The Blame-Sandy talking point isn't unique to Barbour. [Karl Rove, Barbour's cohort in the Crossroads Super Pac, first said it Friday][1].
The only problem with the theory is that Romney's poll momentum, especially in swing states, has been ebbing since before the last debate. It's clearly a political game to blame the hurricane, and not the campaign, or unpopular GOP policies.
As for Romney's disingenuous pledge of bipartisanship, he issued more than 800 vetoes in his one term as Massachusetts governor and was plagued by partisan issues. [Romney As Governor: 800 Vetoes and One Big Deal][1]
Considering the efforts the president made at working across the aisle, and even adopting Republican policies, this claim is one of the most misleading of Romney's campaign.
The funny thing is that showing your ID when it's not needed is just clogging the process and keeping lines longer. Do you hope that some people will give up and go home?
Otherwise, it doesn't make a lick of sense.
Pinter, thank goodness that individual and constitutional rights are never decided by the majority who vote. And the majority who vote under always right: Remember the majority of MIssissippians who voted in the 1960s to close pubic schools rather then integrate them? Or the majority who voted last fall against Personhood only to have state officials/legislators pledge to pursue it at the capitol? (And under a Romney administration, they might well get their wish, but that's an aside.)
And y'all feel free to post all your indignation about the voter-fraud attempts by Republicans being revealed around the nation right now. We're happy to give you space for that as well as your weak arguments for voter ID.
Yes, Brian, re entitlement. It's the attitude that "it's all about me and what I think."
I saw a young white woman the other night on Twitter say that she did not find the rebel flag and Colonel Reb; therefore, they're not.
Face palm.
If I heard these guys talking half as much about how to stop the voter fraud that Republican operatives keep committing, or even acting concerned about it, I might believe they're actually concerned about protecting the integrity of the vote. That silence is very telling.
No, it hasn't, Bill. Not outside pro-voter-ID circles. Delbert Hosemann didn't like it, but his reasons were both faulty and obvious. He uses the secretary of state's office to shill for Republicans and voter ID. Mississippi Republicans seriously must be worried about a changing electorate here.
Y'all are ignoring facts every time you declare that everyone either has or should have a ballot if they're worthy citizens or such. YOU wrote this, Darryl:
> As I've said here and in other forums, > if one is so "off the grid" that they > do not have photo identification, then > they probably shouldn't have any say > in the governance of this > state/nation.
If you can't see that you are belittling people, especially the poor, I feel sorry for you. And here is the always remarkable BillJackson:
> Seriously, if, in 2012, you do not > have a photo I.D., I question whether > you have the reasoning capacity to > make decisions as important as casting > a vote.
Seriously, gentlemen, your posts here over time have given no indication that anyone should care what you question. And you don't care what the answer is -- so why freakin' bother. The world is bigger than the ends of your own noses, and many people don't have what you have. Get over yourselves. You make Mississippi sound like it hasn't changed in 50 years. Fortunately, y'all are increasingly becoming the minority, so there is hope.
No surprise, Darryl. Y'all are just a white-men-in-denial echo chamber -- and you just don't have, nor will believe, all the facts. [Read this story that we published today][1] -- and the part about how many people do not have government photo IDs. Judge that all you want, but it's true, and they shouldn't not be punished, nor made to pay a poll tax, just because people like you thinks everyone lives just like you do.
I'm sick and tired of you guys ignoring facts and belittling poor people. Get off my website if you can't be a more serious human being than that.
I don't disagree, Nolaman, although I suspect that a combination of both wouldn't bother him any.
The big thing Mississippians should see, though, is that the GOP in Mississippi is *worried* about the turnout; otherwise, they wouldn't do this silly stuff. The personhood vote last fall was a wake-up, as was two (albeit Republican) women upsetting the two Republican men they funded well. We have the highest proportion of African Americans in the country, and eight years ago, 63 percent of voters then under 30 voted for John Kerry.
I wish Mississippians would be confident enough to seize our power -- by voting. And voting our best interests, which is the exact opposite of Romney's desire to dump the costs of education, health care and apparently a lot of disaster relief back on our state as soon after taking office as possible.
And his foreign policy advisers -- war hawks from the Bush administration -- want us to declare more wars in the Middle East, and poor states like Mississippi will again disproportionately sacrifice our young soldiers to their neo-con vision.
Of course, I'm digressing from voter ID now. Sort of.
donnaladd says...
The Blame-Sandy talking point isn't unique to Barbour. [Karl Rove, Barbour's cohort in the Crossroads Super Pac, first said it Friday][1].
The only problem with the theory is that Romney's poll momentum, especially in swing states, has been ebbing since before the last debate. It's clearly a political game to blame the hurricane, and not the campaign, or unpopular GOP policies.
[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the…
On Barbour: Hurricane Sandy Broke Romney's Momentum
Posted 4 November 2012, 3:32 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
As for Romney's disingenuous pledge of bipartisanship, he issued more than 800 vetoes in his one term as Massachusetts governor and was plagued by partisan issues. [Romney As Governor: 800 Vetoes and One Big Deal][1]
Considering the efforts the president made at working across the aisle, and even adopting Republican policies, this claim is one of the most misleading of Romney's campaign.
[1]: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154583216…
On Barbour: Hurricane Sandy Broke Romney's Momentum
Posted 4 November 2012, 3:24 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
Thanks for sharing and your honesty, Steven. Great post.
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Posted 4 November 2012, 1:59 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
The funny thing is that showing your ID when it's not needed is just clogging the process and keeping lines longer. Do you hope that some people will give up and go home?
Otherwise, it doesn't make a lick of sense.
Pinter, thank goodness that individual and constitutional rights are never decided by the majority who vote. And the majority who vote under always right: Remember the majority of MIssissippians who voted in the 1960s to close pubic schools rather then integrate them? Or the majority who voted last fall against Personhood only to have state officials/legislators pledge to pursue it at the capitol? (And under a Romney administration, they might well get their wish, but that's an aside.)
And y'all feel free to post all your indignation about the voter-fraud attempts by Republicans being revealed around the nation right now. We're happy to give you space for that as well as your weak arguments for voter ID.
On Gov. Phil Bryant Says Voters Should Voluntarily Show ID
Posted 4 November 2012, 1:58 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
Yes, Brian, re entitlement. It's the attitude that "it's all about me and what I think."
I saw a young white woman the other night on Twitter say that she did not find the rebel flag and Colonel Reb; therefore, they're not.
Face palm.
If I heard these guys talking half as much about how to stop the voter fraud that Republican operatives keep committing, or even acting concerned about it, I might believe they're actually concerned about protecting the integrity of the vote. That silence is very telling.
On Gov. Phil Bryant Says Voters Should Voluntarily Show ID
Posted 2 November 2012, 4:28 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
No, it hasn't, Bill. Not outside pro-voter-ID circles. Delbert Hosemann didn't like it, but his reasons were both faulty and obvious. He uses the secretary of state's office to shill for Republicans and voter ID. Mississippi Republicans seriously must be worried about a changing electorate here.
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Posted 2 November 2012, 1:12 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
Y'all are ignoring facts every time you declare that everyone either has or should have a ballot if they're worthy citizens or such. YOU wrote this, Darryl:
> As I've said here and in other forums,
> if one is so "off the grid" that they
> do not have photo identification, then
> they probably shouldn't have any say
> in the governance of this
> state/nation.
If you can't see that you are belittling people, especially the poor, I feel sorry for you. And here is the always remarkable BillJackson:
> Seriously, if, in 2012, you do not
> have a photo I.D., I question whether
> you have the reasoning capacity to
> make decisions as important as casting
> a vote.
Seriously, gentlemen, your posts here over time have given no indication that anyone should care what you question. And you don't care what the answer is -- so why freakin' bother. The world is bigger than the ends of your own noses, and many people don't have what you have. Get over yourselves. You make Mississippi sound like it hasn't changed in 50 years. Fortunately, y'all are increasingly becoming the minority, so there is hope.
On Gov. Phil Bryant Says Voters Should Voluntarily Show ID
Posted 2 November 2012, 1:05 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
No surprise, Darryl. Y'all are just a white-men-in-denial echo chamber -- and you just don't have, nor will believe, all the facts. [Read this story that we published today][1] -- and the part about how many people do not have government photo IDs. Judge that all you want, but it's true, and they shouldn't not be punished, nor made to pay a poll tax, just because people like you thinks everyone lives just like you do.
I'm sick and tired of you guys ignoring facts and belittling poor people. Get off my website if you can't be a more serious human being than that.
[1]: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/20…
On Gov. Phil Bryant Says Voters Should Voluntarily Show ID
Posted 1 November 2012, 4:36 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
I don't disagree, Nolaman, although I suspect that a combination of both wouldn't bother him any.
The big thing Mississippians should see, though, is that the GOP in Mississippi is *worried* about the turnout; otherwise, they wouldn't do this silly stuff. The personhood vote last fall was a wake-up, as was two (albeit Republican) women upsetting the two Republican men they funded well. We have the highest proportion of African Americans in the country, and eight years ago, 63 percent of voters then under 30 voted for John Kerry.
I wish Mississippians would be confident enough to seize our power -- by voting. And voting our best interests, which is the exact opposite of Romney's desire to dump the costs of education, health care and apparently a lot of disaster relief back on our state as soon after taking office as possible.
And his foreign policy advisers -- war hawks from the Bush administration -- want us to declare more wars in the Middle East, and poor states like Mississippi will again disproportionately sacrifice our young soldiers to their neo-con vision.
Of course, I'm digressing from voter ID now. Sort of.
On Gov. Phil Bryant Says Voters Should Voluntarily Show ID
Posted 1 November 2012, 12:21 p.m. Suggest removal
donnaladd says...
Y'all remember when the under-30 vote went overwhelmingly for Kerry over Bush eight years ago?
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