[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
So, for the record, only about 30% of Republicans are evil, support evil or are ignorant.
I’m guessing we’d get a similar number with Democrats, albeit probably with some other weird orientation.
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Certainly not. But in a primary election with a sure winner, people may stay home - and the wacko can pick up percentages way out of proportion to his actual support.
Special elections have worse problems.
I’ve seen this in action - I volunteered for a campaign that elected a Republican to the Arlington, VA County Board in a special election. That’s just about impossible to do in normal circumstances (they don’t call it Pyongyang on the Potomac for nothing) and he did lose the next general election.
[QUOTE=SmartAleq]
I think that’s my favorite heading title. I have NO idea what it’s all about, but if it weren’t so long it’d make a whizzo band name!
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Shorten it to **The Great Porn Jihad ** and Robert’s your fathers’ brother.
On the guy…I think he’s frighteningly real. It’s rural Indiana, so he has a chance, a small one, sure, but a chance none the less.
[QUOTE=Measure for Measure]
…and in 2006, Zirkle picked up 30 percent of the Republican vote during the primary contest against former Representative Chris Chocola (R-IN).
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[QUOTE=2nd Law]
Apparently his big things are pornography and prostitution, specifically involving white women. I wonder how many gigs of porn he has on his home computer…
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Actually, his issues with women make me wonder how wide his stance is…
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
So, for the record, only about 30% of Republicans are evil, support evil or are ignorant.
I’m guessing we’d get a similar number with Democrats, albeit probably with some other weird orientation.
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Well, 30% of Indiana Republicans. I love Indiana, but it’s the only place I’ve ever seen white supremacists in person - they were handing out pamphlets on a street corner across from the diner where we were having lunch one Sunday. I’ve heard from friends and family members who live/d there that it has far more than it’s fair share of xenophobic, racist nutjobs.
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
So, for the record, only about 30% of Republicans are evil, support evil or are ignorant.
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Nope. Only 30% of Republicans are evil in this way, support this particular evil, or are ignorant in this way.
There are many other ways to be evil, support evil, or be ignorant, so the Zirkle story just supplies us with a lower bound.
[QUOTE=Ravenman]
I’ll bet anyone $2 that he gets involved in a sex scandal before the election.
Hell, his website and his commentaries on porn might already constitute a sex scandal.
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I don’t want to think about it too much, but whatever this guy needs to get his jollies has got to be something either truly bizarre or absolutely pathetic.
His warnings about “Divorce aids” and suicide remind me of that Lynyrd Skynyrd song, “The Dildo and the Shotgun”.
Hey, I don’t think we should be that rough on the guy. In my moments of dissatisfaction with American politics, I have referred to things as “the party of evil versus the party of stupid.”
By speaking at a Nazi function, Mr. Zirkle manages to embody both in one swell foop! A true case of crossing party lines.
This country need more uniters like him. :p
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When asked if he was a Nazi or sympathized with Nazis or white supremacists, Zirkle replied he didn’t know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.“This is just a great opportunity for me to witness,” he said, referring to his message and his Christian belief.
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[QUOTE=DiggitCamara]
Seems he got the idea for his “2nd middle name” from TLDRWhateverthehellelse.
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That is because Zirkle is clearly really the poster lekatt. Come on, people, wake up and smell the dildo mountain!
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
Where did you get your doctorate?
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Fine to ask about qualifications in a general sense, but there are many historians without doctorates or even degrees in history. This is especially true outside of academia, where historian is assigned as a collateral duty or full-time job in military units, corporations, and nonprofit organizations.
I think we can all agree that credentials by themselves demonstrate little except an ability to sit through grad school and write a dissertation, and need to be judged along with someone’s actual work.
