Posted on 11/08/2011 6:37:59 PM PST by Perdogg
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Obama is pro-Occupy Protest. Occupy Protesters are pro-Rape. Biden scares voters into thinking this administration would support their pro-Rape position if voters reject socialist programs. Taxpayers will be plundered anyway.
No... no layoffs... the next thing is going to be a clamoring to raise taxes to support their socialist state... but businesses will move and their state bomb out, go bankrupt... I can see it now, right to work states VS unionized states, another civil war commin’ down the pike...
Or they believed that firefighters and teachers would lose jobs and no safety would entail and all puppies and kittens would be killed?
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The massive fear mongering was endless and brutal.
The language on the ballot was very clear as in : do you want to keep the law ?
Yes if you want to keep
No if you want to repeal
My opinion is that people listened to the fear mongering first and foremost
this is what I said much more bluntly and crude in my last post,sorry.
Tennessee is always open.
That is the end of Ohio. Hello Ohifornia.
“Tom Tancredo may have been right after all about the need for a civics literacy test for voters.”
And a poll tax wouldn’t hurt either.
The voters support the concept with 57% in polls. However, the legislature passed the law in one big package. Kasich wanted it passed in bits and pieces. So the repeal was the law that passed in one big package. It is confusing to voters and anything they don't fully understand, they vote "no".
Then the Sec of State (a Repub) agreed that the vote to repeal the law would be a "no" vote - the go to vote for the confused voter. Kasich had urged the Sec. of State to make the "yes" vote the one to repeal the law. The Sec of State said he was trying to be fair.
Anyway, National Review does a great job of explaining how the Repubs botched this from the beginning.
Voters are really clueless. It is a wonder that we have come this far as a country concerning the voters populating the fruited plain.
By the way, I love your tag line.
Actually, it’s not your tag line, but your handle.
When they raise taxes, businesses and those evil job creating rich folks will leave. Unbelievable demonstration of societal suicide.
I hear that 95%+ of the ads were leftist. And that “our side” didn’t start airing them until recently.
That is no way to run a campaign.
Kasich bit off too much with one bill. Do it piecemeal and it passes without public rancor. It was foolish politics on his part and unnecessarily confrontational.
I can’t tell you how many cars with Ohio tags I used to see while circling the Beltway when I lived in the DC area. I even see quite a few up here in Wisconsin. Maybe they all need to go back and live with the mess they made.
Quote: “And Tea Party groups were strangely tepid during the whole campaign season. Governor Kasich was the most subdued I’ve ever seen him.”
The sense that I get is after 2010 the Tea Party took a victory lap and relaxed. In my town a democrat won a seat on the Township Committee for the first time in years. The democrats at the local level used scare tactics galore just as at the national level and in Ohio.
No more victory laps my friends. If we are going to beat Obama and beat the dem hordes back next year, we need to replicate the energy of last year. Hopefully, these off year elections will serve as a wake up call. You can sure bet that the dems will try to use them to serve as a rallying call. They will be busy blaming Republicans for anything and everything for the next year.
The union thugs just gorged themselves at the diner, and left Ohio taxpayers holding the bill. Apparently a lot of those taxpayers have no problem with that.
Agreed, j. Complete morons. At least they said no to Obamacare. That’s a good start.
I live here. Lawn signs, t-shirts, facebook posts are everywhere saying “No on 2.” No one put up “Yes on 2” signs, because people fear the union goons.
People were told that “No on 2” supports police, fire and teachers. Ads here suggest that you would lose police and fire protection if you vote yes.
Plus most everyone here is somehow attached to some union, if not directly, then in their parents’ history. They don’t distinguish between public and private workers’ unions at all.
Now, they’ll be firedmen.
I am sorry for Ohio.
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