two points: 1) people that constantly vote against you and your countries best interest and always side with our enemies might be your relatives or acquaintances, but they are NOT your friends!
2) he needs a new set of friends
Posted on 08/18/2012 5:51:10 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
Almost all of my friends are Democrats; all of them voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Ask them these days, as I have, if they plan to vote for Obama this November, and they’ll give you an “Oh shucks” sad smile, look down, look back up with guilty eyes and say “I’m disappointed.” I’m talking about a good number of intelligent, caring, middle-class Democrats who are a soft nudge away from casting their vote for Romney. All they need to know is that they’re not alone.
In 1980, Carter treated Reagan as a ridiculous figure who, among other things, was ignorant of details of nuclear-weapons policy. Reagan cheerfully promised economic growth and asked Democrats, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” In the end, Reagan proved that good-natured conservatism could win by huge margins. But a lot of credit for the win must go to “Democrats for Reagan.”
Here’s an example of a commercial that would win Democratic votes for Mitt Romney: A man, about 40, is sitting in his living room with his wife and kids seated next to him. He looks into the camera and says: “I’ve voted Democratic all my life. In 2008 I voted for Barack Obama. It was a vote I am proud of. I wanted to be part of the generation that voted a black man into the presidency of the United States. It was the right vote for the right reason. But, sadly, it was for the wrong man. “I don’t think this country can survive four more years of Barack Obama as president. I know my family can’t. I lost my job two years ago, and I fear I’m going to lose my house. “Mitt Romney has the business experience to bring back our economy. He has my vote.”
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It’s starting to look alot more like 1980
Got to get Obama out . . .that’s the goal. Vote his ass out just like Carter.
Hear! Hear!
“Here’s an example of a commercial that would win Democratic votes for Mitt Romney: A man, about 40, is sitting in his living room with his wife and kids seated next to him. He looks into the camera and says: “I’ve voted Democratic all my life. In 2008 I voted for Barack Obama. It was a vote I am proud of. I wanted to be part of the generation that voted a black man into the presidency of the United States. It was the right vote for the right reason. But, sadly, it was for the wrong man. “I don’t think this country can survive four more years of Barack Obama as president. I know my family can’t. I lost my job two years ago, and I fear I’m going to lose my house. “Mitt Romney has the business experience to bring back our economy. He has my vote.”
Oh please.
Your “intelligent” friends voted for a fraud and non-achiever just because of his race? Our country and issues are ALOT more important than your racist, “racial guilt” What made you think this “black guy” would “unify” this country when his politics has always been far-left?
Good lord what idiots vote.
“Here’s an example of a commercial that would win Democratic votes for Mitt Romney: A man, about 40, is sitting in his living room with his wife and kids seated next to him. He looks into the camera and says: “I’ve voted Democratic all my life. In 2008 I voted for Barack Obama. It was a vote I am proud of. I wanted to be part of the generation that voted a black man into the presidency of the United States. It was the right vote for the right reason. But, sadly, it was for the wrong man. “I don’t think this country can survive four more years of Barack Obama as president. I know my family can’t. I lost my job two years ago, and I fear I’m going to lose my house. “Mitt Romney has the business experience to bring back our economy. He has my vote.”
Oh please.
Your “intelligent” friends voted for a fraud and non-achiever just because of his race? Our country and issues are ALOT more important than your racist, “racial guilt” What made you think this “black guy” would “unify” this country when his politics has always been far-left?
Good lord what idiots vote.
So what do these democrats think about abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, global warming etc?
Voting for Romney isn’t that much of a leap for a Democrat.
> Voting for Romney isn’t that much of a leap for a Democrat.
True in one sense. Trying to vote Obama out can be quite a leap for many Democrats though.
So, are you including the owner of this board in your rant?
FR, the pro-God "purist" site that RINOs love to hate
And I guess you didn't get the memo that this is a CONSERVATIVE board, and not necessarily a Republican board.
Lots of people seem to have forgotten that these days.
Go huddle with your Rats. Y'all deserve each other.
A goodly number of people did exactly that. Millions, probably. Because it seemed to be "the right thing to do"...at the time.
Among them were some of our vaunted "conservative intellectuals" -- e.g., Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, et al.
No, it made so sense. But, then, gooey people rarely make sense.
Advertising such as Della Femina proposes would be highly effective.
two points: 1) people that constantly vote against you and your countries best interest and always side with our enemies might be your relatives or acquaintances, but they are NOT your friends!
2) he needs a new set of friends
Here’s an amazingly simple line from an interview with Guy Sorman, a French economist in this morning’s WSJ: “It’s very rare that a nation chooses decline,”.
Use it in anti-Kenyan commercials. Associate in people’s minds decline with the mulatto clown.
Screw Romney and his puddinhearted moderate purists.
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Your bitterness is a curse on this nation, as you won’t even get Ryan in 8 years, like you could if you would forgive.
Millions of voters wanted to be part of the “I voted for the first black president of the US”, and didn't know one damned thing about the man they were voting for other than the color of his skin.
You may not believe it is true, but if you simply dismiss this reality out of hand you aren't aware of the mental makeup of the majority of voters in this country.
While this may not be the best commercial to run, it would undoubtedly strike a chord with millions of voters who simply don't follow politics very closely, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea as it could also turn off several million who will not respond to such a blatant “truism”.
*ducking*
Some days I feel like the one guy at Jonestown who just wasn’t thirsty.
If Democrats in battleground states vote for Romeny that could be significant, but whether this writer has a few Dem friends in New York who might vote for Romney means nothing.
If Dems vote for Romney in places like NY, Mass, and Michigan mean something then Mittens is on his way to a landslide.
Posters on this forum who vow not to vote for Mittens are only significant if they live in battleground states. If you live in New York,Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan or California and vow not to vote for Romney, it matters little in an election decided by the electoral college.
So what do these democrats think about abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, global warming etc?
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I don’t know; but, unless people are totally committed to their Christian faith, or their moral beliefs, their pocket book is the biggest issue. I was for Santorum in the Primary Season because I am a “values” voter first. Romney was not my 1st, 2nd, 3rd.....7th choice. But, we have to play the hand we’re dealt and pray that a majority in the Senate and House will keep him in check. But, Priority One is getting the Godless Commie out of the White House.
Wha...? "Forgive"? Don't you mean "sanction"?
And do excuse me for seeming "bitter" when asked to vote for a guy who originally wrote ObamaCare, a guy who takes global warming very seriously (it appeals to his manager's heart in principle), a guy who has bent over backward to endorse and help expand the homosexual agenda, which really means denying the rights of free people to peacefully reject open homosexuality in their societies. That I refuse to sanction that is less a fruit of "bitterness" than it is an act of common sense.
LOLOL! {^)
Interesting times. I'm with you.
I don’t know who the owner of this board is voting for or not voting for. All I know is I pray that God will let me live to see the day that Barack Obama OUT of the Oval Office. I voted for Ross Perot in ‘92 and I helped give the U.S. and the world the Clintons for life. And Obama makes the Clintons look like Saints. Worst political mistake I ever made. I, and millions of others, bit our noses off to spite our faces. I learned that the place where you find people who want to “send a message” is in the “Lost Column”. I’ll never make that mistake again.
I’m not drinking the koolaid so they’re just gonna have to pull the trigger.
“It’s very rare that a nation chooses decline,”.
Use it in anti-Kenyan commercials. Associate in people’s minds decline with the mulatto clown.
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You give the average American voter credit for being smart enough to understand that; they’re not.
I agree with you Post #14. Isn’t it amazing how people use Scripture for their tagline but they are so hateful, nasty and mean-spirited on this website. Using vulgarity and demeaning terms while calling people names who don’t walk lock-step with them. That’s the type of people who have caused many people to quit going to church. It gives credibility to their arguement: “The church is full of hypocrites.” There will be a lot of surprised people on Judgment Day.
That's one way to look at it. On the other hand, HW was full tilt moderate, "Read my lips" was just talk, and I didn't want to vote for him either, but I did. If he'd have won, especially if he'd won with a regular ol' majority vote, it would have been busienss as usual and the Republican party would have stayed squarely left course. Clinton got in and the Republican Revolution happened two years later. Then the next time Clinton got in, he was impeached.
Obama is vulnerable, much more vulnerable than Clinton in the popularity department. He's a skinny fraud.
Your vote for Perot was the right thing to do with regard to taking a righteous chance, and it had positive consequences for conservatism. But I was madder than hell at you at the time.
I'm sure they're in firm support of all of it. Just like Romney.
You said it.
He’s got to go!
Its like Lott yelled “ROAD TRIP” on his way out of town and invited the sodomites to come along.
I guarantee this won’t end well.
The money line in the article IS... “I voted for Obama because he was black”, meaning they wanted a black President.. Helped no doubt by so many movies that showed a black President.. I can think of several..
A question ROMNEY should raise is are you voting for a President BECAUSE of his COLOR?..
This could be highlighted in several ways.. maybe in the debate(s)..
Like: If you’re voting for President because of his color you should not be voting.. because thats THE RACIST VOTE...
Obamas policies are BAD no matter his color.. a white President doing the same things would be a mistaken vote..
Romney and Obama are in sync on several serious problems..
But Romney is embarrassed by these issues so he doesn’t mention them..
WE the voting public are like Pavlov’s Dogs.. brain washed..
OR either of these scissor-bills would be unelectable..
Yeah its just us. LOL
” - - - “Democrats for Reagan.”
Reagan identified himself as a Democrat by saying “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party - - - it left me!”
Thus, Reagan was able to get the Democrats to thinking: “You know, this guy Reagan may have something there?! I haven’t liked what the Democrats have been doing for years! What is Reagan going to do that Carter has not been doing?”
The first of the above questions created doubt, the second question created identity of thought, and the third created curiosity.
Reagan did the rest with his bare-knuckled fist style of grand soaring rhetoric, always aimed at those who held America’s best values dear.
His Republicans forgave him for coming out of the Democrat Party, the RINOs begrudgingly saw that they would lose if they continued to oppose Reagan, and the MSM hated everybody but the Democrats who stayed loyal to Jimmah.
Can Romney fight like the Warrior that Reagan Was?
Can Ryan get the RINOs to stop holding him back?
Can either Romney or Ryan create doubt, thought identity and curiosity in a manner similar to Reagan?
So far the polls show that Romney and Ryan have a 50 -50 chance of __________________________________________________ .
Living in CA means my Perot Vote didn't change the course of History, but that really doesn't matter. It was personal failure and I live with it every day.
Since I am still living in CA, I could join the FR Anybody but Romney Brigade without fear that my non support would help give us Obama the Commie for another four years.
That is the easy way out and I am not going to give one millimeter to Obama. Newt was my guy and he didn't make it. Now he supports Romney over Obama, just as one of my favorite people Mark Levin does.
As Rumsfeld famously said and was attacked for,
“you go to war with the Military you have”. Well, we are there when only one of the Major Party Candidates will be elected.
This Virgil Goode stuff and the other guy whose name escapes me can only help the Obama camp this time around. None of their supporters would have ever Voted Democrat, so now they will be Voting Democrat by Proxy using the argument that a non Vote does not improve Obama’s chances. Yeah, and I have a bridge to sell you.
There’s a barn south of town that was marked with huge “ZERO” logo on the roof. Drove by it this afternoon perchance, and it was painted over.
I agree. He would know. He's smack in the middle of Democratland, surrounded by rabid liberals. He's married to Judy Licht who used to work at WABC-TV 7 in New York City and now writes a fashion column for HuffPo.
Good idea, Jerry! Make it happen!
Jerry Della Femina is an ad guy. He went from copywriter to founder of his own successful agency. These people live, breathe, and study human motivation, because dollars rest on it.
After a long career, he retired to Eastern Long Island, the playground of the rich, clueless, and Democratic. There he got bored, and founded two successful restaurants. At restaurants, you get to listen to people tell you what they think with a few drinks in them. I'm confident Jerry knows his customers.
What I get from his column is that a lot of soft-headed liberals supported 0zero in 2008 because they figured they could pat themselves on the back and live in a Coke commercial in their minds, and it wouldn't cost them anything. They have figured out how much it actually cost, and they're not happy.
Speaking of New York liberals, it happened before when Rudy Giuliani ran for Mayor against David Dinkins—a tennis-playing party hack who, like Obama, was vaguely black (my daughter tans better). In his first term, Dinkins destroyed the city with crime and corruption so fast, the liberals turned out in droves the first chance they got. They quietly voted Rudy into office by a big margin—then re-elected him when he proved he could make order out of chaos.
When liberals get disillusioned, they really run for the exits. Don't forget how much we complain when liberals move to normal states like NC and Virginia and turn them into dangerous swing states. Well, if New York liberals are backing away from Zippy, it means something very significant: He's toast in the New South.
This is just a very diplomatic way of telling these race card Democrats that their party served up a real turkey in the purported name of atoning for America’s racial sins. Three years ago I was saying that 90% of the black people in the phone book would be able to do a better job in the White House than this very special Barack Obama who was raised up to be a puppet of a gaggle of socialist special interests.
What does it profit a man if he treats a prodigal like the older brother?
Or perhaps - he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Sheesh - if someone starts to see the light - but doesn't see it all at a speed that is acceptable to YOU - we should take away the light. Am I reading you correctly?
You epitomize - "first, remove the log from you own eye..."
Glad to see that Jerry “ From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor” Della Famina is still kicking.
I can guarantee you it's a lot more than two. You mentioned earlier that. I don’t know who the owner of this board is voting for or not voting for, I can tell you one thing, it won't be Romney.
Well now, that's at least 4 of us in that "lonely world" you mentioned. There must be a couple of others around here somewhere.
“We are losing our country to godless socialism and what does the GOP do? Run an abortionist/homosexualist statist whose socialist RomneyCare program was the blueprint and impetus for ObamaCare! Screw that!! I’ll vote for the GOP’s candidate for the presidency when they run a CONSERVATIVE!! Otherwise, to hell with them!! The GOP is fast cementing their place as part of the problem! Wake up America!!”
No I will not vote for an abortionist for president. Period. It’s no secret. I’ve been posting that I will not vote for Rudy/Romney abortionist for many years.
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Romney does not qualify on any count!
Jim Robinson.
Thank you so much for your Post #42. Very well articulated.
Well, if New York liberals are backing away from Zippy, it means something very significant: He’s toast in the New South.
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Good point. I didn’t make the connection. Thanks.
I have no idea how anyone could vote for Obama. There was too much known. Did these folks seriously think he was going to be a pro-American strong defense figure?
The guy was clearly an enemy of the state.
The best defense for an idiot that voted for him, is to now be quiet and hope folks never find out.
Thank God I will never have that on my conscience.
I was amazed and heartened: that list is now nine shy of 300 FReepers, exceeding my expecations nearly five-fold, and considering that I haven't updated it for several weeks, odds are that the REAL number is closer to 400. Still, a minority, but hardly the paltry few you imagine.
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