This is the rethugs talking point for today.

[mfcorey1]

What else do you expect from West Virginia?




Keith Judd, Texas Inmate, Gets 40 Percent Of Votes Against Obama In West Virginia Democratic Primary

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.

The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. With 83 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving 60 percent of the vote to Judd's 40 percent.

For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.

"I voted against Obama," said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat. "I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/keith-judd-texas-inmate-g_n_1501761.html

[MrSlayer]

1. How the fuck are you going to prevent him from winning again?

If he, by your own words, didn't win before.

Idiot.

[mfcorey1]

2. What the hell are you talking about? You make no sense, and who are you calling an idiot?

[MrSlayer]

3. Haha! Read the last quote in the story.

"I voted against Obama," said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat. "I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."

Ronnie Brown is the idiot.

[Fumesucker]

4. "He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."

Nitpicking the screwed up phrasing in that sentence..

It's not possible to let Obama carry the election *again* if he didn't carry it in the past..

[MrSlayer]

6. You can call it a nit if you like.

Shit like that just screams at me for some reason.

[Fumesucker]

7. By the standards of today that quote is practically erudite..

But I caught it too..

[Chorophyll]

14. It screams at me too.

Tortured language, tortured thinking.

[FreakinDJ]

12. Whistling in the Dark

In the General Election they will be free to vote for either candidate.

While you might not like this one particular person's perception - you completely missed the point the 40% of the Democrats made by voting for some one in Jail rather then a sitting President

But don't let me stop you from killing the messenger

[MrSlayer]

16. Now I'm confused.

West Virginia was never, ever going to vote for Obama. The idiotic messenger, this representative of the WV electorate with the poor grammar, isnt telling us anything we didn't already know. And it doesn't signify anything other than the fact that the state is full of hillbillies. It's not a harbinger of things to come elsewhere.

What exactly am I deliberately ignoring here? What should I have gleaned from this that I, in your opinion, did not?

[Cali_Democrat]

19. That was the first thing that jumped out at me

Pure ignorance.

[malaise]

5. 100% correct because they're running from Rmoney's lies and

the fact that a teabagger beat Lugar.

How come a convict in prison can run but an ex-con can't vote?

[madokie]

8. I'm sure if the pukeis could insure that the ex-con would vote reptilicon they'd get the

right to vote again. Thats what sticks in their crawl I'm sure

[DCKit]

9. "African American President Unpopular in Racist State of West Virginia"

Not that the MSM is going to come straight out and admit that's the actual reason.

[liberal N proud]

10. It's West Virgina

Nuff said

[surrealAmerican]

11. Do they have open primaries?

If so, it just shows how many Republicans can't make themselves vote for Romney.

[JoePhilly]

13. And oddly, those 40% are all blood relatives, and related to the innmate.

[lunatica]

15. Idiocracy has to start somewhere

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. I'd think Republicans would at least respect Obama for what he did today

the way a lot of liberals may have respected Santorum for being consistent and true to his ideals (while vomiting over the substance of those ideals). Obama took a risk today and stuck his neck out on a controversial issue. This is something Romney simply cannot bring himself to do. It's what right wingers hate in Romney. I'd think that while they're hating on Obama, right wingers still have to give him respect for being a better man than their current candidate.

[spanone]

18. just how racist are some parts of the country?

that's the true question