tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post5296430649345486437..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Republican Wacko Should Resign NowAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-42464573964447125022012-08-21T16:32:03.620-04:002012-08-21T16:32:03.620-04:00K, I think all primaries should be closed for a lo...K, I think all primaries should be closed for a lot of reasons. People who won't join the party should not be allowed to pick the party's representatives.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-51629112736206120682012-08-21T16:19:29.624-04:002012-08-21T16:19:29.624-04:00Anyone think the Republicans in MO should go back ...Anyone think the Republicans in MO should go back to closed primaries? Not such a good idea to let Democrats pick your candidate, is it? Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289856510554336990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-23895566779978584212012-08-21T15:21:56.679-04:002012-08-21T15:21:56.679-04:00United States Senate
US Senate
Jonathan Dine
5116 ...United States Senate<br />US Senate<br />Jonathan Dine<br />5116 NW Kalivas Dr APT 62<br />Riverside MO 64150<br />816-612-3519<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lpmo.org/people/candidates/" rel="nofollow">Missouri Senate Candidate Libertarian Party</a>Individualisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005025873042230314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-63160226166896475212012-08-21T13:36:30.911-04:002012-08-21T13:36:30.911-04:00T-Rav, Yeah, I don't buy that either. The sys...T-Rav, Yeah, I don't buy that either. The system allows people to be replaced because they implode. It's not overriding the choice of voters to use those mechanisms.<br /><br />This is a critical election which could well decide the Senate and the Republicans can't just sit back and hope this all works out.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-6767088548618943272012-08-21T13:32:21.356-04:002012-08-21T13:32:21.356-04:00I'm hearing a lot of chatter from people right...I'm hearing a lot of chatter from people right now about "if we demand Akin step down, we are saying the choice of Missouri voters should be overridden by a party committee." I can understand that point of view. At the same time, I say @#$% that. A political party is not a democracy. And having voted for him, I will happily allow my vote to be overridden if it means beating McCaskill.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15360736555459340862012-08-21T13:31:11.436-04:002012-08-21T13:31:11.436-04:00Writer X, I agree. I think it's important to ...Writer X, I agree. I think it's important to remind people that the Democrats don't get rid of their problem-children, they promote them. We do the right thing... are try.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-90953363707883938842012-08-21T13:15:09.651-04:002012-08-21T13:15:09.651-04:00Andrew, I agree with you completely that this guy ...Andrew, I agree with you completely that this guy should resign. It's an outrageous, buffoon-worthy comment, something that we hear regularly from Democrats. <br /><br />My only quibble: If Akin were a Democrat, all the usual suspects (Pelosi, Blabbermouth Schultz, Carney, Axelrod,etc.) would be circling the wagons and saying Akin's comment was "taken out of context" or "he had good intentions, but..." or the Biden favorite, "he was just tired, didn't know what he was saying..."Writer Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-73671346581252187832012-08-21T12:34:14.649-04:002012-08-21T12:34:14.649-04:00T-Rav, I would expect he is too. He'll see th...T-Rav, I would expect he is too. He'll see this as proof of a "silent majority" who believe in him. Politicians always believe that.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39326484162381593052012-08-21T12:30:22.766-04:002012-08-21T12:30:22.766-04:00Andrew, tell me about it. I can count the times PP...Andrew, tell me about it. I can count the times PPP has oversampled Republicans on one hand and still have room to spare, and I don't think any of them have worked out well for us. But I would lay ten-to-one odds Akin is waving this around at headquarters as proof he can still win. T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-34802493026266533712012-08-21T12:20:17.401-04:002012-08-21T12:20:17.401-04:00T-Rav, That is fascinating! Talk about major proo...T-Rav, That is fascinating! Talk about major proof that PPP is partisan! They normally way oversample Democrats, but this time when it fits the narrative, they oversample Republicans. Amazing! No integrity at all.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-4221019085587624582012-08-21T12:08:49.311-04:002012-08-21T12:08:49.311-04:00Andrew, I didn't get through (big shocker), bu...Andrew, I didn't get through (big shocker), but I did send him a letter online. Since I don't live in his Congressional district, I have no idea if it will be read or not, but in any case, I blasted away at him for all I was worth. <br /><br />Incidentally, I see up in the sidebar there's a link saying Akin and McCaskill are still essentially tied in their race. Don't believe it. That's from PPP, I already checked out the partisan breakdown, and they severely oversampled Republicans to get that result. I wonder why. T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-29235925608482256742012-08-21T10:55:15.209-04:002012-08-21T10:55:15.209-04:00Joel, That might be a good idea too. But in eithe...Joel, That might be a good idea too. But in either event, I think it's important for the party to distance themselves from him, especially now that they've all called for his resignation.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-81095916226206335412012-08-21T10:49:57.028-04:002012-08-21T10:49:57.028-04:00Andrew,
I think write-ins are all well and good, ...Andrew,<br /><br />I think write-ins are all well and good, but I want to see if there is a Libertarian in the race right now. If so, it wouldn't hurt the Republicans and the Tea Partiers to back the long shot Libertarian. Just a thought.<br />Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-14703632926113109702012-08-21T10:41:57.821-04:002012-08-21T10:41:57.821-04:00Joel, I think he won't resign. I think he wil...Joel, I think he won't resign. I think he will hold on the bitter end actually because someone who is willing to ignore near 100% calls for his resignation isn't going to change his mind in a few weeks.<br /><br />That said, I think the Republicans needs to start organizing a write-in candidate and throw all their support behind them. It will be a long shot to win, but they need to put distance between themselves and Akin.<br /><br />And I agree that the Tea Party won't stick with him. They've become much savvier lately about not backing people who are dead ends.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-81671691099212282842012-08-21T10:38:18.082-04:002012-08-21T10:38:18.082-04:00Akin has until five today. I know about those ads....Akin has until five today. I know about those ads. They were bought yesterday and today he thinks he will be forgiven. He might still be the candidate, but he won't be Senator. God and Democrats have seen to that. God wouldn't want such an idiot as a Republican Senator. He is not that cruel. Cruel to Akin, but then again he is a misogynistic a$$hole. No, I am talking about being cruel to us. <br /><br />I think he will quit, but maybe not today. Phone calls aren't being returned that normally are returned. Places to hold press conferences, normally found and set up by staff sometimes borrowed from Republican Headquarters aren't going to be available. He and his little coterie of sycophants will do there best, but he is done for. I don't think the Republican Party can afford to hang on to this guy. <br /><br />So, either Todd Akin does the right thing and step down, or two weeks later he caves because he lost all support. We lose Missouri Senate race, but we still won't have lost the Presidency and the Senate. I do see the Tea Party voting against this guy, just not the top of the ticket.Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-50022403804472537342012-08-21T10:24:46.642-04:002012-08-21T10:24:46.642-04:00T-Rav, Best of luck reaching him. He's appare...T-Rav, Best of luck reaching him. He's apparently airing a commercial asking for forgiveness, so I don't think he's quitting.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39159251197220599912012-08-21T10:24:10.454-04:002012-08-21T10:24:10.454-04:00K, That's an interesting question. I strongly...K, That's an interesting question. I strongly doubt it, but I can't rule it out. You never know in politics.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-34399248896827876122012-08-21T10:15:11.189-04:002012-08-21T10:15:11.189-04:00I just called Akin's office in STL and then DC...I just called Akin's office in STL and then DC to yell at the staff that he should resign. No one was answering at either place. That could mean everyone's too swamped to take calls, or that he's tuning all the naysayers out. If that's the case, my rage dial will officially be turned up to an 11.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-21128963835530040592012-08-21T09:38:48.752-04:002012-08-21T09:38:48.752-04:00Ellen
Des that make you have the right to approve...Ellen<br /><br />Des that make you have the right to approve of my life decisions?<br /><br />Absolutely, if I wish to murder someone you can have the state stope me or incarcerate me.<br /><br />If I choose to steal from someone then you have the right to have the state arrest me.<br /><br /><br />Before you tell me that is not the same I can give you the same emotionally charged argument. A man's wife is raped and she conceives a child. The man then goes out and kills and tortures the rapist. by the same logic this is OK since the man was evil. Even more so because that man is not innocent. So do we allow the vigalante murder of rapists.? If not, why not? Certainly murdering the rapist in cold blood is a less evil act than murdering the innocent child.<br /><br />Yet I am told the rapist has a right to his life and the child does not. Why is that the "sensible" position.<br /><br />Individualisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005025873042230314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-13944600034163442122012-08-21T09:19:36.061-04:002012-08-21T09:19:36.061-04:00Andrew
The government imposes the same ban on mu...Andrew <br /><br />The government imposes the same ban on murdering someone who is born. If it is false reasoning to assume the govenrment does not have that right then it is false reasoning to mmake murder a crime.<br /><br />Fact of the matter is one has to perfrom an act in order to have an abortion, That act is murder. It is as immoral to allow abortion as it is to allow murder.<br /><br />I understand the reasoning behind wanting to allow the abortion. I would not really blame the woman for feeling that way at all. I just can't acquiese to approval of it. If I have a vote in the matter I'd have to vote no. Otherwise I am as liable as the doctor that performs an abortion.<br /><br />That is not faulty reasoning it is a value judgment. A judgment that life is sacred and I have a duty to protect it. If there is a reason that an innocent can be killed because it was the unfortunate progeny of a corrupt and evil father then there can be reasons that any innocent can be killed. You just have to be clever enough to convince everyone else.<br /><br />Either the child is a person with rights or it is not. Either way it is innocent. Sorry but it is how I feel.Individualisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005025873042230314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-55834878470101541832012-08-21T02:15:03.310-04:002012-08-21T02:15:03.310-04:00Assuming Akin stays, I don't think anyone has ...Assuming Akin stays, I don't think anyone has yet proposed another angle. <br /><br />Many moons ago, when new left radical Tom Hayden was running for office the first time, his opponent's campaign manager suddenly quit near the end of the race, claiming that his boss was an evil underhanded dirty politician. Naturally, Hayden won - even though he was radical who publicly proposed overthrowing the US government. Obviously the campaign manager was a mole for Hayden who had been paid off. <br /><br />In 1995, Willie Brown maintained control of the California State assembly by getting a couple of Republicans to defect to the Democrats. <br /><br />Now Akin, after getting a million bucks of campaign help from the Democrats, self destructs while just coincidentally doing so right on the "War on Women" target that's formed the main theme of the Obama campaign. Damaging both his prospects but also the Republican's chances in the national race. <br /><br />Question: Is Akin just a boob whom the Democrats pushed out for the gullible MO religious voters and has self destructed as expected, or is he a mole whose been paid off to scuttle the likelihood of Obamacare repeal? <br /><br />The monetary and political potential for skullduggery here is colossal. Soros et al, the drug companies, the unions, the education-government complex have huge vested interests in keeping Obamacare or at least jamming the congress so that Obama's "legacy" remains. It's happened in the past, and it may well be happening now. <br /><br />Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289856510554336990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-24457168723881847882012-08-21T00:46:06.916-04:002012-08-21T00:46:06.916-04:00Oh, and even if I did know more about it, I wouldn...Oh, and even if I did know more about it, I wouldn't dare go around telling it to women. I've been stitched up once, and I don't care to do it again.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-17753953918264782132012-08-21T00:44:25.835-04:002012-08-21T00:44:25.835-04:00I'm not going to even pretend to know anything...I'm not going to even pretend to know anything about rape and pregnancy. I think it is a plausible suggestion that in the course of the rape, the emotional trauma generated might prevent a successful conception from occurring (as if you can even call that an "upside"). But what, if any, science is behind that, I haven't a clue. And there's a study out there saying that a rape is in fact slightly more likely--about five percent of the time--to result in a pregnancy than consensual sex. And I don't know anything about that either.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-91051931031587769482012-08-21T00:37:28.973-04:002012-08-21T00:37:28.973-04:00Joel, and yet one of the criticisms of Akin's ...Joel, and yet one of the criticisms of Akin's remark is that the science is bad. I'm only responding to the claim in kind. No fair changing the field of play and then calling me out-of-bounds! :) I really don't care to get into personal experiences with rape. Let's just say that I've had them. <br /><br />Andrew, I only post the link in response to the idea that Akin is completely off his nut. That his idea does not come from a vacuum is my only point. <br /><br />Just as an exercise, try this on for size: cobbling the data together would appear to show that the instance of pregnancy resulting from rape is higher than the baseline, that is, instances of pregnancy resulting from unprotected sex in general. Due to lack of data, this comparison must assume that all rape victims are fertile and none are on any form of birth control. <br /><br />At first blush this would appear to make Akin woefully wrong. However, the notion that rape so enhances human fecundity doesn't exactly pass the smell test, at least from an anthropological point of view. I think it far more likely that the data on both subjects is inadequate to draw conclusions from. tryanmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881154741574720094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-36092309258877451602012-08-20T23:46:43.318-04:002012-08-20T23:46:43.318-04:00tryanmax, The study you point to says nothing abou...tryanmax, The study you point to says nothing about women being able to do this consciously or even subconsciously. It is all about the compatibility of sperms with certain traits and females with certain traits. For this to matter to rape victims would require that all rapists have low-signal sperms and all rape victims have these apparently "highly choosey" bodies.<br />AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.com