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jmowreader

(53,168 posts)
17. I think there's a good chance we will
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 05:56 PM
Nov 2012

The teabaggers sold themselves as job creating dervishes; their reality includes repeated attempts to repeal HCR, lots of social stuff, over 200 filibustered bills and no real attempt to fix anything. I think they've worn out their welcome.

They have two problems that may prove insurmountable. The first is their candidate, who no one likes. Remember in 2000 Bush won in part on likability. Bush was kind of a fun person...he's the kind of guy who would get fried then jump his dirt bike over the ponds on his property to entertain his friends, and you'd party at his place because he'd always have enough beer. Not presidential by a long shot, but fun. Romney is the kind of guy who would throw a beer bash with one beer apiece and The Carpenters on the stereo. No one trusts the guy either; when he claims he's going to do a tax cut that won't cut rich people's taxes, you really have to wonder why he's doing it...especially since every analyst outside his campaign thinks it will lower rich people's taxes, destroy the middle class and blow a hole in the economy that can't be plugged. Bush would call it hitting the trifecta.

The other problem: the Democrats and unaffiliated voters are sick of their shit and are turning out in numbers that require Republican-attracting measures, like Idaho's right-to-hunt amendment, to be added to ballots nationwide. I am not worried about electronic ballot tampering because it's easier-and legal-to put red meat on the ballot instead.

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Lets take the house back warrior1 Nov 2012 #1
Then change the filibuster rules. nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #2
Or the other way around ToxMarz Nov 2012 #5
Um, filibusters are done in the Senate, not the House. dumbledork Nov 2012 #21
Sorry if I was not clear, I meant take the house, ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #22
That's my dream. Democratic majority everywhere. FSogol Nov 2012 #3
I think there's a good chance we will jmowreader Nov 2012 #17
I've been spending time over there to try to understand them DrummerMan Nov 2012 #4
I've seen other reasonable posts over there. Sprinkled among the rabid hate, a few small voices Liberal_in_LA Nov 2012 #7
It wouldn't surprise me. DrummerMan Nov 2012 #9
I remember reading about a syndrome called "angry old man" syndrome. progressivebydesign Nov 2012 #13
They all sound about 14, mentally, though! DrummerMan Nov 2012 #19
Here you go TrogL Nov 2012 #14
Thank you! DrummerMan Nov 2012 #16
I think the "delusional freeper" is actually a reverse troll ecstatic Nov 2012 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author phleshdef Nov 2012 #10
"Smarter freeper" might've been a troll too, he or she was way too in touch with reality. phleshdef Nov 2012 #11
Anyone who says "2" instead of "to" is not meant to be taken seriously especially politically. Initech Nov 2012 #8
One of the responding freepers sounds pretty sure about things MiniMe Nov 2012 #12
IMHO, this sounds like it might have been sarcastic. n/t AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #15
A solidly GOP house? ananda Nov 2012 #18
Somebody recruit that guy for DU. lindysalsagal Nov 2012 #20
The First Guy Is Funny GDoyle Nov 2012 #23
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