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I didn't know they had a message.

 

Tax cuts for the wealthy.

 

Now, now, they're only "the wealthy" to us - to the rest of the republicans, they're just the middle class, small business owners, and "job creators" - who hope to be really actually what-they-call wealthy like their overlords the Kochs and Addelson, etc. one day. And they can if they just apply themselves and change all the laws to keep all their own money (and yours) and stop all this "entitlement nonsense" from happening

 

That's what they were so good at from Nixon up to G.W. Bush. I mean, that's all they were from Gingrich on - their ideas, when they had any, were stupid, but the message was always on.

For whatever reason, they've sucked at it since Katrina. My guess is that their message had been really targeted to rural/suburban/exurban white men over 35 but under 65, which was a reliable sweet spot in terms of receptiveness to the message and GOTV. They're becoming less of a sweet spot, obviously.

 

Percent of white Americans who will admit publicly to such behavior? About 2%. Percent who instinctively wish to chant USA when they hear an immigrant accent? I dunno, about the 60% or so of whites who will support Romney?

To which the reply will be not so, I'm not racist and I like Romney, and so forth.

To which I will say, those are your fellow supporters, that is the party that you support, so obviously you're not working real real hard on this anti-racism thing.

 

Oh, forgot this one too -

 

I'd put those who'd admit it a bit higher, maybe 5%-8%, but we'll never know for sure. Is it the absence of available data (hard numbers, percentages and the like are impossible to gather for things like this) that keeps this from being a major topic of political conversation?

 

Cowardly News Network? The camerawoman (an employee of the network, I'll assume for now) ought to have been interviewed right then and there by another CNN employee.

JohnR, I think you have the qualifications to present this to the thread. Thanks for bringing it to our attention

 

On the bright side for Republicans, unlike Eurotrash soccer fans, they didn't use bananas.

 

On the other hand, there's piece of major hot-mic stupidity from a now former-Yahoo journalist:

And while that might be true, no one should utter such a sentence with mics in the same room. To its credit, Yahoo fired the guy this morning. I imagine that VFish will be yapping about this for years to come.

 

And to the credit of the "liberal media," no one is going to hire him for triple his former salary, as in the case of Juan Williams.

 

Ron Paul supporters were being throw at her?

 

Bananas would have required forethought.

 

Yahoo! journalist, jumbo shrimp, bigger half, bad sex

 

Good point.

 

I saw this on the GOP platform this morning: "...the worst instances of environmental degradation have occurred under government control [of land]".

Yeah! Stupid national parks/forests/refuges/seashores/marine sanctuaries/wilderness areas/areas of critical environmental concern/wild and scenic rivers/heritage areas/historic register sites/battlefields! Stop trashing the environment!

 

no, that's their plan.
their message to the masses is "compassionate conservatism."

 

I agree with you except for one part of that - national forests are rampant with logging companies. they are not quite as well protected as the name would imply. too often though, federal agencies (forest service, mms (or whatever the heck they are now), blm, bor, etc.) are given resources to "manage" - i.e. protect, regulate, exploit, etc. in a way, they are given conflicting missions (i.e. make money from the resource, but also regulate and protect it) - and we really saw this with BP's gulf leaker and that's a big reason mms was split up and renamed.

 

nice, John Kasich...
because you know, that's where black people live - on the streets. so if you want to find them, now you know where to look.
at least he didn't say "cotton fields."

 

Try a less slanted site.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2012/08/8-29-12-huffpo.html

I think you should get as much crap for posting this as you dish out.

Seriously, did you think Kasich really said that??

 

I would say you are losing, after the first night. By my count, that's over 20 million viewers.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION NIGHT 1

FOXNEWS 6,878,804
NBC 4,770,050
CBS 3,118,927
ABC 2,862,656
CNN 1,473,885
MSNBC 1,468,348

 

I watched MSNBC because it was fun to watch Ed Schultz turn colors.

 

you can subtract the Fox Newsbots. They would have been watching Fox already. O' Reilly is going to be breaking out the fall "No Spin" windbreaker and knit hats for all the good little Patriots in the audience.