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Democrats have facetiously said that Republicans think that the rich don't have enough money and the poor have too much. But the more I think I about modern Republicanism, the more I think that the statement it is literally true. Republicans believe that the poor are too well off. The modern Republican Party honestly yearns for a cleansing fire of misery and pain to sweep the land. They believe that the nation's problems are largely due to the fact that the poor are living in relative comfort as a result of the overall affluence of our society. America is the victim of its own success and has become a weak and lazy country slouching toward calamity. ...

Or...Romney sunk the ticket by PICKING Ryan. This is premature campaign autopsy-ing of a very hair splitting sort. The bottom line: Ryan's policies are prefect for losing a national election.

Hey, Republicans. We have been where you are now. The year was 2004, and we liberals could not believe that President Bush was leading John Kerry, a candidate that most of us liberals did not like but had embraced in what turned out to be a vain effort to defeat President Bush. We sought out any argument that proved that the polls were false. Those arguments were that the pollsters were sampling too many Republicans. Sound familiar? And how did that election turn out? The polls were right, much to our chagrin. The polls are right now. President Obama is winning and winning convincingly. Indeed, according to Nate Silver, there is now more of a chance that Barack Obama will win by a landslide than Mitt Romney will win at all. There is one basic fact that Republicans now and we liberals in 2004 ignore when we discounted polls: polling companies want to be right because that's their business model. If they are accurate, they get more business from media organizations and candidates. Remember, media organizations and candidates and party organizations and other organizations hire and pay polling companies and institutes to perform the polls and get accurate results. If they are skewing polls for reasons other than being accurate, then they would lose money. You should understand this Republicans. It's free market capitalism. Now, there are some polling organizations whose business model is not to be accurate but to drive narratives in the media. Rasmussen is one such example. They get paid not to be right, but to be favorable to one side. So Republicans, as always, you are so very good at projection. The thing you decry is the thing you rely on.

Check out this invitation from Beyonce Knowles that hit my inbox a while back:

Jason -- I usually don't email you -- but I have an amazing invitation I have to share. Jay and I will be meeting up with President Obama for an evening in NYC sometime soon. And we want you to be there!

Now this ironic, from the Dallas Morning News:

"For all the talk about whether Mitt Romney should distance himself from George W. Bush -- and the policies of the last GOP White House -- a new survey shows that the former president actually has better favorability ratings than the Republican nominee."

Well, we know Bush's policies are still vastly unpopular, but Bush himself, by staying out of sight, as grown less hated. Even I don't hate the man anymore. He's a bubbling idiot and I enjoy laughing at him now. Indeed, Mr. Bush's latest venture into public speaking will be right before the election in the Cayman Islands, and he will be speaking about investing your money wisely. I kid you not. No, this is not a headline from the Onion. Anyway, the most recent Bloomberg poll shows Bush with a 46% to 49% favorable rating as compared to Romney's 43% to 50%. No major changes in our map today. Indiana moved to Strong Romney, but that's it. The rest of the polling confirmed prior results.

This video is pretty amazing, actually. And I don't doubt this -- you get the impression even now, that Romney cares about the office as a prize for him ans his people rather than a place to demonstrate some leadership.

First the tit for tat billboards, now this fundraising letter from Sen. Coons making a frowny face about that bad old Alex Pires. Click through to read it, but I'll give my response to Senator Coons up here.

Dear Senator Coons, Thanks for the letter. Instead of sending money to Carper, the guy who has enriched himself during his tenure in the Senate, I'll send this advice; BE A DEMOCRAT. Delaware is a blue state and we don't appreciate the way you worked to water-down the ACA and the way you constantly provide the extreme right wing with bipartisan cover for their extremist shenanigans. Yours, Jason330