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Maybe's avatar

Principles are never worthless. Good judgment tells you the best way to stand by them in order to improve the situation as much as possible. If you insist on holding out for 100% of what you want, you may get nothing of worse. People who refused to vote for Clinton "on principle" helped Donald Trump.

In this case we know the appointee will be a Repub and we know that some are worse than others. None of them agree with my principles, but I'd still rather have the lesser of the evils.

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Teto85's avatar

Drop the church and reinstate the siesta.

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Serai 1's avatar

It's one of the things we've tried to grow out of.

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Teto85's avatar

Nobody expects... Yah, the Spanish are very good at being cruel.

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Littorally Speaking's avatar

Thought that was Klingon ... ?

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peteywheats's avatar

Eric and Donnie Jr. Approve. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Serai 1's avatar

No, it's Spanish. It got labelled Klingon for the movie because it sounds Klingon. But believe me, you could hardly find a maxim more Spanish than that one.

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Evil Doer's avatar

Stephen mentions, "... Arizona itself is crazy conservative". I'm not so sure of that anymore. They are increasingly purple (damn urbanization!) and the race for Flake's seat will be close. So, if AZ Republicans, and Governor are smart, they will look to a moderate Republican will broad appeal to appoint to McCain's seat -- and Cindy McCain fills that description extremely well.

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Laure's avatar

Hip hip hooray for dynastic rule!

Oh, wait........

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Teto85's avatar

Isn't that originally a Klingon proverb?

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Relativicus's avatar

“The Republican voter electorate in the state is so extreme Jeff Flake basically quit because he couldn't see how he could win the primary and continue looking at himself in a mirror.”

IMO, this is being extraordinarily generous to Jeff Flake.

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babsMD's avatar

What did I ever do to you????

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Ducksworthy's avatar

And as the bikers at the McCain rally in Sturgis chanted: "Cindy, Show us your boobs" At which John smiled his famous smile. Go Cindy!

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Serai 1's avatar

Not good enough for me. I think I've had enough of pettiness in matters of who gets to represent the voters, thanks.

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Serai 1's avatar

Both of them.

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