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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 02:40 PM) We need and deserve better from the police, FBI, and politicians. Get off the more guns. 4.4% of the world's population, 42% of the world's guns. We should be the safest place in the world by far if more guns was the answer. If the NRA doesn't want something, politicians, even Trump who campaigned how no one could influence him, back off immediately. Get some balls Republicans. Fixed it for you.

I love that greg thinks this story has run its course because it's no longer being talked about on Fox News. It's still the biggest story going right now on every other channel and online news outlet.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 25, 2018 -> 12:23 AM) If Hillary was 10 years younger I bet she'd try again. If Trump is the opponent, he's gonna be easily defeated cause of the fact he's despised by just about everybody. Trump will not be easily defeated. Biden's age is such a huge concern, but he's leading in every poll. Otherwise, Booker and Murphy are coming on strong lately, but usually, the nominee is someone we're not even talking about at this point. There are a lot of wildcards out there. *clenches fists and whispers "Martin O'Malley" to himself*

QUOTE (New Era on South Side @ Feb 24, 2018 -> 12:58 AM) Gillibrand. She would lose. Every attack used against Hillary could equally be used against her. They even look enough alike. I've never experienced a more calculating, methodical, power-hungry person than Gillibrand. Don't get me wrong, I think she's great. But she's the epitome of a political opportunist, and has had her sites set on the Presidency from the moment she chose which district in NY to move to, because she wanted to pick the one where she'd have the best chance of winning. I don't think - if you're trying to go for authenticity - she'll do the Democratic Party any favors.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 09:21 AM) This is garbage. He didn't vote for the Russia sanctions because he was protecting the Iran deal. He must a Russian agent for protecting something Obama did. This whole "everyone is a Russian agent" stuff is toxic. Only when it affects the guy you like, though, right?

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 06:04 PM) Man that will be politicized so hard. As it should be.

Bernie now trying to undercut the Mueller probe, after voting against Russia sanctions... Hm... who else agrees with both of those positions? This whole article is - honestly - insane. Definitely worth the read. Especially if you're in the Bernie camp. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/21/b...rference-420528

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 03:16 PM) I just don't get how America can piss all over the world and ruin countries based on their preferred leadership and it's "for a good cause" but when some Russians buy some facebook ads to support every candidate that isn't HRC all of a sudden it's a 24 hour news cycle for a year plus. Because that's literally how foreign policy works. All countries try and influence others while making sure they're not influenced themselves. Whoever decided that foreign relations needed to be "fair" doesn't know how any of this works. Do you think America shouldn't try and protect itself from foreign interference? Or are you just annoyed we're talking about it because it helped Republicans?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 02:32 PM) To act as if Russian meddling in the '16 election is a primary concern for the country is laughable. 1) You're right that voters don't care about Russia. It's not a good campaign issue. 2) That's not at ALL the same thing as whether or not it's a very, very important issue for the country. It is.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 02:05 PM) Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Mitt Romney, who was one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics, is now pushing me on tax returns. Dope! 6:34 AM - Feb 25, 2016 Now an endorsement. Will Mitt ask him to release his tax returns again? Not likely.

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 12:36 PM) Yet you're spending time arguing on a message board... For the first time in about three months, during breaks while doing donor research for the campaign I'm working on.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 11:54 AM) You are missing the point that I have no idea why that is interesting or that I should care. Mitt Romney is pandering to the worst excesses of base voters? Couldn't have guessed. Guess I've just got more important things to be pissed off about right now.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 11:39 AM) No, i'd say "staaahp" the cynical worldview that elevates political motivations above all else. Pandering to Trump doesn't make him "smart" above all else, it makes him shameless. Romney was very passionate about how Trump was not just a bad candidate, but dangerous for the United States, and protecting the United States was important for Mitt. Now, Mitt is very proud to receive Trumps endorsement, because his aspirations are more important than the country. The framing that any move, no matter how shameless or horrible, is inherently good if it is to get votes is just so hacky. I don't care if Mitt Romney gets elected, he will be as terrible as Bob Corker or Paul Ryan or any other "respectable" Republican, he will be selfish. He will be useless. You're missing the point. Shameless to *YOU* is exactly the thing that scores him points with the base he needs to turn out in November.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 11:23 AM) Uh we can still criticize Mitt for being spineless while also laughing at all of the Resistance-types who praise him and similar Republicans for sometimes criticizing Trump but not actually ever doing anything meaningful. We're also talking about Utah here. Unless Romney has some similar child-touching skeletons as Roy Moore, it's a safe seat and he doesn't have to grovel to Trump. You can do whatever you want. But that doesn't change that he had no choice but to tepidly accept the endorsement from the sitting President of the United States.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 11:13 AM) He didn't have to run, or he could have run with integrity and faced losing. Remember how many Republicans in Utah were going to vote for Evan McMullin and how many actually did? Push comes to shove those voters aligned with trump would have voted for Romney over some devil worshipping democrat. Do you people forget how politics works? Lol GOP turnout is going to be low compared to historic norms, and compared to Dem turnout. Mitt needs to get every possible Republican vote - or at least he needs to campaign like he needs that. There's no rule that says once elected he has to be beholden to the things he's said before, and no rule that says he can't piss off liberals with his inconsistency now if it'll get him more votes. Staaaahp applying a liberal worldview to the tactics used by Republican politicians. It's just silly.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 10:52 AM) Mitt is Mormom aristocracy in a blood red state. He didn't have to immediately bend the knee to Trump, but he eagerly took the endorsement, just like he did in 2012 when Trump was regularly peddling birther nonsense. You're reading it as an angry liberal, not as someone who has to win a hell of a lot of Republican votes. Trump put him in a corner, and this was the only thing he could do this early in his candidacy. It was the smart move, regardless of how it looks to liberals (who, guess what, Mitt isn't trying to court anyway).

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 09:58 AM) There's a couple of big cases pending before SCOTUS right now on Wisconsin and Maryland that could have significant national impacts depending on how they're decided. The PA case was based on the state's constitution rather than federal law, so it won't apply outside of PA. Mitt, despite making a bunch of anti-Trump noise in 2016 and some last year, has already accepted Trump's endorsement. The GOP should be desperately hoping the courts rule against partisan gerrymandering, since elections are going to look brutal for them over the next two years heading into the 2020 census and redistricting.

QUOTE (Quin @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 09:33 AM) Mittens is already folding. Mitt has to do this. He needs Trump supporters to turn out. I don't think he'll be some moderate champion fighting Trump at every turn in the Senate, but pretty much no matter what he's an upgrade over Hatch.

In 2028 or 32 Presidential news, my buddy Zach Wahls is running for Iowa State Senate. He went viral in his speech in 2011 about having two moms, he spoke before Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and he runs Scouts for Equality - the organization that changed the Boy Scouts' policy on LGBT members. Get pumped. https://www.zachwahlsforiowa.com/

QUOTE (Quin @ Dec 21, 2017 -> 10:15 AM) I still think Harris will have momentum going into 2020. But really, we won't know until the dust settles in 2018 The only thing that gives her campaign a massive boost is CA being way earlier in the primaries. That could have a massive effect on her candidacy.

QUOTE (New Era on South Side @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 07:00 PM) Would Gillibrand be connected to the Clintons in anyway by voters or Trump’s people? this is her absolute biggest weakness. even the fact that she has the same look is a problem.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 11:19 AM) I had legitimately no idea who Bustos was. But O'Malley counts under my description. No one knows who she is, but isn't she the s***? ? Only Dem to win in Trump Country by 20 points.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 11:16 AM) Why would being a woman be a negative against Trump specifically? A major typical sexist criticism of women in positions of power, that they're 'too emotional', would go right out the window. I also don't think there's much value to be had in the "conventional DC wisdom" these days. Did that go out the window with Hillary?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 11:15 AM) As of right now Gillebrand and Harris look like the two strongest candidates to me and I'm totally happy with that. We'll see where that goes in 2 years. I'm not voting for an inferior man just because of some fear that the country demands inferior white men as their leaders. In the primaries? Great. More power to you. In a general, that sounds a lot like Bernie or Bust-ism. By the way, Cory Booker isn't white. Though my dream team is O'Malley/Bustos

It costs us right now, vs Trump, in this scenario. We're not as evolved as a country as we all made ourselves believe over the last decade. We will get to the point where a woman becomes President. It will happen in our lifetimes. It's not vs. Donald Trump, unfortunately.