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2Design

(9,099 posts)
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:06 PM Oct 2012

Election and ads are making me nuts - rant

Romney will say anything in an ad - all lies
I cannot understand why more than 1% would vote for these two dimwit lying crazy people

i have to turn the tv off because there are so many lying ads about the democrats - can not stand it much more - I thought mcCain and palin was crazy but they got votes - I thought bush was a wrong choice and he got votes -

these two have told people they will destroy them and people are lining up behind them

I can no longer have a conversation with anyone who will vote for romney ryan

I just can not stand that so many americans are stupid enough to vote against their own best interest

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Warpy

(111,258 posts)
1. I don't understand why the 1% vote for them, either
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:13 PM
Oct 2012

because their investments do much better under Democratic administrations without exception. All the Republicans have done is rob the rest of us and funnel the money to the rich.

Now we're even in the end game of that, the demand side being nearly choked off and any more squeezing of labor is likely to be met with massive civil unrest, something that will cost the 1% dearly in terms of private protection.

2Design

(9,099 posts)
3. Felt the supply and demand would have choke 20 years ago BUT
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:21 PM
Oct 2012

they just grow new markets in other countries eventually devastating them too - they have continually built up demand

The news orgs keep saying Willard has to connect with middle class to win them over IGNORING the fact he will destroy them further and the whole country as a corporate raider. He will raid the government and get even more money

Warpy

(111,258 posts)
6. They didn't grow new markets and for not that much stuff
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 11:32 PM
Oct 2012

What they did is keep the economy here on life support through unlimited credit based on house refinancing.

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)
4. The only good thing about the non-stop ads is that Romney doesn't wear well.
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:23 PM
Oct 2012

His "I care about the poor" ad doesn't do him any favors.

kurt_cagle

(534 posts)
5. Ads? There are ads?!
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 09:33 PM
Oct 2012

I watch remarkably little television, perhaps 2-3 hours or so a week. That includes Dr. Who, the occasional British mystery, and on occasion Rachel Maddow. I spend far more time on the Internet, but even there, I've encountered very few Romney ads. I have to wonder how much of that huge ad buy is simply going off to the ever smaller set of people that either can't TIVO past them or don't get most of their information from the Internet?

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
8. DVRs are a VERY good thing.
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:16 AM
Oct 2012

We watch nothing in real time for about 6 months before each election. (Except tomorrow night.)

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