Republicans in NC sure are stupid, ain't they?

[Mytzlplk]

I'm not sure if they're measurably more stupid than those to be found elsewhere on average, but it sure seems like it sometimes.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...ion-saying-state-can-ignore-the-constitution/

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

From your link: So when Starnes and his colleagues lash out against this one freedom, they are not simply lashing out against some court decisions that they disagree with. They are rejecting the most transformative moment in American constitutional history and denying that their side lost the Civil War.

LeRoy: I'll have you know that down heah in North Carolina, we's dont call it the Civil War. We calls it the War of Northern Aggression!

 

[Mytzlplk]

lol -- stinkin yankees

that those clowns would reject such a reality (transformative moment) is far from surprising

I don't think the modern rightwingnut movement could last five minutes without the power of denial

 

[NCmusicman]

Sorry, but the Civil War racists were not Republicans... they were Democrats... and then they were the KKK Democrats who lynched Republicans from the same trees as the blacks for helping "colored people".

From your link: So when Starnes and his colleagues lash out against this one freedom, they are not simply lashing out against some court decisions that they disagree with. They are rejecting the most transformative moment in American constitutional history and denying that their side lost the Civil War.

LeRoy: I'll have you know that down heah in North Carolina, we's dont call it the Civil War. We calls it the War of Northern Aggression!

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

Sorry, but the Civil War racists were not Republicans... they were Democrats... and then they were the KKK Democrats who lynched Republicans from the same trees as the blacks for helping "colored people".

Ancient history, NCM. The two parties have completely switched roles in the past half-century. It is the Democrats today who are vigorous defenders of civil rights for minorities, and it is the Republicans who are now always trying to take away the rights of minorities to vote, etc.

 

[OldGaffer]

NCM, what happened to all those white Democrat racists in North Carolina? Now the vast majority of Democrats in North Carolina are minorites and White Republicans are busy trying to suppress their vote.

 

[BitterPill]

Sorry, but the Civil War racists were not Republicans... they were Democrats... and then they were the KKK Democrats who lynched Republicans from the same trees as the blacks for helping "colored people".

And the object of those lynchings largely voted Republican when they could vote. Then those KKK Democrats migrated to the GOP with the civil rights movement, and so the object of those lynchings created a counter-migration to the Democratic Party.

It's all history.

 

[bdtex]

Stupid and embarrassed. They're embarrassed at losing in 2008 and having to work so hard just for a 2 point win by Romney in 2012. Hillary is gonna win NC in 2016.

 

[MaryAnne]

And the object of those lynchings largely voted Republican when they could vote. Then those KKK Democrats migrated to the GOP with the civil rights movement, and so the object of those lynchings created a counter-migration to the Democratic Party.

It's all history.

Welcome Back BP!:rockon:

 

[Friday13]

Great to see you, BP!

 

[Doubter]

Stupid is as stupid does it would seem. Got to live in your own little universe to make sense of that. Chalk it up to an amygdaloid freak out as they realize that a bumper sticker slogan doesn't make for a good constitutional argument for justifying discrimination against fellow American citizens.

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

Stupid is as stupid does it would seem. Got to live in your own little universe to make sense of that. Chalk it up to an amygdaloid freak out as they realize that a bumper sticker slogan doesn't make for a good constitutional argument for justifying discrimination against fellow American citizens.

I love the movie 'Forrest Gump'. The line I like best in that movie is when Forrest says that his mother told him "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get".

What an altogether pleasant philosophy of life. I guess I am more of a cynic:

LeRoy (on a good day): Life is like a box of chocolates, with an occasional turd.

LeRoy (on a bad day): Life is like a box of turds, with an occasional chocolate.

LeRoy (on a very bad day): Life is a box of turds.