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Old 09-15-2016, 09:34 AM   #1
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In which, a "discussion" is when you accuse everyone who disagrees with you of racism, and then refuse to explain why they are racists.
I must of missed that post.
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Old 09-15-2016, 09:49 AM   #2
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I must of missed that post.
Republicans have no use for minorities.

Did you not say that? Or is that somehow different, from saying they are racist?
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Republicans have no use for minorities.

Did you not say that? Or is that somehow different, from saying they are racist?
Do the Dems. have any use of Evangelicals?

Keep blowing that racism whistle.
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Old 09-15-2016, 09:58 AM   #4
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Do the Dems. have any use of Evangelicals?

Keep blowing that racism whistle.
Paul, if you say that the GOP has no use for minorities, how is that different from calling them racist?
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Paul, if you say that the GOP has no use for minorities, how is that different from calling them racist?
In my view it is totally different. You can think you can get elected w/o appealling to a certain group of people. Doesn't make you a racist to not appeal to them.

Had the Republican's gotten some immigration reform done, they prob. would be polling better and prob. in the lead now.
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In my view it is totally different. You can think you can get elected w/o appealling to a certain group of people. Doesn't make you a racist to not appeal to them.

Had the Republican's gotten some immigration reform done, they prob. would be polling better and prob. in the lead now.
boom!

that's a very odd sentence
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Old 09-15-2016, 11:13 AM   #7
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In my view it is totally different. You can think you can get elected w/o appealling to a certain group of people. Doesn't make you a racist to not appeal to them.

Had the Republican's gotten some immigration reform done, they prob. would be polling better and prob. in the lead now.
There is a world of difference between...

(1) the GOP thinking they can win without the black vote, and
(2) the GOP introducing voting laws that are specifically designed to suppress the black vote.

#1 is not racist. You specifically accused the GOP, of #2. Trying to deny US citizens their constitutional rights based on skin color, could not be more racist.

"Had the Republican's gotten some immigration reform done, they prob. would be polling better and prob. in the lead now"

Not sure who you mean by "Republicans". Nationwide, the GOP currently controls both houses of Congress, and a huge majority of governorships and state legislatures.

If you are talking about just this one presidential election, if you think the GOP is way behind, then you haven't looked at polling that reflects Hilary's "pneumonia", or her deplorables comment. The most recent polling has Trump surging. CNN, which has all but endorsed Hilary in this election for God's sake, has him ahead in Ohio and Florida.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...nal-polls.html

Perhaps when your first instinct is to lie every single time you hit a bump in the road, and to describe almost 25% of the country you wish to lead as deplorable (half of Trump's supporters), that has ramifications.

Trying to follow your logic on this thread, is like following my dog's foot prints in new-fallen snow, and trying to find the logic in the path he followed. A real head-scratcher in either case.

For God's sakes, why did my side nominate this jerk? If we nominated anyone else, she would have written her concession speech by now. She couldn't beat Nixon right now.

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There is a world of difference between...

(1) the GOP thinking they can win without the black vote, and
(2) the GOP introducing voting laws that are specifically designed to suppress the black vote.

#1 is not racist. You specifically accused the GOP, of #2. Trying to deny US citizens their constitutional rights based on skin color, could not be more racist.
The judge stated that #2 is exactly what the results of law were - to suppress the black vote.

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