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Old 04-07-2019, 07:05 PM
 
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Im fine with that, do you disagree with the virtue being signaled ????
You need to look up what the term "virtue signaling" means. It isn't what you think

I fully support LGBT rights, but it is pathetic to promote a candidate based solely on sexual orientation.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:07 PM
 
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FDR, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Clinton all cheated. It is wrong, but is neither here nor there regarding their performance as president. FDR is ranked 3 by the CSPAN survey of historians, and Ike is ranked 5.
Nixon? Really? Kinda difficult to imagine that.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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Jason Kander was getting the same kind of attention before he dropped out of the running. I get that you want to attack the left for "identity politics", but this isnt a case of that.

He is a new face, and people genuinely like him.
You have no way of knowing what's motivating the interest in this guy. The fact of the matter is, Mitch Landrieu and Seth Moulton have also been floated as running in 2020. Are they getting the same attention?

Of course not.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:18 PM
 
Location: Clyde Hill, WA
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Nixon? Really? Kinda difficult to imagine that.
According to writer Ronald Kessler, Nixon had an affair with a woman in Hong Kong when he worked there as a young lawyer. J Edgar Hoover had it in his files, and when Nixon was about to fire Hoover, Hoover made sure that Nixon knew that Hoover knew. Hoover kept his job, so I guess it was probably true.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m...ss-bb7dzqj5mft

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Nixon reportedly had a long-running affair with Marianna Liu, who was nearly two decades his junior and worked as a hostess in Hong Kong.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:25 PM
 
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According to writer Ronald Kessler, Nixon had an affair with a woman in Hong Kong when he worked there as a young lawyer. J Edgar Hoover had it in his files, and when Nixon was about to fire Hoover, Hoover made sure that Nixon knew that Hoover knew. Hoover kept his job, so I guess it was probably true.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m...ss-bb7dzqj5mft

Thanks - sounds legit to me.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:43 PM
 
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More like having representation from their party make-up. And you are not speaking for all liberals just as anyone saying that all conservatives are racists is a dumb thing to say.
You're right, I do not know every liberal in the country, but I have seen my share and I know how they generally think, just as I know how conservatives think generally, because my partner and I are members of that club.

Generally, liberals are unsure of themselves and many of them are mentally ill, so they try to make up for that by supporting causes which make themselves feel better.
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Old 04-08-2019, 09:25 AM
 
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It's the Democrat party, not the Republican party, who finds Pete Buttigeig unacceptable as a candidate simply because he's gay.
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Old 04-08-2019, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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It's the Democrat party, not the Republican party, who finds Pete Buttigeig unacceptable as a candidate simply because he's gay.
What exactly are you basing this off of? Out of the members of Congress, Senate, Governors, of those who are gay, how many are Republican?
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Old 04-08-2019, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Florida
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As popular as the other dozens of Democrat dimwits running.
Are you claiming Buttigieg is a "dimwit?" The guy who learned Norwegian (along with the 7 other languages he knows) because he wanted to read a book in Norwegian, he's Rhodes Scholar, volunteered for a tour in Afghanistan when he did not need to go near the place, turned the course of a town around?

Really? You think Buttigieg is a "dimwit"? The guy is brilliant, articulate and can answer every single question put to him on policy. You want to put him up against the 'stable genius' who cannot speak or write English?

Setting a president? Oranges of immigration policy? Covfefe?

Please. Don't insult our intelligence. Trump is the only dimwit running for president. And the biggest one.
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Old 04-08-2019, 12:02 PM
 
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What exactly are you basing this off of? Out of the members of Congress, Senate, Governors, of those who are gay, how many are Republican?

Why the comments here. And the fact that you can only defend the Democrats with a fallacy of relative privation only proves it. You guys are horrified of a Pete Buttigeig nomination.
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