Five tactics the GOP uses that Democrats don't

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Well stated. !!!

"Instead the talking point should be the republicans have sacrificed the country’s needs in favor of failed republican policies again and again."

While I agree that these policies have failed this country, the republicans couldn't give two shits about the actual people of this nation, and that is what the problem is. These policies have worked magnificently in getting the rich even richer, and that is the only thing modern day republicans care about.

If you aren't filthy rich, don't support the republicans. Period.

You know damn well Democrats don't lie like Republicans do. Last weekends lie was that Obama was going to spend the 4th of July in Paris. The Republicans have got an entire cable news channel lying for them on a daily basis.

How about a little challenge? I bet I can find more provable lies that the Republicans and their lying propagandists told about The Affordable Care Act and universal health care alone, than you can find provable lies the Democrats told about anything and everything. You can have every subject under the sun. I'll even spot you one. We won't count the bald faced Republican lie that The Affordable Care Act is the largest tax increase in American history. Oh ya, I said provable. The largest tax increase in American history was the one imposed to pay for the second world war. That's right, they were to stupid to know that if you lowered taxes on the wealthy it would put everybody to work and that would pay for everything. You know, the way the Bush tax cuts have created so many jobs in the ten years that they have been in place. Unless of course that was just another Republican lie. That they are still telling.

Prepared to take that challenge are you? No, I didn't think so.

How much corporate and billionaire money is the going into Republican Super Pac funds compared to the Democrats? What are they going to get for their money. Romney's top contributors are banks and Wall Street firms. He has wonderful get away weekends for the 1%. Obama's top contributors are schools and law firms.

When was the last time you heard a Republican President called a liar when he was giving a speech. Hell, Bush lied every time he opened his mouth and no one called out "liar" when he was speaking. They would have been correct if they did, but they didn't.

I have to believe that you have no idea how ridiculous a conservative telling liberals to come back to reality sounds. You do of course realize that polls have shown the most uninformed people in America are conservatives. Especially conservatives who get their information from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

How is the steady move farther to the right working out for America anyway?
Economy going fine is it?
Middle class doing well I suppose?
No unfunded wars to worry about?
Torture people much?
Got that poverty thing under control?
Doesn't just one small group of people have all the money now?
Deregulated Wall Street and banks steal any money from you? (40% of American household wealth maybe.)
Got that military spending under control do you? Were you not attacked by 15 Saudis, 1 Egyptian, a Lebanese and 2 guys from the United Arab Emirates? With box cutters? Didn't spend enough on your military I guess.
How is the steady move farther to the right working out for America anyway?

Gee, Wolfgang, I guess that Lee Atwater and his little dwarf Karl Rove never happened then in your world, since they wrote the book on this kind of crap, and Atwater KNEW it was wrong, and divisive of discourse in America. You may stop with the finger pointing, my toddler sees Republicans on TV and wonder who these crazy people are, so it's a little hard to claim the moral high ground in a party that cant keep Ted Nugent on a leash.

get a life will ya

I have a life. In fact I have a wonderful life. I live in a social democracy called Canada. We don't have something as evil as the Republican party to deal with. We are left of center so we do just fine. We do everything that American conservatives think a government shouldn't do and are a huge success. The farther right America goes, the worse of you get, but American conservatives are just to flat out stupid to make the connection. You are far right of center and have no chance of survival as long as you stay there. American style conservatism will end you.

Amadeus,Amadouche, CURRENT TV is the only free press in America with the exception of Rolling Stone and Jesse Ventura. Who are you Red Eye freak ?

Yep. The really smart guys always think they've got it figured out; they won't make the same mistakes. Then they paint themselves into the same corners and out come the heavy weapons. Rinse off the blood and repeat.

They are the absolute masters of propaganda manipulation! They learned well from their fellow fascist-travelers Herr rupert goebbels and Mussolini himself. Nobody lies, spins, and works the dirty tricks like the right-wing-corporate-fascist-party.

Truth! People need to see just how these people operate, the people need to be educated in how their being played by these fascist-scum!

This cartoon may be extremely close to the truth. Rumors are swirling that the rethug advisers to mittens want him to skip debates with Barry O, as he will get his booty kicked.

They can just use Super pac money to flood the media with negative ads, and win that way.

And don't you just know that FOX and the whole Republican dis-information machine would back him up on the decision as well. I mean, why should a guy like Romney appear on the same stage with a Kenyan Socialist Muslim Atheist who isn't legally entitled to be President anyway? It would just give Obama undeserved legitimacy!

If Obama had any gonads he'd have an easy counter. He could just set up a debate with an empty podium, like Lawrence O'Donnell's interview with the empty chair. But as I say, that's what he could do IF he had gonads. Sadly, there's little evidence to show for that till now.

First and foremost: I love your idea about the empty podium (perhaps a podium with a giant waffle? a dummy of Romney with 2 faces?) if Romney tries to ditch debating Mr Obama. I hope Jim Messina and David Axelrod are listening.

A gentleman is someone who has gonads, even rather substantial ones, but who doesn't swing them around in public. I count Mr Obama as an extremely bright gentleman who has shown plenty of courage. I think it is mistaken to call him gonad-less. If you are an Obama supporter, maybe you might phrase your criticism accurately, but not quite as disrespecfully? Dislike of the man seems to be generated far too easily, and sadly I see a different type of that dislike occasionally threaten to catch fire on the left.

Perfect cartoon! The truth!

OK, "gonads" is a cheap shot. But in the balance between the "audacity of hope" / "fierce urgency of now" Obama and the "No Drama Obama", I'd like to see more of the former and less of the later. Just my take ...

I had little doubt that your heart is in the right place.

The fact that dislike of Obama is becoming far too common among leftists should tell you something. Maybe there is something to all this dislike. If even the democrats are losing faith with their leader, maybe he isn't all he is cracked up to be.

And as far as a debate between Obama and Romney, Obama has never shown himself to be very reliable when put on the spot in that kind of situation. Romney, on the other hand, has plenty of practice debating lately in the Republican primaries. He could quite possibly take Obama in a fair debate. At any rate, there is no indication that Romney is shying away from a debate at all. Most likely there will in fact be several debates before the election cycle is done as there always is, as this is the primary way that the majority of Americans that are not involved in the political process get to know the candidates.

Besides, everybody knows the election is usually determined in large part by the current state of the economy. And it is quite obvious the economy is still in shambles. We are now starting to lose ground in this "recovery" again, and there is no end in sight. Obama's policies have not produced the results he assumed they would. So any way you look at it, Obama has his hands full with his re-election hopes, and to assume otherwise is simply wishful thinking.

I can't argue with more than half of what you said. By all means; I am aware that it's going to be tough if not impossible for Obama to win a second term.

For true leftists though (I'm only left of center, as you might conclude) it's going to be important to remember that this is still a right-center nation. This is why popular Republicans like Reagan can command insane victory margins in an election - there's just a built-in rightwing bias that shows no signs of going away. Popular Democratic presidents can win convincingly, as in 08, but rarely by landslide.

Mr Obama needs swing voters to win the election. He'll also need a big, loud chorus of "anybody but Romney" to begin in leftists circles, just as "anybody but Obama" has been ringing out for a couple years now on the right. The right has done a fabulous job of instilling gut-level, un-informed hatred of Mr Obama, tacked on to the most ridiculous charges. I work with plenty of republicans and I can tell you, the job of educating them is impossible because they are so emotional that they won't even listen.

Bravo to Fox, Rush, O'Reilly, Beck, Drudge, et al. They are winning this election while we sit and whine about Mr Obama's imperfections.

Elections are like life in the following 2 ways:

1-many choices are perceived as being between bad and worse.

2-if you fail to make a choice among those given to you, you still have made a choice. What I mean is: if leftists stay home Nov 6, they are effectively casting 1/2 vote for Romney.

One casts a vote whether one goes to the polls or not. If this means leftists are still comfortable staying home, they will need to live with the consequences of a Romney presidency, accompanied by the further stacking of the Supreme Court. Given that, is it really a wise move to stay home on Nov 6?