Change THEY Can't Believe In
I don't usually go to that kind of meeting. But I know what takes place in them. My company holds them all the time. A sales VP sits at the head of the table with his right-hand man at -- well -- his...
View ArticleRomney's rallies put lie to the narrative that today's radical GOP will soon...
My husband and I have recently been engaging in a little game where every time we see a Romney rally clip, we watch the audience for the demographics and put it on a chart. Out of 12 clips since we...
View ArticleIt's Too Close. What'cha gonna do?
Just ahead of the Republican convention, the national polling is very very close. In spite of the Republican candidates’ mendacity, fealty, and ineptitude, the race at this point is a statistical...
View ArticleNate Silver Sees Improvements for Obama and an Above Average 'Likely Voter'...
Nate Silver's 538 column, today, focuses on An Above-Average ‘Likely Voter Gap’ for Romney. A nine point lead for President Obama in a CNN poll shrinks to 2 points (49 to 47) when a likely voter...
View ArticleGOP's Shotgun Wedding
In all of the news about the GOP postponing the convention til Tuesday ,due to Isaac, one little tidbit almost escaped unnoticed. The tidbit was that Romney's nomination had originally been scheduled...
View ArticleI'm a Ben Tre Republican
Hi there. I'm new here, but have read DK for several years, and this is - ta da! - my first diary. In order to properly introduce myself, I have to explain why I'm a Ben Tre Republican. First, what...
View ArticleWelcome to our 21st century Watergate...
Remember good ol' Watergate? In the 1970's, President Nixon and many top advisers where caught up in a major scandal. This led to Mr. Nixon's resignation in 1974. His administration got caught trying...
View ArticleWhat you will NOT hear at the GOP convention
"President Obama's auto rescue plan worked and more than a million jobs were saved. The American auto industry is back, baby! We're number one again." "Say what you will about President Obama, but...
View ArticleWhat Ayn Rand Taught Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan ... stood naked on top of the vice president’s desk in the Senate chamber If that doesn't grab you, stop reading now. Paul Ryan laughed. He stood naked on top of the vice president’s desk in...
View ArticleThere Should be a Statue of Obama in DC.
If Bush had accomplished only half of What President Obama has, his statue would've been erected down by the monument by now! The Dems should be pushing for the same.
View ArticleThe system won.Back in the party. But I got my fall garden in.
Last Thursday the Democrats from Mathews, Middlesex and Gloucester Counties met at the Gloucester Library to take another step forward in organizing to reelect Obama. I had already committed myself...
View ArticleRepublicans Again Use Race, And It's OUR Fault That It Still Works
Since forever, the Republican message is STILL "Dems take your money and give it to black people." Doesn't change. Doesn't have to. It's OUR fault.
View ArticleCNN Headline: "North Carolina now a toss-up"
CNN has a headline story on it's website at the moment about this, though it notes that other polls have shown NC as being very close this summer. But now based on this poll, CNN has officially...
View Article4-2 x 2: MN Supreme Court, Voter ID and Marriage
Monday afternoon the MN Supreme court handed down two rulings that impact the fall election. 2 proposed Constitutional amendments are on the ballot, a...
View ArticleA trip down Nightmare Lane
For those who say they don't want to vote. For those fence sitters. I welcome you to my memory hole. It is deep and I will die still reeling from When the Republicans came to town. For you young...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Believes Rape is Just Another Method of Conception (cont'd).
Yesterday, I created a YouTube video from a clip a good friend sent to me showing Paul Ryan during an interview where the Vice presidential candidate said that he personally believes that rape is just...
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Republicans - They're just not that in to you, unless of course, they control...
Yes, that's the sad, sorry, story women and those who profess to love them have to grapple with on this opening day of the 2012 Republican Convention. I'm impressed that Romney didn't allow the vagina...
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The Great Leap Backward
"Let me just add, my fellow Americans, that I don't like you, or you, or you. I particularly don't like those guys and I hate that guy leaning on the tree. These guys I can take or leave but I...
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