Discussion: GOPer Regrets Phrasing Of 'Divide And Conquer' Line But Not Point Behind It

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So he basically wants a Thunderdome for poor people. Such a sweet guy.

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Kind of like Obama saying his administration’s response to Benghazi was “less than optimal.”

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Time for Hagan to turn Tillis in a Romney who only gives a rats ass about the rich and wants to divide and conquer the poor and do nothing for the middle class.

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Benghazi? What does this have to do about Benghazi?

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He says we might take care of the babies, but the rest of you can starve. Oh, and you who are on disability we will take care of you until us republicans can figure out a way to dump your ass too.

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Too late the white sheet is off. You can’t separate the idiot and sexist from the racist.

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Anytime a comment begins with “kind of like Obama” it’s usually safe to skip the rest.

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Everything is about Benghazi. You didn’t get the memo?

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“My point was to say we need to make it very clear, government exists to help those who cannot themselves, not for the shiftless.”

That’s what you meant to say, wasn’t it Mel…I mean Thom.

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Josh and the TPM team worked very hard to get a brand new comment system up that would lend itself to “thoughtful comments”.

And then the usual scat follows us in. sigh

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A lot of things resonate in North Carolina, secession, racism, religious fundamentalism and marriage inequality resonate in North Carolina.

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“I don’t regret suggesting that we pit poor people against each other in a contest to see who is the most deserving. I regret that I got caught on tape suggesting that.”

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Even for you, that is exceptionally lame and wildly off-topic.

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Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin also has a ‘divide and conquer’ video out there.

When asked by a wealthy campaign donor, “Any chance we’ll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions?” Walker responded with “Oh, yeah. Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is, we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.”

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I’ve been looking at that name. I can’t decide what he’s saying here. Is it “more fool” or “me fool” or “fool me” or “more me” or “fool more” or “me more” or “me fool more” or “me more fool” or…?

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He’s presented the Tar Heel version of “If anyone was offended. . . .”

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Perhaps he could have said it with “more elegance.”

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The fallacy of this statement –

“My point was to say we need to make it very clear, government exists to help those who cannot themselves. And those who can need to let us do everything that they possibly can to let us free up those resources so we can do better things for those who desperately need it.”

is that he was talking about how to address people who DO need the help, not any people who supposedly do not…

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Why, bless his heart.

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