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lagomorph777

(30,613 posts) Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:10 PM Apr 2016

What's the deal with the simultaneous political suicide of all these southern governors? [View all]

Pat McCrory (NC) - signed an anti-LGBT bill
Phil Bryant (MS) - signed an anti-LGBT bill
Robert Bentley (AL) - had an affair with an employee

I mean, I appreciate the opportunity for Dems this opens up, but WTF?

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What's the deal with the simultaneous political suicide of all these southern governors? [View all] lagomorph777 Apr 2016 OP

Is it suicide, though? The dipshits of those states keep electing these type of cretins. Arugula Latte Apr 2016 #1

Yes, in the case of McCrory and NC, it is political suicide. mnhtnbb Apr 2016 #9

They believe they are doing the right thing JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #2

They're playing to their base DebbieCDC Apr 2016 #3

And their economies will continue to suffer lagomorph777 Apr 2016 #4

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (LA) - took Louisiana from surplus to $1.6 Billion deficit KeepItReal Apr 2016 #5

So "Religious Freedom" is the Orwellian term for lagomorph777 Apr 2016 #6

That's pretty much it sharp_stick Apr 2016 #7

it's a sort of "theological engineering"--the oillionaires who bankrolled the late-70s MisterP Apr 2016 #10

That's what the South does best. Cheat on their wives and discriminate against LGBT people. Initech Apr 2016 #8

These aren't pick up opportunities. Bentley is term limited anyway and the other 2 are playing to craigmatic Apr 2016 #11

How 'bout down-ticket? lagomorph777 Apr 2016 #12

I can honestly say it won't matter in AL I've never seen as many confederate flags as I've seen craigmatic Apr 2016 #14

Bentley is really the only one at risk of "political suicide" at the moment Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2016 #13