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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Wow, Ted Nugent is just terrible. I mean really, really terrible.
I feel for Mr. Romney as I would for any person who has had their deeply held convictions destroyed. That said, he is the one who chose to listen to the wrong people and the wrong advice, and I completely disagree with his political opinions... if he even has any.
edited 11th Nov '12 2:40:31 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I don't really feel bad about it. He ran, he lost. Perhaps now the republicans will take a look at their priorities and reivent themselves because I gotta be honest, the democrats ain't too great but right now they're the only sane group in america.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?I honestly do feel bad for Romney. You devote tons of resources and time into an election, with people who honestly believe in you. They honestly believe you can make a difference. But you failed. You lost. All that time and money is gone. All that will be made of you in history is a footnote.
Romney has his family that will always love him. His wife, his sons, and his grandchildren. I wish him many happy years in the future.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.Well, Romney ran a heavily racially charged campaign
, attempting to maximise his share of "the white vote" at the expense of "the black vote" and "the Latino vote". That proved to be a massive strategical error - but regardless of whether it worked or not, I think it was a wrong thing to do. So I don't pity the man at all. If you tried to win by such means, and you lost, then you got what was coming to you.
(Quotation marks added because I still object to the notion of votes being determined by ethnicity).
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Heh, you could start giving your Presidents similar titles to the British monarchs'...
'Barack Obama, by the Grace of God, President of the United States, Defender of the Faith'.
edited 11th Nov '12 3:24:13 PM by MidnightRambler
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...It continues to amaze me how credulously some of you buy into the "conservatives are White Supremacists seeking to institute a fascist theocracy" scare mongering even though you readily see the dubiousness of "liberals are socialists seeking to institute an Orwellian Big Brother state" rhetoric.
There's some really serious cultural conflicts going on in our country right now, but this sort of sensationalism and inability to see the other side's point of view is not going to do anything to mend matters.
<><Sometimes I begin to think that I live in some sort of twilight zone where everybody is magically more nice and reasonable than they are everywhere else. Yet the people I hang out with are, as far as I can tell, exactly who you are referring to much of the time in this thread: white, deeply religious rural southerners.
edited 11th Nov '12 3:29:39 PM by EdwardsGrizzly
<><@grizzly: I dont think theyre theocrats waiting to take over. I think they really dont realize that making quips about welfare queens and 'You voted for obama because you're black/want foodstamps" is like telling a poor black person that their starving children dont fucking matter .
And then they even trot out the occasional Black republiocan as though this proves their party doesnt harbor racist sentiments.
It just comes off as either willfully racist or fucking clueless.
@ Grizzly: ten bucks says theyre nice to you because you share at least some of their views. if I told them I wasnt christian and voted for Obama, I'd wager at best theyd tell me they would "pray for my soul"
edited 11th Nov '12 3:30:51 PM by Midgetsnowman

Eh, not really. He ran a bad campaign, and got what was coming to him. This ordeal must've really sucked for his family though, and I feel worse for them since they were just being pulled along for the ride.
The only politicians I really pity are the third-party candidates. They would've killed to get as far as Romney did.