Tim's Quest to Save Mass

The excuse of a partisan speech being the reason the vote failed is horrible. I understand this is all politics, each side postures, comes up with excuses and tries to reap the maximum reward for doing something they shouldn't take reward for in the first place.... but the only  thing you come up with was we were offended? WTF???? I've taken crap from co workers friends, family, and never ever ever has this prevented me from doing my job. If Pelosi's speech offended someone then stand up and say so but don't burn the country because of it....

Embarassing.

I'm tired of this Curt. First you whined when the Sox just wanted to see you make it through a season before they gave you a new contract, now your talking about coming back? Please stop trying to extend your legacy. I appreciate what you have done for Boston but please stop pitching. You are done, your older, your damaged, and you're done. You always find a way to make yourself the story but your story is done. Just fade off gracefully and enjoy retirement from your family. You are appreciated but it's no longer your time.

Go off gracefully, not in disgrace, let us remember you at your best, not the guest that overstayed their welcome.

Best/

Tim

What I see coming from our country scares me. When I served in the Navy I was under the impression that I was fighting for the rights of people to; practice there own religions, speak how they want, associate with whom they want, and pursue a life within our legal bounds, and live the "American Dream."

Instead what I now see is people being critical of one's patriotism, the questioning of one's religon, guilt by association, and a public dialouge that makes me sick.

Not wearing an American flag pin doesn't make you any less of a person than the next guy or gal. Not being a Christian is OK. If you want to say God Damn America good for you, thats your right, your first amendment right.

So why are we here? What is patriotism and when has it been required to do anything in this country? Why is being Islamic bad?

I am scared, the freedoms and values I grew up believing would guide this country seem to be slipping away. Day after day I see more blogs and posts about how need to be careful of this persons religion, or that person isn't a true American, or we should be a Christian country. This isn't what we stand for, this isn't America. America is made of  people from all walks of life, people of different colors, from different countries. We have different economic classes, different religions, different languages. We have people that love this country and people that hate it. We are the mixing pot of the world, and thats something we should continue to support, love and encourage.

I hope people can sit down and look at our past, and try to look into our future. If we all have to do things x way, and worship x god, and do x things to be American then we are heading down the wrong path. Learn from your past so you don't repeat the same mistakes in the future.

Normally I'm not one to jump on the smear bandwagon to have someone removed from office, but this seems different. I've never been to thrilled with Speaker DiMasi. He carries himself with a sense of entitlement, and royalty. Beyond my perception his only purpose at this point seems to be to oppose any major ideas that come out of the govenors office.

If you want a lot of the old he is your man (For all you that think im a Huge Deval fan, I wasn't, and I didn't vote for him).

Then comes the St. Patricks day breakfast. DiMasi gets up and lays out a joke, basically calling his aide a prostitute. Are you kidding me... ? the way he said it wasn't funny, was very akward, and you have to wonder what he really thinks about his aide.

Get rid of him, not only is his "leadership" poor, but his taste in jokes is sexist. I wish she would demand he would step down... He showed her no respect, and at a breakfast with most of the "important" people in Mass politics.

Classless Sal....

Sexist....

Good to see we have come so far

I'm listening to jay Severin right now, and boy is he a baby. I love the mentallity of jay, and rush, and laura, and sean. Boo hoo if conservatives can run things we won't vote. Good, don't vote. Keep whining jay. Keep crying. All you do is throw out buzzwords and you throw no tangible proof of much of what you say (McCain and amnesty? Reagan gave Amnesty..., McCains rating... ACU gives him 83 percent lifetime rating).

My point is all this crap on the radio has hit an all time high. Conservatives do not alone run the republican party. you are part of it, you make up a faction, a very large one, but if you can't recognize that America wants and needs more moderate politicans on both sides then maybe you shouldn't vote. All i hear is the crying about ruining the party? Why? People have a different view of our countrys direction? People actually want to try to work and solve problems? Maybe you shouldn't cut taxes if you can't cut spending? This drives me crazy what you guys are doing amounts to taking your toys and going home if you don't get your way.

Maybe somethign great will happen, and you will fracture from the party, and you'll go form your own conservative party. You can boot people out of the country all you want, cal anyoen you want a name, demonize everyone that doesn't think the same as you, you can do what ever you want. Your conservative base and its inability to actually adjust with the times is why I'm voting Democrat this election. Your inability to work with people to solve problems that matter to me is why I won't vote conservative this time around. So I hope you leave jay and rush and sean and laura, take all your little mindless friends with you. The ones that really think that not being conservative will ruin our country. Take them and yourselves and go form your own party do as you like and let the rest of the country get on and try to work together (if thats even possible anymore) to try and solve real issues like immigration, health care, home foreclosures, education costs.

Great debate for Romney. He looked solid, and although each candidate seem to rehash prior speechs Romney seemed solid on the economy. Huckabee gets points for his witty semi-informative responses. McCain, while not a horrible performance seemed to be a rehash almost exactly from prior debates. Rudy, unless he nails this primary he is gone. He just leaves the feeling now that he pulled a Thompson. Though his will be worse as he was the "man" going into this race.

I think the candidates need to attack Romeys record from Mass more. Rudy needs to  take every last penny dump it into making himself relevant, and McCains campaign needs to really address point by point what makes him a conservative. Romney needs to keep speaking in generalities on his record as if it actually gets examined he hurts.  I think overall this debate helps Romney.

Lastly I think Ron paul has a real opportunity. With a 3rd party run he makes the campaign on both sides a toss up.

Tuesday, January 29 | Delegates at Stake: 57 (Winner Take All)
Poll Date McCain Giuliani Romney Huckabee Thompson Paul Spread RCP Average 01/09 to 01/20 23.3 20.0 19.3 16.0 8.3 5.5 McCain +3.3 Rasmussen 01/20 - 01/20 20 19 25 13 12 5 Romney +5.0 SurveyUSA 01/20 - 01/20 25 20 19 14 7 7 McCain +5.0 InsiderAdvantage 01/15 - 01/16 20 21 20 13 7 6 Giuliani +1.0 Research 2000 01/14 - 01/16 26 22 16 17 7 5 McCain +4.0 Strategic Vision (R) 01/11 - 01/13 27 18 17 20 10 5 McCain +7.0 Quinnipiac 01/09 - 01/13 22 20 19 19 7 5 McCain +2.0

These were taken from Realclearpolitics.com

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/presid
ent/florida-primary.html

Joe good report but you only take into account 1 poll. You have another poll run at the same time that shows the polar opposite. The spread still favors McCain, and until a few more poles are released I'd hold judment on what Romneys boost in Florida really is.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7967.html

Your right Jimmy Severino, everything mitt touches becomes gold.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/17/politics/fr
omtheroad/entry3724226.shtml

Slick Willy, oops I mean Flip, doesn't raise taxes he raises fees (sorry didnt realize money out of my pocket was any different)

Now he tip toes about whos running his campaign. Give me a break he wants to take a shot at McCain about lobbyists then can't handle a reporter? Whats the difference from having a former lobbyist running your campaign or flying on your plane every where with you? Nothing

Your fake Mitt, and the more I learn about you the worse you get.

I won't even start on the photo op with the in-need Michigan mom, whose son actually works for your campaign.

Go home and read the dictionary Slick, so that way when someone confronts you again you can tap dance and use semantics. 

I'm sitting in a Dunks at school. (Yep Salem State has a Dunks, in school :) ) and I'm looking over a few polling numbers, and also the delegate count. Ontop of that I'm absorbing all the morning articles on the campaign that I can get my hands on. The GOP is chock full of executives, while the Dems aren't but will this matter? Any day of the week i would have agreed a recession probably helps the GOP. Today I think the tune may be different. If this country slips into a recession all you will hear from the GOP presidental candidates is how their particular executive experience will help them steer the country back to financial sucess. Then you hit a general election, and the main point will come home, that the GOP has controlled congress for more than a few years, and should be the ones rightfully blames for putting us into a recession. So which candidates from the GOP would be best qualified to pull us out of this mess? At first glance I would say Romney, but then I look at the condition he left our state in. McCain while able to work with Dems walks the middle line with larger domestic spending. So I think you get down to Rudy and Huck, both ran large economys and both brought their respective (city and states) to a better place. While I have yet to make a determination on Hucks fair tax, I think these two might be the only two electable GOP candidates that could help push our economy along. (notice I said electable)

So what about the Dems? The fact that they aren't Romneyesq might be their saving grace. With a very large and valid argument that the GOP was the one that hasn't done enough to prevent a recession, all 3 candidates are primed to shift attention back to social and economic issues. I think the Dems have played this campaign much smarter. Quickly shifting away from the iraq war per say, but upping critical focus on social issues while still keeping international security in the forefront. If we do continue to slide into a recession, the Dems would be smart to hammer home healthcare (wich will be tough to afford), immigration (if they can push a multi tiered plan involving securing our southern border, then absorbing a portion of illegals into the tax pool, while deporting others), job generation, and maintain a positive focus on how they can and will make the economy better, they can steal the GOP thunder. If they can pull the vote for them on domestic issues they will win in on the Iraq issue.

Why would they win on the iraq homefront? If the economy slides into the doldrums, the Dems have a very good argument, to shore up spending, they should end the war. They could give a positive in that a military surge is working, but political viability is not within their future. I think they could effectivley end the war, be cited for saving ]billions, and still get the credit for fighting the "war on terror" (don't get me started on that line).

I think if a recession hits the Dems win. The GOP has been at the helm of the ship, and steered us into a slump, with the right arguments the Dems could be the ones to attempt to steer us out.

An interesting thing happened. One of my articles was linked on myfoxdetroit (ive been following the primary over there), and I got into an argument of sorts with one of the locals. No matter how nasty things seem to get here I haven't seen anyone saying that Obama being Muslim will put womans rights on the burner, and basically enslave them.

Since this post we have gon back and forth, with it comign down to me calling him and his statement like I see it. Stupid. Of course he fires back with this being a personal attack, and assuming I must be Muslim since I was defending them.

Id just like to say thanks to the users of this site for not being so shallow as to assume an entire religion is one way (stereotype), and that we can have heated arguments and even debates with out hating each other.

While Romney pledges he is on the side of Michigan and the big three. You might want to check out an article on realclearpolitics.com (well it was linked from rcp take this with a grain of salt). Note I am a Mass resident and Romney messed up small business in this state. As a final blow for our states pride he took 200+ days out of state in his final year in office:

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=125
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Before you cast your vote for Romney, ask around and see what his real record is. I know I have seen a lot of how bad McCains record is, but Romney is no true republican, and if thats what your looking for examin his record before you vote.

The entire season us Pats fans, and the team have been called everything under the sun including classless. Today during the San Diego Indy game the fans booed a 13 year old girl who wont their punt pass and kick contest because she was wearing a Pats jersey and was from New England.

Indy fans have no class.

Enjoy getting ready for next season, and we hope you enjoy the super bowl this year.

Please explain this to me anyone. Both Huck and Mitt suggest not rounding up all the illegals but they will gladly come forward, and remove themselves for the country to do this legally...

If you are illegal, and someone tells you you have to get in line (wait 5-10 years) to come back, would you actually come out?

Lets think of this problem like a leaky pipe. First thing you do is fix the leak, you don;t mop up the water before the leak is fixed. Once fixed you mop up the water. You don't wait for the water to get back in the pipe, you don't ask it too, you mop it up. So assuming we go with McCain's plan, whats the problem? If the problem is fixed we won't ever have illegal immigrants on this scale ever again. Is it rewarding those that broke the law? yes, but would we ever have to do it again? no

So whats the problem, if you can draw everyone out get them legalized and into the tax pool whats the problem?

Or do we spend the resources to round everyone up and deport them? Is that financially possible, or even responsible?

For me, I really don't care if we did give all but the hardened criminal amnesty. Why? if the problem is truley fixed it won't ever be an issue again. I guess I take my problems one step at a time.

Oh and for those that are going to whine about this not being far and rewarding criminals, blah blah blah, you know what i realized after my first wife cheated on me? Life isn't fair. You take the hand your delt and make the best of it. If we have a multi tiered plan to close the borders and absorb the people that are here and turn them into citizens we should go for it.

I'm glad you dropped out of politics and got into radio. Romney is not change, at some point during the campaign someone will point out the fact that GW was an outsider, who was a successful business man (and almost the commish of baseball)... so how is he change.

Come on Jay, your really shoveling crap now.