Great comments on Reuters story: Mitt Romney wins Republican straw poll

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

I really liked a few of the comments posted at the bottom of the story: Mitt Romney wins Republican straw poll
http://www.reuters.com/article/comments/idUSTRE6392DK20100410

My favorites:

(posted by Onemanvolt)
Most of this country approves of the President WE elected and his policies. After years of deregulation and the further destruction of the planet and economy by careless, amoral corporations, it’s time we had an administration willing and capable to pull back the other way. To put governing back into the hands of ALL American people and less in the hands of the extremely wealthy and “too big to fail” corporations. Republicans have been trying to ignore the last two major elections, not to mention the economy crashing, deficit exploding administrations of Bush and Cheney. We the majority of this nation reject what most Republicans and their extreme religious right has to offer legislatively, socially, and judicially. Republicans are the logjam keeping this nation from prosperity. They are the ones selling out to whoever waves the most money in front of their collective noses. That is a policy of failure. No wonder so many Republicans would like to see the government shrink to insignificance. They ARE the party of failed policy and strategy.

(posted by yesiammark)
A quick question about Sarah Palin: While interesting to listen to, why does she only offer snide and sneering comments? Where are her idea’s? Can she give us an idea that is longer than a 7 or 8 word sentence? She is pretty, yet she is hollow. She is interesting to listen to, yet she really has nothing to say. What does that say about so many of we Republicans? Newt Gingrich is intelligent, has lots of idea’s that he can expound upon, just as can Ron Paul. There are a lot of people who may not like either Newt or Ron Paul or both, but these men have idea’s that they can articulate, that we can debate. Does not anyone else see that Palin is an empty suit? Her snide and sneering comments are red meat to the masses at a rally, but come on…we need real leadership. Listen to what Ron Paul has to say…he is far from a crack-pot…he is quite intelligent. You don’t have to agree with everything he says, but lets have a dialogue and debate about his idea’s and Newt’s idea’s.

(posted by ApostasyUSA)
Poll: Low Favorability Ratings for Sarah Palin
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001980-503544.html

If the stereotype fits, report it. The tea party folx are mostly Republicans that are too proud to admit they are Republicans. Pride is the downfall of the GOP. Tea Partyers are disaffected Republicans that the GOP is desperate to get back into the fold. That’s why the GOP is paying Palin thousands of dollars of your donations to speak on their behalf. Then Republicans prop up Romney like a bait and switch to pull in the Tea Party vote.

So don’t get fooled.

People who voted for Republicans are angry right now. The Republican Party has been fooling people into voting for them for decades despite their inability to deliver policies or laws that parallel the wishes of the majority of the constituency. If you are rich people then it makes sense that you would vote for Republicans because they will at any cost fight for the lowering of taxes for rich people, but aside from rich people Republicans do very little to improve the lives of average Americans.

How is it that Republicans get elected at all? What kind of fools would vote for somebody that cares so little for governing?

It seems every cultural position a Republican takes in public is meant to simply intensify and manipulate the emotions of people. They seem willing and able to find and exploit Americans who still think battles long lost are still being waged. Republicans of today are master manipulators of information and, they unfortunately for America, have powerful media corporations and lobbyist behind their cynical displays of misinformation and false hopes of resurrecting battles long lost to reasonable public policy and law.

People often discount our political system as broken but I believe this disputatious. There are huge differences between the Democrats and Republicans. I believe any American given the facts will come to find that Republicans of today have very little in mind when it comes to protecting liberty and justice for the majority in our country despite them using those words more than anybody.

I?m not going to let Republicans sell my country to the highest bidder. Democrats get my vote for years to come. I believe that Democrats are made up of the people who believe in liberty and justice for all Americans.

For me voting is like driving, vote R to go backwards, vote D to go forwards.
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Now that is a great comment, ApostasyUSA!

[DFW]

1. Maybe I'm spoiled or have weird taste

But all this talk of Palin being "attractive" makes me wonder if we are talking about the same Sarah Palin?
The one I usually think of is the looney tunes bake sale queen who ran alongside McCain, but I never found her
"attractive," so is there another one around, or do I just have weird taste in women?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

2. Well, she's more attractive than she is knowledgable...

That's for sure.

[DFW]

3. Well sure

But one a scale of 1 to 100, even a 1 is above zero.

[HughMoran]

6. That comment was from a Republican

it was the best thing he could say about her :rofl:

[Frank Cannon]

9. I'm into mature brunettes with glasses, and even I don't see the attraction.

There's just something about her constant crazed, mean look that's an instant dick-shrinker.

[emulatorloo]

18. Nothing comes out of her mouth that isn't snark, twisting of the facts, character assassination

She is definitely Vindictive Lying Ex-Wife material, as well as Backstabbing Friend material

[Enthusiast]

13. Well, if people didn't find her attractive

you would never ever see her and probably would never even have heard of her. Because aside from her folksie delivery and attractiveness she has NOTHING.

My wife could scream when she hears Sarah Palin's voice. I find it irritating but not to the degree that my wife does.

[Turborama]

17. You're not the only one. I don't get it, either.

She's ugly inside, and out.

[Subdivisions]

19. No matter how 'attractive' a person is, they're not

so pretty if you despise them for some reason. Or discover something about them you hadn't known about before.

I once dated a woman that every one of my male friends fell all over themselves about, slapping me on the back and asking me how I managed to have this woman on my arm. And she was very attractive - at first. Then, one morning, after a night of partying, she refused to get up to care for her two children, one a toddler, one still an infant, who were crying in their room. So, I left her in bed and got up to tend to the children.

I had asked her at one point why there was a hasp-lock installed on the children's bedroom door. She explained that the room used to be her office and the hasp was installed so that she could lock the room while she was away in case there was a break in. The reason she gave for the extra security was because the computers/office equipment belonged to her boss and his company. I shrugged off the explanation - until that morning.

The night before, I had gone to bed first as I had been up since early the previous morning. She had stayed up later to finish watching a movie and the children had been down for several hours. When I got up to go tend to the children that morning, I discovered that she had padlocked the children's door, locking them inside. I went back to her bed and shook her, asking where the key was. She moaned and told me to leave her alone and let her sleep. So, I went back to the kids' room and called to the toddler to move away from the door. I then kicked the door off its hinges and took the children out of the room, making the toddler some breakfast and changing the year-old infant's diaper and cleaned him up and fed him.

Then, after getting the children settled and comfortable, I called a friend to come get me. Then I called Child Protective Services. My friend arrived first and was curious what the deal was. I was still shaking with anger and I told him I'd explain in a few minutes. Then a CPS officer arrived and I explained what had happened. A while later, as my friend drove me away from there, he said "Boy, you can't always judge a book by its cover, can you?" "No," I said. "You certainly cannot." As that woman had become one of the most unattractive women I've ever known.

[K8-EEE]

20. My husband too he thinks she looks like Peggy Hill

From "King of the Hill" He's always like, what's the big deal about her looks?

[DFW]

21. I've never heard of Peggy Hill, but I agree with your husband

Maybe I just have odd taste, but I have NEVER found Sarah Palin to be what I would call attractive.
To be attractive to me, a woman's face has to communicate some inner spirit, and Palin's face just
comes up empty to me.

Here's more the kind of smile that grabs me (and did):

[old mark]

4. Palin is attractive compared to McCain, or Romney, maybe...

I am happy to see some of these comments, seems like some people are finally thinking a little...I hope this trend continues and the GOP gets a nasty surprise in November.

mark

[elocs]

5. Attractiveness usually is based upon looks and appearance.

Most of DU do not use that standard with Palin, but mix in the sound of her voice, what she says, how she says it, and her political ideas or lack of them.

If a DUer had a wife, girlfriend, sister, or friend who was physically similar to Palin I would doubt if they would think that person to be unattractive.

Based solely upon her physical appearance I would say that Palin is nice looking, maybe attractive, but in no way a great beauty. Outside of her physical appearance, who she is as a person makes her incredibly ugly.

[KharmaTrain]

7. A Trainwreck Up Ahead...

Mittens is the establishment's boy...the one who the "old money" that also controlled boooshie (or visa versa) and see him as a puppet...an empty suit who will allow them to fleece the treasury (their favorite vocation). He's safe, he's the ideal game show host. Now that doesn't work well with the Freepers and other unhinged. Many are Paulbots who surely will glam onto another Ron Paul run in '12 and thanks to the teabagging, more energized than other...but not at beating President Obama as much as going after Mittens. Mooselini is trying to play both ends...talking teabagger to get the teevee time and pretend to be the "populist" but will change stripes at a heartbeat to cozy up to the establishment...the ultimate opportunist whose loyalties are as "rich" as her knowledge of policy.

While Democrats can't sit back and continue to let the minority suck the air out of the political room and work hard to hold as many seats as possible this fall, the GOOP is in a bigger world of hurt than the corporate media will admit and the looming battle for the "soul" of what's left of that corrupt party will be the story of 2012, not the overwhelming re-election of President Obama.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

15. Ding ding ding...We have a winner...

Excellent points!

"the ultimate opportunist whose loyalties are as "rich" as her knowledge of policy"

Very well put!

[LLStarks]

8. Ron Paul in 2nd place with only 1 vote shy of Romney is the real story. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Yes, it is.

[Enthusiast]

14. The Republican PTB

will never accept Ron Paul as a candidate until he changes his stance on the military industrial complex.

[LLStarks]

22. It'll never happen. Paul is very principled. nt

[randr]

10. My new mantra

For me voting is like driving, vote R to go backwards, vote D to go forwards.
Forest Gump could not have said it better.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

16. "vote R to go backwards, vote D to go forwards"

That could be a very effective bumber sticker.

[Sheepshank]

11. I'm convinced that Reps see Palin from a strangely misconstrued perspective

Palin=Pretty
Pretty=Popular
Popular=Leadership
Leadership=Smart
Leadership+smart=Palin

I'm quite sure all those that chant her name, tell us she is exactly what the US needs and how brilliant she is, must have used q-tips too vigorously while doing the math above.