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Wonder what the Repubs mean when they say they're going to "recruit minorities?"
Do you suppose they're actually going to start promoting the legislation those minorities want, or are they going to start handing out free toasters or what???
They have no idea. THey
(in reply to Tamara Shepherd)
They have no idea. THey think just "reaching out," rather than "appealing to" is the way you win elections. It ain't, but it's what all the overpaid people tell each other when they can't handle the truth, and they don't want to change.
I will take a stab at the
I will take a stab at the real autopsy.
Romney went overnight from a somewhat reasonable Massachusetts Republican (who could have passed for a "Democrat" in the South, not that it mattered) to a right wing douchebag because of all the right wing douchebags running the Republican party.
And Paul Ryan. (Or maybe that's Exhibit A re. the above.)
Plus, Obama is a Rock Star. Rock stars rule pop culture media.
Republican Autopsy - meet Illegal Alien Autopsy
This says it all better than I ever could.
(link...)
The hundred-page report is
The hundred-page report is finished.
"When someone rolls their eyes at us, they are not likely to open their ears to us."
Illuminating.