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WTF Happened...??? (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Nov 2013
OP
I was impressed by the Democrats that ran for President in 2008. Quite the opposite of the
madinmaryland
Nov 2013
#11
Kaleva
(40,284 posts)1. Harding wasn't known for his brains.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)7. He "looked like a president"
JEEEEZIS!
Of course, even he was STILL smarter than George W Shithead!
PEACE!
liberal N proud
(61,178 posts)2. The bright ones all run from politics now
madinmaryland
(65,690 posts)11. I was impressed by the Democrats that ran for President in 2008. Quite the opposite of the
clown car also known as the Republican party.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. Idiocracy has progressed! n/t
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Money.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)5. Republicans treated politics like a hand job...
No, not that kind, THIS kind:

MarianJack
(10,237 posts)6. I remember when Barry Goldwater was considered to be a nut,...
...and in 1964, he WAS!
In today's teabagger/republican party, he'd be considered a liberal extremist!
PEACE!
cali
(114,904 posts)8. total myth- as any student of the rogues, scoundrels, crooks and idiots
that have always existed within U.S. politics, can tell you.
JHB
(38,062 posts)9. Kinda obvious, ain't it? Follow the ...
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)10. Rupert Murdoch
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)12. The rightwing echo chamber of the last 30 years.
When the Republicans took control of the House in '94, they made Rush Limbaugh an honorary member of the GOP House caucus.
That was Joe Scarbrow's idea . . . to marry the 2 together.
Concerning that picture of JFK, it is one of my favorite pictures of him.
Concerning that picture of Michelle Bachmann, it reminds me of this famous quote --
And the idea was, the shark goes to the nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.

