The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

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But that election was stolen.

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HP for defeating Land.

Land defeated herself.

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Calling it now. She loses.

You heard it here first.

So you think there will be 3 Republican waves in a row?

It really depends on whether a Democrat wins in 2016. Even if they won't, by sheer numbers, Democrats have nowhere to go but down in 2018.

That's true, but didn't you say you thought Republicans were favored to win the presidency in 2016? I could be mistaking you for someone else.

I do think they're favored, but it's ridiculous to pretend this seat isn't vulnerable. The main reason Stabenow won by such a large margin in 2012, besides it being a great Democratic year, was the total implosion of her opponent. Assuming she faces someone like Snyder or one of the congressmen, she's going to be in a serious fight.

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Definitely Bryan. This country would be much better off today if he was elected then.

I find it odd how Democrats pick and choose which of their segregation enablers they disown (Wallace, A Johnson, Eastland, etc.) and which ones they look back fondly upon (Bryan, JFK, Jackson, etc.).  Seems to have a direct correlation with how well historians remember them, which reeks of revisionist history given that they all championed the same economic populism...

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Free speech by no means is absolute.

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I won't even include Christian contemporary music, because no one here would vote for that crap.

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He was very much seen as being on the right of the Republican Party just a few years ago. He (and others, such as Lindsey Graham) is only seen as moderate now because of the Tea Party infiltration.

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You guys are aware that the Socialist Workers Party is just as guilty as Nader is for Gore losing, right? Get over it already. Losers.

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The idea that abortion is an equal rights issue is pretty hilarious. Without the abortion stipulation, I'd have gone with the first answer.

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Malloy is violating the people of Connecticut.

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Horrible in the sense that it perpetuated the idea that votes belong to the major parties and are "stolen" by insurgent third party candidates.

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If this were a Republican, Landslide Lyndon would have three threads on the subject

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If you vote yes, you literally do not give a damn about freedom or democracy at all.

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A group of true leftist fringe posters, foot soldier Democrats, independents who are almost unanimously left of center and a minority of Republicans - most of whom are socially liberal - is RIGHT WING?!

Lol, okay.  Thankfully for the world, the vast majority of people don't take some of you guys' fringe views seriously.

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Depends on what's more important to them; states' rights or individual rights?

I refuse to buy into the notion that the concept of state's rights caused the civil war. It was about slavery, not federalism. Otherwise, Jefferson Davis wouldn't have repeatedly trampled over states rights as President of the Confederacy.

You right-wingers should be happy, without FDR the US could have fallen under socialist revolutions.

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Not one of the most underrated.

One of the worst.

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Nazi HP (normal)

You guys need to watch Education for Death and Der Fuher's Face if ou think that.

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And this forums insane unhealthy unwarranted pathological hatred of Ronald Reagan continues buy 1980 being the winner. Carter was a failure, as bad (if not worse) than Bush.

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Terrible on everything but civil rights, and even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was largely the product of Everett Dirksen rather than LBJ. He also voted against all civil rights acts prior to 1957 and watered the 1957 act down to almost nothing. One star.

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I wouldn't say it is a persecution complex. If you are anywhere close to even center-right and express that opinion, you are savaged here, condescended to, and just treated unkindly here for the most part. Of course there are exceptions, but folks like me, Phil, and oldiesfreak are treated unfairly on a regular basis.

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I wouldn't say it is a persecution complex. If you are anywhere close to even center-right and express that opinion, you are savaged here, condescended to, and just treated unkindly here for the most part. Of course there are exceptions, but folks like me, Phil, and oldiesfreak are treated unfairly on a regular basis.

This isn't the bad posts thread.

I know.  It's true, which is why I put it here.

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Good thing Subway isn't like the Catholic Church or they'd just transfer him to another Subway.

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Cruz should have lost in 2012 to Dewhurst.

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Here comes a real triple threat:

Both equally.

For some reason there are 2 stupid myths about 1992. One is that Clinton only won because of Perot. The other is that Clinton was the only Democrat who could have won.

It is easy to single out two or three and hold them aloft as the height of evil to sanctify and absolve the others of their barbarity in a barbaric time.

Chinese reads better but Spanish sounds better!

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The parties switched platforms.

I don't know you well enough to know if you are typing that ridiculous sentence sarcastically or not, but the troubling thing about that myth is that it's so comforting to several different groups.

It is a nice comforting narrative to modern-day liberal Democrats, as (in their minds) it absolves the party of any racism in its past, all the while stealing any Republican accomplishments on the matter and forking it right over to the endless, always-right social treadmill of "liberalism."

It's comforting to Black voters, as it completely justifies the demographic group's switch from the GOP to the Democrats.  It's a lot more noble in the history books to paint it as the GOP turning on Black voters one day in a spat of coded racism than Blacks being forced to vote their economic interests three decades before the CRA/VRA.

It's also pretty comforting to Southern whites, as they can justify their ancestors' (whom they otherwise seem quite proud of) support of an openly racist party by hiding behind things like "states' rights" or "small government."  Of course, things like the Dred Scott case show that Southern Democrats didn't give a crap about states' rights and were willing to take any avenue possible to preserve White racial supremacy.

That pretty much just leaves Northern Republicans and Democrats who are true students of history/not completely ignorant (which, I'll say, describes most on this forum) to try to refute this fairy tale and tell the much more complicated story.

This is a brilliant post, but especially the part about Southern Democrats not caring about states' rights and only using it as a cover for racism.