When the goal is to mock and jape and bring about joy and laughter among Dopers, then it’s pretty productive, wouldn’t you say? 
All part of the GDP, the Gross Doper Product.
We mock stupidity here. The fact that so many people adhere to stupid ideas does not make them less stupid.
It’s all the same base, people who have been demagogued from worry to fear to anger to votes. Always tawdry and destructive, but always effective.
Speaking of Huckabee, he said today you only have to obey the law “if it is right”. So much for Obama as a lawless president.
No. Because limiting suffrage based on one’s interpretations of another’s beliefs is stupid and wrong.
No question about that! He’s a Marxist not just because he’s a Marx, but because he hangs out with commies!
Very apropos - and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Poor G. Harrold Carswell: if Nixon hadn’t nominated him, he could have eventually retired from a career as a moderately respected Circuit Court judge; instead, he became nationally famous as the poster boy for mediocrity.
This.
Just because the ‘Christian’ right doesn’t believe in ‘evilution’ didn’t mean a metric ton of GOP candidates over the decades had to pander to them by, at a minimum, advocating ‘teaching the controversy,’ thereby boosting the seeming legitimacy of anti-evolution beliefs.
The GOP may not have created this Frankenstein of stupid, but it’s definitely helped grow a baby Frankenstein into a pretty gigantic monster. It’s disingenuous at this point for Republicans to say they deserve someone to represent them because of their numbers, when the GOP has worked hard to grow those numbers.
And it’s fun to watch so many Republicans wringing their hands as Trump hijacks their stupid base and takes it in his own direction.
Hey, Kasich just said something sensible and reasonable!
Is that allowed? :eek:
No, seriously, credit where credit is due:
[QUOTE=John Kasich]
Well, what does that mean? I don’t know what that means. You’re going to rip it up and then what? Then what are you going to do when you rip it up?
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The question is presumably directed at his rivals who’ve said that if they won, they’d rip up the Iran deal as soon as they were inaugurated.
I’d love to see him get a bump in the polls - upward, not downward - as a result of this. Can’t say I’m incredibly optimistic, though. At this point, not opposing the deal is practically apostasy in the GOP camp.
Actually, most of the candidates now say they won’t abrogate it.
Can you provide any cites? I haven’t heard a one of them say so.
If you can back that up, it might be a cite for sore eyes.
trump, Bush, and Kasich are on record as not tearing up the Iran deal:
The article notes that five have said they would.
The link said Rubio and Walker both would tear it up. And the Jerusalem Post said this:
Most of these cites are from the last few days, but a few are back from July and August. They were the most recent comments I could find.
Trump & Cruz - against
Walker, Fiorina, Rubio, Perry - against
Christie and Jindal - against
Huckabee - against
Ben Carson - against
Rand Paul - against
Lindsey Graham - against
Jeb! - against, but won’t immediately tear it up.
Trump and Cruz just held a joint rally to oppose the deal.
Kasich insists that Ohio will retain its own sanction regardless, which could conceivably scuttle the deal in any case.
They are all against, but abrogating a signed deal that’s working when you take office is just a nonsense policy, and any Republican who makes that promise is either stupid or lying. Either way, it’s pretty close to disqualifying, IMO.
If so, that’s on Iran. The President can only deliver what he has authority over.
Since when do 3 candidates constitute “most” Republican candidates? Do you EVER do even minimal fact checking on your claims?