The Race for the Stupid Vote

[Money]

It is because there are so many more "simpletons" today then there was yesterday, and there will be even more tomorrow

Really? I was wondering about that the other day. Do you mean to say in the 1940s there weren't more simple people in America? I definitely feel that being stupid is more popular now than it ever has been. Both parties seem to have uncovered a proud to be stupid enclave totaling millions of Americans.

The big rift between them is that one group is old and proud to be stupid, and the other group is young and proud to be stupid.

Which group are you in?

The American people are not stupid. Especially when compared with Europeans.

I never said the American people are stupid. There's plenty smart Americans I just think that there are also simple people here. Moreover, I can tell American politics has focused in on them.

 

[Money]

Is it just me, or does it seem like our politicians are engaging in a race to the bottom for simpleton voters?

It just you or you are you are only listening to the simpleton politicians like Obama or Ron Paul.

Cain makes the fundamental point that he is the only candidate who is presenting a basic economic reform in his 9-9-9 program (9% personal income flat tax with no deductions, 9% corporate income tax, and a new 9% consumption tax on everything). He says that all the candidates are promising to undo the damage Obama has wrought in his presidency by repealing the likes of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. But he says that all this will do is to roll the clock back to 2008 when the economic collapse started. "Our economy was sick then and is sick now," Cain says. He says that fundamental changes in our tax code, such as he is pushing, are the only way to cure the original problems that led to the roller coaster ride of the past few years. He criticizes Romney's jobs program saying that it "only replaces one set of loopholes with another set" and says that his de-regulation proposals just replace Obama's regulations but do nothing to restructure the tax incentives which are so destructive to economic growth. A very, very good point!

Bachmann makes a very good point of her own. She says that, while every candidate promises to repeal Obama's programs -- health care and Dodd-Frank --that it is not so simple. She likens the job to cancer surgery where you have to get out every single cell from every single organ into which it has metastasized. Obamacare has infested each part of the health care bureaucracy from HHS to Medicare to Medicaid to private insurance down to the individual doctors' offices and hospitals. Its effect won't go away when a repeal bill is signed. What of the tens of millions or formerly private patient records now sitting on federal computers? What of the health care rationing that is already taking place as a result of the data collection under the bill? She says that she was there when it passed and has fought it ever since and is the only one who knows how to root it out - all of it. Bachmann points out that a 3,000 page bill now runs to tens of thousands of pages of regulations. "This bill is still being written," she observes. She makes the same point about Dodd-Frank which has infected every aspect of the financial system and must be dealt with as firmly. She points out that someone needs to understand the damage it has done to community banking and federal regulation to realize how to uproot it and repeal it. (Dick Morris)

Searing irony. Nice one.

 

[mudwhistle]

I remember FLOR-I-DUH in 2000.

Them was some stupid voters.

Couldn't figure out a Butterfly Ballot.

Thought they was voting for Al Gore and ended up voting for Bush and Patrick Buchcanan.

(Forgot the Spellin)

 

[Tank]

It is because there are so many more "simpletons" today then there was yesterday, and there will be even more tomorrow

Really? I was wondering about that the other day. Do you mean to say in the 1940s there weren't more simple people in America?

In the 1940s people were more simple, but were not more simpletons.

 

[mudwhistle]

It is because there are so many more "simpletons" today then there was yesterday, and there will be even more tomorrow

Really? I was wondering about that the other day. Do you mean to say in the 1940s there weren't more simple people in America?

In the 1940s people were more simple, but were not more simpletons.

Obama needs stupid voters.

Blacks that are too racist to vote for anyone else.
College students that are too stoned or apathetic to vote with their heads.
Hispanics that can't read English too good. O da lay Vatos.
Women that think he's cute.
And Libs like Truthmatters that are too stupid to know they're getting shafted.

 

[Jackson]

It is because there are so many more "simpletons" today then there was yesterday, and there will be even more tomorrow

Why do you think Pelosi said "God Bless You" to the OWS group?

 

[mudwhistle]

It is because there are so many more "simpletons" today then there was yesterday, and there will be even more tomorrow

Why do you think Pelosi said "God Bless You" to the OWS group?

All the Botox and face-lifts is cutting off her oxygen supply to her brain.

The next stage is Michael Jackson.

 

[Foxfyre]

Just llisten to the OWS being interviewed. And they are old enough to vote.

Not only are they old enough, but many will be bribed or enticed or paid or coerced into doing so. Scary isn't it.

 

[Charles_Main]

Is it just me, or does it seem like our politicians are engaging in a race to the bottom for simpleton voters?

Now is not the appropriate time to game people who aren't in the habit of thinking for votes.

I think there is a lot of work to do in our government, and NONE of the proposals being put forward have anything to do at that work.

Why not, Courting the Voters who don't pay attention, and vote based on how they "feel" about someone instead of that Someones Policies, is what made Obama President.

the "stupid" Vote elected him.

 

[Foxfyre]

I remember FLOR-I-DUH in 2000.

Them was some stupid voters.

Couldn't figure out a Butterfly Ballot.

Thought they was voting for Al Gore and ended up voting for Bush and Patrick Buchcanan.

(Forgot the Spellin)

One of the funniest lines in a movie lately was in "Big Trouble" when the character, Arthur Herk, was described as one of Miami's citizens who was NOT confused when he voted for Pat Buchanan.

I fully understand why we don't have a literacy test for voters, but I sure wish there was some way to initiate one. I'm sick and tired of people being given a card with a name written on it and being promised money or some other perk if they'll go vote for that name. When you have multiple 'man-on-the-street' interviews in which most of the people asked have no clue who the Vice President or Speaker of the House is and who don't know which party is in the majority etc., but still these people are practically dragged to the polls to vote, it makes you wonder how we can ever have an honest election.

 

[mudwhistle]

Just llisten to the OWS being interviewed. And they are old enough to vote.

Not only are they old enough, but many will be bribed or enticed or paid or coerced into doing so. Scary isn't it.

I heard that The Workers Family Party (ACORN) is paying some of them between 350-650 dollars a week to protest.

 

[mudwhistle]

I remember FLOR-I-DUH in 2000.

Them was some stupid voters.

Couldn't figure out a Butterfly Ballot.

Thought they was voting for Al Gore and ended up voting for Bush and Patrick Buchcanan.

(Forgot the Spellin)

One of the funniest lines in a movie lately was in "Big Trouble" when the character, Arthur Herk, was described as one of Miami's citizens who was NOT confused when he voted for Pat Buchanan.

I fully understand why we don't have a literacy test for voters, but I sure wish there was some way to initiate one. I'm sick and tired of people being given a card with a name written on it and being promised money or some other perk if they'll go vote for that name. When you have multiple 'man-on-the-street' interviews in which most of the people asked have no clue who the Vice President or Speaker of the House is and who don't know which party is in the majority etc., but still these people are practically dragged to the polls to vote, it makes you wonder how we can ever have an honest election.

We earn the kind of government we deserve.

If we have a bunch of misinformed retards voting in our elections (Democrat Voters) it's no wonder we have bad government.

 

[Money]

Is it just me, or does it seem like our politicians are engaging in a race to the bottom for simpleton voters?

Now is not the appropriate time to game people who aren't in the habit of thinking for votes.

I think there is a lot of work to do in our government, and NONE of the proposals being put forward have anything to do at that work.

Why not, Courting the Voters who don't pay attention, and vote based on how they "feel" about someone instead of that Someones Policies, is what made Obama President.

the "stupid" Vote elected him.

I guess that's the burning question here: does it REQUIRE that a candidate dumb down American politics in order to win an election?

Otherwise, are our politicians being condescending with the way that they campaign to the American people?