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Last edited Tue Oct 28, 2014, 01:02 PM - Edit history (1)
This article will certainly let one know why Kansas has been failing on most cylinders and why Brownback and Roberts might well be shown the door, which they certainly deserve. This is a long article, but well worth a read!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-kansas-tea-party-disaster-20141023
Mister Ed
(5,944 posts)Better change "Rolling Stones" to "Rolling Stone" in your subject line.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)A recipe for absolute failure and social disaster. Except for the 1%.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)interested in serving in the interest of the majority of Americans. Why, people listen to these stupid propagandistic ads, I just don't get it. It is so damn DUH.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Goebbels would be impressed with Fox News.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)They took every last one of his techniques, slicked them up and wrapped it all in a shiny package. He'd be very proud of them.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)aimed at the bag-of-hammers stupid and the willfully ignorant explains it all. Add the jebus-wheezing preachers saying that anyone to the left of Chimpy or Cheney is the devil incarnate and you have the complete explanation. Calling these people "low-information" is taking politeness well beyond the breaking point and into science fiction.
Trying to educate that crowd is like trying to raise the Titanic with tweezers.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)with cement!
Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)... we'd hold onto the Senate and take back the House.
RKP5637
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longship
(40,416 posts)The best sentence in the article:
As John Weaver, a Republican strategist who worked on both of John McCain's presidential campaigns, told The Washington Post, "He's basically furniture in the Senate. You could give the average Kansan 24 hours to come up with something Pat Roberts has done [and] even the crickets would be standing there befuddled."
And the people of Kansas adore Bob Dole. And even hard core Democrats tend to like him. Another great line in the article:
During the question-and-answer period, when someone asks Dole if he thinks Palin might run for president, Dole simply growls, "I hope not."
Well worth a click through, as are most Rolling Stone articles these days.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)to hear what some old-school Repukes like Dole say in private about Sparklemoose. I doubt it would be much different from what is said here.
longship
(40,416 posts)And he has a very sharp sense of humor, apparently even at 91.
I kind of like the guy, in spite of his politics.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)So he can't be all grumpy.