Notice that all Republican "rising stars" this century have been massive duds?

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Any moderately young, ethnic, attractive, or female Republican is automatically deemed a "rising star" because the party is so exclusive and bigoted these days, they need spokespeople like that to attempt to prove otherwise.  Then most of them turn out to be as vapid and diabolical as a generic 65 year old white male conservative.

It doesn't matter because the Republican Party of Hate is dead at the national level so state level offices are as far as they can "rise" anyway.

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Please. Those are state and local elections and really only because of GOP-controlled  state legislatures, like I said.

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The main recent "rising star" of the Democratic Party was Barack Obama. A glorious two term presidency is all that needs to be said.