I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/secondary-breast-cancer-awareness-day/friday 

Thanks for the heads up, Yorkie...this is the link.

Yorkie...it is easy.  Copy the url (http://www....etc) (by highlighting it, then right clicking, then "copy").  Then paste it into your post (right click, "paste")...  If you scroll over a link itself, right click, hit "copy shortcut" and then paste it into your post.

Thanks for the link, I'm working tonight and I wasn't sure where to look for it - anyway, I'm glad I had the chance to watch that, just glad I have tissues at hand.

Yes, RR. What incredible grace, stoicism and profundity, all at the same time.

I find it mind-boggling that a great number of people vote for the Republicans and are precisely in the group that stand to gain the most from the Democrats' policy.  I know it is misinformation...intentional leading astray by corporately controlled media.  But it is still mind-boggling.

WR- I don't know what they feel, but my bet is they are voting against their own interest and don't realize it. I assume you were speaking on the poster' thoughts  of this factoid they posted elsewhere.

My neighbor's senior citizen mother is a Faux News watcher.  She is also a terrible racist, incidentally.  When Ryan was messing with Medicare last spring she had a glimmer, albeit slight, that these Republicans might negatively affect her healthcare (while still calling Obama a socialist, lol).  I have not spoken with her since, to know if she still gets it (sort of), but this Cognitive Dissonance is a hard nut to crack. 

Kam ... I was speaking with sarcasm ... they don't have a clue that they are about to be thrown under the bus.  And I hope that didn't come from elsewhere on this board because I personally do not wish to have those conversations infecting this thread in any way.

Thanks Kam! I've been experimenting and I think I've got it, by George!

I'm standing on the left.  Going back to watch R. Maddow and Mr. Ed.

Jackie

Morning Momine (over in freedom fightin' Yankee-land:-) )

I don't dislike Peggy Noonan - her columns are often thoughtful. But this one, asking for an "intervention" for Romney's campaign, is a bit of wishful thinking. Mr. No Empathy is not sorry, is clueless and Ryan remains defiant. Still, here is Noonan:

"What should Mitt Romney do now? He should peer deep into the abyss. He should look straight into the heart of darkness where lies a Republican defeat in a year the Republican presidential candidate almost couldn't lose. He should imagine what it will mean for the country, for a great political philosophy, conservatism, for his party and, last, for himself. He must look down unblinkingly.

And then he needs to snap out of it, and move.

He has got seven weeks. He's just had two big flubs. On the Mideast he seemed like a political opportunist, not big and wise but small and tinny. It mattered because the crisis was one of those moments when people look at you and imagine you as president.

Then his comments released last night and made months ago at the private fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla. Mr. Romney has relearned what four years ago Sen. Barack Obama learned: There's no such thing as private when you're a candidate with a mic. There's someone who doesn't like you in that audience. There's someone with a cellphone. Mr. Obama's clinger comments became famous in 2008 because when people heard what he'd said, they thought, "That's the real him, that's him when he's talking to his friends."

* * *

And so a quick denunciation of what Mr. Romney said, followed by some ideas.

The central problem revealed by the tape is Romney's theory of the 2012 election. It is that a high percentage of the electorate receives government checks and therefore won't vote for him, another high percentage is supplying the tax revenues and will vote for him, and almost half the people don't pay taxes and presumably won't vote for him.

My goodness, that's a lot of people who won't vote for you. You wonder how he gets up in the morning."

More: http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/09/18/time-for-an-intervention/

More from Noonan - I like her column the more I read it:

"You know what Romney sounded like? Like a kid new to politics who thinks he got the inside lowdown on how it works from some operative. But those old operatives, they never know how it works. They knew how it worked for one cycle back in the day.

They're jockeys who rode Seabiscuit and thought they won a race."

I think she nails it - Romney was thinking he was oh-so strategic and knowledgeable about how the game is played, when in reality he is clueless about that, too. Even Reagan and W. tried to get votes from all ages and interests - they and their tacticians actually got people to vote against their own interests, which really is savvy - if tragic.

Oooohhh....I'm in love with Blue's dad.

Athena and Blue, I felt so bad for my poor husband this morning as he was reading the news and said with sadness that he couldn't see Romney winning, given what a moron he is.

By the way, Romney's dad was born in a Mormon colony in Mexico. Apparently a lot of people in those colonies were there beacuse they were polygamists. I don't really care, but there is some sort of irony there, given the GOP platform on gay marriage. 

Marriage is between one man and one woman, and one woman, and one woman, and one woman.....

I'm going for Blue's dad as well.  I heard the Peggy Noonan piece ( more snippet on Rachel Madow ) and glad to see more of what she had to say here.  Sometimes difficult to define Romney with the terrible rigidity because you just can't see the factors that got it there.  Hard to imagine one speaking with such candor about many things ( like the Mexican family connection ) as though no one would question what brought it on.  What an enigma for the Republican party.....I personally thought with the previous years they would have learned and not let this happen again but they were much farther gone ( guess I thought it was more just my odd family ) than I recognized.  Romney really presents as anti-social in the don't care...devil may care department. 

Jackie