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Dr Adequate
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Message 494 of 1485 (646447)
01-04-2012 5:06 PM
Reply to: Message 477 by Dr Adequate
01-04-2012 1:40 AM


Re: Iowa Decides, No Not Really It Doesn't
Revised results put Romney eight votes ahead.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich continues to be a spoiled little cry-baby.
"I find it amazing the news media continues to say he's the most electable Republican when he can't even break out in his own party," said Gingrich, mocking Romney's paper-thin win in Iowa over Santorum, the newest Republican upstart.
"The fact is three out of four Republicans rejected" his campaign, Gingrich said.
Hello, Newt? You came fourth. Behind Ron Paul.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 501 of 1485 (646535)
01-05-2012 2:44 AM


God Calls It
The good news is that God has shown Pat Robertson who's going to win the 2012 election.
The bad news is that Pat isn't allowed to tell us what God said; in the words of the great prophet himself: "I'm not supposed to talk about that so I'll leave you in the dark".
It must be so frustrating for poor ol' Pat, if God just let him talk then come November people would know that he was a true prophet of God rather than thinking of him as a lying sack of crap.
However, God has permitted St. Pat to share God's opinion on Obama:
Your country will be torn apart by internal stress, a house divided cannot stand. Your president holds a radical view of the direction of your country which is at odds with the majority, Robertson stated, reading from notes he had purportedly taken in his discussion with God. Your president holds a view that is at odds with the majority, it’s a radical view of the future of this country, so that’s why we’re having this division.
Is it just me, or has God's literary style declined somewhat since he wrote the Book of Job? He sounds less like the Almighty and more like a peevish talk radio host.
In fact ... has anyone ever seen God and Rush Limbaugh in the same place at the same time?

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Message 504 of 1485 (646657)
01-05-2012 10:27 PM


Things Newt Gingrich Doesn't Know
Things Newt Gingrich Doesn't Know:
I think Jefferson or George Washington would have rather strongly discouraged you from growing marijuana, and their techniques of dealing with it would have been more violent.
What's really remarkable is that this may well be the first time ever that anyone has mentioned Washington, Jefferson, and marijuana in the same sentence without pointing out that the former grew the latter.
Didn't Newt claim to have taken money from Freddie Mac in his capacity as a historian rather than in his capacity as a lobbyist? Well now would be a good time to give it back.

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Message 506 of 1485 (646851)
01-06-2012 8:22 PM


Things Rick Santorum Worries About
While most conservatives worry about abortion and gay marriage, Rick Santorum has found some rather more widespread evils to struggle against ... contraception and consensual sex.
One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country ... Many in the Christian faith have said, ‘Well, that’s OK, contraception is OK.’ It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex is] supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal and unitive, but also procreative.
Incidentally, does that mean that he's against blowjobs too? I think we should be told ... and there goes the male vote.
As for that other great contemporary evil, consensual sex ...
And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.
Whether he is suggesting that we become a nation of celibates or of rapists is unclear ...
... oh, OK, he must mean gay consensual sex, though he doesn't say so. Perhaps he doesn't know what it means ... perhaps he thinks that "consensual sex" is something especially dirty that Them Queers do.
But I don't see why his arguments don't apply to straight sex too. If I have the right to that, don't I have the right to heterosexual bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery? If not, why not?
After all, if you think about it, the slippery slope starts with giving rights to heterosexual couples. Because they had a right to marry, gay people wanted it; and when we told the government to keep out of straight people's bedrooms, the gay people wanted the same. Straight rights are the slippery slope to gay rights, which as we know are the slippery slope to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery, none of which happened before homosexuality was legal.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 509 of 1485 (646858)
01-06-2012 10:43 PM
Reply to: Message 507 by Theodoric
01-06-2012 9:10 PM


Re: Things Rick Santorum Worries About
Replace Perry with Santorum in your first sentence
Have done, thanks. Apology for momentary brain glitch.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 511 of 1485 (646861)
01-06-2012 10:51 PM
Reply to: Message 508 by Omnivorous
01-06-2012 9:40 PM


Re: Things Rick Santorum Worries About
Quite aside from the lack of the former increasing the practicality of the latter, I think, akin to what Dr A has suggested about Perry, that Rantorum fails to realize that sodomy includes all sexual acts other than procreative sex, without regard to the gender of the participants.
Well, it's not just about the definition of sodomy, it's that he insists that sex be "procreative". Though according to some random person on the internets: "Oral sex is acceptable by the Catholic Church if and only if it is used as foreplay and leads to sex."
Apparently the Catholic Church forbids any sexual act that might not lead to pregnancy, although they can be remarkably accommodating to priest-on-altar-boy action.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 513 of 1485 (647071)
01-08-2012 2:42 AM
Reply to: Message 512 by Jon
01-08-2012 12:32 AM


Things Newt Gingrich Doesn't Know
Things Newt Gingrich Doesn't Know ...
I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age, they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 514 of 1485 (647072)
01-08-2012 2:43 AM


Newt Gingrich, Hypocrite And Cry-Baby
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty." - Newt Gingrich, 1978
"If in fact we are to follow the Chamberlain liberal Democratic line of withdrawal from the planet we would truly have tyranny everywhere, and we in America could experience the joys of Soviet-style brutality and murdering of women and children." - Newt Gingrich
"The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose." - Newt Gingrich
"These people are sick. They are so consumed by their own power, by a Mussolini-like ego, that their willingness to run over normal human beings and to destroy honest institutions is unending." - Newt Gingrich
""The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did." - Newt Gingrich
"I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality. If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane." - Newt Gingrich
"Politics has become a really nasty, vicious, negative business and I think it's disgusting and I think it's dishonest." - Newt Gingrich, 2012
So what exactly have Romney supporters been saying about poor ol ' Newt that made him complain about "nasty, vicious, negative, disgusting, dishonest" tactics? Did they compare him to Mussolini or Hitler or say he was insane or that his policies would lead to "murdering of women and children" ... ?
... oh, right, they said there were some points on which he agreed with Obama.
That's crossing the line.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 516 of 1485 (647717)
01-10-2012 11:54 PM


So with ninety percent of precincts reporting, it's Romney, then Paul, then Huntsman, Gingrich just squeezing out Santorum in fourth place, Santorum fifth, and Perry coming up in Santorum's rear.
I never thought I'd say this, but I want a few more votes for Santorum, because it will annoy Newt, which is fun.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 518 of 1485 (647739)
01-11-2012 4:23 AM
Reply to: Message 517 by Pressie
01-11-2012 3:27 AM


How does the electoral process work at this stage? Are only registered Republicans allowed to vote in the Republican primaries?
That varies from state to state: primaries are "open" or "closed".
I also know about Super Tuesday and all that, but how would a Democratic or Republican Convention work? From what I've see all delegates from all the states vote for the eventual Republican or Democrat candidate. What on earth happens there?
If by the time of the conference there's a clear winner, then the delegates would naturally put on a show of party unity by all voting for the winner, since there's nothing to gain by acting like a jerk at that point. If there wasn't a clear winner, it could get interesting. I don't know the last time that that happened.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 524 of 1485 (647802)
01-11-2012 11:42 AM
Reply to: Message 522 by Larni
01-11-2012 11:36 AM


So what is to stop Dems voting for the most idiotic Rep candidate to scupper the Reps presidential condidate.
Fear that s/he might actually win?
It's generally believed that open primaries produce more moderate candidates. I don't know if there's been any systematic study as to whether they do.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 530 of 1485 (647835)
01-11-2012 2:30 PM
Reply to: Message 527 by RAZD
01-11-2012 12:10 PM


Re: lol
lol.
And Fox News describes Santorum's campaign as "sloppy".

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Dr Adequate
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Message 532 of 1485 (647920)
01-11-2012 11:53 PM


Gingrich explains his attacks on Romney ... it's because "Obama is deeply into class warfare". This apparently "just makes it impossible to talk rationally", although I find that I can manage it perfectly well.
This must be Newt's best excuse since "I committed adultery because I'm hard-working and patriotic".

  
Dr Adequate
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Message 534 of 1485 (648225)
01-14-2012 2:48 AM


Paultards Make Stupidest Attack Ad Ever
Ever!

  
Dr Adequate
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Message 540 of 1485 (648704)
01-17-2012 5:12 PM


Event Of No Particular Significance
Huntsman is out, endorses Romney.
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