When you consider what's on the other side of the stage...yeah, he is the only reasonable choice. And yes, assuming you're not a billionaire, you are probably a racist if you really believe otherwise.

So vote for Romney, then he can lower his taxes and raise yours!

jayhawk88: When you consider what's on the other side of the stage...yeah, he is the only reasonable choice. And yes, assuming you're not a billionaire, you are probably a racist if you really believe otherwise.

I wouldn't say racist, I mean, there are... okay, take my parents, for exam... but then if you think about the poor people in the South that just want...

Okay, nevermind.

MyRandomName: I mean, why look at a future 10 years down the road. It's not myopic to not notice Medicare spending is growing at 5% a year while gdp grows at 2%, that will never be a problem!

Romney plans to increase defense spending to 4% of GDP. That's $8T over the next 10 years. All while he reduces revenues $5T over the same time period.

But you guys are totally the fiscal conservatives. Totally.

EighthDay: Shaggy_C: Thoughtful people understand that both sides are bad and support Obama only as a lesser of two evils. In an ideal world, his glad-handing, neoliberal, warmongering ass would be a part of some fringe third party that people would look at with disdain (not as much so as the Republicans, of course, who would be treated like the protofascists they are).

You know, I don't always agree with you, but this post is pretty spot-on.

No, it isn't. Go stand in the corner.

MyRandomName: Even Democrats crying out for Keynes is a Damn joke. Not once have they asked for reduced spending in good times, a critical part of his theory.

So long as you ignore the 1950's when Truman aggressively demobilized the military to pay off America's war debts. And the 90's when Clinton left us a budget surplus. But other than that, totally.

vernonFL: You know, a LOT of Democrats and Independents don't particularly LOVE Obama and disagree with him on numerous issues, and think he could be doing much better, etc....

That being said, voting for Romney and the Republicans in Congress is NOT an option.

Obama may be mediocre, but Romney and ESPECIALLY the Republicans in Congress are an absolute disaster.

SO VOTE THIRD PARTY RONPAUL AND SUCH AS

Two different idiots* I know on FB have one of those someecards graphics up: "If Obama and Romney are so different, how come Goldman Sachs is funding both their campaigns?"

Uh, because Goldman Sachs has its own interests at heart, and would donate to RONPAUL if he'd won any delegates? Because every Fortune 500 company has donated to both campaigns? AND, speaking of - are we talking GS as a corporate entity, or GS employees?

* one of those idiots is dating my cousin, and is a pretty sharp guy otherwise. We had a good talk last Thanksgiving about RONPAUL, electability and just why the media "ignores" him. He's still a Paulite in principle, but at least he's willing to listen to reason.

The Republicans' message is simple: We tell you that the Democrats' message is smug, sneering librulizm, and you get angry and vote Republican.

Mentat: MyRandomName: Even Democrats crying out for Keynes is a Damn joke. Not once have they asked for reduced spending in good times, a critical part of his theory.

So long as you ignore the 1950's when Truman aggressively demobilized the military to pay off America's war debts. And the 90's when Clinton left us a budget surplus. But other than that, totally.


1940's, that is.

qorkfiend: You'll probably want to vote for Obama, then; Romney in the White House means Republican President plus Republican Congress, which will be most assuredly not gridlocked.

And more conservative Supreme Court justices

Epoch_Zero: And yet it seems only the Republicans are striving to actually do anything detrimental to you.

I'm a lifelong New Yorker - believe me, I've seen Democrats' idea of help. It's the same shiat sandwich, only it's on nine-grain artisanal bread instead of Wonder.

Nice straw man.

qorkfiend: You'll probably want to vote for Obama, then; Romney in the White House means Republican President plus Republican Congress, which will be most assuredly not gridlocked.

That assumes the Democrats have really clusterfarked their Senate majority.

My state's not in play anyway, so I'm voting for Johnson.

Corporate Self: Obama is the only sane choice because everyone the GOP has fronted this time around is insane.

/Lesser of two evils

There is a difference between insanity and everything else wrong with the GOP.

Bat-shiat crazy



Sociopath:



Publicity whore:



Naive. bigoted, and idealistic:



In waaaaaay over his head



Available to the highest bidder:



I mean, really and truly, the only crazy person is Bachmann. The others have... shall we say... other issues.

LeoffDaGrate: BillCo: It's not like he is trying to cover up a murder or anything.....

Oh wait, never mind.

OK, I know what you're talking about, but I want to read how you explain it. So I'll bite...

What murder is he covering up?

do you really think he's going to answer you?

theknuckler_33: Nice straw man.

Its all the Republicans have. Lies and distortions.

One example: I just heard Romney say that Obama had huge majorities in Congress for 2 years and did nothing about immigration.

The truth is that he did NOT have huge majorities in Congress for 2 years, and it was the Republicans who blocked any and all efforts at reforming immigration.

Gulper Eel: Epoch_Zero: And yet it seems only the Republicans are striving to actually do anything detrimental to you.

I'm a lifelong New Yorker - believe me, I've seen Democrats' idea of help. It's the same shiat sandwich, only it's on nine-grain artisanal bread instead of Wonder.

I'm a lifelong New Yorker and I have no idea what you're talking about.

Mixolydian Master: [www.openwebdesign.org image 640x331]
You...You don't switch horses midstream.

That was from way back when you weren't supposed to disagree with the President during a time of war, and you were either with him or with the terrorists. Reagan proved that deficits don't matter back then, and no amount of spending was too much in order to keep America safe from its enemies. An entirely new and completely redundant federal department was created and the number of public employees skyrocketed.

Then, on January 20, 2009, something mysterious happened that nobody has quite been able to pin down. Whatever it was, it changed everything. Descent became the highest form of patriotic, the President was a terrorist (and Hitler, and Stalin, and Mao, and a radical Muslim, and an atheist, and a time-traveling fraud). The deficit became more important than any other issue and it became our sworn duty to fight it by giving more money to the rich and taxing the middle class. Spending on anything, including food stamps for the starving or preventative cancer screenings that would save millions of dollars and many lives, had to be slashed.

Nobody knows what it was that happened on that day, but we're 100% positive it had nothing to do with the party affiliation or the skin color of the guy in the White House.

tooeasy: I think it's a shame that Obama is the only viable option for this country, because Keynesian economics have produced about the kind of recovery you'd expect them to,

You have no idea what Keynsian economics is, or whether it's been implemented.

tooeasy: I think it's a shame that Obama is the only viable option for this country, because Keynesian economics have produced about the kind of recovery you'd expect them to, and I don't expect Obama to change his economic philosophy now. Furthermore, given that the disaster that befell the economy in 2008 is still fresh, you would think one of the major parties would propose some kind of legislation that would prevent something like that from happening again (like making derivatives be required to be regulated, or reinstituting Glass Steagall). Unfortunately, the modern Republican is preoccupied with nonsense, and I can't see how anyone in good conscience could support them

when it comes to the economy, I only half blame Obama. the Republicans are desperate to tank his administration and they've done everything they can to disrupt any sort of recovery. they NEED to make Obama look bad, and if that means destroying our economic recovery in the process well then...so be it.