The Bucknuts Hot Spot

First, how many post are you responsible for bashing Obama. Pot, meet Kettle. "Liberals" will leave the fear to the conservatives, you guys have far more experience in fear mongering than "liberals" do. You must not be able to use google and check out early polling of voters, but just so you know, Rommney has about as much chance of being president of the united states as I do.

Above is EXACTLY what I expect and hope for from liberals... PLEASE attack his religion, wife, family, and even his success in business as that illustrates perfectly your vision (or lack thereof) for the country which I am confident will not resonate with the majority of our citizens. Also, the tough guy routine is particularly entertaining but not at all credible coming from anyone on the left (nice job as well on the intellectual nature of your commentary which also perfectly represents your constituency).

Buckeye Warrior, you are dead on with your analysis and the meltdown has commenced... Dave 1954 has already crashed Bucknuts once today by attempting to start a dozen new threads on the same topic inside of five minutes in the vein and naive belief that anyone actually considers his views informative. In all seriousness, I believe the election will be VERY close and candidly favors Obama if for nothing else he possesses Clintonesque acting and lying ability (and let's be honest, blaming others for your troubles without accepting personal responsibility and expecting to receive something for nothing is a compelling platform for their base). However, if what we are reading on here is representative of their national message, I like our chances more and more.

I"m registered GOP, but don't feel the optimism

Again, this is your own reality. Obama's religion has been criticized NON-STOP by the right. He's a Muslim. He's a fake Christian. Sure he goes to church, but we don't like the one he goes to. His pastor is a terrorist.

You guys just cannot take it like you dish it out. I love it. Keep it up! I know you think never conceding a point or admitting a truth is somehow a virtue. Here's a hint: it's not. It just demonstrates weakness and ignorance.

I'm rather discouraged that Romney and Obama are the two best candidates our 300 million+ nation can come up with.

Just a couple of quibbles here with what is otherwise a pretty accurate representation (or rather mis-representation) of our make believe democracy.

One must understand that Obama does not compromise, but instead governs as the hopeless moderate following marching orders that he is. I find it hilarious when the right complains about his (Obama's) socialist, communist, Marxist, atheist, pharmacist, parachutist, whateverist tendencies - as if they actually exist! Part of the reason he is not waltzing to victory is/are the large amount of "hope" voters who will stay home this year after realizing the dreaded buyers remorse. The left (what little there is of it these days) knew long before the '08 election what was coming (Glen Ford and the folks at Black Agenda Report had him pegged to a "t'). This quote (I'd give props to whoever wrote it, but I'm afraid I don't know where it came from) sums up the true leftist position in a way Phil Ochs would be proud of:

The gaping hole in this argument is political convenience; they'll (liberals) toss others overboard just like conservatives, just for different, self-interested reasons. (Proof: let some poor kid displace a liberal child in a prestigious setting. Hell hath no fury like a liberal who takes a hit on their resume).

This is why one has to laugh at these pitiful attempts of political "acumen" that those on the right here dispense. Of course, their heroes have feet of clay as well (hell, they have entire BODIES of clay) but when placed in the us vs. them box so brilliantly constructed by those who use them at their own expense what else can they do? Where else can they go - they're boxed in by their own supposed friends. One almost has to feel sorry for them for being that gullible. Then again, if one looks for others to blame for their own shortcomings then one is an easy target for the carnival barkers.

We truly are living the Pogo promise: We have met the enemy, and he is us. Those of us recovering from believing that political donkeys are different from political elephants can only hope for the day that the fools on the right get tired from having their heads caved in by their own big brothers, and that the fools on the other side get tired of watching Lucy pull away the football yet again.

It's pretty much the only hope we got.

I never thought I'd see someone on here more bigoted than Dave, but this post takes the cake!

I wonder where you get your ideas. Obama gets criticized from the Right and the Left, all the time. There are always groups on the Left that don't like what he hasn't done yet. So please enough with the compromise crap, it's Righty talk.

Your racist comments in the other thread. Also, calling people who you don't know and don't know how they did their job racists (the Florida Police Department that investigated the Trayvon martin case) is racist in and of itself. Yes Dave, you are every bit the bigot you pretend not to be.

You and minsterscum must live in eatch other panties...lol...you guys are the masters at trying to mask your own thoughts and fears by acusing others of what you fear most.

You know damn well that the odds are against unseating a sitting president. Obama has MANY ways to get to 270...Romney has to win the entire south and win all the battlegrounds and then pick off a surprise or two. Obama can lose every single state in the south, because he has California, Oregon, Washington State, NY State, New Jersey, and all the northeastern and some of the mid-atlantic states in the bag right now. He only needs a couple midwestern swing states and its over! If he gets an Ohio or Pa, it will be a landslide.

Now lets check demographics...90% of African Americans are going to vote for Obama...60 - 70% of latinos, and 60 - 70% of women will vote for him as well and women make up 51% of the total population.

The party of hate has only one demographic in its favor, white people and specifically, angry white males. Unless something really bad happens during his campaign, theres is not much of a chance that Romney wins. Anything can happen, but you know this to be true...you guys dont even like Romney because at his core his is NOT A CONSERVATIVE....lol. How funny is that, the red meat party cant even get a conservative candidate. Just get used to having Obama around until January of 2017...lol!

This is hardly compromise talk. Obama is nowhere near a progressive - he is a moderate don't rock the boat lap dog who does as he is told, all the while waiting for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, where he can get a nice gig cozying up to those he was supposedly at "war" with (see Clinton, Bill) and rake in the $$.

C'mon now, you're not really expecting me to buy that "he hasn't been able to accomplish everything he wants yet" line of bullshit, are you? What, I'm supposed to get all damp in the loins when the Buffet Rule gets dragged out, all the while watching Gitmo stay open and drones rain down on innocent civilians in the Middle East under the guise of This Is Approved By The Bat Shit Crazy Far RIght as some kind of weapon in the "war on terror?"

The worst thing one can do is draw ideological lines in the sand and play some kind of bizarre "my dog's better than your dog" game with two political parties that are nothing more than two peas in the same pod, save for the same fringe issues that get dragged out every four years to "prove" the differences. Think we'll ever have instant run-off voting in this country? Public funded elections? Open primaries for all candidates, and equal access? Dream on - neither party wants anything to do with that, lest they be seen for what they are.

What we have here (on the right) is a literal insane asylum - low information voters being fed mis-information on a daily basis, and having their worst fears and prejudices stroked continuously by those who can manifest political and/or financial gain from it. Looking at it from the outside (which is quite easy to do when one's "team" has virtually no chance of getting into the game) it can be easily seen for what it is.This is why it is so troubling (to me, anyway) to hear the same bullet points repeated ad naseum by the Fox viewers who, if they made even the smallest of efforts, would see how they are being played for the fool. Instead, they rationalize this by saying they are not looking for truth, but rather a point of view that they agree with. Think about that for a minute - not truth, just affirmation. Damn.

So, we then turn to the "left", who will (amazingly enough), justify the holes in the armor of their gods by saying - wait for it - "well, would you rather have the OTHER guy?" You see, we'll only put the gun to your head - the other guy will pull the trigger.

Wait, it gets better! Now we have to rationalize less than stellar progressive behavior on the part of said god by using inane phrases like "we'll have to hold his feet to the fire" or "we'll just have to make sure we elect more progressives!" Okay - you're going to try and elect more progressives in a party that has about as much use for them as summer does for snow. Now, don't mistake my point - the progressives are out there, they're just running on political platforms and in political parties that Democrats want nothing to do with. Every time you stump for "not the other guy" you put another nail in the coffin of real progressive change.

If you want true "lefty talk", my friend, then you gotta walk the walk. Obama and his ilk ain't it. Give the right credit - they want to bring the country back to the 1800's, and they're backing the clowns to do it. Their foot soldiers will chop their toes off while believing all the time that the other guy wants to chop off their fingers, and as long as they are willing to swallow the lie-infested swill their leaders could care less.

Sorry, but that is one role model I am not willing to copy.

No matter what animal it rides in on.

You are not alone.