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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:32 PM Apr 2013

How Do Incredibly Stupid People Get Elected To Congress?

New Hampshire Republican says Boston bombing was government conspiracy.

New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) believes that Alex Jones’ website Infowars has revealed the truth behind the Boston Marathon bombings.

The New Hampshire Democratic Party on Tuesday highlighted a Facebook message Tremblay left on Glenn Beck’s fan page last Friday.

The message claimed the U.S. government secretly carried out the Boston attack and that the suspect who was arrested was merely a patsy. The post linked to an Alex Jones video.

She wrote: “Just as you said would happen. Top Down, Bottom UP. The Boston Marathon was a Black Ops ‘terrorist’ attack. One suspect killed, the other one will be too before they even have a chance to speak. Drones and now ‘terrorist’ attacks by our own Government. Sad day, but a ‘wake up’ to all of us. First there was a ‘suspect’ then there wasnt. Infowars broke the story and they knew they had been ‘found out’.”

The rest: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/23/new-hampshire-republican-says-boston-bombing-was-government-black-ops-conspiracy/
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I really don't understand how stupid people like this get elected to Congress. How do these people win elections? Are they just in districts with almost zero Democrats???
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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
5. Either way. I find it frightening & sad that taxpayers actually pay these people's salaries.
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:37 PM
Apr 2013

I could give a HUGE list of National politicians as well, starting with Chuck Grassley, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, etc.

etc.

etc.

etc.

etc.

etc.

etc.

etc.

etc.......

Infinity.

Mind-boggling.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
6. You're so right...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:40 PM
Apr 2013

I know someone who actually thought the POTUS makes all they laws and can add or change them when he wants.I was like hu???

siligut

(12,272 posts)
8. She is a Mormon, gets her "news" from the same place as Glenn Beck
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:42 PM
Apr 2013

And was probably able to get elected for the same reason.

 

BanTheGOP

(1,068 posts)
10. Basically, the entire GOP contigent should be destroyed...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:48 PM
Apr 2013

...er, eliminated. But the actions they vote upon are, for the most part, a crime against humanity. By lowering taxes, they create more poor people, destroy the planet, etc.

Ban the GOP, NOW!

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
12. Because republicans have kept nominating people further and further to the right
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:00 PM
Apr 2013

Some of it is the primary system in which a candidate is competing for money/volunteers/votes from just within their own party, a system that favors those most likely to donate and volunteer who are most likely to be the dyed in the wool conservatives. Democrats haven't really experienced this as much because the furthest left don't tend to be all that organized politically in my opinion. In a closely divided electoral system (which ours largely is across the country, although republican redistricting efforts have made it seem a lot closer than it is), turn out matters a lot. This is one of the things Obama's team was so good at. They amassed an army of volunteers and people who donated. That matters. An ad on tv can get your name out, but your neighbor telling you reasons to vote for one candidate leaves a more lasting impression.

Additionally the parties have worked to create far more safe districts which would move the tipping point to one side or the other. If a district is 70% republican and 30% democrat, then a candidate can be that much further to the right before losing too many more moderate republicans due to the first past the post system.

Some of it is that republicans really have done everything they can to not listen to anybody outside of the circle. It's why they were so convinced that Romney was set to win the election because nobody who could actually do math was believed. They've created an us against the world mentality which only increases the stridency.

And you can't discount the fact that a substantial portion of the republican party is just that damn stupid.

BlueCheese

(2,522 posts)
13. In this case...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:42 PM
Apr 2013

... the New Hampshire House of Representatives (one half of the state legislature) really believes in representing and perhaps over-representing the people. Despite the small population of the state, the body has 400 members, with each one representing 3,300 people. You can imagine that there might be a great deal of vetting going on.

This isn't to say there aren't a few clueless folks representing much larger districts of one sort or another, of course.

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