GOP allegedly bribing underage students with free booze in exchange for support

LTR

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Sat Oct-10-09 03:24 AM
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GOP allegedly bribing underage students with free booze in exchange for support

The Michigan Democratic Party is all up in arms over reports of their rivals giving away alcohol to underage students in exchange for campaigning during a weekend conference on Mackinac Island. But let's be real; how else did they pink elephantexpect the GOP to get gaggles of college kids to stump for their candidates?

The event occurred over the last weekend in September, just as a contentious budget battle raged in the state's capital. At the time, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer put out a video statement blasting the GOP's choice to put on the conference when a budget needed passing in Lansing within a few days of that weekend:

While they're partying on Mackinac Island this weekend, the fate of our school kids, our police and firefighters, our unemployed, our college students who are looking forward to the promised scholarship, is hanging in the balance. But do the Republicans care about that?

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SpiralHawk

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Sat Oct-10-09 06:47 AM
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1. Republicon Family Values

Edited on Sat Oct-10-09 06:52 AM by SpiralHawk

You can't get any skankier than Republicon Family Values...

Verily, Republicons are The Latter Day Pharisees.

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Sat Oct-10-09 08:13 AM
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6. IOKIYAR

"Joining us in the carriage was a huge group of swingers (they never told us, but it was pretty obvious), they were staying in the same hotel condo 'complex' as we were and they were all drunk out of their minds telling Zack and I how adorable we are together as a young Republican couple and how they've come from all over the country to meet up this weekend at Mackinac. Also, they�re all wearing wigs and yelling inappropriate, but hysterical things such as 'I'm f**kin� forty with three kids! Ya'll are so young and precious I miss those days!'" she wrote. Oblinger then goes into some detail about one woman in the group who nearly sexually assaulted her boyfriend, to the cheers and laughter of her colleagues, before group "invited us to their hotel for some 'fun and games' later -� they all winked and kind of elbowed each other. Zack and I decided not to put ourselves in that situation. We didn�t know what the hell we would expect."

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SpiralHawk

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Sat Oct-10-09 08:56 AM
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7. RFV (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)

As is screamingly obvious to every True Red-Blooded, Flag-Waving American Entity, the acronym RFV stands for Republicon Family Values -- which is really just clever code for 'Kinky Whackjob Hate Filled Torture Freak Hypocrites' as the so-called Family Value Republicons demonstrate over and over and over.

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Barack_America

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Sat Oct-10-09 02:49 PM
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9. Roger Stone, perhaps?

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Downtown Hound

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Sat Oct-10-09 07:11 AM
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2. When abstinence only education, endless war, economic greed and failure,

anti-science, anti-environment, anti-choice, anti-common sense politics fail to win over young people, just get 'em drunk.

Damn, this might actually work. Young people need all that booze to make them numb to what their future holds thanks to Republicans.

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madrchsod

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Sat Oct-10-09 07:33 AM
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3. let`s party like it`s 1999!

oh those wild and crazy republican kids.....

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KharmaTrain

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Sat Oct-10-09 07:39 AM
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4. An Old Trick...

I remember the colege repugnicans...all 3 of them...trying to recruit students when I was in college in the early 70s. They'd sucker people in with free alcohol and who knows what else...the only way they'd ever get people to show up.

Good chance they'll pull the same stunt again...next time have a video camera running...

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Sat Oct-10-09 08:06 AM
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5. I remember those fools too.

Edited on Sat Oct-10-09 08:10 AM by Tutankhamun

A lot of them had been brainwashed by their parents. Oftentimes that's really the root of the disease.

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LTR

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Sat Oct-10-09 02:36 PM
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8. .

:kick:

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