Scotty

http://abcnews.go.co...tend-its-obama/

Wonder if the woman shouting was Sarah Palin?

The brass over at ABC News must have let their proofreaders go. Read the next to the last paragraph (pay attention to the bold part)...

Santorum sought in a written statement to clarify today that he did not mean he vote against Romney if Romney is the nominee in November.

And when we had the gay marriage ban on the ballot back in 2004, I looked at the election results county by county. St. Louis, St. Charles, and Jackson county (St. Louis and Kansas City) defeated it handily. the county where I live, which has a university, also defeated it, but just barely (like 53-47 percent). I looked at the counties WAY down in the middle of the ozarks, Shannon, Ripley, and Carter counties... those counties passed that gay marriage ban by like 93 PERCENT. And look at this, and you see what we're dealing with:

That same year, Kentucky had a similar proposed ban on the ballot. As you can see by scrolling through the county by county results, that highest percentage of "yes" votes was 94% in one county, with the lowest "yes" percentage being 57%....which was in Fayette County, which contains the state's second largest city of Lexington. In Jefferson County, which has Louisville (the largest city), it was 60%.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004//pages/results/states/KY/I/01/county.000.html

The ban passed statewide 76%-24%. In my county it was 85-15.

I voted against it because, even though I not gay myself, I saw so reason why they shouldn't be able to get married like everyone else. Those people who argue about the sanctity of marriage obviously have not noticed that divorce rates are nearing an all-time high and that more and more people are cheating on their spouses and living together out of wedlock. And all of that hasn't already tarnished the institution of marriage? Crazy.

But the numbers here locally didn't surprise me. There was a similar dust-up a few miles down the road from me in the county seat here when people voted on serving alcohol in restaurants that seated more than 100 people and made like 70% of their total revenue from food. I don't drink, but it is better for someone to have a beer with dinner in their own town than driving 30-60 miles or more to do it and then driving back. Plus, it would help the local economy. But some churches were playing big prayer meetings around the courthouse square and one pastor claimed that God told him that if he got 500 people together to pray that the measure would not pass. Needless to say, you can buy a beer now there when you go out to eat.

Wer'e at number 18!!! Think it's coincidence the most conservative state in the union is dead last, and the most liberal state is number one?

Of course it's not a coincidence.

But it does reinforce what I already knew.

Something else that is sad is just how conservative my town and county are. Almost every single local office here is held by Republicans, has been for years and years, and likely will continue to be until hell freezes over. Just makes me sick.

I tell you, you just can't make this stuff up, lol:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/mississippi_rep_wants_the_gulf_of_mexico_renamed_t.php

And this article is from 2006, but it really fits in with what you were saying...

http://www.salon.com/2006/08/01/mississippi_7/

And when we had the gay marriage ban on the ballot back in 2004, I looked at the election results county by county. St. Louis, St. Charles, and Jackson county (St. Louis and Kansas City) defeated it handily. the county where I live, which has a university, also defeated it, but just barely (like 53-47 percent). I looked at the counties WAY down in the middle of the ozarks, Shannon, Ripley, and Carter counties... those counties passed that gay marriage ban by like 93 PERCENT. And look at this, and you see what we're dealing with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuI2LEKHGiQ

Greetings from the Great State of Mississippi (hard to keep a straight face while saying that)....when I was growing up people here in Kentucky used to say "Thank God for Mississippi," because at the time they were the only state that ranked below us in education. Fortunately we have since moved on up the list (31st according to this site), while they are still dead last.

Also, it seems fitting that several people they talked to on that video were interviewed in front of a WalMart parking lot...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/01/21/america-s-smartest-kids.html#slide52

I think some is racism, some is ignorance, some is fear. Some is honest opposition of policy. I can tell you that I was working temporarily at an grocery store with all white employees (At the time of his election), and the discussions I overheard at the lunch table about Obama was quite telling. And lots of it wasn't overt "I don't want this black guy in the white house"... it was more like "Black people are ok... but running the country is too big a job for someone like that". Conservatives come in every stripe, and you may not run into the racial element in your corner of the world, therefore..it may skew your opinion as to what opinions conservatives by and large hold. And by the same token, a little town in the northwest corner of the ozarks is probably skewing MY opinion, and what I'm hearing. When you go deeper into the ozarks, the racism is much more overt. There is so much trailer trash here and all around it astounds me. Because I've grown up in a community of farmers, who are very religious, and YES... some are racist to a degree, but not trashy, cigarette smokin, beer drinkin, wife beatin traler trash. It saddens me to see that element has taken over so much of rural america.

I am from the south as well and I can agree and attest to much of what you are saying. It is much the same where I live, with one person living on another street until recently still proudly flying his Confederate flag in the front yard and rednecks and junk filled yards all over town. I don't know if these types of people are really stupid, or just ignorant....or perhaps they are both.

The county seat here, which is just a few miles down the road from my hometown was the sight of a hanging of a black man almost 100 years ago on the public square on trumped up charges, and I fear that some of those old feelings and attitudes still exist down here.

And I think that much the same can be said about women across the rural south. I know that back when Hillary was running for President that, despite the fact that she carried my state in the primary, I remember hearing from people who said that if she was elected to the White House that they were moving to Canada because they didn't want a woman president.

Well the Republicans are nothing if not disorganized...

St. Charles County [Missouri] Republicans embarrassed by caucus shutdown

Ole Newt's all riled up again...

Gingrich Says De Niro’s ‘White First Lady’ Crack Is ‘Inexcusable’

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/gingrich-says-de-niros-white-first-lady-crack-is-inexcusable/

Remember though, they all are for small government and keeping government out of people's buisness.

Ok.

And they are only focusing on the most important issues like high gas prices and unemployment....oh wait.

Winder, a Republican from Boise, responded to those concerns by raising the question of whether women understand when they have been raped.

“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," Winder said on the Senate floor. "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on.”

Wow....

No big surprise, Romney wins again...

Mitt Romney scored a major win over Rick Santorum in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, taking all of the territory's 20 delegates that were up for grabs Sunday.

With 52 percent of precincts reporting, Romney led with 83 percent of the vote, compared to Santorum's 8 percent. Newt Gingrich trailed with just 2 percent, followed by Ron Paul at 1 percent. Because Romney won with more than 50 percent of the vote, he took the island's entire slate of delegates—further increasing his delegate advantage over Santorum, who, with just 239 delegates, has less than half the delegates Romney has amassed so far.

"So far, pretty darn good news," Romney said of the Puerto Rico results, as he shook hands with supporters at a rally in Vernon Hills, Ill., outside Chicago, where he was campaigning today ahead of that state's primary on Tuesday.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/puerto-rico-republican-caucus-results-2012-201823184.html

Oh Santorum, where's the (self) love?

LOL...

Iowa Republican congressional candidate Dan Dolan gives speech to local Democrats after mixup

The mixup occurred after the Republicans moved their convention, but neglected to notify Dolan

GOP: Old, white and in trouble, poll says

The Republican presidential primary campaign so far hasn’t produced a nominee, but it has had one clear outcome -- worsening the GOP’s image among the young, the better-educated and the non-white.

That finding, from the Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday, could be a serious handicap for the party in elections this fall and in years to come, said Pew’s director, Andrew Kohut.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-poll-primary-battle-has-hurt-gops-image-among-young-nonwhites-20120314,0,4642543.story

I posted a link about this a page or two ago, but the whole thing annoys me. As the article I posted mentions, no other GOP primary states were asked this question. It just seems like baiting to get a reaction. Oh, those stupid Southerners again, ha ha.

Sorry Carl...didn't see your post.

And yeah, it did seem that way. But still, it doesn't surprise me.

Wow...I suppose ignorance really is bliss. Talk about stupid...

Swaths of GOP voters in Alabama, Mississippi still want ban on interracial marriages

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/03/13/large-swaths-of-gop-voters-in-alabama-mississippi-want-ban-on-interracial-marriages/

Rick Santorum claims there's no danger from carbon dioxide: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-dangers-carbon-dioxide-tell-plant-152230291.html

Way to go Rick. What's next, the hole in the Ozone layer is just a big conspiracy theory? Or maybe dinosaurs were nothing more than mythical creatures?

I have little doubt that Obama will win re-election, given the GOP's incompetence. However, I am perplexed as to what you think Barry will accomplish in his next four years. I suspect that some believe that his second term will see a return to the sizzling economy of the 90s and make gay marriage the law of the land. However, I would strongly caution against such pie-in-the-sky expectations, given that the president failed miserably when it came to the following that he promised for his first term: closing Gitmo, healing the red state/blue state divide, reducing the deficit, signing into law a health care plan with a "public option," and always placing principle above politics. And, history has almost always--if not always--shown that a president's second term is far inferior to the first.

No one, and certainly not me, believes that we will return to the glory days of the 1990s anytime soon, however I think things are very slowly starting to improve from where they have been the past few years. And I agree that second terms for presidents have historically been worst than the first....just look at what happened during Bush's last four years in office for instance. And it hasn't helped Obama that he has to spend the past four years cleaning up his predecessor's messes.

The Republicans have had four years to put together a plan on how to take down Obama and this is the best they can do? That's what happens when you refuse to compromise at all and vow to derail the Democrats by going against anything and everything that they try to do. And it sickens me that two of the biggest supports of that "no" agenda...Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul...are both my home state of Kentucky.

Well, at least a woman in this country won't have to be forced to have a procedere that is no one else's business but hers. I just love these Republicans who talk small government and staying out of people's homes and then spend their whole time shoving very invasive legislation down everyone's throats. Romney wants to shut down PP? Santorum calls THE PRESIDENT a snob becuase he went to college? Newt is staying in just to piss folks off, while he draws up plans for a space station near the Klingon Home World. And Paul says that tornado victims shouldn't get federal aid because that's just taking money from taxpayers.

And the POTUS is worst than these ignorant clowns? I think not.

Exactly. With the economy still in trouble and unemployment high, the Republicans are doing whatever they can steer conversation away from the real issues. Rick Santorum should just keep his mouth shut, Newt Gingrich needs to realize that he is not, and really never has been, as popular as he thinks he is, and Ron Paul is just a crazy ole kook.

Romney is just too slick and laid back. And he continues to stick his foot in his mouth with comments such as liking cheesy grits, his friends being football team owners, and talking about all the fancy cars he and his wife drive. Yet he is better than Santorum, whose ideas are just too far out there and dangerous. Why are we still talking about the government controlling what women can and can not do with their own bodies, when so many people are out of work and losing their homes? It's just stupid. Much like so many of these southern states trying to implement blatantly racist voter registration laws now? And why stay so focused on striking down gay marriage when the institution of marriage has already clearly been desecrated with increasingly high divorce rates among heterosexual couples?

Why not focus on the real issues of the day instead of continually trying to restrict an individual's personal rights and freedoms where the government clearly has no business being in the first place? That's one thing I will never understand.

+1. This has been more fun than I could have ever expected.

I agree...me too. Between this and the Rush Limbaugh mess, I am just loving how the Republicans are just so screwed up right now. If I were Obama, I would just go ahead and start thinking about any possible renovations that are needed in the White House, because it is looking more and more like he'll be there another 4 years.

Now all we need is for Sarah Palin to keep trying to stay in the spotlight and say more stupid things.

As expected, Romney wins American Samoa: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/13/international/i223521D77.DTL

I had not realized there were so many Mormons living in the U.S. Pacific territories until I heard them mention it on MSNBC and read something about it online the other day.

Now, only the results from Hawaii have yet to come in, but it appears as if it may be another win for Romney

As a Democrat, I really hope all this primary mess continues through the convention in August. I have never seen such a disorganized mess.

Haha...not so funny now, eh Mr. Santorum? LOL

Translation: The phone call was initially scheduled to last 3o minutes, but it went on for more than an hour because Santorum is desperate for delegates and had no choice but to humor Blas as he embraced this rare opportunity to gripe about Guam-related issues to an American politician. But pretending to listen to Guamanian concerns while playing Minesweeper and occasionally saying "uh-huh" was not Sanotrum's only act of deference to Guam's momentarily powerful Republican Party. Apparently, Santorum made a joke a while ago about banishing liberal activist judges to Guam, a joke that Santorum suddenly regrets very much.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/guam-santorum-apology-primary-romney.html

Looks like Romney has also won Wyoming, where the state's caucus is finally over after weeks of voting spread out across the state.

Romney won two more contests today....Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, compared with only one (Kansas) for Santorum, and one for Ron Paul (U.S. Virgin Islands).

Santorum breezed past Romney 51-21% in Kansas.

In Guam, Romney received 217 of the 225 total votes (the other 8 were uncommitted).

In the Northern Marianas, Romney had 87% of the vote (738 votes). His closest competitor was Santorum with 6% (31 votes). Paul and Gingrich had 25 and 24 votes, respectively, with each getting only 3%.

And in the U.S. VI, "The 2012 United States Virgin Islands Republican caucuses were held on March 10, 2012.^[1] The popular vote was won by Ron Paul, the Republican Party chairman for the U.S. Virgin Islands announced, but Mitt Romney was awarded a majority of the territory's delegates. Before the announcement, Mitt Romney also won 3 of the island's superdelegates."

Link: http://en.wikipedia...._caucuses,_2012

Not sure why there appears to be such love in the territories for Romney.

Next contests on Tuesday are in Alabama, American Samoa, Hawaii, and Mississippi.

Yeah... nobody remembers Taft LOL! I do say the idea of him getting stuck in the white house bathtub makes me laugh my ass off! Max... I truly don't think it would do more harm than good... and if parts DON'T work, then portions can be repealed, adjustments can be made. Medicare had to have the wrinkles ironed out at first as well. Many Republicans just don't want it because Obama sponsored it. And that's why this new crop of candidates is losing credibility with the public. They are railing against the exact thing that NIXON propsed. I know they've disowned him, but that doens't change the fact that he DID have conservative support before watergate. It doesn't negate the fact that Nixon and the conservative establishment at that time, supported the same thing they decry today.

And BTW!!! Carbonite, one of Rush's biggest sponsors has just pulled the plug!!! i'm so excited I can hardly stand it... and after Rush back pedaled, and stumbled all over himself to give an apology. Too little, too late!

I don't know if I would say that no one remembers Taft...although he never really wanted to be President, he actually did more to fight trusts and civil service reform than Teddy Roosevelt and went on to his love (law), becoming Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1921-30.