GOP chair pins 2012 loss on debates, branding

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Repug/VRWC eugenics alive and well

Heritage Study Author: ‘Hispanic Immigrants Will Have Low-IQ Children’

Richwine’s dissertation asserts that there are deep-set differentials in intelligence between races. While it’s clear he thinks it is partly due to genetics — ‘the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ’ — he argues the most important thing is that the differences in group IQs are persistent, for whatever reason. He writes, ‘No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.‘

Richwine is not the only author of the Heritage report with questionable views. Robert Rector, the paper’s lead author, was the source for then candidate Romney’s racially charged attack on President Obama’s welfare policy, and has spent his career dismissing the idea that poverty hurts people. On Tuesday, Rector admitted he hadn’t read the whole immigration bill before coauthoring his analysis of it with Richwine.

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration...w-iq-children/

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GOP Director of Hispanic Outreach Quits and Becomes Democrat

When Republicans appointed Pablo Pantoja to State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, they hoped he would be able to bridge the sizable gap that only expanded during the 2012 elections, when the state’s 4.7 million Hispanic voters supported Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a 20 percent margin.

But after months of inaction by Congressional Republicans on comprehensive immigration reform and stiff resistance by Republican-leaning groups like the Heritage Foundation, Pantoja has had enough; on Monday, he announced via email that he was leaving the party and registering as a Democrat:

Friend,

Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party.

It doesn’t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others. Look no further; a well-known organization recently confirms the intolerance of that which seems different or strange to them.

http://www.alternet.org/gop-director-hispanic-outreach-quits-and-becomes-democrat?akid=10432.187590.tnYR7V&rd=1&src=newslet ter840231&t=7


How's That Outreach-y Working Out For Ya?

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GOP sucks donkey , their base is uneducated, ignorant, low income, rural, old, fat, white, pissed off, "sovereign", militiamen, gun fellating, chauvinistic, xenophobic, phobic "Christian" assholes


Ten Brutal Findings from the Republican Party's Report on Young Voters

1. "Young 'winnable' Obama voters were asked to say what words came to mind when they heard 'Republican Party.' The responses were brutal: closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned."

2. "Asked which words least described the GOP, respondents gravitated toward 'open-minded' (35%), 'tolerant' (25%), 'caring' (22%), and 'cooperative' (21%)."

3. "For the GOP, being thought of as closed-minded is hardly a good thing. But if the GOP is thought of as the 'stupid party,' it may as well be the kiss of death."

4. "A Hispanic voter in the San Diego focus group harshly laid out how she thought Republicans viewed social mobility for immigrants: '[They have] that mentality that you're born like royalty and the peasants stay peasants.'"

5. "An outright majority of young people still think those Republican policies are to blame [for the Great Recession] – hardly an encouraging finding."

6. "If young voters primarily thought the Republican Party's policy plan in 2012 was to prevent gay marriage and to ensure very low taxes for very rich people . . . it's understandable that a large majority voted the other way. . . . Opposition to gay marriage is a 'deal breaker' to one out of four young voters."

7. "Our focus on taxation and business issues has left many young voters thinking they will only reap the benefits of Republican policies if they become wealthy or rise to the top of a big business. We've become the party that will pat you on your back when you make it, but won't offer a hand to help you get there."

8. "Perhaps most troubling for Republicans is the finding from the March 2013 CRNC survey that showed 54% of young voters saying 'taxes should go up on the wealthy.'"

9. "When asked if they thought any Republican policies were making them personally worse off, one replied, 'Arizona comes to mind, all the laws that they've passed there regarding immigration and being allowed to pull somebody over just based on how they look.'"

10. "It is not that young voters are enamored of the Democratic Party. They simply dislike the Republican Party more."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...oters-20130604

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11 GOP Positions Loathed by Young People -- According to College GOP Report

The College Republican National Committee released a report on Monday outlining the major challenges facing the GOP as it seeks to rebrand and redefine itself in the aftermath of the 2012 election. The survey criticizes the party’s singular focus on “big government” and “tax cuts” and calls on Republicans to become more tolerant and open on issues like same-sex marriage and women’s reproductive health.

But a close reading of the 90-page report finds that young people have strong disagreements with Republican policies
1. GOP economic polices are to blame for the recession. “Although ‘Republican economic policies’ is the factor least likely to be viewed as playing a major role in causing the crisis, this is mostly due to young Republicans in the sample hesitating to pin blame directly on their own party, and an outright majority of young people still think those Republican policies are to blame – hardly an encouraging finding.”

2. Lower taxes will not create jobs.” In the August 2012 XG survey, there was not a strong consensus around the virtues of lowering taxes and regulations on business. Only 34% of respondents in that survey thought they’d be better off if the corporate tax rate were lowered, and only 36% thought such a move would make it easier for young people to get jobs.”

3. Increase taxes on the wealthy. “Perhaps most troubling for Republicans is the finding from the March 2013 CRNC survey that showed 54% of young voters saying ‘taxes should go up on the wealthy,’ versus 31% who say “taxes should be cut for everyone.”

4. End the attacks on women’s reproductive health. “[T]he issue of protecting life has been conflated with issues around the definition of rape, funding for Planned Parenthood, and even contraception. In the words of one female participant in our Hispanic voter focus group in Orlando, “I think Romney wanted to cut Planned Parenthood. And he supports policies where it would make it harder for a woman to get an abortion should she choose, even if it were medically necessary. That goes head in hand with redefining rape.”

5. Expand universal health care coverage. “Many of the young people in our focus groups noted that they thought everyone in America should have access to health coverage. In the Spring 2012 Harvard Ins ute of Politics survey of young voters, 44% said that “basic health insurance is a right for all people, and if someone has no means of paying for it, the government should provide it.” … As one participant in our focus group of young men in Columbus put it, “at least Obama was making strides to start the process of reforming health care.”

6. Provide comprehensive immigration reform. “The position taken most frequently by young voters was that “illegal immigrants should have a path to earn citizenship,” chosen by 35% of respondents… Some 19% chose “illegal immigrants should be deported or put in jail for breaking the law,” while another 17% took the position that “illegal immigrants should have a path to legal status but not citizenship.”

7. Cut the defense budget first. “Indeed, a large number of respondents pointed to the defense budget as the place where cuts should start. In the survey, 35% of respondents thought that “we should have a smaller defense budget and leaner military,” including 49% of young independents.”

8. Democrats are more responsive on student loans. “Many focus group members did think that Democrats were responding to the student loan crisis. “I think they’re more in tune to what we need right now with student loans, getting a job, fixing the housing market and the environment,” observed one participant from Orlando, with another adding that he had “heard Obama once say, oh, he has student loans, he went to school, he knows what we’re going through.”

9. Climate change is real. “Ultimately, while voters may say they are concerned about climate change, they rarely list it among the issues on the top of their minds.”

10. Bush’s wars blew up the deficit. “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan themselves, however, were largely viewed as having been a net negative for the U.S. In fact, during focus group discussions about the recession, one respondent said she felt that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had contributed in part to the economic crisis.”

11. Marriage equality for all. “Surveys have consistently shown that gay marriage is not as important an issue as jobs and the economy to young voters. Yet it was unmistakable in the focus groups that gay marriage was a reason many of these young voters disliked the GOP.”

http://www.alternet.org/gop?akid=105...t=7&paging=off

so the Repugs continue to lose the young, women, blacks, LGBT, Hispanics, Repugs being left with rural white fat ignorant old bubbas.

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House Republicans Booed As They Vote To Deport DREAMers

To a chorus of boos from the gallery, House Republicans voted 224-201 on Thursday to approve an amendment that defunds the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The amendment, from Rep. Steve King (R-IA), undercuts the flexibility that allows the Department of Homeland Security to halt deporting DREAMers and instead focus on people convicted of crimes.


After the vote, the House Hispanic Caucus tweeted,”House Republicans just voted to treat DREAMers and undo ented spouses of servicemembers in the same way as violent criminals.” Only six Republicans voted against the measure.

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration...port-dreamers/

Hispanics HEART Repugs

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New Data Confirm The Democratic Presidential Majority Is Here To Stay

Democrats have made great strides on the electoral map since 1988. They have established firm bases of support on both coasts, more than held their own in the battleground states of the industrial Midwest, and made inroads into Republican terrain in the South and the Mountain West. But the Democratic vote share has not increased everywhere since 1988, when Michael Dukakis lost the popular vote 53.4% to 45.6% to Republican George H.W. Bush. In a total of 19 states, Dukakis drew a larger share of the vote in 1988 than the victorious Barack Obama did in 2012. These states were predominantly rural in complexion and scattered about the country — in Appalachia, the South and border South, the upper Midwest, the Plains states and the Mountain West.










http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...-here-to-stay/

Repugs know they're ed, so Repug-controlled states install voter suppression and ridiculous gerrymandering.

[TeyshaBlue]

[RandomGuy]

New Data Confirm The Democratic Presidential Majority Is Here To Stay

Democrats have made great strides on the electoral map since 1988. They have established firm bases of support on both coasts, more than held their own in the battleground states of the industrial Midwest, and made inroads into Republican terrain in the South and the Mountain West. But the Democratic vote share has not increased everywhere since 1988, when Michael Dukakis lost the popular vote 53.4% to 45.6% to Republican George H.W. Bush. In a total of 19 states, Dukakis drew a larger share of the vote in 1988 than the victorious Barack Obama did in 2012. These states were predominantly rural in complexion and scattered about the country — in Appalachia, the South and border South, the upper Midwest, the Plains states and the Mountain West.










http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...-here-to-stay/

Repugs know they're ed, so Repug-controlled states install voter suppression and ridiculous gerrymandering.

What should worry them:

Texas electoral college votes: 38
California electoral college votes: 55
New York: 29

Total: 122

Needed to win presidency: 270

45% of the presidency is these three states.

The only reason that the Democratic party hasn't won in Texas is that they haven't developed the infrastrcture, but they are really working on fixing that. The demographics make it outright inevitable that Texas swings blue, sometime in the next 10-15 years.

That will come as a deep shock to those residing in the Fox "news" information bubble. I expect violence at some point by the really disillusioned nutters.

[TeyshaBlue]

Pssst. Cycles. Look it up.

The study that thinkprogress cherry picked from makes mention of this. Doesn't really fit the TP narrative tho, so it was left out.

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Massachusetts Senate Candidate Loses Women’s Support As He Flounders On Reproductive Health Issues

Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee for John Kerry’s former Senate seat in Massachusetts, has been struggling to adequately articulate his positions on women’s health issues over the past several weeks. And as recent polling shows, that’s not winning him any favors with the state’s female voters.

Gomez has not clarified whether or not he supports the Blunt Amendment, which would allow employers to deny birth control coverage from their employees for any reason. The GOP candidate has admitted he hasn’t actually read the eight-page Blunt Amendment, and one of his spokespeople recently referred to the birth control policy as “inside baseball.” And this week, Gomez struggled to comment on abortion policy — first saying that he supported requiring women to undergo a 24-hour waiting period before obtaining an abortion, and then telling reporters he would vote against such a restriction if it came up for debate in the Senate.

Voters are taking notice. According to new figures from Public Policy Polling, women’s opinions of Gomez have significantly dropped over the past month. Back in the beginning of May, just after Gomez won the GOP primary, 41 percent of women viewed the candidate favorably while 24 percent viewed him unfavorably. In PPP’s most recent poll conducted at the beginning of June, just 35 percent of women had a favorable opinion of Gomez — and the number of women who viewed him unfavorably jumped to 44 percent. Altogether, that’s a 26 point shift away from the Republican candidate among this demographic.

“Women across the Commonwealth are seeing Gomez for who he really is — a pro-life Republican who can’t be trusted to protect women’s rights,” a spokesperson representing Gomez’s opponent, Rep. Ed Markey (D), said in a statement.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...-lose-support/

Having pimped Kerry hard for State so they could go after his Senate seat, the Repugs run one of their beloved token s and still can't get traction.

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Repug reachout to females going great, too, with the Repug Rape Caucus totally in retreat!

More GOP Idiocy: 'The Incidence of Rape Resulting in Pregnancy Are Very Low'

. Franks is pushing a bill that would make abortion illegal after 20 weeks, and in opposing a Democratic amendment creating exceptions for rape and incest, he had this to say:

"The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low."

Actually, as we all found out after Akin's claim that "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," pregnancy from rape is not rare at all. But Republicans like Todd Akin and Trent Franks don't really give a damn how rare or common it is for women to face an unwanted pregnancy after being raped. That's what absolutism is—there is absolutely no cir stance under which they are willing to allow a woman to decide to end a pregnancy.

Rape and incest just don't register for them.

Franks went on to echo the logic of Ron Paul's "honest rape" comments: There shouldn't need to be a post-20 weeks rape and incest exception because "when you make that exception, there’s usually a requirement to report the rape within 48 hours." So not only does he reject the facts on pregnancy and rape, he doesn't begin to get all the reasons women don't always immediately report rape.

http://www.alternet.org/more-gop-rape-nonsense

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Repug reaching out to LGBT

Rubio Says It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay


Though Rubio bristles at the notion of being called a "bigot," he showed no willingness to help protect LGBT workers from discrimination. "I'm not for any special protections based on orientation," Rubio told ThinkProgress.

KEYES: The Senate this summer is going to be taking up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which makes it illegal to fire someone for being gay. Do you know if you'll be supporting that?

RUBIO: I haven't read the legislation. By and large I think all Americans should be protected but I'm not for any special protections based on orientation.

KEYES: What about on race or gender?

RUBIO: Well that's established law.

KEYES: But not for sexual orientation?

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/0...51/rubio-enda/

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[FuzzyLumpkins]

I am not a righty. Maybe if you read some of my statements you would pick that up. I like to rid DC of left and right. Both are most corrupt sob's.

So says the guy that posts the Fox News ad nauseum. When your go to new source is Fox News that speaks louder than anything else.

[Wild Cobra]

Are you afraid of being fired boutons?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Are you afraid of being fired boutons?

You aren't because of your union. Ironic given your views on unions.

[RandomGuy]

Pssst. Cycles. Look it up.

The study that thinkprogress cherry picked from makes mention of this. Doesn't really fit the TP narrative tho, so it was left out.

Cycles, schycles.

Demographics.

President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Romneyamong voters under the age of 30 in the 2012 election.

[TeyshaBlue]

Speaking of which....demographics, shmemographics.


Cycles.

http://behranalytics.blogspot.com/20...s-destiny.html

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Conservatives Double Down on the War on Women

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) fears this will be the worst year on record for reproductive rights, possibly worse than the previous two worst years, 2011 and 2012. The group has a map of the legislation offered and passed on the state level. Click through to see the interactive version:



http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29

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Lindsey Graham: GOP in a Death Spiral

Immigration reform sure has Republicans in a bind. After all, Sen. Lindsey Graham was not wrong when he said, on Sunday's Meet the Press, that:

"... if we don’t pass immigration reform, if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016. We’re in a demographic death spiral as a party and the only way we can get back in good graces with the Hispanic community in my view is pass comprehensive immigration reform. If you don’t do that, it really doesn’t matter who we run in my view."

He's sure not wrong that the GOP can't continue to be the party of white men, to with brown people, and succeed. So you'd think it would be an obvious choice to any Republican who could read polls and demographic data. Yet Sen.

Marco Rubio demonstrates the other side of the Republican bind on immigration as he continues doing the will-he-or-won't-he danceon the immigration reform bill he helped write.

http://www.alternet.org/gop-immigrat...ter856428&t=15

Pass or fail imm reform, Repugs won't win Hispanic vote in 14 or 16.

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war on TX wimmen, protecting business profits

Rick Perry Vetoes Equal Pay Bill

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) vetoed a bill on Friday that would have allowed women suffering wage discrimination to take legal action, alleging that the measure “duplicates federal law, which already allows employees…to file a claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.” On average, women earn 77 cents of every dollar a man makes, though the disparity is even greater for African American and Hispanic women.

Forty-two states have passed sate-based equal pay laws, recognizing that Lilly Ledbetter was not enough.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...qual-pay-bill/

[Homeland Security]

The GOP came to the fork in the road between conservatism and white nationalism, and chose white nationalism. That means its collapse is only a matter of time.

Debates on fiscal and economic conservatism/liberalism increasingly will be internal to the Democratic Party. It will be Democratic officeholders who demonstrate the ability to make those tough decisions.

We'll enter a decade or two of Democratic hegemony at the federal level -- probably after 2020 and the next round of redistricting. Once that happens, the progressive left increasingly will lose patience with the controlling pro-corporate moderate wing of the party and will agitate to split off on its own. Without a credible opposition party on the right, there will not be any reason for them to stick with the Democrats, so the left will form a new Progressive party.

For a while, the rump of the GOP will be able to play spoiler at a regional level, especially in the South. It will be similar to the spoiler role the Southern Democrats once held -- not surprising, since they're the exact same people. Ultimately it will disappear -- there's no point in keeping the GOP around as a minor party.

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how to win the WIMMEN VOTE:

House GOP To Vote On 20-Week Abortion Ban After Quietly Adding Exemptions For Rape And Incest

House Republicans have scheduled a vote Tuesday on legislation that would outlaw abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but not before quietly carving out exemptions for cases of rape and incest (which had been defeated in committee) and sidelining the bill’s sponsor.

The legislation is likely to pass the GOP-led House and die in the Democratic-led Senate. It’s largely a messaging device to energize social conservatives whom Republicans rely on in elections. But Democrats are equally eager to cite the vote as another example of a Republican “war on women” and chip away at the party’s standing with female voters.

“But as we’ve seen recently, rebranding won’t work when the GOP holds onto the same backwards policies and loose-lipped leaders. No matter the messenger, women voters will continue to see this ban for exactly what it is — an extreme bill designed to threaten the rights and safety of women across the nation.”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...ortion-ban.php

God wants you have the rapist's or your father's/uncle's baby.

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Texas Republican Says He Wants to Ban Abortion Because ... Fetuses Masturbate?




Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said that fetuses at 15-weeks “stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?” Burgess is a former OB-GYN.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...g-male-fetuses

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Repugs always staying classy, and running fantastically successful outreach to women. This woman is a pimped by Dems.

Go Repugs Go!

Illinois GOP Official Calls Black Republican Candidate A ‘Street Walker,’ ‘Love Child Of The DNC’

The little queen touts her abstinence and she won the crown because she got bullied in school,,,boohoo..kids are cruel, life sucks and you move on..

Now, miss queen is being used like a street walker and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS…

These pimps want something they can’t get,,,

the seat held by a conservative REPUBLICAN Rodney Davis and Nancy Pelosi can’t stand it..

http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...street-walker/