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There must be some sort of requirement for conservative Republicans to have worked at Pizza Hut while going to college. My Representative, Kevin Yoder, traveled the same path as Ryan with Pizza Hut but was never behind the wheels of a Weinermobile. Its a good thing that I registered as a Republican last year, after being a life long Democrat. I can now screw up their primaries and then vote for the Democrat in the general election.

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You occasionally learn something new on NPR that you wouldn't associate with Public Radio and its higher class programming. In reporting on the oil boom going on in North Dakota and the lack of housing for the new workers, it seems that the new workers aren't making any friends among the long time residents. They have been banned from using the Community center's showers because, among other things, they clean their dirty underwear while in the shower. Their used to be a voluntary program for the youth of North Dakota to clean the litter from the highways. It seems that many of the new workers are leaving "trucker bombs" along the highway, so the voluntary litter program was ended. What's next for NPR? A five part report on which Olympic swimmers pee in the pool during practice?

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I love NPR. Even when I was much more conservative. I say that because Republicans really tried to kill it and stop funding way back in the '90s. They thought it was too liberal and pretty much a socialist, marxist media paid with tax dollars.

 

I think had a far more conservative candidate gotten the nomination the opposite would have happened. I think the Republicans would have gotten a moderate.

 

Ryan was chosen to get the base out. Typically the person winning the nomination would have had the base already. The leadership got Romney the election, the base was voting against him. The rules, money, etc. the Republican leadership had control over were made to help their man.

 

If Romney loses and that seems likely and if he loses fairly big and its not a close election (but definitely won't be as close as '08), the Republicans will shift closer to the center. I'm hoping Obama wins and I never thought I'd ever say this but hoping Hillary runs and wins in 2016.

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Its a good thing that I registered as a Republican last year, after being a life long Democrat. I can now screw up their primaries and then vote for the Democrat in the general election.

 

 

In my state by voting in a party's primary you are pledging yourself to vote for that party's candidate. But you are not the first Yellow Dog Democrat I've heard of who registered Republican to do this. I'll say no more.

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Giuliani Wonders Whether Biden Has ‘Mental Capacity’ for Presidency

 

 

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNBC’s Larry Kudlow tonight that Vice President Biden may be unfit for office. Here’s the transcript:

 

KUDLOW: You know, what did he say? ‘Y’all going to be put back in chains’? That almost has racial overtones, Rudy Giuliani. What’s your take on that?

 

GIULIANI: Well, I think if it came from somebody serious maybe we’d get all excited about it. But the — I think the vice president of the United States has become a laugh line on late night television. I mean, he — I’ve never seen a vice president that has made as many mistakes, said as many stupid things. I mean, there’s a real fear if, God forbid, he ever had to be entrusted with the presidency, whether he really has the mental capacity to handle it. I mean, this guy just isn’t bright. He’s never been bright. He isn’t bright. And people think, ‘Well, he just talks a little too much.’ Actually he’s not very smart.

 

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Vice President Joe Biden did it again. While on the campaign trail in Danville, Virginia on Tuesday Biden remarked to Virginia Democratic supporters, "..that with you, and I mean this ladies and gentlemen With you, we can win North Carolina again and if we do, we win the election, if we win you."

 

 

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I very rarely vote a straight ticket, although I admit I'll vote Democratic for my U.S. House representative and for Governor. I guess that all of those Republicans, urged on by Rush Limbaugh, that switched party affiliation to vote for Hillary in the 2008 primaries, gave me the idea. If you knew Kansas politics, you would know that it is almost always the winner of the Republican primary that wins in November. Since about 1/3 of the electorate is independent,they are excluded from voting in either primary. In any case, rest assured that Kansas Republicans will not lose any elections because of my vote.By the way, I listen to NPR 4-5 hours on a typical weekday. It beats most sports talk. Occasionally, just for a different perspective, I listen to Pacifica.

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If Romney loses and that seems likely and if he loses fairly big and its not a close election (but definitely won't be as close as '08), the Republicans will shift closer to the center.

 

I don't think so and if so only slowly and under great pain. The right wing/Tea Party was able to kick out a lot of well respected Reps in the past two years or so. The center GOP has been erased almost completely. Also Big Money which is running the GOP won't give up easily their vision of raw capitalism and anti-social plans.

 

PS: The GOP looks more and more like a version of political parties in Asia (Thailand, Japan, e.g.), where politicians more or less execute the will of people standing in the shadow.

 

 

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kamui, its about power. The parties will do what ever it has to get it and keep it. I can't see any way shape or form, the Repubican heiarchy remaining the same if it knows it will definitely lose.

Romney is no far right conservative, he's a moderate. He is the handpicked candidate of the party elite and bosses. The party bosses were trying to reduce the power of the tea party and fringe right in the primaries. They are realists and pragmatists. They know that short term and long term the tea party and the far right means they are marginalized and its the Dems who will win national elections and then statewide elections.

The main point I guess is that the bosses don't want and even fear the tea party folks. If the tea party remains powerful its in spite of not because of the party bosses.

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