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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#47501: Jan 17th 2013 at 6:52:02 PM

Christie is ideologically much more aligned with Republicans, but he tends to let his concern over his state's people override that.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#47502: Jan 17th 2013 at 6:54:40 PM

Two things about Christie being president.

1. I still don't think he could ever survive the primary process, especially after he pretty much turned on them by saying they're lunatics.

2. That requires the GOP to actually win. Unless something big happens I don't think they'll win the next election and if they can't retake the presidency by 2020 they probably never will without doing a major revision of their platform.

edited 17th Jan '13 6:55:57 PM by Kostya

Lascoden ... from Missouri, USA Since: Nov, 2012
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#47503: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:10:31 PM

I wonder if Rand Paul realizes that 90% of today's monarchs are essentially powerless.

edited 17th Jan '13 7:10:46 PM by Lascoden

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Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#47504: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:15:27 PM

[up]Well he used it in a derogatory way.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#47505: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:16:40 PM

I wonder how many people are annoyed at his comparing the president to a king to begin with. Calling him that does not in any way actually make him a king, and anything the president does is subject to Congressional and popular approval.

Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
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#47506: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:30:58 PM

I'm increasingly worried by the Democrats' tendency to pat themselves on the back and assume we'll just keep winning endlessly, with frankly ridiculous and unsustainable percentages among ethnic minorities.

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#47507: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:49:25 PM

I'd be okay with just enforcing ESRB age ratings. Hell, plenty of places around here have since I was little.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47508: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:49:41 PM

Christie can win the primaries if he's smart. Since most of the South and the Midwest are bound to vote Republican by default, Christie could use his Northeastern appeal to his advantage. I can at least see him winning the New Hampshire primary.

He just needs to watch out for Rubio and Jindal.

And he can win the presidency if the Obama administration really jumps the sometime between now and 2016. As John Mc Cain has demonstrated becoming your party's stand-bearer immediately after your party gave the country an unpopular president kinda sucks.

[up][up][up]EDIT: BREAKING NEWS! BEING CALLED A KING DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE YOU KING!

edited 17th Jan '13 7:53:24 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#47509: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:52:01 PM

I'd be...very, very surprised if Christie won a Republican primary. They're kind of castigating him left and right.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47510: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:54:37 PM

[up]

Mitt Romney faced similar conditions.

Granted it helped Romney that most of his opponents either shoot themselves in the foot (Cain, Perry, Gingrich, Bachmann) were ignored by the media (Paul, Huntsman, Roemer) or chickened out early (Pawlenty, Mc Cotter)

edited 17th Jan '13 8:06:52 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#47511: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:56:52 PM

Romney also had the advantages of shitloads upon shitloads of money and the entire primary being loaded with what might have been the worst candidates imaginable.

LMage Since: May, 2011
#47512: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:57:58 PM

Christie....I mean if we have no choice but a Republican, then their are certainly worse people.

I still think Hillary would make a good president.

Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
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#47513: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:58:00 PM

@Pykrete: Romney had the disadvantage of being a lousy candidate.

edited 17th Jan '13 7:58:38 PM by Ultrayellow

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#47514: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:58:43 PM

Mitt Romney never faced real opposition, there was never a unified front against him.

Christie condemning the ad, while a good thing, isn't that exceptional. A lot of people on the right have been condemning the ads very explicitly.

Re: banning sales of violent games to minors... don't most stores refuse to sell M rated games to kids anyway?

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
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#47515: Jan 17th 2013 at 7:59:40 PM

No. Speaking as a former 16-year-old, they're pretty lax.

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#47516: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:03:28 PM

I think some Gamestops do but that's a store policy thing. This would make it a requirement. While I don't like games being targeted this makes sense so I have no issue with it.

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#47517: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:04:42 PM

Romney had the disadvantage of being a lousy candidate.

In the land of blind quadruple amputees, the man with a finger growing out of his neck is king. Or something. Also accusations of rigging the primary vote, but no idea how solid that is.

[up] Yeah I'm pretty sure the checks around here are unusual.

edited 17th Jan '13 8:05:50 PM by Pykrete

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47518: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:04:58 PM

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I think there supposed to.

But in practice, it doesn't happen all that often.

edited 17th Jan '13 8:06:16 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47519: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:09:26 PM

Vulnerable Senate Democrats balk at Obama’s gun control measures

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#47520: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:10:50 PM

Okay I know this is really late but it just showed up in my feed today. Fucking what? Erika said this?!?

edited 17th Jan '13 8:11:34 PM by Kostya

Lascoden ... from Missouri, USA Since: Nov, 2012
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#47521: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:13:58 PM

[up]Maybe...she's agreeing with the statement...but not the sentiment behind it? Like saying "yeah, that's probably true, but that's also bad".

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#47522: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:14:32 PM

It's from a mobile, so my first guess is someone picked up her phone and did it. That's happened to a few of my friends.

Worst case scenario, a misogynist woman wouldn't even be in the top ten stupidest people I've seen on the internet, and it'd barely break that for Facebook alone.

edited 17th Jan '13 8:16:23 PM by Pykrete

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#47523: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:16:21 PM

[up][up],[up] I hope so otherwise I'm mad. She's basically saying she doesn't want to have any say in the government if it means the preferred party wins. This is ignoring the fact that if they don't get votes from women politicians don't need to look after the welfare of women. Some will, true, but they don't explicitly have to.

edit: It would be like a black Republican saying they'd be fine having their voting rights taken away if it means Obama wouldn't win. It just makes me want to punch the person.

edit 2: I know it's not the stupidest thing I've ever seen or heard but I'm still annoyed that this person said that. The GOP complains about tyranny and no taxation without representation and someone on their side says they are fine with not being represented.

edited 17th Jan '13 8:18:14 PM by Kostya

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47524: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:17:28 PM

In the 2012 Presidential election 52% of male voter voted Republican, while 45% voted Democrat.

So Coulter might be right.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#47525: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:18:46 PM

There's no denying that but that doesn't mean it's a good idea or is fair to women in general.


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