....themselves, which is good. This way they will not be discouraged and demoralized. Regardless, they are going down. Z

...Right-Wingers live in. they are now whining about how the MSM polls are suppressing the GOP vote. Maybe they should get a taste of their own medicine. Progressive have been complaining about how the Right-Wing is attempting to suppress the votes of likely Democratic Party voters with their phony voter purges, voter ID laws, and proof of citizenship. In their surreal Ayn Rand world view, they cannot believe they are behind and Romney is going to lose. In their alternative universe, they want to believe the polls are falsely reflecting a bigger Democratic participation and strength than is really there. It is wishful thinking to avoid thinking about the electoral butt kicking they can expect in November. They are fooling no one else but..

Going Down: In their latest conspiracy theory, Right-Wingers claim the public polls are skewed to favor Obama over Romney. The Right claims that more voters actually identify as Republicans rather than Democrats. Therefore the public polls are biased because they do not identify party ID as an accurate demographic to predict election outcomes. Sampling does not take into account the numbers of Democrats, Republicans, or independents in the actual population. Since party ID changes over time, pollsters do not want to bother with it. It is a mistake in methodology, the Right Wing claims, that is biasing the results by so-called oversampling of Democrats. But problem is not with the polls but with the alternative reality the ....

...promised to raise taxes on the rich and secure the social safety net against Right-Wing tampering. If American voters do not want more than radical changes in our entitlement system that only benefit the wealthy few, Obama will win the 2012 elections. What does our ailing economy need? Do we need an unsentimental turnaround artist who is ruthless and social Darwinian in slicing and dicing the economic pie to give the rich an even larger share of the economic pie? Or do we need another FDR who offers Americans a New New Deal that protects the safety nets while raising taxes on the wealthy few? Z

....so hemmed in with the extremist Right-Wing ideology he has the only plan he can offer the American voters. That plan mirrors the budget of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. By picking him as VP, Romney’s message to his extremist base is that he will not govern from the center. Instead, he will govern as an extremist. Again, Romney is caught on the extremes. He cannot pivot back to the center to appeal to the moderate and swing voters because his extremist base will not allow him too. He has to give them assurances that he is an uncompromising Right-Winger. Yet common knowledge says the GOP cannot win without swing voters. On the other, the Democrats have a plan that gives them tremendous advantages. The Democrats have ....

Useless Commandments: Steve Deace commandments are useless for now. Team Obama has already defined the Romney-Ryan Team as Right-Wing extremists who will dismantle environmental protections, slash Medicare and Social Security, ban abortions, and be lapdogs for big business. Romney is defined as a dangerous zealot, a zealot who will do the bidding of even more ideological zealots whose Right-Wing agenda will put the country on the road to the poor house. The Right Wingers are committed to the same old doctrines and institutions that produced our economic problems. What is new that they are talking about? Instead, they offer the same old doctrines without concealing they are brutal uncompassionate social Darwinians. The irony is Romney is..

....Republicans. Many on the Right compare Obama’s remark about bitter gun-clingers with Romney’s 47% remark. Obama made his comment in the spirit that his policies will help the gun-clingers who will then stop voting against their own interest. On the other hand, Romney made a blanket condemnation of all ‘freeloaders’ without specifying who they are, what are their circumstances, or attempting to win them over. The Right-Wingers want to divide up Americans into moochers and looters, makers and takers, when most Americans, through no fault of their own, are struggling in the worse economy since the Great Depression, an economy inherited from the Bush era. Z

...heavily Republican not Democrats. Like a typical Right-Winger, Romney wants to attack so-called ‘freeloaders’ without saying who exactly they are. That is left to the imagination. Most on the racist Right think of them as minorities of color. But if you are an injured war veteran back from Iraq, Romney just insulted you. If you are a student struggling to pay college tuition, Romney just insulted you. If you are disabled or elderly without any other means of support, Romney just insulted you. Even the largest group sucking on the welfare state teat, senior citizens and white males with high school degrees should be offended. But most are not because they do not know or refuse to believe they are ‘freeloaders.’ And most of them are ....

Who are the 47%? Judge Andrew Napolitano says Gov. Romney is correct. He is correct about what and who? He trashes 47% of Americans he say are ‘freeloading’, do not pay federal income taxes, and are all Democrats. On all three points he is incorrect. First, we should ask Romney did he pay his fair share of taxes. His most recent tax return shows him paying only %13 compared to the higher rates for the average Joe and Jane. A common mantra on the Right is how the Rich pay half the Federal income taxes. What they overlook is the regressive payroll taxes that working Americans pay, which accounts for 40% of the government’s income. The 47 percent of households that don't pay federal income taxes are concentrated in red states and skew....

...mobilized for war production. The Romney-Ryan budget forgets these important lessons of history. The Romney-Ryan Budget cuts and Road Map to the Poor House are not about reducing the size of the deficit. They are about turning over more benefits to the top 1%. It is all smoke and mirrors to benefit the top 1% at the expense of poor and middle-class Americans. Z

...to reduce the size of the deficit as well as the debt to GDP ratio. In 1937, Roosevelt sent Congress a budget (today we would call it the Romney-Ryan Budget) that slashed government spending and attempted to balance the budget. The results were catastrophic. After the summer of 1938, the economy collapsed. Increased unemployment followed, and the capitalist classes turned on Roosevelt for reviving Keynesian economics. Like President Obama, FDR also faced obstructionist Republicans in his second term. Right-Wingers like to point out that it was WWII that got us out of the Great Depression. Actually it was the ultimate application of Keynesian economics. The debt to GDP ratio was forgotten and the economy went into overdrive and....