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Liberals are deranged, I’ll give you that.

But I’m thinking of “borderline liberals”, people I know (not in the media, they are all deranged, of course), who do have the capacity to be swayed by arguments one way or another.

The people I’m thinking about DID react differently to 2010 than they did to 2000. Much differently. The size of the conservative vote DID make them have second thoughts about their 2000-based ideas that only Democrats can win elections legitimately and that Republicans only win when the court hands them the win.

Yes. It makes a difference. It makes a very big difference. There are real people out there. Please don’t base all your thoughts on the media.

Because a huge popular vote win makes the post-election lawsuits less likely.

Because a huge popular vote win shuts the liberals up completely.

Because a huge popular vote win prevents a replay of 2000, where the liberals all called the Republican President illegitimate.

Because we are not just fighting to unseat the Kenyan, but to de-legitamize the Kenyan News Media.

That’s why. (Off the top of my head, in 30 seconds. I could come up with a 10,000 word essay on the subject but I have to get to work. I’m taking the ferry from Hoboken into NYC this morning.)

If you live in Texas, California, New York or any other state that is an absolute lock for either Romney or Obama (you know you live in one of these states if neither side is spending a cent on ads where you live) then I have no problem if you want to cast a principled vote for a third party candidate.

I disagree. The popular vote count really matters in this election.

I hope your 159 turns out to be accurate.

The saying “dumber than a bag of hammers” should be replaced by “dumber than a liberal”.

Just got my power on.

Electric power just restored to my Jersey City neighborhood.

I guess the Allred Revelation flopped.

I live in NJ, on a cliff above Hoboken. So far not a lot of rain, though the wind makes the walking outside unpleasant.

When the rain comes hard, Hoboken will flood. It always does.

Reminiscent of John (The Stupid) McCain suspending his campaign to rush back to DC to save the day.

What a role model to follow!

If you weigh 200 pounds on Earth, you’ll weigh 3 ounces on Phobos.

"In the earth's history," Crichton observed, "plants had evolved as competitively as animals, and in some ways more fiercely ... People who imagined that life on earth consisted of animals moving against a green background seriously misunderstood what they were seeing. That green background was busily alive. Plants grew, moved, twisted, and turned, fighting for the sun; and they interacted continuously with animals — discouraging some with bark and thorns; poisoning others; and feeding still others to advance their own reproduction, to spread their pollen and seeds. It was a complex, dynamic process ..."

Anyone who reads in that statement any suggestion that plants are sentient and have rights doesn't know Crighton, doesn't know evolution, doesn't know anything.

Francione says, "I do believe that we have an obligation not to eat more plants than we need to live, but that is because I think that overeating is a form of violence to our own bodies. I also believe that we have an obligation to all sentient inhabitants of the planet not to use more non-sentient resources than we need. In both cases, we have obligations that concern plants but these obligations are not owed directly to plants."

This is your brain on drugs.

Graphically shows how incredibly stupid the obama leftists really are.

Let all the blue states do this, and all the red states not do it.

Win for us, loss for them.

Yup.

Lock her up.

Throw away the key.

She’ll probably make a big donation to the Human Fund.

Fools and their money...

At this point Obama needed a major Romney blunder. There were no blunders, major or minor.

Forget the debating points and look at the campaign:

Romney wins.

Romney appears to have stayed calm and focused, giving no reason for Americans NOT to vote for him

Romney proved he's a masterful politician by doing this.

He knows that the reasons NOT to vote for Obama are many and compelling.

All he has to do is limit the reasons NOT to vote for Romney, and he wins.

I'm fairly confident at this point that he will win the actual vote-count, but, as always, the final question is, does he win by enough to overwhelm the voter-fraud?

You are exactly right, Old Teufel.

In 1975, the Party of LoveCommunismForever voted to cut off all aid to Vietnam, McGovern’s buddies won and the people of Vietnam lost.

McGovern may have lost the presidential election in 1972, but he was a member of the party that won the war for the North Vietnamese commies in 1975.

Gun control is really working in New York, isn’t it?

The criminals love it.

No honest folk have guns!

Now that’s control!

FU Mayor Bloomberg.

LOL!

The dems use stalinist tactics and as a result don’t require much to amount to a “scandal”. They can invent scandal out of thin air. Romney put more women in his administration than Obama and they still try to make up some issue about “binders”. Romney could have done something else good and now they will claim it’s somehow bad. I have never seen such pathetic desperation.

Very well said.

I think Romney should seriously prepare for the possibility that some kind of huge baseless attack is coming at the very last minute.

The way to prepare, in my opinion, is to be ready to counter-attack against the MEDIA, to call out the MEDIA loud and clear for all the Obama cover-ups they've engaged in since 2007 or so and how they are quick to broadcast a smear but completely unresponsive on a whole list of substantive serious charges, such as a strong leftist past, a strong leftist career path and a strong leftist history leading up to such horrors as Fast and Furious, which the MEDIA has completely ignored.

That's the way to counter-attack. Not to attack Gloria AllScum. She's a slug, a slut, a whore and a worm. I wouldn't waste one word on her.

And not attack Obama directly, since it might be seen as unfair to blame Obama for what AllScum has done.

But to attack the MEDIA for being slow-to-the-point-of-dead on all issues regarding Obama and yet instantly on the rooftops with megaphones blaring out the accusations of an AllScum. I think it could end up being a powerful close to the campaign if he has the guts to do it.

As for AllScum herself, everyone should be ready for the possibility that what she's saying now is a head-fake and that the baseless charges won't come from her but from some other scum-sucking worm who's not saying anything right now.

A boffin is a stock character in United Kingdom culture: a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research. The original World War II conception of war-winning researchers means that the character tends to have a more positive aspect than related characterisations.

Originally, the word was armed-forces slang for a technician or research scientist.[2] The origins and etymology of boffin are otherwise obscure. It has been variously proposed that:

The word comes from a name of a restaurant in East Anglia. From 1938 and during World War II, the British scientists developing radar frequented an eatery called Boffin’s.
Like sigint (signals intelligence), it was a six-character term popularized during WWII derived from “back office intelligence”, indicating the origins of a particular item of information.
It rhymes with puffin, a bird that is both serious and comical at the same time.
It was a word for older naval officers (over age thirty-two; see C. Graves, Life Line, 1941) who apparently were termed Boffins in the Royal Navy.
It was inspired by the Heath Robinson-esque appearance of the Blackburn Baffin aircraft of 1932.
It was derived from Nicodemus Boffin, a fictional character who appears in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, a dustman who is described there as a “very odd looking old fellow”. This theory was proposed by linguist Eric Partridge.

The word also made a few other appearances in literature prior to World War II. J.R.R. Tolkien used Boffin as a surname for a hobbit family in The Hobbit (1937), and a Sergeant Boffin appears in Mr. Bliss (written circa 1932). William Morris has a man called Boffin meet the newly-arrived time traveler in his novel News from Nowhere (1890).

— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin

She likes to curl up with a good Marxist screed while she’s munching her fries.

He called himself “conservative sympathizer” but “Margaret Sanger sympathizer” is more like it.

When Perry crashed and burned I switched to Newt and I would stick with Newt again if the primary were held all over again.

Having said that, as far as how Mitt is doing right now, I am backing him 100%.

Romney agreed to submit himself to a fat stupid leftist. What could go wrong?

A) There is no global warming problem

B) the powers that be don’t want a global warming solution like this, even if there was a global warming problem

C) only leftist fanatics are allowed to make money off of phony-baloney things like “carbon credits”

Excellent points. I hope Romney’s people read this.

No video link?

Will Global Warming prevent the next Ice Age and if it does is that a bad thing?

Two more problems besides the obvious “numbers don’t add up” problem detailed in the article:

1. If you have a Dyson sphere at the orbit of Mercury, aren’t you blocking sunlight from hitting earth? So we’re not going to have the sun in the sky anymore? That’s a goal of this project?

2. You have to transmit the energy gained to earth. How are you going to do that, microwave beams? Aren’t there problems associated with those?

Odumbo is simply an imbecile. The reason why he “won” the debates in 08’ was because he had a script to follow and said the hopeychangey crap over and over again. The MSM ate it up.

Don't forget the role played by the other imbecile, McCain.

In 2008 we didn't have a campaign, we had a morality play, with Obama playing the role of the Olympian God, Palin (against her will) cast in the role (by the McCain camp) as the evil villain, and McCain himself playing the court jester... while all along the steady blather of the Greek chorus media interpreted the action for the audience.

Axelrod, Jarrett, Moochele

Yup.

How much of this is Romney aware of? How much is he willing to use in a counterattack if Barry gets belligerent over Bain?

I’ve never found anybody willing to argue with me that we are closer to the next ice age than we are to the last one. The geologic record is just too plain. If anything we’ve had a slightly longer than typical mild stretch. Relax and enjoy it while it lasts.

And I've never read any of these lying "scientists" making the claim that AGW will prevent the next ice age. So we never even get to ask them, if so, is that a bad thing?

Here's a good comment from the comments at the end of the original article:

Prison time and restitution for damages are warranted.

- John Hendricks , Montevideo, 15/10/2012 13:27

Sounds like John should sign up in FR.

IMO the last paragraph of the article is a copout to the rest of the article.

“So let’s be clear. Yes: global warming is real, and some of it at least has been caused by the CO2 emitted by fossil fuels. But the evidence is beginning to suggest that it may be happening much slower than the catastrophists have claimed – a conclusion with enormous policy implications.”

I caught that too. It's the author "reaching across the aisle" at the end of his piece.

Just like McCain, he's either too chicken or too mentally feeble to stick to his own argument.

I just noticed this on Drudge and I’m bookmarking it here for later read.

Assuming that the audience is chosen fairly (and that’s a big assumption) I don’t really see the format as that big of a change from a normal debate format. These people can’t think up anything new. They are going to ask the same questions that always get asked, whether from Jim Lehrer or Joe the Plumber or whoever.

On the other hand, if the audience is heavily stacked with obamabots, it could be tough going for Romney.

What a fall. From being a death panel honcho to ending up on the wrong end of a death panel.

It doesn’t matter when dem presidents lie. We learned that in the 90s.

all attempts to use the force of government above and beyond the defense of individual rights backfire

I would amend this statement to say:

All attempts to use the force of government above and beyond the defense of individual rights are attempts to increase the power of government officials.

Obama never mentioned Bain in the first debate. That was big of him.

Well here’s something Romney never mentioned: Fast and Furious

This is such an obvious put-up job that I have to feel a bit sorry for the people (including the talk radio host) who were/are taken in by this.

Inappropriate and slutty... yeah, well, as bad as it is it’s not 1 one-billionth as bad as the entire “women’s rights” movement in the West completely and totally ignoring what Islam does to women.

That is REALLY sickening. A billion times more sickening than a has-been hollywhore slut trying to at least say SOMETHING on the subject of Islam’s mass murder and mass enslavement of women.

Good analysis. Good piece.