Views
Bloomberg has become a national laughingstock. - 13/08/2012 08:13:24 PM 868 Views
Not as much as either Obama or Romney, surely. - 13/08/2012 08:23:41 PM 856 Views
Makes sense for you. You are Romney's target audience. - 13/08/2012 01:19:26 PM 792 Views
What should Obama have done? - 13/08/2012 07:31:23 PM 829 Views
And how much of that do you expect from Romney? - 14/08/2012 10:21:33 AM 1152 Views
Certainly more than from Obama. - 16/08/2012 12:00:19 AM 768 Views
Mmm, Objectivism. Another reason for me to vote Obama. - 12/08/2012 11:00:34 PM 948 Views
But doesn't he say he detests Rand? - 12/08/2012 11:53:47 PM 698 Views
Link to audio of Paul Ryans address to The Atlas Society. - 13/08/2012 03:37:27 AM 994 Views
Or you could have just read my response which posted prior to yours - 13/08/2012 01:45:07 PM 786 Views
Sorry, I completely missed your link. - 13/08/2012 03:09:11 PM 887 Views
Don't get me wrong - 13/08/2012 12:53:10 AM 801 Views
Actually I believe he promised to vote for Romney if I did - 13/08/2012 03:48:35 AM 949 Views
What an amusing retrospective. - 13/08/2012 04:20:02 AM 955 Views
Uh... how exactly did you get to spending and budget timelines? - 13/08/2012 04:59:45 AM 780 Views
Tangentially, of course. - 13/08/2012 05:08:18 AM 819 Views
I tried reading it again, but my eyes glazed over when you started babbling about lesbian covens. - 14/08/2012 12:30:03 AM 731 Views
It was a hyperbolic reference to the extreme left (one stolen from Matt Groening, btw.) - 14/08/2012 10:12:09 AM 802 Views
Interesting. - 14/08/2012 11:34:30 AM 882 Views
They have a pill for that now. - 14/08/2012 01:14:39 PM 916 Views
I'm pretty sure the solution is you learning elementary composition. *NM* - 15/08/2012 11:33:57 PM 542 Views
Your willful reading incomprehension is neither my fault nor problem. - 16/08/2012 07:40:46 PM 875 Views
I don't think you can succinctly do anything. *NM* - 16/08/2012 09:33:38 PM 543 Views
I just did. - 16/08/2012 09:36:21 PM 857 Views
EDIT: ACK! Hoist on my own petard! - 14/08/2012 12:25:27 AM 811 Views
No birth control, no right to choose, no planned parenthood? - 13/08/2012 01:58:51 PM 728 Views
They are really doing a public service that way. *NM* - 13/08/2012 02:26:39 PM 381 Views
I agree with your statements - 14/08/2012 12:53:41 AM 953 Views
It's mostly nonsense - 14/08/2012 04:46:11 AM 862 Views
Well - 14/08/2012 02:54:06 PM 1073 Views
'Nonsense' refers to the thing said about the religious right by the media - 14/08/2012 04:01:47 PM 1078 Views
I'm wondering if "belittles" is the wrong word. - 14/08/2012 06:30:23 PM 1123 Views
Re: I'm wondering if "belittles" is the wrong word. - 15/08/2012 01:45:59 AM 828 Views
I have to keep this short, because I am on the iPad. - 15/08/2012 05:38:48 AM 778 Views
Triple reply chain is usually a good point for the trim-edit anyway - 15/08/2012 05:27:20 PM 958 Views
Or shows it's time to quit. - 15/08/2012 10:20:17 PM 1185 Views
Agreed - 15/08/2012 10:54:05 PM 740 Views
The question, as for Tom, is what you believe Romney would improve for small businesses. - 14/08/2012 01:38:29 PM 902 Views
I am aware of that, thank you. And I don't distill my choice down to small business, either. - 14/08/2012 02:24:24 PM 932 Views
I see your point, but... - 14/08/2012 02:30:22 PM 718 Views
Well - 14/08/2012 03:09:18 PM 907 Views
Are you really going to let Obama con you into voting for him again? - 21/08/2012 02:00:06 PM 723 Views
I honestly haven't decided. - 21/08/2012 04:13:44 PM 1092 Views
None of that is that important. - 14/08/2012 08:53:10 PM 896 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 15/08/2012 02:21:55 PM 499 Views
Bullshit - 21/08/2012 01:46:42 PM 913 Views
This makes me more likely to vote R this year. - 15/08/2012 02:31:06 PM 814 Views

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