Oh, I can believe that at the very beginning it may have been grassroots. But once the people with the money and power realized what they could do with these people, it was a foregone conclusion where it was going to go.

Not directed at you, but from what I’ve seen of Texas, it’s mostly batshit crazy world with a few oases of intelligence spread out in the cities.

The reason behind that is that the Tea Party was (in the end) taken over by former John Birchers and co-opted by the monied interests (such as the Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, and a few others).

Which is something that I’ve drilled into my kids heads since they were old enough to know how the government works and how important voting is.

You’re the only idiot here, by making the argument that a blastocyst of very early fetus should take precidence to the life of the woman carrying it and making the decision whether to continue or terminate their pregnancy.

It’s nice that you see women as being nothing more than walking wombs. At least that’s the feeling I get from your asinine statements. How long until you deman that they have their rights as a thinking being taken away once they become pregnant?

If you consider anything that Dr. Sensible said as being rational, you must have been dropped on your head quite a bit as a child.

Trust me, many people who actually see these fools for what they are are frightened as hell that any of them could actually be elected President.

So, rational thought and intelligence is now a sign of being liberal? Now I understand why so many people are so willing to buy into the bullshit that the Republican party shovels down their gullets. They’d rather be lied to and have sunshine blwon up their asses instead of rationally and intelligently thinking about…

Actually, we’re now coming to realize that he was a useful idiot for the guys actually running things behind the scenes. He was able to whip up the American people to be willing to go to war, but not be willing to pay for it (remember when he said “go about your lives, shop, show them we’re not afraid of them!”)…

What is so hard to understand about this? Why are people so intent on ignoring this very basic truth?

Unless you’re Native American, you’re just as ‘illegal’ as anyone else that came to what became the United States.

I agree. There’s always going to be pretentious types when it comes to wine, but that woman was a Grade A douchenozzle (or douchecanoe, whichever works).

I’ve come to realize that a lot of people who use the words ‘communist’, ‘socialist’, etc. have no idea what those words or political beliefs mean at all. They just think it sounds ominous and evil, so they continue to use them.

I thought that I also read that he was being investigated for illegally killing a bear in Wisconsin.

Except for the fact that it puts the taxpayers on the hook for all of the costs, and those same taxpayers get nothing in return.

Except that you’re wrong.

What part of ‘equal protection under law’ do people like yourself not understand?

So you believe that ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’? That the 14th Amendment shouldn’t apply? If that’s the case, why was the decision in Loving v Virginia made the way it was?

They are allowing their religious beliefs to override the law (or in this case, the 14th Amendment), nothing more. It’s somewhat akin to the people that thought that miscegenation was a good thing, since the Bible supposedly said that people of different color should never mix, especially in marriage.