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Bacle, go back and read what I said instead of knee jerking to what you think I said. I was saying that the country would be in a much better place if your viewpoints were the mainstream Democrat viewpoints, where YOUR beliefs were what defined the Democrat Party, my views defined more or less...

Man... sometimes I sit here and wish that our political extremes were defined by @Bacle, @Vyor, @Abhorsen, and myself... this may sound like I'm wishing for government that agrees with itself, but in actually the four of us are WILDLY divided on so many issues that if the Democrats and Left in...

Rand Paul isn't really a libertarian though. Or... I guess he sorta is, but he's much more Social Conservative with a Libertarian bend. He's certain less of a Libertarian than his father is.

Let a different state have the R leadership for awhile! :P That said, I don't actually disagree, just amusing how different the two Kentucky Senators are.

Just to lay to rest the idea that Romney, of all people, was a Fusionist... here's the LEADING Fusionist publication, as in they invented and pushed the ideology, National Review of Romney's career: Mitt Romney Was No Profile in Political Courage Some highlights to make it clear he never was...

Because what you think of basic bitch political capital-C Conservatism in US politics IS Fusionism. Every time people talked about "Conservatism" without any other modifier (Neo-, Paleo-, Compassionate, etc.) they were talking about Fusionism. When people talk about the Conservatism of...

. . . Did you even read what I wrote. I explicitly pointed out that W. Bush rejected Fusionism, that's what he was rejecting/replacing with his much pushed "Compassionate Conservatism". FFS even WIKIPEDIA lists it as a separate strain of thought of Conservatism from Fusionism, as is likewise...

Romney is not nor ever been a Fusionist. He's always been a Liberal Republican / Rockefellers Republican and they staunchly opposed Fusionist from the very beginning. In point of fact, very few Republicans have ACTUALLY been Fusionists, even though ideologically Fusionists were basically who...

. . . Holy crap, that means his internal polling must have been BAD. Good on Utah for finally waking up to the fact that despite being a Mormon, Romney wasn't interested in representing them AT ALL.

Uhh... OK, while I do think there's some truth to the "uniparty" idea, this quote from McConnel isn't actually one that supports the idea. Remember: a lot of the Trump backed candidates whom won their primaries were financially backed by the Democrats in the primaries, who appears to have...

Because Arizona's election system is fucked up and stupid in ways that seem custom made to cause delays in counting and create questions about vote irregularities. This article goes over it in some detail. Seriously their entire system is stupid and needs to be reformed from the ground up.

"Jungle Primaries" are a joke they're used specifically to prevent parties from actually choosing candidates that the party wants. Jungle Primary + Ranked Choice voting is just having two general elections, just with the second one with a more narrow field of candidates... but with ranked...

. . . This is so fundamentally untrue that frankly I find it insulting and wish you'd go back to being a leftist because you'd do more good with your idiocy there. Reagan and the later 1994 "Republican Revolution" were founded on being proactive, innovative, and on the leading edge of...