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Chelsea Manning For Senate
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostBoth sides need to do a better job repudiating terrible candidates on their own side from the outset. (I noticed that the conservatives on this site did not repudiate the over-the-top-lewd Kid Rock when he was floating a candidacy.)
Overly-crass and crude rock star or a convicted traitor sentenced to 35 years who even the Canuckistanis won't allow into their country
I'm always still in trouble again
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostHmm..
Overly-crass and crude rock star or a convicted traitor sentenced to 35 years who even the Canuckistanis won't allow into their country
And conservatives do deserve a higher standard because they're the ones who claim traditional values."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View PostChelsea Manning has filed to run for the US Senate from Maryland. The mind boggles.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostProbably the progressive civil war is much more a sign of the progressive civil war than Manning is.
Also there seem to be just a tad more primary candidates this year than usual!
Anyone and everyone seems to be running in the primaries this year.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostWhere did I directly equate the two?
And conservatives do deserve a higher standard because they're the ones who claim traditional values."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostNon-traditional values has what to do with bad candidates? Seriously, I don't get the leap here."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostHe's saying the family values party should be running candidates who exemplify good family values, the law and order party shouldn't be running convicted felons etc, because the values the party alleges it stands for should be reflected in the candidates. Whereas the democratic party who doesn't stand for those things need not require its candidates to conform to a high standard on those issues because it itself doesn't push for a high standard on those issues."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostSo they should run bad candidates?
With respect to the OP, Chelsea Manning would be likely non-viable as a Republican candidate both due to being transgender and a whistle-blower on war-crimes. Whereas those same things mean she is perfectly viable as a Democratic candidate.
Mother Theresa would have been a terrible candidate - although a wonderful human being.
but what does it matter if the candidate is so bad in political stance that they can't be elected."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostGranted, a person's character should be of primary concern when vetting candidates - but what does it matter if the candidate is so bad in political stance that they can't be elected. I'm dubious that Kid Rock's mom would have voted for him."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by demi-conservative View PostIf Dems want mentally ill guy, okay then!!!
But if you're derogatorily referring to transgenderism, then I'll note that two months ago this transgender candidate won."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostNo, Dems don't want Trump.
But if you're derogatorily referring to transgenderism, then I'll note that two months ago this transgender candidate won.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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