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To most folks, being wrong is a chance to learn and fine tune their opinions and beliefs. Oh, they don't like it, but eventually they see the value. To these other folks, being wrong is an irrevocable failure. It's dropping the winning catch...it's fumbling the football at the goal line. Return with your shield or on it. Since being wrong is akin to death, you must fight with your last breath to either prove you're right, or beat down your opponent to where they realize they've got more important things to do and just walk away. Now, this is, of course, not limited to conservatives. Plenty of liberals do this too. However, conservatives almost always have home team advantage, they wrote the playbook, and they have no shame.

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Here's a pretty good representation of a tea bagger

http://ct.weirdnutdaily.com...

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They know its inevitable, so this is just to take credit. They think they'll be able to tell all us 'mo's that their brief made it happen, and that Republicans freed the slaves and made gay equality happen. As if we're that fucking stupid to believe them. They're only behind us in the airport bathrooms.

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Awwww, cuddly Republicans! that is SO cute.

Oklahoma will catch up in ten or fifteen years, as usual.

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well yeah but we all know it's the pelvic thrust... (shhh...)

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My cantaloupes have muscles like a clam's valve.

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It takes twice the stage-craft, five times the special effects, and involves ten times the screeching and moaning you will find in all fifteen hours of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen."

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A lot of those people have former in front of their names. I wonder how many current R's in office don't give a rat's ass but can't say anything for fear of being primaried?

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Gays as far as the eye can see! I'm sure there's going to be plenty of wannabe thugs and good little christians with the skivvies in a knot about this.

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That's not quite what I meant. I was talking about "$$$$$$" as in "Campaign Donations."

But yes, I'm all about financial arguments. Like about how socialism works better for a majority of people in society than free-market capitalism :)

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I love that album.

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They haven't gotten to aneurysm yet.

The Alabama supreme court issued a decision (with one dissent) that said: "Nuh uh! Probate judges b'long to US! Mine, mine, MINEMINEMINE! No homo! We don't hafta do what those stinky federal judges say!"

How do you get to a state supreme court without some basic understanding of the law?

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YOU HAVE FIGURED IT OUT.

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But not quite concerned enough to have Republican office holders want to be Amici of the court themselves.

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Don't take no branez to be a judge in Alabammy!

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Wait until you see their advertising campaign. They've lined up Fruit of the Loom to produce elephant-themed Amicus Briefs in a variety of fabulous colors. Aaron Schock and Lindsey Graham will model them, while also wearing wings. The working title for the roll-out runway show is "Victorious Secret."

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