The primaries earn you nominating delegates at the convention. How does wide support and votes from the base in the primaries not earn you the nomination?
Oy that’s depressing. I never realized how easily he won. I’d like to say that may be the stupidest congressional district in America, but I’m sure there are others that could give it a run for the money.
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I just came across this on Raw Story … pretty powerful stuff and it’s from Rep. Steve Russell (OK-R):
Republican combat vet eviscerates ‘xenophobic’ conservatives: ISIS wins if you block refugees
A couple snippets, after mocking some of the crazy rhetoric:
We guard our way of life by vigilance. We must be watchful. We have to have each others’ back and be alert to dangers around us. We must speak up when we see something unusual. By maintaining who we are amidst the threat, amidst the hatred, amidst the trials, we win.
and
We must defend it when the critic sitting on the couch in his underwear eating his bag of cheese puffs is pecking out hatred and vitriol on some social media.
It’s worth a read.
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Ugh! Marsha Blackburn is one obtuse bitch. She’s better at the Tea Party talking points than even Reince.
No Hilly only half of us are better than that.
THANK YOU for the link. Worth a read indeed.
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Everyone should know that the RGOP R=RACIST has always been this way. Look what they say about Mexicans. I bet they hate their relations that first came to the USA!(:-))
Hey Marshall, any word from Sen Sanders?
You know, the other person running for the Democratic nomination.
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As a rhetorical point that sounds good. But that is how the GOP makes its sausage, i.e. of things that sound good.
We are better than that. We as in Democrats, Liberals and sanity-leaning Independents.
Conservatives are not better than that. OBVIOUSLY.
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“We” have voted in a series of national elections arriving at Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. “We” have done the same thing in the states, putting in the majority Republican Governors and Republican dominated state legislatures. “We” elected Presidents that crafted a tenuous split in SCOTUS, with major rulings that increasingly fall to the side of conservative ideology. “We” (the United States) are soulless vulgarians; violent, backward sociopaths on the world stage. “We” are Donald Trump, Louie Gohmert, Sarah Palin, Steve King and Ann Coulter. That is who “we” are.
I remember Obama’s frequent line in his campaign 2008: “There’s no red states or blue states, there’s the United States of America.” Of course there were and are whack states, I mean, red states, then and now. The line may have sounded naive. But I also thought it was a(n already classic) Obama, great jiu-jitsu trolling in a positive note. He was effectively saying to the Republican ticket, “Yo, you are nuts and idiots” without actually saying so, and many of us got that.
I don’t necessarily believe “We are better than that” is as effective – actually doubt it to be honest, especially in the current political atmosphere. But I am hoping the Democrats can come up with something punchy and effective.
Frankly, “we are better than that,” is the universal rebuttal to everything every Republican believes about every subject. I’ve been saying so to myself at least since I first read the Government by Facebook petition to make people pass a urine drug screening for their unemployment check.
I’m guessing “I can see Putin from my back porch.” won’t do.
Not I, said the liberal.
‘American children have first claim to America’s charity.’
So much utter BS that exudes from GOTP…
They’re the very ones who defunding schools, cutting food/education programs, privatizing schools and prisons for Robber Barons .
BTW---------thanks for the link…
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It would seem that according to an astonishingly increasing number of fellow citizens, we’re not better than that. The Fear For Ratings campaign is once again operating full-throttle on the 24-hour infotainment outlets that pass for news in today’s America.
It brings to mind the picture of the enraged and frightened white folk beating on the windows of a bus carrying immigrant women and children. Far too many of us have become savages, and if we don’t have a mass intervention, we’ll end up just like those we condemn and will once again delude ourselves into believing the mass slaughter of innocents we have wrought was justified.
But she’s using the trick long known to parents, teachers, psychologists and great leaders (FDR, Churchill): talk to people assuming the best of them, and it’s more likely they’ll live up to that assumption. Trigger Americans’ affection for the Statue of Liberty, and sense of themselves as part of a great and good nation, rather than the fearful impulses that have led them so often to make the nation very much less than great and good. She struck the right note.
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No hate------
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