Bye Bye Noob.
I guess you can find your "ilk" elsewhere.
Posted on 08/03/2012 3:33:17 PM PDT by Third Person
Via the Examiner, I understand why he punted here. His retort to Reid’s tax-evasion smear last night was that it’s an obvious, grotesque attempt to hand the media a new distraction from Obama’s record. He just got back from a foreign policy trip/photo op that was also submerged in distractions, most notably his Olympics comments in London and his aide’s “kiss my ass” comments to the press in Poland. He’s just begun pushing a more positive message keyed to his biography to convince undecideds that he’s up to the job. The last thing he wants right now is another distraction wrapped around his ankles, particularly on a day when the news is about the latest disappointing jobs report.
Given that the Chick-fil-A question here was packaged with another question about Bachmann and the Muslim Brotherhood, he had two dilemmas. One: If he weighs in on either, that’s a story and now suddenly he’s being asked about gay marriage and Islamism instead of jobs for the middle class. If you want a candidate who’s more interested in culture-war issues than economic growth, try Romney 2008. Two: If he weighs in only on Chick-fil-A, the easier of the two topics, then there’ll be a separate story on why he specifically ducked the question about Bachmann and he’ll hear it from her supporters and from the media for dodging. He probably figured he was better off playing it safe (as usual) and passing on both. Hey — if you wanted a nominee who’d inch out on the highwire to answer any question put to him, you should have nominated Newt.
Still, hurts to know that even a tool like Mike Bloomberg is capable of offering a righteous answer on CFA when called on to do so:
Critics trying to shut Chick-fil-A because its CEO opposes gay marriage are undermining the very essence of the Constitution, Mayor Bloomberg declared today in a stirring defense of the embattled fast food chain.
“It isn’t the right thing to do and it isn’t what America stands for,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show. “And those people who don’t like (Chick-fil-A) don’t understand their rights were protected by people who took a difficult position in the past and stood by it. They stood up so everybody else would be free.”…
“What’s for sure is that government cannot in the United States, in America, under the Constitution, be run where you have a litmus test for the personal views of somebody when they want something in the commercial world.”
Barney Frank also managed to say a word against government discrimination towards Chick-fil-A. Ah well. Maybe Mitt will get another question about this tomorrow and say something about free speech even if he ends up avoiding the subject of gay marriage. Speaking of which, enjoy the second clip below. Not sure what’s gotten into Stewart lately, but this is a rare week during which most of his big hits have been at the expense of Democrats.
Exit quotation via Mediaite: “Pretty sure you can’t outlaw a company with perfectly legal business practices because you find their CEO’s views repellant. Not sure which amendment covers that, but it’s probably in the top 1.”
I think he’s doing the right thing. The enemy is doing a good job of destroying themselves:
1) Obama and Biden come out for Gay Marriage
2) Obama’s Minions threaten Chick-Fil-A
3) Dems write Gay Marriage issue into platform
4) Thousands or millions support Chick-Fil-A
The enemy is disintegrating. Step out of the way and let them implode on their own.
I guess the post needed a sarc tag.
Unfortunately, the Obamugabe cabal has hit upon a potentially winning tactic: "The Romney Tax Returns: What Is He Hiding?" It is the left-wing's equivalent of Obama's birth certificate - an open cauldron into which they can pour all their class warfare and outsourcing fantasies, and since Romney has already said there is NO WAY he will release them, there is NOTHING to stop this tactic, all the way to the election.
That is why I think he should have released at least 5 more years when Newt asked for it back in February. It is far too late now, however. So long as this tactic stays alive, it will be used to deflect and distract from Obama's economic incompetence and failure.
Wow
Thanks for that, that’s an awesome collection of the REAL WILLARD
Meanwhile, there are people with no sense of history or context who apparently will vote for anybody with an (R) next to their name, be it a cultist bishop or the freaking anti-christ.
>>Crash and burn America.<<
Wow. You and the Islamic terrorists have that in common.
I am ashamed to call you my countryman...that is, if you really are.
BTTT for “it says it all”.
I want a REVOLT at the convention.
Completely irrelevant to this thread, but I did want to thank you publicly for keeping ‘Fahrenheit 451’ in the public view. I never paid much attention to it and your references have put it on my ‘to read’ list.
Everyone saw the people in line on Aug 1. Everyone knows those folks are probably Romney (definitely not 0bama) voters
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I dont know who everyone youre hearing from but many of the people in line where I was
SE TN where we voted to pass the Marriage Act into law years ago...
all said they wished that we had a canidate who was against same sex marriage and that they wouldnt be voting for Romney...
They said they couldnmt come there to CFA and then vote for what they were against...
Sorry kid...
He's either the stupidest candidate who ever lived or he is deliberately trying to lose this election.
If by chance this Bozo actually wins the election are going to cut him some slack when he vetoes the bill to repeal Obamacare because he believes it goes too far?
Are you going to cut him some slack when he forms alliances with Rinos and Democrats to push the socialist agenda he has been pushing since he first went into politics.
I can't stand Romney. If he manages to get elected, he will destroy the GOP. Maybe that will be a good thing. Maybe it's time to bury the elephant.
Thanks for these very telling images. I had no intention of voting for Romney, but they reinforce my thinking on the matter. Given the choices before us, I think the country is basically set to go down the tubes.
Based on #53, I guess so. I did not pick up on it.
My mistake—sorry.
It’s the kind of president we already have, and he is most likely to get four more years to work his magic. After that, I’m not sure there will be any more elections.
The woman with more masculine gumption in that one lil ol thumb than Willard has in his whole body...
Ronald Reagan, gee that was easily.
No problem. It has been a long week and these are trying times. Have a good weekend. No sarc intended in this post.
(WAVING MY LIL OL HAND IN THE AIR TO GET ATTENTION)
Me too ???
Im told I “ilk” real good...
Bye Bye Noob.
I guess you can find your "ilk" elsewhere.
Well put. I believe his plans will make everything that we tell ourselves are conspiracy drivel so that we can sleep look like a picnic in the park.
Right now O is going to lose a few ticks on his black vote due to his same sex support. Romney cannot change that number no matter what he does. O got astounding youth vote in 2008, likely not so much this year due the JOBS situation. Most of the hetero support for homo causes comes from young people. Mitt says he supports traditional marriage. Why go further and risk inflaming that youth vote again? Let them sit in their mom's basement eating cheetos and smoking dope. We are at an odd point in history. Flash this and that keep happening and you never know what will spark it. Why risk turning the Aug 1 "CFA support day" that did so much good into something that takes legs in labeling Mitt a "h8ter"? I think he is right to leave that fire alone while the embers are still hot.
Your post is very detailed. I guess his answer was a safe one.
No problem, FRiend.
Your screenname is based on a great Psalm, and one that is so appropriate for this time.
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