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And finally, New Rule, the GOP candidates must save us all a lot of time by just telling us which parts of America they don't hate.
You know, so many Republicans nowadays speak with unbridled disgust for America's East coast elites, and San Francisco liberals, and the Hollywood cesspool, and the inside the Beltway mentality, and Chicago-style politics. And then they accuse Obama of dividing America.
They say how can we be one nation under God if Democrats keep talking about the two Americas, and the haves and have nots, and the 99% versus the 1%. But there are two Americas. We are a nation of haves and have nots. And when it comes to dividing America, it's Republicans who in recent years have carved out a nation into two distinct territories. There's the heartland, and then there's the rest of the country: a vast nightmarish wasteland of college professors, museums, and people who recycle.
I mean, just think of the list of these parts of America the Republics (sic) are publicly bitching about. Chicago, that lawless hellhole where Obama learned how to thug. Hawaii, the state liberals made up so Obama could become President. Hollywood, and San Francisco, and... oh fuck it, let's just say all of California, except for Orange County and the shitty parts of the Valley.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/10/1063759/-Bill-Maher-blasts-Republicans-for-dividing-America?via=siderec
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)unblock
(52,183 posts)the rest of us are lazy criminal perverted godless jackbooted socialist nazi terrorist redistributionist elitist illegal immigrants who want to impose sharia law.
Johnson20
(315 posts)Religious right, gun enthusiasts, Fox news, TX, Mormons, the rich. Need I go on?
ck4829
(35,042 posts)And how is the religious right and Fox News being maligned and how are they really all about unity?
Johnson20
(315 posts)Republicans, conservationism in general, Arizona, Alabama, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Catholics, fundies, freepers, Big Insurance (health), Wall Street, the so called investor class, Metro Police Depts. What I'm saying is that lets not be so darn hypocritical here on DU.
phasma ex machina
(2,328 posts)own interests.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Liberals and progressives.
BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)with the pro-union Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, etc, along with their apparent dismissal of Illinois and its "Chicago-style" politics.
Really, there's nothing left but the slowly failing "Southern Strategy" region, where states like Virginia, Florida, and North Carolina are slowly being transformed.