And they’re off. Funded by wealthy donors who can give unlimited cash (made possible by the Supreme Court), Super Pacs on both sides are heavily rotating attack ads.
Airing in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia (cost: $7 million)
Airing in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia (Cost: $9.7 million)
C-SPAN: A Look at Fact Checking in the 2012 Election
Florida poll: Romney 47, Obama 41
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Woo Hoo. Have fun today. Robert Moog’s b’day and you can play a synthesizer on the Google page.
I hate the unlimited funds simply because it limits the average person’s voice since they have lost the politicians year. Even more I hate the anonymity. It’s bad enough to have unlimited bribery of those seeking election, to not know who is doing the bribing is the path to destruction.
jamie, it’s bad even when they’re not so anonymous.
http://www.windstream.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9UU8HC03%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1017
cont’d
Cory Booker, Day 3
by Taylor Marsh
The Super PACS are immoral — in a great country like the US of AA, the money should be going to feed and educate the citizens…obscene amount of money for advertising? Disgusting. Shame on Supreme Justice Roberts.
Last night Rachel highlighted the fact that Sununu went off the GOP reservation in almost exactly the same way as Booker did with the Obama campaign. “I think the Bain record, as a whole, is fair game,” Sununu told reporters Tuesday. “What you have to do is an honest evaluation.”
News stories about Sununu -- 0 vs three days non stop coverage of Booker. So much for liberal media.
Super-pacs unleashed?
More like the dogs of Hell unleashed.
Tweety -- why does anyone even care what an ffen loser he is …
MSNBC kept the crypt dweller until the public outcry about his racism was overwhelming. Tweety will die working there …he’ll just keep dragging them down like the bigot did
If Team Obama is not concerned about the polling number in Florida, and the fact that Scott Walker is about to win big in Wisconsin they should be.
Both of those states should have been comfortably in the Obama column.
Scott Walker is going to win big? Yikes…what is the matter with the Dems in Wisconsin?
Timothy Leary -- Turn on Tune in Drop out
Jace…Walker will win, he has the six pac of Koch behind him while the national dems watched with their hands in their pockets.
The National Democratic party is only focused on the re-election of Obama and has no time for capacity building at the grass roots level.
Jack
When you have a candidate with no ability vs a candidate with no ideas……… leads to six months of mud slingin.
We are so screwed.
Jack
The Bain of Mitt’s Existence-VIDEO
Gingrich- “I’m for capitalism, I’m for people that go in to save a company, I’m for people who take real risk. But if somebody comes in, takes all the money out of your company and leaves you bankrupt while they go off with millions…”
Perry- “They sit there and they wait until they see a distressed company and then they swoop in and they pick the carcass clean and they fly away.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2fJhF6uctfM
I see Dixie love mud too
This recall will strengthen Walker immensely, he is poised to become the new darling of conservatives everywhere.
National Dems. sat on the wall because they were afraid to put up a fight and lose, instead they just forfeited.
AND- To folks who see President Obama as a ‘moderate Republican’. I can see that, on many issues, there are Republicans from the past (even presidents) who did progressive things and who weren’t hellbent on destroying everything FDR and JFK and LBJ built. But that is not today’s Republican party and that is not Mitt Romney. In a different time, in a different R-Party, perhaps Romney could have been a progressive Republican, but he is not. Not only has he been pushed far to the right on issues of taxation and public investment, but he is IMMERSED in a Far Right Power structure (from Norquist to Koch) who will dominate him if elected.
If you find yourself describing President Obama as a ‘moderate Republican’ remember, he is running against a Party of Far Right-wing Zealots out to destroy the American dream and recreate monarchy and fiefdoms for the rich! A vote for Obama today is EVEN MORE IMPORTANT than a vote for some of the Democrat heroes of the past, because, in fact, they were running against far more SANE opponents. This isn’t a game and Liberal Pride costs too much in this dangerous environment.
Calling Dr.Dean
The National Democratic party is only focused on the re-election of Obama and has no time for capacity building at the grass roots level.
Jack
This was the same charge leveled at Bill Clinton.
It was mostly true, and that lack of a grassroots structure and involvement made George Bush possible.
Does history repeat itself?
Jace
Good points.
KGC
Yep, As I’ve said repeatedly the Democratic party needs to remove the “president as head of the party” nonsense and elect their own leader.
Organisationally they are stuck in the 19th century. With todays political money side stepping the party and going to super pacs the Party is irrelevant on the Presidential level. But on State and local is where the party can have influence.
It is on the State and local level that the party is getting it butt kicked.
Jack
Jace
As I said , I think it is structural no matter who is president. But at least Bill clinton recognised that he needed local democrates elected and went out and campaigned for congressional candidates.(not that it did a lot of good in 94 but he worked his ass off trying) I can’t remember Obama ever doing that.
Jack
It is not that Obama is doing anything new in regard to his fellow dems. It just seems that he has taken his indifference to a new level not seen before
Jack
Jack,
Bravo three times.
jace
Democratic party new theme song
It really angers me that the national party isn’t supporting all the recall efforts to clean out the tea party garbage. As to the national election, I do think the President could be putting up a bigger fight, but will vote for him anyway. Romney may not be evil incarnate, but the garbage he would drag in on his coattails could bring down the country.
Excellent article: The Conservative Fantasy of Civil Rights History
Listening to Romney talk about education. The lies spilling from his lips are so numerous, I’ve gotten a headache just trying to keep track.
It is the old GOP trick of passing your own guilt on to the competitor. You cannot slash budgets, increase class sizes, eliminate programs and then blame the teachers because the children aren’t getting an education.
If children are not secure, fed, mentored, and in an encouraging environment, the best teacher is the world will have trouble saving them.
I finally got around to looking at the ads. The Obama ad works only for union democrats a group that we would assume is already going to vote for him. The fact that they feel it is neccesary to get the base on board may say a lot about this election.
The cross roads ad is a killer ad that touches everybody’s fears and it is aimed right at the most important audience in a presidential election.
Jack
Article on the Moog Synthesizer and a how to on the Google logo
What gets me about the Crossroads ad is that it is a complete “Pants On Fire” distortion specifically aimed at low information voters that you wish wouldn’t go near the polls.
The Teatman continues his insults…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76673.html
Colin Powell just came out in favor of gay marriage.
Shame on Wisconsinites if they let the republican outsiders buy their recall election. Likewise, how is it in state Democratic interests in letting outsiders enter what is totally a state Democratic matter?
If rank-and-file Democrats, through word-of-mouth and other in-state grassroots efforts don’t know what’s at stake, then the recall effort should fail.
I say, let the DNC and other outsiders watch with great interest as this experiment in American Democracy unfolds. Meanwhile, the rest of us should catalog republican sins for the “Après moi,le déluge” postmortem of their ham-handed external involvement in the affairs of the Sovereign State of Wisconsin.
Poor Gen Powell was so ill-used by the post-GHWB republicans.
I’ll always have his back.
bw, just once i would like to see an expose’ of where all this money goes, how is it divvied up, who profits while at the same time laments the state of elections, and how it impacts the news staff and their delivery. not just the investors and guys at the top, but the guys & gals in the newsroom and on the blogs.
The droning of America. You can bet they will be used in Charlotte, NC during the Democratic convention especially since the anarchists who were in Chaicago said they would be protesting the convention. Besure to being your hardhats.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/groups-concerned-over-arming-of-domestic-drones/
the bulk of the money goes to buy tv time.
oh to return to equal time regs.
flatus, wholeheartedly agree.
also agree about powell, a good man done wrong.
Wealth has been leaving France long before Francois Hollande became the president. So the question becomes if Hollande goes through with his plan of levying a 70% tax on the “rich”, who will he tax when the smart rich who can leave France pack-up and leave. And will this provide the French with a new definition of the meaning of “rich”.
Opps, sorry forgot to cite my link.
http://www.europeaninstitute.org/April-2012/the-francois-hollande-factor-reactions-to-frances-new-president.html
My son did his 20 years in the Army under Powell. The men and women who knew him as their commander practically idolize the man. What Bush and company did to him was disgusting. He did his duty and it is good to hear him speaking out now.
I know Alma wanted him to just come home, but would have loved to see all that patriotism, honesty, and ethics in political office if only as an example to the rest of the Congress Critters who seem to have forgotten what it means to be an elected representative.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/23/super-pacs-unleashed/#comment-289835
Jamie,
Me too! My gosh the DNC and Dems have had so much time to take Walker down, its truly SHAMEFUL! Speaks to what today’s Dem leaders have become, weak weak and not willing to fight for anything…Wasn’t it the President who said he would put on a pair of comfortable shoes and walk with Labor in their hour of need? Ha, Obama as head of the Democratic Party won’t even insist the DNC send boatloads of money to support this re-call effort, more of the same from him…
It’s Not News that Romney Can Win
by Taylor Marsh
“Super-pacs unleashed? More like the dogs of Hell unleashed.” -- Jace @ 9:37 am
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
“When you have a candidate with no ability vs a candidate with no ideas….” -Jack @ 10:17 am
But which is which ?
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/23/super-pacs-unleashed/#comment-289856
Oh X,
You make me laugh! Oh and so true, which is which?????
Tony, graveyard laughter ?
( :>D))<
LOL
Good question. I was thinking Obama=no ability and Romney= no ideas but now that you mention it…….
Jack
Situation normal, it always comes down to the Bozo vote.
Jack
Not that I’m prejudice mind you, I know a lot of Bozos, I even have bozos as friends………..
I’ve listened to a lot of stuff today that would have been a lot better if I had a joint to smoke with it.
Jack
Spitzer was off Viewpoint tonight. As a result I spent an hour laughing with the resulting tweet:
@JohnFugelsang I think I hurt myself on your Viewpoint monologue tonight -- political terror should not be that hilarious
Re your 7:26 pm
For you sir.
jace
I’ve listened to a lot of stuff today that would have been a lot better if I had a joint to smoke with it.
Jack
Be careful Jack there is a lot of that going around.
jace
The Black Book of the Admiralty, 1385 the collection of laws in French and Latin organizing the English Navy. In the ‘Ordinances of War of Richard II’:
“Item, qe nul soit si hardy de crier havok sur peine davoir la test coupe.”
I don’t suppose that use of ‘havok’ can be found on Youtube.
We had a Dachshund named Bozo when I was growing up. He was much smarter than the average voter.
One so rarely finds the Black Book of the Admiralty performed.
I don’t suppose that use of ‘havok’ can be found on Youtube.
XR,
No, but I love it when you talk dirty.
Just encountered a small problem lighting the grill.
My hands have never been this bald.
Mitt on education.
See Spot run.
See Spot ride on top of the car.
Dick and Jane will vote for me, because I like Spot.
This is the man the national Democratic party won’t help throw out of office:
Scott Walker defends David Duke
Which of the little yellow face gizmos, denotes nervous laugh while telling big lie? I can’t seem to find it.
A little help here.
Well actually
Jace,
You might find it here: Emoticons
I can’t imagine what the outcome of the last world war would have been if Germany’s choice of war dog had been switched from Alsatian to Dachshund.
Jamie,
This is an example of oneupsmanship at it’s finest.
Well done!
Flatus,
Your question is a fair one. My only experience with the noble Dachshund is that you should never engage in a war of wills with one. I still love them but they are stuuuubborn!
That said, a more loyal companion was never to be found.
We have gone from the ‘Jaws of Strife’ to the ‘dogs of war’.
To those not familiar with us we might appear to be a rather somber and petulant group.
It’s hard to believe that any Alsatian could be a nazi. They were probably crossed with spitzes and given steroids.
Yes, Jace. Let us all put on our Trail Mix sombreros.
Maybe a mix with jackals, hyenas, or neocons.
XR,
I have a sombrero. I really look stupid when I wear it.
I gotta’ take a pass.
Jace,
Good luck, there’s a long waiting line.
Don’t do it out back. The cops will arrest you for innocent disposal.
Enough silliness. I’m gone to bed. ‘night all.
XR,
Deft advice, sleep well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/super-pac-small-donors_n_1537358.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/how-super-pacs-will-keep-the-campaign-clean.html
“free” media?
is that like the difference between a prostitute and a party girl or do they mean it as a call to arms as in “free willy”?
I’ve decided that being unliked as children is what turns men into conservative Republicans. Reince Priebus is almost a classic example. Without considering the political differences, he seems so awkward that I actually start to feel sorry for him.
Jamie,
If you really liked your child you would not name him Reince. Sort of like a boy named Sue.
Nice tune my son linked for me. Thought I’d share it.
Have a good day all.
Georgia Gov. Launches Michelle-O Style Health Initiative Fight Obesity!
OH NO! The big government Liberals have brainwashed Conservative Republican Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia! Michelle-O what have you done to Gov. Deal?
http://thedixiedove.com/
Gov. Deal launches childhood obesity initiative
By Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor and the state health department have launched a program aimed at addressing childhood obesity through government, philanthropic and academic efforts.
In announcing the SHAPE program on Wednesday, Gov. Nathan Deal’s Office said Georgia has the second highest obesity rate in the country for children ages 10 to 17. Nearly 40 percent of Georgia children are considered overweight or obese.
Georgia SHAPE features a website with a fitness directory and the initiative will also promote breastfeeding, exercise and better nutritional options for students.
Child care programs implementing specific wellness policies and related training will earn the Governor’s Award, designating them a Georgia SHAPE-compliant facility. Schools will also be encouraged to support regulations that provide 30 minutes of daily physical activity for every student.
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-05-23/gov-deal-launches-childhood-obesity-initiative
Great tune, Jace. They’ve got a remarkable bass player.
So anything of note in the pol world? I’ve had to work harder than I like lately and will have to continue to do so for a while. Last I heard Rove has come out saying there’s a narrow victory for Romney just over the horizon -- based on Romney carrying Ohio, which I think is unlikely, or a second route with him carrying Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (talk about a long shot!!)
NEW THREAD
HERE’S TO THE BANKSTERS!
ADD ‘BANKSTERS’ FOR ‘BRITISH’…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=50_iRIcxsz0