GOP Failure Watch Part II

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  1. ratdog

    ratdog Member+

    Mar 22, 2004
    In the doghouse
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    United States
    A coindinence...?

    http://news.yahoo.com/did-gop-white-084500197.html

    "The decline of centrist Republicans was one important reason for the decline in the GOP’s diversity over recent decades, according to Brooke. The shift of the party’s political base to the states of the former Confederacy coincided with the rise of social conservatism and states’ rights in what had been the progressive party in the era of Lincoln....

    Demographics are destiny, and looking like the party of old white men is not a recipe for Republican success in the future. That’s why this forgotten legacy of diversity should be respected and celebrated, even as the Party of Lincoln has turned into the Party of Reagan. Because these forgotten figures deserve to be remembered by Republicans and all Americans as the pioneers they were.
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  2. ElJefe

    ElJefe Moderator
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    Feb 16, 1999
    Colorful Colorado
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    United States
    And along those lines, guess who's playing the RNC?

    Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kid Rock, Trace Adkins, the Oak Ridge Boys, Lee Greenwood, and John Anderson.
     
  3. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
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    Seattle Sounders
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    United States
    Kid Rock being a Republican just shocks me. Heh.
     
  4. DynamoEAR

    DynamoEAR Member+

    May 30, 2011
    HoustAtlantaDMV
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    Houston Dynamo
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    United States
    o_O
    Songs like American Badass don't ring a bell?
    And born free??
     
  5. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
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    Romney is apparently a Killers fan..."she takes off her dress"?
     
  6. KCFutbol

    KCFutbol Moderator
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    Jun 14, 2001
    Overland Park, KS
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    Kansas City Wizards
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  7. DynamoEAR

    DynamoEAR Member+

    May 30, 2011
    HoustAtlantaDMV
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
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    United States
    No Hank Williams jr neither.
     
  8. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
  9. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
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    Leeds United AFC
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    Ireland Republic
  10. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why wouldn't you want to show respect a soldier who was court-martialled for going AWOL to get some pussy from Mrs. Custer, repeatedly violated treaties that the US Government had agreed to, and attacked an Indian encampment composed primarily of women and children at the Washita River Battle/Massacre as well as using captured women/children as human shields to keep from being attacked by other Cheyenne bands, abandoned one of his companies during the "battle", leading to their deaths, and then greatly exaggerated the number killed and claimed they were all warriors with evidence to the contrary. I mean, he was America's Željko Ražnatović. Who wouldn't want to honor someone, if he were not American today, we would hunt down and bring to the Hague

    Should you ever get the chance, the Washita Battlefield National Historical Site is a very moving memorial site dedicated to all who lost their lives in the battle

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  11. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    The anti-Obama film is drawing them by the flocks to hiss and loathe. God forbid they could show up to a pro-Romney movie, or anything else pro.

    The GOP is the negative matter that attempts to counterbalance the universe's positive matter.
     
  12. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
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    Birmingham City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Remember, we all showed up in 2004 to bash Bush at Fahrenheit 9/11, and we got so motivated our Massachusetts politician defeated the controversial incumbent.



    Oh wait...
     
  13. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
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  14. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Dems do it too. Michael Moore. But the Republicans right now are in a particularly foul mood. I think it's because they know they don't have a real platform -- Reagonomics the 3rd time (W being the 2nd) is desperation. But they gotta run on something, that something being bad Obama.
     
  15. Matrim55

    Matrim55 Member+

    Aug 14, 2000
    Berkeley
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    United States
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  16. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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  17. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    Chicago Fire
    From the entry...
    Nobody has built their business completely on their own. Instead of using that as a partisan attack, let’s take it how it was meant by Obama: We need each other. And we need to work together.​


    Seriously. Good work Valenzuelas. You did a lot of hard work. But so did that tax payers whose money helped you go farther faster. So for that matter did the government bureaucrats who decided to give you access to that money. None of that doesn't take away from the hard work, but for the love of God...

    I really wish, though, that Obama had said, "You didn't build that by yourself." I'm sure it would still be shamelessly edited and decontextualized, but still...
     
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  18. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    From theguardian.co.uk

    The writer could have mentioned the war on terrorism and the war on drugs and foreign wars, as well. The Republicans got what they wanted from Obama, by and large. Only know, it turns out that they didn't want it.
     
  19. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
  20. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Arizona is the new Texas.
     
  21. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
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    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Republican Pennsylvanian candidate for Senate Tom Smith says out of wedlock consensual sex is similar to rape for the father of the woman:

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/27/13509930-from-todd-akin-to-tom-smith


     
  22. Crimen y Castigo

    May 18, 2004
    OakTown
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    Los Angeles
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Things That Shouldn't Be Said In Modern Society To Be Said At Least 1,400 Times At RNC

    “As the convention kicks off Tuesday with speeches from the likes of Rick Santorum and Nikki Haley, we should prepare ourselves to hear a more-or-less unending stream of ideas that should never even enter one’s mind, let alone be verbalized, in this day and age,” said Elizabeth Unger, a political scientist at Georgetown University. “It’s difficult to comprehend, but dozens of comments on such topics as human relationships and the physical world itself—which will seem as if they were crafted by some primitive unthinking civilization that existed centuries ago—will actually be emphasized, repeated, and used to punctuate key points in every single speech.”

    “And what’s more baffling is that speakers will receive legitimate applause for saying things in public that no reasonable, informed member of society would ever willingly say in private,” she continued. “In fact, the more monstrous and archaic the thing sounds, the more ardent the ovation will be.”
    ...
    “It’s almost as if these people are unaware that the Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, various civil rights movements, and the entirety of social progress over the previous several centuries even occurred,” Wright added.
     
  23. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  24. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    I think that is their point, they do not want to think of their daughters having sex, so knowing that they are out there doing in it scares the shit out of them.

    My dad is not a typical conservative Mexican dad, but he would still get upset when my sister would not come home for the night, even after college.
     

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