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		<title>By: rightlane1111</title>
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		<dc:creator>rightlane1111</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[during this campaign.  That little remark in South Carolina (I believe) old Billy Boy WILL NEVER, EVER FORGET.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>during this campaign.  That little remark in South Carolina (I believe) old Billy Boy WILL NEVER, EVER FORGET.</p>
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		<title>By: acat</title>
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		<dc:creator>acat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[is still strong, and can be used by both parties.  I don&#039;t know what he could have changed, but .. W is not an orator, and his campaign had to work harder because of it.

Mew]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>is still strong, and can be used by both parties.  I don&#8217;t know what he could have changed, but .. W is not an orator, and his campaign had to work harder because of it.</p>
<p>Mew</p>
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		<title>By: rightlane1111</title>
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		<dc:creator>rightlane1111</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[with thuggery.  As far as his approval rating...I don&#039;t believe that any more than I believe that we are on the road to recovery.  We have not  been since he came into office.  The entire thing has been a facade.

Some talking head says that he is popular with the people...that his personal popularity is up.  I have not spoken to &quot;ONE&quot; (1) PERSON so far that agrees with that...NOT ONE.  So...we have &quot;paid&quot; pundits and leftwing websites spouting misinformation...not to mention the constant &quot;LYING&quot;  by Obama himself...and those that don&#039;t think..that don&#039;t contribute..that don&#039;t work...they say...well if so and so said it...it must be true.  But...now that O&#039;s policies are starting to take effect...not so much...not so much at all.

Even students who are living on College-funded welfare at our expense have noticed that their interest rates are going up.  Oh...the MSM might not report that...but that is what they see.  They are not too happy and Mommy and Daddy are tapped out.  Why because of O&#039;s policies.  Guess where that bill originated?  In Obamacare...and somehow..someway...Obama has to fund what is already taking place.  Smoke and Mirrors and We are sick of people that MISLEAD.   Do you like liars?  I don&#039;t.

Walker, according to the press, had a slight lead and it was closing fast to dead even.  What is the result...Walker by 7%.  That was the polls.  Last night I listened, in HORROR, to MSNBC.  They predicted that Barrett was the winner...that he was ahead.  So much for talking heads and polls.  Mr. Ed, the talking horse, even cried...but it did not work.

Your candidate is not good for America and America has begun to figure that out...even the ones that get it all on &quot;our dime&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>with thuggery.  As far as his approval rating&#8230;I don&#8217;t believe that any more than I believe that we are on the road to recovery.  We have not  been since he came into office.  The entire thing has been a facade.</p>
<p>Some talking head says that he is popular with the people&#8230;that his personal popularity is up.  I have not spoken to &#8220;ONE&#8221; (1) PERSON so far that agrees with that&#8230;NOT ONE.  So&#8230;we have &#8220;paid&#8221; pundits and leftwing websites spouting misinformation&#8230;not to mention the constant &#8220;LYING&#8221;  by Obama himself&#8230;and those that don&#8217;t think..that don&#8217;t contribute..that don&#8217;t work&#8230;they say&#8230;well if so and so said it&#8230;it must be true.  But&#8230;now that O&#8217;s policies are starting to take effect&#8230;not so much&#8230;not so much at all.</p>
<p>Even students who are living on College-funded welfare at our expense have noticed that their interest rates are going up.  Oh&#8230;the MSM might not report that&#8230;but that is what they see.  They are not too happy and Mommy and Daddy are tapped out.  Why because of O&#8217;s policies.  Guess where that bill originated?  In Obamacare&#8230;and somehow..someway&#8230;Obama has to fund what is already taking place.  Smoke and Mirrors and We are sick of people that MISLEAD.   Do you like liars?  I don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Walker, according to the press, had a slight lead and it was closing fast to dead even.  What is the result&#8230;Walker by 7%.  That was the polls.  Last night I listened, in HORROR, to MSNBC.  They predicted that Barrett was the winner&#8230;that he was ahead.  So much for talking heads and polls.  Mr. Ed, the talking horse, even cried&#8230;but it did not work.</p>
<p>Your candidate is not good for America and America has begun to figure that out&#8230;even the ones that get it all on &#8220;our dime&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: rightlane1111</title>
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		<dc:creator>rightlane1111</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think W did a good job in 04 with his campaign.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think W did a good job in 04 with his campaign.</p>
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		<title>By: acat</title>
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		<dc:creator>acat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe one of those Adamses too.  I forget, been a while since my &quot;biographies are cool&quot; phase.

Mew]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe one of those Adamses too.  I forget, been a while since my &#8220;biographies are cool&#8221; phase.</p>
<p>Mew</p>
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		<title>By: stevends</title>
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		<dc:creator>stevends</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the things I look for in a POTUS, the inability to quote the Quoran from memory has to be at the top of the list.

That and natural born U.S. Citizen (over the age of 35, of course).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of all the things I look for in a POTUS, the inability to quote the Quoran from memory has to be at the top of the list.</p>
<p>That and natural born U.S. Citizen (over the age of 35, of course).</p>
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		<title>By: ariyosef</title>
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		<dc:creator>ariyosef</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOT TRUTH.    NOT the SAME as O!   

As much as I, too, prefer a more conservative candidate,
your words against the best currently available candidate, border on insane.

I too am 62 year native Texan.  Proud of it and independent, even also a RP fan.

But I am NOT STUPID enough to foolishly flush the best and only choice and REAL alternative CHALLENGE the impending destruction of our NATION if we follow your suicidal thoughts.  Your mentality as expressed above is what hurt RP.

RP will not get a chance for second ballot of delegates so? curb your bitterness.

GET REAL and wake from your idiocy....

Romney is 

NOT a Socialist.  
NOT a hater of AMERICA.
NOT against the CONSTITUTION.
NOT likely to allow more liberals on the Supreme Court.
NOT for Abortion on demand much less Pre birth termination of Infants.

Romney CANNOT quote the Quoran from memory.
    Romney is NOT a LOVER of the Militant Muslim Brotherhood.

Romney IS a natural born US Citizen qualified to hold the highest office.

Romney  HAS Become  MORE  Conservative in this year.
 
teapartypatriot4ever WAKE UP FROM YOUR BITTER  NIGHTMARE!
Truth is respectful:
Your post is neither nor is it wisdom.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NOT TRUTH.    NOT the SAME as O!   </p>
<p>As much as I, too, prefer a more conservative candidate,<br />
your words against the best currently available candidate, border on insane.</p>
<p>I too am 62 year native Texan.  Proud of it and independent, even also a RP fan.</p>
<p>But I am NOT STUPID enough to foolishly flush the best and only choice and REAL alternative CHALLENGE the impending destruction of our NATION if we follow your suicidal thoughts.  Your mentality as expressed above is what hurt RP.</p>
<p>RP will not get a chance for second ballot of delegates so? curb your bitterness.</p>
<p>GET REAL and wake from your idiocy&#8230;.</p>
<p>Romney is </p>
<p>NOT a Socialist.<br />
NOT a hater of AMERICA.<br />
NOT against the CONSTITUTION.<br />
NOT likely to allow more liberals on the Supreme Court.<br />
NOT for Abortion on demand much less Pre birth termination of Infants.</p>
<p>Romney CANNOT quote the Quoran from memory.<br />
    Romney is NOT a LOVER of the Militant Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Romney IS a natural born US Citizen qualified to hold the highest office.</p>
<p>Romney  HAS Become  MORE  Conservative in this year.</p>
<p>teapartypatriot4ever WAKE UP FROM YOUR BITTER  NIGHTMARE!<br />
Truth is respectful:<br />
Your post is neither nor is it wisdom.</p>
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		<title>By: tnfriendofcoal101368</title>
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		<dc:creator>tnfriendofcoal101368</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Bill S a couple of weeks ago &quot;The time to discuss whether he is worthy of our vote has passed.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Bill S a couple of weeks ago &#8220;The time to discuss whether he is worthy of our vote has passed.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: APA Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>APA Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Romney is not as bad as Obama, but Romney is still the same as Obama in so many aspects of being and implementing liberal progressive policies, laws, and agenda., along with being and utilizing cronyism .&quot;

Just like &quot;I&#039;m a conservative, but...&quot;

Mods, the ball is in your court :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Romney is not as bad as Obama, but Romney is still the same as Obama in so many aspects of being and implementing liberal progressive policies, laws, and agenda., along with being and utilizing cronyism .&#8221;</p>
<p>Just like &#8220;I&#8217;m a conservative, but&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Mods, the ball is in your court <img src='http://www.redstate.com/erick/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: checkmate2012</title>
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		<dc:creator>checkmate2012</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[on Conservatism. Also your grammer and punctuation stinks, but leaving that aside, your empahtic &quot;NO&#039; in the last paragraph tells me that you are yet another troll with a name that no one will challenge. 

Nice attack on R and your blatent vote for O: &quot;why would anyone vote for the same liberal progressive person with the same liberal progressive policies as Obama.&quot; 

C Ya!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>on Conservatism. Also your grammer and punctuation stinks, but leaving that aside, your empahtic &#8220;NO&#8217; in the last paragraph tells me that you are yet another troll with a name that no one will challenge. </p>
<p>Nice attack on R and your blatent vote for O: &#8220;why would anyone vote for the same liberal progressive person with the same liberal progressive policies as Obama.&#8221; </p>
<p>C Ya!</p>
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		<title>By: teapartypatriot4ever</title>
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		<dc:creator>teapartypatriot4ever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, everything that has been said and documented of Obama and his crony radical anti-American Liberal Progressive Socialist-Marxist actions and policies that have  been thus far been enacted, installed, implemented, executed, and otherwise forced down the American peoples throats like Obamacare, and so on, is true.

But what does that say about the American voters who put him into office and power without caring about who he was, and what he wanted to do to America, our Freedoms, Liberties, Rights, Democracy, the US Constitution, and the Republic itself.

Is the majority of American people so liberally indoctrinated or are so indifferent ie; the 2008 election of Obama-  to be so apathetic that they take their responsibility in this US Constitutional Republic so callously and carelessly as to vote someone like Obama into office and power whose only agenda and goal was to fundamentally transform  America into a Socialist-Marxist State, thus destroy their very Country and Freedoms and Rights and Economy..

The answer from  comes from  all the elections that have thus far happened since the 2008 Election, The American people have reawakened and realized their egregious error and massive mistake, that which the consequences from can be devastating and disastrous as we have seen all throughout history, as well as in present circumstances.

But does the GOP Primary election of Romney say they have learned their lesson... I believe the answer to be No.. Romney is not as bad as Obama, but Romney is still the same as Obama in so many aspects of being and implementing liberal progressive policies, laws, and agenda., along with being  and utilizing cronyism . His hypocrisy in this area double standard double taking against Obama&#039;s policies like individual forced mandated healthcare State Socialized Medicine is an example, for which he will not refute, and  said  was a conservative cause, which it is not, as well as saying Obamacare must be repealed, when he will not do the same for Romneycare, the very exact same thing he attacks Obama for.. Thus why would anyone vote for the same liberal progressive person with the same liberal progressive policies as Obama.

NO, the people have yet to learn their mistakes, and have yet to learn that only real conservative values and principles if Reaganonmics, and of putting  the US Constitution and Democracy and Freedom and Liberty first before party politics, is the only answer to America;s woes, past, present, and future.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, everything that has been said and documented of Obama and his crony radical anti-American Liberal Progressive Socialist-Marxist actions and policies that have  been thus far been enacted, installed, implemented, executed, and otherwise forced down the American peoples throats like Obamacare, and so on, is true.</p>
<p>But what does that say about the American voters who put him into office and power without caring about who he was, and what he wanted to do to America, our Freedoms, Liberties, Rights, Democracy, the US Constitution, and the Republic itself.</p>
<p>Is the majority of American people so liberally indoctrinated or are so indifferent ie; the 2008 election of Obama-  to be so apathetic that they take their responsibility in this US Constitutional Republic so callously and carelessly as to vote someone like Obama into office and power whose only agenda and goal was to fundamentally transform  America into a Socialist-Marxist State, thus destroy their very Country and Freedoms and Rights and Economy..</p>
<p>The answer from  comes from  all the elections that have thus far happened since the 2008 Election, The American people have reawakened and realized their egregious error and massive mistake, that which the consequences from can be devastating and disastrous as we have seen all throughout history, as well as in present circumstances.</p>
<p>But does the GOP Primary election of Romney say they have learned their lesson&#8230; I believe the answer to be No.. Romney is not as bad as Obama, but Romney is still the same as Obama in so many aspects of being and implementing liberal progressive policies, laws, and agenda., along with being  and utilizing cronyism . His hypocrisy in this area double standard double taking against Obama&#8217;s policies like individual forced mandated healthcare State Socialized Medicine is an example, for which he will not refute, and  said  was a conservative cause, which it is not, as well as saying Obamacare must be repealed, when he will not do the same for Romneycare, the very exact same thing he attacks Obama for.. Thus why would anyone vote for the same liberal progressive person with the same liberal progressive policies as Obama.</p>
<p>NO, the people have yet to learn their mistakes, and have yet to learn that only real conservative values and principles if Reaganonmics, and of putting  the US Constitution and Democracy and Freedom and Liberty first before party politics, is the only answer to America;s woes, past, present, and future.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack_Savage</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack_Savage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Axelrod&#039;s specialty is packaging unknown black  candidates for consumption by the masses. He is in uncharted territory here, and it shows. You can be an idiot and win locally, and even statewide (see: Joe Biden), but when you are POTUS the whole world is watching.

Obama simply is in over his head, and really never was interested in the actual job of being President.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Axelrod&#8217;s specialty is packaging unknown black  candidates for consumption by the masses. He is in uncharted territory here, and it shows. You can be an idiot and win locally, and even statewide (see: Joe Biden), but when you are POTUS the whole world is watching.</p>
<p>Obama simply is in over his head, and really never was interested in the actual job of being President.</p>
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		<title>By: acat</title>
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		<dc:creator>acat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning a hard-fought, nearly successful campaign against an entrenched establishment guy into a hard-fought *successful* campaign against the *entire establishment* four years later... and then coming from behind to crush Jimmy Carter&#039;s nuts in a landslide.....  (I&#039;ll point out that Mitt Romney is on this path ...)

Clinton would have lost if H.W. Bush had shiv&#039;d Perot like he deserved.  Not because Clinton ran a bad campaign .. but because that would have meant Bush had his heart in it... and that&#039;s the real reason he lost.  Perot was merely a symptom.

As for Reagan &#039;84 ... I suspect that all the materiel for as hard-fought and difficult a campaign as 1980 was available, but .. why waste it on a sad sack like Mondale?

Oh, and I do not agree to disagree.  You have failed to prove your point, you&#039;ve merely asserted that I&#039;m in error; I suspect because you have some kind of man-crush on Axelrod.

Mew]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turning a hard-fought, nearly successful campaign against an entrenched establishment guy into a hard-fought *successful* campaign against the *entire establishment* four years later&#8230; and then coming from behind to crush Jimmy Carter&#8217;s nuts in a landslide&#8230;..  (I&#8217;ll point out that Mitt Romney is on this path &#8230;)</p>
<p>Clinton would have lost if H.W. Bush had shiv&#8217;d Perot like he deserved.  Not because Clinton ran a bad campaign .. but because that would have meant Bush had his heart in it&#8230; and that&#8217;s the real reason he lost.  Perot was merely a symptom.</p>
<p>As for Reagan &#8217;84 &#8230; I suspect that all the materiel for as hard-fought and difficult a campaign as 1980 was available, but .. why waste it on a sad sack like Mondale?</p>
<p>Oh, and I do not agree to disagree.  You have failed to prove your point, you&#8217;ve merely asserted that I&#8217;m in error; I suspect because you have some kind of man-crush on Axelrod.</p>
<p>Mew</p>
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		<title>By: checkmate2012</title>
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		<dc:creator>checkmate2012</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Jill and Michelle ?Would Not Have Any Chance? Without Govt.-&quot;

I guess their wives live the life of Julia too..I&#039;ll name Obama Julien 1 and Julien 2! 

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff - June 5, 2012 3:44 pm

&quot;Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his wife, as well as the wife of President Barack Obama, would have had ?no chance? in life had it not been for government help. According to vice presidential pool reports:
 
Vice President Biden met with leaders from 10 colleges this afternoon to kick off a new effort to increase transparency in financial aid packages. ?
 
?I know, literally, Barack and I talk about it. Neither one of us would have had any shot,? Biden said. ?The same with our wives. Both wives are smarter than both of us. Literally, these very accomplished women would not have any chance without some help.?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Jill and Michelle ?Would Not Have Any Chance? Without Govt.-&#8221;</p>
<p>I guess their wives live the life of Julia too..I&#8217;ll name Obama Julien 1 and Julien 2! </p>
<p>BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff &#8211; June 5, 2012 3:44 pm</p>
<p>&#8220;Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his wife, as well as the wife of President Barack Obama, would have had ?no chance? in life had it not been for government help. According to vice presidential pool reports:</p>
<p>Vice President Biden met with leaders from 10 colleges this afternoon to kick off a new effort to increase transparency in financial aid packages. ?</p>
<p>?I know, literally, Barack and I talk about it. Neither one of us would have had any shot,? Biden said. ?The same with our wives. Both wives are smarter than both of us. Literally, these very accomplished women would not have any chance without some help.?</p>
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		<title>By: stevends</title>
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		<dc:creator>stevends</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to play the game as it is, not as it should be.  It is still possible for politicians of both parties to become media darlings.  Staying there is of course much, much harder.  

It takes a lot of political skill to be portrayed as one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have to play the game as it is, not as it should be.  It is still possible for politicians of both parties to become media darlings.  Staying there is of course much, much harder.  </p>
<p>It takes a lot of political skill to be portrayed as one.</p>
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		<title>By: checkmate2012</title>
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		<dc:creator>checkmate2012</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MSM props him up everyday and keeps saying how likeable he is and that&#039;s what the general electorate hears. But they feel in it their paycheck if they have one, so I don&#039;t think the O team has a leg to stand on this go &#039;round. No more avoiding the real issues which is exactly what their campaign is based upon: smoke and mirrors.

I agree with you his approval rating should be much, much lower.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The MSM props him up everyday and keeps saying how likeable he is and that&#8217;s what the general electorate hears. But they feel in it their paycheck if they have one, so I don&#8217;t think the O team has a leg to stand on this go &#8217;round. No more avoiding the real issues which is exactly what their campaign is based upon: smoke and mirrors.</p>
<p>I agree with you his approval rating should be much, much lower.</p>
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		<title>By: stevends</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/06/05/the-overplayed-hand-of-an-amateur/#comment-185170</link>
		<dc:creator>stevends</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m talking about the competence of his political organization.  

Political organizations take candidates, issues and positions and try to make them popular with the country.  When GWBush selected Cheney to be his VP, Rove told Bush that Cheney wasn&#039;t going to be good for his electoral prospects.  Bush told him, too bad, its your job to make the decision popular, so go make it popular.

Right now Obama has a 47% approval rating.  Not good, but not terrible.  In light of the country&#039;s economic performance, it should be much lower.  That means that either:

1)  He is a good politician (and/or has a good political operation) who is more popular than he should be, or
2)  His political opponents are poor at making him unpopular.

I guess there is a third option that the electorate is much more foolish than they&#039;ve ever been, but that is the kind of statement that ends all intelligent discussion.  You could also argue that the depth and lingering effects of the 2008 financial crisis give him a free pass and inflate his popularity.  That happens rarely  - Ike had inflated popularity for saving the world from the Nazi&#039;s, LBJ had inflated popularity in &#039;64 b/c of Kennedy assassination, etc.  But I think that is minimal.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m talking about the competence of his political organization.  </p>
<p>Political organizations take candidates, issues and positions and try to make them popular with the country.  When GWBush selected Cheney to be his VP, Rove told Bush that Cheney wasn&#8217;t going to be good for his electoral prospects.  Bush told him, too bad, its your job to make the decision popular, so go make it popular.</p>
<p>Right now Obama has a 47% approval rating.  Not good, but not terrible.  In light of the country&#8217;s economic performance, it should be much lower.  That means that either:</p>
<p>1)  He is a good politician (and/or has a good political operation) who is more popular than he should be, or<br />
2)  His political opponents are poor at making him unpopular.</p>
<p>I guess there is a third option that the electorate is much more foolish than they&#8217;ve ever been, but that is the kind of statement that ends all intelligent discussion.  You could also argue that the depth and lingering effects of the 2008 financial crisis give him a free pass and inflate his popularity.  That happens rarely  &#8211; Ike had inflated popularity for saving the world from the Nazi&#8217;s, LBJ had inflated popularity in &#8217;64 b/c of Kennedy assassination, etc.  But I think that is minimal.</p>
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		<title>By: checkmate2012</title>
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		<dc:creator>checkmate2012</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[without having both Chambers anymore? Zero political ability.

He sold the Bush wary country a bill of goods, they bought and now many have buyers remorse. 

The shiny new penny is tarnished and so are his tactics.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>without having both Chambers anymore? Zero political ability.</p>
<p>He sold the Bush wary country a bill of goods, they bought and now many have buyers remorse. </p>
<p>The shiny new penny is tarnished and so are his tactics.</p>
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		<title>By: acat</title>
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		<dc:creator>acat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are very good at making an unknown guy look very, very good.

They did an impressive job of making him look good with no record... but they can&#039;t repeat that.  Their trick doesn&#039;t work with a known guy.

Mew]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They are very good at making an unknown guy look very, very good.</p>
<p>They did an impressive job of making him look good with no record&#8230; but they can&#8217;t repeat that.  Their trick doesn&#8217;t work with a known guy.</p>
<p>Mew</p>
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		<title>By: stevends</title>
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		<dc:creator>stevends</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, I&#039;m curious...  What is your &quot;ideal&quot; presidential campaign?  They are all imperfect, with imperfect candidates.

Bush 2000?  Won Florida by 500 votes because he spent final days in California projecting his inevitable victory.

Clinton &#039;92?  Would there be a President Clinton if not for Ross Perot?  GHWBush ran a mediocre campaign.

Reagan &#039;80 and &#039;84?  Sure, but the &#039;84 Reagan campaign had minimal substance and fantastic economic growth and Mondale promising to raise taxes, while the &#039;80 campaign  was against Jimmy Carter.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But, I&#8217;m curious&#8230;  What is your &#8220;ideal&#8221; presidential campaign?  They are all imperfect, with imperfect candidates.</p>
<p>Bush 2000?  Won Florida by 500 votes because he spent final days in California projecting his inevitable victory.</p>
<p>Clinton &#8217;92?  Would there be a President Clinton if not for Ross Perot?  GHWBush ran a mediocre campaign.</p>
<p>Reagan &#8217;80 and &#8217;84?  Sure, but the &#8217;84 Reagan campaign had minimal substance and fantastic economic growth and Mondale promising to raise taxes, while the &#8217;80 campaign  was against Jimmy Carter.</p>
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