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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 12:58pmSanction this postReply
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 2:08pmSanction this postReply
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Cain's campaign has self-destructed. He is now considering dropping out of the race.

No one else is pushing 9-9-9. The tax reform groups were never fans of it.

9-9-9 would be an efficient way for the government to increase its revenues. The left is too idealistic to go for efficient statism, and the politicians are too wedded to special-interest mobocracy.

9-9-9 is dead.

(Edited by Brad Trun on 11/29, 2:10pm)


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 4:13pmSanction this postReply
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Clever. I liked it.

Anyone but Obama!


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 9:08pmSanction this postReply
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Herman Cain is not able to get it together as campaign implodes under Ginger White, sexual harassment messes
Media made the former GOP frontrunner a more viable candidate than he ever should have been


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/herman-cain-campaign-implodes-ginger-white-sexual-harassment-messes-article-1.984284#ixzz1fA6qGo3k


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 3:24amSanction this postReply
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Not according to his Tweets, or his web page.

http://www.hermancain.com/news/cain_attacked_by_accuser_will_not_stop_his_effort_to_renew_america


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 12:34pmSanction this postReply
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This graph shows how dumb the media were for ever, even briefly calling Herman Cain a "frontrunner":

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=745220

People who bet real money on election outcomes never gave Cain as much as a 10% chance of being the nominee. His chances now are 0.6%.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 1:23pmSanction this postReply
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Brad,

Sometimes I think you are deliberately goading others into reacting to what you have to say as if it is racist.

There is a quote, I think from Mencken, where he said something like: "Whenever I see envy I feed it." Rush Limbaugh has said something along those lines. Rush frequently says he has to take a commercial break in order for some more "obscene profits" for his sponsors -- deliberately in order to goad those on the Left who might be listening.

I think you do that kind of a thing, here -- only you are trying to somehow cash-in on others calling you a racist. At least that explains the kinds of things that you have to say about non-whites (things which you do not seem to ever say about whites). For instance, you had nothing to say about Michelle Bachmann's "pray the gay away" ordeal (and subsequent fall from grace), nor on Rick Perry's lapse in memory (and subsequent fall from grace). But man are you ever vocal when it comes to Herman Cain.

Ed

(Edited by Ed Thompson on 11/30, 1:26pm)


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 2:41pmSanction this postReply
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Ed,

You're posting campaign propaganda directly from Cain's operation, and I'm responding to it by criticizing the policy proposal it contains and criticizing the media for its coverage of Cain! No one has posted campaign propaganda from Perry or Bachmann. The only candidate I have initiated a post on is Romney -- not to promote him, but to offer an original critique of his views on rights.

You seem to be just as eager as any leftist to impute "racist" motivations that are nowhere stated or implied in the context of a discussion so as to avoid engaging in it substantively.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 4:32pmSanction this postReply
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Then let me be the first to say out loud and in the open that you're a racist, Brad. Your pathological obsession with racial groups with a focus on disparaging performance levels in intelligence is obvious, insidious, and dishonest.   And let me say for the benefit of people who read these threads that Brad is NOT an Objectivist, nor does he speak to any of its tenets or principles, all of which he is willfully ignorant.   Brad is a guest who is quickly wearing out his welcome.  

I recently rejected a very long article written by Trun that was nothing but racial group profiling thinly disguised as honest intellectual inquiry, prefaced by fictional motivations from Rand and her view of "racism." I saved a copy, and spent a few minutes wondering if I should ask for a second, and third opinion, as my own at this point is so terribly negative against the writer. Lacking time, I trusted my own judgement and rejected the piece.  True to obsessive style, Trun spent almost 30 minutes creating a video outlining how vilified "whites" are, and how hopelessly, helplessly, and intrinsically ignorant racial minorities are, uploading it to YouTube, and submitting a link here for approval. Against my better judgement, and again lacking 25 minutes to waste before clicking "approve," I passed the video along, hoping for the best.  Never again.  Comments from his "fans" are enough to give you an idea of his reputation.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 4:44pmSanction this postReply
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If I were Joe, I'd ban the guy. Or at least restrict him to Dissent.

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Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 12:47pmSanction this postReply
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Brad,

You seem to be just as eager as any leftist to impute "racist" motivations that are nowhere stated or implied in the context of a discussion so as to avoid engaging in it substantively.
Well, don't forget that I've got a good record of engaging you substantively. I'm the one who kept our earlier "race-intelligence' discussion going (remember?). So, I'm not someone to shy away from issues. Now, to be fair, you dropped out of that discussion without a peep so -- as far as I am concerned -- you have no business accusing me of avoiding engagement.

Ed


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