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"No mas"
On November 25, 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran met in a highly-anticipated rematch in New Orleans. Leonard clearly outmatched Duran, and in the seventh Duran turned his back and said "No boxeo con el payaso," (I'm not boxing with this clown). At the opening of the eighth round, Duran started out of his corner, stopped, and turned back saying "No más! No más!" (No more! No more!)
Duran realized that he had no chance of beating Leonard, and quit the fight.
I think the Republican National Committee has just called No más!
GOP argument: Don't give President Obama a blank check
Normally, I agree with the concept of a divided government. but the travesty that the Republican Party has become leads me to want it marginalized and powerless until it splits off the so-called social conservatives and becomes the party of Eisenhower and Goldwater again.
Duran realized that he had no chance of beating Leonard, and quit the fight.
I think the Republican National Committee has just called No más!
GOP argument: Don't give President Obama a blank check
A new Republican ad appears to suggest that Barack Obama has all but won the presidential race, an argument several vulnerable Senate Republicans may have to reluctantly embrace with only days until Election Day, an expert in campaign advertising said.
Aimed at Kay Hagan, Sen. Elizabeth Dole's surprisingly strong Democratic challenger in North Carolina, the 30-second spot from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warns voters against Democrats holding the White House and Congress, and flatly states that if Hagan wins, the party will "get a blank check."
"These liberals want complete control of government in a time of crisis, all branches of government," the ad's narrator states. "No check and balances, no debate, no independence. That's the truth behind Kay Hagan. If she wins, they get a blank check."
Committee Online Communications Director John Randall denied that the ad is suggesting that GOP nominee John McCain will lose out on the White House.
"The NRSC is not conceding a Barack Obama presidency," he said. "Fiscally irresponsible liberals like Kay Hagan are not the answer in these tough economic times and would only make things worse. Our ad was intended to highlight Hagan's many failings in light of the Democrats' promise to close debate should they control the executive and legislative branches of the federal government."
But with polls warning of a GOP bloodbath November 4, vulnerable senators in red states may have no other option but to suggest that Obama will capture the White House and warn that the Illinois senator needs to be checked by Senate Republicans.
"They are basically painting the picture that the presidential race is over," said Evan Tracey of Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN's consultant on ad spending. "Overall, people prefer divided government. This is that divided government argument: 'Don't hand sole control over to one party.' "
Normally, I agree with the concept of a divided government. but the travesty that the Republican Party has become leads me to want it marginalized and powerless until it splits off the so-called social conservatives and becomes the party of Eisenhower and Goldwater again.
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At the same time the past few of decades have really shown how far the Republican party has fallen. There are some reasonable conservatives but as a whole the entire GOP has become a parody of itself; even Sarah Palin's given the nod-and-wink to right-wing domestic terrorists to carry on. If one all-encompassing crushing defeat, one across-the-board destruction, will allow the Republicans to collapse and re-form as a reasonable group of politicians with policies that have some good points to consider, and who are willing to compromise with the left-hand side of the aisle... then maybe that's what needs to be done.
Because frankly, even after reading A Letter from a Christian in 2012 of Obama's America (http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf) I can live with a few years of that much more comfortably than whatever future Palin's* America is going to give us.
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without malice, I think it would be good for those people to see what it feels like to be vilified for 'what they are, the way they were born and nope, i ain't gonna change'
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Also, I think that given just how deeply and thoroughly they've fucked up the country, (1) they deserve to reap the consequences in terms of lost seats/influence, and (2) "we" need that kind of power to try to UN-fuck it.
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Odd how this wasn't a problem when the Republicans controlled things, eh? How much debate was allowed over, ooh, say the Patriot Act? Or the wiretapping? Legalizing torture?
And I have no idea who Kay Hagan is, but personally I'd rather have a fiscally irresponsible liberal than a fiscally irresponsible neocon, which is what the US has had for the last eight years.
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She's served in the NC State legislature where she helped balance the budget. She's also a strong Second Amendment supporter.
My kind of Democrat.
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I think it would be better off if the republicans who wanted those Eisenhowerian ideals again started their own party, but embracing a stronger feeling for "Separation of Church and State" above all things first.
This is my first year voting as a registered democrat. I thought for a while the Log Cabin republicans could try push the 'Regime change begins at home' ideal, but I think they only want us for our votes, then do whatever they want.