Another canary in the coal mine. The co-chairman of the Polk County, Iowa GOP has resigned because he doesn’t want to be associated with Rep. Steve King’s racist remarks and he’s tired of all the anti-climate change idiocy and stupid remarks about guns. He said that the party is being led by the NRA and the Christian Right, and it isn’t interested in reforming itself. He figured that if he stuck around, he’d just be enabling the GOP to continue on without making needed changes. So, he reregistered as an independent.
Remember, yesterday, I was conjecturing about the possibility that the Republicans could lose control of the House if they started losing long-time members of their party. I’m sure that there are many people who are feeling the same way this man feels. They haven’t become Democrats, but they’ll consider voting for one now, and they wouldn’t have considered doing that in recent elections.
Everyone has their breaking point, but they don’t all announce it in the papers when their reached it.
I half agree with you and half think you’re doing that thing you did last year where you spent months talking about how Romney was going to get beat like McGovern.
You don’t think that was legit?
Before that first debate, Romney really was looking like a Mondale/Goldwater/McGovern type.
Memories of what an amazingly terrible candidate he was have already sunk beneath the waves. I guess because the media was gunning so hard for a Romney comeback to keep the race exciting, and the first debate/progressive freakout gave it to them.
But I distinctly remember waking up every day for weeks during Summer 2012 and checking the news with the thought “I wonder what idiotic thing Romney said or did today?”
Of course, I spent almost 8 years thinking the same thing about Dubya when he was in office. So it’s all relative.
That trip to Europe. What the hell, man?!?
Just appallingly bad. Like, “Maybe Rick Perry would be better” bad.
I think you attribute to me a degree of confidence that I never expressed.
I wanted to push Romney over the precipice and he was wobbling for a while on the edge of a total meltdown.
And in your position as a
NYT op-ed columnistnightly talk show hostblogger with a cartoon frog on your mainpage, you were really in a commanding place to do so.Indeed.
Don’t lie — your implicit purpose was to try to get those few Republicans who lurked on or visited your blog to cut themselves.
I doubt that he’ll vote Democratic. He just won’t vote.
Rightwing “consultants” have been screaming about the “5%” of the older white voting population that just doesn’t vote. Here’s another one.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, GOP turnout can be depressed.
He’ll vote republican every chance he gets, right down the party line.
You’re probably correct, however Republicans have successfully shifted the Overton Window so far to the right, while casting the image of Democrats being so far to the socialist left, that a Moderate Democrat could be perceived as a Centrist Conservative.
o/t This is AlJazerra America’s first day. It is refreshingly straightforward, tightly polished, and worth a stopby to get acquainted. Too bad it will never be watched by the Right, too much information not enough sleeze.
where can we find out what station it’s playing?
It should have taken the place of Current on your cable line-up.
that’s what I thought, but here in Baton Rouge, it’s just disappeared
Which means they didn’t like the home office of AJ. What cable company do you have? Comcast carries it, but I know from Twitter that Time-Warner dumped it(between the sale of Current and now) as did AT&T’s cable TV arm.
ah, that explains it. I have AT&T Uverse
According to someone on Twitter Uverse just killed it today right at the switch over.
WOW! (stupid name) never carried Current and don’t carry AL-Jazeera, but we do have the Jewelry Channel. Internet TV can’t come too soon for me. I’m experimenting with Netflix Plus and Hulu Plus, but they just have re-runs. When I have a TV that I can customized the line-up from the internet and each channel is a web site, THEN I’ll be happy with my TV choices.
Al Jazeera employees elsewhere have gone on record bitching about how the American branch has toned down and Americanized its coverage. Heh.
Al Jazeera English for some years overseas; probably my favourite of the top three, along with BBC and CNN, but still clearly suffering from the short attention span syndrome of all cable news. Documentaries and talk are better, to be sure, and their reporters are generally pretty good but when it comes to stories like Syria it seems there is still an ‘invisible hand’ guiding the coverage.
OT, but just read this on twitter, hoping for good news for Beau Biden.
Now here’s the thing. This guy is in no way representative of sane republican voters. This guy is a state party official. By definition he’s more interested and clued in than 95% of potentially sane republican voters.
I’m more interested in any detrimental effects this will kind of thing, if it spreads, will have on party infrastructure.
Interestingly, several Maine GOP state committee members have left over spying, drones and taxes.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/Six-top-Maine-Republicans-quit-party.html?pagenum=1
So right on some issues, so wrong on others.
I never believe right wing conversions on those issues. They had their chance to prove it in 2010 by voting for Russ Feingold. They chose taxes instead. Nothing wrong with that, but they always deny caring about low taxes over anything else.
Well, Maine not Wisconsin but I get your point. Libertarians always choose economics first in my opinion, shame that their economics always involves stomping someone into the ground.
Yeah I don’t care that they do; I’ve said before I’ll vote for an authoritarian who maintains and increases social and entitlement spending, and expands the welfare state over a civil libertarian. But I admit it. They refuse. The good news for me is that I never have to make that choice, really. They did. And they failed.
Heh, when besides Singapore has that ever happened in a way that was sustainable?
Oh, the Republican stupid burns everywhere
Take it away Louisiana Republicans…geez. Does Burh or Obama deserve more blame for the handling of Hurricane Katrina. WHAT.THE.WHAT???
Simply stunning. We are apparently doomed.
Why stop at blaming Obama for Katrina? How about 9/11? “Losing China”? PEARL HARBOR?
Pearl Harbor?
That’s easy. He’s Hawaiian.
I remember how Obama was soft on Spain and that led to the Maine getting blown up.
And was Obama playing cards during Custer’s Battle at Little Big Horn?
It’s an endless list of catastrophes.
We’ll know justice is being done when the Vatican absolves the Jews and places the fault for Jesus’ crucifixion where it belongs. Just saying.
MoFo doesn’t even own a white dog and if he did it would just be to kick it.
Are you sure that’s not a joke?
I can find the tweet, but not the poll. Are you sure it’s not a joke about the real poll in which Louisiana residents gave Bush a higher approval rating for his handling of Katrina than they gave Obama for his handling of the BP spill?
I’ve thought since the last election, that without some serious moderation — that ain’t happening — their hold on the house isn’t as secure as some seem to think.
The question in my mind is whether that thought might be flawed, given the way chained cpi appears to be back on the table, and given the outrage over the NSA revelations.
Imo all those running on the dem side of the aisle should make some negative noise about both of them, because they’re I’d think, both winning issues
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