From the Ether..
LacrosseMom(real one)
Wow! We may get our wish for a Palin/Beck ticket from the GOP after all!!
REG in AZ
There are those now throwing around tons of money for the sole purpose of buying control of the voters’ thinking and to achieve a return to ‘more of the same’ that so greatly benefited them. They seek to con and manipulate public opinion and to control the elections’ outcome by totally dominating the air waves, and even the internet using paid staffers / volunteers, with their money and substantial efforts to saturate people’s minds with their scripted propaganda. There is no conscience or real concern for other than their own interests as all they want is to regain the advantage they had and they will literally do/say anything to return to ‘more of the same’.
Remember the bold and arrogant, self-serving irresponsibility that ‘more of the same’ actually refers to: ‘trickle down’ dependency; Tax cuts for the wealthy
Global Warming not a problem; Private Accounts for Social Security;
Minimized/ignored warnings before 9/11; Trumped up justification for attacking Iraq;
Abandoned effort in Afghanistan; Afghanistan presented as secure;
False coalition with America paying 95%+; Iraqi oil money never paying for the war;
Pressure put on the intelligence community;
Authorized departure from Geneva Convention rules;
Misrepresentations on wars to manipulate public opinion;
No bid contracts to favored vendors;
Responsibility for port security to Dubai Ports;
Excusing the humongous deficit and growing trade deficit;
Their apathetic reaction to hurricane Katrina aftermath;
Blocking bringing American drugs back into the US;
Exposing the CIA agent's identity;
Squelching the 'wiretapping without court order' story and falsely raising the security threat level, both done just before 2004 election;
Excessive deregulation and the lack of any responsible oversight favoring a few and resulting in unchecked greed, gross dishonesty and criminal self-indulgence;
Encouraging the deporting of American jobs and taxes;
the sociopathic GWBush falsely presented as a 'born again Christian';
and since Bush-Cheney:
Republican total belligerent concentration on their political ambitions;
Stubbornly obstructing and faulting all efforts to address problems;
Irresponsibly withholding any bipartisan cooperation;
Aggressively intimidating and coercing their representatives to force unity;
Supporters organizing and sponsoring Tea Party movement, much like the ‘Swiftboat” effort, to deceptively manipulate public opinion;
Selecting candidates based on demonstrative ability and not on qualifications;
Arrogance and gross dishonesty using scare tactics and emotional appeals;
The distribution of extensive misinformation intended to mislead and to exploit:
yes, and even subtly using both sides of racial issue, without conscience; on and on totally without guilt, while arrogantly insultingly the public in just taking them for granted.
The opportunity the voters now have is to send the message that they can’t be so easily duped, that the ‘full court press’ con isn’t going to work and that they really want bipartisan cooperation to honestly and conscientiously represent the people, the majority. To firmly reject the Republicans, Tea Party and regular, in November will send that message and force them to return to being the Grand Ole Party they once were – representing the people instead of just Special Interests and the few. Then we would see progress based on responsible cooperation instead of self-serving polarization and in 2012 we could even have effective competition that would offer the people real choice for honest representation instead of just ‘more of the same’. To tie government up now with gridlock will completely halt any progress, encourage and reward self-serving irresponsibility and ask for ‘more of the same’, making any real political reform near impossible – and thus completely play into the hands of Special Interests and the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy few who currently ‘call the shots’ for the Republican Party.
October 12, 2010 03:37 pm at 3:37 pm | CNN Politics