Update From The Republican Convention
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-08-29/update-republican-convention
Mitt Romney officially became the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee at the Republican National Convention yesterday. Hours later the full bore effort to broaden his appeal began. His wife, Anne Romney and up and coming Republican Party leader, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey gave speeches aimed at weak spots in Governor Romney's support: female voters and undecided voters dissatisfied with President Obama’s performance. This week’s Republican convention presents a critical opportunity for Romney to re-introduce himself on the national stage. Please join us for an update from the convention
Guests
Ron Elving
Washington editor for NPR.
Stuart Rothenberg
editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report and a twice-a-week columnist for Roll Call.
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog, managing editor of PostPolitics.com and author of a new book, "The Gospel According to The Fix."
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gary k wrote:
"Hardcore fundamentalists would have a lot of trouble with Romney because of his Mormon faith. But since racism is still rampant in our country, they have an "out" to support Romney since he is not black."
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The election of a black POTUS could only happen if "rampant racism" in the USA were a myth. But being black isn't going to carry the day for POTUS Obama the 2nd time around. He will be judged on his record just as if he were a white POTUS.
Perhaps caller Hillary from Miami will also call in during the Democratic Party Convention and ask "why are we still doing conventions?" Did the caller think it was "weird" when Michelle Obama said ""for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
Although I am a strong proponent of discourse and debate, I am dismayed and appalled that there is even a discussion regarding the deletion of Algebra from the curriculum. Algebra may be difficult for some, and that is a good thing, in that an essential component of education ought to be learning to deal with difficulties. Algebra is very basic, and beyond, it is important for everyone to have a basic understanding of statistical methods and the basic concept of calculus. The concepts inherent in the subject matter are essential to having an understanding of life today and to achieve a measure of success in our society.
"Zane DeG. wrote:
The fact that Anne Romney stood up and extolled her husband is hardly "news" -- what would you expect? And while I'm sure they have had a loving and successful partnership over the years, her references to hardships early on is just plain disingenuous coming from someone who married into an extremely wealthy family.
August 29, 2012 - 9:52 am"
"...her references to hardships early on is just plain disingenuous coming from someone who married into an extremely wealthy family."
And on the other hand (The Left {Democrat} Hand), I read this week that after Jimmy Carter's Father died and Jimmy resigned from the Navy in order to salvage the Family Business, He and Rosalynn lived in Public Housing.
I compared the most recent Presidents- Obama, Clinton and Carter, all more or less Poor Boys, versus Bush, Bush and the Pretender Romney, those Men who fell into every good thing that happened to them.
If there is a Nobility of Achievement in this Nation, it must begin with Democrats who start with nothing and build something worthwhile and ends with trash like Bush, Bush and Romney, who got EVERY advantage and still leave behind nothing but Misery and Ruin.
If the American People really do want to be governed by people who understand them and their Lives, they will be well advised to look past these dying Dynasties, these Psuedo Elites.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
"fool me once wrote:
Honest?Abe wrote: "Michael Steele pointed out that the majority of welfare folks are white. What he failed to point out is that 70% of those recipients are under 18 or disabled poor elderly"
Black people are about 13% of the population but receive by far most of the welfare per capita. As noted these figures do not include all the other public assistance programs that are overwhelmingly lopsided to one race.
August 29, 2012 - 10:18 am"
We have decided to provide help to those who need it. Seems obvious.
The only other thing I have to say about that is- FU and your Statistics, FU and your Welfare Queen and other Anecdotes and, most of all, FU and your Racism.
If anybody else who reads this Blog agrees that this constant Schadenfreud abuse of the Poor and unfortunate is getting to be a Pain in the Rear, I wish you would speak up.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
MHopeFul wrote: "So, according to you, people who have a uterus are vacuous? Thanks for showing the contempt conservatives have toward women"
It was obviously a reference to the democrat party platform, small, nonproductive and divisive. You must be vacuous to not have understood that.
Liberals just can't help making asinine comments:
"Yahoo News' Washington bureau chief was fired Wednesday after he was caught on a hot mic joking that Republicans are "happy to have a party" while black people drown.
The comment was made by David Chalian during live coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and was an apparent reference to the convention getting underway while a tropical storm-turned-hurricane barreled toward the Gulf Coast.
"They are happy to have a party with black people drowning," said a voice off-camera, later identified as Chalian, as video of the Romneys played on screen. Other people could be heard laughing at the comment."
mchaun wrote:"The only other thing I have to say about that is- FU and your Statistics, FU and your Welfare Queen and other Anecdotes and, most of all, FU and your Racism."
Right back at ya bro. It has been established many times on this blog that your one of the many liberal racists that post here, gotta keep those poor black folk in their place, weak and dependent!
I forgot to add stupid to the list, the libs want to keep teachers unions in place despite the fact that inner city schools fail in epic proportion because of them.
"MarcusTullius wrote:
Perhaps caller Hillary from Miami will also call in during the Democratic Party Convention and ask "why are we still doing conventions?" Did the caller think it was "weird" when Michelle Obama said ""for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
August 29, 2012 - 1:55 pm"
What does the Quote have to with Conventions???
Masters of the irrelevant!!!!! Destroyers of Straw Men!!!
After a Generation of Reagan/Bush and their most corrupt Administrations in History, that piled unspeakable misery on Millions of the World's people and quite a bit on Americans as well, I suspect there are lots of people who felt the same way.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
mchaun wrote:
"I compared the most recent Presidents- Obama, Clinton and Carter, all more or less Poor Boys, versus Bush, Bush and the Pretender Romney, those Men who fell into every good thing that happened to them."
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Why leave out liberal Presidents FDR , JFK and nominee John Kerry? Could it be that filthy wealthy patrician politicians "who fell into every good thing that happened to them" are excused as long as they are Democrats?
"fool me once wrote:
mchaun wrote:"The only other thing I have to say about that is- FU and your Statistics, FU and your Welfare Queen and other Anecdotes and, most of all, FU and your Racism."
Right back at ya bro. It has been established many times on this blog that your one of the many liberal racists that post here, gotta keep those poor black folk in their place, weak and dependent!
August 29, 2012 - 5:15 pm"
Yeah well, how many of you Fascist, Racist, Right Wing, Cockchafers got your butts kicked in Mississippi, Alabama, Etc, helping those poor black folk escape their weak and dependent state??
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
mchaun wrote: "Yeah well, how many of you Fascist, Racist, Right Wing, Cockchafers got your butts kicked in Mississippi, Alabama, Etc, helping those poor black folk escape their weak and dependent state??"
You mean the KKK branch of the democrat party! Robert Byrd and friends.
"fool me once wrote:
mchaun wrote:"The only other thing I have to say about that is- FU and your Statistics, FU and your Welfare Queen and other Anecdotes and, most of all, FU and your Racism."
Right back at ya bro. It has been established many times on this blog that your one of the many liberal racists that post here, gotta keep those poor black folk in their place, weak and dependent!
I forgot to add stupid to the list, the libs want to keep teachers unions in place despite the fact that inner city schools fail in epic proportion because of them.
August 29, 2012 - 5:31 pm"
Poor, poor sad Man, kept in your place, weak and dependent on your Betters and forced to just keep repeating your pathetic, fallacious and tired old GOP talking points.
Teachers and their Unions have ZERO to say about Curriculum, ZERO to say about Hiring and Firing, Zero to say about Discipline, Zero to say about Salary, Zero to say about their Supervision, Zero to say about Textbook selection, ZERO to say about Certification, ZERO to say about College Major Courses.
If there is blame to be placed, let it be on School Boards and Normal Schools.
Some Republican Mayors of large Cities have taken over full control of their School Systems and are at least partly responsible for the "inner city schools (that) fail in epic proportion because of them".
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
mchaun wrote:
"Teachers and their Unions have ZERO to say about Hiring and Firing"
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Instead of relying on gibberish swirling around in your head, why not actually search out facts before posting on the DR Show board? Another case where the teacher union protects their own from being fired.
"He just won't leave.
At age 75, Roland Pierre is the granddaddy of the rubber room -- 13 years in the purgatory of teachers yanked from the classroom for alleged wrongdoing.
But the Department of Education can't fire Pierre, and he's stuck around long past the minimum retirement age.
Pierre was permanently removed from the classroom in 1997 after he was accused of sexually molesting a sixth-grade girl at PS 138 in Brooklyn.
But since then, Pierre has continued to receive full pay and fringe benefits, including health, pension and vacation, officials said. He pulls down $97,101 a year. "
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/rubber_room_dirty_old_man_t4...
"gary k wrote:
Sounds like Chris Christie was looking after number one--himself. He's looking forward to 2016 and probably wasn't aware that he was supposed to laud Romeny. LOL
Typical politician.
August 29, 2012 - 10:26 am"
Isn't She the New Jersey Governor that rode with the State Police so she could pat down Detainees to see if the stories about Black Men were true???
Then hired the Architect of the WTC I Bombing to stop the State Police Racial Profiling.
And then borrowed the Money for the installment due on the State Employee Pension Fund so she could cut Taxes??
Poor New Joisey!!
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
Sorry, but since that is not what you wrote, I believe that you wrote exactly what you meant.
It seems to you, uteruses = democrats= vacuous, small, nonproductive, and divisive.
If this is not true, why would you call the democratic convention the Uterus convention? Why would you compare a political party you despise with women unless you also despise women?
"MarcusTullius wrote:
mchaun wrote:
"Teachers and their Unions have ZERO to say about Hiring and Firing"
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Instead of relying on gibberish swirling around in your head, why not actually search out facts before posting on the DR Show board? Another case where the teacher union protects their own from being fired.
"He just won't leave.
At age 75, Roland Pierre is the granddaddy of the rubber room -- 13 years in the purgatory of teachers yanked from the classroom for alleged wrongdoing.
But the Department of Education can't fire Pierre, and he's stuck around long past the minimum retirement age.
Pierre was permanently removed from the classroom in 1997 after he was accused of sexually molesting a sixth-grade girl at PS 138 in Brooklyn.
But since then, Pierre has continued to receive full pay and fringe benefits, including health, pension and vacation, officials said. He pulls down $97,101 a year. "
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/rubber_room_dirty_old_man_t4...
August 29, 2012 - 6:41 pm"
More Straw Men!!!
That story is crap, Klein could have fired him years ago, who knows why he didn't. If you weren't so ignorant, you would know that Tenure is not absolute and Moral Turpitude and/or Crime is unconditional grounds for firing.
And isn't NYC the very School System I just alluded to a few Moments ago??
Well, Fooey on yoU and Fooey on your Anecdotes, they add absolutely nothing to the discussion of the 14,000 School Systems in the Nation.
And after all, as you yourself just quoted my statement above--
"mchaun wrote:
"Teachers and their Unions have ZERO to say about Hiring and Firing"
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
MHopeFul wrote: Sorry, but since that is not what you wrote, I believe that you wrote exactly what you meant. It seems to you, uteruses = democrats= vacuous, small, nonproductive, and divisive. If this is not true, why would you call the democratic convention the Uterus convention? Why would you compare a political party you despise with women unless you also despise women?"
This is what I wrote
"I am only speaking to the vacuous nature of the democrat party. The party of failed ideas and a failed president, a party that can only run on envy, hate and fear."
Picking words out of context is pretty lame but it can be fun, lets try this with your last post.
MHopeFul wrote: Sorry, but - I despise women - Why would you compare- the Uterus- I -despise -with- the democratic convention-that- despise-women.
mchaun wrote:"Teachers and their Unions have ZERO to say about Hiring and Firing"
Some comments are just so ridiculous to be dumbfounding, this is one of them. Are you drunk or something?
"kathleen wrote:
If Romney actually ran on his moderate record he could pull some Dem's in but he has not. He clearly swung to the tea baggers. And with his right wing radical go get Iran warmongering team who can he possibly pull in from this angle?
Mrs. 1% Romney will not be pulling many 99% in?
August 29, 2012 - 10:10 am"
This Morning, the BBC played part of his Anti China rhetoric and he's Nuts.
Says his first act as President will be to declare China a Currency Manipulator (Whatever that means) and slap a 20% Tariff on all Chinese Imports.
Since most of their Goods would still be competitive, the Tariff would be a nice 20% Sales Tax on the Middle Class and start a trade war that will decimate are already puny Exports.
Then unbelievably, he taunted the Chinese for going to the Moon 43 Years after we did.
What an incredibly infantile stunt!!!
What Trash!!
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
My post was meant for what one specific person on this forum wrote, not for conservatives in general.
Where did I ever talk about a war on women or contraception?
But to answer you for the heck of it: Republican talking heads show their ignorance of women's issues time after time. They do not know how birth control works, they do not know what it is like to be pregnant or give birth. Over and over they belittle rape (your body shuts it down, it's the same as having a baby out of wedlock). Republicans in Congress voted against the paycheck fairness act and legislators don't like to hear the word 'vagina'. The majority of FOX commentators only spoke to men on whether religious institutions should cover birth control.
Ted Kennedy was a horrible person. But as he's been dead for 3 years, he's certainly not the future of the democratic party.
MHopeFul wrote:
"Republican talking heads show their ignorance of women's issues time after time. They do not know how birth control works, they do not know what it is like to be pregnant or give birth.
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Let's see. FOX News Megan Kelly gave birth April, 2011 to daughter Yardley Evans. She also has a 3 year-old son Edward Yates. FOX News Laura Ingraham has three kids. FOX News Martha MacCallum has two sons and a daughter. Are you saying these children materialized in a test tube?
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MHopeFul wrote:
"Ted Kennedy was a horrible person. But as he's been dead for 3 years, he's certainly not the future of the democratic party."
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Did you ever say to another liberal that Teddy was a "horrible person" when he was alive? The Democratic Party doesn't have a future. Bill Clinton is the star speaker at their convention. His track record is no better than a Kennedy when it comes to their wretched treatment of women. But hey, as POTUS, he was for abortion on demand. That makes him okay dokay in the liberal book of accepted misogynists.
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MHopeFul wrote:
"Republicans in Congress voted against the paycheck fairness act"
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Wrong. They voted against the bill to amend the statutory limitations of Lily Ledbetter Act.
I don't watch fox, but are they pundits or are they putative journalists? All the examples I gave were from legislators who actually can make a difference in women's lives, anchors on fox don't write laws.
The men who spout these ignorant opinions hurt the image of the republicans. How do you get your economic message out there when seemingly every day another state legislature comes out with some hare-brained scheme to try to prevent abortion (let's make them watch a video of fetal development, but they can cover their eyes?) or someone like Akin makes stupid statements? Of course the press is going to cover it! It is much more interesting to most of the American people. Their ratings get higher because of it. Assuming a totally liberal media, you should know what will be said. Why then does the right play into the left's hands?
Yes, I have spoken to other liberals about Ted Kennedy. Not a lot because he was mostly before my time and I'm not even close to Massachusetts and so couldn't vote for or against. But I really find the Kennedys as a whole distasteful.
The Paycheck Fairness Act never made it out for debate as every republican voted against it and it never made it to the floor. No matter the name, republicans look like they're against women being paid the same as a man.
My only point to all of this back and forth is that the democrats are creating a narrative that the republicans 'hate' (no better word comes to mind, but it's not quite the word I want) women. The republicans are giving democrats all the ammunition they need. And then when I come here, lo and behold a conservative negatively compares my entire gender to a group he despises. Should my take away from this be that conservatives value women?
Tell us, then, exactly what you meant.
Why did you call the democratic convention the uterus convention?
"freedom or welfare wrote:
203cc wrote:
The Last ?:"I have no idea why you stand by your original comment. Do you stand by what you said the other day, something like "black men are lazy and have no interest in working and their women are promiscuous"? I'm glad that got taken down. I'm not glad that you weren't immediately banned from commenting. Do you know what I thought when I read that? I thought "Oh, Holy God... is that really what he thinks of the President and the First Lady?"
That's not what I said and maybe you know it? Hard to tell what penetrates into your skull. Apparently not much that you don't want to hear or read. It's a pity we can't discuss these issues like adults. Too many people like yourself cannot handle the truth and emotionally thrash out with blind rage.
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March 15, 2013 - 1:38 pm"
"freedom or welfare wrote:
I managed apartments for years, I got news for you. Black men as a whole have no interest in manual labor and they have no interest in education. What they do have an interest in is scamming the system and selling drugs. The woman are promiscuous and on the dole in some form or another. The children of many illegal aliens are pursuing the same path and vote accordingly.
March 12, 2013 - 1:32 pm"
What a sorry piece of Crap! Hasn't even got the Balls to stand by his psychopathic filth.
But I'm not glad it was taken down.
How nice of Diane and MME Moderator to remove the Comment from the Archive and allow these Rats to Weasel out of their degenerate ravings.
Your "Special Relationship" with eggie to protect him from the nasty Liberals who, "cannot handle the truth and emotionally thrash out with blind rage", is driving sensible People away from the Site and reducing the level of debate to lunatic extremes.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
Sorry, posted the above on the wrong Page.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com