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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 05:01 AM Jul 2014

BBC News-Are Republicans the 'stupid party'?

This was back in 2013, yet, as we all know, they are still being stupid.

25 January 2013 Last updated at 17:39

Bobby Jindal is warning that the Republicans must stop being the "stupid party".

The Louisiana governor, a likely contender for his party's presidential nomination in 2016, said a number of Republicans had "damaged the brand" by making "offensive and bizarre" comments.

He's talking of course about those remarks about "legitimate rape" and how rape can't lead to pregnancy.

The Republicans who made those comments did seem to be going out of their way to back up John Stuart Mill's 1866 comment: "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."


Read more @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21203235
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BBC News-Are Republicans the 'stupid party'? (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2014 OP
For many of them no, just substitute the word "doctor" for "stupid" to get a gist of where they're Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #1

Uncle Joe

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1. For many of them no, just substitute the word "doctor" for "stupid" to get a gist of where they're
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 05:16 AM
Jul 2014

coming from.



The stupid aspect for many is just a marketing ploy in trying to dumb down and appeal to the lowest common denominator aka; their base.

Better descriptive words of these Republicans would be authoritarian, greedy, with delusions of grandeur, racist and misogynist.

Thanks for the thread, Lady Freedom Returns.
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