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  • WEDNESDAY JULY 18 2007 9:00 AM

Republicans Are Fucked



It’s official; the Republican presidential candidates are a disaster. A new AP poll found that Republicans chose “Other/None/Don’t Know” over the leading candidates. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and new savior Fred Thompson all came in behind nothing.

Republicans
Other/None/Don't Know 25%
Rudy Giuliani 21%
Fred Thompson 19%
John McCain 15%
Mitt Romney 11%
Newt Gingrich 5%
Mike Huckabee 3%


The Republicans have created their own problems. Apparently, any candidate has to meet religious, economic and security standards that are nearly impossible. Oh, and he’s got to have the correct ideas for stopping those horrible immigrants. All of the candidates are greatly lacking on one area or the other. None have secured the support of the religious lunatic fringe. As the campaign drags on, Republicans are actually losing support.

A hefty 23 percent can't or won't say which candidate they would back, a jump from the 14 percent who took a pass in June.


Maybe they should keep their mouths shut and hide in a shack in the mountains. Seems like they would have a better chance because whatever they are doing is not working.

Among the legions of undecided Republicans is Barbara Skogman, 72, a retired legal assistant from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She isn't at all excited about any of the prospects. At one point, she favored McCain. At another, she was open to Giuliani. Now, she's leaning slightly toward Romney but says she's far from sold on him.

"I'm looking for a strong, honest person. Do you know of any?" she joked. She had an easy time detailing why she was queasy about each of the most serious contenders. "Isn't that sad?" Then she reached a conclusion: "I just don't know."


Giuliani has dropped from 35% in March to 21%. McCain’s campaign is in freefall, having lost many of his top campaign staffers and used up all of his money. Mitt Romney is plagued by past support for abortion rights and gay rights. Fred Thompson, also once supported abortion rights and was recently caught lying about his stance. Every candidate but Romney has been divorced, but Rudy leads the pack with three. However, Romney has the terrible problem of being from a crazy religion that Christians are not down with - which cancels out the perfect family life.

Meanwhile, Democrats are happy with their candidates.

Democrats
Hillary Clinton 36%
Barack Obama 20%
Al Gore 15%
Other/None/Don't Know 13%
John Edwards 11%
Bill Richardson 2%
Joe Biden 2%


"Democrats are reasonably comfortable with the range of choices. The Democratic attitude is that three or four of these guys would be fine," said David Redlawsk, a University of Iowa political scientist. "The Republicans don't have that; particularly among the conservatives there's a real split. They just don't see candidates who reflect their interests and who they also view as viable."


The enthusiasm for Democrats and lack of love for Republicans is leading to a large cash advantage. From April to June, Democrats raised 30 million dollars more than Republicans. Candidates who raise the most money win the election. That’s how America works.

At this point, the only thing that would energize Republicans would be Hillary winning the Democratic nomination. If that occurred, Republican funding would surge. Barring that scenario, the Republicans are going to need a new candidate. Here’s what they are looking for:

A candidate who hates gays, loves fetuses, will stop immigrants at all cost, will bomb Iran, Syria, and North Korea, keep troops in Iraq forever, will lower taxes more, pardon George Bush, is a good Christian, hates universal health care, carries an AK47, hates Muslims, loves the CIA and people who out their agents, wants to invade Cuba, will torture their mother if necessary, will commit voter fraud, will privatize Social Security, will privatize roads, will privatize air, will privatize cats, not allow stem cell research, lower the minimum wage and have the courage to murder our forests.

Shouldn’t be hard to find that guy.

 

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Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUL 19, 2007 04:02 PM

PatrickY said:

Zarth said:

NickFaust said:

chainlink said:

NickFaust said:

chainlink said:
A front runner ? Ron Paul ??

Did I just wake up from a coma ?


PLEASE put me back.


Sure, just sign this little power of attorney thingy and I will hook you right up.


That means you'll be responsible for my bills right ?
gimme that pen !


Here at Dewie, Cheatum & Howe we specialize in assets, not liabilities.


I thought that was oyaji's firm.


I thought he was a partner at Zucker, Bourne, Avery, Minette.


You're right - I get those confused all the time.

Waynbo

Waynbo

San Jose, CA
February 2007
PatrickY

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA
December 2003

JUL 19, 2007 04:19 PM



Yeah, and if you go to front page of that site, you can see that he's got a WHOPPING 3 WHOLE PERCENT in the 7/14/07 Gallup poll. Wow.

3%! The Revolution has begun!

Varuka_Salt

Varuka_Salt

I'm lost
October 2006
Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUL 19, 2007 04:42 PM

Toku666 said:
It's really hard for me to believe that people can handle what a huge INSANE racist Ron Paul is.

It would really creep me out to discover that a bunch of Stormfronters post here.


Hey, haven't you heard? MEDDLING WITH THE RIGHT OF FREE ASSOCIATION IS PERILOUS.

vedajames

vedajames

I'm lost
June 2007

JUL 19, 2007 05:27 PM

aldoushuxley said:

irg7620 said:
you know, the reason why republicans are fucked, which they should be fucked all the time, is that they want a conservative, close-minded, ignorant, one religion country. Sounds familiar don't it? Think of Iran when you read that statement. They want the same things. Republicans don't want freedom of speech/religion/of the press, or for anyone to be individuals. they want control. they want everyone to be the same just like them. they are so stupid, there shouldn't even be a republican party. why would anyone in their right mind want to vote for someone who is going to take your freedoms away? why? why? why? republicans don't want freedom of choice when it comes to abortion. they don't want gay rights. they don't want religious freedom. they want to spend more money trying to change another country than trying to change our country. we need help getting our country back to being free. yes, i am democrat. hardcore. i believe in doing things legally (as where bush wants things done illegally and then tries to get away with it). Just like that Libby character. He got sentenced for committing a federal crime. but noooooooo, bush steps in says he shouldn't do his time and bails him out. fuck head. any criminal charged, convicted and then sentenced should do the time regardless of what status they have. ok, i'm done.



Here we have a democrat speaking for what a republican wants in a president. I think what you just said right now is half the problem in our country. I am a republican and all I want is a safe place to raise my kids, god forbid I have any, a stable economy, the national debt being paid off, religious freedom, equal rights across the board for all minorities. Our boarders secured, health care revamped and our education system fixed, thats it. The crap that you were spewing is just as bad as what comes out of Ann Koulters mouth, it is not the democrats verse the republicans. As a matter of fact that mind set is what is fucking our country up even further. Arrgh why can't we all get along.



Agood point: and I'm not sure how we get politics to go in this direction, but I think it would be a huge thing if we, the citizens, could start DEMANDING that politicians think about their job as making progress on the things an overwhelming % of Americans AGREE ON.

They'd have a lot of work to do just crafting good legislation to address everything that 70% of people want but nobody is getting done because the wedge issues of special interest groups come to dominate the discussion.

An example: Who would be against universal health care for everyone under 18 years old. Can't agree about the rest? OK, but if the kids aren't your children, they are your employees or your emergency room. Come on!

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUL 19, 2007 05:45 PM



Holy shit! Ron Paul has received 22,000 dollars from soldiers! What will he do with all the money???????

PatrickY

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA
December 2003

JUL 19, 2007 05:54 PM

FearTheReaper said:



Holy shit! Ron Paul has received 22,000 dollars from soldiers! What will he do with all the money???????



SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP REAL AMERICANS PULL THEMSELVES UP BY THEIR BOOTSTRAPS, THAT'S FOR SURE!!

saltonsea

saltonsea

Toronto, ON
July 2004

JUL 19, 2007 06:52 PM

FearTheReaper said:



Holy shit! Ron Paul has received 22,000 dollars from soldiers! What will he do with all the money???????



DrStinkypants

DrStinkypants

Saint Paul, MN
October 2002

JUL 19, 2007 07:04 PM

saltonsea said:

FearTheReaper said:



Holy shit! Ron Paul has received 22,000 dollars from soldiers! What will he do with all the money???????









*cough*

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

JUL 19, 2007 10:55 PM

saltonsea said:

FearTheReaper said:



Holy shit! Ron Paul has received 22,000 dollars from soldiers! What will he do with all the money???????





Oh, I LOL'd til I coughed.

MessyJessy

MessyJessy

Fort Myers, FL
August 2005

JUL 19, 2007 11:05 PM

saltonsea said:

FearTheReaper said:



Holy shit! Ron Paul has received 22,000 dollars from soldiers! What will he do with all the money???????





bahahahahahahahaha awesome

ASSH0LE

ASSH0LE

Las Vegas, NV
June 2003

JUL 20, 2007 09:34 AM

LostLucy said:
Did you know that abt 20% of Barack Obama's presidential campaign funds have come from registered republicans?



Do you have a citation for that?


ASSH0LE

ASSH0LE

Las Vegas, NV
June 2003

JUL 20, 2007 09:40 AM

Towelly said:
I'm pretty sure Obama wasn't in Congress in 2001. . .

I don't entirely disagree with your assessment, in that quite a few Dems seem either captive to money power or have all the backbone of a bowl of spaghetti (or both), but facts are facts, and we need to get the facts straight before we start with the editorials.





Please respect the seperation of church and state and do not compare the Democrats to our almighty God.

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