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LMAO. Really? Do tell.

 

Good assessment. She's smarter than Palin, too.

Seems like a decent woman who's pretty quickly going to have decide between the policy loons picking at her and reason.

 

The fact that he looks like a roided-up goon only adds to it.

 

How do I put this? I think the Palin was the trouble in and of herself, if that makes sense. A mildly bright person posing as a know-it-all, which is what got her in trouble most often. Palin was a masterful calculator of people, though. Even her gaffes, I think, were carried out in delusion, not subterfuge. She's like Trump in that way. (Trump's ability to completely neuter all of Ted Cruz's political clout, and, bizarrely, set the defining narrative of Elizabeth Warren through a hideous joke remains two astonishing political feats.) Palin had raw, rare political ability. Her speech at the GOP convention was a kind "oh, shit, that was good in the worst way" moment for the Democrats that simultaneously ended John McCain's presidency and gave the Tea Party, months before it came into being, a kind of emotional conception. She was the forerunner of Trump. (Who is also smarter than Palin.) But she was the trouble, the half-nut who could conjure a conspiracy theory out of thin air, who had such an ego that the other half-nuts, other than her husband, didn't hang around long.

AOC is an achiever, a do-gooder, a meritocratic type. She draws the half-nuts, and the test will be whether, over time, she can dump "get on the train, or choo choo motherfucker" types. I don't think she has Palin's craven instincts - and that's a good thing. But I get the sense she'll lie and fudge and overstate her case to win because it means so much. And, pretty soon, what you'll do to win starts to look a little scary. That's when you hope she's driven off the half-nuts.

 

AOC is necessary. Years of DLC triangulation has allowed the country to shift way too far to the right.

 

A second woman accuses Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault. Fairfax denies the claim, which he terms "demonstrably false." OK, pal. Demonstrate. First of all, it's gonna be hard to prove a negative. It will be especially difficult to prove a negative from 19 years ago.
This new accuser has outcry witnesses on the record.
Fairfax must go. The AG should start warming up in the bullpen.
If all this comes to pass, a question becomes rather obvious: Has any state experienced the nearly simultaneous demise of the governor and the top lieutenant? We know it hasn't happened in the presidency. The GOP had the good sense -- for its sake -- to withhold its disdain of Mojo Nixon until Ford had been the VP for a near after Agnew's demise.

 

He knows far too many secrets not to keep him on the gravy train.

Firm owned by Trump's longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller has received $225,000 from the RNC

 

Funny you should ask. Governor, Sec. of State and Senate President.

State government was “decapitated” by deadly 1947 plane crash | Offbeat Oregon History | #ORhistory

 

Year of the Pig

 

Next time people think someone must be really smart because the person holds a law degree, mention Matthew Whitaker.