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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist the way Paul Broun is a doctor. And you have to be incredibly stupid to take either one of them seriously.

I wonder if Obama's staff gives him a laugh-of-the-day snippet of Fucks Gnus, along with his morning briefing of what's going on in the real world.

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King's more obnoxiously crazy than Chuck Grassley, but Grassley's fucking nuts too and they keep sending him back. Add in the off-year factor, and a state that's used to voting for a crazy guy might just keep on doing it. Also, BTW, according to the 2010 census, even if you make the dubious assumption that all of the Hispanics in Iowa are white, the state's over 85% white non-Hispanic. Not quite Vermont territory, but it's whiter than Wisconsin. Considering the demographics of farm workers, there's a good chance that King's district is actually one of the least white in the state.

And don't forget, Broun is in the race to replace Saxby "the guy who lost multiple limbs in 'Nam fighting for the USA is really Osama bin Laden" Chambliss. In other words, the shit that got Joe Walsh bounced out of the House in Illinois was in Georgia rewarded with a promotion to the Senate. It looks very much as if the Democrats will not be able to find a top-tier candidate. The Republican nominee is almost guaranteed victory, even if it's someone as crazy stupid as Broun. The only upside to a Broun nomination would be that it'd make it a race, so the national GOP would have to spend time and money defending a seat that should be a cakewalk for them. The downside is, of course, Senator Broun. Fuck me.

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