Comments on: BREAKING: David Axelrod Endorses Mitt Romney for President

By: cbartlett

cbartlett — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:09:02 +0000

and mostly valuable to our side. But I think you may underestimate his influence. I rather resented his constant appearances on Fox shoving Romney down our throats from very early in the process – he was the first to define “inevitable” to the masses. His knowledge and experience with election number crunching are very respected by most people. But I observed him “taking sides” in the early stages of the primary process, sometimes just by repeatedly ignoring certain candidates – most especially Perry, whom he and Bushes do not like. (Fox News obviously agreed and supported the pro-Romney mantra too.) I took just enough statistics in college to figure out that almost any statistic can be manipulated to show almost anything you want. You can emphasize certain parameters, or carefully word the questions in a survey, or limit your sample size, or a hundred other things to manipulate the results to sway people into thinking exactly what what you want them to think. Uninformed people who do not know what to look for “behind” the statistics, just fall in line. (By the way, liberals are masters at doing this…) I think Karl is very, very smart and knows exactly how to manipulate things to favor the GOP Establishment view of all issues and candidates. I guess that’s fine as long as he sticks with the conservative side of things and doesn’t get too far off the reservation. I definitely want him on our side and not Obama’s but I always keep one eye open when listening to Rove.

By: funwithknives

funwithknives — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:39:14 +0000

Dolt will ‘ learn anything’ useful or of real worth?{ …and I use ‘ Dolt’ in a positive fashion…} What he seems to think shameful, we embrace as parody or “… losing sight of David’s real intent…”.
Either way, the gent is a marroon, big time. He proves it by his so-called writing and is a fine example of Progressive thought processes.
I thank him for the tutorial. E N C O R E !!!

As far as him learning anything: Mister, you’re a better man than I……..

By: funwithknives

funwithknives — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:44:38 +0000

but it ain’t much,’ r p’. TEA Partiers had the momentum and sat on their hands almost immediately after 11/2010. Burn-out or breathlessness, it all equals the same result.
I’ve watched Libertarians, Constitutional Conservatives and TEAPers fail in the simplest of endevours: To get their stuff together and build a coalition that can’t be ignored. Surely there is commonality of interests but where is the outreach , and needed continuity?

Just as in the Gun Scares of the ’90′s when various factions in the firearms community were divided into various sub-groups,(Hunters,self-protectionists,* assault rifles*, etc.) the various common interests fail to see that “a fist is always superior to an open hand”.Pro-gunners eventually got it more or less correct , but it came from zeroing in on deficiencies and correction.

As long as Liberty Seekers, and Originalists stay divided, it gets no better. Doing what has always been done gets you to Here, and you consider This Set of circumstances a lost cause.
Time for some Creative Destruction.

I’ve been at this for a short while (1994,+/-) but collective backing off of your assigned group’s stated goals has always been a constant. Just as taking a hill over and over again in warfare is so absolutely soul-sucking, this scenario repeated again and again in my short experience has been seen and rarely mentioned,or acted on.

Tell me I don’t have a point, ‘raginpatriot’. I’m right here and I listen.

By: tngal

tngal — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:04:28 +0000

She is so great explaining what dems mean. Or maybe Biden. He has a knack for it as well.

There’s a virus going around their camp, and they’ve all caught it.

Thankfully, we are not going to have to spend a lot on creative ad writers this election. The ads have been written for us.

By: davesinsanantonio

davesinsanantonio — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:25:05 +0000

whether Obummer has Axelrod’s permission to say a thing.

Axelrod has had to keep very busy trying to un-do some of the things Obummer has said.

By: igotacomment

igotacomment — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:05:39 +0000

“lakeworthcane”

“If it makes you feel any better, I?m sure that if David Axelrod had a son, he?d look like you. Wait a minute. You?re not Axelrod?s son, are you?”
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Hey, if was, I’d cut it off so I’d never reproduce! No, that’s not profanity … it’s the truth.

By: acat

acat — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:36:57 +0000

but you’re exactly right. We’re nominating two past masters of proxy-hitting dirty-tricks campaign school.

This is going to get dirty. Fast.

Mew

By: Remington_Steele

Remington_Steele — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:29:23 +0000

irony and humor. Man, I haven’t laughed this hard or seen so many worthy of getting smacked for quite a while.

By: cbartlett

cbartlett — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:04:26 +0000

Why on earth would Axlerod EVER endorse anyone other than BHO? Erick is being sarcastic – duh!

By: barleycorn

barleycorn — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:03:41 +0000

That Axelrod was stupid enough to frame his comment as he did or that several commenters up-thread are too obtuse to get the joke.

I knew comedy was hard but I never realized it was THIS hard.

By: cbartlett

cbartlett — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:40:52 +0000

By: rickbull

rickbull — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:29:01 +0000

from the road we’re on (Obama’s road).

And I quote: “The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we’re on.”

He appears to be expressing enthusiasm against the direction that Obama is taking.

By: lakeworthcane

lakeworthcane — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:10:42 +0000

I don’t want any more “experienced politicians” with all their age-old connections. I don’t want people who know how to “work the establishment.” I want people who will not set “the Washington establishment” politely aside but will hurl it with great force.

If you think “Washington insiders” are going to get over on Romney, then you’re the one who’s mislead.

By: kowalski

kowalski — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:10:30 +0000

I could. I don’t think he’s a crazy person. I think his wife is doing good things at least in terms of her messages about obesity and healthy eating. She’s trying to help people. His kids, I’m sure, are wonderful. He’s a center-left President with a Europeanist VP and he’s trying to move the country in the direction he was elected to move it in. He brought a lot of people into the government and tried to imbue them with the sense of seriousness it brings. He has never been an unserious man in office, I think. He’s made decisions and I think he’s gotten some bad advice.

I think he’s been rash on a couple of occasions and I think he’s damaged himself more than anything else by being rash. The Fast and Furious thing and then this latest theatricality with the Florida case is really unnerving – and I have to think he knows it’s unnecessary and probably destructive. I can’t say for sure, though.

But if I decided to tour the White House and I happened to meet him when he came to greet visitors unexpectedly would I scream and yell at him? Absolutely not. He’s still our President. Most of what he’s done are things I’ve expected him to do, except for things that I think are really, truthfully deeply unhelpful and even when I disagree with him (which I do almost every day) he’s still our President.

I know he’s working hard and I respect him and I deeply respect the office he holds. He has his prerogatives and his views, and after all, he was elected, not me. I’m just not going to vote for him in this election cycle, and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure more people don’t vote for him, either.

But I do have a core belief in his civility and I know I have a core belief in mine.

By: tecumsehtea

tecumsehtea — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:10:09 +0000

n/t

By: gekster

gekster — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:57:08 +0000

Thanks for the laugh.

By: lakeworthcane

lakeworthcane — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:56:58 +0000

With time, you will learn to accept that Axelrod has overcome his own disbelief, abandoned Obama and heartily endorse Romney.

Don’t be ashamed. We’ve all had to go through this: astonished disbelief that Americans elected a door-to-door Electrolux salesman named after a flying donkey to the Presidency.

Axelrod has finally worked through it. With time, you will to, and you will tearfully rejoice and join Axelrod on Romney’s side.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:55:56 +0000

Even in the full clip, it isn’t until the final sentence that he says “the same failed policies that were so disastrous in the last decade.” Hmmm….

Maybe he has jumped ship. I mean, the “last decade”? Three years of it were during the Obama administration, and they’ve been the worst. The decade before that was mostly run by the Democrats. Just what did he mean?

By: lakeworthcane

lakeworthcane — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:46:23 +0000

Look, Whothennow, you shouldn’t take this so hard. It’s not the worst thing in the world that Axelrod has obviously abandoned Obama and signed on with Romney.

If it makes you feel any better, I’m sure that if David Axelrod had a son, he’d look like you.

Wait a minute. You’re not Axelrod’s son, are you?

By: kowalski

kowalski — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:40:09 +0000

Sometimes you have to fight a shape shifter with a shape shifter. Someone equally as skilled at manipulating people.