Libertine: On the Prowl

Vidi, vici, veni -- I saw, I conquered, I came. _______________________________________________________________

It's Time to Give It Up

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02:21, 2008-May-15 .. Posted by littleMissConfused

I just hope whoever wins can do something about the economy! I am sick of hearing people complain about the price of groceries going up. With gas prices rising everyday, it will just translate to even higher prices in other products.

Raising the minimum wage by 70 cents won't mean a thing since gas prices have risen that much per gallon in just a few months! The companies that have to pay that higher wage will just pass it on to the consumers....I see no end in sight!

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04:13, 2008-May-15 .. Posted by Eclectablog

Amen, brutha. The train has left the station and Hillary's still standing on the platform yelling "all aboard!" All she's doing now is making herself look foolish, methinks.

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08:44, 2008-May-15 .. Posted by texican

I applaud her tenacity, but there comes a point where you have to do what's best for your party and the country. Having said that, the current incarnation of the GOP could help the country immensely by hopping on that ship, up there.

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07:20, 2008-May-16 .. Posted by Aielman

Amen, brutha. The train has left the station and Hillary's still standing on the platform yelling "all aboard!" All she's doing now is making herself look foolish, methinks.

Considering they haven't decided whether or not they will seat Florida and Michigan, both of which would give her a clear win...and considering the latest gallop poll shows that 28% of her supporters will vote McCain and 19% won't vote at all if Obama nominated...I'm thinking she'd be foolish to leave the race at this point.

If the DNC wants to win the national election, they need to think long and hard about that data. In conjunction with the fact that Obama hasn't carried a single rust belt state but Illinois, or the fact that many of the states he did win in are solid red states, or the fact that McCain polls better in most of the swing states, it provides some pretty compelling data.

The DNC wants to win in the worst way imaginable. And it's really going to be amusing to watch them wrestle with this decision. Because Clinton knows this, and she's absolutely not going to drop out because of it.

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08:39, 2008-May-16 .. Posted by Eclectablog

Considering they haven't decided whether or not they will seat Florida and Michigan, both of which would give her a clear win...and considering the latest gallop poll shows that 28% of her supporters will vote McCain and 19% won't vote at all if Obama nominated...I'm thinking she'd be foolish to leave the race at this point.

He'll win with or without Michigan and Florida, that's almost a given at this point. The statistics you point out are not valid. Poll those same people again a few weeks after he wins the nomination and they'll be drastically different. If you honestly think that large numbers of Democrats are willing to concede the White House to the Republicans because their candidate didn't win the nomination, you have little sense of how intense the desire for regime change is in this country right now.

Republicans are losing key Congressional races in formerly red-as-anything states on a regular basis these days (most recently in Mississippi) and the GOP leadership is failing miserably at their job. They are far more worried about November than they'll ever admit to and some of the higher-ups ARE admitting it.

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01:32, 2008-May-18 .. Posted by grimfairy

Hell, I conceded a while back. As long as a Republican is no where near the Oval Office...I'm happy.

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12:00, 2008-May-19 .. Posted by Aielman

If you honestly think that large numbers of Democrats are willing to concede the White House to the Republicans because their candidate didn't win the nomination, you have little sense of how intense the desire for regime change is in this country right now.

You have no problem thinking that republicans are going to let the most liberal senator take the white house because they don't like McCain...why should it be a stretch that Clinton supporters will cross the aisle because they don't want Obama?

I guess all the people responding to that poll were lying.

Keep drinking the Koolaid. Makes life's hard little realities go away.