Who do you support for Governor in Tennessee in 2010?

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Cornbread wrote:

Age gets us all. Dementia may be setting in.
Or maybe one too many drinks.
Yeah it was off the wall, but It made you look !

Actually, I thought it was a little strange, but it certainly was different and definitely not boring. So, all in all, I suspect Clint got what he was aiming for...everybody's attention and a lot of publicity!

[Overtaxed]

Dunlapian wrote:

<quoted text>It's sad to see a guy go from "Rowdy Yates" to a speaker at the RNC speaking to a empty chair.

Chuckles ! "Dunlapian" I remember Rawhide, one of the great westerns in the golden age of television.
(Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, Sugarfoot, Tombstone Territory, Bonanza Cheyanne,The Cisco Kid, Shenandoah, The Virginian, The Rifleman, The lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Wagon Train, given time I could come up with a few dozen !)
I always liked Eastwood, even the spaghetti westerns he did. I didn't have a problem with him expressing his opinion about the election and Obama at the convention. What I don't understand is WHO THE HECK DECIDED TO PUT HIM ON THE NIGHT ROMNEY WAS GOING TO SPEAK ? That performance should have been presented on the first night when feeding red meat to the base is acceptable since there is little network coverage. Instead he was inserted on a night designed to make Mitt warm and fuzzy for the independent voters that tuned in to hear the Romney speech.
(In fairness the compressed schedule due to the hurricane MAY explain it but were I Romney and liking to fire people, somebody would be joining the ranks of the unemployed this morning !)

[Cornbread]

I think the point was..

Talking to Obama is like talking to an empty chair.

His speech was good, and it did get attention.

I will be watching closely. I am still asking questions, no one has my vote just yet.

I'll wait and see what both sides have to say about solid plans to get America going forward.

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swinging door chad wrote:

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Just remember the Democrats help Bush carry this state both times he was elected President.If Al Gore would have carried Tennessee he would have been elected President.

And the Ones in this State who voted for Bush still either can't see what a mistake they made, or won't admit it!
Some People let their Pride overrule their common sense and they simply refuse to think for themselves. They'd just rather let somebody else do their thinking for them and they just follow along and do as they're told, whether it's their Preacher, their Family Members, their Boss, or the majority of their Neighbors, who are all only looking out for their own best interests. Don't be fooled, again! Your best interest depends on it this time, more than ever before!

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Really Sassy wrote:

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Actually, I thought it was a little strange, but it certainly was different and definitely not boring. So, all in all, I suspect Clint got what he was aiming for...everybody's attention and a lot of publicity!

Clint Eastward did not speak at the Convention for attention or publicity. You seriously should have watched and listened. You might have learned something.

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Really Sassy wrote:

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And the Ones in this State who voted for Bush still either can't see what a mistake they made, or won't admit it!
Some People let their Pride overrule their common sense and they simply refuse to think for themselves. They'd just rather let somebody else do their thinking for them and they just follow along and do as they're told, whether it's their Preacher, their Family Members, their Boss, or the majority of their Neighbors, who are all only looking out for their own best interests. Don't be fooled, again! Your best interest depends on it this time, more than ever before!

Isn't that what you are doing?

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Cornbread wrote:

I think the point was..
Talking to Obama is like talking to an empty chair.
His speech was good, and it did get attention.
I will be watching closely. I am still asking questions, no one has my vote just yet.
I'll wait and see what both sides have to say about solid plans to get America going forward.

VOTE MITT!

[sam]

At least a quarter of Americans still don’t know who Paul Ryan is, and only about half who know and have an opinion of him view him favorably.

So, Ryan’s primary job tonight was to introduce himself and make himself seem likeable, and he did that well. The personal parts of the speech were very personally delivered, especially the touching parts where Ryan talked about his father and mother and their roles in his life. And at the end of the speech, when Ryan cheered the crowd to its feet, he showed an energy and enthusiasm that’s what voters want in leaders and what Republicans have been desperately lacking in this campaign.

To anyone watching Ryan’s speech who hasn’t been paying much attention to the ins and outs and accusations of the campaign, I suspect Ryan came across as a smart, passionate and all-around nice guy — the sort of guy you can imagine having a friendly chat with while watching your kids play soccer together. And for a lot of voters, what matters isn’t what candidates have done or what they promise to do —it’s personality. On this measure, Mitt Romney has been catastrophically struggling and with his speech, Ryan humanized himself and presumably by extension, the top of the ticket.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/pau...

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On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.

The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.

Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling.

Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush. Ryan actually asked for federal spending to save the plant, while Romney has criticized the auto industry bailout that President Obama ultimately enacted to prevent other plants from closing.

Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what the president said. Period.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/pau...

[sam]

And then there’s what Ryan didn’t talk about.

Ryan didn’t mention his extremist stance on banning all abortions with no exception for rape or incest, a stance that is out of touch with 75% of American voters.

Ryan didn’t mention his previous plan to hand over Social Security to Wall Street.

Ryan didn’t mention his numerous votes to raise spending and balloon the deficit when George W. Bush was president.

Ryan didn’t mention how his budget would eviscerate programs that help the poor and raise taxes on 95% of Americans in order to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires even further and increase — yes, increase —the deficit.

These aspects of Ryan’s resume and ideology are sticky to say the least. He would have been wise to tackle them head on and try and explain them away in his first real introduction to voters. But instead of Ryan airing his own dirty laundry, Democrats will get the chance.

At the end of his speech, Ryan quoted his dad, who used to say to him,“"Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution."

Ryan may have helped solve some of the likeability problems facing Romney, but ultimately by trying to deceive voters about basic facts and trying to distract voters from his own record, Ryan’s speech caused a much larger problem for himself and his running mate.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/pau...

[Dunlapian]

Karl Rove is so out of control, he is threatening his own party members simply because they don't understand how conception works.
Come-on Karl some of these guy's believe humans and dinosaurs lived together and you want to throw in conception........give the members of your party a break.

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Cornbread wrote:

I think the point was..
Talking to Obama is like talking to an empty chair.
His speech was good, and it did get attention.
I will be watching closely. I am still asking questions, no one has my vote just yet.
I'll wait and see what both sides have to say about solid plans to get America going forward.

If you want to know where we are headed find out what the big boys want and that's what will happen.They always get what they ask for.
Give a mil get a bunch.
Forget what they tell the people that's just for votes.
Want the real story,check out the backroom deals.

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Goforthegold wrote:

<quoted text>You really should hire an interpreter! Nothing you say makes any sense.

Sorry,this was for Sassy not you.I would not offend you.I agree with you.

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Goforthegold wrote:

<quoted text>Clint Eastward did not speak at the Convention for attention or publicity. You seriously should have watched and listened. You might have learned something.

Shows how much you know...I watched Eastwood from beginning to end.

[Cornbread]

Hey wrote:

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If you want to know where we are headed find out what the big boys want and that's what will happen.They always get what they ask for.
Give a mil get a bunch.
Forget what they tell the people that's just for votes.
Want the real story,check out the backroom deals.

Exactly.

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Hey wrote:

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If you want to know where we are headed find out what the big boys want and that's what will happen.They always get what they ask for.
Give a mil get a bunch.
Forget what they tell the people that's just for votes.
Want the real story,check out the backroom deals.

And they've given a lot more to Romney that they have Obama, by far! So, that should tell everybody who's REALLY in their back pocket! Romney and Ryan!

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Goforthegold wrote:

<quoted text>VOTE MITT!

I would say the chair was for them to get him to a chair quickly should his legs weaken.That's the only reason.People jumped to conclusions not intended.

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123pictures wrote:

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Sorry,this was for Sassy not you.I would not offend you.I agree with you.

Still doesn't change the fact that nothing you say makes any sense.
BTW, did you just admit that you're posting using both Names???

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Goforthegold wrote:

<quoted text>You really should hire an interpreter! Nothing you say makes any sense.

Hope you know this was not for you .Was for Sassy.
Sorry.She is critical of every speaker.

[Cornbread]

When Mr. Eastwood pointed to the chair and said "I got Mr. Obama sitting here. I want to ask him a couple of questions."
That should have given you a clue.