Well, at least they were embarrassed about having done so! Why the exit polls were so fucked up, nobody wanted to admit it.
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Which he isn’t, in their sense of the word. And I’m not referring to anything about his birth certificate.
And Trump is continuing to kowtow to Arpaio, while at the same time a judge is deciding if Arpaio’s contempt of court after admitting that he was not following the court orders for his previous race profiling, will go to a criminal phase. And Rick Kitchen already noted in passing both Trump and the Sheriff are birthers.
Yes, just another item in the never ending enabling of racists that the Republicans want to ignore by supporting guys like Trump.
Would be smarter to stop living in denial about Trump’s viability and take him seriously. Labeling him as a “joke candidate” at this stage is just not accurate. He’s not Paul Paulsen.
Pat Paulsen.
Fuck, I looked it up before I posted too! But then only corrected a misspelling I’d made in his last name. Anyway, point stands.
Stands pat.
Chuck Norris calls Trump to ask for tips.
Trump makes Chuck Norris call him “sir”.
Who is Chuck backing this time? Not Huckabee again?
QFT.
Predictwise still has the GOP almost 40% to win the White House. I’m afraid the true chance is much greater. This is a must-win election for thoughtful Americans. Winning the election must be highest priority; if Trump wants to help we should let him. (I don’t think he’ll be the nominee; if he is, the GOP establishment won’t back him seriously but will spend their money trying to salvage Congress. I just hope Trump’s candidacy lasts long enough to leave the GOP in tatters and on record as xenophobic.)
Next fall Americans will hear about Benghazi-, Email-, and Whatever-gate morning, day, and night. Low-information voters will say “I had to pull the other lever, there was some question about her honesty.”
Democrats lose because they don’t indulge in loud nasty braying like the GOP does. If Trump wants to serve Democratic interests with an “end run”, braying loudly from the opposite direction, welcome him.
I think it’s more like 1%. People like to say that Americans are fond of flipping back and forth. But the composition of the electorate has changed so much: it is so much less white then it was over the time period during which they supposedly flipped it back and forth. I say “supposedly” because it has been nearly four decades since a Republican won a majority of the popular vote while a Democrat sat in the White House. Meanwhile, Obama is the first president since Eisenhower to receive 51% or more of the popular vote twice. The Democratic advantage in the Electoral College at present is just too strong.
But it would be nice to get the House back, and no one was even raising that possibility until Trump’s ascendancy.
Only the first of those repudiations made the American people look good.
Never meant to suggest otherwise. I said if HE gets wiped out like them, it reflects well on Americans. Not that the three examples necessarily did.
The damage has already been done. Please can you guys just cut your losses and peacefully separate into the “United States of Canada” and “Jesusland”. Just don’t let Jesusland get any of the nuclear weapons and we’ll all be sweet.
It depends on what definition you’re using. He’s not a joke candidate in the sense of being somebody who has no real possibility of winning the nomination or the election. He is a joke candidate in the sense that he is a YouTube comment thread made flesh.
Believe me, I understand the motivation for the hyperbole, but I have to offer this reminder. Yes, most of that map is red, but over 3 million people in Texas voted Democrat in 2012–more people then live in Maine and New Hampshire combined. It’s not easy, being a liberal down here, so spare us a thought when you joke about secession or Jesusland.
As a recovering Texan residing in the People’s Republic of Minnesota, I feel your pain. And send you my full and unstinting support from waaaay up here.
If you decide to flee, just get on Highway 35 North and drive about 24 hours, there is a colony of us here. Warning! There is NO bar-b-q. Just slices of beef in what might as well be spaghetti sauce. Bless their hearts, they don’t know any better…