Seriously, GOP? Really?

[onodera]

Oh, no, Wyoming Navy? Mongolians are screwed.

[Dr Strangelove]

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]

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=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=hbj&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&biw=1920&bih=995&tbm=isch&tbnid=qRQdvjhHN_i6FM:&imgrefurl=http://grrspit.tumblr.com/post/2417269867/onetinycorner-motivational-poster-of-john&docid=_keFtDwl012ViM&imgurl=http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldu8w8IDDY1qfsirgo1_500.jpg&w=450&h=392&ei=VeFMT42_DsWFiALvuqmpDw&zoom=1

[DinoDoc]

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]

I've heard of DinoDoc

[DinoDoc]

I could do better than you anyway.

[Aeson]

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

[Dinner]

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/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/

[giblets]

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

[Imran Siddiqui]

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

[Hauldren Collider]

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]

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

[giblets]

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]

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]

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.