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TP’ers kinda like getting wanked. But more to the point, they never compromise. Ask John Boehner if he is allowed to say that word. Nope. If they do not get the candidate they want they will likely as not stay home or vote independent just to teach the party a lesson.
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Kinda like the far-left wing of the Democratic party who handed the presidency to The Shrub in 2000 by voting for the idiot narcissist Ralph Nader.
I expect 2016 to be a splinter year where Rand Paul is denied the nomination by the Corporate Wing of the GOP (even though he will do well in the Primaries) and then is drafted for an independent run by the Ayn Rand acolytes, John Birchers, and New Confederacy groups that make up the Tea-Party.
My Prediction is a 3-way race between: Hillary, Jeb Bush, and Rand Paul.
I may just move to Canada.
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CAN they win the Senate? Of course. This is a bad demographic year for Democrats – a sixth-year midterm, a fairly unpopular president, a very polarized electorate, and worst of all, a quirk by which many Democratic seats are in red-to-very-red states.
WILL they, though? Well, they seem to have overcome the first hurdle – don’t put the Tea Boobs out front where they can (and usually will) fuck the whole thing up.
But they’re still trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, considering they’re running guys like Scott Brown in NH.
And, people are starting to see that Tea Party Policies are bad at a state level. Consider that, in blood-red Kansas, Brownback and the baggers have fucked shit up so badly that now even Pat Roberts is in trouble (he has other issues as well):
But I think in the end, the odds are more likely than not that they will swing the chamber to the GOP, with a majority of 1 to 2…and then, we will truly see disgusting politics in action, as Boner’s Bozos and Mitch’s Bitches conspire to bring down “The Other”. I will work diligently to prevent that from happening, but looking at the situation impartially you can’t fail to observe that their chances this year are pretty good.
Which plays right into the Democrats running the table on them in 2016. 
So please, Republicans – do your worst. Obi-Wan Commonsense commands you!
“You can’t win, Darth – If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…”
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Was that headline intentional? If so, huge kudos for hilarity.
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Well, I hope the Tea Partiers are…ummm…satisfied.
Was there a fee involved?
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Nonsense. It was the boatload of Dipshit Democrats that voted for GWB. And the Supremes.
Blaming other Democrats will not rationalize away the fact that Nader voters made it close enough for the Felonious Five Supremes to steal . It will not assuage a guilty conscience.
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Then Hillary should win with a popular plurality and electoral college landslide. Then it will be 1993 all over again.
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Good edit on the headline out front.
Not so much up above, though…
They are a bunch of wankers anyway, so maybe it should stay.
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Just some historical context. If Democrats keep the Senate this year, it will be the first time since FDR that the president’s party maintained a Senate majority for two full terms.
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