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Title: The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/magazine/st ... 8035.html?hp=t2_r#.VVnQK_lVhHx
Published: May 17, 2015
Author: DANIEL J. MCGRAW
Post Date: 2015-05-18 07:50:21 by Jameson
Keywords: Old Angry, White, Guys
Views: 30602
Comments: 128
It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party’s biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party’s own nickname. The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older, and as the adage goes, there are two certainties in life: Death and taxes. Right now, both are enemies of the GOP and they might want to worry more about the former than the latter. There’s been much written about how millennials are becoming a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but there’s been much less attention paid to one of the biggest get-out-the-vote challenges for the Republican Party heading into the next presidential election: Hundreds of thousands of their traditional core supporters won’t be able to turn out to vote at all. The party’s core is dying off by the day. Read more: www.politico.com/magazine...118035.html#ixzz3aURTGXqk
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#4. To: Jameson, A K A Stone, Devil Anse (#0)
This poster is nothing but a liberal troll. His posting history is anticonservative attack pieces and he has never posted a single comment on LF. Jameson is the very definition of a seminar poster and liberal troll. Isn't it time to just ban him? If we wanted to read liberal garbage, we could go to the big libmedia outlets instead of posting here.
That's half the fun of being here making fun of the...
One look at that and I want to fire 8 .22 shots in quick succession.
That's a waste of perfectly good ammunition, ridicule is better and you never, ever run out. :)
I really hate possums. Even more, porcupines and skunks and badgers and coons. I'll put up with a few rabbits and squirrels.
Don't know if you have armadillos where you live. They can do some real damage. Pic below is not mine but once had the same problem with armadillos when living in southern OK some time back. Interesting that I have not seen armadillos in our residential area since living in Central Texas this go around (not even dead on the side of the highway). But out in the Fort Hood training area they are all over the place. Remember as a 2LT at night running over one with my track. Went back with night vision googles to make sure I did not run over someone's leg.
I don't ever remember seeing one other than when we would go quail hunting, would have to watch so you wouldn't step into a hole. I remember one morning I was headed to Lake Ivie and it was still fairly dark out. Was cruising along about 65 or so when I seen this dark spot in the road, then it grew a big pair of eyeballs. Didn't have time to hit the brakes so just kept going, it was big enough that it make a heck of a racket hitting all 3 axels as I went over it. On the way home that night slowed down to see what I had hit but didn't see anything other than a blood spot on the road. Whatever it was managed to crawl away or something else found it and carried it off.
Yeah I hit an armadillo too or should I say one hit my car. Late night at work two weeks from going on OIF 1, driving home to rural OK. No one on the country road but me when I hear (and feel) a thud hit my rear tire. I then see something curl up like a rollie pollie and roll to the side of the road, pop back up and moves on. Stop the car and the hub spokes snapped in two pieces. The critter survived that:)
Animals are tough, a lot tougher than us. I once hit a buzzard with the truck it left a blood streak and feathers all up the hood and windshield. Last thing I seen was it flying away and disappear into a stand of trees about a mile away. I would have to assume it died (maybe) but that was a hard hit and to watch it fly that far is amazing. In England you had to watch for pheasants, they would fly parallel to the road behind the hedges outlining the fields. When they would find an opening in the hedges they would dart across the road into the next field, sometimes right into your windshield. Here that's no big deal because we have safety glass over there at that time they didn't. Don't know how many cars I see with the windshield busted out and a dead pheasant inside the car. I was lucky I hit 3 or 4 but only at glancing blows or I managed to brake somewhat and lessen the impact so never lost a windshield. One of the funniest/scariest moments in a car was also in England. Me the wife and oldest daughter were going to RAF Feltwell to the furniture store to shop for a new bedroom suit. Just as we got to the top of this one hill a British Tornado fighter/bomber flew right over the roof of the car about 30' up and about 350-400 knots or so. (I actually felt the car start to come off the ground)!! Well needless to say I locked up the brakes, the wife ended up in the back seat screaming "What the hell was that" and the daughter was still asleep in her car seat. LOL.... I looked out the window just in time to see him disappear into the trees in the valley behind me, and I'd bet he was laughing his ass off. Those Brits were daring when it came to flying but you have to remember over there the overcast gets so low you have to fly at 100' or less to see anything and they practice flying that low all the time. On the other hand the deck for our pilots was 500', at least over land.
#74. To: CZ82 (#73)
Those Brits were daring when it came to flying but you have to remember over there the overcast gets so low you have to fly at 100' or less to see anything and they practice flying that low all the time. On the other hand the deck for our pilots was 500', at least over land. LOL great story.
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#50. To: TooConservative (#4)
#51. To: CZ82 (#50)
#54. To: TooConservative (#51)
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#58. To: TooConservative, CZ82 (#55)
I really hate possums. Even more, porcupines and skunks and badgers and coons. I'll put up with a few rabbits and squirrels.
#62. To: redleghunter (#58)
Interesting that I have not seen armadillos in our residential area since living in Central Texas this go around (not even dead on the side of the highway).
#71. To: CZ82 (#62)
#73. To: redleghunter (#71)
Replies to Comment # 73. One of the funniest/scariest moments in a car was also in England. Me the wife and oldest daughter were going to RAF Feltwell to the furniture store to shop for a new bedroom suit. Just as we got to the top of this one hill a British Tornado fighter/bomber flew right over the roof of the car about 30' up and about 350-400 knots or so. (I actually felt the car start to come off the ground)!! Well needless to say I locked up the brakes, the wife ended up in the back seat screaming "What the hell was that" and the daughter was still asleep in her car seat. LOL.... I looked out the window just in time to see him disappear into the trees in the valley behind me, and I'd bet he was laughing his ass off.
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