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		<title>By: Aye Chihuahua</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2009/02/21/are-conservatives-recovering-their-enthusiasm/#comment-165661</link>
		<dc:creator>Aye Chihuahua</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-165631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fit fit&lt;/a&gt;: 

&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s so sad to see someone who has been proven wrong so many times about so many things still speaking as if he knows what he is talking about.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Actually, it&#039;s amusing rather than sad.

That&#039;s why we&#039;ve kept you around here.

Sheer entertainment value.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>@<a href="#comment-165631" rel="nofollow">Fit fit</a>: </p>
<blockquote><p>It’s so sad to see someone who has been proven wrong so many times about so many things still speaking as if he knows what he is talking about.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, it&#8217;s amusing rather than sad.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve kept you around here.</p>
<p>Sheer entertainment value.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike's America</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2009/02/21/are-conservatives-recovering-their-enthusiasm/#comment-165638</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike's America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-165631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fit fit&lt;/a&gt;: As usual, you&#039;re overreaching just like your Lord and Master.

Perhaps you would like to show me what I posted in June where I claimed that &quot;some statistical noise meant Obama’s poll numbers were dropping?&quot;

I&#039;ll make it easy for you. Here&#039;s my archive of all posts for June 2008:

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html

Happy hunting Nit Wit!

And yes, Missy is right. If the Dems had not engineered the banking crisis, triggered by Chuckie Schumer undermining Indy Mac, Obama never would have been elected.

McCain made the mistake of walking into that Dem trap when he stupidly suspended his campaign.

None of that has anything to do with conservative enthusiasm.

In fact, just the opposite.

If we had a candidate that conservatives could support 100% I doubt we would have lost to the phony, lying socialist Obama.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>@<a href="#comment-165631" rel="nofollow">Fit fit</a>: As usual, you&#8217;re overreaching just like your Lord and Master.</p>
<p>Perhaps you would like to show me what I posted in June where I claimed that &#8220;some statistical noise meant Obama’s poll numbers were dropping?&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll make it easy for you. Here&#8217;s my archive of all posts for June 2008:</p>
<p><a href="http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html</a></p>
<p>Happy hunting Nit Wit!</p>
<p>And yes, Missy is right. If the Dems had not engineered the banking crisis, triggered by Chuckie Schumer undermining Indy Mac, Obama never would have been elected.</p>
<p>McCain made the mistake of walking into that Dem trap when he stupidly suspended his campaign.</p>
<p>None of that has anything to do with conservative enthusiasm.</p>
<p>In fact, just the opposite.</p>
<p>If we had a candidate that conservatives could support 100% I doubt we would have lost to the phony, lying socialist Obama.</p>
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		<title>By: Missy</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2009/02/21/are-conservatives-recovering-their-enthusiasm/#comment-165632</link>
		<dc:creator>Missy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He wasn&#039;t wrong.  Those incidents did hit Obama in the polls,  the banking crisis rescued his sorry rear end.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>He wasn&#8217;t wrong.  Those incidents did hit Obama in the polls,  the banking crisis rescued his sorry rear end.</p>
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		<title>By: Fit fit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fit fit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Would this be the same spring in your step you felt back in June when you thought some statistical noise meant Obama&#039;s poll numbers were dropping?  Or when Sarah Palin arrived just in time to save the McCain campaign?  Or when Joe the Plumber finally broke through the media&#039;s bias to bring the people the truth?

It&#039;s so sad to see someone who has been proven wrong so many times about so many things still speaking as if he knows what he is talking about.  Your Herculean display of denial and willfull ignorance will never cease to amaze me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Would this be the same spring in your step you felt back in June when you thought some statistical noise meant Obama&#8217;s poll numbers were dropping?  Or when Sarah Palin arrived just in time to save the McCain campaign?  Or when Joe the Plumber finally broke through the media&#8217;s bias to bring the people the truth?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so sad to see someone who has been proven wrong so many times about so many things still speaking as if he knows what he is talking about.  Your Herculean display of denial and willfull ignorance will never cease to amaze me.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember the Watts riots?

My wife, a good, conservative Black republican, predicts rioting in all the major cities this summer, when the poor folks realize that Obama hasn&#039;t taken away all the money, Lexuses and bling away from the rich white folks and given it to them!

People are starting to wake up.  And then the powers-that-be are going to realize what a sleeping giant they have awakened...</description>
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<p>My wife, a good, conservative Black republican, predicts rioting in all the major cities this summer, when the poor folks realize that Obama hasn&#8217;t taken away all the money, Lexuses and bling away from the rich white folks and given it to them!</p>
<p>People are starting to wake up.  And then the powers-that-be are going to realize what a sleeping giant they have awakened&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Mike's America</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike's America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-165395&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ditto&lt;/a&gt;: Maybe Obama was trying to make it up to the British who felt dissed by the banisment of Sir Winston&#039;s bust from the Oval Office. But as usual, his focus group tested rhetoric got the Churchill quote backwards.

@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-165405&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don L&lt;/a&gt;: I&#039;m fully aware that their remain some sytemic weaknesses in our party. But the good news is that things are moving in our direction, the RIGHT direction.

You wouldn&#039;t deny that would you?

If so, then let&#039;s celebrate that and act to facilitate more of the same.

@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-165487&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jolene&lt;/a&gt;: Thanks for that balanced appraisal of our situation Jo. You summed it up in in sentence:

&lt;FONT SIZE=4&gt;&quot;The air of confidence was thicker than the one of fear.&quot;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>@<a href="#comment-165395" rel="nofollow">ditto</a>: Maybe Obama was trying to make it up to the British who felt dissed by the banisment of Sir Winston&#8217;s bust from the Oval Office. But as usual, his focus group tested rhetoric got the Churchill quote backwards.</p>
<p>@<a href="#comment-165405" rel="nofollow">Don L</a>: I&#8217;m fully aware that their remain some sytemic weaknesses in our party. But the good news is that things are moving in our direction, the RIGHT direction.</p>
<p>You wouldn&#8217;t deny that would you?</p>
<p>If so, then let&#8217;s celebrate that and act to facilitate more of the same.</p>
<p>@<a href="#comment-165487" rel="nofollow">Jolene</a>: Thanks for that balanced appraisal of our situation Jo. You summed it up in in sentence:</p>
<p><font SIZE=4>&#8220;The air of confidence was thicker than the one of fear.&#8221;</font></p>
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		<title>By: Jolene</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jolene</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We went to a gun show yesterday.  The air of confidence was thicker than the one of fear :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>We went to a gun show yesterday.  The air of confidence was thicker than the one of fear <img src='http://floppingaces.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Missy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Missy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Love that motto Don!  Good post, thanks.</description>
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		<title>By: Don L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good news? Not quite so fast. Michael Steele is not Obama with the haloed glow and army of media censors and supporters. He&#039;s wishy wshy on life issues and thinks we need hip hop in the GOP.

Someone who will demand investigations of congress&#039; rolein the sub-prime, toss the Obama loving rinos off their committees and write an indelibly carved contract  of conservative beliefs is needed.
 Movement to attack the leftist propaganda would help and truely educating the masses to understand sound economics might also help (knowing ourselves is insufficient -each wise vote is counteracted by a mind numbed robot who likes Obama&#039;s smile and hopenchange.)
Stop putting up candidates who&#039;s time has come -the Doles and Mccains have killed us. 
We need to learn to propagandize for the truth and to clean our house of corruption and big government types.

The motto - Return America to its people - take the constiution away from the penumbra lawyers -responsibility is golden - our children are not the property of the government- they are God&#039;&#039;s gift to parents -voluntary dependence is corruption of the soul.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Good news? Not quite so fast. Michael Steele is not Obama with the haloed glow and army of media censors and supporters. He&#8217;s wishy wshy on life issues and thinks we need hip hop in the GOP.</p>
<p>Someone who will demand investigations of congress&#8217; rolein the sub-prime, toss the Obama loving rinos off their committees and write an indelibly carved contract  of conservative beliefs is needed.<br />
 Movement to attack the leftist propaganda would help and truely educating the masses to understand sound economics might also help (knowing ourselves is insufficient -each wise vote is counteracted by a mind numbed robot who likes Obama&#8217;s smile and hopenchange.)<br />
Stop putting up candidates who&#8217;s time has come -the Doles and Mccains have killed us.<br />
We need to learn to propagandize for the truth and to clean our house of corruption and big government types.</p>
<p>The motto &#8211; Return America to its people &#8211; take the constiution away from the penumbra lawyers -responsibility is golden &#8211; our children are not the property of the government- they are God&#8221;s gift to parents -voluntary dependence is corruption of the soul.</p>
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		<title>By: ditto</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2009/02/21/are-conservatives-recovering-their-enthusiasm/#comment-165395</link>
		<dc:creator>ditto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Mike

Obama borrowing from Churchill is no surprise.  A good percentage of his political marketing campaign is to compare himself in favorable terms with, and to slightly parrot, past famous Americans. (Washington, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Martin Luther King, and yes even a little Regan tossed in.)  His campaign went so far as to reference Obama in Messianic terms. Now he is branching out to &quot;become one with&quot; the historical figures of other countries.  I expect he will try to borrow phrasings from or identify himself with far more other history-making personages: (Ghandi, Budda, Plato, Socrates, Leonardo Da&#039;Vinci, etc ad nausium.)

This is so clearly much-more a Presidential marketing scheme, rather than an administration having any real substance.  Obama is more akin with the personna of Professor Marvel, than as a Grand and Powerful Wizard of Oz.

Without the smoke, mirrors &amp; showmanship, his administration is little more than a rehashing of the policies of others, blended with rhetoric, and packaged as &quot;Change&quot; and is being sold to those of America who don&#039;t read history.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>@Mike</p>
<p>Obama borrowing from Churchill is no surprise.  A good percentage of his political marketing campaign is to compare himself in favorable terms with, and to slightly parrot, past famous Americans. (Washington, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Martin Luther King, and yes even a little Regan tossed in.)  His campaign went so far as to reference Obama in Messianic terms. Now he is branching out to &#8220;become one with&#8221; the historical figures of other countries.  I expect he will try to borrow phrasings from or identify himself with far more other history-making personages: (Ghandi, Budda, Plato, Socrates, Leonardo Da&#8217;Vinci, etc ad nausium.)</p>
<p>This is so clearly much-more a Presidential marketing scheme, rather than an administration having any real substance.  Obama is more akin with the personna of Professor Marvel, than as a Grand and Powerful Wizard of Oz.</p>
<p>Without the smoke, mirrors &amp; showmanship, his administration is little more than a rehashing of the policies of others, blended with rhetoric, and packaged as &#8220;Change&#8221; and is being sold to those of America who don&#8217;t read history.</p>
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