Laura Ingraham: 'Romney's losing'

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Source: Politico

If the election were held today, Mitt Romney would lose. This is especially vexing when we have survey after survey showing that two-thirds of Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. This is especially disconcerting when you see the numbers that came out yesterday on the voters’ confidence in America’s future: an overwhelming majority of Americans think America now is in decline and that their children’s future will not be as bright as their own. Forty-two months straight of over 8 percent unemployment.

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[kenfrequed]

1. Gee Laura

Could it be that it is because people are friggin tired of the free-market fairy dust solutions rebottled again and again?

[still_one]

10. Maybe it is because the republican party has become an extremist organization. Hell, most of the

Moderate republicans are no longer part of the party, and the tea party element, which lets face it is the George Wallace, Lester Maddox, racists that make up the tea party, and 30% of the republican party is composed of thar, will not be accepted by independents

[LongTomH]

2. Maybe people actually remember that this depression actually started on a Republican's watch!!!

And, maybe some of them are actually paying attention to the fact that the GOP-controlled House has blocked any attempts at jobs bills.

Maybe there's hope for the American electorate after all! Ya think?

[Kalidurga]

3. 2/3 thought the country was going in the wrong direction under Bush as well...

I think that is probably the number that will always think we are going in the wrong direction.

[K8-EEE]

5. +1

[get the red out]

9. Absolutely

That adds together both the people of the President's own party who think his policies don't go far enough as well as those that oppose anything he does.

[karynnj]

13. Not in 2004

It was not until after Katrina.

[on point]

18. Obama is wrong direction, Republicans extremely wrong direction (Neither headed right direction)

But the media likes to paint it as one as the other, when in fact both are headed in directions opposite of what people want. Just one is MUCH more wrong than the other

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

29. Please stop blaming Obama!! The Republicans have blocked EVERY, SINGLE FUCKING JOBS BILL!!

STOP BLAMING THE PRESIDENT FOR THE SHIT THAT REPUBLICANS DID!!!!

[on point]

33. But I can blame him for all the wrong headed things he did on his own, right??

[weathermanx2005]

37. Exactly!

And to this day, I have YET to hear ONE freaking person on ANY news channel talk about this fact..
I'm guessing Obama may bring it up during the debates....he has to...someone has to make sure the American voting public take that fact in account when they go into the voting booths in November

[Yavin4]

4. Romney Is Losing Because His Sole Argument for Being President Is...

that rich people pay too much in taxes. And, the fact that he won't release his own taxes to support his thesis is evidence to the fact that he's full of shit.

[closeupready]

6. If he can pull a Sarah Palin and do a guest Infotainer gig on conserva-think TV,

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then he wins. Heads he wins, tails you lose. What's not to like?

[alp227]

25. Please use something more sensitive and original than conservatard

before your post gets hidden. Let's not sink to the level of those who call us libtards.

[Thomas3d]

34. How bout...

How bout Republidorks? No? Too soon?

I think this is relevant:

Lieutenant Charles Pizer: We'd be better off without you and Maximilian trying to knock heads.
V.I.N.CENT: I can handle that thing.
Lieutenant Charles Pizer: Well, far be it from you to admit there isn't anything you can't handle.
V.I.N.CENT: There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: the Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.

The Wills (Democrats: When they actually fight for something), The Won'ts (Republicans: Currently in office and Governors) and The Cant's (The Republicans Tea Party)

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. It really makes me mad . . .

"This is especially vexing when we have survey after survey showing that two-thirds of Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction".

It really makes me mad when Repukes try to spin this survey tidbit to their advantage. The question asked in this 'survey' was too broad and vague. I too think the country is headed in the wrong direction, but not because of anything the Democrats or the Obama administration has done. My biggest concerns are: the shrinking middle class, the ridiculous cost of higher education, a tax code rigged in favor of the wealthy and influential, too much $$$ spent on defense instead of our own citizens, etc, etc, etc.

Of course many of us don't like the direction the country is headed, but I blame the Republicans, and I believe most Democrats and Independents feel the same way!!!

[Thomas3d]

35. Food for thought

Oh here's something you might want to add. The Republicans say they are the "Job Creators" and yet they spend all this money and effort to get President Obama out of office just because they don't like him when they could be spending their millions of dollars actually "CREATING JOBS"!!!

[Justice wanted]

8. Part of me is tickled pink by this news but it just amazes me how a political party

pundits have basically thrown in the towel. First Coulter and Hannity and now Ingrahams

Has this ever happened in history aside from the Whig party in the 1860 who nominated John Bell than desolved.

[demosincebirth]

20. Dems, 1971

[Justice wanted]

22. hmmm? Never got taught that in history. Tell me more.

[yardwork]

24. The Democrats usually do it! I'd argue that they did it in 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988 (the worst), and

to a lesser extent, in 2000 and 2004.

Obama and his team are such a relief. They actually fight. They're not afraid to fight dirty.

[JoePhilly]

11. If the election were held today, tomorrow, or on Nov 6th, Mitt loses.

[riverbendviewgal]

12. I would say America is losing when critical thinking taught to children is being outlawed

"because it interferes with the parent's control of children" as per Texan Republicans and other Republicans.

When I read that Texas textbooks are printing that the Loch Lomond monster is real, I believe that American children will be losing out in competing in the future with the rest of the world

America is choosing the wrong path downhill to nowhere, if it chooses the Republican path.

It is such a shame. To think that America once sent man to the moon....I can not believe what I am seeing happening.


When my American brother, NJ Bubba, says he is PROUD to not know anything about the world, I can not have hope for America. The book THE REPUBLICAN BRAIN does explain it but I am hoping that Americans like those on DU will be able to pull America back onto the right path that is greatness it was once on.

[Justice wanted]

15. They haven't been teaching or developing critical thinking skills for a long time.

[on point]

19. + 1000

[alp227]

26. Louisiana textbooks not Texas had the monster lessons.

[Iliyah]

14. Fuck her and the rest of the crazed gop party

Shit, for years the gop party have been distorting, lying, cheating, stealing, misinforming, calling the opposition everything but a child of GOD - claiming they are the "only" people who their GAWD loves.

Now these assholes are preventing AMERICANS to vote, yes, an American right. These are hateful, sinful people.

[Tom Ripley]

16. It takes one to know one, Laura

[Zen Democrat]

17. I'm for Obama, but I would probably answer the question "wrong track"

simply because we're still operating under Trickle Down Voodoo Economics. And the banks still have us by the yin-yang. You can't get on a new track with an obstructionist Congress.

[progressoid]

27. Right. I too think we are on the wrong track.

What Laura doesn't get (or is ignoring) is that getting on the right track doesn't mean switching from Dem to GOP. That would just lead down an even worse track.

[Thomas3d]

36. Obama 2012! Go!

We need a NEW CONGRESS not a New President!!!

[BeyondGeography]

21. It's always the same shtick: "If he would only run as a conservative."

Maybe next time, scroll down the polling questions a little there, Laura, to, "cares about people like me," "is for the middle class," etc. Maybe you'd learn a little something...Nah.

[bayareaboy]

23. It seems like they are folding fast.

Too bad they can't hold on for a while longer.

But I guess there don't have much to go on.

I would like to say, eat shit & die, but I won't.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

28. Shut up, Laura! The country is wising up to Mitt Robme and the Teabaggers. They DO NOT blame

the president for this mess! So just shut up!!!

[DearAbby]

30. Gee Laura...

perhaps we fucking figured it out. Why should we vote for Austerity for ourselves so the fucking wealthy can live like KINGS??

Explain that one Toots.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Americans believe the country is moving in the wrong direction

because the Republican Obstructionists have stopped it from moving
in the opposite direction

and the people are beginning to realize who the Roadblockheads are

and they know what Obama has managed to accomplish

and the improvement nowadays is palpable in spending and good feeling

and McConnell and Boehner and Rush still play the same tunes.

The American people may be slow to react, but they're not dumb!

[SoapBox]

32. Uhhhh.....

no shit, Sherlock.

And again, what kind of Dr. are you? Doctor of Bee Keeping or something? Mail order doctor?

[Tx4obama]

38. Locking. The OP is in regards to someone's "opinion", not LBN.

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