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LisaM

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15. My real problem with the Bushes is that they don't believe most of the stuff they run on

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 12:57 PM

Oct 2017

but have seemed perfectly willing to use wedge issues that don't reflect their personal beliefs to achieve power and influence.

I don't think they are personally racist, they seem to value education, and I don't believe that they are personally opposed to abortion. The older Bush even resigned from the NRA because of their heavy-handed mail campaigns. Yet, they are perfectly willing to subvert their rather moderate, old-time Republican values to use things like gay marriage, gun control, and abortion as wedge issues, they were willing to stoop to using the likes of Lee Atwater and Rove to run their campaigns, and they clearly had no scruples about disenfranchising voters in Florida to win.

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Former Attorney General Sally Yates Tweets a warning [View all] Guilded Lilly Oct 2017 OP

Every word! BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #1

Indeed. Jeb actually called it. calimary Oct 2017 #11

My real problem with the Bushes is that they don't believe most of the stuff they run on LisaM Oct 2017 #15

And the sad thing is....... MyOwnPeace Oct 2017 #19

A hell of a lot better. Now, the Bushes sit or stand with Alice11111 Oct 2017 #20

Yeah not fooled Oct 2017 #22

Indeed. And what does it say about the sad state of affairs we're all stuck in, now, calimary Oct 2017 #26

I remember when I couldnt say the name Bush Guilded Lilly Oct 2017 #32

The chaos is his distraction for his slight of hand. world wide wally Oct 2017 #2

More than resist Justice Oct 2017 #3

Yes, we have to do much more than what we are doing frazzled Oct 2017 #13

There are not many options left to us. Trump's cabinet onit2day Oct 2017 #17

I agree with this, but I honestly am not sure what to do. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #23

There are some days when I am almost paralyzed by the Guilded Lilly Oct 2017 #28

I've done the same as you. I just found out there are 3 local chapters of Indivisible near me. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #33

Remember how easy it was mountain grammy Oct 2017 #4

Yes. We do have an asset that they didn't have, thankfully--- BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2017 #14

Let's hope we get to keep it! charliea Oct 2017 #16

I hope they fail trying to pull this off. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2017 #18

Yes, thankfully, we do have this mountain grammy Oct 2017 #27

drumpf is not Democracy, and never will be. democratisphere Oct 2017 #5

All Part of the repub Plan DownriverDem Oct 2017 #6

Put her on the ticket!! MissKat Oct 2017 #7

Has she given any hint she'd want to run? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #9

Cancer doesn't go away by itself dalton99a Oct 2017 #8

I'd support her candidacy for president. ffr Oct 2017 #10

I hope that Sally Yates runs for office one day Gothmog Oct 2017 #12

agreed Skittles Oct 2017 #24

NOW a warning? Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #21

Every word rings true. SergeStorms Oct 2017 #25

Embracing your nuisance persona wholeheartedly!! Guilded Lilly Oct 2017 #29

I took it as a rallying cry not a warning. Justice Oct 2017 #30

it is cancer Locrian Oct 2017 #31