Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Dr. Strangelove]

Listening to Moore v Harper and right out of the gate 3 court conservatives sound dubious about the "all-powerful state legislature" argument

[Hannibal]

It doesn't. You just have a very different conception of candidate quality. Hell, you think being vigorously antisemtic is irrelevant as to whether you should be in office.

Fetterman was a terrible candidate by just about any conception. But his quality as a candidate didn’t matter.

[THE_WIZARD_]

He hid in the basement ala BIDEN BOOM!!!!!!! Yes...very effective strategy for that retard...a strategy that only Dems get away with...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Herschel Walker has likely mental problems stemming from decades of playing football. He has a background of violence against women. He's a serial philanderer and adulterer who paid for his mistresses to get abortions. He had no political experience before running for Senate. Up until late 2021, he wasn't even a resident of Georgia. He's lived in Texas for decades and is still listed Texas as his residency on his most recent taxes.

Fetterman had a stroke and went into hiding because it was more serious than they wanted people to know. Otherwise I don't see what his supposed deep flaws as a candidate are other than you simply despise his politics.

[THE_WIZARD_]

He should not have been running for the US Senate in his condition. But all that matters to Progs is control. Fuck the country.

[Hannibal]

Fetterman had a stroke and went into hiding because it was more serious than they wanted people to know. Otherwise I don't see what his supposed deep flaws as a candidate are other than you simply despise his politics.

By that standard, Oz didn't have any deep flaws either. And his politics were far more mainstream than Fetterman's. Yet everyone looks at PA as an example of "candidate quality matters".

[THE_WIZARD_]

I view PA politics as they obviously don't give a shit about a persons means to legislate...even amongst the independents...and the D's are much better at playing the hide and seek game...with cover from their buddies in the media...

[THE_WIZARD_]

Dems...pulling Fetterman across the finish line...

[iam416]

Oz was annointed by DJT and a fairly obvious carpetbagger. He also had to run w/ Mastriano.

But, again, the point is that in a purple-ish state, voters that mattered prefered a semi-literate stroke victim to a DJT-annointed candidate (even though Oz was way more sane than Mastriano). People can bitch about that outcome of wish it weren't so, but it is. If you wanna keep losing, keep running the same shit.

[Tom W]

By that standard, Oz didn't have any deep flaws either. And his politics were far more mainstream than Fetterman's. Yet everyone looks at PA as an example of "candidate quality matters".

He didn't even do all bad of a job hosting Jeopardy, either. He certainly did a better job than Mayim Bialik (who got the job) or LaVar Burton (who flat out sucked). People just HATED him, though.

Yes, that seems irrelevant, but Jeopardy is a lot more watchable, and useful, than any of the so-called news programs.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Iffen the R's in PA can't beat a retard...then I don't have much hope for any candidate in that state...

[iam416]

At bottom, "candidate quality" is subjective and objective only in outcome. That's how the "market" works. We don't necessarily know, ahead of time, which ideas or products or pitches the market will embrace, but we do know that it will pick winners. And right now, DJT is a fucking massive albatross in close races. And embracing his insanity significantly diminishes a candidate's quality in the eyes of the only fucking people that matter.

This isn't some sort of impossible riddle to solve.

[Dr. Strangelove]

The Democrats forced Al Franken to resign because a ten year old photo of him pretending to grope a woman's breasts emerged. So a big "whatever" to the idea that Dems stand by their guys no matter what.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Being a carpetbagger also probably matters more in a state like Pennsylvania rather than Arizona or Florida where over half the population is from somewhere else originally.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Big difference between hiding a retard and getting racked for a misogynist move of Franken...I never said they defend no matter what...D's supposedly are the party of "women"...of course that's BS but they couldn't keep supporting Franken due to that...propping up a retard is virtuous in their mind. But talent is correct...Trump is a fucking cancer and is going to blow up the R party before he goes into the sunset...