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2017-09-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-07 12:30|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Should be in opinion, sorry.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-07 12:34|| 2017-09-07 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Domo arigato

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-07 13:58|| 2017-09-07 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the word "cuckservative" is more appropriate here.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-07 15:21|| 2017-09-07 15:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Not truly conservative by any srtetch of the imagination - McConnell and his beltway cronies have trashed every conservative effort to replace those squishes, starting back with Thad Cochran, and continuing thru today with the jackass crony Strange getting all the wieght those fakers can throw against first Mo Brooks, and now Judge Moore. Same thing going on in Arizona for Flake.

As long as people like McConnel, Cronyn, Ryan, etc are "leadership", the GOP will not act at all, because they want a big government that they control, not one thats smaller and answerable to anyone other than them and their cronies (Including Schumer and pelosi in the cronies)

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-09-07 15:57|| 2017-09-07 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't even know what a Conservative is any more... Political labels are so misused these day to be almost worthless...

Posted by magpie 2017-09-07 16:55|| 2017-09-07 16:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't even know what a Conservative is any more... Political labels are so misused these day to be almost worthless...
Posted by magpie

Well the term "Republican" certainly has morphed.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-07 16:58|| 2017-09-07 16:58|| Front Page Top

#7 magpie, I think the term Republican translates to "slightly less evil than Democrat", but that's just me YMMV.

Posted by AlanC 2017-09-07 17:10|| 2017-09-07 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 magpie, I think the term Republican translates to "slightly less evil than Democrat",

OTOH, traitors are worse than the enemy.

OTOH, the GOPe is keeping their pledge to their true cause -- their donors' money.

Posted by charger 2017-09-07 18:09|| 2017-09-07 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 That's a problem with a two-party system - if you're not happy with your party, the worst you could do to them is stay at home on the election day.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-07 18:23|| 2017-09-07 18:23|| Front Page Top

#10 grom, we have third parties. They don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting anybody elected but they serve one purpose. You can cast your vote for them as a protest against the two main parties. Mostly it's a symbolic gesture but if you have a Dem against a RINO in a really tight race in a conservative district the RINO might be able to see where he went wrong if there are enough votes cast for third parties. Might even smarten him up a bit. Like when Carly Fiorina ran against Barbara Boxer. No way in hell was I gonna vote for Fiorina but Boxer was obviously out of the question too. So I voted third party. Don't think Fiorina got the message though because two years later she was running for president. She might have been CEO of Hewlett-Packard but I never accused her of being smart.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-07 19:42|| 2017-09-07 19:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Vote the Third Party, unless this would give the seat to the "wrong" party (contested district).
C-SPAN program pollster/operatives seminar: 25% will always vote for Party A and 25% will always vote for Party B. The battleground is getting 51%+ of the Undecided and if you stay at home and never vote Nobody Cares What You Think! So a Third Party Vote is important because it adds another person to the target group that they have to win over.

Posted by magpie 2017-09-07 21:59|| 2017-09-07 21:59|| Front Page Top

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