The surprise beneficiary of Mitten’s departure
Romney’s drop out may actually be a boon to Barack Obama says this Buzzflash article from today:
As for the race to succeed [Bush]: Mitt Romney is out - but the candidate who may gain the most from his exit isn’t Mike Huckabee (the beneficiary of a sudden endorsement from a James Dobson) or even John McCain (whose path to the Republican nomination now seems secure). That distinction actually goes to Barack Obama, who no longer has to compete with McCain for independents in suddenly-competitive primary states like Virginia, Texas and Ohio, where independent voters are eligible to vote in upcoming Democratic contests. – CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
So, our Audacious Hopester may very well get a boost from this recent development. We may have a winner here Folks.
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There seems to be a consensus that Obama is more likely to garner independent votes than Hillary. Another example is that LA county found 90K more independent ballots, and the immediate speculation was that Obama might get another CA delegate.
After reading here about Gantt’s arrest, and reading the comments over at the D&C:
I have to wonder which the GOP fear more? A woman, a Clinton, or a black man?
The GOP are a sick, twisted, paranoid group of people. Too bad only the weak minded sheeple follow them. “They know not what they have done…”
Hey - don’t stereotype all the GOP types just because they are Republicans.
Stereotyping an entire group of people - women, Blacks, Republicans, etc - is called bigotry!
After yesterdays incident Lee, call me a Republican bigot. If I were a registered GOP, I would be ashamed. I spoke yesterday to 2 registered republicans, lifelong GOP voters, both in the 75-79 year age bracket.
They were horrified watching the arrests on TV, and are of the age to remember when Francis Florence was a much younger man in the 60’s, active in helping to resolve the historic race riots in Rochester.
They gasped when they saw this 74 year old man being cuffed and loaded into a police car at a public meeting. They shook their heads in shame at the direction their party has taken, not only locally, but nationally.
“I don’t know what’s happening to our country”, the man stated, “but I can assure you that what they are doing now is just wrong. Francis Florence is a well-known and well respected man, and for crying out loud, the man is 74 years old!”
They went on to further elaborate about how the local Monroe County Republicans are not representative of what they believed their party stood for. They mentioned the fact of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” with the FAIR plan and the impact it will have on everyone, including seniors. They talked about the increasing monthly costs of their food, heat and medicine, and how “something has to give” and that relief has to be soon, as many of their friends are already forfieting good nutrition over heating costs. They asked if I knew when the FAIR plan was going to impact their school taxes, and hoped it would be in the summer, so as not to bite into their budgeted winter heating expenses.
In closing, the both stated they would NOT be voting on the Republican line again until “Maggie Brooks and that whole gang of shenanigans” is gone.
So you may want to be the poster child for GOP reform Lee. Trying to convince anyone in this community that what is happening isn’t stereotypical of a bunch of egotistical, self-serving morons won’t fly.
Not for this registered Democrat, or for those 2 registered Republicans. And we’re just THREE people in this county. Extrapulate that out, do the math, and realize your way of thinking is no longer mainstream. Nor is it going to be accepted.
Amen to that, brother!
The elected Republicans are nothing but a bunch of thugs.
They behave like this because they can, and for no other reason but that. Their attitude toward the public: Screw you and everybody who looks like you, I don’t care.