Weekend Open Thread

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1. JFK predicts Moderatus. 🙂

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   1. my thought..exactly..

      Isn't he in the Urban Dictionary as a synonym for "imbecile"?

      Maybe I'm thinking of someone else…..

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2. Agreed: Millions of ignorant Republican voters are far more dangerous than ISIS, etc etc etc……..

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3. Cory Gardner, a Senator for all Coloradans (Just Kidding)

   And I thought farm boys were known for their polite manners. Who says statesmanship is dead?

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4. Why does stupidity have to be so loud?

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   1. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
      Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      Are full of passionate intensity.

      – The Second Coming, W B Yeats

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      1. Like

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5. NPR has their "new style" battleground state map up this morning. Proportional strength blocks replace traditional state outlines.

   http://www.npr.org/2016/06/26/483452230/npr-battleground-map-florida-pennsylvania-move-in-opposite-directions

   The conclusion:  " Clinton's advantage in our map over Trump to 279-191" with 68 as toss-ups. Colorado (9) joins "Iowa (6), North Carolina (15), Ohio (18), Pennsylvania (20)" as those toss-ups.

   Good news for Colorado media income —

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   1. And ABC has just released a poll showing HRC up by 12 points.

      Now, a question:  Since it is pretty well known that Colorado voters are split into 3rds, (Democrats, Republicans, and Independents), has there been a recent poll showing where the Indy's are as far as Clinton and Trump are concerned?

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6. Trump bribed Texas and Florida AGs to drop fraud cases against Trump University.

   It's just business as usual for the Republican Presidential nominee:

   “As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do. As a businessman, I need that.”

   Trump also added at a different Republican debate:

   “I was a businessman, I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me.”

    

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   1. Trump wasn't supposed to tell the truth…that is the sole reason of Citizens' United…so, when the truth is accidentally told…there will be no arrests..

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      1. Precisely, buford.  As has been well said, the scandal in American politics is not what is illegal but what is legal.

          

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7. George Will abandons progeny, claiming no responsibility for the monster he created.

   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/us/politics/george-will-leaves-the-gop-over-donald-trump.html?_r=0

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   1. He and that slimeball, Frank Luntz.  I wouldn't give you ten cents for the both of them if they were dressed up in crinolines and lace and holding a lollipop.

       

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      1. That is a very disturbing image, Duke. Thanks – I think.

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8. Pretty unprecedented when your own party leaders won't commit to saying that their presidential candidate is qualified to be President. Has this ever happened before?

   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is supporting Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump for president — but he isn’t saying, at least for now, whether he thinks the business mogul is actually up to the job.

   McConnell twice declined on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday to say straight out that Trump is qualified to be president.

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-qualified_us_576fd3e5e4b017b379f637e2

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9. Cory Gardner — Vichy Republican?

   The historian Ken Burns used, or perhaps coined, the phrase “Vichy Republicans” in a recent commencement address. This phrase aptly describes those in the GOP who have chosen the path of collaboration with Donald John Trump’s seizure of the party rather than the more courageous path of resistance. As in Paris in 1944, after November 2016 those who took the path of resistance will be honored and the collaborators who chose party over country will be shamed .

   But we do not have to wait four months to make the collaborators’ lives uncomfortable. We can begin now and throughout the campaign to force them to face what they have done. At every opportunity GOP House and Senate candidates should be asked questions about whether they support Trump’s outlandish and abhorrent positions.

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   2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, columnist George Will Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush , Hank Paulson and Senator Ben Sasse are auditioning for the role of General de Gaulle in this unfolding tragedy .Rnc Chairman Reince Priebus, Senator Mitch McConnell , New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and House Speaker Paul Ryan are competing for the role of Marshal Petain.

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-klass/vichy-republicans_b_10689236.html

   That should leave a mark 

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   1. Will has left the party and will not support Trump. Of course he also probably won't admit he's among those who have been leading the party to exactly where it is now.

      Seems like reporters are finding the pursuit of Republican elected officials  over Trump pretty amusing. Just heard on NPR's "Wait,Wait, Don't Tell Me" that Issa jumped a fence and ran away escaping from reporters who asked him about rump as he was trying to get into GOP headquarters. And of course McConnell is going to keep getting asked if he thinks Trump is qualified to be president and, so far, he's refusing to give a direct answer. It's the media's new favorite sport.

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