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The thread for stupidity from GQP politicians who don't have their own thread

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Keeping it classy as ever.
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Best reply on Boebert's Twitter account:
How much did you win by last time, Lauren, 25,000 votes?
Now its less than 600.

Just sayin'
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;)
 
newyorkguy said:
Keeping it classy as ever.
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Best reply on Boebert's Twitter account:


;)
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I'm sure the kind Mrs. Boebert, recognizing her opponent's desire to end the competition, decided oh so prudently not to get into a classing contest.
 
Some facts emerge from the Colorado 3rd Congressional District race won by Lauren Boebert.

  • The turnout was much smaller this year than in 2020, down by almost 25% or almost 90,000 voters.
  • Boebert got over 50,000 fewer votes this time. This time around her winning margin was 554 votes. In 2020 it was 24,584.
Democrat Adam Frisch made the following announcement this afternoon:
“Colorado elections are safe, accurate, and secure...I just got off the phone with Rep. Boebert. I called her to formally concede this election.” CNN link
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If it was Boebert who was losing by 554 votes can you imagine her being as gracious and temperate? No, I can't either. :(
 

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Some facts emerge from the Colorado 3rd Congressional District race won by Lauren Boebert.

  • The turnout was much smaller this year than in 2020, down by almost 25% or almost 90,000 voters.
  • Boebert got over 50,000 fewer votes this time. This time around her winning margin was 554 votes. In 2020 it was 24,584.
Democrat Adam Frisch made the following announcement this afternoon:


If it was Boebert who was losing by 554 votes can you imagine her being as gracious and temperate? No, I can't either. :(
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Once again, this just shows how out of touch Dems are. This woman is quite zany...some might say crazy...but voters hate Dems so much they elected her again. But no, Dems...keep doing what you are doing and alienating voters.

I love it.
 
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Warp12 said:
Once again, this just shows how out of touch Dems are. This woman is quite zany...some might say crazy...but voters hate Dems so much they elected her again. But no, Dems...keep doing what you are doing and alienating voters.

I love it.
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Republicans vote for a zany...some might say crazy...moron like Boebert, brain damaged, delusional and abortion hypocrite Walker, conspiracist nut whack-a-doodle Taylor-Greene and narcissistic, pathological lying, democracy destroying sociopath Trump and it shows how out of touch DEMOCRATS are?

 
Warp12 said:
Once again, this just shows how out of touch Dems are. This woman is quite zany...some might say crazy...but voters hate Dems so much they elected her again. But no, Dems...keep doing what you are doing and alienating voters.

I love it.
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That's your spin for the near disaster for the Republicans? It shows that no matter how crazy a candidate the Rs put up, many of the uneducated will vote for the craziness just because of the R behind the name.
 
Disbelief said:
That's your spin for the near disaster for the Republicans? It shows that no matter how crazy a candidate the Rs put up, many of the uneducated will vote for the craziness just because of the R behind the name.
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Not just the uneducated, of course. Even educated people who are so inclined may fall for fallacy, especially when there's emotional impetus. There's also the educated folk who have... other values. Like certain rich Libertarians that long ago acknowledged that Climate Change is both real and nigh certain to cause a massive crisis, but pointedly chose to prioritize profiteering and preventing the issues from being addressed over averting the crisis.

Stacyhs said:
Republicans vote for a zany...some might say crazy...moron like Boebert, brain damaged, delusional and abortion hypocrite Walker, conspiracist nut whack-a-doodle Taylor-Greene and narcissistic, pathological lying, democracy destroying sociopath Trump and it shows how out of touch DEMOCRATS are?
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It's never a Republican's fault that they can't take personal responsibility for the damage that they've done. It's always the Democrat's fault for not stopping them or not waving their magic wands and magically making the damage non-existent.
 
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I think hate among Republicans runs a lot deeper than being alienated by Democrats. As JoeMorgue put it, it's in part the 'everything sucks, nothing matters' attitude. As I've seen GOP partisans write on social media, "The system is so bad, be better to destroy it and start all over." With a society as complex as ours, how could you do that, start all over? They never answer that because they can't. It's emotion versus reason.

The other factor is the Republican voters who consistently vote against their own interests. Below is a quote from a chapter in the book "Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice."
The apparently paradoxical relationship between the voting behavior of many poor and lower-class whites, on the one hand, and on the other, Republican legislators in Congress and state legislators that regularly enact into law programs antagonistic to the interests of poor and working class whites. Wealthy Republicans in Congress and Red state legislatures consistently seek to deprive vulnerable Americans of health care, educational benefits, and unemployment insurance, for example, and to do so with a zealousness that leads commentators on the left to characterize Republicans as callous, cruel, mean, and even hateful? The apparent paradox arises because so many working class, poor, and vulnerable whites continue to reward punishing Republicans at the ballot box. Link to chapter
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That seems to be no mystery. These voters seem to feel it's okay, it may hurt them, but it hurts "the people I hate" even more. This attitude is not new. I'm from a working class background and I've heard people express that attitude all my life. The Republican politicians seem to understand this. It's why so many of them spend a good deal of time stoking the fire. They know what they're doing.
 
Warp12 said:
Once again, this just shows how out of touch Dems are. This woman is quite zany...some might say crazy...but voters hate Dems so much they elected her again. But no, Dems...keep doing what you are doing and alienating voters.

I love it.
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This race was in a red district that Boebert won by 6 points and voted for Trump by almost the same margin in 2020. Boebert won re-election by a margin of a few hundred votes. Basic math says that it’s Republicans who are alienating voters.

This is my shocked face that a conservative posted something in contradiction to reality.
 
Stacyhs said:
Republicans vote for a zany...some might say crazy...moron like Boebert, brain damaged, delusional and abortion hypocrite Walker, conspiracist nut whack-a-doodle Taylor-Greene and narcissistic, pathological lying, democracy destroying sociopath Trump and it shows how out of touch DEMOCRATS are?

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Kind of like the parent saying "shut up or I'll give you something to really cry about," or the murderous ex abuser yelling "If I can't have her nobody can." They throw their bombs and stand in the smoking ruins, and say "It's all your fault. You shoulda MAGA!"

But on second thought, that kind of political blackmail, however loathsome, smacks of a level of sanity that seems these days almost optimistic. What we have to fear may not be that they are that devious but that crazy: not that the Greenes and Boeberts and Walkers of this world are the weapons of petulant autocrats, but their advance guard, not just what they threaten but what they want.
 
johnny karate said:
This race was in a red district that Boebert won by 6 points and voted for Trump by almost the same margin in 2020. Boebert won re-election by a margin of a few hundred votes. Basic math says that it’s Republicans who are alienating voters.

This is my shocked face that a conservative posted something in contradiction to reality.
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My recollection is that Boebert's district was change by redistricting after 2020.
 
The district was redrawn in 2021 but in a way that Colorado Public Radio reports should have made Boebert's reelection even easier:
Last year, the district was redrawn, making it even more conservative. The new boundaries cover an area that Republicans have won by an average of 9 percentage points in recent elections, including former president Donald Trump in 2020. CPR link
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The district is basically the western third of Colorado, primarily rural but includes cities like Pueblo and Aspen. The population is about 770,000, considered two-thirds rural. Boebert won by a margin of less than 0.2% of the vote. The reality is, her reelection should have been a slam dunk.
 
Mike! said:
What happens if, even though he conceded the election to her, in the recount, he wins? Does his concession override the vote count, or would he be declared the winner and the seat goes to him after all?
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He would be declared the winner and his concession wouldn’t matter.
 
newyorkguy said:
The district was redrawn in 2021 but in a way that Colorado Public Radio reports should have made Boebert's reelection even easier:


The district is basically the western third of Colorado, primarily rural but includes cities like Pueblo and Aspen. The population is about 770,000, considered two-thirds rural. Boebert won by a margin of less than 0.2% of the vote. The reality is, her reelection should have been a slam dunk.
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And this is Warp12’s case study proving that Democrats are alienating voters.

Conservatives and reality have yet to cross paths.
 
johnny karate said:
And this is Warp12’s case study proving that Democrats are alienating voters.

Conservatives and reality have yet to cross paths.
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As it was, Republicans just barely gained control of the House, either way. Without officially unlawful gerrymandering in multiple states, they fairly certainly wouldn't have. Law and Order, except for when Republicans break them.
 
Aridas said:
As it was, Republicans just barely gained control of the House, either way. Without officially unlawful gerrymandering in multiple states, they fairly certainly wouldn't have. Law and Order, except for when Republicans break them.
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But they did gain control. And at the end of the day that is what matters. If they "unlawfully" gerrymandered, take it to to court and win. Right?

I am pretty sure that history is full of virtuous losers in politics.
 
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