Kenneth MacMillan's Baron Harkonnen is closer to the corpulent thug from NJ.
Posted on 11/27/2013 6:10:40 AM PST by Moseley
I don’t expect a perfect candidate.
I do however expect a conservative candidate
who will STAY a conservative when elected.
That’s not too much to ask.
Restore the Constitution before it’s too late.
Romney was supposed to be the “perfect” candidate. Lord spare us from perfect candidates.
A hacking thread on FR from back in 2011:
Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2784406/posts
Google search for voting machine hacking:
https://www.google.com/#q=remote+hacking+of+voting+machines
Anybody attempting to determine Soros' motives first needs to understand a critical element of his character: Soros may be the most amoral man to have ever lived. He is absent any morality whatsoever, personal or social. He has no concept of morality and no understanding of how it affects the actions of other people.
I gained this insight from reading several of Soros' writings -- and it's an absolutely vital to understanding him. He...has...no...concept...of...morality. There is no right. There is no wrong.
And he believes everybody else is the same as him. Just not as smart...
On the battlefield, one shot can kill you, too.
I hate the GOPe, but our candidates have to be prepared to speak to current issues without sounding like idiots. I don’t/didn’t know Akin, but that’s not the point. The bullet that killed him was fired from his own gun.
Yes, the party should have supported him (and every other contender), but Republicans are far too often fair-weather friends, who run for cover at the first sign of blood. Newt was/is an inconsistent conservative, but at least he had the balls to fight back in the day. Cruz is the only member of the GOP who has shown any sign of backbone for as long as I can remember, but he is also articulate—a trait conspicuously absent from too many tea party candidates.
It’s not impossible. I am as pro-life as you can get, but I am also more interested in policies that work. Every Republican should be able to say,” I stand with the majority of the American people and do not support abortion as a means of birth control.” That has an 85%+ rating with the public. Every time the other side cries “war on women,” you cry “abortion is not birth control.” The public doesn’t want a lecture, most don’t even care. Once you make a wedge issue into boilerplate, it dies.
Both sides could craft a palatable message if they would get of their butts and do so, but most are content with the status quo. Too many incumbents would lose their positions and too many newcomers would be lost without lost their outsider/rebel persona.
The GOP has no guts, no stamina, and is as distractible as a five-year old with ADD. The Tea Party plays well to the base, but too often cannot translate their message into the vernacular. That works great in primaries, but sets candidates up for failure in the general elections.
The entire purpose of a party should be to craft that message to unify the party without destroying the principles that define the party. You can play to the choir during service, but you have to be able to tailor a consistent message to the general public. And then, YOU HAVE TO STAY ON THAT MESSAGE.
Seems like the “perfect candidate” blame game is regurgitated for every lost election because there’s no way for the “perfect candidate” voters to be redeemed. There is no shortage of folks was are “expert” at shooting fish in a barrel.
Never mind that the commie dem won because people actually voted for the commie dem, or vote machines voted for the commie dem, or absentee ballots voted for the commie dem, or votes for the commie dem replicated themselves in the dark corners of the graveyards or wherever... oh no, it’s those pesky principled voters who didn’t do the “right” thing and hold their noses in order to do the impossible... negate all of the above.
Just like the left, creating its own reality and then blaming those who refuse play along with the charade. Ronald Reagan wasn’t perfect, but for some strange reason people voted *for* him en masse.
The GOP keeps serving the cr@p sandwiches, while sending the good meals away to rot in the dumpster, then blames the diners for pushing “food” away.
“A hacking thread on FR from back in 2011:”
Both those links prove what I said - you have to be WITH THE MACHINE to mess with it.
Look, I worked with those machines and taught election judges how to use them. I know those machines were following state law and locked in a room and the sheriff had the key.
My husband was the Republican Chairman and met with the county election administrator along with the Democrat Chairman and they checked those machines for accuracy before they were used. On election day, the sheriff’s deputies take the machines to the voting precincts. At that point, the election judge who is one party and the alternate judge who is of the opposite party, perform certain tasks on each machine to make sure they are voting correctly.
If you want to think these machines can be hacked from long distance, you are absolutely WRONG.
And he KNEW that would be a killer gaffe... yet Akin put HIMSELF first and wouldn't step aside and make that a winnable race.
Kenneth MacMillan's Baron Harkonnen is closer to the corpulent thug from NJ.
Never said they could be hacked from long distance. But they can be hacked.
What Todd Akin said was NOT a killer gaffe nor even a very serious gaffe.
The only thing that hurt Todd Akin was when the GOP establishment condemned him.
Why should you vote for a Republican who is being condemned by his own Party?
What Barack Obama said about bitter voters clinging to their guns and Bibles was FAR more damaging as a gaffe, because it insulted nearly half the electorate.
What Todd Akin said was a big nothing, except for how the GOP bungled the situation.
Todd Akin said that: (1) DOCTORS TELL ME THAT.... He reported that he was simply repeating what doctors had told him. (2) some claims of rape are false — like Tawana Brawley pushed by Al Sharpton and the Duke Lacrosse Player case (3) pregnancy from rape is rare, because a woman’s body is less likely to get pregnant under the severe trauma of rape. That is true, as doctors confirm.
So what exactly was so bad about Todd Akin? ONE THING: The GOP insiders preferred a different candidate and wanted to stab Todd Akin in the back.
They can certainly be hacked if the machine is with you and you know what to do. Any kind of machine, even your car, can be taken apart and changed.
Those two men who changed the machines while the machines were in a hallway could certainly do that. They could flip the switch and stand there and vote ballots if they wanted. Machines have to be locked up, period. (I’m using Obama’s period word.)
If your county chairman knows the election law of that state, he can make the election administrator follow the law and the law says the machines have to be locked up.
If Tokyo Rove had helped her instead of attacking her she might have won.
“Mitt Romney was guaranteed to beat Obama. John McCain was going to win. It’s all about the candidate.”
We must suffer the insufferable and bear the unbearable. We must sit on logs and eat toadstools. We must offer free cel phones to low-information voters. Sob.
The only thing that hurt Todd Akin was when the GOP establishment condemned him.
What Todd Aiken said was, IIRC, that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely become pregnant. Actually, he's not all that far from the empirical scientific truth, which is that, all other variables being equal, females stand a lesser chance of being impregnated by a man who forces himself upon her as opposed to a man who is a welcome sex partner. That's explained by physiological changes induced by sexual arousal in the latter instance which don't occur in the former. Problem is that Aiken could have been more specific and smoother as to what he meant, or better yet, not even have gone there at all since he is obviously not a medical expert.
You are correct to say that the GOP establishment was foolish in condemning him; instead, one of the GOP physicians in Congress might have helped him out with a mutually agreed to clarification. But once the GOP establishment came down on him hard and asked him to withdraw from the race, the MSM, smelling blood, pounced like a pack of wolves and that winnable Senate seat was lost.
This is why the liberal MSM focuses so much on psyops. They continuously inundate Republicans with messages designed to subliminally coerce them to instinctively react by shunning anyone that the MSM targets.
They've been conditioned to react the way that they do, by responding to code words as programmed.
That's why we have to vote out the old guard. They've been subverted, and they don't even know it.
-PJ
They've been conditioned to react the way that they do, by responding to code words as programmed.
That's why we have to vote out the old guard. They've been subverted, and they don't even know it.
I think you've got a good read on the Republican Washington establishment. Don't know why they are so fearful of the lefty MSM, when they have opportunities to rebut the MSM by getting their messages out on talk radio and FOX, but, as you say, they are "conditioned" and old habits die hard.
Oh come on, don’t defend that twit Akin. It’s a fantasy the he would have won if only the evil party bosses rallied around him. Complete nonsense excuse-making.
The seat was lost when he said that stupid retarded thing and refused to drop out in favor of a candidate who could win!! Selfish foolish bastard. The party did the right thing in urging him to withdraw which was the only remaining chance at victory.
Just because a guy is a conservative doesn’t mean he can’t also be a twit.
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