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Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
That’s ok Christie. I didn’t vote for O either. Neither did half the country. We shall survive this.
Atma said, 6 months ago
^ Where?
alcors3 said, 6 months ago
I’d like to be under the ea in an octopus’s garden in the shade.
Reynard61 said, 6 months ago
Aaaaaaaaaaand that’s why you’ll lose the 2014 mid-terms and the 2016 Presidential election too!
Republicans: “We’re not retreating into madness, we’re advancing into a version of Reality more compatible with our worldview.”
MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
That “Big Tent” the GOP once had has become mighty small since the Neo-Cons arrived, and the TEA-party didn’t help at all. Get rid of the “social conservatives” first, every time they open their mouth you lose votes. And have the “fiscal conservatives” draw up plans that can be verified and then actually ADD UP! Or go silently into the night, never to be seen again, and let Lincoln and Reagan rotate in their graves…
braindead08 said, 6 months ago
Republicans still don’t realize that although Willard almost won the election, he bought the primary elections and, at base he was a terrible candidate and would be a disastrous president.
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Republicans hatred of Obama as their primary platform was almost successful enough to win the election, but if Obama had been white, Willard would have gotten 33% of the vote, if that.
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Take a look at the other Republican candidates. Who was qualified to be president? Maybe Huntsman, but the Party wanted nothing to do with him. Maybe Buddy Roemer, but they wouldn’t even let him on stage, even though they broke their own rules in order to exclude him.
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As far as I can tell, Republicans still believe that if they just word their anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-middle class, anti-women messages more elegantly, they will win.
saywhatwhat said, 6 months ago
I read an article some months ago, suggesting that Mitt didn’t really want to win the election and actually do a very difficult job for four years. I don’t know it that’s true, but wonder if the Republican Party maybe didn’t want to win the election. It’s easier to sit back, obstruct Obama and blame everything (that will without question follow from the Bush debacle) on the Democrats.
fritzoid
said, 6 months ago
@Ms. Ima
“That’s ok Christie. I didn’t vote for O either.”
Given the privacy of the voting booth, can you be sure Christie DIDN’T vote for Obama?
Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
Although it is true Lincoln was a republican, he was considered a radical liberal because he had that leftest view that slavery was wrong. After Lincoln and the north won the civil war the south went to the Democrats and stayed there for about one hundred years until LBJ betrayed his conservative fellows from the south and forced integration upon them, then they switched to the republican party. Note both times the south said they would never support a candidate from the hated party…. it took one hundred years the first time…. who knows how long it will last this time… its already been over forty years….
corzak said, 6 months ago
@Redkaycei Repoc
“it is true Lincoln was a republican, he was considered a radical liberal because he had that leftest view that slavery was wrong”
Everything you wrote was true . . . but it would more accurate to say that Lincoln was a ‘moderate liberal’, since he favored (originally) restricting the expansion of slavery followed by its gradual elimination.
The Abolitionists favored immediate elimination of slavery, and so were the ‘radical liberals’ at the time. For many years, they considered Lincoln ‘wishy-washy’ on the slavery issue.
I’m nit-picking, I know, but it’s interesting . . .
fritzoid
said, 6 months ago
“Although it is true Lincoln was a republican, he was considered a radical liberal because he had that leftest view that slavery was wrong.”
While fully aware of the dangers of learning history from the movies, in the movie “Lincoln” one of the characters (I forget his name, but he was presumably the “founder” of the Republican Party) said something along the lines of “I built this party specifically to be Conservative, but anti-slavery.” As for Lincoln himself, perhaps it’s fair to say that his position on slavery “evolved.” :-)