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Elections 2012: Congressional and Gubernatorial

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Spoken like a teenage girl on Maury. Are you going to now boast for four pages about how you can stick your hoo-hoo-dilly into your wife's cha-cha all while yelling "YOU DON'T KNOW ME!!!"? :p
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From this day forward I have to say that I think the terms hoo-hoo-dilly and cha-cha will forever be part of my vocabulary!
 
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ericredaxe said:
From this day forward I have to say that I think the terms hoo-hoo-dilly and cha-cha will forever be part of my vocabulary!
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and i won't be able to look at a pix of slappy's wife without blushing!!! :o
 
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FreshFish said:
You assume that the seat belt and helmet laws were passed primarily to protect the wearers. I had thought so too, until I spoke to an emergency responder who was quite heated on this subject.

"You cannot imagine how traumatizing it can be for us to have to treat these people! Seat belt and helmet laws also protect us, the responders, from the shock and trauma of dealing with gruesome injuries."
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Clearly that moron speaks for the legislature. However, the key word there is also, isn't it?
 
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Rover said:
As I say, Akin is not an isolated incident. He represents mainstream social conservatism.
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Got anything to offer besides bigotry and prejudice? No? Quelle surprise.
 
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Slap Shot said:
What?
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Just a little pop culture trivia. Teenage girls go onto those talk shows boasting about how they've had intercourse and are going to get pregnant. Granted some of them look like an act, but that's entertainment for you.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Akin also represents the Republican platform that was just adopted for the RNC convention.
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Exactly. See, a lot of people, both right and left and especially the lamestream media, want to believe that conservatives are just paying lip service to these ideas and have no actual plans to enact them. What they're all missing is you have a new breed of neo-con taking over the party nowadays. The Boner and Itch McConnell may be more old school, as in lets make a showy effort to pass something like this while expecting it to fail. The Akins, Bachmanns, Demints, etc of the world aren't going to take no for an answer, or else both the Speaker and Minority Leader will easily be replaced with someone who will pursue these goals. Its time to take Republicans at their word. Yes, abortion for rape victims will be banned. Yes, Medicare for those under 55 will be cut to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Yes, defense spending reductions will be reversed and defense spending will increase. This will be enacted into law under upon a GOP takeover of the WH and Senate. Really, give me a reason why they wouldn't?
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Akin also represents the Republican platform that was just adopted for the RNC convention.
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Missed that one in the news. Didn't realize the Republicans had chosen him to represent them. Source?
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Akin's views are the mainstream RNC views. That's all I'm saying, and you know it.
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I know you and your ilk are wrapped around the axel on the abortion issue, but that's only a tiny part of a party's platform, which deals with all sorts of issues. You make a huge broadbrush claim based on one issue. That's lazy and inaccurate. Thus my request for a source for your broadbrush claim.
 
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Ok, honestly, this is getting stupid. The Republican platform on abortion has been unchanged since 1992.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/18/n...on-gop-avoids-an-open-debate-on-abortion.html

The abortion plank advocates a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion in virtually all circumstances. It would not allow abortions when pregnancies were caused by rape or incest, exceptions favored by Mr. Bush.
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If you want to argue that guys like Akin being considered for the Senate is a sign you need to hammer them on this, fine, but don't point at the actual party platform as a sign that the party is wheeling rightward by itself. Those have been empty words for two decades.
 
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And it's not like anyone but a few policy wonks really pays attention to party platforms anymore. Your average person has little or no idea what is in either party platform. And if they did, they'd realize that the party platform broadly mirrors peoples' overall perceptions of the two parties. Really platforms are a bit of an anacronism.
 
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Bob Gray said:
I know you and your ilk are wrapped around the axel on the abortion issue, but that's only a tiny part of a party's platform, which deals with all sorts of issues. You make a huge broadbrush claim based on one issue. That's lazy and inaccurate. Thus my request for a source for your broadbrush claim.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/the-attack-on-women-is-real.html
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/ (Fox News even)
http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/i...lth-laws-prove-gop-war-on-women-is-no-fiction
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...nn-gop-prepares-tough-anti-abortion-platform/
 
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bronconick said:
Ok, honestly, this is getting stupid. The Republican platform on abortion has been unchanged since 1992.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/18/n...on-gop-avoids-an-open-debate-on-abortion.html



If you want to argue that guys like Akin being considered for the Senate is a sign you need to hammer them on this, fine, but don't point at the actual party platform as a sign that the party is wheeling rightward by itself. Those have been empty words for two decades.
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It's not just about abortion as my links below prove.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/the-attack-on-women-is-real.html
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/ (Fox News even)
http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/i...lth-laws-prove-gop-war-on-women-is-no-fiction
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...nn-gop-prepares-tough-anti-abortion-platform/
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Uh, yah. Don't think you can just throw up links and I won't check them to see if they demonstrate a linkage between Akin and the Republican platform. Except for the CNN one, none of them are even recent. Try again.
 
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Bob Gray said:
Uh, yah. Don't think you can just throw up links and I won't check them to see if they demonstrate a linkage between Akin and the Republican platform. Except for the CNN one, none of them are even recent. Try again.
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Uh, they don't have to be recent. Akin and Ryan worked on the same bill.
 
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