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Well, there she goes again acting like a grown-up.
Still.
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How come Carson is polling ahead of her? She is terrific.
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âŚThen I go and read the drivel that all 27 batshit crazy candidates on the other side say on a daily basis and weep for the country knowing that even still they will still get 45% of the electorate to vote for one of those fuckers just because of the ÂŽ.
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Most people arenât really paying attention.
Yet.
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Weâll just have to wait and see how that turns out
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Basic politicking: When your opponent is soiling himself, stand back and donât distract too much from the soiling taking place. Carson is helping the Democratic candidates by making them appear even more sane and stable by comparison.
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âHillary laughed. âThereâs no use trying,â she said. âOne canât believe impossible things.â
âI daresay you havenât had much practice,â said Doctor Ben. âWhen I was your age,
I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes Iâve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.â"
â apologies to Lewis Carroll
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The RepubEvil Hillary:
Words matter. What we say matters.
The breath of rancid air Trump:
Donât listen to my divisive words that I use to get elected. When elected I will be the great uniter!
Must have hard, really hard, to resist the impulse to say âbless his little heartâ But my country cuzziins back in Pokiehoma are defending him from the libbryl commynest poogrssion medgiaâŚ
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Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe in the devil, for example. A little red guy with horns and a pitchfork and a van dyke beard, living somewhere in the fiery world in middle earth. This is not a reality-based country. Hillary or Bernie or any sentient Democrat will have an uphill climb against idiocy. Not to ruin your day, but there it is.
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Damn. I thought Hilary would use the opportunity to drop the big bombshell about Carsonâs past.
His real name isnât Carson.
He will admit it if heâs confronted, but he probably will claim that he chose a fictitious name to avoid dragging all the other Ghaziâs into it.
God Damn I hope she wins because she going to be such a good president, much like Obama. Just hope we also get some changes in congress so it will work with her.
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" but then it does have to turn serious."
Not when youâre living on a fact free diet,Madame Secretary.
If one of the non-politician loons wins the R nomination, it feels inevitable that theyâll make an absolutely sincere public comment that something they said in the primary was just to win, not something they intend to do or even believe.
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Humans are not naturally reality-based. Your own internal image of yourself has a lot more to do with how you react to the world around you than actual facts. Now when that internal imagining of who you are collides with the real-world, fact-based reality of who you are, things get interesting.
I think the movie âBrazilâ illustrates this very well. The protagonist is this office-worker wimp, but his self image is that he is some winged Greco-Roman hero, which leads to consequences good and bad.
I donât know what the consequences will be as this Republican experiment in âbuilding our own realityâ comes crashing down, but there are going to be a lot of people whose self-image is suddenly at odds with the reality they live in. This could lead to a lot of incidents like Waco or Ruby Ridge or even Oklahoma City. One clue is with aging Nazis who believed to their death that Hitler was right.
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Within your post is an extremely important point.
Regardless of whether Trump, Carson, some other Krazy or some âestablishmentâ candidate gets the actual G.O.P. nomination, REPUBLICANS WILL VOTE.
Both McCain and Romney were loathed by vast swaths of the G.O.P. electorate, but Republican voters held their nose and voted.
On the other hand, we are going to have to be careful about slippages, because it is not as axiomatic that Democratic voters vote for Party. It is simply a different universe of voters. If and when Hillary gets the Nomination, will Bernieâs people come over? Or will they stage a âpurity partyâ and sit this one out. This also has enormous importance Down Ticket and for State races (which, for G.O.P, voters are, in a sense MORE IMPORTANT THAN VOTES FOR PRESIDENT).
To my knowledge, I do not believe that Bernie will go Third Party if he doesnât win the Nomination. But with âpurity partyâ folks, does it matter?
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HRCâs going to win the nomination and then win the election. So fuck polls with answers given by stoopidsâŚ
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Yes, but the question hasnât been tested in the other direction yet. McCain and Romney were loathed by the radical, extremist, right wingers in the party.
But what happens with that base gets a Trump or Carson? Do the moderate leaning republicans in the suburbs still bother to go out and vote? Or do they go the golf course or shopping instead?
The radicals are likely to vote anyway; even if McCain is a RINO, he is a damn sight better than some muslim socialist black man. Moderates on the other hand, wonât think the same about a crazy Carson and a pragmatic Hillary. Think of Nicole Wallace not voting in 2008 once she went face to face with the crazy that is Palin. It was just too much for her to imagine her being in the White House, so Wallace didnât vote at all.
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When will a gambling site start taking bets on when Carson will âsuspendâ his campaign for President?
Wanna bet?