Super Tuesday Results
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-03-07/super-tuesday-results
The results from Super Tuesday are in. Mitt Romney won six of the 10 states up for grabs, including Ohio. The wins reaffirm his front runner status in the G.O.P.’s presidential race. But they failed to deliver the knock out blow he’d been hoping for. In addition to Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich also scored victories last night. In their concession speeches, each of his rivals signaled that they would not be bowing out of the race any time soon. So the race looks set to continue for sometime. But Republicans are increasingly concerned over the impact the drawn out race is having on the party’s chances in November.
Guests
Susan Page
Washington bureau chief for USA Today.
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog, and managing editor of PostPolitics.com.
Ed Gillespie
former chairman of the Republican National Committee; chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia.
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Cokie Roberts will speak at Berry College in Rome, Georgia in a few weeks. Cross town Shorter College has subject of an uproar the last several months due to a fundamentalist takeover of the college by folks hardwired to religious political values of Gingrich and Santorum
Hope Steve and Cokie will bone up on Giberson and Stephens The Anointed before she comes South. Will greatly add value to her remarks at Berry
And as they come to Alabama, take close look at Mother Jones spotlight on Immigration Bill and Kris Kobach. Article was subject of lot of chatter in the Selma march Sunday
I was there. Some U Bama Students of conscience hopefully will be bringing the article to the attention of UBama National Championship Nick Saban; his wife a practicing Catholic
The perpetual odd man out is the libertarian. We have a christian madman foaming at the mouth to bomb Iran to save our redheaded freckle faced stepchild Israel as if the universe itself depended on it's survival. A megalomaniac out for revenge for being upended by a superior candidate. Lastly a reasonable candidate made to look foolish by broadsided attacks to bring him down at any cost, the general election be damned. As an odd man out myself I wonder if it makes any difference. Perhaps it just means a slight delay at best before we become Greece. The voters are just not ready for real change.
We've been Greece since the Truman Administration....where have you been?
We are Greece because the upper crust in Greece became experts in tax evasion. The only difference is that in this country, they went through the middleman - they bought the Congress and got laws written to make evasion perfectly legal.
Considering the apparent fact that our political system is corrupted by money, does it really matter who the candidate is? A bought-off candidate has to represent his or her contributors before any of the rest of us are even considered.
Assuming we ever are, of course.
President's news conference yesterday was like a game show host reading the fine print from a really fraudulent insurance policy. Our policy was cancelled once Eric Holder announced that Constitutional DUE PROCESS can mean summary execution of any US Citizen on Presidential orders. I doubt passive resistance could stop these pre-destined wars. We are gazing into an abyss and we are mesmerized by the overwhelming force of its returned glance. Audacious atrocity is unleashed, and for the benefit of Oligarchical income stream, it is state policy. No crackpot Republican can ever make love adequately to Israel, because only the National Security State possesses that kind of Necromance. How can we understand the Orwellian when we refuse even to accept the Dickensian?
Give me a break!!! Teh Republican compaign is filled with vitriol and hate. To raise the old red herring about the press always calling for Republican apologies is rediculous. Barabra Bush herself said yesterday that she had never seen such a hateful campaign.
Let's face it. the Repubicans pandered to the crazy right for years. Now they are paying the price. Let's hope it does not tear the party apart completely.
OK, lots of fun bashing Rush Limbaugh, how about discussing the fact that Ms.Fluke is a liberal feminist activist who made wild claims of exaggerated costs and hardships caused by the lack of funding for birth control in a religious school that exercises it's rights under the first amendment not too. It was a set up and it worked to the democrats and liberal medias advantage, and they are playing it up for all it's worth and ignoring the real issue of fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the first amendment.
Gillespie's nose must be a mile long. How can the panel sit there and react politely to his nonsense. the Bush White House was not political? The press conferences were all to serve the need for information? There was no Karl rove, no Cheney operation?. the exaggerations and lies were endless. Where are your journalistic morals. You should have nailed him to the wall.
This another example of how our press is failing us. You have focused on the circus of the primaries, without paying enough attention to the deep cultural warfare against the foundations of American society which the Repubican are conducting. Limbaugh may be bad, but how aabout Santorum vomiting at the idea of separation of chruch and state? has he neve read American history? And you sat there at led Gillsepspie pour this stuff out.
The last Republican president started two wars. one based on choice and lies. They also staffed agencies with friends and supporters who were unqualified for their jobs. They also disregarded science and the effects of Global Warming. They also almost doubled the national debt from 5 trillion to 9 trillion. They left the country a mess that will takes decades to reverse. WHY would we go back to that any time soon.
As long as the GOP expresses outrageous and extremists views they will most likely become unelectable except in those rare cases. ESPECIALLY since the voting demographics are changing rapidly. To fight that the Republicans continue to enact laws to suppress voter turnout
What really enrages me the most about Limbaugh is that he dug up the old 'woman as either madonna or whore' attitude. It's a very titillating idea for some men, that women are either perfect and virginal or available, loose, slutty - 'marry one but date the other'. I ran into a lot of that attitude in the 1960s before I was married, and after a divorce. It makes me want to throw up.
In these men's eyes, if a young woman wants to have sex, she is a slut. And it's ok that we make a porn film out of her. Coming from an old fat white guy I can't express how much this whole attitude repulses me, but I see echoes of this in all the anti women, anti abortion, anti contraception rhetoric. And it's certainly a current theme in repressive Islamic countries – we’re all rah rah in support of women there, but not here?
I do hear a lot of outraged women, but I don't hear as many outraged men (bless you Obama and every CEO that pulled advertising) which, of course, is a huge part of the problem.
Please note the term "Southern Strategy" is offensive to many of us who live in the south, as we are not regressive bigots. The so-called "southern strategy" is a strategy made to appeal to racists and bigots not just people who live in the south. Please ask your guests to start calling it what it is - "Bigots and Racists Strategy". Other than that, great shown (again) Diane! Help Liberals fight back at FilthyLiberal.com! http://www.filthyliberal.com
Diane " I am so offended" get real! Where is your outrage over the countless insults coming from the left that are much worse. Selective outrage?
Regarding my law school classmate, Mitt Romney's, failure to denounce Rush Limbaugh's appalling behavior: what ever happened to the idea that public figures might do something because it is right, whether or not it would hurt them politically? Mitt is obviously not a candidate for the next volume of Profiles in Courage.
When people deflect or 'neutralize' criticism of Limbaugh by referencing B. Marr that appears to me to be a complete dodge. First, the audience size doesn't compare. Marr is a 'jester' to the side of the larger conversation. Limbaugh has real power & influence in the republican party virtually everyday. Limbaugh went far beyond "name calling." There is no comparison.
As a single male, I'm outraged by someone like Ms Fluke demanding that folks like me help pay for her birth control. If it's medically necessary, then it should require a deductible and co-pay like all other such drugs. If it's not, then the user should bear the entire expense. Under Obamacare, I'm going to have to pay for healthcare for obese Americans who do nothing to improve their own condition, which is bad enough. But Ms Fluke's expectations are the most offensive of all. Mr Limbaugh's point was that Ms Fluke expects others to pay the expenses associated with her engaging in sexual activity. You can be offended by the term he used Ms Rehm but according to the dictionary it's fairly accurate. It's far more polite than the string of terms I use to describe the Ms Flukes of our ever growing entitlement nation.
Obviously, the Republican talking points have been well established in the last day or two. I have heard more than one republican now claim that in terms of the whole Limbaugh fiasco, that there are other "liberal" pundits/shockjocks who never apologize for what they say about conservative women. I would like to point out that this is a very different situation. Fluke is neither a pundit nor civic employee as is Michele Bachmann or Ann Coulter. She was testifying on behalf of women everywhere and discussing how the lack of access to contraception will personally affect her life as well as ALL women. Attacking a citizen in the way Rush Limbaugh has is totally unacceptable and the Republicans need to stand up to these remarks and stand up for women regardless of party affiliation!
Thank YOU Sir. Bravo to MHartsock comments.
Rush spoke his ugly words for three days.
When candidates do not explicitly defend honestly disagreeing, thoughtful constituents from the "Archie Bunkeresque" attacks of Rush Limbaugh, for me, and I would hope for any other thinking woman, they are defacto Archie Bunkers themselves. We simply do not need or want that.... What is that quote to the effect that the greatest evil happens when good men say/do nothing. Or perhaps Voltaire is more apt...
Stupid Stupid Stupid!! Sandra Fluke got exactly what she dreamed of, she is a political activist looking to cause a stir on this very issue.. It was not a congressional hearing either. It was a side show put on by Nancy Pelosi disguised to look like a congressional hearing.
She is not the victim as those looking to slam republicans are drooling to create, just the opposite
Speaking of Sarah Palin: can someone point me to the transcript of Diane moaning dramatically "as a woman" when Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a c*nt?
In the absence of that, all of this one-sided melodramatic salting of the narrative Diane is adding in with her audio body language is worse than no news at all, it is deeply disingenuous and dishonest in that it paints one faction as solely vulgar and its opposition as the only civilized alternative. Believe it or not, people notice such crude dishonest sanctimony.
As long as the ONLY goal of the republicans is to get "the black man out of the White House" rather than coming up with truly viable options to HELP the country move forward, they will get the candidates they deserve. (my opinion; very weak minded, strong on rhetoric !!)
Today's conservative Republicans seem intent on bringing back the same attitude that ruled our society in the 50's and 60's - white male rule. They have been caustic to our society. It is time to shun them (as in the Amish method - completely ignoring them as if they did not exist). Every time they get traction for the outrageous things they say they damage the fabric of our society and promote violence, thuggery, brutality and anti-intellectualism. Join FilthyLiberal.com and help fight back! http://www.filthyliberal.com
JamieT wrote:
Well said!
B mage has been insulting women for 3 years. Oh wait,they were conservative women so it's ok
I was sorely disappointed by Diane's rude unwillingness (utter inability?) to consider Martin's phone comment about the low quality of the populace and the candidates.
I understand her need to pretend respect for the candidates -- she can't afford honestly to confront stances and beliefs that disturb her. It would be career suicide; she is forgiven.
But, is Diane really entirely ignorant of what is happening in America at large? Ignorant of what real people say to one another in the coffee shops and streets? Ignorant of the hatred and bitter bile that passes for "dialogue"? Ignorant of the anger that dominates local discussion of rights and values?
How can she condemn Rush Limbaugh so clearly, when all Rush was doing was echoing the titter of the idiotic masses?
It seems Diane has been isolated too long, overprotected from reality by call screeners and self-selecting listeners. Neither the Diane Rehm audience NOR any crowd where national correspondents would be present are representative of the American public. Out here in middle America, the HATRED for education, intelligence, and thoughtfulness is palpable.
That's why we're frightened by the national dialogue, Diane. We're scared because the violence in the REAL world simmers just barely beneath the surface. Rush isn't causing the trouble; Rush is YOUR notice that the trouble runs deeper and wider than you realize.
Pay attention. Pay the hell attention, NOW.
I continue to struggle to see any difference between public pronouncements using racial epithets and the language that Russ Limbaugh used to describe Ms. Fluke. Should such language be legally considered in the same way that
such racially disparaging terms as the "N" word are?
I really like this argument some of the heavyweight intellectuals on the panel and others are offering, namely, that the vulgarity of a comment depends on the size of the audience of the person who makes it.
So...if Bill Maher were to call President Obama a n*gger, it would hardly matter, because his audience is so small compared to Limbaugh's, who would make everyone, including Diane, throw up by heinously referring to Obama as "colored".
Good Lord, no wonder government and industry alike can own you people and ride you as if you were their little birthday ponies. Even geese are more intellectually acute.