Trump is already showing signs of dementia, so he’s got several years of adult diapers and drool in his future. Whether he’s still president or not remains to be seen. If he wins in 2020, there may be a couple years of Weekend at Bernie’s-style hijinks as the GOP tries to prove he’s still lucid.

“couldn’t spell the word ‘profit,’

I’m picturing them all sitting around the dinner table, Jr. dressed in tattered jeans and a Slayer t-shirt, shouting “I don’t care what you think old man, I’ll volunteer at the homeless shelter every fucking day if I want!” 

If the CEOs wanted real action, they’d have simply stated, “Until you do something about the proliferation of guns, none of our companies will put a single dollar in your coffers.”

You spelled “A geist” wrong. I’m fully in favor of rule by ghosts, in the most ancient Martian tradition.

If that was the case, they would have installed a two ton engine crane instead of a dining set. 

2. Only serve to further shift the overall political climate to the right, as the idea of compromise for GOP is to move further right and tell the dummy Dems to “be bipartisan and meet me even more on my side of the battlefield”

Seems like a solid game would be to run on policies that are popular, which tend to be “liberal” in the current placement of the Overton window. 

This one?

Exactly. Trying to right-flank McConnell to win is the definition of:

Voters whose votes are determined solely by social conservatism are going to vote for the Republican over the Democrat in Senate and House races ten times out of ten. There is no point trying to win those voters over. Most voters, though, aren’t like that. There is no requirement that elections in red states have to…

nice to see the return of “vote dem: we’ll purge the queers more decorously”

The problem isn’t getting anyone to the left to choose McGrath over McConnell. The problem is that nobody to the right will, and that apathetic voters won't give a shit. The Democrats win by turning out the non-voters. That's just how it do be.

Speaking as someone who has spent most of his life trying to survive in the deepest-red of Red State America, I’d say that her strategy is half right. Mitch McConnell is unpopular, largely because he’s a shameless slimeball whom, if you met him in real life, you’d make certain to count your fingers after shaking hands…

Bill Clinton was charismatic. I was pretty young in that election, and I don’t think people were all that fired up for third-way centrist pragmatic policies, but the vague promise of transformational change that was mostly a convincing sales job thanks to that charisma.

I’ve always been partial to Bob ROHRman, myself. 

The establishment Dem leadership have been terrified of running as a liberal because Reagan destroyed them in 1984 when they ran as liberals and Bill Clinton ran as a thirdway conservative Dem and won. Because of that their strategy has been to ignore the unions, cozy up to big business and run as openly conservative…

For fucks sake, given the choice between a conservative Democrat and a republican, the conservative voter will go with the Republican every. single. time. The problem is not that Dems need conservative/Republican voters— it is the fact that these conservative Dems don’t bring out the vote of liberal independents and…

This is objectively a shitty strategy. But still, when you do the math, you choose McGrath.

Then we must learn a better game.