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Name:   GoneFishin - Email Member
Subject:   Can't Win Without Support
Date:   2/22/2013 3:59:41 PM


http://news.yahoo.com/predict-presidential-elections-by-demographic-interactive-widget-225441066.html





Name:   water_watcher - Email Member
Subject:   agree ...
Date:   2/22/2013 6:14:15 PM


We will just move to socialism and the movement of this country to the same failures that the demographics were escaping.   Very sad people are so stupid ... and you could be their leader with your pathetic pea brain.



Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   Goof
Date:   2/23/2013 2:48:44 PM

The liberal article assumes the demorats run a black in every race from now till 2060, which ain't likely. Blacks only get excited when they can vote for someone in their own image. My guess is more stupid white demorats will wake up and realise they're being duped by the minorities and they will grow out of their "pity" voting. The likes of the Jane Fonda/Hillary crowd will begin to die off and disaffected whites will bail when they grow up and realise they're country. Which group do you identify with?



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   Talk about stupid!
Date:   2/23/2013 6:41:44 PM (updated 2/23/2013 6:57:54 PM)

"Stupid is as stupid does" and Wix...based on your post, I think you clearly fit the stereotype!  You make it painfully obvious which "group" you identify with. Your "group" will eventually "die off" too.  Say hello to Lester*, Ross* and Gene*.

*  Maddox, Barnett and Talmadge

BTW:   Wix, you might disagree with what  this "liberal" blogger concludes, but you and the GOP ignore with great peril the demographic trends on which he bases his conclusion.  His conclusion is opinion...his demographics are fact!



Name:   water_watcher - Email Member
Subject:   Talk about stupid!
Date:   2/23/2013 7:11:36 PM


and why did that "new Hispanic demographic" come to this country in the first place?  Escape the loss of freedom in their country, failed socialist governments, high unemployment  .... and what is happening to this country?   Loss of freedoms, bigger government, high unemployment and a hard push by the disaster in chief trying to move to socialism.

I believe Hispanics are hard working people and that demographic will move to the GOP.   But the GOP will continue to only get 5-7% of the black vote, for the opposite reason Hispanics will move to the GOP.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   Tell me WW
Date:   2/23/2013 10:41:55 PM (updated 2/23/2013 10:42:35 PM)

Why and how did that "Black demographic" come to this country? Why should they ever vote for the party that thinks they should be discouraged from voting. You seem to be in the same "Group" as Wix. You are both a sad example for the GOP!



Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   Archy
Date:   2/23/2013 11:40:41 PM

So you just know that blacks would turn out in the same numbers to vote for a white democrat presidential candidate as they did for o-BAMA.  Check the demographic voting records and turn out records for blacks over the past 20 years and you'll see that blacks only vote in large volumes for blacks.  Wait till J.J., Jr. gets out of jail and the demorats put him up for president, then you'll see a big turn out.  Seems you don't like my "groups".  Note that I wasn't the one that made the group comparisons, the author was.  No matter how the liberals want to blend races, thugs, criminals, lawyers, misfits, homosexuals, atheists, welfare professionals, and other useless forms of humanity into a mindless, spineless bunch of sheep, otherwise known as Democrats, there will always be groups.  And the most motivated, intelligent, and educated group will rise to the top of the heap, always.  It may be the Asians.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   Wix
Date:   2/24/2013 12:11:12 AM (updated 2/24/2013 12:17:44 AM)

that was such a thoughtful, calm, well spoken, open minded and  intelligent post from your superior mind that I can neither think of nor imagine a satisfactory response. Obviously, when whatever "group" rises to the top gets there you will certainly be in it.




Psst... MM I think you need to get in to hose down the loony-tunes crowd ASAP!!



Name:   water_watcher - Email Member
Subject:   Tell me WW
Date:   2/24/2013 6:47:24 AM


The GOP gave them their freedom and have continued to fight to give them equal "opportunity" and not keep them repressed as democrats do with social programs to keep them down.   More intelligent blacks know this and are starting to speak out,



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   [Message deleted by author]
Date:   2/24/2013 7:17:58 AM (updated 2/24/2013 9:32:39 AM)




Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   Tell me WW
Date:   2/24/2013 9:41:04 AM (updated 2/24/2013 9:44:54 AM)

Tell me WW, are you naïve enough to believe that Abe Lincoln would be a Republican if he were alive today (Teddy Roosevelt,  Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan for that matter)?  Sadly, the Great Emancipator would have very little in common with the party of Michelle Bachman. Thankfully, the southern Democrats of today have nothing in common with Bull Conner and Ross Barnett beyond calling themselves Democrats.  That 'group" includes the vast majority of those "more intelligent blacks" that you reference.

Now flag if you wish...I understand the truth sometime hurts.



Name:   water_watcher - Email Member
Subject:   You are twisted
Date:   2/24/2013 6:14:55 PM

You really need to get a grip and wait until after 5pm to hit the sauce. 

Your post really demonstrates how biased and out of touch you are.  Sad.




Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   You are twisted
Date:   2/24/2013 6:30:46 PM

WW, Archy is so eaten up the politically correct crap that he just becomes incoherent when others discuss subjects like race, history, and the make-up of the demorat party.  As a card carrying Sheeple he is incapable of thought outside his realm of liberalism.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   [Message deleted by author]
Date:   2/24/2013 8:33:01 PM (updated 2/24/2013 8:36:22 PM)




Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   and you WW
Date:   2/24/2013 8:36:04 PM

are avoiding the question...do you think Honest Abe would be proud of the GOP today...an even better question WW...would you be proud to have him in the GOP today??  It is amazing how you "sheeple" always change the subject when anybody turns the heat up.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   And you WIX
Date:   2/24/2013 8:42:15 PM (updated 2/24/2013 8:44:41 PM)

Please read the next to last run-on and strangely constructed sentence in your sad and hateful rant above...then consider again which of us is twisted.



Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   archy-
Date:   2/24/2013 9:17:26 PM

add a 'with' after 'up' and a comma after Sheeple.  That should make it more acceptable to such a wizard as you.  iPhones don't make an acceptable typewriter.



Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   Sheeple
Date:   2/24/2013 9:24:37 PM

I'm not sure today's conservatives would claim Abe, and we probably don't really care if Abe would claim us.  I'm certain you just love everything about all the wonderful democrats serving our country in the various jails and prisons around the country.  Such a patriotic party.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   Sorry WIX
Date:   2/24/2013 10:54:50 PM (updated 2/24/2013 10:56:57 PM)

I'm afraid what you are saying says more about your character than how you punctuate it.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   and WIX
Date:   2/24/2013 10:59:37 PM (updated 2/24/2013 11:21:20 PM)

why are you answering my question to WW?  You perhaps should stop to think before you pop off so quickly and with such anger and, dare I say, hatred. The first sentence of your post gives us all an even better grasp of your character.  The rest of the post confirms it.  Not good WIX, not good at all when you admit that you think conservatives today might not claim Lincoln or care whether he would embrace them.  Not a good way to sell your philosophy WIX, not a good way at all.

Now I urge again WIX...go back and re-read my posts in this stream and then yours.  Are you finished?  OK, now think WIX, think...based on the content of these posts, who is it that is "twisted"?



Name:   MrHodja - Email Member
Subject:   and WIX
Date:   2/24/2013 11:18:40 PM

"you pop off so quickly and with such anger and, dare i say, hatred" For a second i thought you were describing yourself. Description certainly fits.



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   Now Mr. H
Date:   2/24/2013 11:34:11 PM

So how do you feel about Lincoln and what he did?  Do you support WIX in his suggestions?  I know we do not agree, but you and MM often appear to be willing to listen diverse possibilities and to think about what you say before you say it.  WIX seems to have avoided becoming addicted to similar bad habits.



Name:   water_watcher - Email Member
Subject:   and you WW
Date:   2/25/2013 6:52:46 AM

yes, most definitely.   He stood for the same thing the GOP stands for today ... equal opportunity and freedom without government oppression.  The ONLY way to eliminate or reduce poverty is opportunities and growth, not handouts in the name of taking care of people.  That ONLY keeps them down and continues the cycle for another generation.

For the billions spent on social programs for the poor ... do we have less or more poverty?   There is your answer. 



Name:   architect - Email Member
Subject:   and you WW
Date:   2/25/2013 8:28:16 AM

You cannot prove a negative so I have no idea whether programs for the poor have resulted in more or less poverty and neither do you WW. 

I am glad you, apparently unlike WIX, admire Lincoln...I assume that extends to his instituting the first income tax to fight a war...W could have taken a lesson from his Republican predecessor there.  Of course W did learn from Lincoln's un-constitutional suspension of Habeas-corpus.  Interesting how there are 2 sides to all great men.  Lots of you guys could  learn something from that fact!



Name:   MrHodja - Email Member
Subject:   Now Mr. H
Date:   2/25/2013 8:58:04 AM

Don't have a dog in that hunt, just amused at your choice of words.



Name:   h_hob - Email Member
Subject:   and you WW
Date:   2/25/2013 9:34:14 AM


Archiebelle,

Are you related to someone that has worked in the pentagon as a civilian or have you done so yourself?



Name:   MartiniMan - Email Member
Subject:   Lincoln-awful President who did a good thing
Date:   2/25/2013 10:10:39 AM

All this back and forth about Lincoln and whether he would or would not identify with the GOP or Democrats is a waste of time.  If you have read about Lincoln you would know that his embracing emancipation was done primarily to maintain the support of the abolitionists in the war against the south.  He was no ideologue when it came to slavery like Wilberforce but he was practical and saw abolition as the wedge to maintain support for the war and in that regard he was right.  Regardless of that, the end of slavery was indeed a very good thing, however, I would note that slavery was abolished in other parts of the civilized world without a civil war but maybe our situation was unique (i.e., the south's agriculture economy was reliant on slavery).  Lincoln was devoted to keeping the United States united and on that score he could identify with either party today.  

Why do I think he was an awful President?  Because he more than any other President before him created the notion of an overarching federal government whose powers were no longer limited and no longer only those not reserved for the states. Also, his conduct during the war (i.e., suspending habeas corpus to silence opposition in the north) and other imperial actions also changed the nature of the presidency.  And both those paved the way for an FDR that turned a mild worldwide depression into a Great Depression in the U.S.  Which paved the way for Johnson's failed war on poverty.  Which paved the way for Obamacare et al.

So Lincoln was an awful President that turned out to do something very good.  But to assume the civil war was the only way to end slavery is wrong.  But it is what it is.  But what I find so ironic is what drove us apart in the 1860's was both a good thing, states rights, and a bad thing, slavery.  What is driving us apart today is once again states rights (still a good thing), and a drive toward European-style socialism, a very bad thing.  And like the 1860's, the Democrat party is once again on the wrong side of history.



Name:   water_watcher - Email Member
Subject:   sorry archie ..
Date:   2/25/2013 10:55:51 AM

It is easy to prove I am right ... Johnson declared a war on poverty ... is poverty gone?   Do we have more or less on food stamps.  Is the percent of people living in poverty higher or lower today?   The facts are clear ... the more we add social programs, the more people just depend on government rather than become self sufficient.  

And you may be surprised that I do not feel all social programs are bad ... but I do believe there should be a time limit and a work requirement / community service for any government aid.   Additionally, there should be a 2 child limit for any welfare program to discourage baby factories as a way to increase government aide.  





Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   WW ..
Date:   2/25/2013 11:23:50 AM

Poverty and welfare are good things to Archy and his ilk.  If you end poverty, you end dependence, and you end the common thread that holds the democrat socialist party together.  Mo welfare and babies, mo votes.  Simple formula, it works.



Name:   wix - Email Member
Subject:   Archy, as soon
Date:   2/25/2013 11:26:06 AM

as you write something original and worthy of consideration, I'll be happy to consider it.







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