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High plains grifters
Philly.com ^ | 1-20-2016 | Will Bunch

Posted on 01/20/2016 9:28:02 PM PST by Citizen Zed

Is there actual bona fide political import to Palin endorsing Trump? Perhaps. God knows there's a significant slice of the electorate -- not a majority of Americans, thank God, but a real plurality of GOP primary voters -- who believe that God created the United States as a shining beacon to dominate all the world's other nations and take their oil. While probably 75 percent of these folks were probably already backing the short-fingered vulgarian, the Palin endorsement should nail down the rest.

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They are nothing more than high plains grifters, wooing the American Heartland with their ugly charisma for fun and profit, but especially profit.

There may come a day, a couple of years from now, when our national parks are ringed with oil wells and America is embroiled in a war in the Middle East that's even more pointless than the wars that came before it, when all the laughter will die in sorrow and folks will wonder what the hell just happened.

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Democrats are going to need more mental health professionals before this election cycle is over.

Now if we can just keep our front running Republicans from cracking up.

1 posted on 01/20/2016 9:28:02 PM PST by Citizen Zed
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“who believe that God created the United States as a shining beacon to dominate all the world’s other nations and take their oil.”

Can this guy really be that stupid?

If so he needs to have some truth BEATEN into him. I am sorry that statement is so incredibly offensive, such a horrific lie that the person who wrote it is beyond any pity, charity or common courtesy.


2 posted on 01/20/2016 9:32:03 PM PST by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
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It is SO easy to destroy the credibility of these anti-Trump and Palin-bashing turds...

“Will Bunch is a veteran political journalist and author of three books — most recently The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama — an in-depth look at the rise of the New Right, including the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, the Oath Keepers, and radical extremists in Congress. Will is also author of 2009’s Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future”


3 posted on 01/20/2016 9:33:24 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first ande then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Liberalism is a mental disorder.


4 posted on 01/20/2016 9:36:56 PM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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Will Bunch:


5 posted on 01/20/2016 10:20:59 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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folks will wonder what the hell just happened.

Obama happened.


6 posted on 01/20/2016 10:22:42 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Or there will come a day when the US is indistinguishable from Europe ... or should I say Eurasia with Bernie Sanders at the helm.

Or there will come a day when the US is a fascist state run by a corrupt Clinton regime with Chelsea waiting in the wings to keep the brown shirts waving for 16 years.

Is this what the essayist would prefer?

7 posted on 01/21/2016 12:50:44 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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The nasty rhetoric and vicious screeds are really amping up. Getting a bit worrisome.


8 posted on 01/21/2016 2:46:44 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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God did not make America into this shining city on the hill...the Bill of Rights did.


9 posted on 01/21/2016 3:08:54 AM PST by ez (Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... - Milton)
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Looks like his panties are wadded in a BUNCH.


10 posted on 01/21/2016 3:21:19 AM PST by abclily
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