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The Myth of the Missing
Three Million Republicans

American Thinker, by Jack Cashill

Original Article

Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/12/2012 7:26:04 AM

A score of people this past week have asked me about the three million Republicans allegedly "missing" at the polls this year. For starters, if the Washington Post is to be believed, Mitt Romney received 1.3 million fewer votes than John McCain did in 2008, not 3 million. For the record, Obama received 7.5 million fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008. More than 1.1 million of the Republican votes were "lost" in California. It is not that California Republicans turned against Romney. His percentage of the vote was higher than McCain´s in 2008.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Johnny Angle, 11/12/2012 7:40:03 AM     (No. 9008420)

What will the Republican leadership do to combat this fraud? Nothing. What did they do about the patently biased debate moderators? Nothing; if they had, fat-mouth Fats Crawley would not have been there.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Spidey, 11/12/2012 7:44:08 AM     (No. 9008424)

Hate to say it but maybe Romney´s religion was a big reason he lost.The left used a lot of underhanded ways to attack it without Obama´s fingerprints on it.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: NuGoddess, 11/12/2012 7:51:13 AM     (No. 9008438)

Anyone who was too prissy to vote for Mitt because of his religion is a traitor, pure and simple.

I do not give a rat´s patoot about a candidate´s religion, provided they can prove they support and will defend my country.


Reply 4 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 11/12/2012 7:53:22 AM     (No. 9008440)

Did Jack´s article get truncated? There is no conclusion to his article - he´s way too good a writer to just leave us hanging.

If the short article is it, I do think he has a point about states where Republicans are so outnumbered. However, New York state has some Republican Representatives as does California. Just remember Darrell Issa is from California and Peter King is from New York. I can´t imagine they would have been returned to Congress but people in their Districts voted for Obama - that doesn´t make sense.

What makes the most sense is that the voting machines were programmed to flip just so many votes so as to not set off any alarm bells. Sorry, you are not going to convince me that the criminals - Valerie Jarrett, Axelrod, Plouff, Messina, and Cutter, didn´t have a maniacal master plan. First they had to show the polls as being very close and could go either way. When it went to Obama, no one would think too much about it - just that Romney fought the good fight but couldn´t convince enough voters to toss out Obama.


Reply 5 - Posted by: krause, 11/12/2012 8:03:58 AM     (No. 9008453)

I think a lot of registered republicans went independent in recent years after getting fed up with the party. Also, they could lose more after this election no small part to the robo calls that hit my phone 8-10 times a day.


Reply 6 - Posted by: TunnelRat, 11/12/2012 8:12:24 AM     (No. 9008462)

I live in a totally Democrat enclave. I often feel my trip to the polls is completely wasted, because I am outnumbered 20 to 1.

When I voted early this year, I noticed that nearly half of all the voters in line were black -- no shortage of enthusiasm here.

The dozens of political phone calls I received each day were enough to make me want to unplug my land-line (as several of my friends have). There is something about receiving a plethora of such calls that tends to dull any interest in voting.

While I was eventually convinced to vote for Mr. Romney (after repeatedly swearing I would not), there may well have been many potential Republican voters who simply were unable to pull the lever for a New England moderate.

Lotsa reasons -- none of them good...


Reply 7 - Posted by: jackie, 11/12/2012 8:15:12 AM     (No. 9008465)

Until the Repubs decide to fix the voter fraud and the States go through the voter list and toss out the fake ones.. nothing will change. The States are the ones who have to fix the dang system and we need to get this early voting under control. Laziness should not be rewarded.. We get a big push about 90 days before the next election to make them look like they are doing something, but it is always too little too late with the Repubs. Now they want to drag out the sack clothes and ashes...Fools..


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Bevan, 11/12/2012 8:20:45 AM     (No. 9008474)

The government plantation´s foundation was laid by Woodrow Wilson. The frame was erected by FDR. Clinton shingled the roof and Obama is providing the furnishings. To be fair, Bush I and II hung some drywall.


Reply 9 - Posted by: tyshab, 11/12/2012 8:27:10 AM     (No. 9008485)

It is not up to anyone else to fix the fraud. Why are we waiting on government and particularly political parties to fix this? It is our election process. Get your voter list, look up your property and tax rolls. Cross reference them, submit challenges to the ones who registered to vacant land, pay taxes but do not reside in the district, have died, are registered multiple times. Someone with the skills/talent could design and implement a process for cross referencing across districts and states to prevent the casting of multiple votes by one person. Read your states election law, volunteer to work the polls, be a poll watcher, run for secretary of state, board of elections, etc. Identify and work to change those areas of your state election law to remove the opportunity for fraud, i.e. early voting. Get your friends and neighbors registered. Educate them. Pick something, anything and move on it. Quit waiting for someone else to do it.


Reply 10 - Posted by: OhMy, 11/12/2012 8:30:17 AM     (No. 9008497)

There are maps that break down the red and green by smaller areas. It is just that a large city can outnumber a whole rural region and turn a whole state reliably democrat. There is something about people who flock into cities because they are less self reliant and inclined to depend on others. Population density co-relates with political attitudes.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Lt.Mom, 11/12/2012 8:31:48 AM     (No. 9008502)

I don´t think Romney´s loss in Ohio and Pennsylvania was due to his Mormonism at all. I am a Christian who is very clear about the doctrines of my faith, but my husband and I had voting day circled and went to the polls together to vote for the straight Republican ticket here in PA. And, the results of voter turnout in our rural county, where we had poll watchers, was the one of the highest on record for Republican voters. I don´t believe we were an anomaly in PA.

I think this author was describing why we can write off CA and even NY, but that the results in OH and PA are suspect. And yes, it seems as though the article was truncated. Better check to be sure he is OK.


Reply 12 - Posted by: stopevhillary, 11/12/2012 8:43:42 AM     (No. 9008520)

And maybe some of them already went Galt. Before we did.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: dolphin, 11/12/2012 8:48:05 AM     (No. 9008528)

I did not get even one robo call here in Kentucky. I saw no TV commercials. If Romney had one to one interviews anywhere on TV, I must have missed it. Did anybody come to my community? If they did, I missed it. If I hadn´t been making the effort to follow the election on FOX, I wouldn´t have known it was happening. This includes the primary. Combine this with people getting TOO many robocalls, add in the vote fraud and the leftwing litany in the popular media and you´ve got your 3 million.

Romney wasn´t my first choice and I DID vote even though I´m outnumbered 6 to 1 in my precinct. But I´m pretty motivated. I must confess I sat out the primary, though. What was the point?


Reply 14 - Posted by: pineledger, 11/12/2012 8:52:23 AM     (No. 9008539)

Hard for me to imagine Romney´s religion had anything to do with his loss. If it did, why wasn´t Obama´s religion a factor?


Reply 15 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 11/12/2012 8:59:14 AM     (No. 9008554)

I don´t buy the anti-Mormom idea either. Romney did better than McCain in almost every state (I think NJ and NY were the only states where ´O´ did better. In some counties in Oklahoma, not exactly a Mormom stronghold, Romney got 90% of the vote.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Avogadra, 11/12/2012 9:03:33 AM     (No. 9008558)

There are articles all over the internet about how easy it is to change electronic votes and then have self-destruction of the code that did the changing. The Democrats didn´t have to do it in every district - just in certain key areas of the swing states.

All the tweaking of message and improvement of get-out-the-vote systems isn´t going to fix the problem if they can just switch our votes as soon as they are cast. And the evidence is, just from the fact that Obama can´t fill a venue anymore, they can manufacture exactly as many votes as they need to win any election they choose.


Reply 17 - Posted by: MickTurn, 11/12/2012 9:04:04 AM     (No. 9008559)

It is patently obvious that the Libs either stole votes or packed in more DIMS with voter Fraud...I guess we have to wait for the Dept of injustice to look into it...don´t hold your breath!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: JAN, 11/12/2012 9:07:17 AM     (No. 9008568)

Voter Fraud

The election was stolen

Stop buying into the msm mantra that we need to reach out hispanics, asians, etc etc etc.

R votes were discarded or went unscanned in republican districts in Florida, Coloraado, and in Ohio the scam was that absentee ballos were sent to every single registered voter.

Think about the chaos that ensued and you will see where the election was lost.

Kasich was asleep at the wheel in Ohio.


Reply 19 - Posted by: planetgeo, 11/12/2012 9:19:50 AM     (No. 9008588)

The Democrat coalition of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays, illegals, and single women will be tough to beat even if we succeed in ferreting out all the voter fraud (including the abuse of early voting and vote by mail). Women in particular seem to be locked in on the primacy of lady parts issues above everything else. Big government has become their baby daddy. And when it comes to government, for them, size matters.


Reply 20 - Posted by: O.G.´s Mom, 11/12/2012 9:34:12 AM     (No. 9008626)

I absolutely agree with those posters that say electronic voting can be changed without anyone knowing it. Just program every 1,000th vote let´s say, to change to Obama in those key swing states. And we saw evidence of that with people voting early saying they voted for Romney but it changed to Obama.

As long as the MSM couldn´t care less about voter fraud because it happens to Republicans, and as long as our Republican so-called "leadership" is unwilling to confront this issue head on for fear of being labeled crazies, then we will have more coups as we have seen in this election. I believe more than ever this election was stolen. Every pollster was wrong? Seasoned, experienced pollsters ALL used the wrong premises about voter turnout? All pollsters whose reputations and livelihoods are at stake, made these same mistakes? I don´t think so. This election was stolen, pure and simple.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Arby, 11/12/2012 9:39:07 AM     (No. 9008640)

I agree re: the robo calls. We have to find a new way to campaign that doesn´t involve annoying the voter.


Reply 22 - Posted by: LanieLou, 11/12/2012 9:41:20 AM     (No. 9008651)

Databases voted in swing states vs humans. Also in Ca. where they needed the tax increase to pass, as an example of our future.

The entire voting system needs to be tossed & replaced. I´m all for purple thumbprints!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: AGGW, 11/12/2012 9:42:59 AM     (No. 9008654)

The fix was in before the first debate. 0 wasn´t worried.


Reply 24 - Posted by: OhMy, 11/12/2012 9:45:38 AM     (No. 9008661)

I have bad news for all the ladies voting with their lady parts. Because of the Grizwold v Connecticut decision the right to Abortion is locked in and Romney could not have changed that even if he wanted to - and he never showed any inclination to do so. You elected a closet Muslim who caters to CAIR a muslim group which has the declared purpose of replacing the constitution with Sharia Law. Do you think that will never happen? Obama is shredding the constitution every day and having the CAIR gang over for Ramadan parties all the time. I would rate this far more likely than any restriction on "reproductive freedom" If you keep this up your lady parts may well be subjected to FGM...which is not a pleasant experience. You can read all about it in the book "Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I have no sympathy for an Obama supporter when this happens but I do have sympathy for many others who will suffer the same consequences despite their heroic efforts to prevent this tragedy.


Reply 25 - Posted by: uno, 11/12/2012 9:56:22 AM     (No. 9008698)

The massive rallies where enthusiastic people showed up in droves for Romney belies the myth of the missing three million Republicans!
It´s all about the voter fraud!


Reply 26 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 11/12/2012 9:59:39 AM     (No. 9008709)

As Newt points out in one of his excellent You Tube pieces:" You can send $5,000.00 from L.A. to Bangkok without fear of it being stolen with just a few keystrokes and a security code".

The Vote could be equally secure but the left won´t let it happen and the right is too limp wristed to fight about it.

.....spit.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 11/12/2012 9:59:46 AM     (No. 9008710)

Once upon a crime, a mysterious character from seemingly out of nowhere was elected our President. Four years later, the same character was reelected. Crime doesn’t pay? Tell me about it!


Reply 28 - Posted by: sickened, 11/12/2012 10:02:05 AM     (No. 9008715)

Referring to New Mexico´s blue voter rolls, I´d like to remind outsiders that New Mexico voted twice for a Republican Governor, Gary Johnson, who ran as a fiscal conservative (balanced the budget and used his veto more than 700 times), and a social liberal (backed marijuana legalization and openly supported gay marriage). He also got a million votes against socialist Obama and fiscal moderate, social conservative Romney.


Reply 29 - Posted by: unklebeau, 11/12/2012 10:12:52 AM     (No. 9008752)

#25, its a big if, but IF Sharia law were to be put in place of the constitution, those women who voted with their "lady parts" are gonna be wishing they had their short skirts and opportunity back when the burquas are issued out!


Reply 30 - Posted by: Catherine, 11/12/2012 10:13:17 AM     (No. 9008753)

I just checked. MSNBC called the election for Obama at 8:15 - because of the Ohio vote. So 8:15 p.m. in Ohio is 7:15 in the CST states, 6:15 further west and in California, it was 5:15, yet it was called for Obama. Am I alone in trying to figure this out!


Reply 31 - Posted by: K.I.S.S., 11/12/2012 10:20:10 AM     (No. 9008768)

ya think????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Reply 32 - Posted by: oniana5, 11/12/2012 10:37:26 AM     (No. 9008814)

Perhaps in 2016 the Republican party could
think about giving us an actual pro life
conservative candidate????

Or we could follow Hannity´s lead and "change
our minds" on illegal immigration?


Reply 33 - Posted by: sadc, 11/12/2012 10:59:21 AM     (No. 9008864)

We live in Cincinnati OH. Most of the southwest corner of OH went to Romney except for Cincy itself and the neighborhoods closest to it. We had friends who worked at the polls. No picture ID is required. If you have a photo, fine, if not, an electric bill will do. A tall, well dressed black man came in with no photo ID. No license? No ID? But his electric bill with the name Veronica was produced as ID and he had to be allowed to vote. No one can convince me that the early voting, the busloads of Somali residents, from Columbus, all citizens? - not speaking English, who were bussed in to vote did not constitute voter fraud.


Reply 34 - Posted by: tisHimself, 11/12/2012 11:00:10 AM     (No. 9008868)

The nominee demonstrated in the primaries an inability to connect with voters in big ten states.

Here´s a hint: in 2008, the person independent voters in those states connected with wasn´t McCain.

And yet, where the Tea party was strongest, in Midwest battle ground states, the RNC chose to act as if 2010 never happened.

Money and organization win primaries; sincere conservative convictions well articulated and presented win independents.


Reply 35 - Posted by: forward, 11/12/2012 11:02:17 AM     (No. 9008876)

I totally agree about those electronic touch screens. How can anyone audit them after the fact, there´s nothing but digital code. 111010010 101010100 101010101 is not an audit trail! Electronic scanned ballot images are much more accurate and can be audited. That is what my district used in upstate NY. Simple, clean, and there is a trail.


Reply 36 - Posted by: fljack, 11/12/2012 11:16:50 AM     (No. 9008910)

Far to easy to fool electronic voting. #37 is right. With no audit trail except to tally the number of people who signed the registry against the number of whole ballots cast, I could easily enter a program to ignore votes for Romney without the need to bump up Obeyme´s votes. It would just look like I didn´t vote for President. Who could tell?


Reply 37 - Posted by: William1, 11/12/2012 11:21:17 AM     (No. 9008916)

One thing we may need to guard against is the use of the "stab in the back" mythology, which the Germans adopted to explain their defeat in WWI. We can, if not careful, be beguiled into thinking this because the theft theory provides a degree of comfort. I believe the bitter truth is that we are living in a tattooed, unthinking and illiterate culture, which values ignorance under the guise of sophistication, and indifference as the hip cynicism for these folks.


Reply 38 - Posted by: gpau, 11/12/2012 11:22:38 AM     (No. 9008919)

"Master Plan to Steal an Election", at www.brushfires-of-freedom.com/steal-an-election.html

The truth is right in front of us. What will we do about it?


Reply 39 - Posted by: ebuilder, 11/12/2012 11:39:35 AM     (No. 9008959)

If they could control the results with undetectable massive voter fraud in every swing state -- then why can´t they do it in 2014 and 2016. If they can control the results from now on -- why is no one saying they have overthrown-the-country? Shh. They have overthrown the country. Shh.


Reply 40 - Posted by: Speedypetey, 11/12/2012 11:49:12 AM     (No. 9008974)

Glad to see Allen West fighting the fraud. Just take Ohio as an example. The lines were around the block in small communities like Defiance and Van Wert. The exit polls were huge for Romney. Then the results came back and surprise but the President had precincts that exits were dominate the other way. Something is really evil.


Reply 41 - Posted by: M2, 11/12/2012 12:00:10 PM     (No. 9008995)

Lucianne´s caption under the MUST READ is exactly right. In NC where I live, I personally know of people whose votes via machine registered as votes for Obama when they voted for Romney. One friend said she tried 3x on the same machine with a poll-attendant watching as her vote flipped to Obama. She said the poll attendant said to "use another machine while we check this one out". Right.

Multiply that all over the country, prepared in advance thanks to ACORN workers and other since O´s last election and you have a simple answer to why Romney lost. Too many voters simply assumed the machine cast their vote for Romney when it did no such thing.

OPEN LETTER TO GOP: Why don´t you ask people who had similar experiences to contact you? Or contact the ACLJ or some other heavy-duty advocacy group? Do we just allow this election to get stolen?

Something is starting to smell really, really bad. It´s just too outlandish that we lost in those States when the stats were going our way.

And then, ponder this: From the moment O was elected in ´08, preparations to steal the ´12 election began. That´s a LOT of time to fix machines, ballots, etc.

We´ve been had. Big-time.


Reply 42 - Posted by: gwmcclintok, 11/12/2012 12:25:03 PM     (No. 9009035)

If Obama had lost with these same numbers, the election would be in the courts for a recount. May you republican leaders rot.............


Reply 43 - Posted by: OhMy, 11/12/2012 12:28:27 PM     (No. 9009041)

The hated international observers were surprised at the lack of controls for voter fraud. Where is Jimmah Carter when you need him?


Reply 44 - Posted by: redink, 11/12/2012 12:35:50 PM     (No. 9009056)

Voter fraud has been around since voting. Our last free election was, I believe, 2004. Spongebob voting in 08´ was just a preview to this election. When I heard that Romney votes were being flipped for Obama in early voting, I knew we were in deep trouble.

What I don´t understand is why Romney and the GOP did NOT implement a strategy beforehand to put some daylight in those voting areas where fraud did the most damage. They could have done something, they had the resources and the power to stop this. Brietbart was everywhere...why didn´t they use him? Where were the hidden cameras, the attorneys? the police?
The republic did their duty...everyone turned out and WITH enthusiasm. There is no explanation other than fraud.

That the ignorant and greedy wanted more of Obama, there is no doubt they voted. But I do not for one second believe they outnumbered those who´s lives and livelihoods were at stake.


Reply 45 - Posted by: jerseytomato, 11/12/2012 12:56:56 PM     (No. 9009105)

As I recall Nancy Pelosi seemed a little too confident when she said, ´Mitt Romney will never be elected as President of the United States.´

Maybe for the first time she was actually telling us the truth.

#24 nails it.


Reply 46 - Posted by: get er done, 11/12/2012 12:57:50 PM     (No. 9009114)

The evidence of fraud should be presented to the members of the Electoral College. If the Romney pledged members withhold their vote, that would show the invalidity of this fraudulent election. I doubt that leftist members give a damn, however, not all are pledged to vote for 0.

The Congress still has to validate the election. For starters, Allen West should stand in Congress and object to Congress validating the Electoral College vote and present the Congress with evidence of the fraud in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states.


Reply 47 - Posted by: ocjim, 11/12/2012 1:06:15 PM     (No. 9009131)

The very determined Allen West has noticed irregularities in the Florida vote, especially in one of his counties. I hope he stays on this like a junkyard dog. I put absolutely nothing beyond the Dems and Obama Inc to do to win an election. Obama´s electoral history shows his preference to eliminate opponents before his elections, but if his work needs to be done during the election, so be it, IMO. Ironically, in Russia of all places, on that hot mike, he spoke so confidently to Medvedev of his coming victory. He knew he had it in the bag.


Reply 48 - Posted by: pigop, 11/12/2012 1:12:14 PM     (No. 9009143)

When Mitt was reportedly shellshocked at the result that he lost, you can tell he knew he´d been had. When is the GOP going to learn to fight dirty! I even managed to convert my liberal leaning young adult kids to vote for Romney and it didn´t matter.


Reply 49 - Posted by: ocjim, 11/12/2012 1:16:05 PM     (No. 9009149)

#49 (cont.)
We must return to... Election Day!
- Paper ballots
- No machines
- Minimal, absolutely necessary absentee voting
- No Early Voting. Early voting allows the Dems to work it like Card Check, working their lists, turning disinterested and uniformed voters into actual voters.

I am never troubled by low voter turn out which often happens in local elections. I figure those with the knowledge and the interest are voting.


Reply 50 - Posted by: geoguy, 11/12/2012 1:55:05 PM     (No. 9009239)

This doesn´t make sense. The Republican Party/Conservatives were highly, highly motivated. Look at the difference in the crowds between huge Romney rallies in Ohio and Penn. vs small 0bama rallies, even with the likes of Stevie Wonder, in the waning days of the campaign. The college age kids were bummed out and showed no motivation to go vote much less vote for 0bama.

Now we are told that the Republican turn out was less than in 2008? No f´ing way. This is screwy.

Then I read that something like 100+ precincts in Ohio were >99% for 0bama and I heard there were similar results in Philadelphia. No fraud here. /s


Reply 51 - Posted by: belwhatter, 11/12/2012 2:02:36 PM     (No. 9009260)

I believe the country should have a unified method of voting. Whichever system is least prone to fraud should be refined and adopted nation wide. Many seem to think the paper ballot with its paper trail is the right way to go.
I also beleive the precious gift of the vote is wasted on a large percentage of woefully ignorant people. Why not mandate a simple intelligence test of political awareness?
It is essential that a voter speaks and understands English.
Voter ID is imperative.
No same day voter registration or provisional voting allowed. Registration cut off date a minimum of six weeks before election day.
No early voting anywhere except from our servicemen and women posted abroad.
Lastly I believe the Republican party is no longer worthy of being the alternative to the Socialists.They need to get out of the way and let the reformers take the reins.


Reply 52 - Posted by: Bla Bla, 11/12/2012 2:07:54 PM     (No. 9009276)

fta:
results in several states do raise eyebrows, most notably Ohio and Pennsylvania. Romney received nearly 100,000 fewer votes than McCain in the former and 35,000 fewer votes in the latter. In all the other battleground states, Romney improved...

That is enough to launch a Federal investigation into these two states & Florida. Somebody needs to step up with a class-action law suit. Who will do it? Will our House of Representatives do it for us? Somebody -- who? How? Lets git ´er done!


Reply 53 - Posted by: Up2Here, 11/12/2012 2:11:43 PM     (No. 9009288)

#8 - And they used RINO Moving and Storage for all their needs.


Reply 54 - Posted by: cgood, 11/12/2012 3:46:37 PM     (No. 9009461)

I´ve been pointing to the fraud since Black Wednesday. Here´s a quick way to jumpstart the investigation: Donald Trump can offer a hefty reward for evidence of voter fraud. The Donald gets himself back in the headlines and we get the confirmation we need. Win/win.


Reply 55 - Posted by: LZK, 11/12/2012 4:45:37 PM     (No. 9009553)

Here in Chicago -- many complaints were heard about the machine changing the vote from President Romney to obama. I had to double check mine....

Soooooooooo -- it will follow that obama won by fraud. Surprise -- surprise....

LZK


Reply 56 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 11/12/2012 6:16:24 PM     (No. 9009714)

It doesn´t make sense. In 2008 I walked in and voted. This election I waited 3 1/2 hours to vote.

You voted for one reason: you either hated Zippy or loved him. It had nothing to do with religion. No one in my area said anything about Mitt being a Mormon.

The real question is why is the Rep Party not up in arms about possible voter fraud ?


Reply 57 - Posted by: obviousity, 11/12/2012 7:04:45 PM     (No. 9009803)

They do not count the absentee ballots unless the margin is less than the number absentee ballots in the opinion of they.


Reply 58 - Posted by: deusvolt, 11/12/2012 7:41:21 PM     (No. 9009859)

To amplify the sentiments of poster #46, and similar posts, I´m forced to paraphrase a classic observation attributed to Sir Edmund Burke: all that is needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

jav


Reply 59 - Posted by: WimeTarmerFable, 11/12/2012 8:23:41 PM     (No. 9009925)

The machines we use don´t even show who you voted for. It is also a waste of paper, the old voting machines were tamper resistant and easy to use. This is fraud institutionalized...


Reply 60 - Posted by: Yephora, 11/12/2012 8:35:44 PM     (No. 9009950)

When they ´lost´ thousands of military ballots the GOPutzes did nothing.

When proof of voter registration fraud was surfacing all over the country the GOPutzes did nothing.

When Repub poll watchers were intimidated, threatened, kicked out the GOPutzes did nothing.

When voting machines flipped Romney votes to 0bama the GOPutzes did nothing.

Finally when the inevitable happened last Tuesday, the GOPutzes conceded and began pandering, compromising and caving to 0bama´s total agenda.

We´re doomed.



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Guess which country is the world’s largest oil producer. No, it’s not Saudi Arabia or Russia. It’s the United States, which passed Saudi Arabia in November of 2012, according to data from the federal Energy Information Administration and reported in Investors Business Daily. In 2012 American domestic output rose by an astonishing 800,000 barrels a day. That’s more than total oil production in such middling oil producers as Argentina, and the greatest single-year increase in the United States since Edwin Drake drilled the first well in 1859. That has consequences far beyond the oil patches

Margaret Thatcher: In
every sense, a leader
Washington Post, by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 10:26:32 PM     Post Reply
“UNLESS WE change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.” Margaret Thatcher, never given to understatement, presented that grim vision for Britain in 1979, the year she became prime minister. Then, for the next 11½ years — almost as long as three U.S. presidential terms — she worked with fierce determination and unrelenting stubbornness to dispel it

Poll: Obama underwater on
guns, immigration, deficit
Politico, by Donovan Slack    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 10:17:29 PM     Post Reply
A new CNN/ORC International poll found President Obama´s overall approval rating has ticked up to 51 percent but ratings have fallen on his handling of the key issues on his agenda: immigration, guns, and the deficit. On immigration, 44 percent approve of the way he is handling the issue, down from 51 percent in January. At the same time, disapproval has jumped to 50 percent, up from 43 percent in January. On guns, 45 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove, the poll found. In January, 46 percent approved and 49 percent dispproved. And on the deficit, 38 percent approve

Obamas Knocked for ´Royal Lifestyle´
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 9:51:58 PM     Post Reply
Joseph Curl noted in his Sunday column in the Washington Times that many ordinary Americans around the country were upset with the extravagant lifestyles President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families are living while most Americans suffer from a still-disastrous economy. “President Obama had another tough week in a second term filled with bad news and blunders — and he’s only 10 weeks in,” Curl wrote. “While the White House suddenly decided to drop its budget Friday in an effort to control the news, there was no covering up the disastrous jobless numbers

Maryland girl is armed with
arguments against gun control
Washington Times, by David Sherfinski    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:26:36 PM     Post Reply
A three-minute video of Sarah Merkle’s testimony about Maryland’s new gun legislation has drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, won her praise from gun rights advocates across the country and even scored her an interview on national television last week. But the 15-year-old from Baltimore said she cares more about her message. “The biggest part of this is that the pro-gun, Second Amendment argument is getting publicity,” she said. “I like that it actually got out there, and not just because it’s me, but because it’s the argument.”

Filibuster gains support to
delay gun control vote
Washington Times, by David Sherfinski    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:25:18 PM     Post Reply
A growing number of senators are trying to quash gun legislation before it even hits the chamber floor as Democrats hold out hope for a compromise and the White House gears up for a weeklong offensive to pressure Congress to act. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said as many as 13 senators now publicly support a filibuster on the motion to proceed on pending gun legislation, which effectively would block debate on the bill. “When you’re in a snake pit, you kill a snake any time and chance that you get,”

White House looks to salvage
gun-control legislation
Washington Times, by Tim Devaney    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:22:42 PM     Post Reply
The Obama administration took to the airwaves Sunday morning to call on Republicans to back the president’s plan for gun control. In interviews on “Fox News Sunday” and ABC’s “This Week,”Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser, pointed out that 90 percent of Americans support President Obama’s plan to expand background checks on citizens who purchase guns, and he pressured Republicans to get on board with what he said where “common-sense measures.” “You can’t get 90 percent of Americans to agree on the weather,” Mr. Pfeiffer said on “Fox News Sunday.” Mr. Pfeiffer warned that a potential Republican filibuster

Bipartisan unity on North Korea:
Republicans praise Obama’s
handling of threat
Washington Times, by Guy Taylor    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:20:32 PM     Post Reply
President Obama won rare foreign policy praise from Republicans for his administration’s handling of the North Korea crisis, as China signaled a possible readiness to play a more active role in pressuring Pyongyang away from provoking a military conflict. Two influential Republicans commended the White House on separate news talk shows Sunday for striking an effective balance by allowing senior Cabinet members to issue cautionary remarks in response to North Korea, while also strategically adjusting the U.S. military posture in the region. “This administration’s acted responsibly,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham

Senate has become more
partisan, less collegial —
more like the House
Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:17:33 PM     Post Reply
The world’s greatest deliberative body has started to look a lot like its legislative little brother over the past few years. The Senate was once regarded as the home of the great political orators of the time — not to mention the body where true dealmaking actually took place. Its members prided themselves on their cool approach to legislating, in contrast with the more brawling nature of the House. Senators, generally, liked one another — no matter their party — and weren’t afraid to show it, either personally or politically. No longer. The Senate has undergone a marked transformation

Gun legislation’s prospects improve
Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe and Philip Rucker    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:14:37 PM     Post Reply
Prospects for a bipartisan deal to expand federal background checks for gun purchases are improving with the emergence of fresh Republican support, according to top Senate aides. The possibility that after weeks of stalled negotiations senators might be on the cusp of a breakthrough comes as President Obama and his top surrogates will begin on Monday their most aggressive push yet to rally Americans around his gun-control agenda. Even though polls show that a universal background-check system is supported by nine in 10 Americans, the president has been unable to translate popular support



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Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke

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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye    Original Article
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was

Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
Call from Obama - report

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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff    Original Article
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.

Obama says he´s ´determined
as ever´ for gun bill

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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM     Post Reply
HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try

Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion

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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel    Original Article
Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM     Post Reply
Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”

Broadcasters worry
about ´Zero TV´ homes

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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima    Original Article
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from

´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
Annette Funicello dies at 70

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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan    Original Article
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from

White House: Planned GOP
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer    Original Article
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”

Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office

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USA Today, by Catalina Camia    Original Article
Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM     Post Reply
Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary

Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack

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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM     Post Reply
More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public

Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person

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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM     Post Reply
President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an

Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns

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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines    Original Article
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.

North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists

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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM     Post Reply
Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television


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