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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Oh, good. I think that Glenn Beck's God will send him to Fire and Brimstone Hell.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@De Marquis: Not necessarily, in Canada we count the vote East-to-West like you, and vote is tallied by riding. Electoral college always looked weird to me, and not that much representative, since even if 49% of a state votes for one candidate they don't count at all towards the electoral college votes if the other guy has 51%.
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.@Septimus: Yes, we do have our first ever gay U.S. senator. Pretty impressive for this country.
edited 7th Nov '12 8:40:28 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Eh? Isn't the senator the lesbian Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, rather than a man?
Edit: Reuters on her election.
edited 7th Nov '12 9:04:13 AM by Telcontar
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.There's a reasonable chance that socially, the GOP will veer rightward from here. The party's libertarians and social moderates had their trial run with an near-ideal avatar of those concepts. The Romney campaign couldn’t have been a more perfect test case for whether an anodyne fiscal conservatism, stripped of (or at least palpably embarrassed by) any social or religious concerns, can suffice to win over the ballyhooed "middle." Turns out it can’t. It wasn’t enough. And the Republican base might decide that the party can lose as easily with social & moral principles as without them.
In other words: if the Romney campaign, of all things, inspires fears of theocracy, then there’s no real point in assuaging such fears. No reason not to spray the building for libertarians, take out the socially latitudinarian trash, sow the ground with salt, and mix any metaphors left unmixed. If the 2012 GOP campaign looked like an actual pursuit of the "culture wars" to anyone, those observers have gone too long without seeing an actual culture war. Might as well really brown some Dockers. Deus lo vult! All right, I (semi-)kid: "damn the torpedoes," perhaps.

I just think that a melodramatic idiot is being a melodramatic idiot.