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The Blatant Ignorance of Republican Presidential Candidates
Esquire ^ | July 2nd, 2015 | By Charles P. Pierce

Posted on 07/02/2015 9:30:44 PM PDT by Mariner

The symptoms of the prion disease are beginning to become so obvious that even some of our more prominent pundits are beginning to notice them. For example, even former Karl Rove life-coach Ron Fournier has noticed the severe lack of Abraham Lincolns in the current GOP presidential candidates. And noted climate-denialist and baseball drone George Effing Will has staked out the bold position that many of these candidates have gone so far around the bend that they've crossed some kind of termination barrier.

It is, therefore, especially disheartening that Cruz, who clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and who is better equipped by education and experience to think clearly about courts, proposes curing what he considers this court's political behavior by turning the court into a third political branch.

The problem, of course, is that, for all his expensive education and lengthy experience, Ted Cruz is a nut. And the larger problem is that the institutions of the conservative movement that has cosseted George Effing Will for his entire adult life, and from which he derives his endlessly mysterious influence as a "thinker," were the places where Republicans first ate the monkeybrains containing the prion disease in the first place.

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To: 21twelve

Yeah, actually more like 3rd grade than 5th. I gave him too much credit.


21 posted on 07/02/2015 10:18:50 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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Most every argument the typical libtard makes is prefaced with the necessary declaration of superior intellect.


22 posted on 07/02/2015 11:53:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric
Can drain a Journalist douchbag in a single move..
Flabbergast an idiot with a smile and a fact..
23 posted on 07/03/2015 12:28:16 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

Not to endorse the counter-culture, but there’s a cool pic of a tat’d Cruz ready for business.


24 posted on 07/03/2015 1:04:21 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Mariner

“Charles P. “Charlie” Pierce is an American sportswriter, political blogger, author, and game show panelist.”


25 posted on 07/03/2015 1:09:19 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Mariner
...proposes curing what he considers this court's political behavior by turning the court into a third political branch.

It already is, ya dope!

26 posted on 07/03/2015 4:18:02 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe and Microagressor..)
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To: Mariner

As someone who has had a close relative die of prion disease, I take great offense at Esquire making a joke of prion disease. It is an always fatal, devastating disease, that destroys the brain. Is it OK now to joke about Beau Biden’s brain cancer?


27 posted on 07/03/2015 4:19:15 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Army Air Corps

Who knew Esquire was still being published...


28 posted on 07/03/2015 5:16:46 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Eagles6

And denigrate their betters.


29 posted on 07/03/2015 5:34:19 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it. Ben Franklin)
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To: Mariner

the rant is lacking substance


30 posted on 07/03/2015 5:46:28 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Partisan Media Shill alert:
For example, even former Karl Rove life-coach Ron Fournier has noticed the severe lack of Abraham Lincolns in the current GOP presidential candidates. And noted climate-denialist and baseball drone George Effing Will has staked out the bold position that many of these candidates have gone so far around the bend that they've crossed some kind of termination barrier... The problem, of course, is that, for all his expensive education and lengthy experience, Ted Cruz is a nut. And the larger problem is that the institutions of the conservative movement... were the places where Republicans first ate the monkeybrains containing the prion disease in the first place.

31 posted on 07/03/2015 7:45:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Shimmer1

True.


32 posted on 07/03/2015 9:48:32 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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