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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt this point I believe the GOP could totally rationalize running Charles Manson for office...
as a Republican: "He's a dedicated family man."
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)You dont have to pretend to be a family man, you dont have to pretend to be or be anything OTHER than not a liberal, not a democrat.
You can then rape, murder, steal, anything.
A N Y T H I N G
We need to understand this...we dont yet. Although I will say McConnell surprised me on this one. But the voters, the deplorables, they love Moore.
TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)you are right about this, yes
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That would be completely dismissed as Democrat lies and the "Hannity" picture adopted with fierce loyalty, no need to justify anything.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)any dem does one one thousandth of what trump has done and they would be impeached instantly
one one thousandth
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Even if they might be completely unaware of it themselves. For all the craziness, surely some unconsciously depended on us to protect what they didn't want to lose.
May sound crazy on my part, but psychologists say right-wing authoritarian types are notably devoid of insight into their own behaviors.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)They also steal from everyone including their own family.
They are terribly destructive to the human race
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They are vulnerable to good leadership as well, but the kelptocratic types aren't paying for good leadership.
Initech
(100,100 posts)The GOP could run Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and the Son Of Sam, and they'd all justify these people despite that the rest of the world knows them as serial killers.
TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)Their only complaint would be the pot smoking and other drug use. But they would probably also claim that to be fake news.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)Mrs Bachmann, 55, said she would work in the 'spirit of John Wayne from Waterloo' - who is not the actor, but the serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have too, she told Fox News.
Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Waterloo, where he lived for a short time and also had his first criminal conviction.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008662/Michele-Bachmann-John-Wayne-Gacy-gaffe-Politician-mistakes-serial-killer-hero.html#ixzz4yM1KZmcU
lame54
(35,317 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,331 posts)Or murder is not as bad as stealing a lawnmower.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,726 posts)It's limitless B.S.
Calculating
(2,957 posts)If the alternative was voting for a Democrat.
bdamomma
(63,919 posts)has been hijacked by these sick fucks, including Mr tRump. He is as FAKE as the propaganda he is expelling. He needs to go..............ASAP. He has ruined our standing in world, and is being played as a fool that he is, by China and Russia.
Move over USA here comes Russia and China to take over world dominance.
Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)and still support him. A psychopath is President because of them, there is nothing lower for Republicans to sink to.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)A large, photogenic family. Or at least better looking than the Huckabees.
Deeply religious.
From a very Red area, both in West Virginia and in California.
Draft dodger.
Believed in a coming race war
No regard for human life
TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Dont worry. Ill bring the marshmallows