Good points all, but there’s a reason the term “getting primaried” has come into existence, specifically referring to more moderate Republicans getting beaten by more extreme candidates in the primary elections, due to the aggregate nature of Republican primary voters.
Whatever it says about GOP party leadership, it says something much worse about the voters.
It was only a primary, he was running unopposed, they all know he’s unlikely to win in the general election in that district, but 20,000 Republicans STILL showed up at the polls and gave him their votes.
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Nah. I hail from the land of Wayne’s World. But lemme tell you, although the Mason-Dixon runs south of Springfield, you wouldn’t know it to visit those small cornfield towns.
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I don’t think so, he just plays one on TV.
Air-lifting the Nazi’s Pinto, the s#!+tiest German car to ever bomb Chicago (Ford was an anti-semitic sympathizer before WWII):
(with filmmaker commentary)
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See this post for some relevant links:
As mentioned by others, Nazis (AKA National Socialists), despite the name, are not actually socialists. At all.
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We’ll soon find out how representative. I think it’s a good experiment. The election will give an experimental estimate of what percentage of Republicans are actual Nazis. Before Roy Moore, I would have guessed not that huge a percentage, but now my money is on “most.”
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Oh dear! There it is again, right? I keep encountering people who believe the Nazi Party in Germany were left wing because of the word ‘Socialist’. This is how far we’ve come in terms of disinformation. This and holocaust denial that seems to have become a household theory.
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I wanted to like this because its the Blues Brothers, but Charlottesville kind of takes the wind out of the gag for me. Real life fucking Nazis even ruin anti-Nazi jokes.
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You don’t even have to go that far. I don’t patronize my own neighborhood bar because it’s a bit too… Trumpy for my tastes, and I’m in the Chicago metro area.
But when you get south of I-70, it’s a completely different world.
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Is it that they’re recruiting notzees, or that they’re shamelessly and openly recruiting notzees now?
It appears the former, but I suspect it’s the latter.
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They only ruin everything if we let them.
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And better yet, used the No True Scotsman excuse. The saddest part is that Jones represents the Republicunt ideal of the last 20-25 to a tee.
Pink Floyd said everything there is to say about the Rs philosophy in “In The Flesh”.
Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one’s a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint,
And another with spots!
If I had my way,
I’d have all of you shot!
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good link!
I have a question though, did you just call Ford a German car because the founder was initially sympathetic towards fascist regimes?
He’s a nazi, not a socialist.
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I have no confidence in that. Given that (although he lost) an accused child molester was still getting GOP backing, I have no confidence that the party will back off from a nazi.
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Too true. I know a lot about Southern Illinois and people there think think they live in “The South”.
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This tells me that Illinois is less corrupt than other states. Do you think the governors of at least a dozen other states haven’t been as corrupt over the past few decades? Texas? New Jersey??? At least in Illinois they catch them and throw 'em in the clink.
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Let’s not forget that the south is not the only place with racists. It’s a national phenomenon, and the south just gets to be the scapegoat for everywhere else.
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…And I see that the Illinois Republicans have wasted no time trying to blame the Democrats for the Nazi with the (R) after his name on the ballot. Sheesh.
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