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Post by dradtke on Mar 2, 2015 20:49:29 GMT -5
I'm excited about him in 2016. So am I, but probably for very different reasons. To quote a friends of mine, "Bloodbath, baby."
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 2, 2015 21:09:16 GMT -5
Salon, a large pit of lying, feculent crud-weasels. aqua You are really harshing my buzz tonight with all your guttural feces flinging. I am reminded of the quote, profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself forcibly. I know you are not feeble minded, so can you use your higher intellect in expressing your disapproval?
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 2, 2015 21:20:17 GMT -5
Salon, a large pit of lying, feculent crud-weasels. aqua You are really harshing my buzz tonight with all your guttural feces flinging. I am reminded of the quote, profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself forcibly. I know you are not feeble minded, so can you use your higher intellect in expressing your disapproval? But all the liberals laughed when James said it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 21:35:00 GMT -5
In a thread about Bill O'Reilly being a really big liar in which Rachel Maddow was called a snarky bully. I thought feculent crud-weasel had a place. It has kind of a ring to it.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 2, 2015 21:36:53 GMT -5
In a thread about Bill O'Reilly being a really big liar in which Rachel Maddow was called a snarky bully. I thought feculent crud-weasel had a place. It has kind of a ring to it. Well obviously it works for me too.
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Post by lar on Mar 2, 2015 22:58:26 GMT -5
Pollsters don’t seem to like me. I am never able to answer their questions in the way in which they are asked. To my ears most of their questions sound like, “Have you stopped beating your wife?” This makes me wonder about the validity of public opinion polls.
I have significant issues with the idea that moderates don’t exist. Of course they do. Does that mean that a moderate stands in the exact center of every issue? No. I tend towards the conservative viewpoint on most issues. I lean farther to the right on some issues than on others but my views are a far cry from those of Limbaugh and his cronies out on the extreme right of the Republican Party.
And I reject the idea that moderates favor compromise on every issue and have a “let’s just get it done” attitude. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Nor is it reasonable to say that I don’t know what I believe in. I believe strongly that the knee-jerk attitudes of both parties needs to stop. It is impossible to believe that there is no common ground between the Republicans and Democrats on every issue. There are certainly philosophical differences at the core, but I suspect not so many around the edges. Yet both parties tend to start the debate with the premise that the other side is a bunch of misguided whackos from the get-go. How can anyone expect anything reasonable to result from that?
And for that matter compromise is not a dirty word. For many it’s taken on a new meaning; capitulation. That’s not what compromise means and it doesn't mean that one needs to compromise one’s core principles in order to accomplish a goal.
Walker has been brought up a couple of times in this discussion. He’s an interesting case. Yes, he’s been asked some dumb questions recently. At the same time he’s been asked some questions that are legitimate. My quarrel with Walker is that he doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference between the two. I’m not too bothered by the fact that he didn't take the questions seriously. I am bothered that he didn't take his responses seriously. I thought he came off sounding like a conceited jerk. Do I really want a president that I think is a conceited jerk? It may turn out that it doesn't make any difference because my only other choice will be someone who bothers me even more.
At one time Walker expressed some views about immigration and he says he has since changed his mind. I don’t have a problem with that. He was asked about it. It was a legitimate question. All he would say is that he changed his mind. As a voter I think I’d like to know a lot more than that.
The immigration issue is especially complex. Not the issue itself but everything that surrounds the issue. We've already had one amnesty. It didn't work out the way it was supposed to. Now another proposal has been made. Rather than to debate the merits of the proposal much of the debate surrounding the proposal has centered on whether it’s an amnesty or not. It doesn't matter. What matters is whether it’s a reasonable solution. How does Walker feel about that? I don’t know.
Assuming that the proposal goes nowhere and the government decides it needs to send millions of people back where they came from what’s that going to cost and how long is it going to take? Walker doesn't seem to know or care.
I view myself as a moderate and a realist. Do I know how I feel about this issue? Yes. I’m only one of many so I don’t expect that’s going to put to rest the idea that a moderate doesn't know how he feels. In any case, I do. Apparently that means that I can’t be a statistic because I don’t fit the mold that the pollsters and the political scientists have established. Somehow I find that strangely invigorating.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 3, 2015 15:39:34 GMT -5
So, have you?
Are there pictures? Or did you destroy them all?
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