Why Would a Republican Representative on The Election Commission Be Supporting A Democrat In A State Race?
Why has Election Commissioner David Rackley, appointed to the Election commission as a Republican, been engaged in actively supporting a democrat Ty Cobb against a Republican Dr. Joey Hensley in the State Senate Race?
It's reported that Mr. Rackley has attended fund raisers for Cobb and certainly has been a central distributor for Cobb political signs. How can the fact of supporting a democrat be reconciled with the idea that you are a Republican holding an appointed political position within the Republican Party?
It's reported that Mr. Rackley has attended fund raisers for Cobb and certainly has been a central distributor for Cobb political signs. How can the fact of supporting a democrat be reconciled with the idea that you are a Republican holding an appointed political position within the Republican Party?
posted by Allen Barrett | 8:09 PM
172 Comments:
So you would have something to complain about
Maybe Ty Cobb has values that are more in line with his own. You have to remember that every Democrat isn't liberal.
I would ask why you call yourself a conservative but act more like a crying liberal?
Also, what business is it of yours?
Because Ty Cobb is the real deal.
Better question: why would a blogmaster be supporting a candidate with a sister-in-law who spent years on death row for murder? Are those your values? surely not.
3comments, 0 answers. Not too good of a score.
Is a person responsible for the actions of their relatives 9:25? Maybe the parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews and in-laws of the Colorado theater killer should all be rounded up and put on death row.
Ty Cobb may be a nice guy but with that D next to his name he has aligned himself with same sex marriages, abortion on demand, a country with no borders where illegals are given preferential treatment over citizens and believe debt is the way to a strong economy.
What some may call whining I prefer to call exposing the lying hypocrisy of people who have no integrity. Look at the bottom of this post and you'll see my name ole great anonymous coward.
....or maybe that D aligns him with a President who has created more private sector jobs in 4 years than George W. Bush did in 8.
As head of the economic development commission I am sure that fact is not lost on Mr. Rackley.
You know it just may be the time that loyality and blind obediance to a single political party is now past. Maybe Rackley is supporting Ty Cobb because Cobb is the best person for the job? Regardless of political affiliation?
11:47 have you been on LSD for a long period of time? I can't imagine how anyone could possibly say such a thing in light of all the available information to the contrary.
Cobb is for a state income tax and that alone is enough to disqualify him.
11:47 you have to be kidding. When obama took office unemployment was below 8% since he has been in office it hasn't been below 8% even with all the stimulus spent repaying his union supporters.
First thing you need to know is the president don't create private sector jobs but can create conditions that are favorable to date this president has created conditions detrimental to business expansion. His incredibly expensive health care plan along has been responsible for such uncertainty that jobs have been lost and businesses refuse to expand.
Now as for being a democrat I would challenge anyone to please tell me how those who claim to be Christians and especially Christian leaders, can support a party who has intentionally removed all mention of God from their basic political statement, brag about being pro abortion, support same sex marriage and desiring all abortions be paid for with taxpayer money, believe in open borders and have embraced some of the most radical of Muslims.
Now some may say well I don't believe in those things but the fact is when you vote for people who do believe in those things you are supporting the expansion of those things. Even when the individual candidate states they oppose such atrocities having a D next to their name lends support to the party that stands for those things.
If you want to be a democrat or a republican that's fine but at least be honest about it and understand that your vote is supporting what that party stands for.
11:00 Look it up Buddy and don't believe everything you hear on Faux news.
Cobb is opposed to the income tax. But nice try.
I understand your comment was to another poster but I must respond.
Officially 24 million unemployed unofficially more than 38 million unemployed or underemployed. median income $4,000 less than when he took office. Gasoline double what it was when he took office. Food prices increased more than one hundred percent in some cases.
Under the democrat president, democrat controlled house and senate unemployment rose to over 10% and did not come down significantly until after the republicans regained control of the house.
Obama has been so bad for employment even some unions are withholding financial support. If a person relied on only one source for all their information they'd be spouting off as incorrectly and as dumb as you have.
Tues, 1147.....
Thanks for the laugh of the day with the first part of
Your post......lolololiooo....
23 million unemployed????really
Sometimes you just have to scratch you head at such nonsense. There hasn't been a democratic president, senate and house since the days of Clinton when the budget was balanced and we generated a surplus. Bush had the whole deck for 6 years and the republicans drove us into the ditch. Remember $4.50 gas And your IRA statements ?
Fact: under President Obama, the stock market has soared 70%, the monthly loss of 800,000 jobs has ended, we acctually show positive job growth now, the number of government employees has gone down and 4.5 million new jobs have been created in the private sector which more than were created under 8 years of Bush.
Yeah of course those j"jobs" he created with stimulus money that gave jobs for those "shovel ready" things, like roads that really didn't need paving, and then those jobs ended...those private sector jobs? So are we to believe that under G. Bush there were more than 23 million unemPloyed? If Obama created all these jobs that would mean that there are fewer than before?
Fact: those who would champion Obama will always find a way to justify his takingg from the rich to the poor. Maybe he should be called robin hood.
What has he taken from the rich? There has been no tax increase in the last 4 years. In fact small businesses now have 18 new tax breaks.
And yes, the number of unemployed was higher under Bush. How quickly we forget.
There was complete democrat control from 2008 until 2010. The shit didn't hit the fan until Pelosi and her group of thugs took over in 2006. Think about all of the legislation what was written by the D controlled house, approved by the D contolled senate and was passed as soon as Obama took office.
Gas prices have doubled since Obama took office.
The statement that 4.5 million jobs have been created was a lie and CNN went as to far to say that this morning.
Anyone that would vote for Obama has to be gay, lazy, okay with killing babies or just plain stupid.
When it comes down to it liberals are too dumb to study the true depth of policy and economics that help the nation. They vote for those who pander their vote with promises that keep them sucking the hind tit.
lol... I hope you are not a farmer who relys on the Department of Agriculture who feels that way. I hope you are not a senior living on Social Security who feels that way. I hope you do not rely on Medicare so you don't die and are speaking that way. I trust you did not learn to speak that way under universal public education. Certainly, you do not feel that way and wish your minimum wage was lower. And surely you are not a veteran benefiting from the GI bill and VA care and speaking that way. All Democratic programs.
Come to think of it...I suppose there a lot of hind tits as you say
The democrat party has distanced itself from moderation. It is now a full forced group of thugs and lunatics. The old democrats are turning into Republicans because their values aren't represented by the idiots on the left.
I will not depend on government for my retirement or my healthcare and I definitely don't work jobs for minimum wage.
You better get your head out of your ass and see what the democrat party has turned into. They raised hell about putting god in their platform today.
The country clubs across America are having a huge laugh on you and you just don't get it. "Let's scare people about abortion", but not repeal Roe v. Wade after 40 years. "Let's convince everyone they will go to Hell if they don't vote Republican" but take absolutely no action to restore prayer to school. BUT, we Republicans get your votes and we can give the richest tax breaks, the largest corporations "no bid contracts" and conduct a war in Iraq with no measurable benefit to national security but one that produces a takeover of the Iraqi oil fields by Shell and Exxon.
One of these days, you will get it. I did. I just hope it isn't too late for the country.
Oh, and we Democrats capitalize "God".
Obviously by all of these comments, there are good and bad points to both Democrats and Republicans and that's a GREAT reason to vote for a PERSON and not a PARTY!!! That would be my guess as to why Mr. Rackley is supporting Dr. Hensley. And I'm registered Republican but I can still choose to vote for a Democrat if I feel that they are the best person for the job. Maybe everyone should start using some common sense and vote for people and their beliefs and not for parties. Because you are a member of one party does not mean you believe 100% everything the "party" believes. Common sense people, it's the only thing that can save this country from the stupidity!!!
-Mack
Mack
I think you have some good points. While I consider myself a conservative, I will campaign and vote against the likes of Bill Haslam (R) for governor. Just wish I could vote against people like Jim Somerville as well. I have completely washed my hands of the local Republican Party. I want nothing to do with people like that.
I believe Bredesen is the best governor we have had in a long time. And he is a Democrat.
7:12
What are you doing to keep from having Medicare for you main insurance when you become 65?
My insurance company said I could keep them for supplement insurance and no other insurance company will except you except as supplement. Did someone lie to me?
I paid in social security and retirement, I'm due it and that's not sponging off the government.
I'm glad you made so much money and saved so you don't need your SS or did you even pay any in, how did you get out of it?
Don't brag to quick lots of things can happen where you loose everything.
Quite refreshing! The 4 last posts make their relative points from both sides of the political aisle without vulgarities or name calling . Mr Barrett could learn from you guys.
You all are confusing me.
I thought Mr. Barrett said David Rackley was supporting Ty Cobb.
Then 8:20 said: "That would be my guess as to why Mr. Rackley is supporting Dr. Hensley."
Which is it?
Is Mr. Rackley an officer in the Giles County Republican party? If not I would think he is free to split his vote if he wants too. He should be kicked out of the Giles Republican party if he's an officer.
That's just my thoughts. If you want to be an officer of one party you should support it.
I like what Dr. Hensley says, but I'm going with what some call the good old boy rule. I don't know a thing about Ty, but know his parents so he has my vote.
I believe that I should pay taxes to take care of roads, national parks, the sick, the elderly and the mentally ill. I do not believe I should work hard and pay taxes for those who are lazy and unwilling to work.
The choice we are forced to make today is one that says I will work to help those who don't care to help themselves or I will try to do the best for myself and help those who can't mentally or physically do it for themselves.
I don't think any country can be progressive and successful if the citizens don't take personal responsibilty. I don't want to pay for the lazy. I don't believe abortion should be a form of birth control. I don't believe a person should sit back and draw unemployment while an illegal immigrant takes a job that pays minimum wage.
Our moral code as humans should steer us away from what the democrat party has become. I just hope that people will look past race and see that conservatives value family, ethics and personal responsibility.
Anyone voting for Obama has given up on the American Dream and wants a handout. It is sad that this country has gotten to this point.
Respectfully, we can agree to disagree. I believe that government is there to do collectively what we cannot do individually: defend the nation militarily and provide a safety net for the weakest among us.
There is no question that abuse will appear in any programs. They can be egregious and well-advertised: a $500 hammer for the defense department or a healthy, able person receiving food stamps. I happen to believe those are the exception and not the rule.
I therefore refuse to condemn military spending because of abusing contractors and similarly would not scuttle social safety net programs because of abusive recipients.
It is insulting and misguided to suggest one party is anti-American. Though I disagree vehemently with Republican beliefs, I do not call them anti-American nor do I mangle the name of their party just to be petty. It is the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, both of which are comprised of Americans who fiercely love their country and its dreams and aspirations.
As you stated we can agree to disagree and while I agree with some of your points I must strongly disagree with your last paragraph.
While many in both parties certainly love their country it seems that many have very different visions of our country to the point they have become enemies of the country.
The prime duty of the president, one he swore an oath to is "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
While he has sought to circumvent, ignore and violate that Constitution the one major violation that stand hands above the rest is his failure to protect our borders, to the point of suing states that have sought to protect their borders and their people.
Just as we watched the majority of delegates vote to keep God's name and denial of Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, out of the democrat platform with the approval of this president, the majority of the democrats have become hostile to the founding principles of this nation preferring the more socialistic attitude of the old soviet union that collapsed around that socialism. While those in need should be helped and opportunity should be available there is no justification for continually penalizing and the demonization of success and work. They have become a party seeking to guarantee outcomes regardless of effort instead of simply providing equal opportunities.
Giving billions to Brazil to develop their oil industry while continually destroying our own has become far too often the norm instead of the exception in our foreign policy. Creating situations such as requiring ethanol in gasoline, which has been proven to reduce mileage and drive up food cost, is destructive to the people.
Giving preferential treatment to illegals over citizens is an absolute violation of citizen rights.
But the decline in the moral standards led by this president is the more egregious disappointments.
When Muslims are given special treatment at the expense of Christians something is desperately
wrong.
When it has become acceptable for a person to be allowed to use another persons social security number, refuse to show any former writings from college or transcripts and any questions of those actions are label racist we have lost our founding principles.
When a person such as this president attends the most exclusive private high school then is allowed to claim a life of abject poverty or his wife to claim poverty while living in a family whose income was well over $50,000 in the 1970's and not be challenged on those we have lost our moral compass.
There is no perfection in either of the five major parties just as there is no perfection outside that of God, watching the dismantling of our Constitution and our principles by those who guide the democrat party is simply more than I can accept.
Too bad though that your characterization is simply untrue.
This President has deported more illegal aliens in 4 years than Bush did in 8.
This President insisted that God be included in the platform and He is.
The ethanol requirement was pushed by farm state republicans not by this President and were put into place under Bush. This administration has not increased any ethanol requirements.
The foreign aid to Brazil was established by President Bush in an effort to curtail the strength of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. That aid, incidentally, is only a fraction of the no-bid contracts awarded to contractors of Iraqi oil field development made by Bush. That money should have been spent in Texas and the Dakotas. Unfortunately Bush thought otherwise.
Moral standards? Let's don't even begin with Romney's hiding money overseas and refusing to disclose his tax returns.
So next time, please get your facts straight.
Your post this morning was excellent Mr. Barrett.
Ya'll can argue Democrat/Republican all day long. The point of Mr. Barrett's post is that Rackley was appointed to the election commission as a Republican. This is a paid position and he is supposed to be representing the Republicans. I think the question he asks is a good one.
No. He is supposed to be upholding the constitution and election laws of the State of Tennessee. He did not check his common sense or first amendment rights at the door. He can support for election any candidate of his choosing and certainly is entitled to go into the election booth without taking the republican party's governing board or mr. Barrett in there with him to look over his shoulder and make sure he votes in a way to suit them.
To 12:27
Surely you jest. While neither Bush nor Obama have very good records on immigration the “facts” you state or just inaccurate and very incomplete. Not only have more illegals come into the country, primarily through Mexico, they have been welcomed to access of every governmental program available from free education, reduced cost for college below state residents, medical care, welfare, food stamps reduced rent etc, all this against current law I might add. Fast and Furious was an Obama program through Eric Holder that resulted not only in a large number of guns going to drug gangs but also in the death of at least one US Border Agent. It was also Obama’s justice department that obstructed the investigation into the gun running program and dismissed the solid case of voter intimidation against the New Black Panthers for actions, on video, at Philadelphia voter precincts. It is this same “justice” department that has tried to prevent states from enforcing their legally passed laws with government mandates and presidential orders that were issued outside the powers given by the Constitution. The so called “Dream Act” has given amnesty to an unknown number, in the millions, of illegals.
Your statement that, “This President insisted that God be included in the platform and He is”, is extremely misleading since the president personally approved the platform without the mention of God and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It was only after a huge amount of criticism and much controversy in the vote taking that it was reinstated to the loud boos of the crowd of delegates. A quick fact check at any unbiased site will show that as fact. Also in that platform is support for same sex marriage.
I agree the ethanol requirement was pushed by some farm organizations, not necessarily republicans and certainly not conservatives. While the biofuels had their political start in the Carter administration they certainly grew under the Clinton and Bush administration but it was 2009 that the EPA announced l requirements that most refiners, importers, and non-oxygenate blenders of gasoline to displace 10.21% of their gasoline with renewable fuels such as ethanol. That requirement resulted in at least 11.1 billion US gallons of renewable fuels were sold in 2009. The percentage requirement increased to 7.76% in 2008 and to 10.21% in 2009. Now the EPA under Obama is pushing for up to 20% ethanol in gasoline. I believe if you check Obama was sworn into office in January 2008. There are certainly enough villains on both sides of the aisle who carry responsibility for food shortages and elevated prices. Oh, by the way even the government now admits that ethanol has decreased mileage by as much as 20%.
In April 2009, long after bush had left office, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, " approved $2 billion to Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, to fund the development of off-shore drilling. Then Petrobras, which has several million shares owned by George Soros’ hedge fund, committed to supply China with 200,000 barrels of oil a day for the next ten years. Soros was a major supporter and contributor of Obama's presidential bid. This had absolutely nothing to do with Bush or Chavez. Meanwhile the Canadian pipeline with over a million jobs is forbidden in this country by the Obama administration.
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Is it any more or less a moral issue that Harry Reid and Nancy Polesi both have funds in foreign bank accounts? Morality is not about where a person has their money but in what they are doing with the killing of millions of babies, Obama as a Senator even voted in support of allowing babies of botched abortions who made it outside the womb to not be given any care but simply left to die. Morality is more about the subversion of marriage between a man and a woman, tax funded birth control, walking away from our friends, supporting organizations that seek to destroy our nation, continuing support for programs that destroy the family unit, than about where a person deposits their personal money.
If tax records are so important to you then I suppose that you are also as interested in Obama’s college transcripts and writings.
Now one other thing to think about is how did someone who attended the most elite private school in Hawaii, was able to go on month long vacations with his grandparents, and attend the most prestigious universities in the country be considered as a person who came from abject poverty. Why would a person who was working at a prestigious law firm in Chicago at a hefty salary be wearing a pair of shoes half a size to small and dumpster diving for furniture? Mrs. Obama simply made up a sad story that was just not true anymore than she grew up in poverty, her dad was making over $50,000 a year in the 70’s when she was growing up, he was also a powerful person as award captain in Daily’s Chicago machine. Morality also involves lying for personal gains.
So to quote you, “next time, please get your facts straight”.
To 4:10 If you happen to bother with reading the by-laws of the Republican Party just as with the Democratic Party those who are appointed to positions as Republicans or Democrats are required to support their party candidates for state and national elections. Who a person votes for is their own business but presenting yourself as one thing taking a paid position with that party then publicly supporting an opposing party's candidate is highly unethical.
Barrett
Another epistle, I see. No, you are wrong. David Rackley can support whomever he pleases, and it's really none of your business or mine.
By the way, David is not actually supporting Tyler Cobb. I think you need to check into this further before you go popping off.
Then why has he been giving out yard signs for cobb?
4:50 So by your logic, Ronald Reagan was not a loyal republican because he refused to support David Duke, a republican nominee but former KKK Grand Wizard? and
Mitt Romney is not a loyal republican because he refuses to support a Missouri nominee for the Senate who believes a woman cannot become pregnant by being raped? or
David Rackley is not a loyal republican because he refuses to support a nut like Joey Hensley?
I am afraid you are wrong on each count.
By my logic when you take a persons money you owe that person. Romney is completely wrong for not supporting Rep. Todd Akin,who never said that a woman could not get pregnant from a legitimate rape and you probably know that. I little research will show you that women you are in a stressful situation whether from the terrible stress of being raped or the self imposed stress of trying too hard to get pregnant. And yes not all alleged rapes are really rapes as most everyone knows sometimes the claim of rape is next day remorse or payback for a nasty breakup. I know a man who lived with a woman as man and wife for more than six months he was scheduled to be discharged and refused to marry the woman and she charged him with rape. Three months of horrible treatment and the truth finally came out when she recanted, surely you remember the Lacrosse team that was charged with rape and the horrible experience they went through before the truth was finally proven?
Real rape is one of the most horrible things a person can endure with long lasting complications, but many have so lightly used the term that it no longer even carries the full horror of that terrible situation. A democrat candidate from Minnesota was arrested in a roadside part having sex with an underage boy and not only have there been no democrats condemn the actions there has been very little in the news media about it.
There is nothing nutty about Dr Hensley that I have found. He is a solid conservative.
Reagan was an elected president and not bound to support any particular candidate. Did you fell the same way about Kennedy, Clinton and so many others who supported, admired and idolized Senator Robert Byrd who was a grand dragon in the KKK.
When a person misspeaks and apologizes should they be forgiven?
If not how do you explain Joe Biden or even Barack 57 states Obama.
Rape is rape. If it happened, it is rape. One word says it all. It is insulting to women for republicans to use terms like "forceful rape" or "legitimate rape". No rape is legitimate.
Obviously, no rape occurred at Duke. I gather your friend did not rape his girlfriend, I do not know. But simply call it "rape" if it happened. Don't belittle our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters by suggesting they can be legitimately raped.
" I little research will show you that women you are in a stressful situation whether from the terrible stress of being raped or the self imposed stress of trying too hard to get pregnant." -- "Dr." Allen Barrett
I can't even begin to read your diagnosis, doctor, much less understand it. Are you also saying, as did the republican candidate, that women cannot become pregnant by rape? If so, your medical degree must have been photocopied at the same Kinko's where you got your journalism degree.
Mr. Barrett on most occasions I support you. However Mr. Rackley can support who ever he damn well pleases and its none of your freakin business. You griping about who he supports is no different that you fussing about city employee emails against the charter. Find something that matters to fuss about.
Have people lost their minds or just the ability to simply read words and understand the meaning of those words without the hysteria of emotional fabrication?
10:47 Of course women and men can be "illegitimately" raped, as legitimate means "being exactly as purposed: neither spurious nor false".
Just as you admit the highly publicized case at DUKE was not a legitimate rape as no rape took place. The claim of rape is what destroyed the lives of a number of people. There are many cases where a person has claimed rape only to have it disproved or the charge withdrawn.It's these false claims that diminish the horrible truth of rape. Let there be no misunderstanding on this issue a real, genuine, legitimate rape of a person is a horrible, traumatic experience that has very long lasting consequences. That is not nor has it been the issue. the question is whether all "claims" of rape are legitimate which even you agree are not.
11:00 the research is not mine and it's available to anyone willing to take the time to read it. No, I am not nor have I ever said, neither did Mr. Akin, a woman "cannot" get pregnant from being raped. What I said and research supports is that the more stress a woman is under the less likely she is to become pregnant, huge difference.
Now as for you sarcastic comments about photocopying degrees perhaps you could go to Kinko's and get a photocopy of a brain to carry around with you since your own brain is severely underused.
To 11:43 I could not possibly care less who Mr. Rackley votes for but I am concerned that a political party appointee would betray that party by publicly supporting a candidate from an opposing party. Can you not see the difference?
As for the violation of City Personnel policy why aren't you concerned how your tax dollars are spent. Would you take the same attitude if a city employee was using a city vehicle without authorization to go shopping at Cool Springs? How about if an employee took a thousand dollars from the city and spent it on personal items? There is little difference. Time has a value and when a person's time is sold to an employer they own that employer a full value of time. As taxpayers we are the employer and to me that is an important matter.
Barrett
Oh, I think you DO care who David Rckley votes for or you wouldn't have made it an issue.
Can you not see a problem with how Annelle Guthrie got that appointment to the election commission? Do you recall some of the players in that game? Names like Don Parr and Jim Somerville come to mind for some reason.
I knew the republicans were intolerant of women, minorities, religions other than their own, and so forth. I had no idea they were so intolerant of a fellow republican who publicly supports a Democrat. I hope Mr. Rackley can safely make it to the polls without one of these nuts accosting him.
Yeah, y'all are right. They're just small laws, what difference do they make. It's not like someone murdered someone, right?
Just like a white lie, it doesn't count, does it? And some folks on here have the gall to call me a hypocrite.
Ray Lanier
9:37
That's why I washed my hands of this local bunch called Republicans.
lol...what "law" would that be.....My, my, my...that copier at Kinko's is really busy it seems.
Be a dumbass if you want to, 10:26, but you know damned well what I'm talking about. If you are ok with either issue, then you are as much a part of the problem as the people misusing their positions.
Ray Lanier
to mr barrett from 11:43....I do care and i was in FULL support of the Charter! You missed the point.
And I am against the city employee email.
I'm just waiting for ray Lanier, esq. to give us his legal opinion. I have seen Dr. Allen Barrett , MD give us the benefit of his medical training, concluding that a woman cannot get pregnant from a rape. I am confident we will be equally enlightened.
why are you such a damn liar, the man never said a woman could not get pregnant from a rape only that stress reduces the chance of becoming pregnant. most women already knew that and any doctor will tell you the same danm thing. you have let your hate for anything barrett to make a damn fool out of you.
10:38, what is it that you would like my most esteemed opinion about? If it's the email issue, I believe that was as wrong as you can get, for reasons already stated. If it is about something else, you have but to ask. I am at your service.
Ray Lanier
At what point in time did the Democrat Party change their name to the Democratic Party?
There is not a democrat party. There is the Democratic Party founded by Andrew Jackson to take on the bankers. Funny how the more things change, the more they remain the same.
4:09 I've often wondered the same thing about the Democrats. I think they got tired of the connotation that DemocRAT brings to mind...describes them too well, hits too close to home. The move to the term "Democratic Party" is fairly recent.
If we are now the Democratic Party then we should be called Democratics.
I suppose recent in the time line of man....1828
Tics are better than rats? Hmmm, parasites are better than omnivores, duly noted.
My question is simply why would anyone want to be a member of this local Republican party? No way!
It's the heighth of hypocrisy to preach transparency and then hold secret meetings.
5:40 Ask Mr. Rackley that. Just because he wants to support Cobb don't mean he has turned his back on the Republican party.
CG surely none of those post supporting Obama on the last two threads WAB posted was you.
I would bet a 19 year boy posted some if not all of them.
6:20
Exactly what has David Rackley supposedly done in secrecy? Oh, and who (besides you) even brought up his name in the first place?
No, I think David and Ty may be friends, and SO WHAT? Is he not allowed to have friends who are Democrats? And even though Ty Cobb is not running against him, rest assured that David Rackley will be doing all he can to get Barry Doss elected. So will I.
Why would one who believe abortion is murder and who sees gay marriage as an abomination to God vote for and support someone like Obama?
8:24 cg I've never heard of anything David Rackley has done in secrecy. Where did that come from?
As for me bring his name into this, isn't he mentioned in the topic of this thread?
You said: "My question is simply why would anyone want to be a member of this local Republican party?"
Is David not a member of the local Republican party? I doubt he has turned his back on the R party just because he wants to vote for a friend. So ask him why he wants to be a member of the local Republican party? That was your question.
I thought David and Ty might have gone to school together or friends anyway. I'm voting for Ty and Romney, so what?
Why would you try to stir up trouble when none is intended?
If you want to know why David Rackley wants to be a member of this local bunch of Republicans, why don't you go ask him? And who he votes for is none of your business.
I'm voting for Romney and Barry Doss against Haslam. So what?
8:47 I don't care who D. R. or you vote for or if he wants to be part of any party. Where did that come from, have you completely lost it?
5:40 asked the question, is that not you?
Anonymous said...
My question is simply why would anyone want to be a member of this local Republican party? No way!
It's the heighth of hypocrisy to preach transparency and then hold secret meetings.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:40:00 PM
The problem isn't who he is voting for but that as a representative of the Republican holding a public office as a result of that membership
he is forbidden to publicly support a candidate from a different party.
Well stated, 8:10. I believe that sums it up nicely.
Ray Lanier
That's the sad truth about the republicans. They forbid their members from thinking for themselves. how sad.
If someone was a representative in the Democrat party, could he/she openly support a Republican?
9:06 Why not? Last time I checked, this IS a free country.
Right now, the ONLY Republican I refuse to vote for is Haslam. I just wish I could vote against Somerville. These people have got to go!!!!
If someone is taking part in the party of Giles or any other county in the Democrat or Republican party as an officer should they openly support someone running in the other party?
Don't these parties get together and have presidents, sectary etc.? One of them is what I'm talking about. Just going to their meetings don't count. As for David Rackley I don't know he is an officer in the Republican party. Could someone tell us. I read this thread as he was.
No, David Rackley IS NOT an officer in the local Republican Party. He has not supported or attended any meetings in the last several years. But, neither have A LOT of staunch Republicans/Conservatives for whatever reason.
Thanks for telling us that David isn't an officer in the local Republican party.
Now hope the fuss can stop, looks like he can support whoever he pleases.
He may not be an officer in the local party but, he holds a position on the election commission based upon the fact that he is a registered Republican. Due to that reason, it is does not look good for someone who is representing our election commission as a Republican to be supporting a Democrat candidate,if in fact he is doing such a thing. If he wishes to come off the election commission, he can support whomever he wishes. However, as a representative of the Republican Party, he casts doubt among those he represents if supporting a candidate that is not a Republican. Surely that is easily understood. It is just that simple, as the core beliefs of the parties are vastly different these days. Doesn't make David Rackley a bad person if he in fact is supporting a Democrat candidate, he just shouldn't be sitting on the election commission in the capacity he serves if he is supporting a Democrat. Exactly the same as the local Democrat party also would want a staunch Democrat representing their party. I hope that clears up any confusion in a civilized manner, without calling names and putting anyone down.
Hell David might not drink coffee during breakfast, and it would not look good for a non-coffee drinker supporting the political candidate of thier own choice. You people really need to get a life and stop trying to control others as you would like them to be living. Get over it.
5:55 Good post!!
Do you think I made up the rules 4:01? The rules apply equally to both sides with the election commission be it Dem or Repub. It is a shallow mind that would think as you do rather than stop and think huh...maybe it is the same for both parties. So blaming me won't get you anywhere. Sorry to disappoint. But, certainly appreciate the laugh. I do have a life and shall be getting back to it as this is the first time I have posted on the blog in a long time. Wasting my time trying to educate ignorance is pointless in this county as it has always been. Someone always has to put a personal spin on things when they don't like the outcome or answer they receive. If you have children or grandchildren, I certainly hope you set a better example for them than what you have displayed in this forum. Your State Rep. is still Eddie Bass and he can tell you how things work but in regards to the election commission and how people are appointed. However, I doubt you really want the truth.
Thank you 5:55PM
Have a blessed day :)
Sorry 4:01 this proves I never get on this blog. I meant to say thank you to 4:01 and the rest of the message was meant for the rude person at 8:28
Thank you 5:55. You explained that well enough that even the dimmest minds should be able to understand.
Thank goodness the Democratic Party doesn't have the henchmen you Republicans do wanting to watch over your members' shoulders while they vote.
Whatever happened to bipartisanship and working to make our country a better place irrespective of party identification?
President Obama was elected as a Democrat, but not without an impressive number of Republican votes. He appointed 5 Republicans to his cabinet. I am proud to say we Democrats did not call for his head by his doing so.
Lighten up folks. We're all in this together.
8:26
I TOTALLY agree with your assessment of Republican henchmen. The local Republican party and people such as Allen Barrett, Don Parr, Bill Haslam, and Jim Somerville soured my stomach on the GOP. I want absolutely nothing to do with the party.
However, I will do all I can to see the likes of Bill Haslam, Jim Somerville, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and particularly Barrack Hussein Obama defeated. These people have got to go.
I'm about to go to church services shortly. And in that assembly, I am certain that there are those who WILL vote for politicians (Democrats) who sponsor and promote such things as the murder of children (conveniently called abortion) and gay marriage. How can that be? Would someone answer that for me? I just don't get it.
8:11 If you ever figure that out let me know.
8:11 it is obvious that you are not a woman so you have no experiense what it is like to be forced to give birth to an unwanted fets.
No matter who fathered the child, it's yours, why wouldn't you want it?
I admire Sarah Palin for having her child even though she knew she would have lots of hardships with it.
Sorry I joined on your conversation.
You're both right. That's what the Supreme Court calls freedom of choice that the government cannot interfere with.
Sarah Palin did not have that child ... it was her daughter
A true democrat.
A true republican.
Well I guess that you both are correct in that Sarah Palin did give birth to a daughter who gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock... then the daughter was married to the biological father and then was divorced.
Is not divorce a sin?
Divorce could be a sin for one or both parties. depending on the situation. Was fornication or adultery involved? Who was the guilty party, etc?
I tend to believe neither party is totally blameless in a divorce situation, but blamelessness and sin might be two different things.
Isn"t the murder of innocent children (abortion) a sin? What about gay marriage? How does our so-called President view these matters? Should a Christian vote for and support politicians who go along with these issues? NO!
A true commonist
4:39 you prove a total ignorance when it comes to defending your liberal views.
The comment from 1:57 obviously referred to Mrs Palin's son with Down Syndrome but in your narrow msnbc perverted mind you just had to try and get in a dig at her even at the expense of showing how ignorant and stupid you are.
Here are a few facts to help your noodle, but I doubt they will alter your satisfaction with being ignorant, Sarah and Todd Palin, her one and only husband, have five children: sons Track (born 1989) and Trig Paxson Van (born 2008), and daughters Bristol Sheeran Marie (born 1990), Willow (born 1994), and Piper (born 2001). Her youngest child, referred to by the 1:57 poster, Trig, was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.
Palin has two grandchildren, a boy, the one you referred so stupidly to, named Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, who was born to her eldest daughter, Bristol, and her then-fiancee, Levi Johnston, in 2008, and a girl named Kyla Grace Palin, who was born to son Track and his wife, Britta, in 2011.
Now to add a little juice to your condemnation, if you have children have they always done exactly the way you wanted, when you were growing up did you always do as your parents wanted, whose fault is it when a teen age child does something stupid against their parents beliefs?
The reference was not to that grandson, but rather the grandson she claimed to have been her child notwithstanding the photos of a non pregnant palin the month before he was born.
Are you crazy or just had your head up Saturday Night Live'e butt so long the oxygen was cut off from your brain.
Sarah Palin never claimed Bristols child was her baby any more than she claimed to see Russia from her porch. They were skits on SNL you dunce.
Do you really think a person who is in the public light with such scrutiny would claim to be pregnant for nine months knowing pictures are taken of her almost daily? Man you need to get some reality in your life.
I only wish it were a skit. You can't make up some of this stuff. You would think she would know she was being photographed.
OK hang on to your stupid 1:16, that's fine with me.
i'm fine with it too. So long as neither she nor Mitt Romney are in a position of power, we should all sleep better.
I do see Russia from my house - Sarah Palin campaign 2008!
I also missed the Rain Deer with 5 shots; though I am an outdoors type of person and know how to shoot.
There are no "rain" deer in Alaska dunce.
The presidential election in November is going to be the most important one of my lifetime. In fact, I would suggest that it's the most important election inour nation's history. I think our freedoms are hanging in the balance.
Folks we simply must defeat Obama. We CANNOT afford four more years of this imbecile. He IS an avowed Muslim. He IS pro-murder of children and pro-gay marriage. He has no clue on foreign affairs and is all for tgun control. Wasn't Hitler a gun control guy?
Why isn't the message about Obama being shouted from every church pulpit in this land? Sadly, many people professing to be devout Christians will vote for him. I'm still waiting on someone to explain that to me.
GTC says to 7:32
Because most people are very capable of thinking for themselves and do not require biggots, or religious zellots, to proclaim what they need to do or not do. Dispite what you and Barrett proclaim; the people will vote on their own and will vote for whomever they wish.
I may not agree with for whom they vote but I have fought, and bled my own blood on battlefields, to allow everyone the right to vote in the United States.
Politics cannot be discussed in the "Church". If they do, they lose their tax-free status. ...and you knnow some idiot in the audience would post it on this blog and stir up something else.
CHURCH AND POLITICS DO NOT MIX!
8:29
Should the murder of innocent children and homosexuality be discussed in the churches? YES! Since politicians have enacted laws and statutes regarding these things (sins) how can we not discuss them? Should we ignore that the Bible says about these issues? I won't, and we don't need panty-waist preachers who are too afraid to talk about them.
This is the most important election in our lifetime. One candidate professes to not care about 47% of the American public.
One cares about all Americans and particularly children.
It is funny how some view a fetus as protected but a child as a mere entitlement. That's what we need to talk about in church.
Is gay marriage what we are really concerned about in 2012? Jesus was never concerned with it.
1:05 you have your head up the mainstream medias collective butt hole if you believe that Romney doesn't care about 47 % of the people, what he said was that 47% of the people don't pay any income taxes and will not be drawn to his tax plan. That is a very big difference from not caring about 47% of the people but then what would you expect from a lying democrat parasite like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Obama and you?
Mainstream media? Nope. I just listened to Romney in his own words:
"My job is not to worry about those people. ".
Actually it is his job. That's why a number of republican leaders, including his own running mate, say they cannot defend his remarks.
1:05
What Governor Romney said is that he will not worry about those who are going to vote for Obama no matter what he does simply because he's black...well, half black and raised by whites. The reason he said that is because there is NOTHING he can do to change their minds. Were I a black man, I would be so ashamed that my people are led like sheep by the Democrats. What Romney is saying is that if blacks won't listen to people like Michael Steele and Alan Keyes (both blacks), there's nothing he can say to them.
Blacks have been told that Republicans will burn their churches and put them back into slavery. Why do Democrats do that? It's because they presume that blacks are ignorant enough that they will believe them. For the most part, they are right, and it's a shame.
You say Jesus wasn't concerned with gay marriage? Wrong. If that were true, then why is it stated in the Bible that men lying with men is an abomination to God? Oh yes, he was concerned about it. Read your Bible.
You need a fire extinguisher for that cross you just burned? Or a coat hanger for that hood when you take it off?
Actually Romney wasn't talking about blacks. He included seniors on social security and Medicare, disabled American veterans, single parents working 32 hours, and everyone else, black or white, who doesn't pay income tax
3:10
There you go again playing the race card. I neither wear a hood nor burn crosses. I believe the Democrat party is the party of racism...the party that keeps blacks in chanins of oppression. I just wish they could wake up and see this. One day they will. One day, they will see that Abraham Lincoln was not a Democrat and that people like Harry KKK Byrd was a Democrat. Dr. MLK was also a Republican. Think about that.
And some people will vote for Obama, regardless of the ruin he is causing this country simply because he is black. How can anyone argue with that, when 95% of blacks will vote for that guy. Even Barrett would agree with me on that one.
2:19 / 4:24. (I so hope that is just one person). You disgrace your party (and yourself) to blame its failures on Black people.
4:24 pm This "Whitey" is voting for Pres Obama simply because I think he is a good President and doing better than could be expected under the circumstances he had to deal with and continues to have to deal with.
I saw a sticker on a car today that said, "I miss Clinton." The sticker was new or the car had been in a garage for a few years, but it wasn't that old of a car.
It made me think, there is one unhappy Democrat.
7:08
Wrong. I blame the Democrat party for duping Blacks into believing that Republicans will put them back in chains, burn their churches, etc. Those things are lies.
7:42
What has this president done for you, regardless of your color or his? Nothing! Anybody who calls the slaughter of thousands of people in the Middle East and the murder of our Libyan ambassador mere bumps in the road, needs to go. To me, he is the true bump in the road. Does it even concern you that he plans to continue sending close to 2 million dollars of our money to Egypt? What about his spending us into bankruptcy? What about his stance and positions on abortion and gay marriage? Do you have a problem with any of these things? Then what about his plans for gun control and censorship? Lastly, he is quoted as saying if the political winds change direction he will stand with the muslims!!!
Oh please tell me you are joking. This has NOTHING to do with skin color. I believe four more years of Obama will destroy us.
Well head for your bunker, 9:20, cause it's coming. Go Obama!
9:58
You apparently aren't affected or touched at all by the factual information presented in the 9:20 post. That's really sad. You prove the point that there's a certain segment of our society who will vote for that guy no matter what he does.
This is the most important election we have ever had in this country, and we just cannot afford to be MENTALLY LAZY anymore! If you love your country and your freedoms, let's get this Obama character out of there before he destroys what's left of America. Don't forget that he as well as his wife hates America! Don't forget that.
7:13 AM You make some insane statements about our President. You are not worth arguing with. Again, I will be voting for President Obama and so will all members of my family.
Those of us who do really love our country are the reasons President Obama wii be re-elected by probably the largest landslide victory since Johnson beat Goldwater.
8:13
Do as you feel you must, but the facts remain unchanged. He is the worst president we have ever had. He's even worse than Jimmy Carter. And you are not troubled by any of the proveable facts about that guy? If not, then vote for him. But if he's re-elected, we are going down the tubes within four years. If he is defeated (I think he will be), there will be riots all across our country. He will not go peacefully and will have this entire country in an uproar. Either way, we lose, don't we?
I agree the facts are as they are. Bin laden is dead and GM is alive. We have reformed healthcare and reversed the job losses we saw under the last administration. We ended one unjustified war and are close to withdrawing from another that has lasted way too long.
These are the facts upon which Americans will reelect President Obama by perhaps the largest margin we have seen in our lifetimes.
10:20
You CAN'T be serious. Bin Laden is dead (if he's actually dead) thanks to a Navy seal and not because of someone like Obama. GM is alive thanks to Obama spending our grandchuildren's children into abject poverty. He has revised healthcare so that it, unless we can overturn it, will bankrupt our helth care system and make it hard to find a doctor. Oh, and not that this concverns you, but anti-abortion taxpayers will be forced to fund abortion on demand. Our country did end the war in Iraq, but it was near the end on its own. Obama took credit for it though. And yes, I believe Obama has given the enemy a timetable for withdrawing from Afghanistan. What a move! All they have to do is harrass the troops who are still there until they all leave. Then they walk right in and take over.
Oh, I think you forgot about the gas pricces under Obama. And does the unemployment rate (the true one) not trouble you. Does it bother you at all that food stamp recipients in our country is at a RECORD high? Unemployment may look like it's down but this cat is not counting the thousands who have given up on finding a job. Add to all this misery the fact that this idiot is pro gay marriage and pro murder of innocent children. Last but not least, he's a confessed Muslim who has no problem with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Are you out of your mind? You should be out there working hard to see Obama defeated.
Where are all those weapons of mass distruction that General Powell described to the UN General Counsel?
Oh that's right .... Powell was lied to by Chaney, Rumsfeld, and Rove who wrote the seech Powell gave and they lied about the "facts". Powell thought the speech was prepared by the National Security Counsel but it was not as described in Powell's book "It Wored for Me" His considerably more detailed (but nonetheless circumspect) discussion of his "notorious" United Nations speech in support of military action against Iraq is framed in the context of the most egregious intelligence failure in recent American history.
This does not stand well for the Bush administration.
Actually President Obama is a member in good standing with the Church of Christ.
The government made money and was repaid early on the Chrysler and GM bailouts.
Unfortunately we cannot say the same for Bush's bailout of Wall Street bankers.
Would that happen to be the Church of Christ of Jeremiah "God d-mn the USA" Wright? Ha, ha. Nice try.
You have to pick an attack and stick with it. Is he a Muslim? Or is he a Christian and you don't like his preacher.
With all do respect, you can't mean both.
I think it is the Church of Christ of Jesus Christ.
Obama is quoted in his book as saying he would stand with his muslim brothers if the political winds in tyhis country should change. Unbelievable!!!
You left out his whole quote. Quite convenient.
When you go back and read what he says I am sure you will agree with him and me.
If the ugly winds of political discourse in this country have people coming after Muslims, I will stand with my Muslim brothers. If they come after Jews, I will stand with my Jewish brothers. Same for Catholics, Baptists, and Methodists in my book. What red-blooded, freedom loving American does not believe in that? You?
3:51
I will stand with the Americans.
There you go! All right! There's two of us. Who else will join us?
C'mon y'all. Christian, Jew, or Muslim. We are still Americans!
And I will vote for the American.
Me too! Let's re-elect him together!
If you people honestly think Romney is going to help anyone but the wealthy, you've got your head in the sand. That's all he's ever done, I doubt seriously if he will change just because the becomes the POTUS. Obama has my vote.
okay folks, that's three of us! Keep 'em coming!
I told you a landslide was unfolding.
8:31
Since this is a free speech blog and since we still have that right, I am going to share an opinion of mine.
Anyhow, here's what I think. If Obama is defeated, he will NOT go peacefully into the night. No, I believe he will ramp up the racial tensions in this country to the point that there will be widespread violence. There's even speculation that he will, at the last possible minute, declare martial law and set himself up as the supreme ruler. I forsee internal violence here that will be a thousand times worse than that of the sixties. If he wins, our country goes down the tubes. I believe he will take our guns and silence free speech. Isn't this already beginning? I just hope voters will choose the lesser of the two evils and vote him out.
I truly hope Governor Romney is successful and that the Chicago community organizer is sent home for the winter.
No need to worry 7:36. President Obama wins by a landslide. The largest you or I have ever seen.
7:36 Your comments are similar to those voiced in the 1950's and 60' s in the South by the white biggots and the Klan. You lost then because you were wrong and you will loose now
8:10/8:19
Then our country goes down the tubes...what's left of it. Thank you, Barrack Hussein Obama!
You mentioned white bigots and the Klan. Where have you been; those are Democrat institutions? Do you remember Senator Robert KKK Byrd? How about George Wallace? There are many others, and they are also Democrats. That is the party of oppression and slavery...to entitlements and hand-outs. And if we lose this election to Obama, I will no longer have faith in the American people. The liberal polls show him ahead, but they lie constantly as they are in his pocket. They tried the same thing with Ronald Reagasn, and look what happened. He beat that stinking liberal in a landslide. I believe the same thing is going to happen this time. If it does, look for Obama to stir up racial tensions here like we have never seen. Be prepared for that.
Interstingly, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King were both Republicans. How can people be so blind to how they are being used by Democrats for their votes? I don't get it.
9:02. Take your hood off.
Is it not interesting that all the civil rights legislation passed in the fifties and sixties was initiated and passed by republicans. Kennedy and Johnson both had to be brought to the table kicking and screaming before they finally reluctantly joined the band.
the problem is that a lie is very often more appealing than the truth and democrats have become experts at telling the lie and rewriting history. NO one has been more expert at the lie than obama, from the lie about growing up in poverty,to the lie about not being a socialist/communist.
His vision for America, a country he has refused to even honor by standing for the National Anthem or the Pledge of Alliance. He has even refused to wear the flag on his lapel while moochelle had no pride in this country until her husband was elected. What a pair of losers not because of their appearance but because of the pure disgust they hold for this country and it's peoples.
Nice name calling.
I am glad you confess that "a lie is very often more appealing than the truth". Now I understand why you chose to say what you did about having a copy of the McAlister tape or that gas prices are higher now than ever.
I suppose those are more appealing. In fact I would finally have to say that, by that standard, most of what you say is quite appealing.
Couldn't you find anyone to read the chart of gas prices Barrett posted 1PM.
I'd say what Barrett has posted is far more accurate than what you have to say, uhhh he signs his name and takes responsibility while you hide under your rock and throw gossip such seems credible to you. What a joke.
I believe Barrett is the quintessential narcissist, so why wouldn't he sign his name to his posts? However, I also think that he has made some anonymous posts to pat himself on the back for being the champion of the oppressed here in Giles County. I find that quite laughable.
People absolutely amaze me in their defense of one Barrack Hussein Obama. That includes people with whom I attend church. How can that be?
If Obama is re-elected, I fear that our freedoms and our ountry will be lost. What is it about this that voters and Christians can't see? This is NOT an election about skin color but rather one in which the American people MUST defeat the most incompetent and poor excuse for a leader that we have ever had. He makes Jimmy Carter look great. Oh, how we need another Ronald Wilson Reagan!
Aside from Obama's spending us into poverty and his positions on such things as abortion, gay marriage, and the Muslim Brotherhood, let me share some startling information for those who still plan to go out and vote for him. You'll recall that our ambassador to Libya was murdered and drug through the streets just recently. You may also remember that there were simultaneous attacks on several of our Middle East embassies, Obama passed the murder off as just another bump in the road. WHAT! Hillary Rodham Clinton, Susan Rice, and Jay Carney went on television and made the claim that the murder and the embassy attacks were the result of a film that came out several months ago this year. WHAT! They lied. Obama lied. There's proof that they lied if you care to exert some mental energy to find out. Now is not the time to be asleep at the wheel and vote for a Democrat just because that's how your family has always voted! No, this is a time to stake a stand for our country and taske it back.
Thank God, I still have the freedom to express myself about this administration, although I fear that will soon be a thing of the past. These are very frightening times, and we simply must wake up.
Take a stand for our country and take it back.
By the way, is it true that the Demopcrat party took the word
"God" out of their political platform. Is it not also true that the Democrats are prepping and grooming a couple of brothers named Castro for the future? Why wouldn't this frighten you? Let's pull our heads out of the sand and look at what this prty is all about. It is no longer the party your grandparents supported.
Bigots sure do wake up early on Saturday.
9:00
Is that all you can do is call me a name for telling the truth? You need to exert a bit more mental energy and find out for yourself what a bunch of rats we have in the White House.
nice name calling.
Your post was certainly enlightening. Okay. I give in. Let's do it. Sign me up!
Let's see. Number 1. We are going to take our country back. I'm for that! Wait....who exactly are we taking it back from? Well, never mind, it will just be fun to take it back....once we find the suckers that took it.
Okay. Number 2. When we have it back....now who is it again, we are supposed to give it to? If it's okay with you and your gang, let's not give it back to Wall Street this time. That didn't work out too well last time. How about just the white people then? They will know what to do with it. But wait...if we do that don't we leave out a lot of good Americans who love their country just as much as you and I?
Man, this is going to be a lot tougher than I thought. But I am ready when you get it figured out!
It would be nice if someone could point out a politician who doesn't lie. They're all honorable folks until they take the oath of office, every damned one of them. After that, it's every man for himself. Prove me wrong.
Not sure I can prove you wrong. I have only studied Mitt Romney and .....unfortunately...I have found you are correct.
1:10 How about if we take the country back from the socialist that have lied and cheated their way through many elections and the manipulation of our laws to enrich and empower themselves while enslaving the majority of our citizens. How about if we take it back from those who seek to take away from the producers and give to the parasites that given nothing and take everything. Please don't insult the world by coming back with that tired ole cliche "forget the old and sick just let them die" I'm talking about the able bodied that refuse to work, the baby machines that continue to increase their income through making more babies who will suffer because of the laziness of their parents. Those who worked and earned their retirement and paid for their medical care are being robbed by the parasites and those who support them in an effort for greater power and wealth.
Is Romney the perfect person to lead this country, not by a long shot but he is far superior to obama who has proven to be a detached, slacker who has no conscience when it comes to lies.
I would suggest that when we take it back we give it to the people who are willing to live under it's Constitution, act responsibly, be productive and take pride in being an American. Yes, give it to the people who are aware of our history and proud of their contributions instead of standing with a hand out begging for the government to give more. JFK, inspired the nations with the quote, "ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country", Obama and his gang have changed that to take all you can get ravage the country and destroy this evil country.
Your last sentence is the most telling of your entire comment, "Man, this is going to be a lot tougher than I thought. But I am ready when you get it figured out!"
Yes it will be a tough job but and yes you obviously will wait until someone else figures it out then you will jump in and take the credit. What a loser attitude.
nice name calling again. You just can't help it can you?
Actually, this 47% of takers you and Romney like to degrade include decorated American veterans. Those men and women Sir are far from "takers". They are givers in the truest sense of the word.
These "slackers" so you say, are single parents who choose to work rather than live off government housing and food assistance.
It is telling that you want to "take the country BACK".
FORWARD, I say. Upward and onward....but America is never going BACK.
Able-bodied takers ought to be to get up off their lazy butts and go to work. Sponging off the government is shameful and degrading. Do they think they are owed something? Sadly, many do. It's a shame.
You have to put things in perspective. Mr Romney avoided paying more in taxes by deducting expenses for his non-placing "olympic" horse than 100 families of 4 in Giles county receive in a year in food stamps.
Now who are the real "takers"?
look the man broke no laws, he followed the tax code and did nothing wrong. He also paid far more in taxes than a hundred families in Pulaski and gave more to charities than 500 individuals in Pulaski. One of the things he has vowed to do if elected is restructure the tax code and do away with the loop holes many use for such tax breaks. Do you remember the used underwear Bill Clinton deducted on his taxes?
Don't want to vote for Romney fine, but at least try to be somewhat honest about your reasons.
He deducted $77,0000 for a horse for crying out loud. How in the world can you justify that? You lose any remaining credibility you might have every time you try.
And HE is going to reform the tax code? Did that fox get your chicken coop security system installed yet?
Governor Romney has paid more in taxes than Barrack Obama ever earned. And he was NOT born wealthy. Romney is the kind of businessman we need in these perilous times. We surely don't need a community organizer who is laughed at around the world and whose wife hates America.
That's right, 4:11, we need someone who bleeds failing companies dry to fill his own pockets. That's the man we need in the White House.
Also, if anyone on here thinks Romney will reform the tax code soe he has to pay more, you're even more naive than your posts would suggest.
4:22
You are amazing. However, I will support and vote for the American.
Thanks for admitting that I am amazing. I tend to agree with you for a change.
Amazingly closed minded and satisfied to be ignorant of simple facts.
I did not attempt to justify the deduction only to point out that it was completely legal and not unusual for people to use the deductions that are available to them.
If you are unhappy with the amount of income taxes you paid you can Buffet and obama can always make an extra contribution at anytime instead of just whining that other people should pay more.
Nice name calling. You had my hopes up that you just might have been able to go a whole day without doing it. But, alas, i was wrong in my expectations of you.
Nevertheless, i am glad you concede that not even you can defend the Romney deduction. That is refreshing.
I'm not really satisfied being ignorant, that's just the hand I was dealt. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, though.
When you admit to being ignorant and do nothing about it then you are satisfied with it, trying to justify it by saying that's the hand I was dealt is just stupid. We all started out ignorant of everything it's what we do with that ignorance embrace it or change it that makes the difference.
Get a grip, Zippy, that was called sarcasm. Don't be so serious all the time, you'll live longer.
For sarcasm to be effective it requires a large degree of truth, you supplied the truth about your ignorance and satisfaction with it.
When are you gonna come to terms with yours?
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