US Presidential Contenders

[Geo]

Got to love a manager like that. Especially if she can bring employees up to a standard.

[Rusty Edge]

So today's poll has [Sleezebag] tied with Ben Carson, and Fiorina next at 10%
among Iowa Republican caucus goers.

Qualified professional politicians are all in single digits.

http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/85775b52-ec99-4ad3-bbee-14826bdf86e5.pdf

"When Iowa Republicans are asked who they would support in their local caucus, Ben Carson
(23%) and Donald [Sleezebag] (23%) tie for the top spot. The next tier of candidates includes Carly Fiorina
(10%) and Ted Cruz (9%), followed by Scott Walker (7%), Jeb Bush (5%), John Kasich (4%), Marco
Rubio (4%), and Rand Paul (3%). The last two Iowa caucus victors, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum,
each garner 2% of the vote. None of the other six candidates included in the poll register more than 1%
support.
“These results mark a significant shake-up in the leaderboard from Monmouth’s Iowa poll taken
before the first debate,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling
Institute in West Long Branch, NJ. “Carson and, to a lesser extent, Fiorina have surged, while Walker
has faded into the background.”
In mid-July, Walker was the front runner in Iowa, with [Sleezebag] and Carson following behind.
Since then, Walker’s support has dropped by 15 points, while Carson’s has increased by 15 points and
[Sleezebag]’s by 10 points. Support has also increased for Fiorina by 7 points since Monmouth’s last Iowa
poll."

[Unorthodox]

Carson hasn't criticized [Sleezebag]. In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" in August, Carson insisted he isn't trying to "catch" [Sleezebag].

"What I am doing is steadily getting the message out, and connecting with the American people," he said. "And they are responding."

Carson will likely roll out policy ideas in the coming weeks. But the most immediate focus for his campaign is the next debate, hosted by CNN and set for September 16 in Simi Valley, California. While the goal of the first debate was for Carson to simply look like a credible presidential candidate, now that he is firmly in the top tier, he must offer more.

READ: Donald [Sleezebag]: No attacks on Ben Carson, Ted Cruz -- yet

Carson seized on momentum from the first debate, flooding the airwaves in Iowa and New Hampshire for two weeks with radio and television ads with Carson speaking directly to the camera.

"Our children face a very harsh future, unsustainable debt. Future generations will suffer," Carson said in the ad. "Washington is broken. The political class broke it. Please join me."

In Iowa, he has hosted a series of "family festivals" in three cities, featuring pony rides, popcorn and entertainment. Some 6,000 people showed up to the small scale fairs that doubled as political events.

Family festival mini fairs...oh, I like this guy's style.

I'm curious if he would be fairing nearly so well without [Sleezebag]'s lambastic rhetoric going on.  People hear [Sleezebag]'s cry against the political establishment and get interested, only to learn he's an idiot, then slide to Carson as a [Sleezebag], only smart option. 

[Rusty Edge]

Weird. When I try to open the thread to see the last post, I can only go as far as page 18.

When I try to post, I can see Uno's post about Ben Carson. Weird.

[Buster's Uncle]

Something weird's going on; I'll pass that along.

What operating system and browser and so on?

[Rusty Edge]

Windows 7
Internet Explorer

[Rusty Edge]

Okay. Logged out, which required a password reset.

I did use  "Show unread posts since last visit" or "Show new replies to your posts." today, something I don't normally do.

Also, I donated blood today. All well, fine, and easy. Except I got really tired and stupid about dinner time tonight.  So who knows what I may have done.

Looking normal again.

[Buster's Uncle]

I found a default setting that shouldn't have been checked - it should have only affected new members and guest, so why three people were having backwards day, I don't know.  But should be fixed.

[Rusty Edge]

I heard that Monmouth came out with a new national poll -
[Sleezebag]-30%
Carson-18%
Walker-3%

 -and-bernie-sanders/]https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/02/kareem-abdul-jabbar-this-is-the-difference-between-donald-[Sleezebag]-and-bernie-sanders/

[Sleezebag] attacked Kareem Abdul Jabar today because of his article in the Washington Post. Some excerpts-

"Attempting to bully the press to silence criticism of him is anti-American. He followed up this salvo on the First Amendment with a strike at the 14th Amendment, asserting that he’d like to deny those born in the country their citizenship. The biggest enemy to the principles of the Constitution right now is [Sleezebag]."

"[Sleezebag]’s rationale for avoiding Kelly’s debate question – that neither he nor America has time for “political correctness” – taps into a popular boogeyman. The term “political correctness” is so general that to most people it simply means a discomfort with changing times and attitudes, an attack on the traditions of how we were raised. (It’s an emotional challenge every generation has had to go through.) What it really means is nothing more than sensitizing people to the fact that some old-fashioned words, attitudes and actions may be harmful or insulting to others. Naturally, people are angry about that because it makes them feel stupid or mean when they really aren’t. But when times change, we need to change with them in areas that strengthen our society."

"It’s no longer “politically correct” to call African Americans “coloreds.” Or to pat a woman on the butt at work and say, “Nice job, honey.” Or to ask people their religion during a job interview. Or to deny a woman a job because she’s not attractive enough to you. Or to assume a person’s opinion is worth less because she is elderly. Or that physically challenged individuals shouldn’t have easy access to buildings. If you don’t have time for political correctness, you don’t have time to be the caretaker of our rights under the Constitution."

[Buster's Uncle]

I like.

[vonbach]

That article is a good example of just why [Sleezebag] is doing so well. People in this country
have a fond remembrance of the times when we had freedom of speech and association.
Political correctness is communist cultural marxism.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/

Political Correctness is cultural Marxism, Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. Its history goes back not to the 1960s but to World War I. Before 1914, Marxist theory said that if a major war broke out in Europe, the workers of every country would join together in a revolution to overthrow capitalism and replace it with international socialism. But when war came, that did not happen. What had gone wrong?

Two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, independently came up with the same answer. They said that Western culture and the Christian religion had so “blinded” the working class to its true (Marxist) class interests that Communism was impossible in the West until traditional culture and Christianity were destroyed. When Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bela Kun Bolshevik government in Hungary in 1919, one of his first acts was introducing sex education into the Hungarian schools. He knew that destroying traditional sexual morals would be a major step toward destroying Western culture itself.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Marcuse translated the abstruse work of the other Frankfurt School thinkers into books college students could understand, such as Eros and Civilization, which became the Bible of the New Left in the 1960s. Marcuse injected the Frankfurt School’s cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now that generation’s ideology. We know it as “multiculturalism,” “diversity” or just Political Correctness.

That is the dirty little secret of Political Correctness, folks: it is a form of Marxism. If the average American knew that, I suspect Political Correctness would be in serious trouble.

[Buster's Uncle]

You're not old enough to remember before Reagan.

[vonbach]

Were finally starting to see the popular revolt against that Marxist abortion  Political Correctness and its a wonderful thing.

[Buster's Uncle]

You're not old enough to remember very much before Dick & the Monkey, in fact.  Step up your game.

[vonbach]

Interesting. I'm the one that gets yelled at for being rude when I get posts like this directed at me.