This is gonna be fun. I guess it's political, but in a pretty narrow sense. One of the key reasons the Republicans did so well in 2014 is because they avoided wackos. Well, not entirely. The imminent head of the Nevada Assembly has written a newspaper column for 11 years where he:
--Claimed that the Oklahoma City bombing was engineered by the Clinton Administration to generate sympathy;
--Called blacks simple minded darkies
--Claimed that the gay community is rife with pederasts
--Wanted women back out of the military, except for a few narrow jobs.
--Claims that local Hispanics are still supporters of Mexico.
--Suggested that
| The lack of gratitude and the deliberate ignoring of white history in relation to eliminating slavery is a disgrace that Negro leaders should own up to. |
He has already been elected speaker of the Republican majority 2015 Nevada Assembly. WTF are they thinking?
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I'm personally hoping that Sharpton helps make DeBlasio a one-term mayor--that won't be easy in NYC. They actually have to find a Republican candidate. Bloomberg was a fluke.
Neverthless, they actually elected this guy as their leader, and even conceding the "darkie" statement had an alternate meaning, the other stuff is pretty crazy.
+1 all around, unfortunately.
It is probably more common than you think.
The only way NYC government can work anywhere close to optimally is with a Republican counterweight to the very leftist city counsel. The NY Republican party is just so weak, though, that they can't put up a decent candidate.
Absent that, competence would be nice.
Silver, head of the NY Assembly is a sleaze of the lowest order, and probably invulnerable unless he gets arrested. But not so nutty as this.
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Not elected.
Yet it is hard to believe he got elected never mind nominated unopposed to Assembly Speaker. Maybe when California falls into the Pacific, Nevada will be dragged with it.;-p
Most of these type politicos are nowadays...
Definitely a distinct strain of WEIRD happening in Nevada, but so what else is new?
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If you do it with the attitude that the politicians on either side of the isle are batshit crazy.
Notice no personal attacks on this thread. If there were, it would have been gone long ago.
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From a normally sensible guy, this is a pretty off-base post. The right has no "issue" with race. The whole point of conservatism is to treat people individually, on their merits. The whole point of liberalism, by contrast, is to divvy people up by race, foster jealousy and resentment, and profit electorally. From Eric "my people" holder to Barack "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon" Obama, the Democrats play the race card from the bottom of the deck every day and twice on Sunday.
There are loons on both sides, but it does seem that the entire basis of the Dem party now, the establishment part of the party, is about race, gender, income and sex. As lawguy said, they use these tactics to divide people.