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Post by the4thpip on Aug 11, 2015 11:15:53 GMT -5
Alas, if I had a buck for every time I've read the GOP was staring extinction in the face (starting in my case with the post-Watergate election of 1976) ... I'd have a tidy little stack of singles. As long as reactionaries exist, the Republican Party will be in solid shape, & very likely it will continue to dominate my somewhat beloved (in FB lingo, "it's complicated") but hopelessly backwards South. Not just reactionaries, but also uninformed voters who cling to disproven tropes like "Republicans are better for the economy" etc. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 12:19:36 GMT -5
Alas, if I had a buck for every time I've read the GOP was staring extinction in the face (starting in my case with the post-Watergate election of 1976) ... I'd have a tidy little stack of singles. As long as reactionaries exist, the Republican Party will be in solid shape, & very likely it will continue to dominate my somewhat beloved (in FB lingo, "it's complicated") but hopelessly backwards South. Not just reactionaries, but also uninformed voters who cling to disproven tropes like "Republicans are better for the economy" etc. These folks are going to vote Republican come hell or high water. They're all Bible-thumpers, too, but if Jesus were running as a Democrat & Satan as a Republican, the latter would be elected by a country mile. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 11, 2015 16:25:15 GMT -5
My favorite Republican blogger thinks things don't look good for a GOP victory next November: (from goplifer.com/). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 17:29:07 GMT -5
One hopes. The hopelessly backwards enclaves like the entirety (typing off the top of my head; there may actually be a couple of oases, though I doubt it) of the South & some of the more paranoid western states seem to fall far short of boasting enough electoral votes to have a major impact on the presidential results. I'm far from a fan of the Electoral College (it's a major reason I haven't bothered to register to vote here nearly 14 years after moving here --as I've noted elsewhere, I could've voted 100,000 times in the last several elections & had no effect whatsoever on Alabama's place on the side of hateful ignorance), but I guess it has its uses. They'd have even less of an impact without the electoral college though. Without it maybe the GOP wouldn't even bother pandering to them. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 11, 2015 23:17:28 GMT -5
Alas, if I had a buck for every time I've read the GOP was staring extinction in the face (starting in my case with the post-Watergate election of 1976) ... I'd have a tidy little stack of singles. As long as reactionaries exist, the Republican Party will be in solid shape, & very likely it will continue to dominate my somewhat beloved (in FB lingo, "it's complicated") but hopelessly backwards South. Not just reactionaries, but also uninformed voters who cling to disproven tropes like "Republicans are better for the economy" etc. Something similar seems to hold true everywhere - it certainly does in Canada where our Conservative Party inexplicably has a reputation for responsible fiscal and economic management that as far as I can tell does not match the numbers from the last, say 30 years or so. Does this happen in Germany too? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 12, 2015 11:45:36 GMT -5
I was wondering why so many of the pundits were making a big deal about Carly Fiorina after the GOP junior varsity debate. I wasn't all that impressed by her ability to say "Hillary is a liar" over and over. But then ... Michelle Bachmann returned.Wow. Comparing her to female GOP presidential candidates of the past, Fiorina looks like Madame Curie. |
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Post by shaxper on Aug 12, 2015 12:22:22 GMT -5
A new poll of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire shows Sanders ahead of Clinton by a significant margin. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 13:22:30 GMT -5
I was wondering why so many of the pundits were making a big deal about Carly Fiorina after the GOP junior varsity debate. I wasn't all that impressed by her ability to say "Hillary is a liar" over and over. But then ... Michelle Bachmann returned.Wow. Comparing her to female GOP presidential candidates of the past, Fiorina looks like Madame Curie. While I am an unrepentant member of the "there's no real difference between the parties" (which actually I would refine to "there's not enough difference between the parties") school, I will say that the GOP has, as far as I can tell, sole possession of the true crazier-than-batshit specimens who belong in straitjackets rather than behind lecterns. If I were a Republican, I would shoot myse- ... uh, that is, I would be very, very intrigued as to why this is the case. I'm sure the Democrats have had their share of frothing-mounted lunatics, but offhand I can't recall any since, say, '72, which is when I first started paying real attention to national headlines. (Before that, definitely. George Wallace & any number of other vile Southern segregationists, come on down! Though I gather those guys chose to do & espouse evil out of political pragmatism rather than true ideological perversity; the former, IMHO, is far more immoral than the latter.) |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 12, 2015 13:36:45 GMT -5
The last Presidential Democratic candidate who was an out and out scum bucket was Al Sharpton
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 14:45:57 GMT -5
He was not, however, an outright nutjob. That's what I'm wondering about; the GOP seems to have had sole claim to those in recent years.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 12, 2015 15:00:11 GMT -5
He was not, however, an outright nutjob. That's what I'm wondering about; the GOP seems to have had sole claim to those in recent years. Right. What's scary about the Republican nut jobs is that they are not putting on an act, playing the Machiavel, or otherwise trying to put one over on us. They freakin' be- lieve the horse manure they peddle. That's what makes their "support" of Israel so suspect. They want Israel to be attacked. They want war in the Midddle East. Because somehow, using their Captain Moses decoders, they've figured out that Armageddon there means the faithful are headed for their rendezvous with Ja-a-a-ay-Zus. It isn't as if all these traditionally anti-Semitic -- or at least not-so-crazy-about-Semitic -- types have suddenly abandoned ham-on-white with butter and Fluffernutters for pastami-on-rye and lox on a bagel. They see chaos for the unbelievers over there as a ticket to Paradise for the saved over here. Factor that in every time they talk about Mideast policy and it'll send a little shiver down your spine. Yeah, I'm talkin' about you, Mike Huckabee, and you, too, Scott Walker. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 15:38:53 GMT -5
A new poll of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire shows Sanders ahead of Clinton by a significant margin: A few caveats on that NH poll courtesy of the Washington Post.... A lot of the gains are because there were fewer choices in this poll compared to last time, as it was only Hillary in Bernie as options this time. -M |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 12, 2015 23:53:16 GMT -5
Planned Parenthood responds to Kansas governor's tweet attack. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 3:10:36 GMT -5
The last Presidential Democratic candidate who was an out and out scum bucket was Al Sharpton Oh, there's been plenty since then. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 3:11:41 GMT -5
A new poll of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire shows Sanders ahead of Clinton by a significant margin: A few caveats on that NH poll courtesy of the Washington Post.... A lot of the gains are because there were fewer choices in this poll compared to last time, as it was only Hillary in Bernie as options this time. -M That's true, but to me it makes it even more encouraging. I think it means Sanders, and his political ideology, were not so niche as previously believed. Him and Warren are pretty close on the political spectrum. |
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