Election Day 2012 Thread

[AirFlacco]

We were sure classy to you when you came on for the first time, unlike the welcome I got from libbies the first time and even now as you can see. Like I told you, I have to wear a bullet proof vest in
here just getting slurred by two libbies when I said nothing to them. Can't be thin skinned.

BTW, while you're celebrating, enjoy the $300+B in taxes youll be
paying in the coming years. Everyone will be paying, not just the
rich and don't complain when gas goes up to $10 pr gal. OBY said
we have to pay our fair share like Europe; and food
prices go up another 40% and there will be another debt ceiling
increase.

You'll win that too when OBY threatens to stop the old folks soc sec checks and the military pay checks while they're dying for him in
Afghanistan and Iraq and more ambassadors will die after belng left unprotected in Africa and the Middle East unless they all quit.

Debt ceiling will go up to $20T and your kids will be poor paying it off when they're your age or sooner, just like the ones in Greece now.

And I'm sure everyone will enjoy the free condoms the church will be forced to give them.

Now, if all that is slurred and classless, I apologize to the thin
skinned. It's all the truth.

[Lee Van Cleef]

No, just not classless.

Frankly this sub forum has been a Trap Propaganda state for the last few months, posting crap like the 'suicide watch' thread bumped by SgtPotato last night and deriding people who posted differing opinions/polls. Funnily enough, Nate Silver's analysis of the polls was great. Dick was dead wrong.

Credit to some like HR who continued to engage in actual debate. But this place was generally unreadable for the last month or so.

[HoustonRaven]

If Trap's constant name calling and frequent slurs were more strictly moderated, the complaints about a lack of class could be taken more seriously.

Says the guy who himself hurls insults like manhole covers.

Let us worry about Trap, K?

[HoustonRaven]

No, I think we can definitively leave it at "thin-skinned."

Because you likely wouldn't have said anything if a board member had come on to revel in an Obama loss.

I think it was the name calling toward Mitt, not the fact Obama won.

[ActualSpamBot]

Says the guy who himself hurls insults like manhole covers.

Let us worry about Trap, K?

If you guys want to leave this place a jungle, I'll continue to treat it like one. But when you come down on a poster for doing an incredibly tame version of something you let another poster do EVERY SINGLE TIME HE POSTS, I will point out the hypocrisy. If that upsets you guys, you can fix it by not allowing your partisan feelings affect how you moderate.

[AirFlacco]

Frankly this sub forum has been a Trap Propaganda state for the last few months, posting crap like the 'suicide watch' thread bumped by SgtPotato last night and deriding people who posted differing opinions/polls. Funnily enough, Nate Silver's analysis of the polls was great. Dick was dead wrong.

Credit to some like HR who continued to engage in actual debate. But this place was generally unreadable for the last month or so.

You're thinking about someone else dude. I never had a suicide watch thread.

Who is Sgt Potato?

You can scroll down and look at my threads that are there. It's a political forum. Galen had a lot of pro threads for his opinions and said he kept the forum going. Greg would have banned me a long time ago. Just look at all the hits my threads have. Someone was reading. I never got a warning about any pro opinion threads here.

I didn't hit anyone until the hit me.

[ActualSpamBot]

You're thinking about someone else dude. I never had a suicide watch thread.

http://russellstreetreport.com/forum...-suicide-watch

Your pants are on fire.

[HoustonRaven]

If you guys want to leave this place a jungle, I'll continue to treat it like one. But when you come down on a poster for doing an incredibly tame version of something you let another poster do EVERY SINGLE TIME HE POSTS, I will point out the hypocrisy. If that upsets you guys, you can fix it by not allowing your partisan feelings affect how you moderate.

Lol. Hyperbole much?

Talk about hypocrisy.

[ActualSpamBot]

Lol. Hyperbole much?

Talk about hypocrisy.

Which is hyperbole? That ak got called classless for doing something Trap does constantly (even you admit he refuses to call Obama by his actual name and insists on using insulting nicknames at minimum) or that you don't do anything about it other than treat it like a charming idiosyncrasy because he is on your side of the political aisle? Because frankly, those are both pretty easily supported assertions.

[wickedsolo]

The Microsoft vs Apple analogy is great and spot on.

[AirFlacco]

http://russellstreetreport.com/forum...-suicide-watch

Your pants are on fire.

Thanks for proving HR right.

[ActualSpamBot]

Thanks for proving HR right.

Pointing out that you lied by quoting you and then linking to proof that you're lying is hurling insults like manhole covers? Ok Trap.

HR, if this is what you meant by "hurls insults like manhole covers" then I think you and I are operating under different versions of the English language.

[HoustonRaven]

Which is hyperbole? That ak got called classless for doing something Trap does constantly (even you admit he refuses to call Obama by his actual name and insists on using insulting nicknames at minimum) or that you don't do anything about it other than treat it like a charming idiosyncrasy because he is on your side of the political aisle? Because frankly, those are both pretty easily supported assertions.

Not at all. What you don't know could fill a book.

Worry about yourself. And let's get the thread back on track.

PM any of any time if you feel the need and we can continue this discussion.

[AirFlacco]

Man, it's early, I forgot about the Rush thread but I never got a warning about any of my threads, but that thread had over 200 hits, but some people can never take the joke and at the time they were on the edge after OBY blew a 14 pt lead after the debates. Cher said she was leaving the country, but OBY just said they had to fight back hard and won. I give them credit, but you keep hurling personal insults since Day 1 even breaking the rules in the football forum while I have shown class to you. Just scroll back to your gay question post and my priest thread while you continue to prove HR right.


At least I didn't run like one libbie.

But I love you guy just as Christ does.

[HoustonRaven]

The Microsoft vs Apple analogy is great and spot on.

Especially in terms of polling.

The GOP thought the polling dynamic of 2004 still applied today when in reality we now know that pollsters fixed their issues and were all pretty much dead one.

[ActualSpamBot]

I followed Nate Silver all election run up because while I disagree with a lot of his commentary, I haven't been able to argue with his math yet. I can't stress enough how pin point his predictions were.

Honestly I think this election was lost for the Repubs when they doubled down on the Tea Party rhetoric that worked well for them in '10. The shine had worn off that particular ideology pretty quickly. Frankly if they had adopted a truer libertarian platform skipped the religious and abortion talk, stay out of the gay rights debate, focus all rhetoric on the economy, taxation, and the deficit, they would have been much more appealing to a lot of young voters.

[AirFlacco]

Youre exactly right Spam. I posted above that the Tea Party made a mistake getting rid of Lugar. Galen callled it at the time
and said that was an automatic win for GOP for 20 years. Rove and his liberal establishment doubled down on them like you
said. He crucified Santorum.

[HoustonRaven]

I followed Nate Silver all election run up because while I disagree with a lot of his commentary, I haven't been able to argue with his math yet. I can't stress enough how pin point his predictions were.

Honestly I think this election was lost for the Repubs when they doubled down on the Tea Party rhetoric that worked well for them in '10. The shine had worn off that particular ideology pretty quickly. Frankly if they had adopted a truer libertarian platform skipped the religious and abortion talk, stay out of the gay rights debate, focus all rhetoric on the economy, taxation, and the deficit, they would have been much more appealing to a lot of young voters.

I agree if they a adopt a more Libertarian approach, they'd be better served.

I don't agree however the Tea Party had anything to do with this loss. The Tea Party is essentially Libertarian in many ways. Texas just elected a strong Tea Party backer in Ted Cruz based on Libertarian ideals of less Government intrusion, lower taxes, less regulation, etc were mantras in his campaign. He'd fair on the national stage but the GOP good ole' boys may get in the way.

Mitt ran a downright horrible campaign. He had every opportunity to frame Obama and, aside from one good debate performance, failed miserably at framing the debate. He stood back and did nothing as events he should have seized on -- Libya, unemployment numbers, etc -- came and went without barely a word.

[wickedsolo]

I followed Nate Silver all election run up because while I disagree with a lot of his commentary, I haven't been able to argue with his math yet. I can't stress enough how pin point his predictions were.

Honestly I think this election was lost for the Repubs when they doubled down on the Tea Party rhetoric that worked well for them in '10. The shine had worn off that particular ideology pretty quickly. Frankly if they had adopted a truer libertarian platform skipped the religious and abortion talk, stay out of the gay rights debate, focus all rhetoric on the economy, taxation, and the deficit, they would have been much more appealing to a lot of young voters.

When you listen to a lot of the Tea Party members (not all...but a fair amount) you kind of start to see a fine line emerge and on one side you have Tea Party and on the other you have bat-shit crazy.

Why the Republican party hasn't really opened their eyes and listened to guys like Gary Johnson and Ron Paul is beyond me. They are pretty outrageous on some of their views, but they tend to be on the side of letting facts and historical evidence guide their politics on a social, economic, and diplomatic level.

Young folks are tired of the anti-homosexual and anti-abortion saber rattling at every corner by far too many Republicans. I think that is something that the Republican party (on a whole) just hasn't come to grips with yet.

[AirFlacco]

Yea, but Mitt was the best of the worse lot.

More hope rests with Rubio and Ryan in the future.

I voted Libertarian yesterday but they gotta get rid of Rove and Bennett.