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March 25, 2013

SD Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat, Ready to Retire
— Ace

Obviously we should win this seat.

So why do I have this sinking feeling we won't?

This is a big thing-- we consistently lose Senate races in the supposedly red states of the Mountain West. I don't know why. I've heard it's because of farming subsidies, but all Republicans from this area support those took so I don't get it.

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1 We should move and nominate Todd Akin. I don't think he got a fair shot last year.

Posted by: David at March 25, 2013 01:58 PM (iqtXM)

2 Why? Because we can't get our shit together.

Posted by: EC at March 25, 2013 01:59 PM (doBIb)

3 Homo-nuptials is the ultimate key to victory!!

Posted by: LeBron Steinman at March 25, 2013 01:59 PM (jfWE9)

I know, tell me about it! We should have had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Now we are just trying to win it. Come on grassroots, get out there and get a great candidate.

Keystone, Keystone, Keystone!

And guns....

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 01:59 PM (tVTLU)

5 We lose these races because the Dems lie and our shit's retarded.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 25, 2013 01:59 PM (4cRnj)

6 Any Bush!!

Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 02:00 PM (sqp6o)

7 I don't watch Senate races - I boycott them because they consistently end up promoting liberals and Democrats

Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 02:01 PM (yVmMc)

8 Can we find a candidate who will promise free shit to everyone in SD, just to realize, "actually on further thought, I'm against free shit" right after getting elected?

Posted by: mugiwara at March 25, 2013 02:01 PM (hpYnL)

9 Retire? I'm thinking flee before the burning.

Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 02:01 PM (/gHaE)

So why do I have this sinking feeling that we won't?

Because we don't know how to call a spade a spade (no offense), or a communist... - er, my esteemed opponent, the Democrat - a communist, that's why.. Because we don't know how to fight, that's why.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 25, 2013 02:02 PM (BJVEF)

11 As long as they say stupid shit and are slaves to being liked by MSNBC, I think any Republican will do. Cause the most important part is that they have an (R) after their name. Not actual principles. That shit's for queers.

Posted by: David at March 25, 2013 02:02 PM (iqtXM)

We lose Senate seats because of gerrymandering!!!!11!!eleventy!

As seen on the interwebs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2013 02:02 PM (BAS5M)

13 This is a big thing-- we consistently lose Senate races in the supposedly red states of the Mountain West. I don't know why. I've heard it's because of farming subsidies, but all Republicans from this area support those took so I don't get it.

--I know that Kristi Noem, the chick R Congresswoman at-large from SD, had an ad last summer touting some sort of farm subsidies and ethanol pork. Red does not always equal conservative.

[P.S. I can't fault her so much; better representatives and senators like her than phony Blue Dogs who will ultimately wave shit sandwiches like 0bamacare through for Party.]

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 02:03 PM (+iA5G)

14 Free shit from an (R) is patronizing. Free shit from a (D) is social justice.

Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 02:04 PM (sqp6o)

15 What we need is for Karl Rove to get more involved in these races, he knows his shit.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 25, 2013 02:04 PM (4cRnj)

16 We lose senate races because the electorate is fooken stooped.

Posted by: maddogg at March 25, 2013 02:04 PM (OlN4e)

17 I hope the SD GOP and tea party movement has learned from the past two election cycles and is ready to fight off any false flag operations like Claire "opposing" Akin in the primaries and getting an opponent that could be Alinsky'd. And also will pick a decent candidate, and unite behind them.

Posted by: palerider at March 25, 2013 02:04 PM (dkExz)

18
I'll tell you what, all the reports coming out what obamacare is going to do to people early next year are absolutely going to have some dems scrambling.

The fact that the LIV's (the ones that aren't part of the FSA) will feel it in the wallet will cause some heartburn for the dems.

It is *almost* an unfuckable easy campaign for places like SD. But you're right, the repubs will mess it up, and probably already have with their bending over on everything lately.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2013 02:04 PM (IY7Ir)

19 8 Can we find a candidate who will promise free shit to everyone in SD, just to realize, "actually on further thought, I'm against free shit" right after getting elected?

Posted by: mugiwara at March 25, 2013 06:01 PM (hpYnL)

--Seriously. It would be no worse than what shitbirds like Dorgan in ND and Tester in MT did.

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 02:04 PM (+iA5G)

20 Why do we lose? Infrastructure. They got it, we don't.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:05 PM (eV8P8)

21 Hey. I'm on it jack, like white on lice!

Posted by: Karl 'Si' Rove at March 25, 2013 02:05 PM (0IhFx)

22 They are the stupid party for a reason. I'm just saying.

The biggest idiots on the planet are currently running the country because Republicans are the stupid party.

Joe Biden shouldn't be allowed to fly rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong, much less make law or be one heartbeat away.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 25, 2013 02:05 PM (A/xbL)

I heard all they had in South Dakota was steers and queers, so the Dems have a leg up supporting nutless policies and gay marriage.

Posted by: maddogg at March 25, 2013 02:07 PM (OlN4e)

24 I've missed the horde today. Fucking Comcast came out to install their fucking phone system and killed the internet connection. And the cable. And the phone quit working.

The technician also spent nearly ten minutes on a "potty break" in the powder room.

Yeah, I'm in a "mood."

Fucking Comcast.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2013 02:07 PM (lVPtV)

25 The reason Republicans often lose and Democrats often win is because Republicans tend to say things like "my opponent is a honorable man" and Democrats tend to say things like "my opponent hunts cute puppies for fun and profit" and the electorate decides based on that input.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:07 PM (CaJnt)

26 If we watched "Girls" and "Whitney", we'd win these races.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 25, 2013 02:07 PM (4cRnj)

27 8 Can we find a candidate who will promise free shit to everyone in SD, just to realize, "actually on further thought, I'm against free shit" right after getting elected? Posted by: mugiwara at March 25, 2013 06:01 PM (hpYnL) Exactly what I was saying in the last thread. Pander the fuck out of everyone, then to govern to the right.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:08 PM (eV8P8)

28 **25 The reason Republicans often lose and Democrats often win is because Republicans tend to say things like "my opponent is a honorable man" and Democrats tend to say things like "my opponent hunts cute puppies for fun and profit" and the electorate decides based on that input.** That's because we have nothing to fear from obama and obama isn't a bad guy, he just doesn't have the resume that our guy has.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:08 PM (QxSug)

29 We lose because some local dem who campaigns on being 'common sense, fiscally conservative' runs and then the media asks rape/incest abortion questions to ours.... R's look like nuts and the lying Dem looks sane.

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at March 25, 2013 02:08 PM (DGIjM)

30 say it with me now, Senator Kristi Noem (R-HOT) http://goo.gl/w9oVK

Posted by: Jose/ningrim at March 25, 2013 02:09 PM (zc/sw)

31 well, you know, that donkey strategy may have worked pre-Obama and every democrat going full bore anti-gun and man-love-loving. just saying...maybe we could point out a few flaws with the country being run out of deep gay San Fran?

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:10 PM (QxSug)

I predict the Republican candidate will be a homophobic, Xtian, war-mongering, rape-promoting, Earth-polluting, poor-hating, gun-loving, racist who will also be in the process of committing the unpardonable sin of being an older white male. Other than that, he'll be a wonderful guy.

Posted by: Jaws at March 25, 2013 02:10 PM (4I3Uo)

33 Oh, how about a candidate who claims his Democrat opponent is trying to ban Tampons and put women in binders? That should win us the LIV female vote.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 25, 2013 02:10 PM (hpYnL)

34 >> Republicans tend to say things like "my opponent is a honorable man"

Republicans also tend to ramble on about supply side economics instead of pointing out how in bed Big Democrat is with Wall Street.

Good grief. Both the right (Tea Party) and the left (Occupy) literally took to the streets to protest the corrupt union of government and big business, and the GOP did nothing with all that righteous populist anger. On an issue where we win.

I really can't stand the f'n GOP.

Posted by: sandy burger at March 25, 2013 02:11 PM (+yb/5)

35
You would think that the repubs would have standard consumer tested answers for certain questions by now, that they are required to memorize.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2013 02:11 PM (IY7Ir)

36 Johnson is a smart guy. He is getting out before the burning begins. Anyone left with any firing synapses would want to get the f*ck out. DC cannot be fixed and the trajectory we are going leads right over the cliff and into the great abyss.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 25, 2013 02:11 PM (jucos)

37 how objectionable could red senate candidates be in dark red midwestern states? I don't get how we lost them in 2012 but we better figure this shit out. I want another 10 Inhoffes.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:11 PM (QxSug)

38

Tanned, ready and rested.

Posted by: Scott Brown in a Cowboy Hat

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 02:12 PM (kdS6q)

39 15 What we need is for Karl Rove to get more involved in these races, he knows his shit.
Posted by: Dr Span

I blame Mitt Romney.

Posted by: pep at March 25, 2013 02:12 PM (6TB1Z)

40 Maybe Dede Scozzafava isn't doing anything.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at March 25, 2013 02:12 PM (8ZskC)

41 The technician also spent nearly ten minutes on a "potty break" in the powder room.

Yeah, I'm in a "mood."

Fucking Comcast.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2013 06:07 PM (lVPtV)

Well, Jane. At least you know that you won't be beat down with all those annoying gun and ammunition commercials when your cable DOES come back online.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 25, 2013 02:12 PM (A/xbL)

Fucking Comcast.

Top. Men.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2013 02:12 PM (BAS5M)

43 Or....try this...a GOP who understands GOP positions. Like saying, "Fuck you, next question, the gender pay gap is a radical feminist myth."

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:12 PM (QxSug)

Why does the GOP have problems in the mountain West???

Because the Mountain West leans more Libertarian, than Social Con.... but are Fiscal Cons...

so.... when the Repubs are NOT Fiscal Cons.... and the only thing we hear is Gay Marriage, Abortion, and the need to cater to minoritys?? They tend to stay home....

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2013 02:13 PM (lZBBB)

"say it with me now, Senator Kristi Noem (R-HOT)"

Like the fist of a screen door on a drumset.

Posted by: Jaws at March 25, 2013 02:13 PM (4I3Uo)

46 35 You would think that the repubs would have standard consumer tested answers for certain questions by now, that they are required to memorize The RNC approved consultants get their money whether the candidate is any good or not, so there's no motivation for that kind of thing to be packaged.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:13 PM (I2LwF)

47 I'm tanned rested and ready and .. I am not a witch.

Posted by: Christine O'Donnell at March 25, 2013 02:13 PM (DGIjM)

48 Like saying "guns don't kill people, kids on anti-pschotic medications, shut ins, and democrat gun runners, kill people"

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:13 PM (QxSug)

#20

If you include popular media (alphabet TV stations, magazines, movies, newspapers) as "infrastructure" you have put your finger on the main issue. We can't sell freedom to live your life; limited government; earn a decent wage and keep most of the money you earn... How can that be if not for message delivery venues and messengers?

Posted by: dblwmy at March 25, 2013 02:14 PM (XrGnJ)

50 "34 >> Republicans tend to say things like "my opponent is a honorable man" Republicans also tend to ramble on about supply side economics instead of pointing out how in bed Big Democrat is with Wall Street. Good grief. Both the right (Tea Party) and the left (Occupy) literally took to the streets to protest the corrupt union of government and big business, and the GOP did nothing with all that righteous populist anger. On an issue where we win. I really can't stand the f'n GOP. Posted by: sandy burger at March 25, 2013 06:11 PM (+yb/5) " I'm not convinced that we can outdemagogue the Democrats. Championing the virtues of the Free Market and competition would probably be a better way to go.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:14 PM (CaJnt)

51 Thune very narrowly lost a Senate race to Johnson a few years before he defeated Daschle. Voter fraud on Indian reservations is a big problem in SD and other western states.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 25, 2013 02:14 PM (k0CeE)

52 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Will Folks at March 25, 2013 02:14 PM (ygAxO)

53 All the GOP candidate has to do is talk about Obamacare everyday of the campaign. People will be livid once the find out what is in it. Johnson voted for it, he is indeed fleeing the flames.

Posted by: angel with a sword at March 25, 2013 02:14 PM (mDVDU)

54 or "marriage is between a man and a woman, the president is playing both sides of the issue but he is ultimately for gay marriage."

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:14 PM (QxSug)

55 People in the Dakotas look Asian to me.

Posted by: Sharron Angle at March 25, 2013 02:15 PM (pmsMR)

56 A republican could win because of gerrymandering.

Posted by: Bill Maher at March 25, 2013 02:15 PM (tOkJB)

57 A relative of mine was a Dem Senator for the Dakotas a while back. I was back there once and listened to a bunch of my cousins talk about how horrible it was to have an abortion clinic... a, one, in the entire state. A month or two later, I emailed my cousin and asked how does our relative get elected when he was pro abortion, and he said farm subsidies.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at March 25, 2013 02:15 PM (C2//T)

58 "43 Or....try this...a GOP who understands GOP positions. Like saying, "Fuck you, next question, the gender pay gap is a radical feminist myth." Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 06:12 PM (QxSug) " Yes.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:15 PM (CaJnt)

59 **Voter fraud on Indian reservations is a big problem in SD and other western states.** um, hello...voter fraud does not exist and it's crazy to suggest otherwise. Now excuse me while I bus this van full of FOB somalians from precinct to precinct.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:15 PM (QxSug)

60 50 "I'm not convinced that we can outdemagogue the Democrats."

Is it wrong of me that I want to try?

Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 02:16 PM (yVmMc)

61 Good grief. Both the right (Tea Party) and the left (Occupy) literally took to the streets to protest the corrupt union of government and big business, and the GOP did nothing with all that righteous populist anger. On an issue where we win.

I really can't stand the f'n GOP.

Posted by: sandy burger

This.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 25, 2013 02:16 PM (UCv7P)

62 >> Championing the virtues of the Free Market and competition would probably be a better way to go.

Sure, but we do it wrong. Instead of spouting dry theory, we should point to relevant real-world examples. GM. GE. Birkshire Hathaway. AIG. Jon Corzine. Etc.

I am certain a competent GOP could have reached out to some of the low-information Occupy fools.

Posted by: sandy burger at March 25, 2013 02:17 PM (+yb/5)

63 Republicans couldn't win a rigged raffle.

Posted by: Truman Cabootie at March 25, 2013 02:18 PM (N2svL)

64 Could it be because in these largely rural states the local media still control the debate not seen on the national stage since the mid-90s? And that filter casts you as not nice, which is a very big deal breaker.

Posted by: Joe at March 25, 2013 02:18 PM (TQaK3)

65 #49. What I was referring to is, their campaign offices stay up year round and are primary contact points for a lot of folks to access the government. Their staffers work for public unions and get plenty of time to campaign on the public dime. Our (few) campaign offices open in July and close the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November. Our staffers are all volunteers who know jack shit about how to run a race and have no time to campaign. That's the difference.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:18 PM (I2LwF)

66 Pander the fuck out of it! Then hard right! That'll win it!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2013 02:18 PM (z8vEO)

67 Well maybe Ashley Judd has family out there too.

Posted by: NCKate at March 25, 2013 02:19 PM (zCfJt)

68 We just need to get past all the conflict and disagreement and name-calling and stuff.

Posted by: The Coffee Party at March 25, 2013 02:19 PM (8ZskC)

69 is anyone 100% sure there is a really a S Dakota?

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at March 25, 2013 02:19 PM (DGIjM)

70 "I'm not convinced that we can outdemagogue the Democrats." silly grasshopper. Do you remember when we used to win? Willie Horton* anyone? Welfare Queens? Commies? The only reason why these are "bad" is because the MSM is butthurt over them actually working. Maybe you can't win an election by ceding the intellectual battleground to your opponent like "binders of women" did when you could've said a. the paygap is a lie b. men work dangerous jobs and don't have kids c. women still mostly work as secretaries, even compared to 60 years ago. d. nonetheless, women make up 51% of population e. the federales will give preferential treatment to female owned businesses. so what's your point? * sure sure, it was the donkeys who did it but we got blamed.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:19 PM (QxSug)

71 59 **Voter fraud on Indian reservations is a big problem in SD and other western states.** um, hello...voter fraud does not exist and it's crazy to suggest otherwise. Now excuse me while I bus this van full of FOB somalians from precinct to precinct. Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 06:15 PM (QxSug) Have you met coblogger Andy? You're kidding; he's not.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:19 PM (I2LwF)

72 We'll win the GOP way by running Zombie George Custer or something...

it is beyond parody...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:20 PM (LRFds)

73 Americans morons and complete idiots that don't know anything.

Posted by: Bill Maher at March 25, 2013 02:20 PM (tOkJB)

74 "60 50 "I'm not convinced that we can outdemagogue the Democrats." Is it wrong of me that I want to try? Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 06:16 PM (yVmMc) " Democrat memes are optimized for that level of discourse. Therefore, it is probably ill-advised.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:20 PM (CaJnt)

75 Why would you doubt the GOP would flub a easy pick up? I dunno, common sense. Recent history, simply looking at who is running things at the RNC, watching the GOP turn into Dem-lite? Pick one.

Posted by: Jeff in Mi at March 25, 2013 02:20 PM (1z8rY)

76 We lose these races because we suck.

Posted by: L, elle at March 25, 2013 02:21 PM (0PiQ4)

77 Fucking Comcast came out to install their fucking phone system and killed the internet connection. And the cable. And the phone quit working.

IP phones backfeed the copper house telco wiring.

To do this they disconnect you copper telco wire at the telco network interface box outside.

You should be able to get copper landline back by plugging in the jack they unplugged outside, and unpluggng any cable box connections to the telco wall jacks. The outside network interface box is probably in a gray/tan box a bit smaller than a cereal box.

That should reactivate the copper telco land line unless you already had that service disconnected.

Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 02:21 PM (/gHaE)

78 Briefly O/T - one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong:

"Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad for escaping slaves. Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers. The Rio Grande del Norte in New Mexico. The San Juan Islands off Washington State. The state of Delaware.

"These are the places and people honored with new national monuments created Monday by President Obama."

Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 02:21 PM (yVmMc)

79 it's pathetic that "hector" continues to snare you guys

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 02:21 PM (s+8Vv)

80 Why can't you win? Cause you rethugiKKKants are fucking idiots Just saying Don't h8

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 02:22 PM (frroL)

81 Obama takes your money and uses it to murder babies, and drones innocent Americans all over the world at the push of a button. This is not hard.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:22 PM (I2LwF)

82 I hope the SD GOP and tea party movement has learned from the past two election cycles

re l'affaire Akin: the tea-party (headed by Palin) supported Steelman; and the MO GOP establishment supported, I think, Brunner.

Either Steelman or Brunner would have been fine. Brunner maybe more of a sure thing, but Steelman hasn't given any signals that she was a Sharron Angle. One thing we do know is that McCaskill didn't want to face either of them.

So the lesson learnt here is that the SD GOP should check out who's running, get with tea-party leaders (probably the GOP precinct chairs anyway), and decide who's the most credible person they can field.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2013 02:23 PM (QTHTd)

83 Delaware gets what, a monument to crappy roads and tax-free shopping?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 25, 2013 02:23 PM (J6kXj)

84 step 1: have confidence in out ideals. step 2: find a concrete example with which you can demonstrate real world impact. step 3: fucking repeat the motherfuckiong shit out of that point until even no-information voters know about it. Remember, the media only gives the GOP 3 hours every 4 years to make its case...every second speaking at the debate is gold, so make it count. Disagree, be disagreeable.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:23 PM (QxSug)

85 "Credible" meant here in two senses: most credible as a person, most credible as a conservative.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2013 02:23 PM (QTHTd)

86 79 Sooth,

You think that was rector?

Yeah could be basically they are all just "moron troll" to me...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:23 PM (LRFds)

87 I think the GOP needs to better explore crying as the strategy for electoral success. After all, Boehner keeps getting re-elected somehow.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at March 25, 2013 02:23 PM (8ZskC)

50...I'm not convinced that we can out demagogue the Democrats.

It's not demagoguery if it's the Truth.

The GoP candidates should just read Schummer's gun-banning bill.

Or point out how long it's been since the Senate last passed a Budget.

Or read off Coburn's list of all the dumbass things they're spending money on.

Posted by: wheatie at March 25, 2013 02:24 PM (UMBJ2)

89 We never win anything. Although I do expect us to win the current Civil War. Eventually.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 25, 2013 02:24 PM (+paCV)

90 our guys may suck. But they can at least visit the heritage website and figure out what the fuck is going on and what to say about something. Them? They're even dumber and can only survive with complete MSM protection, like modern corn that relies on the farmer to plant it. We can win this.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:24 PM (QxSug)

91 Ted Cruz got any relatives in those parts?

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at March 25, 2013 02:24 PM (DGIjM)

92 80 NCJ,

How's your empowering of Iron Ballet Dancer going this week?

I have been avoiding the bodycount news I was in a bad mood on the road?

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:24 PM (LRFds)

93 Go Rabbits!

(That loss to Michigan doesn't look so bad, after what the Wolverines did to VCU).

Re: SD's penchant for electing Democrats to the Senate? I have no clue. And I lived in the state for 40 years.

The only thing I can think of is the FSA is everywhere, and a lot of them are farmers.

Posted by: filbert, who is a Jackrabbit at March 25, 2013 02:25 PM (NaNKB)

94
o/t but bugging me.

I came across a new Porsche 911 Carrera S while I was walking the dog, and noticed some odd little buttonlike objects on the front and rear clips. See photo:

http://tinyurl.com/cgen5f2

Four in the back [ o o o o ]

Three in the front [ O o o ]

What are these things?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 02:25 PM (kdS6q)

95 My guess is that, like with Colorado, there are probably a few extremely wealthy Leftists who are committed and invested to, ahem, transforming the state.

Posted by: Tanguera at March 25, 2013 02:25 PM (QjqVJ)

96 If *I* were doing it, I'd make a special adapter that only disconnects line 1 on the inside wiring in the box outside and remaps telco's line 1 to inside line 2.

Then make a 2-wire cord for backfeeding the inside line 1 copper from the cable box.

THAT would leave you with line 1 on IP phone, and inside line 2 still hooked up to the telco's line 1.

THAT way you can still keep copper telco 911 service.

Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 02:26 PM (/gHaE)

97 "Why can't you win? Cause you rethugiKKKants are fucking idiots" Well he does have a point. The more we act like Democrats the more I'm convinced the RNC is run by idiots.

Posted by: Jeff in Mi at March 25, 2013 02:26 PM (1z8rY)

98 boulder toilet hobo:
>> re l'affaire Akin: the tea-party (headed by Palin) supported Steelman; and the MO GOP establishment supported, I think, Brunner.

Hey, I try to help. You're welcome, America.

Posted by: Mike Huckabee at March 25, 2013 02:26 PM (+yb/5)

99 Does anybody remember laughter?

Posted by: Robert Plant at March 25, 2013 02:27 PM (8ZskC)

100 81 Obama takes your money and uses it to murder babies, and drones innocent Americans all over the world at the push of a button.

This is not hard.

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 06:22 PM (I2LwF)

WaterGate had no body count.... Bhengazi did...

Oliver North went to Jail for the Iran Contra scandal, which was us illegaly giving guns to other countries... no one has gone to Jail for either Fast and Furious, nor for the guns run out of Benghazi...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2013 02:27 PM (lZBBB)

101 On the 'hearts and minds' front, I see Beck has gotten 'The Blaze Radio' on Sirius. Gotta give him props, he's moving into getting a foothold in the 'Culture' front.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:27 PM (MMC8r)

102 You mean the midget rham? Ha, he's running scared over the school closings What a bitch

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 02:28 PM (frroL)

103 97 Jeff in MI,

we need to start acting more like that fine gent in Bwoston Metro er "Massholia" who donkeypunches dames and sends crank pics...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:28 PM (LRFds)

104 I wonder if there's a Huckabee / McCaskill pr0n tape out there.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (QTHTd)

105 102 NCJ,

that's right your mayor....

Iron Ballerina can't dance more than the heiffers we saw on display in your riots....

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (LRFds)

106 maybe we can win if we go hard negative and try scaring the crap out of people with reality DOOM like saying over and over again that they will lose their healthcare, lose their jobs, take home less of their paychecks bc taxes for everyone not just rich are going up, etc. this is how the Dems won the House by pretending the GWB economy with 6% unemployment was a wreck.

Posted by: L, elle at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (0PiQ4)

107

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 06:25 PM (kdS6q)

Back up sensors

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (lZBBB)

108

Kristi Noem won in South Dakota.

So...there is hope.

Posted by: wheatie at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (UMBJ2)

109 What are these things? Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 06:25 PM (kdS6q) --- .... fastener covers.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (9MmIU)

110 This Heart of the Swarm install is taking forever ...

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (YGFoV)

111

She's hot, a bad driver (speeding tickets and refusing to wear a seat belt - awesome!!/fuck you bloomberg).

Kristi Noem's the ticket!! Maybe...

But since she's married, I cannot ogle her. Remember guys, biblical adultery is ogling/banging a married chick.

The rest of the world is fair game, even if (men) you're married!!

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 02:29 PM (tVTLU)

112 If *I* were doing it, I'd make a special adapter that only disconnects line 1 on the inside wiring in the box outside and remaps telco's line 1 to inside line 2. Then make a 2-wire cord for backfeeding the inside line 1 copper from the cable box. THAT would leave you with line 1 on IP phone, and inside line 2 still hooked up to the telco's line 1. THAT way you can still keep copper telco 911 service. Is that code for "Blow the bridge dammnit!"

Posted by: Daybrother at March 25, 2013 02:30 PM (+paCV)

113 What are these things? Speed holes.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2013 02:30 PM (YGFoV)

114 I am a living national monument, baby!

Posted by: Smilin' Joe Biden at March 25, 2013 02:30 PM (yVmMc)

115 It's not hard to soundbite the problems Fewer people have jobs under Obama than they did in 1983 We spend 40% more under Obama than we did under Bush They are burying your children in debt They spent your social security check on shrimp on a treadmill They put abortion clinics in black neighborhoods so they can get rid of you

Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 02:30 PM (I2LwF)

116 105. I live in Waikiki My mayor is so worthless I don't even know who it is and I'm getting ready to run for office Sad isn't it

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 02:31 PM (frroL)

117 "111 She's hot, a bad driver (speeding tickets and refusing to wear a seat belt - awesome!!/fuck you bloomberg). Kristi Noem's the ticket!! Maybe... But since she's married, I cannot ogle her. Remember guys, biblical adultery is ogling/banging a married chick. The rest of the world is fair game, even if(men) you're married!! Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 06:29 PM (tVTLU) " You sound Concerned.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:31 PM (CaJnt)

118 Im not sure if it's an organized effort, but it seems we have 2 types of trolls. The Diversionary Troll and the Resistance Is Futile Troll. Diversionary Troll's purpose is to distract. Resistance Is Futile Troll's purpose is to demoralize and encourage the abandonment of core principles to win elections. The purpose of all trolls is to push your buttons to entice you to argue. Then they sit back and laugh at all the responses.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 02:31 PM (DlaLh)

119 The whole country's going blue. And when that happens, and America is 100% pussified, the Indians and Mexicans will re-conquer.

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 02:31 PM (8sCoq)

120 The Republicans will not pick this seat up. They will pick a Pro Rape loser like Akins who will lose.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:32 PM (i2QHP)

121 119 Jones in CO,

so long as there really are two Americas by then I don't care anymore.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:32 PM (LRFds)

122

Well, herro MUMR.

Disappointed, not concerned. Hot chicks are much more fun when they're not married with a family. But oh well. And, just in case you missed it:

Marco Rubio-Tom Cotton 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suck it honkies.

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 02:33 PM (tVTLU)

123 I'm home and waiting for dinner. And I gave my older daughter the supreme compliment about her boyfriend who is coming over: He does not offend me.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2013 02:33 PM (jE38p)

124 >The purpose of all trolls is to push your buttons to entice you to argue. Then they sit back and laugh at all the responses. Yes. But they'll spend the night in a shelter, while I'll sleep in a warm bed with clean sheets in a house I own.

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 02:33 PM (8sCoq)

125 107. Look at the big brain on Romeo!!! Yep, got them on my lincoln No idea if they work and really don't want to find out

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 02:33 PM (frroL)

126

119 - Jones in CO

Those evil Mexicans! Run hide, I see a Mexican!

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:33 PM (i2QHP)

127 "120 The Republicans will not pick this seat up. They will pick a Pro Rape loser like Akins who will lose. Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 06:32 PM (i2QHP) " Sure, why not.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:34 PM (CaJnt)

128

"Our assignment is to knock out the nuclear weapons plant at Falafel Heights. The plant goes on line in 12 hours and is heavily guarded. If you have trouble hitting your objective, your secondary targets are the banjo factory and the mime school. Got it? Good luck, gentlemen."

**********

Our assignment is to knock out the nuclear-weapons plant here at Falafel Heights. The plant goes on line in 12 hours and is heavily defended. Now, if you have trouble hitting your objective, your secondary targets are here and here: an accordion factory and a mime school. Good luck, gentlemen.

Hot Shots

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at March 25, 2013 02:34 PM (uhftQ)

129 or try this. find the most idiotic liberal in the senate, accuse the SD democrat senatorial nominee of being like that. hmmm? IDK shit about SD but maybe they don't share those values and it would be good to poitn that out because there is no such thing as a moderate congressional democrat

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:34 PM (QxSug)

130 118. ???? How can there be two types of trolls when all trolls are average joe who sucks cock by choice?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 02:34 PM (frroL)

131 No quoting trolls. That's how it spreads.

Posted by: JDTAY at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (a0nis)

132 > Jones in CO Those evil Mexicans! Run hide, I see a Mexican! I have nothing against Mexicans. Nice try, asswipe.

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (8sCoq)

133

Soothsayer:

Indeed, there was some gay marriage clown on earlier that did just that. Favorite tactic, I'm "economically conservative" but you kooky social conservative types are driving me right out of the party.

Suuurrrreeeee. And then come up with the argument that one can be socially conservative but hold the deep belief that the federal government should have very little to say on social issues, and it's all crickets, or whatever, or my poll says 89% of dudes like to suck cock.

Ya know, deep, reasoned responses.

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (tVTLU)

134

All trolls are Average Joe who, since 2006, has voluntarily put the male sexual organ in his mouth for the purpose of providing oral pleasure to another man.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (jptKU)

135 127 MUMR,

I am still in awe how geniuses like Giggles mcFuckstick ciphered pout our pro rape agenda.....

time to go take a good healthy Obama and get ready for dinner....

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (LRFds)

136 Go away, Hector. anyway you're late for your coffee klatch with curious

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (QTHTd)

137 "122 Well, herro MUMR. Disappointed, not concerned. Hot chicks are much more fun when they're not married with a family. But oh well. And, just in case you missed it: Marco Rubio-Tom Cotton 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Suck it honkies. Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (tVTLU)" I'm going to have to find my microscope first.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (CaJnt)

138 What we aren't doing is highlighting to people what a liability government has become in their lives. Reagan did it, the 94 Class did it. "Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem." Make people realize that if times are hard, if health insurance is too expensive, if gas costs too much, if your house value has plummeted, it's government's failures that have given us that situation.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (MMC8r)

139 the troll says that but ignores that even democrats turn GOP when confronted with illegal aliens in the real world. ooops.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:35 PM (QxSug)

140

118 soothsayer

Have you ever thought that the people you label trolls are telling you the truth? Step out of the bubble and listen to other views.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:36 PM (i2QHP)

141 "This is a big thing-- we consistently lose Senate races in the supposedly red states of the Mountain West."

Because there is a massive strain of classic Western leave-me-the-fuck-alone libertarianism in those states, and the contemporary GOP has, with one wing's obsession about regulating social issues, alienated a good many of those potential voters.

Those people don't rush to vote for liberals. They just don't vote, period.

A Republican pitch that said, "We want smaller government in every way, period, full stop, end of story," would go a long way towards winning back some of those votes.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2013 02:36 PM (gqT4g)

142 124 >The purpose of all trolls is to push your buttons to entice you to argue. Then they sit back and laugh at all the responses.

Yes. But they'll spend the night in a shelter, while I'll sleep in a warm bed with clean sheets in a house I own.

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (8sCoq)

--I'd also add that most of us are also spending it with a real woman.

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 02:37 PM (+iA5G)

143 Well, if I had to give a reason, I'd say the GOP loses because God hates idiots. I think this GOP, and its main supporters, is/are about played out. Can't win, won't follow, won't get out of the way. Nothing I can seemingly do one way or the other, but since we are apparently fated to lose, I won't mind seeing the GOP crash and burn along the way. Naturally, because I said this, it will go the opposite way. Isn't that the way it always goes? Though my guess is God still would hate idiots.

Posted by: H. at March 25, 2013 02:37 PM (HoxZS)

144 "Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem." Make people realize that if times are hard, if health insurance is too expensive, if gas costs too much, if your house value has plummeted, it's government's failures that have given us that situation. ********* the public sector union's war on america was a wasted opportunity in 2012, especially in light of all that we gained in Wisconsin. Over on insty, there's the story of the CA admin who's retired with what $800K a year for life???? Pick a wedge, find it, use it. Most people instinctively understand: Unions for coal miners in 1920...ok. Unions for teachers who make six figures without performance reviews and who can never get fired...FOAD.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:37 PM (QxSug)

145 As mentioned above, the key to '14 is being handed to the R's on a huge, gold platter. And that key is Obamacare. It will be radioactive as this year unfolds and as '14 begins. That's when TSHTF, even for the LIVs. The Dems will not be able to escape their total culpability in the pain people will be feeling in their wallets. There are millions of dopes out there who have no idea the ramifications of this law. But they will...and soon. Of course, that's assuming any R candidate uses it to his/her advantage. {now excuse me while I guffaw}

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 25, 2013 02:37 PM (ATdet)

146 A Republican pitch that said, "We want smaller government in every way, period, full stop, end of story," would go a long way towards winning back some of those votes.

Well, it'd win back mine, for a start.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2013 02:37 PM (QTHTd)

147 Hector is the One True Conservative. The rest of you are all posers.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:38 PM (MMC8r)

148 o/t but bugging me.

I came across a new Porsche 911 Carrera S while I was walking the dog, and noticed some odd little buttonlike objects on the front and rear clips. See photo:

http://tinyurl.com/cgen5f2

Four in the back [ o o o o ]

Three in the front [ O o o ]

What are these things?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix

********

Autosuck. For what you pay for those, it comes standard.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at March 25, 2013 02:38 PM (uhftQ)

149

139 joeindc44

I live in a mostly Mexican area. They do not bother me and I get along very well with them. It is funny how Conservatives hate Mexicans but love Muslims. You guys are really twisted.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:38 PM (i2QHP)

150 Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 25, 2013 02:38 PM (CaJnt)

151 There is a sizable libertarian / nutter faction in the western states that democrats use to advantage, i.e. they throw considerable support behind third parties to split the republican vote.

Worked like a charm for Tester.

Posted by: Fritz at March 25, 2013 02:38 PM (WM+rJ)

152 134. Ha ha too slow mallamutt Long time no read Hope the family is fine

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (frroL)

153 Over on insty, there's the story of the CA admin who's retired with what $800K a year for life???? Hey, Mr. Voter, that's coming out of YOUR pocket.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (MMC8r)

154

People forget so much.

Before 1994, GOP hadn't owned Congress since the Great Fucking Depression. Even during Reagan's ass raping of the D prez. candidates.

Think long and hard on that. Even with the Reagan revolution, not until 1994 did we take majorities in the Congress. What happened in 1994: 1) GUN CONTROL - ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN; and 2) SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE.

2010 was the beginning, 2012 was the obamaphone/RINO setback, 2014 we should continue the momentum and 2016 could be the ultimate coup for small government, fiscally responsible governance and the attempted slashing of as much red fucking tape and leftist shite as we can.

God willing.

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (tVTLU)

155 126
119 - Jones in CO
Those evil Mexicans! Run hide, I see a Mexican!

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (i2QHP)

--So do I. I'm married to a Mexican, shitstain.

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (+iA5G)

156 151 Fritz,

so we should run real legit Communist actors...you know actors we pay to pretend they are more marxist than Lieawatha...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (LRFds)

157

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 06:38 PM (i2QHP)

Blibber Blabber

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (BAS5M)

158 OfA must be really indifferent anymore if this is the best quality troll they can come up with.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at March 25, 2013 02:39 PM (jptKU)

159 149 Ow.

Posted by: Straw Man at March 25, 2013 02:40 PM (MMC8r)

160

Lady in black:

AND GUN CONTROL. But this. ELEVENTY!!!

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 02:40 PM (tVTLU)

161

143 H.

I am with you. I want the GOP destroyed. It has outlives its usefulness and is a party that appeals to hate.

We need a new Center-Right party hat is inclusive and appeals to broad swath of America.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:40 PM (i2QHP)

162 No idea if they work and really don't want to find out

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (frroL)

Got em on my Camaro.... just hit reverse and have someone walk behind the car.... pretty cool actualy... puts an Icon onto the backup picture on the LCD screen...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2013 02:40 PM (lZBBB)

163 I haven't read the artilce yet, but Drudge tweets: Obamacare application signs people up to vote? http://drudge.tw/YQgg2A

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2013 02:41 PM (piMMO)

164 the fuck is this troll? Well, gosh, I gets it's ok then to reward illegal immigration and there's nothing wrong with flooding voting precincts with people who are not culturally American. Cause you like them. So, when your taxes go to pay for services that they use that they don't pay taxes for, so that people can undercut the wages of law abiding citizens, you're cool with that?

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:41 PM (QxSug)

165

Ha ha too slow mallamutt
Long time no read
Hope the family is fine

All is good....yours.

And yes, you were faster, but mine has a certain literary quality that captures the true essence of Average Joe.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at March 25, 2013 02:41 PM (jptKU)

166 Ha ha too slow mallamutt
Long time no read
Hope the family is fine

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (frroL)

navycopjoe, where have you been?!?!

Posted by: EC at March 25, 2013 02:41 PM (doBIb)

167 Four in the back [ o o o o ] Three in the front [ O o o ] What are these things? Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 06:25 PM (kdS6q) -------------------------------------------------- Motion sensors and/or cameras.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 25, 2013 02:41 PM (jucos)

168

155 - logprof

You must laugh at how Cinco de Mayo is celebrated here, but Mexico its not a big holiday.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:41 PM (i2QHP)

169 Speed holes.

Are those like magic smoke plugs?

Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2013 02:42 PM (z9HTb)

170 There must be a troll central where they assign a new idiot to bother us here every day lately?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2013 02:42 PM (jE38p)

171

Posted by: Fritz at March 25, 2013 06:38 PM (WM+rJ)

Yeah... beacaus its SOOOO helpful to the GOP to call the 'nutters'...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2013 02:43 PM (lZBBB)

172 I live in amostly Mexican area. They do not bother me and I get along very well with them. It is funny how Conservatives hate Mexicans but love Muslims. You guys are really twisted. ******* I bet you don't. Read the VDH of Mexican shanty towns in the wilderness in California, where everyone's on the federal dole. Where there is no law. You don't live there. You live in some nice area where you can get day laborers.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:44 PM (QxSug)

173
Here is a free recommendation from Mohawk Political Consulting for the repub senate nominee for SD:

The main campaign, repeated endlessly, should be "obamacare costs are going to make farm subsidies impossible".

Your welcome.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2013 02:44 PM (IY7Ir)

174

164 joeindc44

I bet you are OK with supporting Trailer Park White trash.

How about we eliminate the welfare state and support no one. I bet you be against that because you feel "real Mericuns" deserve government assistance. If only those evil Mexicans were not here.

Spare me your hypocrisy.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:44 PM (i2QHP)

175 You know that "Preference Cascade" we talked about so avidly in Oct/Nov '12?

Well we're experiencing one since Nov '12.

There isn't anything that can foreseeably stop the implementation of major parts of the Democrat Liberal agenda.

They are sweeping the table and the Republicans are playing straight men to the comedian, the Washington Senators to the Harlem Globetrotters.

They're just there to make it look legitimate.

But it's not and we now know it.

Sorry to be so pessimistic but I hear and see too much that tells me there's more to come and it's all bad news for any one who cares about a free country and how we have either thrown it away or had it taken without a fight by those we trusted to look out for our best interests.

IT WILL BURN.

But there's some dark days until then.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 25, 2013 02:44 PM (Kpn/z)

176 WE only lost SD in 2002 for 2 reasons:
1: Vote fraud on Indian Reservations (they waited until all other numbers were in, then made up the votes they needed).
2: Daschel was Senior Senator from SD, and Senate Majority leader. Keeping him SML would have kept more money flowing to SD. So whores voted for Johnson for that reason.

2008, well 1: that was the Dem Wave election. 2 Sympathy for brain damaged (literally) Johnson.

Posted by: Greg Q at March 25, 2013 02:44 PM (4Pleu)

177 Truman is winning the thread. Over the last few months I've explained, several times, that the "professional left" is also a local phenomenon. Through various means local Dem offices are staffed year round with actual employees. I spent a month-- a month!!-- last election trying to get the local GOP to get Internet. I failed. The local Dem office-- staffed year round with volunteers who also happen to have full time jobs with various grant-receiving groups (enviro, community action, etc), or whose spouses have 6 figure state jobs. That's a big part of the professional left.

Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 02:45 PM (g2ruq)

178 172 joeindc44
I know a White Trash trailer park were people are on the dole.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:45 PM (i2QHP)

179
155 - logprof
You must laugh at how Cinco de Mayo is celebrated here, but Mexico its not a big holiday.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 06:41 PM (i2QHP)

--No, I laugh at how libtards think Mexicans have so much to offer the USA, yet Mexico is a dystopic shithole barely better than a pulp science fiction novel.

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 02:46 PM (+iA5G)

180 the fuck is this troll? He's the One True Conservative.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:46 PM (MMC8r)

181 Obamacare application signs people up to vote? http://drudge.tw/YQgg2A

--

Then that means even the poor will now be registered since Obamacare is mandatory? Since, presumably, you can't acquire health insurance without identification, does this mean we can finally enforce voter ID or am I still a rayciss?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 25, 2013 02:46 PM (ATdet)

182 177 Hopeless,

It's called patronage...and in a saner era was part of why they lost.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:46 PM (LRFds)

183 I bet you are OK with supporting Trailer Park White trash. We're the haters!

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:48 PM (MMC8r)

184 The latest crop of trolls are definitely ESL types.

Chinese or Russian speakers working on their written colloquial skills maybe?

Posted by: T. Hunter at March 25, 2013 02:48 PM (EZl54)

185

--No, I laugh at how libtards think Mexicans have so much to offer the USA, yet Mexico is a dystopic shithole barely better than a pulp science fiction novel.

We, sir, are deeply offended and demand an apology!

Posted by: dystopic shitholes of the World at March 25, 2013 02:48 PM (jptKU)

186 Other parts of the professional left: Jobs. I'd love to work full time on a conservative cause, even at low wages. The left has mastered that art. Right out of college, you can get a variety of jobs being a professional leftist. Tens of thousands of people are employed doing a variety of "grassroots bullshit" things for the left. Nothing like it exists on the right at all. This wind them elections.

Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 02:49 PM (j6Axb)

187

181:

THAT'S raaaacccccciiiiiisssssttttttt.

Posted by: Prescient11 at March 25, 2013 02:49 PM (tVTLU)

188 Then that means even the poor will now be registered since Obamacare is mandatory? Since, presumably, you can't acquire health insurance without identification, does this mean we can finally enforce voter ID or am I still a rayciss? **** reading the article it seems they require a tremendous amount of personal information just to apply. They mention a 61 page draft application. 61 pages!!!! And yes, you are still a racist.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2013 02:49 PM (piMMO)

189 The local Dem office-- staffed year round with volunteers who also happen to have full time jobs with various grant-receiving groups (enviro, community action, etc), or whose spouses have 6 figure state jobs. Where do you think all that increase in federal spending has gone? And why the Ds will oppose ANY CUTS TO ANYTHING EVER? We're funding them through the govenrment.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:49 PM (MMC8r)

190
Yeah, same dumbass that showed up the other day to say conservatives love and support the muzzies, blah blah blah. He is just pissed his boyfriend visited Israel and he hates da jooos.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2013 02:49 PM (IY7Ir)

191 It has been fun playing with you losers, but real life calls.

I get better debate from the Marxists than you "Conservatives". They are secure in their beliefs and love a debate. "Conservatives" are intellectual cowards who live in a bubble and call anyone who has a different opinion a troll.

That is why you lose elections. You are not secure in your ideology and lash out in hate. I can't wait until the GOP is destroyed once and for all. I hate the Marxist Democrats but will salute them getting rid of the GOP trash.

See you mental midgets and bigots around!

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 02:49 PM (i2QHP)

192 **I know a White Trash trailer park were people are on the dole. ** oh yeah? So your point is what? Tell me more about the crazy you are selling.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:50 PM (QxSug)

193 Stop the hate my friends, trolls are people too!

Posted by: President, Troll Union Chapter 185 at March 25, 2013 02:51 PM (ZolUS)

194 Yeah, same dumbass that showed up the other day to say conservatives love and support the muzzies, blah blah blah. He is just pissed his boyfriend visited Israel and he hates da jooos. **** Yes. He can see now.... that we love muzzies that gay marriage is killing the party etc, etc...

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2013 02:51 PM (piMMO)

195 The quality of trolls sure has declined.

Posted by: Infidel at March 25, 2013 02:51 PM (O/fK8)

196 fucking bigot, you love Mexicans but you live in fear of "white trash", big talk from a open borders nutcase.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:51 PM (QxSug)

197 I'm installing you from a DVD, you stupid piece of shit! What the fuck are you downloading from the Internet?

Posted by: Waterhouse shakes fist at HotS at March 25, 2013 02:51 PM (3VH10)

198 new post up

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2013 02:52 PM (piMMO)

199 Does Hector really think he's 'debating?'

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 02:52 PM (MMC8r)

200 I know a White Trash trailer park were people are on the dole. ***** translation: "I love population replacement so as to upset historic voting patterns"

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:53 PM (QxSug)

201
yep, he just hates those marxists, because he's a commie.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2013 02:53 PM (IY7Ir)

202 Sven, It's part patronage, yes, but there are also huge aspects of sheer organization and political willpower that are also at play there. A great example from the 2012 election in Virginia, I believe. It was an article about what Obots were doing to help team O. They were putting up out of state college volunteers in their own homes, so the kids could volunteer full time in Va. I have trouble seeing conservatives doing that for "the cause.". That illustrates many things, including an inferior level of political commitment and willpower,

Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 02:53 PM (dNkDl)

203 "The main campaign, repeated endlessly, should be 'obamacare costs are going to make farm subsidies impossible'."

That's an excellent start right there.

Something the GOP has forgotten is that the left is not monolithic. It's a coalition of groups that in some cases don't like one another very much and/or have competing economic interests.

Consider: gay rights advocates and the very homophobic black church. Both teaming up to elect Obama. But never concealing their bitter distaste for one another.

Consider: enviromental lunatics who absolutely oppose evil fossil fuel projects like Keystone, and heavy construction labor unions who would do well out of building Keystone.

Pick points of schism and start to drive carefully targeted wedges in. That's what the left has done to the GOP with regard to its libertarian and socon blocs, with considerable success. Turnabout is fair play.

The one thing I don't think you could ever do would be to peel black support away from Obama. That part of the left coalition really is essentially monolithic. But Obama is timing out as we speak, becoming more of a lame duck by the day, and no one queued up to run to replace him is black, and there will not be anything like the level of fervor for them which he generated in the black community.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2013 02:54 PM (gqT4g)

204 Because a clown show of a candidate will be nominated to show the establishment a thing or two. Give the establishment some credit - they have been around this electoral process and they may actually know who can and cannot win within that state. Or at least who is best out of the offerings.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at March 25, 2013 02:55 PM (gmoEG)

205 yeah, the trolls these days are doing this 1. you are losing because population shifts are occurring 2. if you point out this out, you're racsis... 3. If we joyfully celebrate importing enough people from non-western cultures to inundate the voting rolls, then that's cool 4. anything else you say is racissss.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:55 PM (QxSug)

206 202 Hopeless,

Yeah well I am pretty sure I'd camp out the right gunner in the right cause....

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 02:57 PM (LRFds)

207 ah yes, the mexcian californian shanty town, from VDH "Many of the rural trailer-house compounds I saw appear to the naked eye no different from what I have seen in the Third World . There is a Caribbean look to the junked cars, electric wires crisscrossing between various outbuildings, plastic tarps substituting for replacement shingles, lean-tos cobbled together as auxiliary housing, pit bulls unleashed, and geese, goats, and chickens roaming around the yards. The public hears about all sorts of tough California regulations that stymie business Â– rigid zoning laws, strict building codes, constant inspections Â– but apparently none of that applies out here." just like the shit that drives adam corolla insane, the police giving middle class people tix instead of policing the under class. cause it's all about revenue production and bussing people to the voting booth.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 02:58 PM (QxSug)

208
the fuck is this troll?

Cowardly Serbian Paultard with a Peruvian mail-order wife that cheats on him with Mexican gardeners.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 02:59 PM (kdS6q)

209 I will gladly betray you Tuesday for a cocktail today.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at March 25, 2013 03:00 PM (gmoEG)

210 Shorter troll comment upthread:

Woah! Shift change! My turn underneath the desk, and boy am I hungry/thirsty!

Posted by: filbert, who is a Jackrabbit at March 25, 2013 03:01 PM (NaNKB)

211 205 joeindc44

Mexico is western you idiot. Itt'sa Catholic country that has a Southern European culture. You have the Pope's name in your nick. He is from Argentina which using your standards is not western.

You are probably some old geezer who is scared of darker toned people. Live up to your Catholic faith and drop the bigotry. Jesus died for us all, not just Northwest Europeans.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:01 PM (i2QHP)

212 I thought you were leaving, douchebag.

Posted by: zsasz at March 25, 2013 03:03 PM (MMC8r)

213 "The main campaign, repeated endlessly, should be 'obamacare costs are going to make farm subsidies impossible'."

This should be instantly, and incessantly repeated by every single mother-fucking GOP politician from assistant dogcatcher to Congresscritter to Governor:

"Obamacare costs are going to make your X impossible." (where X is pretty much anything else anybody might conceivably want to do with his, hers, or anybody else's money).

Because it is, factually, true.

Posted by: filbert, who is a Jackrabbit at March 25, 2013 03:04 PM (NaNKB)

214

175

Bitter Clinger,

The Washington Senators were a crappy baseball team that moved to Texas in late 1971. The Washington Generals are the crappy basketball team that plays against the Globetrotters.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 03:05 PM (PBm/l)

215 Winning the Red State Senate seats is absolutely critical. The Democrats understand that and concentrate on doing that. That is why Republicans keep losing these seats; we don't understand how utterly critical it is.

There is no mystery why we lose theses races - we aren't going after them with a root hog or die intensity.

Posted by: An Observation at March 25, 2013 03:08 PM (ylhEn)

216 Mexico is western you idiot. Itt'sa Catholic country that has a Southern European culture. You have the Pope's name in your nick. He is from Argentina which using your standards is not western.

You are probably some old geezer who is scared of darker toned people. Live up to your Catholic faith and drop the bigotry. Jesus died for us all, not just Northwest Europeans.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 07:01 PM (i2QHP)

--Mexico may be considered "Western," but only if Mozambique, Angola, Venezuela, and Haiti are also "Western."

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 03:16 PM (+iA5G)

217 he's a racist and ageist. He hates anyone who is white and old. It's a fun game the trolls play. "I hate white people and any reply you have is racist." It's also telling that he has no reply other than insults. Sure sure, mexico is Catholic and founded by Spaniards but it's not Germanic, Irish, Slavic and whatever else this country was before 1968. Also, to hear the trolls pov, it was racist of France to expel the Germans in WWII. "Oh but they were there against the will of the French people." You don't say...

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 03:22 PM (QxSug)

218 And all those car burners in Paris, their Algerian heritage is also Western, n'est pas?

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 03:23 PM (QxSug)

219 My Peruvian-Chilean wife knows you dicks all suck Islamic cock!

Posted by: Do fuck the font at March 25, 2013 03:24 PM (VwC86)

220 shorter troll: Gimme.

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 03:28 PM (QxSug)

221 not quite as short troll. "Gimme and if you don't, you're a racist old white guy."

Posted by: joeindc44 says God bless Francis I at March 25, 2013 03:29 PM (QxSug)

222

216 logprof

Large parts of Europe are dumps, does that mean they are not western? Western is defined by Civilization with Greco-Roman roots, not biology.

You are full of shit that your wife is Mexican. If that was true, then you would know it's a Western country.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:33 PM (i2QHP)

223 222
216 logprof
Large parts of Europe are dumps, does that mean they are not western? Western is defined by Civilization with Greco-Roman roots, not biology.
You are full of shit that your wife is Mexican. If that was true, then you would know it's a Western country.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 07:33 PM (i2QHP)

--Awww, your envy is precious, but my wife is indeed Mexican. Western is a state of mind, dear troll. Libya and Iraq used to be provinces of Rome, but are they "Western?"

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 03:36 PM (+iA5G)

224

217 joeindc44

I am Serb, that is Slavic and I am proud of my heritage. You are insecure about yours, so you hate on Mexicans. In your worldview only Northwest Europeans are western, which is bigoted view. Western Civ started in the Mediterranean, not the and forests of North Europe.

Mexicans do not scare me and I like them better than Old bigots like you. I am glad you are dying off. Once your kind dies, a new more inclusive Center Right will merge and defeat the Marxist Democrats. So please hurry up and croak.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:37 PM (i2QHP)

225

223- logprof

No those nations are Islamic. Islam is not Western. Try again bigot.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:38 PM (i2QHP)

226

218 joeindc44

hose Algerians are Muslims. Nice try bigot.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:38 PM (i2QHP)

227 My theory == Small population states where Democrats can easily organize and exploit any missteps by the "home team".

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 25, 2013 03:38 PM (UypUQ)

228

223 logprof

What part of Mexico is your wife from? Mine is from Cuidad de Mexico, which is pretty huge!.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:40 PM (i2QHP)

229

Western Civilization means a culture derived from Greco-Roman origins. But too many ignorant bigots think it means just Northwest Europe and its colonies.

This is why Conservative lose, their ignorance and bigotry clouds them from reality.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 03:41 PM (i2QHP)

230 225
223- logprof
No those nations are Islamic. Islam is not Western. Try again bigot.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 07:38 PM (i2QHP)

--You said Greco-Roman, troll. What about Turkey? Turkey was Greco-Roman for 2,000 years.

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 03:41 PM (+iA5G)

231 Here's the thing about red states in the midwest...they're red about guns and abortion. A Democrat that is the same (or at least does a good job pretending) will get elected. See Jon Tester of Montana as the prototype. A fucking socialist to the bone, but he likes guns so he wins elections in Montana as a Democrat.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 25, 2013 03:43 PM (cVvbj)

232 228
223 logprof
What part of Mexico is your wife from? Mine is from Cuidad de Mexico, which is pretty huge!.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 07:40 PM (i2QHP)

--Villahermosa by birth, raised in Ciudad Juarez.

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 03:43 PM (+iA5G)

233 Former SD Govenor Mike Rounds (R) announced last November that he would run for Johnson's seat in 2014.

He was a state senator from 1991 to 2001 before serving two terms as governor from 2003 to 2011.

Why do you all seem to think the D's have it?

Posted by: barky the precedent at March 25, 2013 03:45 PM (3gpPW)

234

Not worried about this won. 2014 is a GOP year, and Former GOP Governor Rounds wins easily. He is credible like Hoeven was in 2010 for North Dakota.

Herseth Sandlin will not run according to sources in Fargo

Posted by: JackJ at March 25, 2013 03:49 PM (neP+W)

235
I am Serb, that is Slavic and I am proud of my heritage.
Posted by: Don't fake the font

Why? Recently all the Serbs have done is shoot defenseless women and children in the back. That is until the US had to stop by and slap them down and drag their leaders off to the International Court of Justice to be tried for their crimes against humanity.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 03:54 PM (kdS6q)

Posted by: Do fuck the font at March 25, 2013 03:58 PM (VwC86)

237 To quote James Brown, "please, please, please" tell me that it's too late for Todd Akin to claim South Dakotan residency.

Posted by: MoeRon at March 25, 2013 04:14 PM (RMqJU)

238 Herseth sandlin got her but kicked in 2010 anyways.

Posted by: JackJ at March 25, 2013 04:17 PM (neP+W)

239 230 logprof

Turkey is Islamic, it is not western.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 04:19 PM (i2QHP)

240 It will be former Governor Mike Rounds against Tim Johnson's son who is the current Attorney General. Mike Rounds has the machine in place to crush Johnson Jr.

Posted by: southdakotaboy at March 25, 2013 04:19 PM (Baypg)

241

235 Laurie David's Cervix

Dam right,w e killed Muslims. Then America helped Al Qaeda who then ran planes into American building.

Sucking Muslim cock does not win you their love.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 04:21 PM (i2QHP)

242 239 230 logprof

Turkey is Islamic, it is not western.

Posted by: Don't fake the font at March 25, 2013 08:19 PM (i2QHP)

--Turkey/Asia Minor was "Greco-Roman" three times linger than it was "Islamic," so by your definition it should be "Western."

Is Russia "Western," bigot? The Czech Republic? Poland? Israel?

Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 04:29 PM (+iA5G)

243 Johnson's son is US Attorney not state AG. Rounds declared early and forced Johnson out. Finnaly a Republican with Spine. Johnson Jr will not run, in my opinion.

Posted by: JackJ at March 25, 2013 04:37 PM (neP+W)

244
Dam right,w e killed Muslims.
Posted by: Don't fake the font (i2QHP)

Really, it's OK. Frankly, it wasn't much of a war. NATO basically treated it like an extended life fire exercise, until the Serbs rolled over and showed their bellies.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 25, 2013 04:54 PM (kdS6q)

245 Because the states aren't as Red as we like to imagine? Nah, can't be something that gloomy!

Posted by: Rich at March 25, 2013 05:44 PM (arczc)

246 I am from South Dakota and I have 100% confidence that the voters will do the right thing. Tim Johnson kept his job solely based on name recognition.

Posted by: Shonuff at March 25, 2013 06:10 PM (jo0fs)

247

All the Righties won't want to hear this, but it is the truth: more than a decade ago even the redneck, pickup-truck driving, gun toting, morally conservative rural people realized that you can't raise a family on an $8/hr job driving forklift at Sams Club. Even if their better-half works too.

You can preach Adam Smith and the free-market all you want. All they know is they can't economically survive on Republican economic policies. They are in the throes of it NOW, and they ain't interested in your plan for them to take on $40,000 in student loan debt to get re-trained. After all, they have four kids to feed because they chose not to abort them. They are the allies and brothers-in-arms that you abandoned. That is why people like Tim Johnson get elected in supposed 'conservative' areas. Believe it or perish.

Posted by: Mahtomedi at March 25, 2013 06:46 PM (ckwdr)

248 Ace:

It's union voting that is costing us these seats in most cases except CO.

In Montana, it's the mine workers and rail unions, and in SD, its mine workers, oilfield workers, and railroad workers.

Wyoming is solid, except in Cheyenne, Laramie, and Jackson's Hole. There the blame rests on Railroad unions, the Laramie University of Wyoming crowd, and the caltards who use Jackson's Hole vacation homes as a tax dodge.

Colorado is nearly beyond hope, as they have a full caltard invasion to deal with.

Posted by: Kristophr at March 25, 2013 07:31 PM (wYVte)

249

The right lets democrats pick the candidates: Leftist democrats run faux 3rd party candidates to siphon off and dilute votes. Perhaps we should do the same to them?

See:

Akin

Angle

etc...

Posted by: F&U at March 26, 2013 05:17 AM (O7ksG)

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