2014 Election Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Do you dispute the statements made by the man or that he's a member of a Lettowist group?

I dispute that Lettowist is a word.

[derspiess]

Do you dispute the statements made by the man or that he's a member of a Lettowist group?

What statements did the man make?

[The Minsky Moment]

On the charge of Lettowism, the verdict is guilty as charged: http://archive.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=270

[CountDeMoney]

  A HuffPo hit piece.  They need to mention David Duke's name more.

Do you dispute the statements made by the man or that he's a member of a Lettowist group?

If it's not in the Weekly Standard, derfetus ain't believing it!  It's a hit piece!  RAWR

"The purpose of civil government is to protect God-given rights," he said. "There are some people who have socialist or Marxist views of government, and when they don't agree with you, they call you names.

"An intellectually honest understanding of my position would be that I believe, like many Americans, that taxes are too high, that government at all levels is out of control, and this is caused by government officials who ignore the limits placed on government by God and the Constitution," Peroutka said.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/campaign-2014/bs-md-ar-candidate-extremist-claim-20140621-story.html#page=1

The League of the South's emblem WHITE ON BLACK ON GRAY:

"They always call us a neo-Confederate group. We are not a neo-Confederate group. We are a Southern nationalist group," Hill said. "We believe in a free and independent South. Our focus is on the present and the future, not the past. We don't want to bring back the 1850s or the 1860s."

The league advocates for Southern secession to create a new governance for Southern states, including Maryland. Hill said the group first must get candidates elected to local offices before formally pursuing secession.

The organization, founded in 1994, advocates ideals such as reverence for Christian teachings, men who respect and protect "our women," a monetary system backed by gold and silver, abolishment of most taxes and the revival of state militias, according to its website.

The group seeks to "advance the cultural, social, economic, and political well-being and independence of the Southern people by all honourable means," and "separate ourselves from the cultural rot that is American culture," according to the website.

Meanwhile, looks like they're putting together a cadre.  Hope they have monkey bars.



Squee.  Mew.  Apply today, derfetus!

[Razgovory]

Do you dispute the statements made by the man or that he's a member of a Lettowist group?

What statements did the man make?

You need to break your conservative conditioning sometimes.

[Ed Anger]

I don't use a conditioner.

[garbon]

Gay guy fail

I thought the guy won.  Or was that a different guy?

When I checked news today I saw an article by Atlantic that gays didn't make it into congress. Apparently the gay guy had to concede to his opponent over the weekend.

[dps]

I listed one Democrat-turned-GOP politician who won in WV.  Do you know of any others?

He was just the icing on the cake.  It took more than a half dozen Republicans to unseat incumbent Democrats to get him into that position.

But the question derspiess was responding to was whether or not control of the state legislature was flipped because of Democratic incumbents simply changing parties and getting re-elected as Republicans.  Now, I'll admit that for the state as a whole I don't know how much that happened if at all--I do know that of the WV Republicans who was elected to the US House had previously been a Democratic member of the state legislature, but as far as I can tell that was about it.

I don't think that there's any doubt that many previously Democratic voters in WV had always been conservative (at least on many social issues), but again, the question was about sitting members of the legislature changing parties.

[Neil]

I don't think that it's fair to slander Lettow by comparing him to this guy.  Sure, Lettow has quirky, overromantic ideas about history.  But there's a difference between feeling a strange attachment to people who lived in your country a hundred years ago as compared to thinking that the last two hundred years of political and moral advancements were a huge mistake.  Lettow's a kook, but this guy is just a total asshole.

[Razgovory]

I don't use a conditioner.

Yeah, if you keep your hair short you really don't need it.

[Razgovory]

I don't think that it's fair to slander Lettow by comparing him to this guy.  Sure, Lettow has quirky, overromantic ideas about history.  But there's a difference between feeling a strange attachment to people who lived in your country a hundred years ago as compared to thinking that the last two hundred years of political and moral advancements were a huge mistake.  Lettow's a kook, but this guy is just a total asshole.

League of the South was Lettow's group.  Lettow's an okay person though.  There is no malice in his neo-confderacy thing.  It's just a result of his warped upbringing.

[derspiess]

Gay guy fail

I thought the guy won.  Or was that a different guy?

When I checked news today I saw an article by Atlantic that gays didn't make it into congress. Apparently the gay guy had to concede to his opponent over the weekend.

That sucks.

[derspiess]

Do you dispute the statements made by the man or that he's a member of a Lettowist group?

What statements did the man make?

You need to break your conservative conditioning sometimes.

That's all he said?  I admit it's a little silly, but not earth-shattering.

[derspiess]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/179345/democratic-party-favorable-rating-falls-record-low.aspx

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points from before the elections. The Republican Party's favorable rating, at 42%, is essentially unchanged from 40%. This marks the first time since September 2011 that the Republican Party has had a higher favorability rating than the Democratic Party.

[Admiral Yi]

RACISS