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Who is the worst Republican? I ask because from where I stand, Ben fucking Stein has a legitimate claim to the title.

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While (and this is important) continuing to be one of America's great assholes.

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True, but they didn't have 60% unfavorables a year out.

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Isn't it always?

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Dear Mr. McQuaid,

Just out of curiosity, have you learned anything, anything at all, from this sordid yet comical mess? No? I didn't think so.

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Follow-up!

Apparently this changed in 2014. But not for good reasons; it became a pay-for-print instead of an editorial decision wrt these announcements.

And no, there wasn't even a mealy-mouthed halfpology to go along with this change. So, still fuck the Union Leader and fuck its POS editor McQuaid.

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But most importantly, Dok, was that a Song for The Dumped reference? Because I'm going to choose to believe it is. Song for the Drumpfed! ... I'll see myself out.

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That was even harder to get rid of than the tattoo!

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Let's not let McQuaid's little toady Grant Bosse get off scott free. He and I share a hometown and his father is a loudmouth Republican who was a huge Reagan supporter even though Reagan was in favor of putting a nuclear waste dump in our town of Hillsboro NH. Here's a video of Bosse getting emasculated by Chris Hayes. https://www.facebook.com/al...

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The bully met a bigger bully...and became THAT bully's jumping little dog.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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This has momentarily taken the snark right out of me.

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The funny thing is that McQaid is among the more restrained people who have served at that notorious fascist rag. The old owner, the late William Loeb, was a notorious nazi neofascist who, among his most famous editorial diatribes, called for the nuking of the Middle East during the early 70s oil crisis to punish them for withholding "our" oil. There's a long and sordid history of vicious gimps there.

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It's the inevitable trajectory of the GOP mindset in a convenient case study.

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Rather than standing up to the bully, Christie bent his knee.

I think Christie, being a professional bully himself, simply acknowledged that Trump is the rightful king of all bullies. It's sort of like when the scholars all give their pens to John Nash at the end of "A Beautiful Mind".

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I thought I was the bully-libtards KingBut I just handed my bully crown to him

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