GOP Presidential Nomination Race
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-04-04/gop-presidential-nomination-race
Morning after analysis of the Wisconsin, Maryland, and DC GOP presidential primaries. Guest host Tom Gjelten and his panel look at the remaining field and frontrunner Mitt Romney's ongoing efforts to shift into general election campaign mode.
Guests
Neil King, Jr.
national reporter, The Wall Street Journal.
Amy Walter
political director, ABC News.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
congressional correspondent, Bloomberg News.
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I am so tired of reporting on the 'horse race'. I think all this coverage is going to end up turning off voters and there will be fewer people voting in November.
Well then, I guess it will be that much harder for the democrat party to drag uninformed government dependency addicts to the poles. If voters do not have enough candy to bribe them to vote, that's a good thing? An I.D. is too much to expect these days, if it's hot out maybe voters should be delivered to the poles wrapped in cold wet towels to keep them comfortable on the trip over, we wouldn't want them to break a sweat or even think for that matter, thinking can be a lot of work!
Stay Home 2012!!
Last night, I heard Romney say that President Obama’s economic policies were a bust. How does he explain the current positive economic turnaround? Romney simply regurgitates the same rhetoric that we have heard from all of the Republican candidates for months. Can we expect a change to his platform if he receives the nomination? Increased vitriol or some actual substance?
Europe is using the T-Party`s austerity plan.They`re unemployment rate is nearing 11%. Conservatism fails each and every time. 1981 to 1993,the Reagan & Bush years were 1 long recession. Clinton, ZERO recessions. George W.Bush,gave us 3 recessions,including the "Great Bush Recession".
Recessions never work for me.
There's a lot of criticism of this race, but the race does serve one useful purpose. It does show what depths people will descend to in order to gain an advantage. And it does show that most (perhaps all) politicians are liars; not to mention bought-off ones.
As a beauty contest, it is certainly one of the ugliest. And guess what? If we were talking about Democrats, there would essentially be no difference.
The paid pundits and the commenters here seem in the groove and ready for make believe democracy in November. It's a farce folks. Neither "Slickback" nor "Big(f)ears" when installed would have the impact of a coontail on an Escort antenna. The rules have been made in transnational corporate offices and only a People Power reaction can meaningfully mitigate Austerity. Enjoy this whoresrace and pretend like a bunny because we may see marshall law by 2016.
When Rush Limbaugh made such disparaging comments against Sandra Fluke, he said women on contraceptives were prostitutes. The Republican candidates, including Mitt Romney, had plenty of opportunity to express their moral outrage. Mitt, Newt and Rick all thought it was funny. It would appear that the Republican Party believes some 90% of American women are prostitutes.
It's hard to believe anyone could think that won't have an impact on the election. This Republican woman will be voting for Barack Obama.
In response to Oct21: Dream on....so you don't want people to participate in forming the government.....as we the people are the gov't.
I do not understand this rancor toward and talk about the government as though it is some outside entity. The influences often come from the outside....corporations....big money. They have NO vote when we go to the poles. Only individuals have a vote on voting day. This is why the conservative judges on the Supreme Court are actionary judges and it is such a shame. Corporations are made up of people being paid to do their job. Corporations are NOT individuals who live, work and vote in this country.
Amy is correct this election will be waged by super pacs at the state level. And an unsuspecting public will wake up to see their states transformed by a new class of super citizen, conservative legislative action groups that comes into their state and rewrites their laws along very conservative, anti-union, anti-public education, pro-gun legislation. I wish NPR would do more coverage on these legislative action groups like ALEC. Once I heard about this group and other groups, I did research to find out who is supporting these groups. No surprise they are funded by corporations one of which is my insurance provider. Needless to say I am shopping for a new insurance company.
Part 2
These groups are undermining our democracy. Typically legislation in states is done at the request of the citizens of that state. No longer. The governors who are working with these groups are Daniels in Indiana, Kasich in Ohio, Walker in Wisconsin, Christie in New Jersey, Scott of Florida and probably Halie in South Carolina. Note all of these governors are darlings of the republican party. I find these groups to be anti democratic and anti citizen who support the interests of super citizens who have all the rights of a citizen and are now writing the rules of our country to maintain an entrenched ideology and wealth protection
I quote from the Jan/Feb Foreign Affairs, an article by Francis Fukuama “The Future of History”. “The current concentration of wealth in the United States has already become self-reinforcing: as the economist Simon Johnson has argued, the financial sector has used its lobbying clout to avoid more onerous forms of regulation. Schools for the well-off are better than ever; those for everyone else continue to deteriorate. Elites in all societies use their superior access to the political system to protect their interests, absent a countervailing democratic mobilization to rectify the situation. American elites are no exception to the rule. That mobilization will not happen, however, as long as the middle classes of the developed world remain enthralled by the narrative of the past generation: that their interests will be best served by ever-freer markets and smaller states. The alternative narrative is out there, waiting to be born.”
I no longer think it is a matter of voting for a candidate I will vote anti-republican party and campaign against the republican party.
I'm with you, Lee. People talk about splitting the vote "because," no mention is made that it was the split vote, and the weak Demo. coattails that caused the horrid overuse of the filibuster which watered down the Health Care Reform to where Howard Dean said it wasn't worth passing (He doesn't say that now.) and which stopped ever so many progressive programs from being implemented. The economic stimulus was much less than recommended, for one. We have had successful pro-big business "conservative" policies.(Which many democrats do not totally oppose--we often work in corporations.) But we have had hacked, tortured and abused progressive programs due to "journalists'" pretense of "being fair" and working the "horse race" angle to the complete detriment of having a truly progressive, liberal policy be given a chance. The liberal side needs some Harry Truman thumping! Give us a real congress ! Depose the doorstops.!
anewsboy wrote:
"But we have had hacked, tortured and abused progressive programs "
So I take from that that any failures in progressive programs are the fault of conservatives! Interesting.
Ladyingreen wrote:
"That mobilization will not happen, however, as long as the middle classes of the developed world remain enthralled by the narrative of the past generation: that their interests will be best served by ever-freer markets and smaller states. The alternative narrative is out there, waiting to be born.”
A few things, lady. I frequently see posts like yours and they usually indicate a lack of understanding of the core principles of power and freedom.
Free markets in this country have never been tried. Eliminate all subsidies, all grants, and "too big to fail" (i.e. bailouts). Then get back to me.
A republican (small r) form of government with the small central government that the founders envisioned, has created the strongest free nation on earth. That is because it depends on a tiered system of control, with each tier having a little bit of power. That form of government in this country, is dead.
A government with a sole central core (serving the "interests" of the middle class) will become facistic. It CANNOT persist as a free society. That form of government is coming to life.
"A republican (small r) form of government with the small central government that the founders envisioned, has created the strongest free nation on earth. That is because it depends on a tiered system of control, with each tier having a little bit of power. That form of government in this country, is dead.
A government with a sole central core (serving the "interests" of the middle class) will become facistic. It CANNOT persist as a free society. That form of government is coming to life"
Perfect!