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8th June 2010, 09:25 PM | #1 |
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ZOMG... "Birther" Orly Taitz is Running for Office
Wow, even a bunch of Tea Party activists are running like hell from her...
GOP bad dream: Birther on ticket
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8th June 2010, 09:43 PM | #2 |
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Just what the GOP needs. More fringe maniacs to make their party look even more bonkers.
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8th June 2010, 09:45 PM | #3 |
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Well, as the saying goes, when you sleep with the dogs, you shouldn't complain when you pick up some fleas. This is what the GOP gets for pushing ever further to the right post-2008.
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8th June 2010, 11:06 PM | #4 |
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9th June 2010, 01:12 AM | #5 |
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Hate to ruin the party, but Orly crashed and burned.
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have nothing to worry about. |
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9th June 2010, 04:26 AM | #6 |
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9th June 2010, 07:06 AM | #8 |
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She did get trounced but still managed to garner 365,684 votes. Which just shows there are at least 365,684 very stupid Californians.
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9th June 2010, 10:44 AM | #9 |
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I love Birthers and Tea-Baggers. They are the Democrats dream come true.
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9th June 2010, 12:10 PM | #10 |
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Orly lost. From the OP:
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9th June 2010, 01:33 PM | #11 |
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Agreed, alhtough I thing that Carly is going to have enough problems of her own. The real problem is she has a personality like shredded glass, and all the horror stories about her at Hewett Packard are going to give Boxer some real ammunition. IMHO Campbell would have been a much better choice for the GOP in the general election.
Whitman has a very good chance of becoming Governor..although IMHO she will do no better in cleaning up the mess in California then Arnie has. |
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9th June 2010, 01:58 PM | #13 |
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Apologies to any Californians here, but that state is like a 5 year old.
It keeps demanding services, but when tax rises are brought up it holds it's breath till it turns blue. They owe what now, a bajjilion-zillion dollars? When it becomes so high that M.I.T. grads don't have a name for it, is that like being in the black? |
9th June 2010, 04:44 PM | #14 |
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And I still think you're reaching to cover your non-sequitur. Unless you're asserting that the same offices being pursued by Whitman and Fiorina would necessitate Taitz for them to be elected, then what you're saying still doesn't make sense. As to MattusMaximus' quote, nutbars running for office "is what the GOP gets" for appealing to the nutbar fringe, which pretty clearly is talking about "the GOP" and not just the two female GOP candidates in California you referenced.
So I'm not claiming that your statements lack all logic, but I am saying that the logic you are applying seems to be picking bits and pieces from what others have written and pretty much ignored what those posters were actually saying, hence my calling it a non-sequitur. Now that you've clarified yourself it's fairly clear that you're having a different conversation though, so at least we've accomplished that much for the sake of communication. |
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9th June 2010, 04:51 PM | #15 |
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I am amazed the Tom Campbell did not go after Carly on the HP/Compaq merge,which was a huge fiasco. In fact, Carly's reputation as a CEO has never recovered from it.
It's going to be tougher for Carly. For one thing, with Boxer she has got a opponent who can can dip her into her personal fortune, a handicap for Campbell who through fairly well off, did not have the kind of money that Carly had. Boxer does. |
9th June 2010, 04:59 PM | #16 |
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As a Native Californian..who has lived in Sacramento for the last 15 years, no less, I have to agree.
It's a nasty pattern: They elect Republicans when the Dems act like they might raise taxes, but when the spending cuts hit home, they elect Dems but still won't raise taxes. |
9th June 2010, 05:08 PM | #17 |
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I won't say that your assessment is wrong, but I would instead say that the Californian state government is an example of all that's wrong with allowing the general population to be able to make changes to the structure of the government and the constitution with a simple majority. Whether it's the far Right or the far Left doing the influencing, political histrionics are so commonplace and standard-practice that the state constitution changes every few years. Whether it's the adding or subtracting of services, the changing of the ways the state can gather revenue, or any number of bureaucratic loopholes that get created for one (special interest) group or another, there are any number of propositions being cooked up to alter the state government practically every year. That makes for a rather schizophrenic and inefficient way of operating a state government.
None of that is to say that other states don't have their flaws, but for California in particular it's a textbook case for precisely what's wrong with ruling by simple majority. |
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I can't believe people would actually take Oily Taint seriously. That woman is bat-**** crazy,and really needs to be medicated and/or put in a padded room for a while.
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14th June 2010, 05:29 AM | #21 |
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I do need to ask something about the California election...
What the HELL made the Republicans look at Carly Fiorina and say, "yeah, this woman is someone we can get behind!" Her tenure at HP was beyond disastrous; she was incompetent, she made business moves that were at best questionable (Compaq, anyone?), the stock price tanked - and it didn't recover until they forced her to resign. She didn't exactly shine as a brilliant mind while McCain spokeswoman, either. So really - wtf? Who looks at this woman's career and thinks she should be in political office? I'm not asking about the rank-and-filers; if there's one thing this forum has taught me, it's that either party could run a brain-damaged orangutan for office and there will be party loyalists who will be happy to defend him/her. I'm more curious about the workings at the RNC and CA state Republican hierarchy that decided to throw their support behind her. Whitman I can see - I'm not a fan, but there's no arguing that she's a successful, intelligent woman. Her company grew leaps and bounds under her leadership. But Fiorina? The woman's only skill seems to be incompetence on a scale that approaches performance art. |
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14th June 2010, 06:48 AM | #23 |
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14th June 2010, 04:53 PM | #24 |
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The RNC and State commitees did not exactly throw their support behind her. If anything, Tom Campbell, a long time conservative Legislator was the GOP "Establishment" candidate. But Fiorina essentially bought the nominations by the huge amount of money (most of it from her personal fortune) she spent. Campbell seemed to fit the kind of GOP candidate that can do well in California...a fiscal conservative but a moderate on social issues (he opposed Prop 8) but in the opinion of many in the GOP, he was too nice a guy to go after Carly. Oh, I am sure that the Boxer Campaign is going to make Fiorina's spotty record as a CEO a major issue in the campaign. I think a lot of GOP opinion was summed up by a guy at work who is a loyal Republican: He will vote for Carly because he can't stand Boxer, but he is not happy about the choice. |
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