Comments on: Testing The Rube Vote http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Salmo http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/#comment-35777 Salmo Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:06:17 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2138#comment-35777 So, the task to counter this is two-fold: start now with the framework - Republicans are the modern pharasees, and define the terms of the discussion in late September - the chicken littles are coming for you again. One can only say, "there you go again" if the groundwork has been properly laid. So, the task to counter this is two-fold: start now with the framework – Republicans are the modern pharasees, and define the terms of the discussion in late September – the chicken littles are coming for you again. One can only say, “there you go again” if the groundwork has been properly laid.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/#comment-35776 Oliver Willis Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:06:02 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2138#comment-35776 He's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._presidential_vetoes" rel="nofollow">never vetoed a bill</a>, spending or otherwise. He’s never vetoed a bill, spending or otherwise.

]]> By: garth http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/#comment-35775 garth Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:06:10 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2138#comment-35775 i object to the article's assertion that these people are "smart". and also, people seem to somehow forget that it's Bush who's run up more debt and greater deficits than anyone before. pretty stupid if you ask me. this is the guy who never once vetoed a spending bill. this is the party of bribes and corruption, and they could care less about what ruinous state they leave OUR government in. Their only concern in power and money. so if lying to the rubes perpetuates those two key things, who cares? i object to the article’s assertion that these people are “smart”.

and also, people seem to somehow forget that it’s Bush who’s run up more debt and greater deficits than anyone before. pretty stupid if you ask me. this is the guy who never once vetoed a spending bill. this is the party of bribes and corruption, and they could care less about what ruinous state they leave OUR government in. Their only concern in power and money.

so if lying to the rubes perpetuates those two key things, who cares?

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/#comment-35774 Oliver Willis Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:06:52 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2138#comment-35774 You mean even though Democrats spent less than the GOP and that our position on immigration is in the mainstream (we're helped because we don't have to appeal to the nativist voters)? You mean even though Democrats spent less than the GOP and that our position on immigration is in the mainstream (we’re helped because we don’t have to appeal to the nativist voters)?

]]> By: White Whale http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/#comment-35773 White Whale Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:06:40 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2138#comment-35773 Hopefully they decide to stay home. Republicans really pay lip service to these kooks. This "Gay Marriage Amendment" that Bush wants (for the second time since he flip-flopped on the issue) will NEVER pass but they are putting it out there anyway. Either Republicans are petrified of losing seats and the presidency or they believe the Religious Right are a collective of idiotic voters that will fall for any red meat you throw thier way. I think that people are not to keen on writing DISCRIMINATION into the Constitution. Let the States handle the issue. This is the biggest waste of time issue out in the American Public. Hopefully they decide to stay home. Republicans really pay lip service to these kooks. This “Gay Marriage Amendment” that Bush wants (for the second time since he flip-flopped on the issue) will NEVER pass but they are putting it out there anyway. Either Republicans are petrified of losing seats and the presidency or they believe the Religious Right are a collective of idiotic voters that will fall for any red meat you throw thier way. I think that people are not to keen on writing DISCRIMINATION into the Constitution. Let the States handle the issue. This is the biggest waste of time issue out in the American Public.

]]> By: Frank_D http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/06/05/testing-the-rube-vote/#comment-35772 Frank_D Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:06:11 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2138#comment-35772 Oliver, you have, as usual, been looking in the wrong place. That's why you, like other Democratics, don't know what what Republicans are thinking. Libertarians may be our eccentric uncles, but at least they're in the family: <blockquote><i>It shouldn't be hard for Republicans to see why they're in danger of losing their majority. <b>Voter anger over immigration and spending</b> [emphasis added] has manifested itself in citizen groups patrolling the border, challenging them in primaries, and bussing reporters to the sites of shameful pork-barrel projects.</i></blockquote> Immigration and spending are issues where Democratics can't say anything about Republicans. Oliver, you have, as usual, been looking in the wrong place. That’s why you, like other Democratics, don’t know what what Republicans are thinking. Libertarians may be our eccentric uncles, but at least they’re in the family:
It shouldn’t be hard for Republicans to see why they’re in danger of losing their majority. Voter anger over immigration and spending [emphasis added] has manifested itself in citizen groups patrolling the border, challenging them in primaries, and bussing reporters to the sites of shameful pork-barrel projects.

Immigration and spending are issues where Democratics can’t say anything about Republicans.

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