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calimary

(81,110 posts)
85. Now THAT sounds closer to the truth.
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 03:58 AM
Sep 2012

Makes sense if you consider the measure of the man - and what he's obviously regarded as important throughout his life. Consider his behavior past and present, plus his priorities, as indicators of the future. The picture these elements paint does not look very pretty.

The guy is obviously a high-finance gamer. Why else would he have money stashed offshore and in various partnerships and investment groups and complicated maneuvers and shelters and stuff? He's a game-rigger. That's how he got his IRA ridiculously inflated compared to what the rest of us commoners can do with ours. He's a predator and a vulture and an opportunistic infection.

I hope he takes his party down - and they splinter irreparably. Hopefully that will keep them from building the coalitions they'd need to get back into the White House. But they ARE on the wrong side of history. I think of my kids and their friends - who've grown up with peer groups that included kids of every color, faith, ethnicity, nationality, and even sexual orientation. Their generation will likely kill a lot of that old racist, sexist, and homophobic thinking as it dies out on the elder end and is not replaced on the younger end. Hopefully.

I must say - I certainly have had enough of that bullshit! MORE than enough.

Wow.. spot on. DCBob Sep 2012 #1
+ 1 no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #2
And another. Baitball Blogger Sep 2012 #8
I was going to post that same bit! fugop Sep 2012 #3
Posted in the wrong place. jillan Sep 2012 #16
I'm an old angry white man. I voted for Obama in 2008 and will vote Obama 2012. DippyDem Sep 2012 #32
I'm a little older, perhaps a little grumpier and wouldn't vote for a Republican if they paid me. Scuba Sep 2012 #46
My 58 year old Vietnam Vet ex HATES our President--his 86 yr old Dad, however..... BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2012 #63
He obviously married above his pay grade. Faygo Kid Sep 2012 #65
Hey, that isn't old. Curmudgeoness Sep 2012 #76
60 is not old! Freddie Sep 2012 #102
It is a good summary, and it goes much deeper than the space allowed BlueStreak Sep 2012 #64
Wow Spectacular take down outsideworld Sep 2012 #68
Welcome to DU, outside world! calimary Sep 2012 #83
Thanks outsideworld Sep 2012 #101
Very smacking eulogy! Must read! n/t socialindependocrat Sep 2012 #4
The GOP has problems creon Sep 2012 #5
The GOP has a stranglehold Berlin Expat Sep 2012 #50
I wouldn't call it a stranglehold. Scootaloo Sep 2012 #59
True. And there's the race thing. trof Sep 2012 #70
From one old white man to another TexasProgresive Sep 2012 #88
I agree. creon Sep 2012 #105
Sure thing about the West, as long as you exclude, *MOST* of the West CreekDog Sep 2012 #69
This is the begining of the "only Jeb can save us" campaign. grantcart Sep 2012 #6
Yep. I was wondering how that would play out. nt valerief Sep 2012 #10
That is the script I've imagined xxqqqzme Sep 2012 #54
I wonder that too, are they paying Romney to look stupid to make Bush seem like the smart one? RepublicansRZombies Sep 2012 #57
With Willard's ego? Indpndnt Sep 2012 #79
Welcome to DU RepublicansRZombies and Indpndnt! calimary Sep 2012 #84
Thanks! And I will def. keep working for the president and other Democrats. Indpndnt Sep 2012 #100
"The kid nobody wants to play with." BlueToTheBone Sep 2012 #7
I wish that were true in PA. The GOP controls this state. AlinPA Sep 2012 #9
YEP Cosmocat Sep 2012 #23
I think this is a South Florida paper? leftynyc Sep 2012 #11
I think its Ft Lauderdale. HooptieWagon Sep 2012 #12
South Florida is very blue Bryn Sep 2012 #37
I understand that leftynyc Sep 2012 #56
I left in 2006 also sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #75
But Rush Limbaugh lives there, alp227 Sep 2012 #81
Charlie Crist said it all HockeyMom Sep 2012 #13
I think the GOP left Jeb, too. Jeb isn't optimistic. DippyDem Sep 2012 #30
Yep, the GOP has been pandering.... tex-wyo-dem Sep 2012 #77
Excellent assessment, tex-wyo-dem. susanna Sep 2012 #91
Wow. That is brutal. And true. mnhtnbb Sep 2012 #14
The Cracker Jack box without a prize... Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2012 #15
You know what I think would be fun? We should all send this link to Romney's campaign. mnhtnbb Sep 2012 #17
My favorite paragraph TroyD Sep 2012 #18
As an old, white man ... TahitiNut Sep 2012 #27
I think the point is, it's not a matter of demographics so much as political affiliation classof56 Sep 2012 #34
This old white guy agrees. Scuba Sep 2012 #47
That's a superb bit of writing. JBoy Sep 2012 #19
Realistically though TroyD Sep 2012 #20
Sorry~D=Disenfranchisement shintao Sep 2012 #43
Seems to me that the GOP is trying the best they can to LOSE the election. Tx4obama Sep 2012 #78
As long as the RepubliKKKans have the money;the christofarians; the ability to steal elections; and byeya Sep 2012 #21
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Not Enough ‘Angry White Guys’ to Sustain GOP kemah Sep 2012 #22
Sometimes I believe that the reason he won't share his tax returns has more to do... Tikki Sep 2012 #24
I thought the "religious freedom" excuse abumbyanyothername Sep 2012 #33
I think he has an extra wife stashed away somewhere The Blue Flower Sep 2012 #36
I thought you knew, she is two weeks pregnant!! shintao Sep 2012 #45
You know, I have wondered if maybe he had been paying child support up until... Tikki Sep 2012 #49
Now THAT sounds closer to the truth. calimary Sep 2012 #85
The Republican brand is bankrupt. vlyons Sep 2012 #25
Bankrupt, and still overspending lovemydog Sep 2012 #73
No kidding! calimary Sep 2012 #95
I liked this part especially: The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2012 #26
I wish it would happen sooner. Historic NY Sep 2012 #28
We can not believe this as much as we would like to........ Smilo Sep 2012 #29
I want to see Third Doctor Sep 2012 #31
I agree with the writer riverbendviewgal Sep 2012 #35
And the fucking... Aviation Pro Sep 2012 #38
K&R nt avebury Sep 2012 #39
More than anything in that article . . . caseymoz Sep 2012 #40
First time I read someone else post "kleptocracy" ... pass it around cr8tvlde Sep 2012 #53
Yup Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2012 #41
They were saying this after the 2008 elections. SpankMe Sep 2012 #42
They were saying this after the '96 election. Blanks Sep 2012 #48
Well said JeffersonLoveChild Sep 2012 #55
Welcome to DU! calimary Sep 2012 #96
You got it! JeffersonLoveChild Sep 2012 #103
love this line... tk2kewl Sep 2012 #44
Just die already, GOP -- spare us the agony Blue Owl Sep 2012 #51
Lots of good insights. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #52
First of all the Repbulican Party will not die. They are not human. rhett o rick Sep 2012 #58
Remember the Whigs? deafskeptic Sep 2012 #61
Welcome to DU! I'd love to see something like that. HOWEVER - calimary Sep 2012 #97
I wish... Blue_Tires Sep 2012 #60
Sun-sentinel (aka Scum-Sentinel at least to most of us down here) I agree with Malikshah Sep 2012 #62
Nonsense. Hate and fear are magically going away? n/t eridani Sep 2012 #66
How else? tama Sep 2012 #80
They will go out with a whimper lunatica Sep 2012 #67
Many of the Paulites and libertarians are finished with Romney davidn3600 Sep 2012 #71
Welcome to DU! calimary Sep 2012 #98
They've been dead for quite a while now..... DeSwiss Sep 2012 #72
Wow! Nailed it sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #74
what a shame Turborama Sep 2012 #82
If the GOP is finished, Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #86
They have been done since 2006 BUT they have Fox News underpants Sep 2012 #90
All white, all old, all male,all right wing, all bitter, all ignorant, all awash in irrational fear. RBInMaine Sep 2012 #87
With a few black talking heads and some women who are okay with being abused tossed in. polichick Sep 2012 #89
"The GOP today is largely a party of rabid, old, white men in the unhappy dusk of their lives"nt tjdee Sep 2012 #92
How many times have I heard this? DFW Sep 2012 #93
I'm afraid you're right Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #94
I like that one: calimary Sep 2012 #99
If every Democrat cheezmaka Sep 2012 #104
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