34 Comments

• mhichil | Aug 12, 2010, 04:52 PM EDT

  its class warfare keeping the voting republicans poor, dumb and afraid and willing to garrot their neighbor for a job. Emo and Mama Grizzley? gimme a break,.. but then again there was Karl Rove and Cheney. Rust never sleeps.

• Monsoonman | Jul 24, 2010, 10:45 AM EDT

  I want to thank the editor for his non partisan analysis and helpful advice to the conservative movement regarding Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. I know his constructive criticism was heartfelt and that it would never be in league with any other coordinated wave of main stream attack on these two.

• IrishAndProud | Jul 21, 2010, 07:35 PM EDT

  No, Dennis...the 'bookies' are betting on a GOP win because the people, by every single indicator, everywhere, say that's how they're going to vote. You're beginning to sound just a bit frantic as the darkness of reality closes in on you more and more (just like the Democrats in that Time magazine article I posted, which you did not even dispute). Obama's in hot trouble with the public, his party's polls are going south, and the odds-makers are simply cashing in. Nice additional cheap shots against the majority regarding taxes, defense and illegal aliens...but as usual, you're on the radical fringe minority on those issues, Dennis. You're getting frantic.

• DennisQ | Jul 21, 2010, 06:54 AM EDT

  The bookmakers don't decide horse races or elections or when Lindsay Lohan is getting out of jail. That's all the analogy was about. Right wingers are predicting some huge win in November because that's what the bookies are saying. However, I'm looking less at the alleged probabilities and more at the fundamentals. Republicans don't have anything to offer the voters other than warmed-over George Bush, namely tax cuts, militarism and xenophobia. Let me know if there's something I'm overlooking other than this bizarre perception that Obama's some kind of left wing dictator.

• IrishAndProud | Jul 21, 2010, 01:18 AM EDT

  Dennis, you're digging yourself in deeper and deeper with every prediction you make about this fall. That was one poor analogy you used. The American electorate are not some 'favored baseball team' going up against the underdog Obamaniks (who of course will pull out a 'miracle win' over us), nor is the election a 'game.' We are Obama's BOSSES, Dennis -- and we're about to give his party a rather bleak job critique. THAT'S how it works in a representative republic. 'Baseball game?!' Jeepers Xmas, Dennis.

• oneofeleven | Jul 20, 2010, 11:43 AM EDT

  Twelve years in Congress, Bob - it's time for you to go. Amazing how frightened incumbent career politicians of both parties become when we dare to challenge and question their policies and lack of leadership. Thank God for TV, radio and the internet to let the common man voice an opinion. People need to read, listen and think for themselves. DC is afraid now that Americans are waking up to being led down a path to bankruptcy by politicians the last 30 years. The "racism card" is just a side diversion that is being used to deflect the real issue here.

• DennisQ | Jul 20, 2010, 08:48 AM EDT

  It's worth remembering the 1981 World Series with the Dodgers against the Yankees. The Dodgers were given almost no chance of defeating the mighty Yankees; in fact they lost the first two games. When asked to comment on his team's prospects of winning, Tommy LaSorda said only that his team would "show up" to play. No team ever came back after losing the first two game, but L.A. swept the next four games to win the Series. Press spokesman for the Obama White House made pretty much the same pledge as LaSorda, that the Democrats plan to show up for the November election. I don't think the Republicans have a track record to speak of. They will probably win in traditionally Republican districts, but I don't expect a repeat of the 1994 Contract With America election. Regardless of the statisticians say, Republicans just don't have enough going for them.

• irishwxman | Jul 18, 2010, 12:06 PM EDT

  Then prepare to be disappointed Dennis. You are in the minority in case you haven't seen the latest poll.s Liberals and liberal thinking is a dying breed.

• DennisQ | Jul 17, 2010, 10:30 PM EDT

  Neither Glenn Beck nor Sarah Palin is a government official sworn to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution. Since they have no ethical obligations to be any more than entertainers, they are free to advocate positions that don't stand up to any kind of scrutiny. Their primary appeal is to people who are euphemistically called low information voters, which is a polite way of referring to gum-chewing vulgarians. Today's Republican party is led by people with no responsibility for governing this country. Glenn Beck doesn't have to prepare a budget or develop legislation to address the real problems of real people. Sarah Palin once had a respectable job in government but she quit to make big bucks as a political celebrity. Perhaps the withdrawal of Republican office-holders from active governance reflects the party's lack of ideas. However, I look for the voters to reject that dismal strategy. I will be disappointed if they don't.

• Monsoonman | Jul 17, 2010, 03:59 PM EDT

  Thanks for the team pep talk Dennis, but if you haven't noticed, the socialist wing has dragged out its big guns a bit early this year, already employing the nuclear option, "the race card. But just like chicken little, it has been used too often and has lost its punch.

• DennisQ | Jul 17, 2010, 03:39 PM EDT

  This may be the year the right wing pundits are exposed as the clowns they are. Let's hope so. I note that Republican election strategies are being narrowed down to tax cuts and deregulation. Militarism isn't the big seller it used to be, and we'll have to see whether xenophobia has the appeal it once had. You seem like a bright enough fellow, M-Man. But you repeat right wing talking points as if you actually believed them. Somebody has failed you, and I'm sorry they did. However, it's time to go with Plan B, whatever it happens to be. Try increasing your personal effort.

• Monsoonman | Jul 17, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT

  ah, the old bookies deciding horse race logic...Well maybe they don't and maybe they don't decide who is going to win what football game by how many points either, but they are usually right far more often than wrong....I love it, when the polls don't reflect what you want them to say, you tell us to not read too much into them. Yes folks don't believe your own lying eyes, listen to Dennis for the straight scientific scoop....Now on to global warming, or is it climate change now?

• DennisQ | Jul 17, 2010, 08:19 AM EDT

  Be careful of reading too much into statistical patterns, especially if the figures can be manipulated. Pollsters don't decide elections any more than bookies decide horse races. The right wing is making an all-out effort to lower Obama's approval rating, because they believe that midterm elections results are a function of presidential approval. That's a heroic leap of logic because it overlooks the uniqueness of this particular year. Republicans aren't participating in government, so they're not getting their knees scraped. We'll see if the voters reward pusillanimity because it seems quite possible to me that they won't. If you come home from the football game with no grass stains on your uniform, the reason is that you didn't get in the game at all.

• AltRockAddict | Jul 14, 2010, 10:57 PM EDT

  I totally support you, IrishAndProud. You seem to be the only one who has a grasp of American government, as well as a republican sensitivity that rankles posters such as McNamara31. I can't believe Bob Inglis is quoted as saying those who disagree with the democratic ticket are racist against president Obama. I think Mr. Roberts made that up (!) to support his own partisanship.

• McNamara31 | Jul 14, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT

  IrishandProud... From reading your posts over the past year about the Mexican, Nigerians, Poles, Obamanik etc... Sometimes, I wonder if you are "real poster" or just a shill to get the controversy going on IC. As you have stated many times, you think I am a liberal, elitist, snob, and worse....And I have to honestly say, I think you are a rabid, flaming, racist....So, at this point, I guess we will just have to agree, to disagree.

• IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 07:15 PM EDT

  And another hum-dinger, from the Washington Post (that bastion of the vast, right-wing conspiracy): "With midterm elections less than four months away, Republicans are fired up and ready to go. But they are not the only ones upset with Barack Obama. The president has also angered many of the key Democratic constituencies he needs to keep control of the House and Senate, and now Democrats are blowing furiously on the fading embers of their electoral coalition, hoping to stave off disaster this November. In the process they are abdicating their responsibilities to govern -- failing to pass a budget or any of their annual spending bills, while using their executive and legislative powers to appease their special interests instead. It is a far cry from the hope and change they promised two years ago." *** Sheesh, when your own base and the WaPo are bashing the hell out of you, you're in real political trouble. Zerobama's sinking faster than the Titanic full of barbells on quicksand.

• IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 05:06 PM EDT

  And additionally, I guess McNamara thinks the American people are just a bunch of stupid sheeple who fall for bad tactics at election time. Yeah, that must be it -- it couldn't be that Obama has done a single thing wrong over the past 18 months, straight. And of COURSE it couldn't be that exact attitude toward the people that is now costing the Dems dearly (and will cost them exponentially more, come election day). No, that couldn't possibly be it. In fact, mass-painting the people as stpid election-year dupes just because they don't back Barack Obama anymore couldn't POSSIBLY be 'hate, fear and (collective) smear' in and of itself...could it?

• IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 05:02 PM EDT

  No, like the majority of Americans I don't want to return to the same old dinousaur thinking -- and I want to think with a little vision and plan a course for a stronger future. Which is precisely why we are abandoning Obama, and leaving liberalism, in droves. Liberalism IS the tired old dinosaur past, by definition. Of course, anyone who opposes Barack Obama and McNamara31 are just using 'hate, fear, and smear...' (busts out laughing, here)

• McNamara31 | Jul 13, 2010, 04:31 PM EDT

  The GOP "Grand ole boys Party" knows using hate, fear and smear, at a time of economic decline, works every time to win elections in the "short term." The question is what is best for America in the long term? Do you want to return the same OLD Dinosaur thinking, that totally broke the American economy with its greed and deregulation back for collapse, part two. Or do we want to think with a little vision, and plan a course for a stronger future?

• IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 02:50 PM EDT

  Well for 'ruining' the GOP, these folks certainly aren't diminishing that party's chances very much. From today's Washington Post (wow, now THERE's a really right wing publication): "Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Four months before midterm elections that will define the second half of his term, nearly six in 10 voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country, and a clear majority once again disapproves of how he is dealing with the economy..." So, the Obamaniks on this post can continue to flail away at the wind, attacking unelected commentators who have no actual politial authority (all these folks have to do is just turn their TV's off...duuuhh!!), or they can face the music and admit what a large and growing majority of the USA already knows: Barack Obama is a bad man with a bad agenda...and we're going to duly correct some things in a very major way, come November. But oh, no -- it COULDN'T be what every single poll indicates. No, it must be some sort of evil plot, a 'vast, right-wing conspiracy' hatched by old, white men conspiring in some seedy back room in the red light district (never mind that it could not be happening without mass public support). HA! Anyway, back to reality...sitting around and hating people like Glen Beck (who only have the influence they have because...guess what...PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCH THEM AND LIKE THEIR VIEWPOINT!) only shows contempt for the people themselves ultimately, since they are the ones who give these folks any influence, at all. Conservatism is successful and attractive, nowadays, and liberalism is dying on the vine right in front of our eyes -- and certain people simply cannot stand that. So, they froth and flail away at utter irrelevancy, as we're seeing on this very post.

• McNamara31 | Jul 12, 2010, 04:24 PM EDT

  Glenn Beck, Palin, and Limbaugh cherry pick every demeaning, smearing item; then frame their opposition, within the picture of their biased creation. This is their tactic, in a war of greed and corporate interests, over the good of the average American. They make millions because they can move, motivate, and get out the vote for those “corporate types” who truly fund and run the GOP. And here’s where “they” are masters of the” myth”, because they make you believe, your opposition makes you great Americans; And all the while the middle class is being steam rolled by the greed that has witnessed the largest transfer of wealth (two thirds prior to 2009) to the top 1% of America, and it’s corporations. The Christian social values, that once made America great, comforted the sick, the poor, the widow and the immigrant, are now being reframed and sold by Beck, as social justice or in his words “code words” for communism and Nazism because funding compassion dips into corporate profits and in "his" and FOX’s view, that’s become un American.

• Monsoonman | Jul 12, 2010, 10:34 AM EDT

  So shirleyo, welcome to the world of free speech. What do you think the press was doing to bush for 8 years, it was a daily savage attack. Unfortunately for us, obama is getting getting vetted after the election. If the press had done its job, he would have been thoroughly vetted before the election. This is what happens when you "buy a pig in a poke"...Or you blindly choose what is behind door # 3. They say a person like Lincoln would never have been elected today, since he was so ungainly and not an attractive man on TV. Look at what we elect today.

• shirleyo | Jul 12, 2010, 09:49 AM EDT

  It wasn't long after Mr. Obama's swearing in, that to my mind, a conspiracy to bring him down began: blatant resistance to his leadership: outrageous inuendos, public vocal and covert terror-mongering for any change of any ideas or action. Palin, Beck and everyone of their ilk have loudly done their best to sabotage any attempt for non-partisan cooperation. They've sabotaged all fundamentals of America's spirit for leading and governing. They're dangerous.

• chesapeake | Jul 12, 2010, 08:54 AM EDT

  It is the extreme Left that is tearing the nation asunder. I personally don't care about race... that is just another tool of the Left - scream racism whem things heat up. I'm really not sure what Obama is other than simply not qualified for the position. We are racing so fast toward socialism and financial ruin that the he may screw (nice word) us up for years to come. The Left is terrified by Palin because she says what most voters think, Glenn Beck is entertaining; but many of his talking points hit hard at the truth. Representative Inglis is simply afraid of losing his next election run. The talk show commentators are not setting the agenda; rather they are informing and allowing the majority to make their own decisions. Would that the ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, MSNB (the official Obama network); etc,. inform in any other way than with liberal bias. George Bush would truly be a breath of fresh air compared to our present POTUS.

• hollabackgurl | Jul 12, 2010, 08:22 AM EDT

  Irishwxman, if it's 'nonsense' that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are setting the agenda for the GOP then why would you actually defend them? Inglis is bluntly stating what the whole world knows. Today's GOP is an ideological purity test that only 25% of the nation adhere to. To the rest of us you look like the extremists you are: telling rapists to make lemonade out of lemons and telling black people the Civil Rights act should not have been enacted, etc etc

• irishwxman | Jul 11, 2010, 11:40 PM EDT

  12-year incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolin is a sore loser. of course he is spouting this nonsense. I thank God everyday for people like beck and Palin for getting out there and telling everyone the horrible damage and destruction our new Community Organizer-in-chief is doing to our country. Bob Inglis was standing in the way, so he had to go.

• hollabackgurl | Jul 11, 2010, 08:38 PM EDT

  How much of a lying demagogue is Rush Limbaugh? Enough to state that Obama caused the recession (a blatant lie) to punish America (total garbage) the nation he hates (complete rubbish). Only a racist would suggest that and only a racist would choose to believe it.

• Monsoonman | Jul 11, 2010, 01:02 PM EDT

  There is news coming out that the voter intimidation practiced by the black Panthers in Philadelphia was not an isolated incident, but was part of an organized nationwide effort. How many of you who were going to your polling place would like to pass by a gauntlet of racist, hateful, club wielding thugs in order to cast your vote?...How many ballots were cast by dead people and phantom homeless voters in the Minnesota election which brought the likes of an al Franken to become a US Senator?..He only won by a few hundred very suspicious votes. Seems like a very quiet, bloodless coup is taking place in America and the ruling junta doesn't wear uniforms, but pin stripe suits and pant suits.

• Bushothehill | Jul 11, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT

  Divisiveness and racism is rampant in our society, like never before. Not whites against blacks but rather the reverse as subtely practiced by the Obama, Holder etc crowd. Black Panthers have got a new life with an apparent untouchable shield from the W.H. America has been taken down the road to a third world dimension by Democrats and will never recover from the damage done by the extreme left-wingers in office. Wake up!!!!!!!!!

• Monsoonman | Jul 10, 2010, 08:54 PM EDT

  Boy talk about an inflammatory headline, with glenn Beck and Sarah Palin...Throwing meat to the jackals.

• guideboat | Jul 10, 2010, 07:10 PM EDT

  Thjis points out what most of us have known for a long time, that anyone wanting to win big in politics in the US, will have to position their position in the vast middle of the political spectrum. Very few peole will fall for the "death panel" garbage, or the other half-baked ideas touted by Mr. Beck.

• allforone | Jul 10, 2010, 03:53 PM EDT

  Finally, a republican that tells it like it is! If the GOP continues to keep silent against these uneducated tea party radicals, I fear for this nation and OUR President.

• olovely | Jul 10, 2010, 02:59 PM EDT

  How much of a lying demagogue is Rush Limbaugh? Enough to state that Obama caused the recession (a blatant lie) to punish America (total garbage) the nation he hates (complete rubbish). Only a racist would suggest that and only a racist would choose to believe it.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 10, 2010, 12:19 PM EDT

  This kind of garbage is not worth posting. Inglis lost his primary--a rarity for an incumbent to lose in his own party. Shows you how out of touch he is with the people.