ERLYBIRD, CALL HOME!!!

where are you, my little prune danish? you've been silent, just when you could have emulated your hero carl rove and had a conservative meltdown...i'm beginning to get worried!! as much as some of us disagree with you, we need you here to leaven our daily bread! i feel like you're the sand in my speedo on the big beach of life!

i'm sending out the rescue dog, soon. and snarfle the st. bernard has instructions to bite you if you try to get into the brandy keg without showing her an injury first!
By rae121452 | 11/08/2012 10:20 AM | 8 comments
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  • Pete, you asked about virulently anti-conservative bloggers being on the dole?

    Maybe, but let me tell you that a lot of virulently conservative bloggers/TV personalities are making a living that way. Conservative TV/radio gets a lot better ratings than liberal.

    Which is why I wonder if they deliberately misled their viewers/listeners into expecting an easy Romney win. They're being paid to deliver a viewpoint, not necessarily the facts.

    If folks were paying close attention to the race (I noticed, and I wasn't as into this race as I have been some in the past), it was obvious that Obama was holding a small but persistent lead in Ohio. And Romney wasn't going to win without Ohio.

    So I felt that the polling data favored Obama. But I didn't want to be overconfident, because the race was close, and the economy always created an air of uncertainty about the Obama re-election campaign.
    BearinFW 11/09/2012 04:48 AM
  • Besides ErlyBird there were other misguided conservatives who were rather abrasive. Can't think of their handles, but maybe they should also come out of the woodwork and tell us how they think their party should dig itself out of being lost in the '50s and beholding to the super-wealthy pac money moguls. I'd like to hear their idea of whether they think suppressing the vote worked for them in Florida where folks sometimes had to stand in line for 8 hours to vote.
    rjzip 11/08/2012 10:55 PM
  • okay, so we all agree erly can be a pain in the ass but he serves an important function here. i think he really cares about and believes his philosophy and his opposing views help to clarify my own, to me. i'd much rather deal with someone who is upfront, rather than someone who's going to smile in my face and then stab me in the back. i might not like what he says but i respect the balls it takes to say it.

    ERLY, cupcake, if you're reading this, time to man up and take a little ass kicking. it'll all be over in a day or two and you can be your normal self, stirring the shit.
    rae121452 11/08/2012 10:32 PM
  • Well, Pete, it's a balancing act. On the other hand, what good would economic prosperity be without freedom? If Republican policy on gay rights prevailed, gay people would still be barred from military service and gay marriage wouldn't even be up for discussion, much less legal in 9 states.

    As for Erly, yeah he deserves some ribbing. But let's avoid piling on :)
    BearinFW 11/08/2012 10:26 PM
  • Yeah, but erlybrd carried too many of his commets to the extreme....almost being nasty. I defend no one who has an opposite opinion who bullies others that don't have the same opinion as his.
    kelleysiland 11/08/2012 09:15 PM
  • We should give our right-wing friends a little slack. They weren't prepared for the election outcome.

    I think most of us relied on the mainstream media for most of our information, and we knew the election was going to be close. Mentally, we were prepared for any outcome.

    However, our friends on the right, such as Mr. Bird, were relying heavily on right-wing websites and Fox News and the like for information. They were misled (deliberately?) into thinking that a Romney victory was a sure thing. Most conservative pundits were even predicting a Romney rout!

    This election maybe more than any other in recent times shows the folly of relying on media that just tell you what you want to hear for information. As a result, the right had totally unrealistic expectations and the outcome came as a shock.

    If Obama had lost, I think most of us would have been disappointed, but we would not have been caught totally unprepared for the possibility.
    BearinFW 11/08/2012 06:29 PM
  • I don't know, rae, I think he's afraid of the "I told ya so"s he's expecting to get when he does rear is head.....He has been EXCEPTIONALLY quiet. I figured he'd be on just running us Obama supporters into the ground. Oh well.
    kelleysiland 11/08/2012 05:25 PM
  • I read that it is estimated that 6% of the gays and lesbians who voted cast a vote for Romney and 4% for someone else, leaving a nice 90% voting for President Obama.
    gene245te5 11/08/2012 04:15 PM