td11 wrote:the #1 priority for the base is, and has been since at least the 2010 round of elections, getting the Pres out of the white house. nothing else matters. doesn't matter how #$!&@ a candidate romney is, team republican needs to win the white house cup

drsmooth wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

thephan wrote:The list of things not covered has to include China. What was said was pretty minuscule, and largely redundant. China is a huge topic. The pivot to Asia, which was not mentioned at all, is all about an aggressive China dominating the region.

i saw an ad today on china. a chinese man was speaking to chinese students in chinese. the whole ad was subtitled. it was supposed to be from the future and china was laughing at the history lesson on the USA being given because china was the world power.

this ad has been running sporadically for several months. Not really sure what its point is. China's political leadership is prone to bouts of, let's call it overconfidence, that they ordinarily keep tightly under wraps. Occasionally little hubris farts escape their dragnet.

mozartpc27 wrote:Here's a post on the Huffington Post that will surprisingly make jerseyhoya's day:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-lom ... =@pollster

Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., came under fire for comparing Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill to a "dog" during a campaign fundraiser Saturday night in Springfield, Mo. McCaskill's office responded a day later with an email to supporters that said Akin "continues to offend women." The conservative's comments came two months after his "legitimate rape" snafu and nearly two weeks from the general election.

What was candidate's exact quote?

PoliticMo.com posted an audio recording of Akin's remarks late Saturday. The transcript goes, "So she goes to Washington, D.C., and it's a little bit like one of those dogs, you know, 'fetch,' and gets all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders... and dumps it on us in Missouri. … What we should be doing is taking the common sense we see in Missouri and taking that to Washington, D.C., and blessing them with more solutions instead of more problems."

Werthless wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

thephan wrote:The list of things not covered has to include China. What was said was pretty minuscule, and largely redundant. China is a huge topic. The pivot to Asia, which was not mentioned at all, is all about an aggressive China dominating the region.

i saw an ad today on china. a chinese man was speaking to chinese students in chinese. the whole ad was subtitled. it was supposed to be from the future and china was laughing at the history lesson on the USA being given because china was the world power.

this ad has been running sporadically for several months. Not really sure what its point is. China's political leadership is prone to bouts of, let's call it overconfidence, that they ordinarily keep tightly under wraps. Occasionally little hubris farts escape their dragnet.

That ad is 2 years old. Interesting fact: The actors had no idea what the ad was for, and many were pissed afterwards.

Doll Is Mine wrote:The gift that keeps on giving...

Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., came under fire for comparing Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill to a "dog" during a campaign fundraiser Saturday night in Springfield, Mo. McCaskill's office responded a day later with an email to supporters that said Akin "continues to offend women." The conservative's comments came two months after his "legitimate rape" snafu and nearly two weeks from the general election.

What was candidate's exact quote?

PoliticMo.com posted an audio recording of Akin's remarks late Saturday. The transcript goes, "So she goes to Washington, D.C., and it's a little bit like one of those dogs, you know, 'fetch,' and gets all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders... and dumps it on us in Missouri. … What we should be doing is taking the common sense we see in Missouri and taking that to Washington, D.C., and blessing them with more solutions instead of more problems."

All three of these acute analysts are concerned that the aggressive spin of the Romney campaign that Mitt “won” the debate last night because he “met his objectives” or “reinforced his message” or “won the debate season” or whatever, and its acceptance by much of the MSM, can become what Chait calls a “self-fulfilling prophecy” and lift him to the presidency.

In recent days, the vibe emanating from Mitt Romney’s campaign has grown downright giddy. Despite a lack of any evident positive momentum over the last week — indeed, in the face of a slight decline from its post-Denver high — the Romney camp is suddenly bursting with talk that it will not only win but win handily. (“We’re going to win,” said one of the former Massachusetts governor’s closest advisers. “Seriously, 305 electoral votes.”)

This is a bluff. Romney is carefully attempting to project an atmosphere of momentum, in the hopes of winning positive media coverage and, thus, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Bucky wrote:the mitt romney donation ads on the bottom of this page have gone down to $5. It was like $20 when I first noticed. Then it was $9. Now it's $5. I wonder if that's the national strategy or the more times it's presented to me without results, the lower it goes.