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Joe Shlabotnik wrote:

heyzeus wrote:

IMADreamer wrote:What's nuts about all of this is we still have six months to go.

The dream of 1000 pages is alive (in Portland).

I'm calling 3000. To account for violence at the conventions, a very contentious fall campaign complete with a competitive 3rd party, and a close election nights where the winner just barely gets enough to keep the election from going to the House of Representatives.

Radbird wrote:

Joe Shlabotnik wrote:

heyzeus wrote:

IMADreamer wrote:What's nuts about all of this is we still have six months to go.

The dream of 1000 pages is alive (in Portland).

I'm calling 3000. To account for violence at the conventions, a very contentious fall campaign complete with a competitive 3rd party, and a close election nights where the winner just barely gets enough to keep the election from going to the House of Representatives.

It'll hit 5000 if the Cardinals are as bad as feared.

Cheddar Tom wrote:I am still holding fast to the idea that Ryan won't get the nomination in a brokered convention....but the idea isn't as crazy as I thought it was just a few months ago. My $$$ would be on Scott Walker. I read this last night and left thinking he's still perfect for the GOP. Some of this stuff is just crazy....

He and Tonette married on Reagan’s birthday, and every year they celebrate their wedding anniversary / Reagan’s birthday by serving the Gipper’s favorite dishes, such as macaroni-and-cheese casserole and red, white, and blue jelly beans.

The team had used a secret router system in the county office to communicate with each other, and the e-mails revealed an obsession with burnishing Walker’s image in the most small-bore ways. Walker himself urged employees to write favorably of him in the Journal Sentinel’s online comments.

One anonymous e-mail, forwarded by Walker’s then–chief of staff, went like this: “THE NIGHTMARE ... ‘I can handle being a black, disabled, one armed, drug-addicted Jewish homosexual ... but please, oh dear God, don’t make me a Democrat.’ ”

Another compares welfare recipients to dogs: They are “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who the r [sic] Daddys [sic] are.” This message was forwarded around by Walker’s then–deputy chief of staff, who remarked that it was “hilarious” and “so true.”

His campaign’s deputy finance director, for instance, sent out tweets that included references to “half-breeds” and one in which she vowed to “choke that illegal mex cleaning in the library.”

The prankster, Ian Murphy, showered Walker with the same gushing reinforcement he had received from Sykes and Belling for years. “You’re not talking to any of these Democrat bastards are you?” he said. “Beautiful, beautiful. Got to crush that union.” Walker responded just as he had on the radio shows, with aw-shucks faux-humility. “We’ve had all the national shows. We were on ‘Hannity’ last night, I did ‘Good Morning America’ and the ‘Today’ show and all that sort of stuff, was on ‘Morning Joe’ this morning. We’ve done ‘Greta,’” he said. Walker’s radar failed to go off even when Murphy urged him to plant provocateurs among the protesters to make it look like they’d turned violent. “We thought about that,” Walker responded, incredibly, before explaining that he had decided against the idea because it might backfire: “My only fear would be if there’s a ruckus caused is that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor has to settle to avoid all these problems.”

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a controversial bill into law on Tuesday that could allow businesses and government workers to deny services to lesbian and gay couples.

Bryant said in a statement that he was signing HB 1523 “to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and private associations from discriminatory action by state government or its political subdivisions.”

The law, dubbed the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act, has met with sustained opposition from LGBT groups, businesses and the Mississippi Economic Council. They say the law sanctions discrimination against lesbians and gays.