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Are we witnessing the death of the Republican Party?

$tinkle

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pat buchanan looks a little different, but sounds about the same

 
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jimmydean

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The buried headline in that story is "Mittens definitely not running in 2016". One ass whipping was enough I guess.
He spent a lot of teh jeebus money last time, he will raise it for the next fool while pocketing his this time around.
 

jimmydean

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finally got around to watching her 4+min video, where she denies what *is* (nevermind it *was before*, which is usually an indicator it could happen again), and answers with effectively "if i were in charge, i would economically destabilize the ME, russia, and EUR, b/c usa! usa! usa!..."

what a twat
Wow. I had to watch it after you mentioned it. This is a funny article that has the video as well.

The most frightening candidate I’ve met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls
 

jonKranked

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Whitney has only raised $123,000 to date (fourth in the GOP field), but she has sought to boost her profile and appeal to conservative donors with a slickly made YouTube video entitled “GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX” (84,000 views so far). In the video, Whitney gleefully and confidently asserts that the theory of global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of mankind” and that “any 10-year-old” can disprove it with a simple household thermometer.
a rectal thermometer?
 

jimmydean

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Out of Touch GOP Rapidly Seals Fate With Majority of Ordinary Americans

Right now, GOP hopes for victories do not rest on their ability to appeal democratically to the majority of voters. They hinge entirely on successful gerrymandering and voter suppression policies that reduce the turnout of ordinary Americans. That means their hopes for political success in the future rest on very, very thin ice. And -- amazingly -- they seem to be doing everything they can to make the ice that separates them from complete political marginality thinner and thinner.
 

jonKranked

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jimmydean

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Rand Paul said:
"And I said, 'I need to take a couple more bites and we'll do an interview,' and then I was told we had to leave and I had to do the interview. So actually I stood about 10 feet from those people who were doing sort of a kamikaze interview and I stood 10 feet from them and did another interview."
I guess it sounds better than "I had to drop a deuce".
 

jimmydean

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She should be making him a sandwich.

For months, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has accused his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, of engaging in a “war on coal,” casting her as an outright enemy of one of the state’s most vital industries.
But while McConnell presents himself as a defender of Kentucky coal mining, a member of his own family who serves as a key campaign surrogate is taking a role in an organization that funds one of the most aggressive anti-coal campaigns in the country

McConnell’s wife, former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, sits on the board of directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has plunged $50 million into the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal initiative, an advocacy effort with the expressed goal of killing the coal industry.
 

$tinkle

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the beetlekill is awful. i am shocked *shocked* vast swaths of CO haven't burned yet.
 

jackalope

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While I do not doubt the noodly power of the pasta pirate, I think it would require a real effort on his part to grant Teddy Teabag the opportunity to get donkey punched by Clinton's (really) old lady.

Having said that, the list of potential GOP presidential candidates seems every bit as bleak as it has for the last 2 elections. IMO, someone like Joe Huntsmen could present a legitimate challenge assuming he could navigate the burning hoops of extremism in the primaries and build a big enough war chest to challenge the Clinton machine.

But as it stands, it looks like the GOP will continue to be a local party only and have no real shot at the white house.
 

$tinkle

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article said:
Jonathan Saenz initially asked the court to refuse to grant the divorce
yes, b/c what's a better model of straight marriage for their kids than staying together out of spite?
 

$tinkle

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too flimsy for even this liberal

"bites the dust"? looks like just an indictment to me

funny how you object to his defense using tax dollars, but not to others of non-R stripes. how about this: loser pays. deal?
 

dante

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jimmydean

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Nice, the taxpayers pick up the tab. I hope they lock his ass up.

The grand jury met for months before handing down its indictment, and Perry's $450 per-hour defense attorney was paid using state funds. Buzbee said the public will continue footing the bill for the governor's now-pricier legal team, though he said a private foundation could eventually be established to handle some of the costs.
 

jimmydean

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Did you know blacks can write books?

Ted Cruz's Pops said:
“I am going to try to encourage everybody I can to buy a book written by a black journalist. His name is Jason Riley. He wrote a book called Please Stop Helping Us, talking about how all the handouts to blacks have kept blacks in the poorhouse. And I’ll tell you what, I am going to make it my task to buy 15 to 20 copies of that book and hand it out to some black leaders to read.”
 

dante

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Read this WaPo article this morning and was pretty depressed/shocked reading it. Thanks for letting me know that that's just a fiction and that it's all really the fault of the darkies.

WashingtonPost said:
Incidentally, Beverly Hills, Missouri has a population of 571. Its City Hall and police station share a building with a pharmacy. Yet in 2013, the town handed out 3,250 traffic tickets, and issued another 1,085 citations for violations of non-traffic ordinances. Total revenue generated by the town’s municipal court: $221,164, or $387 for each of its residents.
 

jimmydean

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I hope this sticks...

Looking at the Rick Perry case, some key take aways that might point to him going down for it.


The indictment was not brought by the Tavis County DA. Nor were any other Democrats involved. It’s worth quoting at length from Smith at the Texas Tribune:

Not a single Democratic official was involved at any point in the process, except to recuse him or herself. That’s what the victim of Perry’s “offers,” Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, did. So did District Judge Julie Kocurek.

Kocurek referred the criminal complaint to Judge Billy Ray Stubblefield, a Republican and Perry appointee. Stubblefield could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he assigned it to Judge Bert Richardson, also a Republican. He, too, could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he appointed conservative, well-respected former federal prosecutor McCrum as special prosecutor. Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison once recommended McCrum for the job of U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. McCrum could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he took it to a grand jury.
 

jimmydean

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