Just heard CNN discussing the

[malaise]

ROBO calls. The reporter Republicans agreed to stop them and gave details about misleading info.
Whip them Dems!!!

[Skidmore]

1. I heard that. They apparently just learned about problems with e-voting

too after people have been complaining about it for years now. The O'Brien twins were commiserating about if your vote will really count.

[malaise]

2. They sicken me most of the time n/t

[rodeodance]

3. oh great. But fear or apathy in people. damm them!

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Isn't it a shame that the party of Lincoln, TR and Ike feel the need to cheat?

If I were a modern Republican, I'd be so deeply ashamed of my party. Fortunately, I'm a Democrat and, because of it, I sleep soundly at night knowing my integrity is intact. :)

[NewJeffCT]

5. The legacy of Nixon and Reagan

With the election of Reagan, any sort of integrity or intellectualism that was associated with conservatism was dead. Hopefully, we're seeing the last throes of modern conservatism today.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. "we're seeing the last throes of modern conservatism..."

From your lips to FSM's ears!

Can, I get a RAMEN??? :D

[NewJeffCT]

10. I did qualify that with "hopefully"

From the start of the "trickle down economics" induced Great Depression in 1929 through 1964, "conservatism" was almost dead as a political philosphy. When he won the presidency as a Republican, Eisenhower went out of his way to be a moderate and govern as a moderate - he was the one that warned of the military-industrial complex, and also said that the only people that wanted to get rid of social security were a few oil millionaires from Texas... Ike also appointed Earl Warren & William Brennan to the SCotUS.

However, Barry Goldwater started the resurgence of conservatism as a political & intellectual philosphy. Even though Nixon was more conservative than Ike, he was still moderate compared to Reagan.

Reagan was the culmination of what started under Goldwater, but Reagan dumped the intellectual side of conservatism that called for smaller government and fiscal responsibility so he could have a short-term economic surge financed by massive federal borrowing.

Bush has taken it even further with massive borrowing, but also dumped what little sanity there was in Reagan's policies (Reagan at least listened when they raised taxes to "fix" social security) in favor of a complete political power grab and doing anything to hold onto power, even if it hurts the country.

[Skittles]

6. what they say they'll do and what they do are two different things

lying assholes

[npincus]

7. Rahm Emanuel said they are going to slam Repubs w/civil suits

after the election.."enough is enough"

[bklyncowgirl]

8. The damage has already been done.

Also does that mean that just one part of the Republican apparatus, e.g. the GOP will stop, but the "indendent organizations" will continue because the GOP has no control over them?