Where do you get that info, rcade?

The 2006 mid-term and 2008 presidential election. Hispanics voted 66%-31% for Obama, the best ever result for a Democrat.

But you were talking about losing the Latino vote over this?

That was about the political reality. Latinos feel unfairly demonized by the Republicans whenever illegal immigration reform is pushed hard, and they remember it on election day.

The U.S. right to secure its border is cast into doubt by the U.S. job market to hire illegal immigrants. Clearly the cheap labor is more important than border security to many people in this country.

I suspect the main view you are refering to is his view on immigration.

Yup. I think stronger anti-illegal immigration laws are a big loser, politically. They will push Hispanics so far into the Democrats' camp that Republicans will be in the wilderness for decades.

I hope Dobbs runs. His views aren't as popular as he thinks they are, and journalists have a likability rating right up there with lawyers.

Ugh. She looks like Corky pre-op.

I personally think that she has some nice features.

BTW, this same thread/link was posted 12 hours earlier on the Back Page

Thanks. I've merged them.

Except 9 wasn't referenced at all.

Do you honestly think that the asshats behind this slogan have no idea that Psalm 109:8 is followed by Psalm 109:9 -- a direct hope for the death of the person in Psalm 109:8?

I don't see the perversion in the verse - When a Christian recognizes a problem in government they're bound to pray all sorts of things - why are you offended?

Because it's offensive to wish for the death of the president of the United States. Any truly patriotic American would never express that hope.

The gross domestic product of the European Union is 16.2 trillion dollars, which is bigger than the United States at 14.4 trillion. The more Europe acts as a unified government, the more significant it becomes as a world superpower.

Yeah, rcade - because this one is so much more palatable.

You've made 19 comments in this thread (more than 10 percent of the total), and none of them condemn the use of Psalms to wish for a president's death.

The only thing I can conclude from that is you don't find it tasteless and offensive to see religion perverted in that manner.

There are some real scumbags in this country. Anyone who would wear that slogan or put it on a car ought to be ashamed.

"This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage." So how does this nullify marriage?

The word "identical".

It's a very striking and flattering photo ...

It's a goofy photo, and I'm guessing Newsweek chose it because it shows the amount of stagecraft she employs to promote herself.

Usually the cover subjects have notice (at least of the possibility), and a shoot specifically for the cover. It was a shitty choice by Newsweek, and has nothing to do with the story itself.

Photographs of politicians are resold all the time. If Palin and her publicity team didn't realize that might happen with her Runner's World photo, it is yet another example of how they are unschooled bumpkins. As I said the last time we discussed this flag code-violating photo, the staff she surrounds herself must be complete idiots.

That's the same photo that's a U.S. Flag Code violation, as I wrote in August:

If John Fullerton wanted his obituary on the front page of the Retort he should have taken out a classified ad and solved people's problems free of charge. Don't subtract from the Equalizer, man.

15 years in prison and three years of legal proceedings because a 21-year-old woman cut in line at Walmart and got into an altercation with police officers in which none of them had injuries mentioned in this story?

This prosecution sounds ridiculous. I don't know how anyone can think justice would be served by having this woman take up a prison spot that could've been used to lock up a murderer or sexual predator.

Oh and the Jim Crow Laws that the Democrats in the South Supported.

Blacks today don't associate the Democrats with Jim Crow. They do just the opposite, which is why Republicans get such a small share of their vote.

The white conservative Southern Democrats who were the creators and supporters of Jim Crow laws and other civil rights abuses became Republicans after LBJ passed civil rights legislation.

Ah, football! It is opium for the masses.

You say that like opium for the masses is a bad thing. Do you think the masses would reject opium if it was available to them? They'd love it.

They've hit another ...

No -- somebody hit them. A driver went around police cars and struck a local deputy on a motorcycle.

Rcade - perhaps this is a daft question to ask, but where did my "Biden Motorcade" post go?

It scrolled off the back page when newer stories replaced it.

I illustrate with your handling of backing to a fault the fake Beck slander web site [hypothesizing it was his own fault that he brought it upon himself by suing and producing media coverage].

My opinion on that had nothing to do with Beck's politics. I would've said the same thing if the fake-slander site was about Keith Olbermann.

You're just sore that she's manly looking.

You're an idiot, Chair. I don't know why I bothered replying.

It's a simple fact. You're the one that got his feathers ruffled over cracks at Mandow's appearance, and used the "stale joke" deflection to cover your hurt feelings. When it's pointed out that you read even staler jokes (Vern's calculator, mAnn Coulter, Chimpy, etc) fly by daily without so much as a comment, you try to make it in to something else.

If that's hypocrisy, then it's hypocrisy shared by everyone on this site who isn't a robot. It's human to care about the stuff you care about and ignore the rest.

I think it's asinine for you to expect me to raise an issue of all lame jokes because I called out this particular one. But if you think you've struck gold here with some amazing insight about me, then by all means continue pressing the point.

Face it, there is a Rachel Mandow thread here MAYBE once a month, and that's being generous. You aren't seeing enough people comment on her manly appearance enough to make the joke stale.

I read every Maddow thread because I'm interested in Maddow. Every time, the same stupid joke dominates the discussion.

I don't know what public figures you're interested in, Chair, but I'm guessing that when you dive into discussions of them and read the same tired jokes, you ain't that big a fan either.