Tillis would be a great senator.

Didn't he have a bastard child?

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/05/sweeney_blasts_buono_pick_for.html#incart_river_default

Historically, the decision to name a state chairman decision rests with the gubernatorial candidate. Technically, a group of 121 state committee members make the decision shortly after the primary.





Get your popcorn.

They conceded the election months ago.

Amazon now offers the standard batch of household items as add-on products. You can get those shipped to your door rather than wait 20 minutes in walmart's absurd lines.

And Minnesota isn't South Carolina. There are probably much more moderates if we see the independance party's score in the last races!

Good point; Bachmann could well have lost last year if a third party candidate were running.

Just the opposite. 3rd party candidates make it more likely for Bachmann to win.

Fleming is a team player. He probably gets the other seat.

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How nice of the IRS to give these people 501c4 status without much trouble.

Things like this reinforce my belief that political organizations shouldn't be tax-exempt to begin with. There's too much damn money going around and it's basically a cash-cow for the political consultants who run and work for those groups. You can buy some voter lists, shower them with direct mail and email about some heartwrenching issue in the God-Guns-Gays triumvirate (or whatever War on _______ is going on), and wait for the gravy train to commence. Send 10% of the money you raise to political campaigns, keep the other 90% for yourself for "overhead expenses" and you're operating completely within the letter of the law. And no taxes!

I think if groups like that want to keep their tax exempt status, they need to abide by at least two rules: (1) They cannot so much as mention the word "Democrat" or "Republican" in their literature or ads or websites. (2) They must abide by a "blackout period" of 30 days leading up to a general election where they can air no commercials, send no mail and engage in no fundraising activity.

That's an interesting theory. In the real world, the current President's political campaign is operating under tax free status led by Jim Messina. But they don't have the word 'Patriot' in their name.

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How nice of the IRS to give these people 501c4 status without much trouble.

All the Democrats complaining here are being huge hypocrites. I'd rather have a huge GOP house majority with more Nonpartisan redistricting in left-wing states.

The amendment would not affect Illinois’s Congressional district or local maps.

Why isn't this being proposed in Ohio or Texas? Democrats are such pussies.

It was in Ohio. The people said no.

So I assume you were in favor of it, considering you are in favor of it in Illinois?

In favor of the campaign? Sure.

So you want non-partisan redistricting in both Ohio and Illinois?

That is for the people to decide. That said, this legislation does create a nicer set of standards for redistricting. Michigan already has the same.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/irs-stalled-conservative-groups-but-gave-speedy-approval-to-obama-foundation/2013/05/16/90c53e8a-be57-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html

When the Barack H. Obama Foundation sought tax-exempt status to raise money for good works in Kenya, the Internal Revenue Service provided quick help.

The IRS approved charitable status for the foundation, which was run by President Obama’s brother and named after his father, in about a month’s time. The IRS also agreed to give the group this important financial status retroactively, back to 2009, when it had begun its fundraising.

The 34 days the IRS’s Cincinnati office took to process the foundation’s application stands in contrast to the waits of several months — and sometimes longer than a year — that several conservative groups say they experienced with the same office.







Ah. How nice of the IRS goons.

Why isn't this being proposed in Ohio or Texas? Democrats are such pussies.

It was in Ohio. The people said no.

So I assume you were in favor of it, considering you are in favor of it in Illinois?

In favor of the campaign? Sure.

Other polls from Marist and WaPo also had Mr. Cuccinelli in the lead.

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Cuccinelli 44
McAuliffe 36



Good news.

Why isn't this being proposed in Ohio or Texas? Democrats are such pussies.

It was in Ohio. The people said no.

Excellent.

Things truly are awful when those fiscally responsible Republicans aren't in control, unlike Texas which has a $7 billion deficit.

Too bad that's a complete fiction.

Execute him.

SHS out.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alienated, politicized militias like an SA are not expressions of democracy.

On the contrary. The militia is the people.

Do you even know what "SA" means? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Would it be acceptable to you if those militias were connected somehow to a political party?

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia describes the militia as composed of the body of the people. There is no reference to concepts such as democracy or political parties.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

And you actually think a handful of nitwits with loaded guns puts fear into the hearts of the people who control the most powerful military in the world?

These guys are asshats, no doubt about that. But they have an active motivation to make sure nothing bad happens. A big scene would probably just make a powerful statement for their sworn enemies.

If they don't, they should have no issues letting the 'nitwits' protest within the confines of the law.

Laws of course can be changed, and the District of Columbia is subject to the control of the United States Congress.

They're not going to intimidate the government. All they're going to do is intimidate the mostly black residents of that city who likely have unhappy memories of what their grandparents went through when a bunch of white men with guns descended on their city.

How exactly does one acquire one's grandparent's memories?

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alienated, politicized militias like an SA are not expressions of democracy.

On the contrary. The militia is the people.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

And you actually think a handful of nitwits with loaded guns puts fear into the hearts of the people who control the most powerful military in the world?

These guys are asshats, no doubt about that. But they have an active motivation to make sure nothing bad happens. A big scene would probably just make a powerful statement for their sworn enemies.

If they don't, they should have no issues letting the 'nitwits' protest within the confines of the law.

Laws of course can be changed, and the District of Columbia is subject to the control of the United States Congress.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.