Yeah, the Republican Party is dead, down & out, consigned to the trash bin of history

[Sean]

Learned that I will never higher someone without experience. I especially learned that I will never higher someone who's only experience is so called "higher education".

Yeah, easy to tell how educated you are.

 

[JohnGalt2009]

The Libertarian Party actually represents what you are describing far more consistently than has the post-Goldwater conservative movement.

But the Libertarian Party will not be a significant political force, nor will there be a libertarian revival under any party's banner, in your lifetime or mine.

I think that you are on the money there, on both counts.

It may be due to the fact that the Libertarian party is still quite fractured, at least it appears that way from what I can determine. I try to avoid paying too much attention to particular party's.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Yeah, easy to tell how educated you are.

Easy there, Sean....take the hire ground...

 

[JohnnySavage]

I think that you are on the money there, on both counts.

It may be due to the fact that the Libertarian party is still quite fractured, at least it appears that way from what I can determine. I try to avoid paying too much attention to particular party's.

*parties

 

[JohnGalt2009]

Yeah, easy to tell how educated you are.

Oh lookie there, how cute!

Well! You really showed me! Way to go there chief.

If I were to make an assumption from the tenor of your remark, I think it would be a safe bet that you are making an underestimation. And that you also cherry picked what you wanted to hear and comment upon, to better facilitate that lambasting you just gave me.

How far do you get on a tank of arrogance?

Never mind that I said that a balance is the best, you chose to get legalistic and attempt, however weakly, to do nothing more than make a cute little personal attack.

Do it again! It is quite fun to see how tight a knot your panties can reach. Then go ahead and get back on your fail boat, and come back with another.

Look... smart ass remarks aside, comments like your certainly do nothing to forward a case for so called "higher education" v. "experience" if that is the argument that you want to have. Ivory tower types already have a reputation, and a track record to back it up that they'd rather sit comfortably in their towers with a latte, than get out and actually test that "higher" level of "lernin". The irony being that "higher education" is supposed to "enlighten" and "expand" the mind; but what I see in the "real" world, are a bunch of arrogant people sitting on high, who believe that they know whats best for all; but too afraid to get out and see if it works.

 

[JohnGalt2009]

Easy there, Sean....take the hire ground...

Nice to "meet" a fellow Atlantan! Even if we do sit across the political aisles.

FWIW, and for the sake of context, I'd prefer to have a discussion with those of you that I disagree with. So if it'll hurry things along, lets all agree that we will not change each others minds, and enjoy the exchange of thoughts and ideas?

 

[Sean]

that they know whats best for all; but too afraid to get out and see if it works.

You're missing an apostrophe and the semi colon is superfluous.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Nice to "meet" a fellow Atlantan! Even if we do sit across the political aisles.

FWIW, and for the sake of context, I'd prefer to have a discussion with those of you that I disagree with. So if it'll hurry things along, lets all agree that we will not change each others minds, and enjoy the exchange of thoughts and ideas?

Ignore them. They're just mocking you because they hate Ayn Rand.

 

[Sean]

Ignore them. They're just mocking you because they hate Ayn Rand.

I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Leaving aside the fucked up philosophy, from a literary point of view they were fucking AWFUL.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

The issue here, simplistically speaking is that there is no small amount of surprise that historically democratic seats are starting to swing the other way. By simply saying that since it is the first time a repub won a dem seat, therefor there is no data is a non starter, it is flat out silly. Trends start somewhere, and in this case, it is happening a lot, all over the country.

You aren't seeing my argument at all.

The article in the OP made the claim, based on voter turnout for GOP candidates in several local elections, that the GOP is likely to make gains nationally in 2010.

The problem with their claims is that in 2 of the 10 examples they cited there was NO gop candidate in the November 2008 election.

Claiming a gain in voters in favor of the GOP candidate in the most recent election (No shit, there was no GOP candidate in those areas in November, of course it's a much larger turnout for them now) is disingenuous at best. A full 20% of thier "proof" is meaningless data. There is no way to make any determination with no data on a GOP candidate in the election they are using for comparison.

The "American Stinker" is overstating their case using meaningless data mixed in with actual proof of their assertions to bolster their case.

Not to mention that voter turnout for special elections is notoriously low anyway unless there is some earth shaking proposal on the ballot to motivate people to participate in a special election.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I think that you are on the money there, on both counts.

It may be due to the fact that the Libertarian party is still quite fractured, at least it appears that way from what I can determine. I try to avoid paying too much attention to particular party's.

Partly that, perhaps, but mainly because consistent libertarianism does not appeal to a majority or even a plurality of the American people today.

 

[John Doe]

The Democratic and/or Republican parties may soon become something other than we've known them as. I think the far-from-center wings of both have become more vocal and influential in recent years. One or both parties may reassert themselves as more centrist although I'd like to see a third party fill that role.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Probably from your perch in the library, all large cities look like black ghettos.

You probably intended that as an insult, but it is an unintentional compliment to me, because I am obviously widely read and well informed.

 

[JohnnySavage]

You probably intended that as an insult, but it is an unintentional compliment to me, because I am obviously widely read and well informed.

If you consider being an elitist and a racist a compliment, then yes it was.

 

[The_Trouvere]

If you consider being an elitist and a racist a compliment, then yes it was.

What does elitism and racism have to do with libraries and ghettos?

 

[John Doe]

You probably intended that as an insult, but it is an unintentional compliment to me, because I am obviously widely read and well informed.

I think you overestimate the number of people who read you.

 

[The_Trouvere]

I think you overestimate the number of people who read you.

Who are you?

I've hardly noticed you before.

It's easy for me to understand why.

 

[The_Trouvere]

The Democratic and/or Republican parties may soon become something other than we've known them as. I think the far-from-center wings of both have become more vocal and influential in recent years. One or both parties may reassert themselves as more centrist although I'd like to see a third party fill that role.

For a change, the Democrats are fairly united. I would like for a third party to divide the Republicans.

 

[Wrong Element]

What point?

Your point that the Democrat losses are meaningless because in two races Republicans had never run a marathon before?

Okay, you win, the Republican Party is down and out, unable to win elections, so I should shut up, so I will because you cannot win with the insane.

Why is someone who is not a Republican so intent on disproving the idea that the Republican Party is dead? It seems quite strange.

 

[miles]

For a change, the Democrats are fairly united.

Like on Obamacare.

 

[John Doe]

For a change, the Democrats are fairly united. I would like for a third party to divide the Republicans.

Right, that's why the Democrats were able to pass a universal healthcare bill so easily. Oh wait...which planet are you talking about?

Relatively? Perhaps. Fairly? No.

 

[unregistered]

 

[unregistered]

 

[miles]

*Snort*

My my, there's certainly some weighty delusions of grandeur percolating in among that rapidly expanding gas cloud.

He's a fucking idiot who doubles as a pompous ass.

 

[unregistered]