Mitt's defense of losing ignores history

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Wednesday February 08, 2012 · 10:04 AM PST

2012/02/08 · 10:04

Just a quick note. Earlier today Meteor Blades posted a quote from the Romney campaign:
"As our campaign has said from the outset, Mitt Romney is not going to win every contest. John McCain lost 19 states in 2008, and we expect our opponents will notch a few wins, too,"

What Romney seems to have missed is that McCain LOST THE GENERAL ELECTION!. Of those 19 states he lost in the primary, he also lost Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Maine, Massachusetts, and Iowa in the general election. At least five of those could have been considered tossups.

The map this time is different of course, but the larger point is that the people in the states Romney lost really don't like him! And unless he can turn that around, he risks losing some of those swing states to President Obama in the General (MO, CO, IA, and maybe coming up ME, AZ, ...)

Selfish and Stupid

Aglaya

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Wednesday July 28, 2010 · 12:27 PM PDT

2010/07/28 · 12:27

In my all too frequent uncharitable moments toward Republicans, I have often explained to friends that most could be characterized simply as "selfish or stupid, or both." I'm not sure if in my heart I really mean that, but then this came out about Bush's forthcoming memoir and it just all seemed to fit so well.

Aglaya

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 7:17 PM PDT

2010/04/13 · 19:17

Is it just me, or is anyone else disturbed by the US offering to take the world's highly enriched uranium and offering to reprocess it into non weapons grade material? I'm sick of being the world's welfare state. Give us your poor, your tired, your radioactive! We need to send the Minutemen to prevent that 100 kilos of U235 from sneaking across the Mexican border and ending up in some cushy reprocessing plant, formin' a union. At taxpayers' expense no doubt!! If we capture that there plutonium we should definitely reprocess it at Gitmo, too. 'Cause you know if it gets here, it'll want a lawyer, demand that it was born highly enriched and that it would be elementist to strip it of it's God given neutrons!! And if it does get turned into viable nuclear reactor fuel, think of all the domestic uranium that wont have to be mined! That'll just lead to more unemployed uranium sitting around radiating the good citizens of the USA and looking for a handout! And I'm guessing we'll see a law soon requiring every citizen to buy their share of uranium to keep at home, too.

Who's with me....tell Obama we don't need no foreign U235 lovin', socialist moran forcing us to buy uranium and put it in our grandma's denture glass!

If you could pass one Constitutional Amendment...

Aglaya

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 10:09 AM PST

2010/01/20 · 10:09

What would it be and why?

For me, I am seriously mulling the implications of an Amendment that would strip corporations of their status as de facto individual citizens and all the rights that follow (free speech, political contributions, lobbying, etc...). Everything just seems to come back to the toxic corporate influence on all aspects of government.

Haiti - A double tragedy

Aglaya

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Wednesday January 13, 2010 · 11:14 AM PST

2010/01/13 · 11:14

The January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake will go down in history as one of the world’s most devastating. It is a grim fact that the ultimate death toll in tragedies such as these typically reach ten times or more the first estimates that break on the news wires. Early estimates of "thousands of dead" are likely to turn into tens of thousands, or even a hundred thousand or more, once the final tallies are in.

Aglaya

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Tuesday December 29, 2009 · 7:48 PM PST

2009/12/29 · 19:48

Each time the government uncovers a potential terrorist plot, the question arises: "To profile or not to profile." The Right declares "Most Muslims are not suicide bombers, but most suicide bombers are Muslim," and uses this as the argument for some sort of profiling. Inevitably, the Left decries racial or religious or other profiling as a means to identify potential threats. The argument is made that profiling is an unfair invasion of civil liberties. It is indeed. But it is also effective and efficient in its intended purpose.

Aglaya

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Sunday November 22, 2009 · 5:25 PM PST

2009/11/22 · 17:25

What is the most enduring and stable system of economic and social order the world has known? Not capitalism, or socialism, or dictatorship. It is feudalism.

Aglaya

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Monday November 16, 2009 · 11:57 AM PST

2009/11/16 · 11:57

When does our revulsion at the shameless self-promotion of others have to take a back seat to acknowledging that sometimes it is required in order to serve the greater good?

Aglaya

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Monday October 26, 2009 · 3:48 PM PDT

2009/10/26 · 15:48

In two political respects and possibly in one fiscal respect, having the Opt-Out provision is good for progressives.

Aglaya

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 1:35 PM PDT

2009/08/17 · 13:35

I was wondering if the Daily Kos has an archive that would help me debate the case for a public health plan with friends, many of whom are conservative. I consider it our responsibility to be informed and assertive in pushing for causes that we believe in, avoiding the simple politics of fear; and I think it would be a wonderful addition to the Daily Kos if there were site repositories with stats, links and other ammunition to support our causes. Any help would be appreciated.

The transparent president

Aglaya

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Wednesday May 20, 2009 · 8:26 AM PDT

2009/05/20 · 08:26

I'm at whitehouse.gov/live right now watching POTUS' live briefing with national economic experts. Can I just say here for a moment how awesome this is!? When "President" Cheney held his secret energy task force, he went to court to prevent the American people from even learning who the participants were! And here I am with a few mouse clicks, right there in the room with the President. I mean -- let's not undervalue how amazing this is.

I know there have been some concerns raised in the progressive communities about several of the President's recent decisions but I think it would be good for us to take a moment to list a few of the things that we've been grateful for in the past four months. This is one great example.

And as I get more nervous about the Congress pulling away from Obama on his agenda (concealed weapons in national parks as an amendment to the credit card bill !?) I think we should be redoubling our efforts to tell our legislators about our support for the President and those items in his agenda on which we do agree.

You Can Quote Me on That

Aglaya

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Monday November 24, 2008 · 9:00 PM PST

2008/11/24 · 21:00

No big deal here. Just a pleasant thought. I love the New York Times, but you know when you read Friedman or Brooks or Kristof and they wax hypothetical about what they'd do if they were in charge --- everyone would drive a car made that runs on happiness; first thing I'd do is provide free health care for everyone in America by taxing stupidity and incentivizing innovation....yada, yada. You know it's all great but really, dudes you're just columnists? You actually gonna do something about it?

So, when reading Herbert'slatest, and I got to the part where it read

"It will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jump-start job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy. We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children and building wind farms and solar panels, fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.”

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