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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I think Steele was a dumb pick and I don't think he is remotely qualified to bring the GOP back. I don't think the other options were good either though.
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I think you're correct here, but the other thing to take into account is the question of who in the GOP would really want the job in this election cycle? I think that, plus Steele's own personal campaigning for the job, is the main reason why he got the job.
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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Bobby Rush doesn't matter. I'd argue that most of the country has never even heard of him. But he has taken a lot of heat, particularly here in Chicago for his comments. It would be a bigger story I'd imagine if Bobby Rush mattered and had any national presence.
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Speaking as a fellow Chicagoan, I think the only thing Bobby Rush did with his comments was guarantee that the Senate seat will be won by a white person in 2010 (a white Democrat if Burris fails in the Primary, a white Republican if he wins the primary - I'd say a black Republican could have a shot too, but I don't believe the state GOP has any prominent ones on their bench).
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Originally Posted by RainMaker
This is one of the best articles I've read in awhile and it comes from a staunch conservative. There is little I disagree with in what he says. If the Republican Party can move in the direction he talks about, I would be on board.
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A good column, and I think one of the most interesting aspects is that someone like David Frum actually feels the need to prove his
bona fides at the start of the column before launching into the meat of his message. What has the GOP come to when someone like this needs to immediately address the idea that he's a RINO before talking about actual substantive issues?
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Originally Posted by SFL Cat
Maybe you need to reread Marx yourself. Karl Marx took a flawed economic system and was able to sell it to the masses and he did it by taking advantage of two things. The first is strength in numbers, and the second is that those who are less successful always have a natural envy and resentment of the more successful.
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This is actually not a bad post. However, the meat of your argument does indicate that while you've read
The Communist Manifesto, you haven't read
Das Kapital.
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Originally Posted by SFL Cat
Considering all the personal insults I see when people are commenting about him (regarding his weight, his failed marriages, his pain killer addiction, how they wish he'd have a heart attack and die), I would say they don't separate him from his opinions and that they literally hate the man.
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Actually, I'll happily admit that I hate Rush Limbaugh (though, to speak to RM's point, I'm glad he exists for all the tactical pain he causes the GOP every few years). He's on my list of people I'd actually try to punch if I met them in real life, which also includes Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Sean Hannity. I'd put Ann Coulter on there, but I'm afraid she'd snap like a twig, and I'd rather not do time for murder.