Seriously, GOP? Really?

onodera · February 27, 2012, 23:38

Oh, no, Wyoming Navy? Mongolians are screwed.

Dr Strangelove · February 28, 2012, 08:44

2. NO TEARS!
A Republican man will never, ever cry. Not on election night (no matter what happens). Not when you’re breaking up with him (what, you think he cared?). Not even when he’s having “a problem I’ve never had before, really, I’m not kidding, I swear.”

I seem to recall Newt getting teary eyed just a few months ago. That episode would have killed a Democrat's campaign. A Democrat would have been labelled mentally unfit for office by the press for crying on camera. Not so for a Republican, they're expected to be mentally unfit or they wouldn't be permitted to run for office.

Dinner · February 28, 2012, 09:15

Not to mention Boehner can't ever seem to stop crying over the most trivial obvious BS because... *SOB* He, he, he just loves America so much.

(slightly NSFW link)
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl...vuqmpDw&zoom=1

DinoDoc · February 28, 2012, 09:20

Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

I seem to recall Newt getting teary eyed just a few months ago. That episode would have killed a Democrat's campaign. A Democrat would have been labelled mentally unfit for office by the press for crying on camera. Not so for a Republican, they're expected to be mentally unfit or they wouldn't be permitted to run for office.

10.5. THE BIG CAVEAT
Yes, Republicans are the better lay—but only the Republicans you’ve never heard of. The more prominent they are, the less ****able they are. The opposite is true of Democrats. Think about it. Is there any woman on the face of the earth who wouldn’t **** Bill Clinton? (Didn’t think so.) But with a gun to your head, could you even think of doing Santorum? DeLay? Lott? Yuck, yuck, yuck! Okay, with a gun to our head, we might do W. And Cheney. Deﬁnitely Cheney. As long as we’re blindfolded. (But that’s okay. Republicans are into that, too.)

Aeson · February 28, 2012, 10:27

I've heard of DinoDoc

DinoDoc · February 28, 2012, 10:40

I could do better than you anyway.

Aeson · February 28, 2012, 10:56

I'm a little disturbed that you've considered what it would be like...

Dinner · February 28, 2012, 12:51

A great article by NY Magazine about where the GOP finds itself now and why they're suddenly getting so frantic. They're pretty much down to just white voters and not just any whites but mostly whites without college degrees who live in rural areas. No wonder Rick Santorum doesn't want people to send their kids to college.

http://nymag.com/print/?/news/featur...-chait-2012-3/

gribbler · February 28, 2012, 17:27

Whites with college degrees who live in suburban areas vote Republican too.

Imran Siddiqui · February 28, 2012, 17:57

Seriously. Newt Gingrich comes from one of those areas (Forsyth County, a rich suburb of Atlanta).

Hauldren Collider · February 28, 2012, 17:58

It's why Fairfax County is a swing district, despite neighboring one of the most liberal cities in the country (if not THE most liberal).

Dinner · February 28, 2012, 18:15

Mostly, not exclusively, we are talking about the majority.

gribbler · February 28, 2012, 19:11

Originally Posted by Dinner

Mostly, not exclusively, we are talking about the majority.

No we're not. You can infer from exit polls that just over half of the people voting Republican were either "postgraduate" or "college graduate" with a majority of the rest having "some college". However, it's true that whites without college degrees were more likely to be Republicans than whites with college degree. College makes minorities more likely to vote Republican.

Dinner · February 28, 2012, 19:14

If they have some college then they fall under the does not have a degree catagory. Anyway, read the NY Magazine article because they're claiming the majority of GOP voters nationwide are white without a degree.

Dinner · February 28, 2012, 19:17

The GOP has reason to be scared. Obama’s election was the vindication of a prediction made several years before by journalist John Judis and political scientist Ruy Teixeira in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. Despite the fact that George W. Bush then occupied the White House, Judis and Teixeira argued that demographic and political trends were converging in such a way as to form a *natural-majority coalition for Democrats.

The Republican Party had increasingly found itself confined to white voters, especially those lacking a college degree and rural whites who, as Obama awkwardly put it in 2008, tend to “cling to guns or religion.” Meanwhile, the Democrats had *increased their standing among whites with graduate degrees, particularly the growing share of secular whites, and remained dominant among racial minorities. As a whole, Judis and Teixeira noted, the electorate was growing both somewhat better educated and dramatically less white, making every successive election less favorable for the GOP. And the trends were even more striking in some key swing states. Judis and Teixeira highlighted Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona, with skyrocketing Latino populations, and Virginia and North Carolina, with their influx of college-educated whites, as the most fertile grounds for the expanding Democratic base.

See bolded.

gribbler · February 28, 2012, 19:28

The words you bolded never said that a MAJORITY of Republican voters are uneducated rural whites. If that were true they would have lost in 2010 by a landslide.

gribbler · February 28, 2012, 21:53

Ron Paul getting nearly twice as many votes as Gingrich

Uncle Sparky · February 28, 2012, 22:14

Michigan and Arizona go to Romney.

Hauldren Collider · February 28, 2012, 22:24

Romney

Originally Posted by gribbler

Ron Paul getting nearly twice as many votes as Gingrich

Boris Godunov · February 28, 2012, 22:27

Originally Posted by Hauldren Collider

Romney

Yay, Romney, barely winning his home state...

We all remember the dancing after Florida, too.

DaShi · February 28, 2012, 22:29

Or Iowa.

Hauldren Collider · February 28, 2012, 22:30

Romney's home state is Massachusetts. Michigan being his "native state" is just a thing the press plays up.

DaShi · February 28, 2012, 22:39

That didn't stop him from calling it that. Even said "the trees were the right height." Where did you get that it was just the press?

MrFun · February 29, 2012, 03:26

For comedy relief, wouldn't it be great if Santorum won the nomination just so we can laugh our asses off at how much the Republican party has deteriorated?

rah · February 29, 2012, 08:48

Yeah, even I'd have to vote for Obama then. And that would really suck. Of course with the current crowd, I'd find it really difficult to vote for any of them.

Dinner · February 29, 2012, 09:29

I have to admit John Stewart caught Fox News and the Republicans red handed last night. This clip is so true and just goes to show how Fox works.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewa...november-2008/

rah · February 29, 2012, 09:40

That was pretty hilarious.

kentonio · February 29, 2012, 11:22

Wow..

Republican Congressional Candidate Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'

A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says the “Holocaust never happened.”

Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District.

“As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.

"The more survivors, the more lies that are told."

A member of the Nationalist Socialist Party in his younger days, Jones took part in the Nazis’ march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. While he doesn’t deny nor repudiate his “past affiliations,” he says he votes Republican “90 percent of the time.”

“Philosophically, I’m a National Socialist,” Jones said. “Officially, I don’t belong to any party except my own, the America First Committee.”

Jones hopes three’s a charm after blowing his retirement savings on two prior congressional runs. He hopes to win the Republican primary and go on to challenge Lipinski this November. The 3rd District covers portions of Chicago's South Side and a large swath of the south suburbs.

Part of the reason he’s jumping in again is what he describes as Lipinski’s strange affiliation with the American Israel Pro Israel Affairs Committee.

“(The committee) was bragging on their website how (Lipinski) is ‘spearheading’ the effort in the House of Representatives with a Jewish congressman from Virginia named Frank Wolf,” Jones said. “The two are spearheading an effort in the House to get tough with Iran, including closing off any oil exports to China that could lead to World War III.”

While Jones said Wolf was Jewish, he is Presbyterian.

Jones compares today's conditions in the United States to Germany following the end of World War I.

“Our country is falling apart economically, politically, culturally, militarily,” he said. “We are going down.”

A veteran of the Vietnam War with all of its modern horrors, he sees the same betrayal in the “so-called War on Terrorism.”

“These war-mongering fools in congress like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—we can’t let Iran have one nuclear weapon but we let Israel have all the nuclear weapons they want,” Jones said. “This is ridiculous.”

Jones is on the ballot against Jim Falvey and Richard Grabowski in a district that has sent a conservative Democrat to Congress for decades. The district includes sizable ethnic populations, primarily the descendants of Irish, German, Polish and Czech immigrants.

In his Patch candidate questionnaire, Jones submitted that he's not been convicted of a felony but has been arrested for "minor street skirmishes with Leftists."

http://oaklawn.patch.com/articles/re...ver-happened#c

notyoueither · February 29, 2012, 11:29

You never get loons seeking nominations in the UK?

kentonio · February 29, 2012, 11:39

We have loony parties sure, but if someone like that ever put himself forward for one of the mainstream parties he'd be rejected and vilified immediately.