"Who the f#ck is left who might might want to vote for these assholes?"
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/31/19642/7872This Isn't Marriage Counseling
by BooMan
Fri Aug 31st, 2012 at 07:06:42 PM EST
I think it's a stupid notion to look at this election as a troubled marriage between the president and the people who voted him into office. Maybe there are some people who are disappointed in the president, but no one likes Mitt Romney. And I mean no one. But it's not all about Mitt Romney. The Republican Party has spent the last twelve years demonizing Muslims. It's been bashing gays with gusto since at least 2004. It's been blasting away at Latinos ever since President Bush got the crazy notion of doing immigration reform. It's actively doing everything it can to suppress the black vote. It insults Europe at every opportunity. There is one Jewish Republican in all of Congress. The GOP has been waging an all-out assault on women's reproductive rights and has opposed equal pay for equal work with religious fervor. Who the fuck is left who might might want to vote for these assholes?
Where this administration has fallen short, whether it be through obstruction or lack of vision or even a lack of nerve, the Republicans offer no succor. Want Gitmo closed? Romney won't do that. Want out of Afghanistan quicker? Romney doesn't. Want cramdown for underwater mortgages? Don't ask Mitt. Want more regulation and accountability on Wall Street? You know the answer to that. Want a more equitable tax system? Please.
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This is not about people being disappointed in Obama. This is about the Republican Party having very unpopular ideas and a determination to insult and alienate almost everyone in the county who doesn't strongly resemble Karl Rove.
Why aren't the Republicans doing better?
What a dumb question. Why are they polling competitively at all?
These Republican strategists are trying to figure out how to get people to divorce Barack Obama. They ought to give up that moronic idea. They aren't winning because they aren't very appealing.
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a Chris Rock parody who tweeted it, but it still rocks! 
If you vote against Obama because he can't get stuff done, it's like saying, "this guy can't cure cancer. I'm gonna vote for cancer."
on edit: To the OP - I have no idea who the fuck votes for these assholes. I'm seriously questioning my respect for people I know who vote republican. I'd like to say to them, "You seem intelligent. You're a successful business owner. Why would you vote for a party that abhors science?"
What could they possibly answer? "I don't want to pay more taxes,"? Big fucking deal! Taxes are going to be the very last worry your kids are going to have! Which brings me to what I fear is really the truth, "I don't like a black guy in the White House."
I don't know.
I was born and grew up in Indiana (about 40 miles from where Dan Quayle came from 
), though I live in Michigan now and have for the past five years. I don't regret leaving the Hoosier State at all.
First off, I was unbelievably shocked that Indiana went for Obama in '08. It hadn't gone for a Democrat since LBJ. It's the first in the nation to close polls, and it's reliably in the GOP column. Outside the major cities with a large labour presence (South Bend, Gary, Fort Wayne), university towns (Bloomington, Lafayette, South Bend again) and the state capital (Indy), it's very much like the Deep South culturally...complete with wannabe Confederates flying that flag (and the odd "White Power" bumper sticker). There's also a large Klan presence. I don't know if it's still there but there was a Klan training camp in St. Joseph County that the Sheriff was trying to close down (unsuccessfully)...back in the '20s, most of Indiana Government was Klan.
They gave the boot to one of the few Republicans I could respect, Richard Lugar, in the primary this year and put in a Tea Potty/Norquist approved shill. Lugar and I corresponded fairly frequently, and though we disagreed on most issues, he said "rational, intelligent people can agree to disagree...I am still your Senator, and you are still one of my constituents." I also had a good Congressman for some years, Tim Roemer (D), who sat on the 9/11 commission. But now...it's as bloody GOP red as it's ever been, if not more. In 2008 Chelsea Clinton was there speaking at Butler University and some bright arse had the gall to ask her about Monica Lewinsky...to her credit, Chelsea handled it very well, saying "I can't believe you asked me that. Next question!" when she could have given the guy a good swift kick in the family jewels.
My wife grew up near Terre Haute, which is about as much of a Jerkwater, U.S.A. as you'll find. She told me that she always voted Republican because that's what her father told her she should do (she's changed, thank God!
). That is not atypical for Indiana, or probably deep red states in general: "My daddy and granddaddy voted Republican, and if it's good enough for them it's good enough for me! Besides, what I've learned from Rush about them nasty commie Liberals...ya just gotta vote straight Republican!"
Those are the kind of people who will vote for Romney, simply because they go into the voting booth (or kiosk), mark "R" and are done with it. There are some who will have to hold their noses at voting for a Mormon (rural Indiana is very fundamentalist) but they'll do it anyway...just to get that "Kenyan Marxist Socialist" out of the White House.
