Rank the Nixons in order of personal preference:

Richard
Mojo
Cynthia
Norm
Otis
Donnell
Russ

The Republicans have not won a presidential election without a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since Herbert Hoover (and whoever his VP was, I assume he wasn't named Bush or Nixon).

The fact that you left Trot out

Prince and the King of Pop, sure, close enough. Heck, I include Sister Rosetta Tharpe as R&B so the King of Pop, yeah, he had his moments. But Whitney Houston?

ok, let me make a few distinctions

when i think of anti-science i think of the folks who are actively pushing efforts to eliminate science being taught in schools, actively pushing the government to not support/employ science, and other obvious attempts to thwart science having a presence in the public forum

i do not equate someone believing in god creating man as being anti-science.

There really couldn't be anything more anti-science than believing god* created man.

Mojo Nixon has retired from music and has supported Kinky Freidman's run for Governor in the past, so maybe he could help the ticket.

You can't take exist definitively, but Pew says that GWB actually got better support from Mormons than Romney (80%-78%)...

I was a fan, but I think their approach came off as a little schizoid at the time.

What about the belief that God created man through the evolutionary process?

If you dont got mojo nixon, then your store could use some fixin

I would, however, oppose that statement being taught in a school classroom.

What about the belief that God created man through the evolutionary process?

I'm less inclined to get wrankled over this statement in a vacuum, or on an internet message board, because, hey, believe whatever you want. I would, however, oppose that statement being taught in a school classroom.

if the CBS story about Romney's people unskewing the polls and deciding to go to Pennsylvania because they were so far ahead in Ohio is true, then someone should excommunicate the whole lot from the party. Like Josh Marshall, I can't believe it is literally true though.

I'm sure Latinos would would love to see more spending in certain areas. But the same is true of Republicans. Romney ran on a promise to dramatically increase military spending. "Larger government" seems to be code for "more spending on things I don't like" and "limited government" code for "less spending on things I don't like and more spending on things I do like."

Moreover, federal outlays as a % of GDP decreased under Carter and Clinton and increased under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. They spiked in 2008 and 2009 due to lower GDP. Over the last 2 years, they have declined. So the whole premise is whacked.

If you dont got mojo nixon, then your store could use some fixin

In Cuba, as in Mexico and many other countries with similar Spanish colonial histories, the upper economic class is very predominantly light- and lighter-skinned because of their mostly directly Spanish lineage. (Think Fidel Castro.) Cubans working the cane fields and the docks in Cuba were far more likely descendant of African slaves. Thus a high proportion of the Cubans who came to populate south Florida after Castro were light- and lighter-skinned, disproportionate to the broader Cuban population.

GregD, Thank you. That brought back so many memories. Just watched the video and it was like 25 years ago in my head

Also, incidentally, the first anti-Obama show that I went to, as he started out by saying he heard all these guys saying how happy they were about the election but he was hear to say that punk rock was about not believing the ######## so #### Obama. The crowd went silent. It was a cool moment. I myself am pro-political, not anti-politics, but admit I am tired of getting sincere talks from indie rockers (shut up already, Patterson Hood!), and at one level, I don't believe in anti-politics but I do believe the meaning of punk rock is keeping alive that cynical dissocation of anti-politics. But it was dead silence. No one knew what to do. Then they went back to music.

If you dont got mojo nixon, then your store could use some fixin


It's not a stretch to say that I tend to reduce anyone who self-identifies as a "Tea Party Patriot" to the narrator from "Stuart."

It's not a stretch to say that I tend to reduce anyone who self-identifies as a "Tea Party Patriot" to the narrator from "Stuart."

i find it disturbing that some folks in this thread are absolutists in that if one has a belief system that conflicts with science then that individual is 'anti-science'

i struggle all the time with my faith and balancing that with what i believe to be true in the physical world.

i stood down repeatedly from all his baits and taunts regarding religious faith as he endlessly worked to frame my wife and i as country bumpkins intellectually bereft of accepting the 'truth'.

The thing about not believing the ######## is that whoever says that wants to replace the ######## with their own ########.

i stated taht i do not believe that someone who believes in god or who believes man created god is anti-science.

And I don't think anyone is "intellectually bereft."

From what I've seen of Kevin Kinney outside of Drivin' and Cryin', that's perfectly reasonable.

i struggle all the time with my faith and balancing that with what i believe to be true in the physical world.

You may not know this, but Kevn Kinney was in a Milwaukee punk band, The Prosecutors, back in the late 70s. I think he's originally from here.

not approving judges and other things that impair the ability of government to function, that is just spite

if that cuases folks to regard me as anti-science they are the foolish and intolerant ones, not me

I was a fan, but I think their approach came off as a little schizoid at the time.

i regularly reference the far side cartoon where god is pulling an 'earth' out of the oven and thinking to himself the thing is only half-baked as being the most accurate depiction of the deity's attitude toward this world.

What could go wrong? You don't think those genres go together?

Haley Barbour, the former RNC chairman and former governor of Mississippi, said that Republicans shouldn’t take Tuesday night’s election results as a sign that they are too conservative.

“What Republicans do wrong, the media says, is they’re conservatives,” Barbour told Ben Smith of BuzzFeed. “It was a very, very close election. Obama won by two points. Fewer people voted than last time.”

He continued that Republicans “do have to do some things to fix this,” but added that it also came down to who was running. “We had some sh*tty candidates,” he said. “We pissed away two seats.”

I'd change my mind if there was some usage of "darker" in that context that I wasn't aware of.

I'm sorry, but they are the most annoying-hipstery band ever

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I thought it was interesting. It's a geographical breakdown of racist post-election Tweets.

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I thought it was interesting. It's a geographical breakdown of racist post-election Tweets.

Agreed. I think it's clear to everyone except the completely disingenuous.

That was the first waves, but since then it's been pretty much anyone who can afford a boat. And the Mariel boatlift of 1980, which brought about 125,000 Cubans into Florida, wasn't exactly made up of a bunch of Ricky Ricardos and casino magnates.

Yes, I would fire Krauthammer. Racists have no place on my "staff." If you can't see beyond the race of someone who has achieved the US presidency, you can't see beyond the race of anyone. And if you define people that essentially by their race, you're a racist by the core definition of the term.

I'd change my mind if there was some usage of "darker" in that context that I wasn't aware of. I've googled it and found a book on Amazon UK calling modern public relations a "dark art." That isn't enough.

Meet Paula Broadwell, the Petraeus biographer who got waaaaaay too close to her subject.

It won't be so easy for Charles Krauthammer to walk back his spineless choice of words. The man doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Year, %
1980, 35
1982, 25
1984, 31
1986, 25
1988, 24
1990, 28
1992, 28
1994, 39
1996, 27
1998, 37
2000, 35
2002, 38
2004, 44
2006, 26
2008, 31
2010, 33
2012, 27

This is the poll data for the percent of votes for Republicans by Hispanics. Note, please, that the big downturn in the percentages in recent times occurs in 2006, which in no way was a point in time when the country was perceived to be in "hard times." The larger long-term pattern in the data suggests that Hispanic flirtation with the Republicans occurred in the 1994-2004 period, with percentages then reverting to their earlier levels from the 80s.

It sure looks as though it was something other than the pocketbook (or the desire for "big government") that contributed to the massive downturn in Republican support from Hispanics that occurred in between 2004-06.

Meet Paula Broadwell, the Petraeus biographer who got waaaaaay too close to her subject.

Then there's stuff like this:

A visibly upset Zoraida Fonalledas, Chairwomen of the Committee on Permanent Organization, was greeted by chants of "USA, USA, USA" when RNC Chairman Reince Priebus introduced her to the convention crowd.

The chants kept coming until Priebus stepped back up to the podium and told the delegates to let Fonalledas take care of her business.

Just a little bit awkward.

Now the RNC came out the next day and said that the chants were from Ron Paul supporters protesting something entirely different, but somehow I'm thinking that the optics of the way the whole thing appeared at first blush resonated a whole lot more than any subsequent attempts at explanation ...

A Cuban-American calling for a hard-wall on the US/Mexican border is not what I'd call good salesmanship.

EDIT: W did well enough with the Latino vote and had a very out-of-step with his party POV on the immigration issue. Note to Rs: let the Bushes win that debate.

While conducting research over the past three years, Broadwell was afforded extensive access by General Petraeus

Seen a pic of Mrs. Petraeus?

So Joe, if you believe there's nothing the GOP can do to attract Hispanics without abandoning the GOP's core principle of small government- where do you think the GOP should look to pick up more votes?

With the white working class

Why is that relevant to his holding public office?

With the white working class, which is less and less sure their kids will be better off than they are, and which apparently stayed home in huge numbers on Tuesday.

"The GOP is just not white enough" is, admittedly, a somewhat distinct critique.

Black unemployment approaches or exceeds 40 percent in many cities, while only 55 percent of Latinos age 23 or older have a high school diploma.

Allowing that there could be any number of reasons why Petraeus was dismissed (including losing a foot on his fastball), may I ask some rhetorical questions? Who the #### cares who he's sleeping with and whether or not he's married to her (or him)? Why is that relevant to his holding public office?

With respect, Joe, that project is about as tied to reality as Newt Gingrich's plan for the statehood of the Moon.

Food stamps and Obamaphones, duh.