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1776 and "Day of Liberation"

mike27513 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:41:00 -0500

Always fun to read the Propaganda from "ryanteaguebeckwith" and the Left Wingnuts.
Here's concrete actions that will be taken after if Obama wins and I have a large number of business owners who are doing the same. My open letter-

Fellow Business Owners-
As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Obama, will be our next President and that my Taxes and Fees will go up in a BIG way. To compensate for this my accountant figures that the Customer will have an increase in prices of 8%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees due to higher taxes/reduced sales. This really bothered me and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled in the parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on my employees cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of another fair way. Please pass on to other business owners.

So to all the Left Wingnuts enjoy your Liberation from money and the Bread line!

Wait, Bob Dole AND Cindy McCain are backing McCain!?!

Gosh — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:16:52 -0400

I may have to rethink my vote now.

OR, I may hold out to see what Garfield and Lil' Abner say.

Both are much more relevant to my life as a regular person not born rich that has a job.

Re: McCain's general election surrogates

tangoz — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:14:52 -0400

Kwyaa...... You forgot to mention Johnson of the Obama campaign. He is the one who got $32 million last year for running Freddy Mac into the ground. Or did you intentionally attempt to mislead the readers by not mentionaing him?

Last years Bush energy plan that gave billions in tax breask to BIG OIL was voted YES by Obama and NO by McCain. Who is in the pocket of big oil again?

Re: McCain's general election surrogates

cmitchz — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:29:55 -0400

Ladies and gentlemen, when you vote for Obama, you empower to two lunatics below...

Re: McCain's general election surrogates

Kwaayesnama — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:11:39 -0400

THE PEOPLE THAT MCCAIN OWES ALEGENCE TO
John McCain is in the pocket of oil companies.
John McCain is in the pocket of insurance companies.
John McCain is in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies.
John McCain in the pocket of the mortgage companies.
John McCain in the pocket of the banking industry.
Here is a list of lobbyists and employees of major companies working in major positions in the McCain campaign. It will answer any questions you might have about the people who are advising and influencing him.
http://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0006

Re: McCain's general election loosers!

riverrd — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:09:05 -0400

What a bunch of mouth-breathing, knuckle-draging loosers! You could not get a closer, like-minded bunch that is just like their candidate, John Cheney McBush! The Day of Liberation is at hand!

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

jerimee — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:56:05 -0400

Fox News isn't going to admit its bias either. While it's not surprising that Civitas and the John Locke Foundation feel well served by Under the Dome, at least Ryan doesn't repeat the GOP talking points that are demonstrably false.

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

tangoz — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:50:15 -0400

He made a post with Grier Martin. Grier needs to have the guts to put on his web site that he is a democrat. Why isn't he proud of his party? Could it be all of the corruption existing in the NC democratic party?

I am a veteran and do not think Grier has a original thought. He recycles the left wing mantra that even i have memorized. Hey Grier, the surge WORKED.

Paul Terrell III
http://terrellforhouse33.blogspot.com
www.wakegop.org/paul-terrell.htm

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

really — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:21:48 -0400

I thought Jeanne Smoot was firmly in Romney's corner? Apparently it didn't take much to get her on McCain's bus...

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:52:52 -0400

To put it pseudo-scientifically, the problem with your methodology is limited sample size.

I posted some 4,000 items last year. I don't know the math, but, yeah, I think if you flipped a coin 4,000 times you'd get 10 heads in a row at some point. (I'll have to check with my friend who works at SAS on that one...)

If you picked a random month and gave me some kind of spread, that might be interesting, but one day is not enough.

— RTB

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:50:38 -0400

Oh great. Francis DeLuca defending me. I've lost the BlueNC crowd for sure now...

— RTB

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

fxdeluca — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:50:21 -0400

Ryan, while you are in the mood to plug people how about another shout out for Civitas...

But seriously I looked at your last 10 posts and you started all of them with a consonant, not one of them with a vowel! You also are showing favoritism towards the letters D & M as each of them were used to start a post 3 times.

Sorry I don't have some great insight to share on the politics of the day but it wouldn't matter since everyone knows you are a left wing radical!

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

persondem — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:58:59 -0400

"Well, and if you flip a coin, it'll sometimes come up heads 10 times in a row too."

Ok so this is just random, eh? And you called my methodology weak!? So since my count above we have two Dole posts (free press) and a Hackney post with negative connotations (wasting taxpayer money) that are borderline explicit. The numbers don't lie and certainly aren't "kneejerk".

If you were losing money on a coin that flipped heads 19 out of 20 times I bet you'd cry foul and ask that the process be examined.

Your explanations are appreciated and have a bit of logic about them, but the thing is you are starting your coverage with republicans. Your thinking seems to start with those names rattling in your head to the exclusion of democrats, especially democratic positives. For example, you tell where McCrory is headed; the balance to that is to tell where Perdue's next campaign event is.

Perhaps this is just an unusual run; we'll see.

Who watches the watchmen?

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:40 -0400

Well, and if you flip a coin, it'll sometimes come up heads 10 times in a row too.

But you've made a serious effort, so I'll give you a serious response.

* The McCain ad footage could be read negative — he can't afford his own footage? — but I just thought it was interesting.

* The out-of-state money post was referred by a liberal blogger. I think both McCrory supporters and opponents would want to know about that.

* Again, with McHenry's loan and Dole's PAC, I think voters can make up their own minds what it means.

* The polling numbers are what they are. I can't make them more or less favorable to Democrats or Republicans if I wanted to.

* I suppose I could have gotten comment on McCrory's trip to New Bern, but it would be pretty predictable: "The people of New Bern like Bev Perdue," a spokesman said.

* McCain has not had many events in North Carolina, and I covered more than my share of Obama events during the primary. Look at the big picture.

Look, I'm sure I have biases. I try to be aware of them and correct for them, and I'm open to criticism, but this knee-jerk stuff is tiresome.

— RTB

Re: Veterans for McCain rally

hayek66 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:00:21 -0400

YOU LEAVE RTB ALONE. He's as fair and balanced as they come.