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New Harris Poll shows Palin with 48% of the vote.

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  1. PLC1 Super Moderator

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    The Republicans could nominate Bachman. That would spread happiness among some of the voters, at least:

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    Ryan's plan is a non starter, but it doesn't matter....Ryan's plan has put Democrats on the defensive in terms of the deficit, and has forced Democrats into at least some action....it also remains the only meaningful solution to the deficit issue that has been proposed...President Obama's speech on issue was laughable for numerous reasons, which we can get into if you want.

    Additionally, you say Ryan is a hypocrite...so what? I can immediately think of three things that Obama has reversed himself on in the last month or so...

    1) The debt ceiling
    2) Libyian intervention
    3) Use of signing statements

    Does this mean any idea Obama has from now on is to be disregarded because he is a hypocrite? The claim is just absurd.
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    I can't tell you how it's going to happen but this is where the train is going:
    1-Social security age limit will increase (prob. to 68)
    2-Tax increases for the wealthy (prob. 400K+)
    3-Medicare will reorganize, there will be some exclusions, but no vouchers
    4-sometime after the 2012 election Obama will warm up to a balanced budget amendment
    idea, but a rigid set of rules for estimating the budget will have to happen first
    If he seems reticent about the current budget cuts, it is because if he gives an inch right now, the GOP will ask for the moon and nothing will be negociated
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    I could potentially see that...but I think a problem he is going to have is if he doesn't give anything before 2012, there is a strong possibility he won't win again...unless of course Republicans do something idiotic and nominate someone like Michelle Bachmann.
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    If you want to see Jobs and oil drilling in America you better choose Palin. Cause if Obama gets re-elected youll see this stupid health care law and gas $10.00 a gallion
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    The administration let as least 3 deep water leases this month, and several more around the nation. Natural gas mining is at an all time high and growing. We have to create new industries to replace the ones the GOP sent to China so we can have better paying jobs-$8.50 per hour at MickeyD's ain't enough to pay the mortgage. It costs money to make money guys, like it or not. I know you want results now, but fast results is what got us in this situation, impatient investors and greedy traders and CEO's. You can blame the union teachers all you want, but hte money we squeeze out of them is a drop in the bucket to what the bankers stole in 2008
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    Move to Alaska and you can get these Jobs
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    Thats what Sarah Palin is gonna do! Give Jobs in Alaska!
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    I love Michelle Bachmann, but she is not ready for the WH. But then, either was the skinny socialist.

    The media was blowing BO before he won the Commie Party (dems) nomination. The R candidate will get nothing but destine and disrespect by the media.
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    Those "new leases" were just giving permission to resume projects that were halted after the spill....

    The only new thing that has been approved is a single deepwater exploration plan, which is a precursor to actually drilling anything.

    President Obama has dragged his feet on resuming normal Gulf operations, and it needs to start moving more quickly.
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    Maybe if the oil companies had their sh$% together, this wouldn't be an issue. Besides, no matter what is pulled out of the ground or where, it goes on the international market, and we buy it from there. Maybe we should keep the speculators from driving up the price of oil for no reason like they are know. If anything, Obama has let the leases too soon, they still haven't proven they can control the wells. If the GOP got their head outta their arses, we could have a new energy program by now.
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    what the hell does Palin have to do with oil jobs in Alaska? She quit. Hell, they don't even like her anymore there.
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    Palin discovered oil you did not know that? :)
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    Probably found it while looking a Russia.
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    That's what I love about you lefties. You always denigrate R politicians as dummies.

    Palin is just the most current.

    Can't you see that you have been duped again by the left media?
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    I can see it. Without the left media repeating the dumb things that Palin says, we'd all believe that she is perfectly rational and would make a terrific president.
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    The clip on Tuesday which showed Walters bringing up this issue could have been more direct in stating clearly to viewers that the real Palin never stated that “I can see Russia from my house,” or as Walters misquoted the SNL line, “I can see Russia from my backyard.” There is evidence that many voters attribute the SNL line to the real Palin, so it would have been appropriate for the former 20/20 anchor to have said something along the lines of, “Because of the infamous SNL skit, there is a misconception that you once claimed that you had foreign policy experience because could see Russia from your house."

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-w...sia-my-backyard-palin-interview#ixzz1KMPxnpYP
    Gipper is right, the Left characterizes all Conservatives as knuckle-draggers whose evolutionary lineage stopped sometime during the neanderthal period. Conservative women and blacks have it the worst, the Left is merciless on those two groups characterizing them as "stupid sluts" and "Uncle Toms"... Yet claim, with all seriousness, that Conservatives are the misogonists and racists in American society.

    The only Republicans the Left is even moderately civil towards are the most flaming Progressive Republicans in the field. Pocket chose Romney and Huckabee as the two most realistic Republican candidates... they just happen to be the two most Progressive Republicans being considered.

    Of course, if those two actually got the nomination, the gloves would come off and the Left would once again launch into attacks about how they are secretly Nazi's with a radical right wing agenda to brainwash children, starve the elderly and in their spare time, stomp puppies to death in the streets.
  17. PLC1 Super Moderator

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    No doubt they would. They, meaning Democrats, of course, would have to make such claims in order to counter the rants about how the Democratic candidate is the AntiChrist, was born in Kenya, is a Muslim Marxist, not really an American, and is out to destroy the country.

    Absurd over the top rhetoric is a part of political campaigns.
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    Your original comment was about the media reporting on all the "stupid" things Palin says... I gave just one example of how the media has a real habit of reporting fiction as fact where Republicans are concerned. In this case by fasley crediting a line from Tina Fey during a Saturday Night Live skit to Sarah Palin. The result is that majority of voters actually believe Sarah Palin, not Tina Fey, made the statement.

    Do you have so much as one example of the media falsely attributing a "stupid" statement made by someone making fun of a candidate to the actual candidate?
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    Not so much reporting on the things she says as simply playing clips of her speeches. Yes, the "I can see Alaska" was something she didn't actually say. I think the "I want to go to Latin America where they speak Latin" was something attributed to Dan Quail that he didn't actually say. I'm sure there are lots of examples.

    So, are you for Palin? Do you think she could successfully lead this nation?
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    To not know that the major media (left media) has consistently portrayed Rs as dummies, is to NOT know anything. I suppose you are one of those who thinks the media is unbiased.

    I remember when Speaker Tip O'Neil spoke with reporters after his first meeting with the Great Ronald Reagan just outside the WH. He told reporters that he had never met someone so stupid. The left media ate it up and of course, dutifully promoted that Reagan was a dunce. Of course, it did not stick, but they tried.

    Another good example is what the media did to VP Dan Quayle. They mercilessly attacked him for misspelling a word. And yet, BO consistently says stupid sh*t and the media ignores. Oh the hypocrisy and apparently some are not smart enough to see it.

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