Posted on 11/03/2012 9:35:57 PM PDT by neverdem
We shall be getting a new government next week.
Reviewing the last few months of this tumultuous presidential campaign, I...
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In debate this time around, Mitt Romney hammered Barack Obama mercilessly. Under the ongoing assault Obama's knees buckled and he repeatedly looked glassy-eyed. If the contest were a prizefight, the referee should have stepped in. Actually, I felt sorry for Obama. My tax-bracket notwithstanding, I did not want to see Mitt hit him again, but he did: the economy! the national debt! joblessness!
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A few months back I published my findings in The Death of Liberalism. In that book I noted that in the conservative deluge of 2010 independents combined with conservatives to turn the Liberals out. The independents do not always share the conservatives' social values, but they are very ardent for prudent economic policies. The growing debt and unbalanced budgets (both state and federal) had roused the independent vote. I said they would vote with the conservatives for years to come, because Obama and his cohorts in Congress were going to pile up trillion dollar deficits for years to come. Along with the conservatives and independents, next week will come the "uncommitted" voter. The uncommitted always goes with the challenger.
There are two numbers that have been relatively underemphasized in this election, 18 percent and 24 percent. Eighteen percent is the standard cut the federal government takes of GDP. Twenty-four percent is the cut that Obama's government is taking. He says that to pay for this engorgement of the federal government all we need to do is raise taxes on the rich. The conservatives and independents recognize that there is not enough money earned by the top percentage of taxpayers to pay for it and probably not enough down below. Pithily put, we cannot afford Liberalism...
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“goodbye: goodbye till we see each other again”
Not the best phrase - who wants to see him again?
A lingering fear - HE CAN ALWAYS RUN AGAIN FOR THAT SECOND TERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“A lingering fear - HE CAN ALWAYS RUN AGAIN FOR THAT SECOND TERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Relax.
He’s no Grover Cleveland.
No he’s not - he’s Vladimir Putin;)
“he’s Vladimir Putin”
Pootie-Pooh’s a bastard, just not a magnificent one.
FWIW = I just scanned Putin’s Wiki Bio. Putin might be a tiny little freak - but he has a very colorful resume.
Putin does appear to have kept Russia from going broke - by promoting its natural gas & oil resources - pushing his influence where the US withdrew. And he appears to have modeled his policies on the US except for the individual freedom part.
He is rumored to wear a crucifix that his mother gave him.
I don't ever want to see or hear of him again.
A M F instead.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
He’ll need that crucifix.
Here’s some of Putin’s clorful resume:
Tortured to death by Putin’s jackboot state: Inside the rat-infested Gestapo-like Russian prison where eight guards beat lawyer who exposed Moscow’s gangster regime
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