Romney spent in the neighborhood of $18 million bucks in Florida, in a freakin' primary, most of it on attack ads aimed at Gingrich, and much of it dishonest. As one of the 1%, with money to burn and many fellow 1%ers opening their wallets for Romney, we can safely assume that this will be the most expensive GOP primary season ever, simply because of Romney and his money. That's if Gingrich stays in, and I hope he does. I still think he has a chance at the nomination. Romney has high negatives within the Republican Party in polls I've seen. Don't have the links right now, but Romney's support is a mile wide, and a foot deep, in my opinion, and I think that opinion is pretty solid. I want Gingrich to win for a couple of reasons. The more I learn of Romney, the less I like him. The less I respect him. Second, and most important, Gingrich would make for a more entertaining presidential race, and he'd be easier for Obama to beat.
lol Reminds me my experience of Fox News. Occasionally I watch it in McDonald's or a business. They usually like that type of propaganda. PS does Fox skew younger with less ads for Cialis and depends? I watch the ABC Nightly News as my wife is addicted to it and I do feel it is perhaps worth 15 minutes of my time with TIVO blitzing through the continual ads to watch it. About 5 to 7 minutes of real news and about 10 minutes of infotainment. They always have a story about strange weather, but never think about climate change, they like air travel stories and always have a story about the latest medical breakthrough of some sort. Also a feel good story something like a disabled kid triumphs or a platoon in Afghanistan fresh from slaughtering Afghans, heroically rescued a dog and transported it to the US for half a million dollars of veterinary work etc.
If you think there's little to distinguish an Obama administration vs a Romney administration, I don't think there's any use even having a discussion with you.
That ham is far from being cooked! Despite Romney spending 18 millions in dirty ads and 2 bad debates, Newt still got over half a million votes. I know you guys want to do the nomination for us but let just wait and see, it ain't over until Barry starts singing again!
I DVR it every day. I watch BBC America on PBS and then NBC News. That said, they've all gone downhill since replacing Brokaw/Rather/Jennings. ABC News is particularly terrible now. It feels like it consists of 30 second news clips and 20 minutes of human interest stories.
Oh, come on, Major. It is often very interesting to discuss small differences. I for instance will vote for Obama as the small diffference is enough for me to invest 30 minutes to an hour on a Tuesday in November.
Maybe I can cite this to get my wife to switch to NBC, but I doubt it will work. On the plus side we watch the Young Turks nightly on Current TV Channel 358 Direct TV for some poltical info. We both find Cenk very entertaining. He has replaced Obermann, and Maddow in our nightly lineup before I go back to the net.
That might be a composite of stories. I remember one story about a disfigured Iraqi kid they brought over for some expensive surgery. I do remember one story about how a platoon hunted far and wide for their pet dog that got lost in a fire fight and when they found it they had it transferred to the US to be with one of the wounded guys.
Wow just saw a Rick Santorum Superpac ad. While it showed Obama, Romney and Gingrich as opponents of Santorum no mention of Paul.
I don't object to money per se, like nationally donated campaign money spent on a national ad campaign in a national election. I object to the subversion of representative government i.e. corporate interests pouring money into what is essentially a 'local' congressional campaign to influence the election of the peoples representative in order to secure support for their own financial interests.
Obama.. Romney.. meh.. I don't really care anymore.. I probably wont end up voting. It's not like it matters anyways since I am out here in Cali and Obama is a lock. It's the opposite of Texas. The bright side is I might still be able to listen to the radio and watch TV without having it be 24/7 non stop attack ads.
I get double, not only do I get the standard local ads and presidential ads, but I get all of New York's ads too. Although it's not as bad as other states, in Virginia ads for a presidential campaign start around July. They're pretty vicious, usually accusing the other one of wasting money and taking snippets of newspaper articles. A lot have "common folk" saying "we can't afford John Kerry." or "I voted for Bush in 2000 and I'm a war vet, but this year I'm voting democrat for MY mayor." Lot of black white, dark colors for the "bad candidate" bright colors for the good one. Basically, the Hannity show.
