So, at the first debate the audience applauded execution of convicts,

[hedgehog]

Poll question: So, at the first debate the audience applauded execution of convicts,

at the second, the deaths of people who didn't buy health insurance.

What will they applaud tonight?

[EstimatedProphet]

1. More applause for executions

[hifiguy]

3. Yep. I'd bet fifty bucks that if the Davis case comes up

that the 'pukes will fall all over each other applauding it and that the audience will be cheering them loudly on.

[monmouth]

7. I swear I came on here to exactly type that. I wouldn't be at all surprised..n/t

[Chan790]

12. I think you're right and it'd be the nail in their coffin.

Davis's execution is not playing well with middle-America, even among those who are normally rather pro-capital-punishment. It shook a lot of people who thought there's no way they can execute a man if there is even a 1/2% chance he's innocent. Well, they did...and it's unnerving a lot of people, even ones who normally have no issue with the death penalty and still don't. I can talk about all the Facebook conversations I've had, but I want to focus down on a small segment of them as particularly exemplary.

I have the circumstance to have grown-up one town over from the site of the Petit home invasion murders in CT & the trial of the "mastermind" Josh Komisarjevsky is going on now; that was my community. I can honestly say that at-least half the people I knew growing-up knew at-least one of the victims. Dr. Petit was my mother's endocrinologist. They played in our parks, we shopped in the same grocery stores, attended the same schools. It hit close to home. The community is very invested in the case, I've been kind of getting the arm's length treatment for weeks (even from my own family!) because I'm an anti-DP activist. This morning everybody wanted to talk about it and about Davis...tell me what a difference there is between Komisarjevsky & Hayes (who most of them want to see publicly torn limb-from-limb) and Troy Davis...they're not trying to convince me, they're trying to convince themselves, you can see it in the conversations. Their confidence in the system and the punishment is shaken, even if they don't change their POV, they're going to have to work through the sense that an innocent man may have died last night because the system is imperfect.

Applauding that and having that applause replayed on national TV just might be the most-damaging thing politically since the "Daisy" ad. Those candidates are going to come off like monsters, those tea-partiers will come off as people that Americans just don't want to be. Visceral repulsion is a strong force.

[teddy51]

2. Probably something like Euthanasia for our Seniors! n/t

[Happyhippychick]

4. The Troy Davis execution should put all of them in a terrific mood!

[rurallib]

5. homeless as targets in urban hunts to raise money for cities.

[Chan790]

6. Death camps for liberals?

Nothing shocks me anymore...I hate conservatives.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. Other: Two pounds of wheat for a day's wages

We know they are the party of war

We know they are the party of pestilence, opposing health care

We know they are the party of death, in a variety of forms


They now need only to complete their journey to becoming the party of famine to fulfill their own prophecy




http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6&version=NIV

[Vinca]

9. With 2 executions less than 24 hours ago,

we might witness the the first ever GOP audience to have a mass orgasm.

[cascadiance]

10. That "reasonable doubt" is "no reason to stop capital crime justice being dispensed"...

... and from Perry's point of view he will say it is an "obsolete concept" to the sadists' cheers!

[Pyrzqxgl]

11. Has to be Bibles in the Classroom.

Then they could look up the Ten Commandments & find out they are all going to hell for supporting murder by the State.

[louis-t]

13. Payment for services in chickens.

Morons.

[Raine]

14. The execution of Davis has it "all" for repubs

not only an innocent man dead (like the guy in the coma) but a BIG plus because he was state executed! :applause: (repug applause) UGH they make me :puke: they are sick. :-(

[Parker CA]

15. Is this debate on TV? Channel? Time? Thanks!

[lpbk2713]

16. Firing all teachers.

They would like that a lot.

[louslobbs]

17. They would all applaud the injection of tracking devices into all of the poor and middle class along

with the forced wearing of bootstraps for same. They would also applaud, the violent overthrow of our government if they thought they could get away with it.
Lou

[pokerfan]

18. Banish all LGBTs to Johnston Atoll

[lumberjack_jeff]

19. Mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

20. Televised executions.

Thanks for the thread, hedgehog.

[applegrove]

21. The deaths of people who express human emotion outside of advertising where, the tea party knows,

really all emotion belongs.

[AsahinaKimi]

22. Debtors' prison

FOR EVERYONE who is not Rich and Republican.