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1 hour ago, row_33 said:

so for a range of positive 10 (excellence on the metaphysical certitude scale)

 

to minus 3,000,000,000,000 (the usual suckfest that is a Tibs unwitty riposte)

 

how does the ignored post by Tibs above me rate?

 

 

 

Well off the negative end of the scale.

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WARREN HENRY: Democrats Are Fielding Even More Anti-Semitic Candidates For Congress. 

 

“Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib is representative of the Democratic Party’s march beyond the embrace of candidates who criticize Israeli policy or its current government to a much uglier place.”

Another odd endorsement story occurred in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. Democratic nominee Scott Wallace came under criticism after it emerged that his charitable foundation has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that promote the BDS campaign.

 

Wallace disclaimed responsibility for the donations and denied supporting BDS. Democratic Jewish Outreach of Pennsylvania initially declined to endorse Wallace, but ultimately reversed its decision under pressure from the Democratic Party in a toss-up contest.

 

Last week, Democrats nominated Ilhan Omar as their candidate in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Omar has claimed that Israel “hypnotized the world” and said she hoped Allah would awaken people to “the evil doings of Israel.” She recently defended those comments by referring to “the apartheid Israeli regime.”

 

Lastly, there is Leslie Cockburn, the Democratic nominee in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. The Virginia GOP has accused her of being a “virulent anti-Semite,” based on her-coauthorship of “Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship,” a book that “advocated for the inherently anti-Semitic belief that Israel controls America’s foreign policy.”

 

The Virginia GOP quoted from The New York Times review of the book: “Its first message is that, win or lose, smart or dumb, right or wrong, suave or boorish, Israelis are a menace. The second is that the Israeli-American connection is somewhere behind just about everything that ails us.”

 

 

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

 
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WARREN HENRY: Democrats Are Fielding Even More Anti-Semitic Candidates For Congress. 

 

“Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib is representative of the Democratic Party’s march beyond the embrace of candidates who criticize Israeli policy or its current government to a much uglier place.”

Another odd endorsement story occurred in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. Democratic nominee Scott Wallace came under criticism after it emerged that his charitable foundation has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that promote the BDS campaign.

 

Wallace disclaimed responsibility for the donations and denied supporting BDS. Democratic Jewish Outreach of Pennsylvania initially declined to endorse Wallace, but ultimately reversed its decision under pressure from the Democratic Party in a toss-up contest.

 

Last week, Democrats nominated Ilhan Omar as their candidate in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Omar has claimed that Israel “hypnotized the world” and said she hoped Allah would awaken people to “the evil doings of Israel.” She recently defended those comments by referring to “the apartheid Israeli regime.”

 

Lastly, there is Leslie Cockburn, the Democratic nominee in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. The Virginia GOP has accused her of being a “virulent anti-Semite,” based on her-coauthorship of “Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship,” a book that “advocated for the inherently anti-Semitic belief that Israel controls America’s foreign policy.”

 

The Virginia GOP quoted from The New York Times review of the book: “Its first message is that, win or lose, smart or dumb, right or wrong, suave or boorish, Israelis are a menace. The second is that the Israeli-American connection is somewhere behind just about everything that ails us.”

 

 

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

 

 

Let me be the first to wish LaDexter good luck in Minnesota's 5th district race.

 

(I'm kidding.  I hope you lose, !@#$head.)

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So the play is if the Dems cannot win the House or Senate, they can indict and legislate the winning competition out of office? That is diabolical, and may I say the evil genius who thought that up could be on to something... until the next election cycle when the losses are worse for the Democrats. Unless...this will result in more dead people voting and the recounters finding even more D votes in the trunk of a car?

Democrats Seek Blue Wave of Attorneys General
The party’s top targets include races in Nevada, Colorado, Ohio and Florida

 

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So the play is if the Dems cannot win the House or Senate, they can indict and legislate the winning competition out of office? That is diabolical, and may I say the evil genius who thought that up could be on to something... until the next election cycle when the losses are worse for the Democrats. Unless...this will result in more dead people voting and the recounters finding even more D votes in the trunk of a car?

Democrats Seek Blue Wave of Attorneys General
The party’s top targets include races in Nevada, Colorado, Ohio and Florida

 

 

 

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"It's so free from interference. You can just sue and go after people. You don't have to run it up any flagpole or get a committee or do anything," Shaw says. "You just do it."

 

I really hope that guy doesn't win.

 

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He's campaigning on a platform of weaponizing the justice system against political opponents?

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Apparently. But, he's just being a bit more open about it as it has been done for quite some time now at all levels of the government (local, state, federal).

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Apparently. But, he's just being a bit more open about it as it has been done for quite some time now at all levels of the government (local, state, federal).

 

It happens all the time, but I don't think I've ever seen someone come out and say "elect me, and I'll use the justice department as political weapon".

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Roll Call reported, "Senate Could Be Tied up For Weeks Voting on Trump Nominees."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to stop the stalling and vote on five political appointments and a dozen judicial nominations. The filibuster is over.

"If senators were to object to time agreements, the Senate could literally spend weeks doing little other than considering the nominations, a move that complicates much of the legislative agenda for the rest of the year, particularly when it comes to finishing consideration of government spending bills before the end of the fiscal year on September 30," Roll Call reported.

With the Senate split 50-49 (John McCain refuses to resign, although he is incapacitated), Democrats want to be out campaigning to keep their seats, particularly Joe Manchin, D-

 

 

 

 

Is Mitch McConnell “the Michael Jordan of owning the libs”?

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Ted Cruz is in a real barn burner now. 

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/403786-poll-cruz-leads-orourke-by-one-point-in-texas-senate-race

 

 

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R) leads his Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, by just 1 point in their Texas Senate race, well within the margin of error of a new poll from Emerson College. 

The survey, which was released on Monday, found that Cruz leads O'Rourke 38 to 37 percent. Four percent of voters favor a different candidate and 21 percent remain undecided. 

The survey comes as O'Rourke continues to gain momentum in his quest to unseat Cruz.

 

If they actually go through with those debates they had talked about I think Cruz would be in even more trouble. Having to defend Trump in debates won't make anyone look good 

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WHO SHOULD BE APPOINTED TO REPLACE JOHN MCCAIN?

by Paul Mirengoff

 

With the passing of Sen. John McCain, it falls to Arizona governor Doug Ducey to name a replacement. The replacement will hold the seat until 2020, when it will be up for grabs in an election.

 

This article looks at candidates whose names have been floated as potential appointees. Of those on the list, my least favorite choice is Cindy McCain. I’m not confident she’s a conservative.

 

There is speculation that Gov. Ducey may want to appoint the first female Senator in Arizona history. The list referenced above contains three women in addition to Cindy McCain. However, none has held public office (nor has Cindy McCain), and it’s unclear how conservative, if at all, any of them are.

 

Gov. Ducey must decide whether to appoint someone who just wants to serve for two more years or someone on the rise who would run in 2020. In my view, if there’s an up-and-comer who is reliably conservative, Ducey should appoint that person. If not, he should appoint a tried-and-true conservative whose political ambitions don’t extend beyond 2020. Former Sen. Jon Kyl and former Rep. Matt Salmon fit the latter description.

 

For an up-and-comer who is solidly conservative, Gov. Ducey should consider Justice John Lopez of the Arizona Supreme Court. Lopez does not appear on the list referenced above, but his credentials are impressive.

 

After clerking on the Arizona Supreme Court, Lopez went into private practice with a major law firm. After 9/11, he left private practice to become a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office.

In 2004, Lopez volunteered for a special detail to Iraq to assist with the investigation and prosecution of Saddam Hussein and other members of his regime. Based in part on Lopez’s efforts, Hussein and his cousin General Ali Hassan Al-Majid (better known by his nickname “Chemical Ali”) were tried, convicted, and executed.

 

Returning to Arizona, Lopez had a distinguished career in the U.S. Attorney’s office. By the end of his time there, he was the top official in charge of the Phoenix office.

 

In 2015, Lopez became Solicitor General of Arizona. True to his conservative principles, he added a Federalism Unit to the office.

 

In 2016, Gov. Ducey appointed Lopez to the Arizona Supreme Court. His jurisprudenceseems solidly conservative.

 

Lopez is well-established in Phoenix conservative circles. A friend of mine whose judgment I trust worked with Lopez a lot when he was Arizona’s Solicitor General. My friend describes Lopez as a “four-square traditional conservative.”

 

If appointed to the Senate, Judge Lopez would become the state’s first Latino Senator. I’m not a fan of appointing people so they can be the first of this or that category to serve.

 

However, if that’s what Gov. Ducey wants to do, then making John Lopez Arizona’s first Latino U.S. Senator is a better move than making one of the women on the list Arizona’s first female Senator. In fact, it might well be his best move, period.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/who-should-be-appointed-to-replace-john-mccain.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+(Power+Line)

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The baby was probably a republican as well.

 

Little bundles of useless histrionics, devoid of coherent thought, who can't take care of themselves and **** all over everything?

 

All babies are Democrats.

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ScrappleFace........It's funny, cause it sounds like it could be true................:lol:

 

Must Democrats Back Florida Man Who Beat Woman?

(2018-08-29) — The Democratic National Committee sequestered itself behind closed doors this morning to debate the proper reaction to Tuesday’s drubbing of a woman by a man in the Florida primary for governor.

 

Still stinging from its failure to get Hillary Clinton (who is a woman) into the White House, DNC leaders engaged in some “serious soul-searching,” according to insiders.

 

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum pulled off a surprise upset of former Congresswoman Gwen Graham, earning a chance to be the state’s first Black governor. But DNC insiders say his victory has thrown the party into a quandary.

 

“Democrats don’t want to celebrate a woman bruising her head on the glass ceiling, especially when she gets beaten by a man,” said one unnamed national committee-person. “On the other hand, we’re thrilled that an African-American defeated Graham, who is a member of the oppressor White race.”

 

Yet the dilemma is not that simple.

 

Democratic party faithful also expressed discomfort that Gillum won the primary with support from Black church congregations, which makes him look like part of the dominant Christian religion that has repressed people for centuries.

 

Asked if the DNC struggles with the fact that Gillum also crushed Democrat candidate Philip Levine, who is Jewish, the party leader simply shrugged.

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Andrew Gillum is breaking ahead of Ron DeSantis in the governor’s race, fueled by the early preference of Florida’s independent voters, according to the first publicly-released poll of the general election campaign season.

A new poll produced by Public Policy Polling gives Gillum, the progressive Tallahassee mayor who rocked the Democratic Party on Tuesday, 48 percent, and DeSantis, the conservative Republican nominee running with President Donald Trump, 43 percent, in the opening days of the Nov. 6 election campaign.

 


 

That racist comment from DeSantis shows just how much he is tied to Trump's unpopular version of hateful politics 

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LOL.............Of course Gator didn't mention that the Public Policy Poll had Gillum losing by twenty points in the primary............Nice track reliability

 

 

Here's some real-life numbers.

 

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Ron Desantis got 913,000 Real votes

Andrew Gillum got 517,000

 

Hell, the 2nd place GOP candidate got 591,000

 

 

This will be another media favorite race, but it is safely Republican.

 

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President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

At the dawn of the fall campaign sprint to the midterm elections, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of Congress, the poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s wide-ranging probe.

Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent say Congress should not.

[Read full poll results | How the poll was conducted]

And a narrow majority — 53 percent — say they think Trump has tried to interfere with Mueller’s investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; 35 percent say they do not think the president has tried to interfere.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-60-percent-disapprove-of-trump-while-clear-majorities-back-mueller-and-sessions/2018/08/30/4cd32174-ac7c-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.5340cdc15dd5

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LOL.............Of course Gator didn't mention that the Public Policy Poll had Gillum losing by twenty points in the primary............Nice track reliability

 

 

Here's some real-life numbers.

 

F6587EF1-9F18-4A82-AFD8-C834849E9A9E.png

 

 

Ron Desantis got 913,000 Real votes

Andrew Gillum got 517,000

 

Hell, the 2nd place GOP candidate got 591,000

 

 

This will be another media favorite race, but it is safely Republican.

 

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27% of Florida voters are independents. Safely Republican? Not by a long shot. 

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