Writers Block - Open Forum

I hereby avow that I will vote for, and actively support, ANYONE who can put an immediate END to the non-stop death march of campaign commercials.

It would be nice if hte nation took a lesson from the recall election in WI and realized that your candidate won't get elected purely on the basis that your party is really, really against his opponent. Didn't work for Barret, won't work for Romney.

Who has money where, what was his GPA in Junior High, who smoked pot with communists, who's company laid off union welders, who voted present, who flip flopped, blah, blah blah. If we vote today, the options are "check this box if you hate rich people" and "check this box if you hate ObamaCare"

On top of the POTUS crap commercials, now that good old Mr. Sunshine Mark Neumann has decided to speak up, the Senate primary got negative too.

Can't someone simply state - What's your plan and what are you going to do when you get elected.

No ! They all know that the o would say : More of the same ! lol... I am so looking
forward to November ..

Jacob - Thanks for the open forum (now I won't worry about being on topic, not that I ever do, lol). A few thoughts.

I'm sick of the heat too. I have to work out in this crap. Reminds me of '88, one of my first jobs at a golf course, with 4-5 inch burnt circles in the grass, with cigarette butts in the middle. Now - I can't cut, can't fertilize, can't spray, can't water, can't even dig holes...but yet still kinda busy. Jack-of-all-trades I guess. Even the Japanese beetle population has been decimated, along with the skeeters, so no spraying them.

How would you describe what the corn looks like? Palm/fern looking? Sugar cane? Never seen anything like it. Heard farmers who are maintaining their drain tile say no moisture two feet down. Now they're plowing crops under. Pretty bad.

MGarber - Agreed...also, the phones are lighting up again.

Romney needs to do two things asap. Pick a VP candidate, and release your tax returns already.

The double standard is in full effect again sharpaxe. All the people the gave Obama a pass for selective disclosure of school transcripts, even his yet to be produced birth certificate are holding Romney to task for more tax returns than he has already provided (past presidents and candidates have released from 0-28 years depending on whether it would help them or not - John Kerry kept his "super rich" wife's returns a secret entirely)

Like I said, let the people know what you are going to do to create jobs and make the US compete globally again. I really don't care how many millions Romney made in the past but I understand why Obama wants to use it against him. Most people are interested in whether or not Romney can do the same for the US as president. If he can demonstrate that he can make America as successful as he has been, we will vote for him.

Here's another item that underlines my assertion that the Tea Party is not doing any favors for the Republicans, and the sooner the GOP abandons that lunatic "base", the better chance it has for regainging a positive reputation:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/18/tennessees-embarrassing-tea-party/

.... of course, its easy to make fun of Tennessee; I mean .... *WE* dont have people like that, right?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/wis-gop-state-senate-candidate-why-not-teach-creationism-and-put-a-cross-in-school.php
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/wisconsin-goper-admits-she-compared-public-schools-to-nazi-germany.php

Mgarber- I am sure the GOP appreciates your concern that there might be a lunatic or two inder their big umbrella. Thank God there aren't any

lunatics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3v3Paar_M

or

morons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdiPHMPiJvE

in the Democratic party:

...even his yet to be produced birth certificate...

So Mucho is a "birther"; why the need to lie about his birth certificate?

What I find disturbing about conservatives is how bitterly they complain about
Obama not having any private sector experience maintaining that such experience
is necessary for an political executive to create jobs and run the country. Then they
turn around and elect as a state executive a person with virtually no private sector
experience. Some in these blogs even suggested that he would make a great
president.

Apparently conservatives will hold democrats accountable to certain standards that
they will not hold their own republican party to.

I also wonder if should Romney win how "fiscally responsible" the republicans will
become. Hopefully a lot more than they were from 2000 thru 2006. I hold a
sneaking suspicion that they will not be, and continue the deficit spending like the
true "conservative" (sarcasm).

ExTod, the difference is that our governor supports and understands the importance of private sector businesses and also proposes tax breaks to help create more jobs, our President treats them like they owe their very existence to the government and wants to tax them even more (which I guess he thinks will create more jobs?). Not so coincidentally, also one of the differences between a Conservative and a Liberal.

ExTod - The criticisms of Obama not having private sector experience were coupled with his lack of a single public sector accomplishment other than being "present". Those complaints have subsided because the public has Obama's past 4 years to judge him on and, to date, he has promised nothing but more of the same.

If the Dems want to focus on Romney's tax forms in a desperate attempt to concoct some sort of October surprise, it is as fair and credible as those that were hung up on Obama's Birth Certificate. Pure distraction. It's all Obama has after the past four years of whining, campaigning and jamming socialized medicine tax hikes onto the backs of the middle class to follow up a failed stimulus boondoggle.

In two more years, the voters will have 4 years of Walker to judge him by. After two, Walker got a solid affirmation of his policies that Obama was not subjected to. In the near term, the voters decide in August who WI's next Senator will be and in November, how much Romney will win by.

Bachmann has a meltdown:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/john-mccain-michele-bachmann-muslim_n_1683277.html

...the voters decide in August who WI's next senator will be...

Jumping the gun arn't you? The voters decide in August which republican will run
against Baldwin (unless another democrat challenges her) in November.

We could trade videos all day to prove there is no shortage of dimwits in politics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjNFjrLGTfg

No gun jumping involved in assuming the moderate TOMMY will walk into a Senate seat this fall. He's my fourth choice but all the claims by Hovde and Neumann that he is not conservative enough win him more middle votes than Baldwin while keeping the right. Baldwin is fine for Madison and that is where she will stay.

But lets face it the group with the most dimwits are the Dumocrats ! Just look at the
news about the occupiers !! Case closed ! lol...

Corporations are a hierarchy were the workers get no choice to vote for the CEO that run the company they work in. The workers are at the mercy of the Major Shareholders and the CEO. Coporations are dictatorships.

The idea that democraticaly elected officials should act and dictate like CEO's is anithetical to our Republic.

Jacob ! Ofcourse you are correct ! The o should not dictate that we have ocare !!!
Apparently you agree ! Not to mention we elected the o to help the USA . But he tells
us to shut up and sit in the back of the bus ! He also will not pay attention to those in
the majority that wish to see his Transcripts ! He also does not listen to those in the
majority that we want all his ideas stopped ! Yet Jacob sticks up for the o for he is
doing what Jacob wants not what we the majority voted him in for ! lol... Glad to see
that Jacob is starting to see how bad the o is . Next is Pelosi !

Yes Lovitz, you are correct! I believe every corporate mission statement makes it perfectly clear that when any of their major stockholder's roll out of bed in the morning their top priority is flatten their customers into the pavement.

The difference between a willing victim, such as yourself, and a educated consumer is the power of your pocketbook. Or in your case a rubberband. How do you think they got "big"? By ignoring their customers and community concerns and gorging themselves on all of our hard earned money?

The fact that you spew this garbage tells me you either are not very smart or you spend your day soaking in all that Marx and Engels have to offer.

Yes Lovitz, you are correct! I believe every corporate mission statement makes it perfectly clear that when any of their major stockholder's roll out of bed in the morning their top priority is flatten their customers into the pavement.

The difference between a willing victim, such as yourself, and a educated consumer is the power of your pocketbook. Or in your case a rubberband. How do you think they got "big"? By ignoring their customers and community concerns and gorging themselves on all of our hard earned money?

The fact that you spew this garbage tells me you either are not very smart or you spend your day soaking in all that Marx and Engels have to offer.

Yert - Then explain to me why people like you support polticians like Sunspot Johnson or Walker that say that government should be run like a corporation if you think I am correct?

Also I said nothing about "Customers", you made that up, so please "read" what I wrote.

And please Yert how am I a willing victim? You really need to have some more explenation to your attacks than just say it. Really. I am dissapointed in you.