I'm deadly serious. I will collect all your guns some day. We'll leave you a 22 pea shooter so you can bear some arms.Collector1337 wrote:Yeah, sounds like you.Tero wrote:LOLpiscator wrote:So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?
Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.
I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!
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Can the GOP survive without the big money?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Tero wrote:I'm deadly serious. I will collect all your guns some day. We'll leave you a 22 pea shooter so you can bear some arms.Collector1337 wrote:Yeah, sounds like you.Tero wrote:LOLpiscator wrote:So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?
Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.
I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!

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Laugh now, it literally launches peas across a room, but it has a 22 round magazine.Collector1337 wrote:Tero wrote:I'm deadly serious. I will collect all your guns some day. We'll leave you a 22 pea shooter so you can bear some arms.Collector1337 wrote:Yeah, sounds like you.Tero wrote:LOLpiscator wrote:So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?
Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.
I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Frozen or mushy? 

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Frozen would be far too dangerous...klr wrote:Frozen or mushy?
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Fresh raw organic peas from the co-op.JimC wrote:Frozen would be far too dangerous...klr wrote:Frozen or mushy?

What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Hippy!Robert_S wrote:Fresh raw organic peas from the co-op.JimC wrote:Frozen would be far too dangerous...klr wrote:Frozen or mushy?

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Another good article on this:
http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/22/the- ... an-schism/One-third of self-described conservatives think it is bad for the country that the GOP is in charge of the House of Representatives compared to only 14% of people self-identified as supporting the tea party. 55% of conservatives want John Boehner replaced by another Republican. 60% of those who support the tea party want Boehner replaced.
While the margin of error goes up significantly in the subsets, this is a pretty consistent finding and one that complicates a lot of reporting about voter angst and anger toward the GOP. A lot of conservatives are angry at the GOP too. They want a Republican Party willing to fight They are gravitating toward candidates and third parties willing to fight and eschewing those who are too establishmentarian.
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Yeah right. Follow the money.
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Read the article. The Tea Party groups tend to be supported by small contributors.Tero wrote:Yeah right. Follow the money.
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It's too late. Corporations run the world. Gubment goes to highest bidder.
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And the Koch brothers.Warren Dew wrote:Read the article. The Tea Party groups tend to be supported by small contributors.Tero wrote:Yeah right. Follow the money.
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So the reactionaries a pushing for a Republican Party that will only represent, at most, a third of the country. Winning strategy, both from a representation standpoint and a policy standpoint.Warren Dew wrote:Another good article on this:
http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/22/the- ... an-schism/One-third of self-described conservatives think it is bad for the country that the GOP is in charge of the House of Representatives compared to only 14% of people self-identified as supporting the tea party. 55% of conservatives want John Boehner replaced by another Republican. 60% of those who support the tea party want Boehner replaced.
While the margin of error goes up significantly in the subsets, this is a pretty consistent finding and one that complicates a lot of reporting about voter angst and anger toward the GOP. A lot of conservatives are angry at the GOP too. They want a Republican Party willing to fight They are gravitating toward candidates and third parties willing to fight and eschewing those who are too establishmentarian.

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As long as they get all the white male over 50 vote.
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