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redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 08:57 PM
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My poor wife. She is first of all blaming herself for this landslide
because of what she had to do at work today. (I told her she can't blame herself for reading a script reminding people to vote...even if it was for a Teabag party.)


She is seriously thinking of buying a gun (this is a woman who honestly believe in NO guns before tonight.)

She wants to stock up on supplies and she is really afraid.

Help me talk my wife down (or at the very least give her some hope.)


Paul's speech really scared her.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 08:58 PM
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1. Why did she have to read a script supporting a teabagger? n/t
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redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:01 PM
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5. because she works at a place that is republic leaning. She has
been looking for another job for a year now. Nothing around and if she had taken a stance against it or left they would have taken it as she had quit and we can't afford life on my paycheck alone.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:55 PM
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29. I understand, I really do.
It certainly isn't her fault and it's terrible she was put in that position. Something is badly wrong with this country.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 08:59 PM
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2. Life is over. Get a gun.
It is the Apocalypse.
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 08:59 PM
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3. She should be scared. And so should you.
If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged, read it. Slog your way through it -- it's pretty awful -- but read it, and understand that that ending is EXACTLY what Rand Paul wants. And he will stop at nothing to achieve it.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.



TG, NTY
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:07 PM
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8. if it had been a Dem who had renamed himself after a WELL-KNOWN ATHEIST
like "Rand" Paul did (after Ayn Rand - one of the sticking points for Repugs/Conservatives was that she was an atheist) ...

the "Dem" Rand Paul wouldn't have had a chance ... the "liberally biased media" would have had him at the controls of the second plane hitting the towers ...
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 08:59 PM
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4. I don't know
it is starting to sound like a good idea to get a few guns and stock up on supplies. Rand Paul is going to do his best to bring down the government and the economy. Just saying.
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:07 PM
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7. Do you realize that's exactly what the repukes did after President Obama
was elected? I lived in TX at the time and there were mass sales to the point of no supply at gun shops and shows.
I just want the people who vote these asshats in to suffer....of course, they won't understand why! imho
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:10 PM
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13. The difference is
Obama didn't have the power to destroy the world economy which Rand Paul could do be filibustering raising the debt cap. Its a really scary situation that one man could get that much power in our country.
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:14 PM
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17. Was rand paul elected president? I don't mean to be flippant
but the guy is an asshat. Filibusters do end. I'm sorry I just don't believe he will do what he spews....he's like the rest and just wants his part of the cake while pretending to do something.
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:53 PM
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28. How does Rand filibuster by himself? How exactly does that work?
Nobody is going to crash the world economy with a filibuster.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:04 PM
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6. I'm scared too. Now the repukes know exactly how to get the worst possible candidates elected.
They will make VERY good use of that info in 2012.
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Sonoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:10 PM
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12. It's Kentucky, for Dog's sake.
Besides Louisville and a few other spots, Kentucky is every bit as backwards as Arkansas.

Maybe more so.

Sonoman
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:16 PM
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18. There are 49 other states....and things are not looking too peachy anywhere.
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Sonoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:42 PM
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21. In two years, they will be eating one another's young.
Just watch.

Here's to hope, anyway.

Sonoman
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:49 PM
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27. I'm with you.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:45 PM
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23. CA looking good....can't believe all the gloom and doom!
I'm bummed about Feingold....but all in all I don't think it's all that bad. Not a landslide or Tsunami. It's normal in American politics for the party in power to lose seats in the midterm.
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:11 PM
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15. This will bite them in the ASS in 2012.
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Sonoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:07 PM
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9. Fuck Paul
If the Dems control the Senate, reality will soon set in. He will be officing out of a closet-space and the mainstream pukes will be standing at a distance.

The Senate is really not the place for some drooling fire-brand.

He will soon find out.

Sonoman
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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:08 PM
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10. WHAT landslide?
There isn't one. It's a normal mid-term election, and a far cry from what the media was predicting.

So Paul got elected, the witch didn't. Such is life. They come, they go.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:46 PM
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24. Agreed, this is normal pattern for American politics.
Come on people, get a grip!
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sadbear Donating Member (799 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:08 PM
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11. Do you think Mitch McChinless is going to let his junior collegue
do anything to endanger him becoming Majority Leader (not that it will happen anyway.)? No, they'll keep him under pretty tight wraps, lest the rest of the nation sees what kind of nutjobs Kentucky has a penchant for electing. Either way, little mister paul is going to be very disappointed.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:10 PM
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14. overwrought
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RoseMead Donating Member (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:14 PM
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16. Nothing is her fault.
I worked for years in call centers, I know how that type of place functions. Good for her for doing what I'm sure was horrible work to help support her family. We all do what we have to do, and she shouldn't be ashamed of it.

The only people I fault for Rand Paul's victory are the media, and the stupid people in KY who voted for him. (And let me be clear, there are good people there who *didn't* vote for him. But the ones who did, are stupid.)

:hug: for your wife, and the KY Conway voters.
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motorcityliberal Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:29 PM
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19. Dude
Well I said this on this another blog, The Republicans and their allies in the media can no longer be that brat screaming "are we there yet?" anymore Speaker Orange Boner, his weasel like side kick Eric Cantor and the tea party have to put up or shut up, they're in charge now. And I'm predicting this right now let the right have their night because in two years from now they will be exposed for what they are and thanks to their policies an average tea person will be so crushed by their polices that negro in the white house doesn't look to bad to them.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:30 PM
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20. Check back tomorrow
I'm all out of hope tonight.

Nite.
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:44 PM
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22. talk her down? I am sure she is the one
Of course I have been drinking for 3 hours.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:47 PM
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25. Tell her to belt back a few and calm down.
The fact that people are crazy enough to elect crazy people is no fault of hers.
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Unique1 Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 09:49 PM
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26. I feel for her.
Imagine being in Wisconsin. My wife stopped off at a Gander Mountain tonight and actually filled out paperwork on a new pistol. I told her she couldn't sleep here anymore.

Not a good night indeed.
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