President Obama Re-Elected - Page 100

On May 13 2012 12:35 AcuWill wrote:

We are focusing on the election in progress, the Republican Primary.

On May 13 2012 12:13 AcuWill wrote:
How about the cheating liars hurting the Republican Party?

As in the ones that don't follow the established rules.

Good thing that absolutely EVERYTHING is on video and you can watch to your heart's content and try to deny what I am saying.

On May 13 2012 12:15 Lixler wrote:

Being a cheating liar is good for the Republic Party. If you don't cheat and lie, then the establishment is threatened. If you don't allow people to cheat and lie, you're just helping Obama win.

On May 13 2012 12:35 AcuWill wrote:

We are focusing on the election in progress, the Republican Primary.

On May 13 2012 03:29 AcuWill wrote:

Explain to me how when the Fed is purchasing 50% of US debt issuance the money isn't getting out into the economy?

Or when you see the following graphics with regard to QE1, QE2, and operation Twist. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/how-fed-quietly-bought-1150-sp-points

Also, do you really have no idea about the current recession and how it was caused by Fed intervention starting in 2001, which as you say were to "boost inflation and investment, both in the private and public sector," which is what you currently advocate as if it won't have any effect?

I feel like it am talking to a regurgitating gnome reading talking points from some "Brainwashed Economics 101".

With regard to inflation: Perhaps you should look at earnings reports for McDonalds, Nestle, etc. and see how they are shrinking contents in packages to do exploding costs of basic supplies. Inflation will not be uniform in the economy as resource scarcity varies dramatically, that is why after a very moderate winter energy prices are keeping net inflation numbers down, but if you look across the spectrum, it is there. It just hasn't hit sharply yet as there is a lag between money supply increase and full inflationary effects.

Finally, savers are still being destroyed even with the "measly" inflation as "safe" investments right now are at negative yields once inflation is taken into account, even at the "measly" amounts. That is, the "measly" amounts before the money supply expansion effects have even taken effect.

On May 13 2012 12:13 AcuWill wrote:
How about the cheating liars hurting the Republican Party?

As in the ones that don't follow the established rules.

Good thing that absolutely EVERYTHING is on video and you can watch to your heart's content and try to deny what I am saying.

(CNN) – Sen. Rand Paul on Friday brushed off Barack Obama's recent reversal on same-sex marriage by saying he didn't think the president's views "could get any gayer."

The remarks from the Republican senator from Kentucky scored laughs among those attending an event held by Iowa's Faith and Freedom Coalition, a video uploaded on Saturday to the conservative website "The Iowa Republican" shows.

"The president, you know, recently weighed in on marriage. And, you know, he said his views were evolving on marriage," the first-term senator said Friday evening. "Call me cynical, but I wasn't sure that his views on marriage could get any gayer."

Paul, who is the son of GOP presidential longshot and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, made the comments two days after Obama announced that he supported same-sex marriage, which he had previously opposed, while adding he thought the issue should be left up to the states to decide.

Rand Paul had been advertised as the coalition's "special guest" for its 12th annual spring event. The organization's website also promoted the presence of Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ralph Reed, who is the chairman of the national Faith and Freedom Coalition.

In the remarks captured on video, Paul spoke against abortion as well as same-sex marriage.

"I think we're in a spiritual crisis as a country," Paul said, "and I think you're going to need leaders beyond your political leaders."

The senator criticized Obama's explanation that the Golden Rule - to treat others how one wants to be treated - and his faith led to his evolved understanding of marriage. The Golden Rule has its roots in biblical verses.

"It did bother me though that he used the justification for it in a biblical reference," Paul said. "He said the biblical Golden Rule caused him to be for gay marriage. And I'm like, what version of the Bible is he reading?

On May 13 2012 18:28 Mango Chicken wrote:


Look mate, the next generation of Ron Paul is out and he's a fucking dick. The Paul bandwagon is a sinking ship and it's time to get off. See here:

Republicans must evolve on gay rights or risk political extinction, a top GOP pollster warns leading establishment figures in a revealing new memo.

Jan van Lohuizen, who polled for President George W. Bush in 2004, finds that support for gay rights — including same sex marriage — is rising at an accelerated pace among members of all political affiliations. He calls on Republicans to acknowledge the shift in the way they talk about the issue.

The memo, reported by various news outlets, recommends that Republicans express their support for “equality under the law as a fundamental principle” because “freedom means freedom for everyone.”

Remarkably, Lohuizen advises Republicans to re-frame gay rights as a conservative value.

“As people who promote personal responsibility, family values, commitment and stability, and emphasize freedom and limited government we have to recognize that freedom means freedom for everyone,” he advises Republicans to say. “This includes the freedom to decide how you live and to enter into relationships of your choosing, the freedom to live without excessive interference of the regulatory force of government.”

Since President Obama announced his support for same sex marriage last Wednesday, Republicans and conservative media have criticized him for political opportunism. But party leaders have shown little interest in making a big issue of it.

On May 14 2012 05:00 AcuWill wrote:

Rand is not the next generation of the Liberty movement. His voting record does not follow the Liberty movement, his personal stances do not, and just because he is Ron Paul's son, DOES NOT mean he is the next Ron Paul or that he will be the next standard bearer of the Liberty movement.

On May 14 2012 11:45 aksfjh wrote:
With all this drug cartel stuff going on in Mexico, I wish either party would take a stance to extend more support to Mexico.

Mainstream Republicans afraid Ron Paul’s steady accumulation of delegates will cause chaos at their national convention in Tampa just received a terrifying preview of what a worst-case scenario might look like.

In Oklahoma on Saturday, Paul supporters and Romney supporters reportedly came to blows as the Paul side fell short of electing their slate of delegates amid cries of foul play, including the use of a voice vote instead of a more painstaking roll call to decide the outcome. Speaking at the event, Romney surrogates Tim Pawlenty and the state’s own governor, Mary Fallin, drew jeers.

At the state convention in Arizona, also this weekend, the presumptive nominee’s son, Josh Romney, was booed off the stage by Paul supporters, some of whom derided his father as “the white Obama.”

That to me was the key, where does Ron Paul finish, 'cause anybody can vote, Democrat, Republican, pick up a ballot and go in there and vote. And Rasmussen has some interesting data that I've gotta double-check.

But Ron Paul, the majority of people that voted him were not Republican. And in another poll, the percentage of Ron Paul voters who say they will vote for the Republican nominee is... like 80% of Tea Party voters in New Hampshire said no matter who the Republican nominee is they're voting for it. The Ron Paul number is 40%. Now, as I say, I've gotta double confirm. It's ostensibly Rasmussen and we're double-checking this, but what I know so far, or what I've been told is that Ron Paul supporters, 40% say they would vote for the Republican nominee, 23% said they'd vote for Obama, and 31% of Ron Paul voters said they would vote third party. So the Ron Paul voters cannot be counted on, and most of Huntsman's voters and most of Paul's voters were Democrats who walked into the New Hampshire primary, picked up a Republican ballot, also according to this polling data. Or maybe not majority. I don't have it right in front of me but it's close. It's a very high -- since I brought it up, let me see if I've got it in this particular stack. I'll find it. It's nothing that you don't know.

Here we go. It's the exit polling data from Fox, and it is on political matters, "Do you consider yourself very liberal, somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat conservative, very conservative?" You go to Ron Paul, 33% of his voters, according to exit polls, were somewhat liberal; 24% were moderate; 0 were very liberal. So 57% of the voters that voted for Ron Paul were not Republican conservatives. And that's one of the things that I wanted to see because with this big push -- what is happening here, the final push now that's on to get Romney the nomination, Newt and Perry, with their attacks, have made it impossible to defend them.

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A lot of his supporters are simply college kids who like his ideas on liberalizing drug laws. A lot of his supporters are young college kids who like his idea on gay rights. You know, they're the young idealists who have only their own personal interests here at stake, and he's out there representing it. Plus there is the awareness on the part of some Ron Paul voters that he's the giant monkey wrench and they enjoy playing that role.

On May 14 2012 23:56 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I don't think Limbaugh represent the majority of the Republican base I think he just scares the shit out of the GOP heads.

Mainstream Republicans afraid Ron Paul’s steady accumulation of delegates will cause chaos at their national convention in Tampa just received a terrifying preview of what a worst-case scenario might look like.

In Oklahoma on Saturday, Paul supporters and Romney supporters reportedly came to blows as the Paul side fell short of electing their slate of delegates amid cries of foul play, including the use of a voice vote instead of a more painstaking roll call to decide the outcome. Speaking at the event, Romney surrogates Tim Pawlenty and the state’s own governor, Mary Fallin, drew jeers.

At the state convention in Arizona, also this weekend, the presumptive nominee’s son, Josh Romney, was booed off the stage by Paul supporters, some of whom derided his father as “the white Obama.”

At this point it’s way too late to keep Paul from having a sizable presence at the Republican National Convention, and likely control of enough state delegations to put his name up for a floor vote against Romney. But it’s still an open question just what these delegates and other Paul activists planning events for the national convention will do when they actually get there.

Paul himself has bristled at the suggestion that a convention with a substantial presence of supporters would be a chaotic affair, even while he has endorsed their continued efforts to score delegates.

“It certainly isn’t for the reason of disrupting the convention,” Paul told CNN last week. He said he was following his current strategy because “moving an agenda is very important and to do that we need to maximize the number of delegates that we have.”

On May 14 2012 11:45 aksfjh wrote:
With all this drug cartel stuff going on in Mexico, I wish either party would take a stance to extend more support to Mexico.

Ron Paul is shutting down all operations in upcoming primary states, dramatically scaling back his campaign due to a lack of resources....