Right wing’s worst nightmare: The master stroke that turns red states blue

Salon ^ | July 27, 2014 | Paul Rosenberg, Al Jazeera & Senior Editor, Random Lengths

[kabar]

The colors were supposed to alternate by election, but the MSM and the Dems made sure the Reps were stuck permanently with red. They knew that the association of the left with red would have subliminal effects upon voters. The Stupid Party was fooled again by the Evil Party.

[molson209]

If it all turns Blue ,well that’s it for ALL OF YOU

[cpdiii]

There is not one photon distance between the political beliefs of Elizabeth Warren and Obama. If she is the nominee this must be repeated time and time again and show the policies that both have supported. We will make her become Obama in the next election if she is their nominee.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Because it used to be that the colors would alternate and then blue was used for the party in power. After 2000 though it changed.

[AZLiberty]

The raw numbers tell us this is the direction America wants to go in. Elizabeth Warren could be the key to getting us there. Otherwise, it’s endless deadlock, as far as the eye can see.

The "direction" this article espouses is one-party rule, for as far as the eye can see, and of course the party is Democrat.

This is not "direction" -- except as a signpost on the road to Hell.

At a national level, the important questions are:

• Is America the land of opportunity, or the land of freebies?
• Is America a force for good in the world, or the source of all evil?

In large part it will depend on how the low-information voters interpret eight years of economic and international failure: as the responsibility of the doofus in charge (and his party), or an excuse to double down by increasing state welfare and turning our military into the San Francisco Rainbow Pride Parade.

[Kenny Bunk]

Boehner is the key man to allow Muslim Obama to CONTINUE to wreck America, and Obama knows it. Force Boehner to resign, and Obama will be at the mercy of New Speaker Jim Jordan or Trey Gowdy

The fact that the GOP has allowed Boehner to stay so long and wreak such damage has destroyed the party's credibility, perhaps forever.

[Kenny Bunk]

What is the difference between “White Alone,” and “Non-Hispanic White Alone?”

[Hot Tabasco]

Indeed, while 2016 is still a long way off, there’s good reason to believe that having Warren on the ticket could be the key to a Democratic victory

Sounds good to me.........I'd gladly cross primary party lines to vote for her if I could..

[98ZJ USMC]

Convert the Tea Party?

You can only come up with that possibility if you have a completely erroneous view of the Tea Party. The base assumption is because racist. Nothing could be further from the truth and the whole supposition is shattered, after that.

They, truly, do not get it.

[Kenny Bunk]

.....and here I thought I was ther only guy in the country who noticed this.

[98ZJ USMC]

Bush declared himself a “compassionate conservative” who would govern as “a uniter, not a divider.”

Which is why he didn't landslide Gore. If he was a Reagan prototype instead of a slightly better version of Dad, he would have gotten 57-60% of the 2000 vote. I hate that term "compassionate conservative".

Despise it.

[kabar]

White along consists of all whites including Hispanic whites. Non-Hispanic white alone means whites other than Hispanic whites. The Census Bureau depends on the individual to self-describe who he/she is.

George Zimmerman was a white Hispanic vice a non-white Hispanic. Definitions matter since they are used by the federal and state governments to dole out benefits like affirmative action and minority business set asides.

Our policies reinforce and encourage ethnic and racial identities. They are divisive and destructive. The Dems use it as part of their identity politics schtick.

[kabar]

Correction non-Hispanic white

[ReaganÜberAlles]

Thanks for the laugh.

[ReaganÜberAlles]

Thanks for the laugh.

[Leaning Right]

does he realize he just made the argument for Cruz/Palin better than most GOP staffers ever could

A bit off topic, but I don't see any advantage of putting Palin on the ticket with Cruz. Cruz would bring in the true conservatives. But who would Palin bring in that Cruz would miss?

I'd like see Cruz paired with someone who would be attractive to independents. Unfortunately, that person isn't Palin.

[Yaelle]

Not going to read the salon article but...

Short term politics = in the politician’s lifetime he can have big bux and power. Get a ton of illegals in, turn them into voters, and for his lifetime it’s big Dem power. Thereafter atlas will have shrugged, but he got his. Won’t be anything left for his kids to call a country.

Socialism is like Ebola. It kills off the hosts pretty quick.

[Yaelle]

I’d like see Cruz paired with someone who would be attractive to independents. Unfortunately, that person isn’t Palin.

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Agreed. Palin is electorate poison. I know republicans who just can’t stand her. I agree with every word she says but I sent her a lot of $ and she never let us know til July that she wasn’t running.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Uh, women?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Agreed.