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Topics => Politics/Legislation/Elections => Topic started by: Glock32 on November 06, 2012, 04:09:18 AM

Title: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Glock32 on November 06, 2012, 04:09:18 AM
This is exactly the sort of thing I would expect from this crowd. Even more so, it's exactly the sort of narrative I would expect the MFM to pick up and run with in a reliable fashion. So be ready for it. They are going to do everything conceivable to drag this asshole back into the White House.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chicago-source-tells-author-brad-thor-obama-campaign-planning-to-proclaim-early-victory-to-demoralize-romney-supporters/ (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chicago-source-tells-author-brad-thor-obama-campaign-planning-to-proclaim-early-victory-to-demoralize-romney-supporters/)
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: AlanS on November 06, 2012, 05:47:41 AM
The only ones this will effect are the wishy washy, middle of the road, "I'm above the fray" voter. The same ones who gave us Odumbo to begin with.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Glock32 on November 06, 2012, 06:20:34 AM
I agree. I don't think it will work, not in a year like this, but it still irks me that they would do it. The real experiment will be to see how unquestioningly the MFM repeats it, assuming it does happen.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Predator Don on November 06, 2012, 06:37:15 AM
If obsma tries this and the media jumps on board.......and Romney wins, republicans need to make it their life's work to point out the extreme bias at every opportunity. If romney wins, he will have 4 years to change the landscape of media bias.

I would purposefully omit certain networks from info and meetings and I would explain why. The media needs to take one in the teeth, especially the outlets which will never say a kind word about or for Romney.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Libertas on November 06, 2012, 08:25:53 AM
I got my game-face on.   ;)
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 09:46:27 AM
I got my grim face on.

Not long after DADT was declared dead, the media looked for and found two homosexuals in a full-body clinch, one man's legs wrapped around the other's waist, at the scene of military folks returning home from the Middle East.

The Left cheered.  Homosexuals cheered.  They were exultant; they got what they wanted, in full.

We *never* get that -- a substantial, meaningful and clear-cut victory for the right and the Right.  Anything we manage to win is a holding action at best, not a reversal of anything the Left inflicts on us, and we often have to fight some of own side in order to get it.

This election is no different. 

If we get Romney over the finish line, I will breathe in relief that we ousted the marxist usurper, but there will be no joy in it because it will be just the beginning of another series of assaults on him, his administration, and us by extension, by the Presstitutes and the entire Left.  And it is with great dread that I wait out the next three months until January for the EO and regulatory barrage of revenge.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Libertas on November 06, 2012, 10:10:31 AM
Yeah, ya aren't wrong Pan, a dose of realism is a good thing, I think today though is all about kicking the SCoaMF to the curb, we know what follows will not go according to our view of what is necessary...but this was never about that, it's all about buying time for those that need it...hopefully they spend it wisely.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 10:29:00 AM
Mittens wins and we have (maybe) a 10%  of Obamacare repeal, collapse of the dollar will be delayed by (maybe) 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP

Obama wins and there is 0% change of Obamacare repeal, the dollar collapses in the next 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP.

There is less at stake in this election than you think.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: AmericanPatriot on November 06, 2012, 10:35:02 AM
Pan. I think the full on assaults on Romney and congress should come from our side.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: AlanS on November 06, 2012, 11:24:06 AM
If romney wins, he will have 4 years to change the landscape of media bias.

Or ignore the media like Reagan did.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Libertas on November 06, 2012, 11:55:54 AM
If romney wins, he will have 4 years to change the landscape of media bias.

Or ignore the media like Reagan did.

I would love to see every Fifth Column journotard ignored, shunned and ridiculed.  What I wouldn't give to be Mitt's spokesdude!   ::evilbat::
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: 21stCenturyThinker on November 06, 2012, 12:01:00 PM
Mittens wins and we have (maybe) a 10%  of Obamacare repeal, collapse of the dollar will be delayed by (maybe) 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP
Obama wins and there is 0% change of Obamacare repeal, the dollar collapses in the next 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP.
There is less at stake in this election than you think.

First, I don't accept your conclusion, Weisshaupt; there's still a lot of energy in America that only requires a good leader to bring it out.
But even if you are right and the dollar collapses in two years, with Mitt Romney as president we'll face it together and work our way out of the hole together. Obama would use it as an excuse to steal even more liberty (and money) from the working class. He would align himself even more closely with foreign governments. He would weaken us even more so he could tell France (and Greece?)  "Look, we're just like you! Don't hate us any more."

So the big difference is, Romney the businessman will formulate a plan and fix the problem. Obama the Marxist will use the crisis to seize more control.

There's a hell of a lot at stake in this election.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: charlesoakwood on November 06, 2012, 12:04:55 PM
Mittens wins and we have (maybe) a 10%  of Obamacare repeal, collapse of the dollar will be delayed by (maybe) 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP

Obama wins and there is 0% change of Obamacare repeal, the dollar collapses in the next 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP.

There is less at stake in this election than you think.


Sell next best opportunity and, if you must, buy on the certain to come dip.

Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Glock32 on November 06, 2012, 12:10:24 PM
I see a Romney win as a stay of execution. There's still a big problem hanging over our head, but we at least will be able to formulate a response.

But really though, it's not an Obama win that would be the final nail, it's an electorate that even allowed it to be close that will be the final nail.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: 21stCenturyThinker on November 06, 2012, 12:21:43 PM
I see a Romney win as a stay of execution. There's still a big problem hanging over our head, but we at least will be able to formulate a response.

But really though, it's not an Obama win that would be the final nail, it's an electorate that even allowed it to be close that will be the final nail.

You are absolutely right. The price of freedom is constant vigilance. We spent 50 years sitting in the Fulda Gap to prevent the Russians from coming through and taking Western Europe the way they took all of Eastern Europe. We won the Cold War because we were always ready to fight it. I see the current crop of hippie liberals as that same kind of Communist threat. And I'm hoping that if we can hold the lines long enough we'll live to see all Americans get back to their American values.

One can but hope.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 12:58:57 PM
Pan. I think the full on assaults on Romney and congress should come from our side.

They will, without lying about the issues and when they're warranted.

That's not the Left's MO, as I'm sure you're aware.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 01:22:46 PM
Mittens wins and we have (maybe) a 10%  of Obamacare repeal, collapse of the dollar will be delayed by (maybe) 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP
Obama wins and there is 0% change of Obamacare repeal, the dollar collapses in the next 2 years, and the left gets to blame it all on the GOP.
There is less at stake in this election than you think.

First, I don't accept your conclusion, Weisshaupt; there's still a lot of energy in America that only requires a good leader to bring it out.
But even if you are right and the dollar collapses in two years, with Mitt Romney as president we'll face it together and work our way out of the hole together. Obama would use it as an excuse to steal even more liberty (and money) from the working class. He would align himself even more closely with foreign governments. He would weaken us even more so he could tell France (and Greece?)  "Look, we're just like you! Don't hate us any more."

So the big difference is, Romney the businessman will formulate a plan and fix the problem. Obama the Marxist will use the crisis to seize more control.

There's a hell of a lot at stake in this election.

Romney stole the liberty of the people in Mass with a Health care mandate. The fact that State Govt's have a more legitimate claim to such power in now way makes that acceptable. Romney is as likely to take your liberty as any other leftist. Obama would be worse, to be sure, but Romney  has no moral principles against what Obama has done. Romney is not the leader that can bring out the best in America, and the left wouldn't follow him even if he was - they are no longer Americans. Even if Mittens was everything you hope - he is up against MATH. 200 Trillion has been promised.  It either doesn't get paid and the entitled begin a war and the govt  collapses, or it does get paid in printed money and the dollar collapses.  Mittens will have little choice but to initiate Martial law when it does and as I noted, he has no love of liberty  that will protect us.  What he did to MA, he will do to us.




Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 01:39:33 PM
There is a major difference Weisshaupt, that does not rely on the states rights argument.

Assuming that people elect politicians to enact the will of the electorate, then Mitt Romney and the Democrat state legislature moved forward and enacted a plan that the people of Massachusetts wanted.

The sad reality is, whether you or I agree that a state should not be in the business of health care or funding mandates, the people of Massachusetts have supported the Romney health care law by roughly 2/3 to 1/3 since its inception.

That matters when discussing RomneyCare's relation to ObamaCare. It's not irrelevant. He did what the people of Massachusetts sent him there to do.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Libertas on November 06, 2012, 01:40:02 PM
Without control of the Senate...lets make that "reliable/functional" control of the Senate, there will be no repeal of Obamacare, that alone can doom the nation as much as anything, and failing to end deficit spending and a steady program to pare down the debt, well, the end result is still certain, only the date of the fiscal collapse needs to be argued.  Another key step is kicking the Neo-Keynesian Bernanke out on his ass, we cannot have anymore QE/Twist/debasement clowns running the Fed, and actually we should get rid of the Fed since it and Treasury are one in the same anyway, certainly we do not require twice the overhead.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 01:54:53 PM
Assuming that people elect politicians to enact the will of the electorate, then Mitt Romney and the Democrat state legislature moved forward and enacted a plan that the people of Massachusetts wanted.

The sad reality is, whether you or I agree that a state should not be in the business of health care or funding mandates, the people of Massachusetts have supported the Romney health care law by roughly 2/3 to 1/3 since its inception.

The Tyranny of the Majority is still Tyranny. The Majority do not have the right to impinge upon the inalienable rights of the individual.  It is ALWAYS immoral to do so, and anyone who would vote to allow it, shouldn't be allowed to continue breathing, much less be President of the United States.  Before the Civil War there was a Majority in those States that wanted to continue slavery as well, did that make the ownership of men legitimate? There is no difference between letting a private citizen own a man vs. giving the government ownership of him on behalf of a group of slavers.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: John Florida on November 06, 2012, 02:18:32 PM
Romney voters have waited too long to get to this day to get sucked in by this bush league stunt.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 02:21:59 PM
Assuming that people elect politicians to enact the will of the electorate, then Mitt Romney and the Democrat state legislature moved forward and enacted a plan that the people of Massachusetts wanted.

The sad reality is, whether you or I agree that a state should not be in the business of health care or funding mandates, the people of Massachusetts have supported the Romney health care law by roughly 2/3 to 1/3 since its inception.

The Tyranny of the Majority is still Tyranny. The Majority do not have the right to impinge upon the inalienable rights of the individual.  It is ALWAYS immoral to do so, and anyone who would vote to allow it, shouldn't be allowed to continue breathing, much less be President of the United States.  Before the Civil War there was a Majority in those States that wanted to continue slavery as well, did that make the ownership of men legitimate? There is no difference between letting a private citizen own a man vs. giving the government ownership of him on behalf of a group of slavers.


I agree. But within your argument is mine. Regardless of how you or I feel about the morality of the Massachusetts government enacting a universal health care law; regardless of the rightness of our argument against it; the will of the majority was indeed enacted.

That makes a comparison with ObamaCare specious at best, because that was never the case with ObamaCare. Not then, not now. The people of the country have always been squarely against it, and have voted at least one election cycle to express their disapproval, and appear to be poised to do so again, now.

It seems to me that in all Mitt Romney's ventures, one thing stands out: successful leadership. Whether it be in private enterprise, governor of Massachusetts, or the SLC Olympics, he has shown the ability to look at a problem, discern the dynamics of the problem and the people involved, roll up his sleeves, and bring people along with him to get to work on solving the problem.

Now, I don't have faith or trust, but I have hope. I'm willing to give the guy a shot.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 02:48:34 PM
I agree. But within your argument is mine. Regardless of how you or I feel about the morality of the Massachusetts government enacting a universal health care law; regardless of the rightness of our argument against it; the will of the majority was indeed enacted.

Sure. But the number of people willing to enslave others has no bearing upon the morality.  Numbers do not make the act  legitimate or moral. Romney did not act to stop it, and in fact agreed to to it. That is the sort of moral "leadership"  we can expect from him. Its the same "go along to get along" crap we have always gotten, and its not going to cut it in the coming crisis. Mitten might very well have a record of solving problems, but I have little faith that he has any moral compass in doing so. Its entirely likely he will see seizing and investing every IRA and 401K in the country in govt debt as a  "moral" solution to our funding problems. After all, if Mittens thinks the good  (or will) of the community comes before the good (or will) of the individual, in true fascist fashion,  then there is nothing he can't do.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 03:03:17 PM
I agree. But within your argument is mine. Regardless of how you or I feel about the morality of the Massachusetts government enacting a universal health care law; regardless of the rightness of our argument against it; the will of the majority was indeed enacted.

Sure. But the number of people willing to enslave others has no bearing upon the morality.  Numbers do not make the act legitimate or moral. Romney did not act to stop it, and in fact agreed to to it. That is the sort of moral "leadership" we can expect from him. ...

Or... this is a different set of challenges, and he understands and honors the difference between being the popularly elected governor of a deep-blue state and the constitutionally elected President of the United States, and will thus act accordingly.

Look, I get it. Skepticism runs deep in me. All I'm saying is that when comparing RomneyCare to ObamaCare, there is a distinct difference that cannot be ignored. My hope is that in accordance with his campaign rhetoric, Romney is aware of that difference and will govern accordingly.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: radioman on November 06, 2012, 03:53:39 PM
We forget that the Massachusetts version of obamacare did not have 2,800 pages of taxes and regulations. Please, there is more separating the two than there is in common.

Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 04:04:50 PM
Or... this is a different set of challenges, and he understands and honors the difference between being the popularly elected governor of a deep-blue state and the constitutionally elected President of the United States, and will thus act accordingly.

And the difference is? This is like saying that if Lincoln was a governor in the South his acceptance of slavery in that situation would be okay, but then expecting he will do the right thing and fight the Civil War when he becomes President. Its moral relativism at its finest. The Morality of this doesn't depend on the situation. If Romney's support of individual rights is dependent upon what the majority of his constituency thinks- then he is morally degenerate and any hope of him doing the right thing relies on the slenderest of threads.  There is no moral difference between RomneyCare and Obamacare, any more than there was a moral difference between slavery in the Northern States ( who voluntarily abolished it) and Slavery in the Southern States ( who refused and tried to expand the practice.) If the difference is the  number of people willing to enslave the others around them- then  that number is growing with each new person on welfare, and Romney will bow to them, and not to any moral principle.  The man is  a snake, and we would do well to remember it.


Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 04:10:59 PM
We forget that the Massachusetts version of obamacare did not have 2,800 pages of taxes and regulations. Please, there is more separating the two than there is in common.

And if Obamacare was word-for-word the same as Romneycare that would make it acceptable? It would make it any less repugnant or wrong?
The inalienable rights of every individual are still violated by each - the degree of the violation being irrelevant, the principles behind each being identical.  If it takes 70 pages or 2300 pages to violate your rights and lay you prostrate before them, does it make any material difference?



Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 04:15:04 PM
Or... this is a different set of challenges, and he understands and honors the difference between being the popularly elected governor of a deep-blue state and the constitutionally elected President of the United States, and will thus act accordingly.

And the difference is? This is like saying that if Lincoln was a governor in the South his acceptance of slavery in that situation would be okay, but then expecting he will do the right thing and fight the Civil War when he becomes President. Its moral relativism at its finest. The Morality of this doesn't depend on the situation. If Romney's support of individual rights is dependent upon what the majority of his constituency thinks- then he is morally degenerate and any hope of him doing the right thing relies on the slenderest of threads.  There is no moral difference between RomneyCare and Obamacare, any more than there was a moral difference between slavery in the Northern States ( who voluntarily abolished it) and Slavery in the Southern States ( who refused and tried to expand the practice.) If the difference is the  number of people willing to enslave the others around them- then  that number is growing with each new person on welfare, and Romney will bow to them, and not to any moral principle.  The man is  a snake, and we would do well to remember it.




I'm now officially too drunk to argue with you any further.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 04:33:15 PM
Or... this is a different set of challenges, and he understands and honors the difference between being the popularly elected governor of a deep-blue state and the constitutionally elected President of the United States, and will thus act accordingly.

And the difference is? This is like saying that if Lincoln was a governor in the South his acceptance of slavery in that situation would be okay, but then expecting he will do the right thing and fight the Civil War when he becomes President. Its moral relativism at its finest. The Morality of this doesn't depend on the situation. If Romney's support of individual rights is dependent upon what the majority of his constituency thinks- then he is morally degenerate and any hope of him doing the right thing relies on the slenderest of threads.  There is no moral difference between RomneyCare and Obamacare, any more than there was a moral difference between slavery in the Northern States ( who voluntarily abolished it) and Slavery in the Southern States ( who refused and tried to expand the practice.) If the difference is the  number of people willing to enslave the others around them- then  that number is growing with each new person on welfare, and Romney will bow to them, and not to any moral principle.  The man is  a snake, and we would do well to remember it.


I'm now officially too drunk to argue with you any further.

LOL.  Better cook up and get around some of that steak then.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Glock32 on November 06, 2012, 04:40:51 PM
I agree with Weisshaupt.  It's not right for 2 wolves and 1 sheep to vote on the dinner menu, nor is it right for 100 wolves and 1 sheep to vote on the dinner menu.  The numbers involved have no bearing on the morality of the act.

I think we all are so eager to have anyone defeat Obama we tend to gloss over Romney's own statist tendencies. But that said, I think he has genuinely seen the grave dangers in the direction Obama and the Democrats are dragging us and is alarmed into wanting to do something about it. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in that regard. It's not like there is any acceptable alternative anyway.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: radioman on November 06, 2012, 04:58:03 PM
We forget that the Massachusetts version of obamacare did not have 2,800 pages of taxes and regulations. Please, there is more separating the two than there is in common.

And if Obamacare was word-for-word the same as Romneycare that would make it acceptable? It would make it any less repugnant or wrong?
The inalienable rights of every individual are still violated by each - the degree of the violation being irrelevant, the principles behind each being identical.  If it takes 70 pages or 2300 pages to violate your rights and lay you prostrate before them, does it make any material difference?





I really didn't mean to convey the thought that romneycare was good. obamacare is so much more than just healthcare. 2800 pages of 'the HHS' can determine at her discretion........fill in the blank.....It is an open ended massive regulation where they can pretty much do anything they please.

romenycare never did that. I'm saying this becasue I'm tired of hearing the leftists proclaim that romneycare is no different than obamacare.  ::cussing::
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 04:58:17 PM
Or... this is a different set of challenges, and he understands and honors the difference between being the popularly elected governor of a deep-blue state and the constitutionally elected President of the United States, and will thus act accordingly.

And the difference is? This is like saying that if Lincoln was a governor in the South his acceptance of slavery in that situation would be okay, but then expecting he will do the right thing and fight the Civil War when he becomes President. Its moral relativism at its finest. The Morality of this doesn't depend on the situation. If Romney's support of individual rights is dependent upon what the majority of his constituency thinks- then he is morally degenerate and any hope of him doing the right thing relies on the slenderest of threads.  There is no moral difference between RomneyCare and Obamacare, any more than there was a moral difference between slavery in the Northern States ( who voluntarily abolished it) and Slavery in the Southern States ( who refused and tried to expand the practice.) If the difference is the  number of people willing to enslave the others around them- then  that number is growing with each new person on welfare, and Romney will bow to them, and not to any moral principle.  The man is  a snake, and we would do well to remember it.


I'm now officially too drunk to argue with you any further.

LOL.  Better cook up and get around some of that steak then.

Steak's already gone. Time fer pokkorn...

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Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: benb61 on November 06, 2012, 05:06:53 PM
To play devils advocate for a second.  We live in a Democratic Republic, that means that what the majority want (as long as it is constitutional) they get.  If 51% of the populace wants all houses to be painted purple (going to an extreme) all people must paint their house purple, or be in violation of the law.  Violators will be punished by whatever means as described in the law. Morality is only considered in as far as the Constitution applies.

Comments?
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Libertas on November 06, 2012, 05:12:37 PM
Mmm...meat...   ::beertoast::
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Libertas on November 06, 2012, 05:13:34 PM
To play devils advocate for a second.  We live in a Democratic Republic, that means that what the majority want (as long as it is constitutional) they get.  If 51% of the populace wants all houses to be painted purple (going to an extreme) all people must paint their house purple, or be in violation of the law.  Violators will be punished by whatever means as described in the law. Morality is only considered in as far as the Constitution applies.

Comments?

Unfair analogy, I live in Viking country.   ;D
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: benb61 on November 06, 2012, 05:14:23 PM
To play devils advocate for a second.  We live in a Democratic Republic, that means that what the majority want (as long as it is constitutional) they get.  If 51% of the populace wants all houses to be painted purple (going to an extreme) all people must paint their house purple, or be in violation of the law.  Violators will be punished by whatever means as described in the law. Morality is only considered in as far as the Constitution applies.

Comments?

Unfair analogy, I live in Viking country.   ;D

I assumed that is where the 51% lived.   ;)
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Weisshaupt on November 06, 2012, 05:26:06 PM
To play devils advocate for a second.  We live in a Democratic Republic, that means that what the majority want (as long as it is constitutional) they get.  If 51% of the populace wants all houses to be painted purple (going to an extreme) all people must paint their house purple, or be in violation of the law.  Violators will be punished by whatever means as described in the law. Morality is only considered in as far as the Constitution applies.

Comments?

We live in a Constitutional  Republic based on Democratic Principles, NOT a Democracy.  Our Representatives are limited by our Constitution  in their power.  A Sheriff cannot, by the virtue of his office, decide to pillage, rape and enslave by the virtue of his office. One who did would be considered corrupt.  There are rules.  Likewise, and ever more so for our representatives who can only do that which is required to carry out the enumerated powers of the Constitution - and those powers do not require our houses to be painted Purple. Furthermore, the govt was enacted to become the protector of our inalienable rights - not their grantor, nor the agent of their violation. A supermajoirty had to agree to the Constitution, and its amendments. Not 51%

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If Congress can apply money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may establish teachers in every State, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public Treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post roads. In short, every thing, from the highest object of State legislation, down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit the application of money, and might be called, if Congress pleased, provisions for the general welfare. James Madison,  remarks on the House floor, debates on Cod Fishery bill, (February 1792)

Ultimately the method of Amendment makes us subject to a super-majority (at one time of landed white males, who by the way time after time  voted to give up their monopoly on power and share it with other groups) , the extra percentage and natural tendency of humans to disagree being the hurdle to tyranny via super-majority. Even with this check, the super-majority hurdle has not protected the rights of the individual. Prohibition being an example. Slavery being another. Just because a super-majority agrees  doesn't make their decision right or moral. Slavery was wrong for the entire century it was protected under our Constitution.  However, that is the process we agreed to, and if the power to run health care had been given by Amendment I would still think it wrong, but I would be a hell of a lot more willing to abide by it. The Dems have broken our agreement, have voted to expand the Fed's power past the limits we set, and have begun, like my hypothetical sheriff,  to rape and pillage. They do so without any pretense legitimacy ("Are you serious?!?") and without right, and every last one should be executed as unfit to share in a civilized society.


 
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 05:44:51 PM
Mmm...meat...   ::beertoast::

Hell yeah!  And from the juice left on the plate, it looked like it was cooked med-rare, which is just how I like it.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Yah, IDP; I posted my comment before I saw your pics on another thread.

We're having the rest of the chicken and potatoes we roasted last night.  'S okay, chicken tonight is good too.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 05:51:55 PM
Mmm...meat...   ::beertoast::

Hell yeah!  And from the juice left on the plate, it looked like it was cooked med-rare, which is just how I like it.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Yah, IDP; I posted my comment before I saw your pics on another thread.

We're having the rest of the chicken and potatoes we roasted last night.  'S okay, chicken tonight is good too.

That ain't juice, that's blood...

 ::thinking::

Another gravy/sauce controversy?

Chicken yummy too. Steak was my lunch. I'm on gewurtztraminer bottle number 2, and I'm satrting to git hungry again.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 06:00:34 PM
Mmm...meat...   ::beertoast::

Hell yeah!  And from the juice left on the plate, it looked like it was cooked med-rare, which is just how I like it.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Yah, IDP; I posted my comment before I saw your pics on another thread.

We're having the rest of the chicken and potatoes we roasted last night.  'S okay, chicken tonight is good too.

That ain't juice, that's blood...

 ::thinking::

Another gravy/sauce controversy?

Chicken yummy too. Steak was my lunch. I'm on gewurtztraminer bottle number 2, and I'm satrting to git hungry again.

Oh, I know it's blood, but when one refers to a nice, juicy steak, that's what I think of being left on the plate (when we had different plates, I could tip it off and right into my mouth -- don't tell anybody.  Yes, I'm a barbarian -- Gunsmith snickers when I do it), and no, it's not another controversy.  Don't be a pita.   ::rockethrow::

What's for dessert?

Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: benb61 on November 06, 2012, 06:03:30 PM
Mmm...meat...   ::beertoast::

Hell yeah!  And from the juice left on the plate, it looked like it was cooked med-rare, which is just how I like it.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Yah, IDP; I posted my comment before I saw your pics on another thread.

We're having the rest of the chicken and potatoes we roasted last night.  'S okay, chicken tonight is good too.

That ain't juice, that's blood...

 ::thinking::

Another gravy/sauce controversy?

Chicken yummy too. Steak was my lunch. I'm on gewurtztraminer bottle number 2, and I'm satrting to git hungry again.

Oh, I know it's blood, but when one refers to a nice, juicy steak, that's what I think of being left on the plate (when we had different plates, I could tip it off and right into my mouth -- don't tell anybody.  Yes, I'm a barbarian -- Gunsmith snickers when I do it), and no, it's not another controversy.  Don't be a pita.   ::rockethrow::

What's for dessert?

My father-in-law used to take a slice of bread and sop up the juice (blood) leftover from his steak and call it dessert.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 06:05:29 PM

What's for dessert?


Pokkorn... and more Gewurtztraminer.
 ::popcorn:: ::beertoast::
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: charlesoakwood on November 06, 2012, 06:13:38 PM

Mmmm, it all sounds delicious.  Around here it's Pecan sausage, black eyed peas, baked sweet potatoes, and cornbread.

 
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 06:15:36 PM
Mmm...meat...   ::beertoast::

Hell yeah!  And from the juice left on the plate, it looked like it was cooked med-rare, which is just how I like it.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Yah, IDP; I posted my comment before I saw your pics on another thread.

We're having the rest of the chicken and potatoes we roasted last night.  'S okay, chicken tonight is good too.

That ain't juice, that's blood...

 ::thinking::

Another gravy/sauce controversy?

Chicken yummy too. Steak was my lunch. I'm on gewurtztraminer bottle number 2, and I'm satrting to git hungry again.

Oh, I know it's blood, but when one refers to a nice, juicy steak, that's what I think of being left on the plate (when we had different plates, I could tip it off and right into my mouth -- don't tell anybody.  Yes, I'm a barbarian -- Gunsmith snickers when I do it), and no, it's not another controversy.  Don't be a pita.   ::rockethrow::

What's for dessert?

My father-in-law used to take a slice of bread and sop up the juice (blood) leftover from his steak and call it dessert.

Yah, that's for the genteel among us.  I will also strip a steak bone nekkid.  Just sos y'all know, I only do this stuff at home, without dinner guests.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 06, 2012, 06:22:09 PM
...I will also strip a steak bone nekkid...

I eat the fat, if it is properly char-broiled. What you see on my plate above is gristle. But yes, the fat gets et, and the bone gets stripped.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 07:06:15 PM
...I will also strip a steak bone nekkid...

I eat the fat, if it is properly char-broiled. What you see on my plate above is gristle. But yes, the fat gets et, and the bone gets stripped.

.... with my teeth ....    ::evilbat::

Okay, yeah, I am in one of those moods. 
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: John Florida on November 06, 2012, 07:56:41 PM
...I will also strip a steak bone nekkid...

I eat the fat, if it is properly char-broiled. What you see on my plate above is gristle. But yes, the fat gets et, and the bone gets stripped.

.... with my teeth ....    ::evilbat::

Okay, yeah, I am in one of those moods. 

 There's a shocker.
Title: Re: Source: Obama to declare victory early in effort to demoralize Romney voters
Post by: Pandora on November 06, 2012, 09:31:20 PM
Shaddap.