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None of that is that important. everynametaken Send a noteboard - 14/08/2012 08:53:10 PM
No thanks.

Not as if anything could make me ever vote Rep if I was American, but it's nice of them to regularly remind me why that thought is such a Nono.


Putting food on the table and keeping electricity is. And many americans are not able to do that anymore. Obama's Keynesian boot in the ass and the auto bailout may have prevented disaster but his continuing economic policies have pretty much been a failure to stimiulate new jobs and growth.

No birth control? What are you talking about, anybody can go buy birth control over the counter all around this country including the Catholics.

No right to choose? again, what are you talking about? Every attempt to restrict the choice of an abortion pretty much gets drop-kicked from the top rope once it gets to the federal appeals level. The protection of a woman's right to choose isn't going to be overturned any time soon if ever.

No Planned Parenthood? Um, let me explain. Planned Parenthood is a favorite scapegoat of the anti-abortion movement and always has been. They have been picketed forever, protested against, held hostage in budget debates and on and on since before I was born. Planned Parenthood is going nowhere.

America needs jobs NOW. We need somebody who has actually created a business and understands the principles of business to take our little spurts and sputters and push our nation into a full blown recovery. Everytime it does (recover and boom that is) the culture wars take a back seat because everybody is simply too damned busy working to worry about things like a new Planned Parenthood clinic opening or not opening because of picketing or whether some lady can go get an IUD if she wants one or pills. Hell, if she's working she can just go buy them with cash regardless of whether her medical plan refuses to pay for them, imagine that!

The culture wars are overblown. They heat up during economic tough times because there isn't work too keep idle hands busy, so people have nothign better to do than daydream about the good ol' days when societ "was better".
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Paul Ryan is selected as Republican VP candidate - 11/08/2012 05:01:47 PM 2065 Views
Personally? No, I'm not voting Republican at all this year. - 11/08/2012 05:18:06 PM 1048 Views
Ya know that narrative of the right getting further right is pretty ridicolous - 11/08/2012 06:43:44 PM 1015 Views
it could possibly be the "all or nothing" budget fights and gay marriage among other things - 11/08/2012 08:19:11 PM 1054 Views
Yeah, I forgot the Dems are very enlightened about gay marriage now for what? 2 Months? - 11/08/2012 08:59:17 PM 1118 Views
+1 - Great post! *NM* - 12/08/2012 04:32:21 AM 617 Views
We're on a roll here Isaac. I agree with you again. - 12/08/2012 08:18:32 AM 1056 Views
yet despite that, dems didn't put referenda and push bills discriminating against gay people - 12/08/2012 07:55:38 PM 1127 Views
They certainly have, they've just done it less and less recently - 12/08/2012 09:39:53 PM 1007 Views
Fred Phelps is 82 - 13/08/2012 01:28:01 AM 946 Views
So is Pat Robertson *NM* - 13/08/2012 02:41:28 AM 598 Views
They're not enlightened at all. - 21/08/2012 02:04:09 PM 1213 Views
Agreed, but ya'll continue doing it anyway. - 11/08/2012 08:24:09 PM 1036 Views
Thank you for making sense. - 12/08/2012 08:01:53 AM 1010 Views
voting third party is a good idea - 11/08/2012 08:15:41 PM 1011 Views
I'm sorry, but anyone that votes for Obama after the past 3 and 1/2 years is a moron..... - 12/08/2012 03:30:47 AM 973 Views
If you are proud of not voting, please shut up: The adults have a country to run. - 12/08/2012 04:11:49 AM 976 Views
Candidates have to earn my vote - I'm not a slave like you to the 2 party system. - 12/08/2012 04:24:02 AM 1146 Views
Who said anything about the two-party system? - 12/08/2012 04:29:36 AM 942 Views
No offense intended, but voting third party is as stupid as not voting. - 12/08/2012 04:42:28 AM 1194 Views
I strongly disagree. - 12/08/2012 05:11:52 AM 1054 Views
as the saying goes "the lesser of two evils is still evil" - 12/08/2012 08:06:20 PM 1034 Views
Nice asshatery. - 12/08/2012 07:56:57 AM 1201 Views
Wouldn't you love to have a "none of the above" option..... - 12/08/2012 03:36:54 PM 961 Views
Or you could use a PR system and act like responsible adults. *NM* - 12/08/2012 05:47:14 PM 492 Views
Oh dear. - 11/08/2012 06:26:07 PM 1024 Views
I'm happy with it, I like Ryan - 11/08/2012 06:47:21 PM 1021 Views
What a shock. - 11/08/2012 08:18:35 PM 1152 Views
Re: What a shock. - 11/08/2012 08:51:12 PM 1123 Views
ryan isn't going to help rmoney win wisconsin - 11/08/2012 08:21:27 PM 1140 Views
Picking Ryan was an olive branch to the GOP rank and file. - 11/08/2012 08:05:41 PM 1260 Views
definitely a bold pick but not going to help him enough in november - 11/08/2012 08:27:59 PM 1070 Views
Who cares? He's hot. - 11/08/2012 11:53:42 PM 1230 Views
So are you a fan of David Cameron? - 12/08/2012 12:12:50 AM 875 Views
Lol. Nice one. *NM* - 12/08/2012 08:22:01 AM 536 Views
I actually said, "He's not hot enough." - 13/08/2012 01:15:58 PM 946 Views
- 13/08/2012 03:31:38 PM 1079 Views
Wonderful choice! Truly wonderful.....check the video. - 12/08/2012 03:22:48 AM 948 Views
Nice video. - 12/08/2012 06:52:59 PM 1048 Views
Can you explain your fascination with Ryans ideas, please? - 13/08/2012 04:08:35 AM 1018 Views
No, it doesn't change my opinion any - 12/08/2012 07:50:21 AM 1122 Views
I hear even the DNC has rejected its TN Senate nominee. - 12/08/2012 05:46:37 PM 1035 Views
Yes, they disavowed him - 12/08/2012 08:00:33 PM 1053 Views
Does not work in the US - 13/08/2012 01:17:58 AM 988 Views
We do not need most of the populace to cast protest votes, only most voters. - 13/08/2012 01:33:41 AM 951 Views
Your distinction misses my greater point - 13/08/2012 01:51:26 AM 1008 Views
*shrugs* Vote absentee then. - 13/08/2012 02:28:32 AM 1028 Views
I was going to vote Romney anyway, so no, it doesn't change anything. - 12/08/2012 10:39:15 PM 1020 Views
But I'm guessing you're glad with Ryan? Prefer him over the alternatives? Or not? - 12/08/2012 10:49:35 PM 1162 Views
I disagree - 13/08/2012 12:52:07 AM 1055 Views
Bloomberg has imploded - 13/08/2012 07:12:56 PM 948 Views
Bloomberg has become a national laughingstock. - 13/08/2012 08:13:24 PM 1036 Views
Not as much as either Obama or Romney, surely. - 13/08/2012 08:23:41 PM 1033 Views
Makes sense for you. You are Romney's target audience. - 13/08/2012 01:19:26 PM 979 Views
What should Obama have done? - 13/08/2012 07:31:23 PM 1018 Views
And how much of that do you expect from Romney? - 14/08/2012 10:21:33 AM 1337 Views
Certainly more than from Obama. - 16/08/2012 12:00:19 AM 939 Views
Mmm, Objectivism. Another reason for me to vote Obama. - 12/08/2012 11:00:34 PM 1125 Views
But doesn't he say he detests Rand? - 12/08/2012 11:53:47 PM 875 Views
No he doesn't disavow Ayn Rand, he still believes in her - 13/08/2012 01:15:34 AM 1042 Views
Good to know. - 13/08/2012 08:42:22 AM 1050 Views
Link to audio of Paul Ryans address to The Atlas Society. - 13/08/2012 03:37:27 AM 1165 Views
Or you could have just read my response which posted prior to yours - 13/08/2012 01:45:07 PM 963 Views
Sorry, I completely missed your link. - 13/08/2012 03:09:11 PM 1060 Views
Don't get me wrong - 13/08/2012 12:53:10 AM 992 Views
Actually I believe he promised to vote for Romney if I did - 13/08/2012 03:48:35 AM 1126 Views
What an amusing retrospective. - 13/08/2012 04:20:02 AM 1145 Views
Uh... how exactly did you get to spending and budget timelines? - 13/08/2012 04:59:45 AM 960 Views
Tangentially, of course. - 13/08/2012 05:08:18 AM 993 Views
I tried reading it again, but my eyes glazed over when you started babbling about lesbian covens. - 14/08/2012 12:30:03 AM 902 Views
It was a hyperbolic reference to the extreme left (one stolen from Matt Groening, btw.) - 14/08/2012 10:12:09 AM 976 Views
Interesting. - 14/08/2012 11:34:30 AM 1065 Views
They have a pill for that now. - 14/08/2012 01:14:39 PM 1104 Views
I'm pretty sure the solution is you learning elementary composition. *NM* - 15/08/2012 11:33:57 PM 619 Views
Your willful reading incomprehension is neither my fault nor problem. - 16/08/2012 07:40:46 PM 1062 Views
I don't think you can succinctly do anything. *NM* - 16/08/2012 09:33:38 PM 628 Views
I just did. - 16/08/2012 09:36:21 PM 1018 Views
EDIT: ACK! Hoist on my own petard! - 14/08/2012 12:25:27 AM 970 Views
No birth control, no right to choose, no planned parenthood? - 13/08/2012 01:58:51 PM 916 Views
They are really doing a public service that way. *NM* - 13/08/2012 02:26:39 PM 463 Views
I agree with your statements - 14/08/2012 12:53:41 AM 1115 Views
It's mostly nonsense - 14/08/2012 04:46:11 AM 1046 Views
Well - 14/08/2012 02:54:06 PM 1249 Views
'Nonsense' refers to the thing said about the religious right by the media - 14/08/2012 04:01:47 PM 1266 Views
I'm wondering if "belittles" is the wrong word. - 14/08/2012 06:30:23 PM 1303 Views
Re: I'm wondering if "belittles" is the wrong word. - 15/08/2012 01:45:59 AM 994 Views
I have to keep this short, because I am on the iPad. - 15/08/2012 05:38:48 AM 956 Views
Triple reply chain is usually a good point for the trim-edit anyway - 15/08/2012 05:27:20 PM 1133 Views
Or shows it's time to quit. - 15/08/2012 10:20:17 PM 1446 Views
Agreed - 15/08/2012 10:54:05 PM 906 Views
The question, as for Tom, is what you believe Romney would improve for small businesses. - 14/08/2012 01:38:29 PM 1079 Views
I am aware of that, thank you. And I don't distill my choice down to small business, either. - 14/08/2012 02:24:24 PM 1120 Views
I see your point, but... - 14/08/2012 02:30:22 PM 900 Views
Well - 14/08/2012 03:09:18 PM 1084 Views
Are you really going to let Obama con you into voting for him again? - 21/08/2012 02:00:06 PM 931 Views
I honestly haven't decided. - 21/08/2012 04:13:44 PM 1254 Views
None of that is that important. - 14/08/2012 08:53:10 PM 1067 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 15/08/2012 02:21:55 PM 605 Views
Bullshit - 21/08/2012 01:46:42 PM 1092 Views
This makes me more likely to vote R this year. - 15/08/2012 02:31:06 PM 982 Views

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