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Lascoden ... from Missouri, USA Since: Nov, 2012
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#50076: Feb 21st 2013 at 8:15:08 AM

[up][up]For Senators, at least, I think that the Governor replaces them. Or appoints a new one, not sure.

edited 21st Feb '13 8:15:39 AM by Lascoden

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#50077: Feb 21st 2013 at 8:23:55 AM

Depends on the state. I know we here in Illinois are having a Special Election.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#50078: Feb 21st 2013 at 10:41:00 AM

I'm gonna love the point where we get to the 2013th page in this thread. waii

I just hope that doesn't mean Florida will sink by the time this thread goes to page 2020.

edited 21st Feb '13 10:41:14 AM by Serocco

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RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#50079: Feb 21st 2013 at 10:56:37 AM

That reminds me of that reaction gif from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs cuts Florida away from the rest of the 50 states with a hacksaw and kicks it off to drift into the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm not sure if Warner Bros had no Floridians in its studio to protest the measure, or if they did and those Floridians found the joke hilarious.

edited 21st Feb '13 10:56:45 AM by RadicalTaoist

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#50080: Feb 21st 2013 at 11:01:20 AM

[up][up]

I was pissed that I missed the 1776th page [lol]

Schild und Schwert der Partei
DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#50081: Feb 21st 2013 at 11:05:00 AM

So Bugs Bunny castrated American?

Man. Cartoons were dark back then.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#50082: Feb 21st 2013 at 11:05:25 AM

Stop posting about the page number.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#50083: Feb 21st 2013 at 12:24:59 PM

http://goo.gl/MASi3

Pretty good article highlighting just how out of touch the Tea Party is with reality and the GOP establishment. I hope it continues.evil grin Though the "Rove=Himmler" thing was just pathetic.

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Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#50084: Feb 21st 2013 at 12:41:05 PM

[up]

Laser-Guided Karma, after what he did to John McCain back in 2000. Imagine if McCain had been in the chair instead of Dubya...

What has happened to the GOP? I liked John McCain. I wouldn't vote for him, ever, but I could at least respect him. One reason he lost was because his campaign staff refused to let him be himself and instead tried to make him Younger and Hipper to appeal to Democrat voters, who weren't fooled. The new of GOPers are fanatics.

edited 21st Feb '13 12:41:47 PM by Achaemenid

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DevilTakeMe Coin Operator from Wild Wasteland Since: Jan, 2010
Coin Operator
#50085: Feb 21st 2013 at 1:01:40 PM

Again, the Tea Party Patriots supposedly pulled a picture off of a Bing search and, without looking closer, put it into their email. They already apologized (and yes, Bing still has the nazi uniform parody as the FIRST result under images). GISSyndrome, except... Bing.

[up] The Tea Party happened, which then hijacked the GOP into what you see today.

The most Conservative Republicans today aren't really Republicans. The Tea Party leaders would go so far as to call moderate Republicans RINOs.

The tea party made the positions that many of the people in this thread are railing against that don't make any more sense.

edited 21st Feb '13 1:18:09 PM by DevilTakeMe

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#50086: Feb 21st 2013 at 1:12:34 PM

One reason he lost was because his campaign staff refused to let him be himself and instead tried to make him Younger and Hipper to appeal to Democrat voters, who weren't fooled.

The other reason being that after Dubya, you could have had Jesus himself descend from the heavens in a blaze of glory to run for the GOP, and have replaced the Democrat candidate with a cardboard cutout of Rodney Dangerfield in a speedo and covered with Squeezy Cheeze, and the cutout would have won by the same landslide.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#50087: Feb 21st 2013 at 1:27:10 PM

[up]

Well, yeah, sure. But McCain was a Republican who I could, if not vote for, then at least have some confidence in. Let's face it, if you could choose: either Mitt Romney wins the 2012 election, or John McCain wins the 2008 one, you'd pick McCain every time. I don't feel that way about any of the current GOP crop, with the exception of John Huntsman (who I would hold up as a "model Republican"), who is out of favor. America needs a genuine centre-right alternative. I wouldn't vote for it, but it would be vital to the health of our democracy, which is ailing. What we have at the moment is a centrist party and a hard rightist party, and it sucks ass.

edited 21st Feb '13 1:28:13 PM by Achaemenid

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#50088: Feb 21st 2013 at 1:31:10 PM

[up][up] I'm not sure that is entirely the case. The Democrats had 2008 in the palm of their hands, but could have lost it in the same way that Romney lost 2012, by being seen as crazy and/or out of touch.

The Republican Party derailed itself over its crazies while at the same time the Democrat Party experienced a resurgence, both of community organizing and of party cohesiveness. Both of these trends are ongoing.

edited 21st Feb '13 1:31:39 PM by Fighteer

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#50089: Feb 21st 2013 at 2:24:35 PM

Eh, Mc Cain in 2008 might have been better, but only because the Republicans in congress back then wouldn't have stonewalled anything and everything they could, and deficit hawkisms weren't really as big a thing and, since it would have been a Republican president, wouldn't have become a thing.

Mc Cain as president would only have been better because of the extortionists having played nice.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#50090: Feb 21st 2013 at 2:29:34 PM

the Republicans in congress back then wouldn't have stonewalled anything and everything they could, and deficit hawkisms weren't really as big a thing and, since it would have been a Republican president, wouldn't have become a thing.

Well, yeah. Less deficit hawkism would have been good.

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DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#50091: Feb 21st 2013 at 3:57:08 PM

What do you think it's going to take to make the peanut gallery shut up about Benghazi and stop actively harming our defense administration?

OhnoaBear I'm back, baby. from Exiting, pursued by a... Since: Jan, 2011
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#50092: Feb 21st 2013 at 4:05:12 PM

Some new "scandal" for them to latch onto? I mean, isn't that the way of things?

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#50093: Feb 21st 2013 at 4:15:20 PM

Or for them to get voted out of office. This is an excuse to be as obstructionist as they want.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#50095: Feb 21st 2013 at 5:08:54 PM

Those are some surprising numbers. I expected higher church attendance and gun ownership.

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#50098: Feb 21st 2013 at 5:52:54 PM

Libre Initiative sounds like only something a white guy trying to get hip to "el latinos" would conceive of naming something.

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Lost in Space
#50099: Feb 21st 2013 at 5:57:07 PM

Your money was wasted for two reasons. One, you hired people to do your work who are as greedy and conniving as you are. Two, the American people are starting to figure out that your message blows.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
DevilTakeMe Coin Operator from Wild Wasteland Since: Jan, 2010
Coin Operator
#50100: Feb 21st 2013 at 6:14:43 PM

That is what happens when the veneer of Astroturfing fades away - what looked real and prosperous at first quickly turns to looking gaudy and as fake as plastic when you peel it back.

The Koch brothers boosted what was originally a grassroots Libertarian/Populist movement that was against tax increases and government spending, and artificially inflated it with "majority moralists" to the point where it's infected the GOP.

Yes, you wasted your money by trying to buy elections.

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