THIS is who you chose to represent you?




I know there is a thread on this candidate but this is not about her.

It is about any of you fucks who voted for this crazy ignorant bitch. AC called her out on her bullshit and she turns around and calls him anti-Christian...you've got to be kidding me.

This is what the rest of the country will think of when they hear North Carolina. Football cheaters and dumbass bitches.

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 3:31 PM. Reason : -]

11/3/2010 3:25:16 PM

Still better than Bob Etheridge in my opinion, but i don't live in that district

11/3/2010 3:32:41 PM

Why would you expect rational electoral outcomes from a state with some ridiculously gerrymandered districts?

11/3/2010 3:36:06 PM

Bob Etheridge has beaten republican opponants in this district 7 times already, but this is the one he loses to.

How does that happen? Did the democrats just not show up? Or are NC republicans THAT afraid of an imam in NYC?

11/3/2010 3:40:34 PM

Whoa, does she have a small bit of downs going on?

11/3/2010 4:51:54 PM

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"Whoa, does she have a small bit of downs going on?"

The perfect representative for district 2

11/3/2010 4:56:39 PM

I guess they are going to get what they deserve.

11/3/2010 5:37:25 PM

Oh. My God.

I shouldn't complain because I live in that district and should have double checked to make sure the DMV correctly registered me when I got my NC license after moving from CA... but holy shit. That was painful and everything I've read about her is just as painful.

11/3/2010 6:26:34 PM

^^This is the US House...her vote doesn't only affect District 2, it affects the ENTIRE COUNTRY. G-d help us all.

11/3/2010 6:35:56 PM

^^^^ and democrats wonder why they got their asses kicked when they are so denigrating to large swaths of the American population

11/3/2010 6:49:09 PM

damn, I love anderson cooper (no homo)

11/3/2010 7:38:33 PM

Ellmers is an idiot, but I don't see why you assume that Etherige is any smarter. I've met the guy, and he's a goddamn slack-jawed yokel in a suit.

11/3/2010 7:47:11 PM

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"Bob Etheridge has beaten republican opponants in this district 7 times already, but this is the one he loses to. How does that happen? Did the democrats just not show up? Or are NC republicans THAT afraid of an imam in NYC?"

Alternate possibility:

Degenerating your opponents as mindless, racist, and every other degrading term you can think of and treating them as children who need your divine guidance (as a large contingent of the democratic party is wont to do) is not a good way to get yourself re-elected. I mentioned before that the democrats were walking a very thin line with their constant portrayals of the republicans and the tea party as racist idiots. While it did fire up their base a bit, it also ran the very high risk of firing up the republican base as well. Nothing get's a group fired up like feeling they (and their beliefs and way of life) are under attack. It appears the democrats crossed that line in the last years.

11/3/2010 7:56:54 PM

I'm confident that Etheridge doesn't equate Muslims with terrorist. I'm also confident that he is capable of understanding that all religious fanaticism is dangerous and that Christians have the same cross to bear.

11/3/2010 8:01:32 PM

In 1898, Democrats took over NC by relying heavily on racialized rhetoric and fear.

It's a hundred and twelve years later, and Republicans finally managed to pull off the same feat!

This ain't about healthcare or the stimulus or jobs. It's about the Kenyan-Hawaiian socialist Muslim terrorist that Democrats put in office. And, oh yeah, he's black, too...that's probably the trait that put him over the top in terms of setting off the racists among us.

I mean, it's hilarious...like the Tea Party. Had the Tea Party started like four years earlier or twenty years earlier or whatever, it would be so awesome...but they gotta wait 'til we elect our first black president to get organized? Come on!

11/3/2010 8:34:45 PM

How do conservatives manage to be so self-assured in their own stupidity, but the liberals so timid when they are right?

That is mind boggling.

11/3/2010 8:45:08 PM

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"Had the Tea Party started like four years earlier or twenty years earlier or whatever, it would be so awesome..."

In fairness, the core of the Tea Party formed from Ron Paul's 2012 campaign and was fairly strongly Libertarian. Problem is that a bunch of goddamned NeoCon, proto-Imperalist, Jesus nuts hijacked what was originally a fiscal movement and made it into a bastardized reincarnation of the Christian Coalition.

Fuc'm.

11/3/2010 8:48:13 PM

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" I mentioned before that the democrats were walking a very thin line with their constant portrayals of the republicans and the tea party as racist idiots."

I'm not portraying republicans or tea partyers as anything. This specific woman is a MORON. I wonder of all the people who voted for her, how many saw this interview and knew who they were really putting into office.

This is of course just a theory, and since I'm not in NC anymore I can't really do anything about it, but IMO all of this is just a reflection on how people feel about Obama and not about this particular candidate. I have loved the team of Etheridge, Price, and Miller, and thought they have done a great job for the interests of North Carolina, but this woman will vote with the tea party which is not a reflection of how the state (or even District 2) really feels.

If there was a good strong Republican candidate I would be ok with it. For example, I grew up in the 9th district where Sue Myrick has won every term since 1995, and I'm totally fine with her. But Ellmers is a nutcase who will not do well as a representative for our state.

11/3/2010 8:51:33 PM

Of all the districts in NC that could have had an upset, Ellmers was easily the worst. I would trade 3 other districts if it meant Ellmers lost.

And by like 1%… that’s like a kick in the nuts.

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 8:57 PM. Reason : ]

11/3/2010 8:57:22 PM

This lady is ridiculous, and Cooper ripped her to shreds. Was there really not a better candidate in that district, or are the voters here that dumb? I mean, Bob Etheridge is bad, no doubt, and the fact that he's out of office is a positive thing in itself. Hopefully she won't be given the opportunity to vote on anything too terrible. But really, wow.

I think this is an insight into the the voters' minds. If you think about it, the Mosque "debate" had no real policy implications. What were they going to do, pass a resolution? Did they pass a resolution? Who gives a damn? Hardly anyone was saying, "the government needs to step in and put this to a stop." People were mainly saying they just shouldn't build it there. It had nothing to do with how anyone was going to vote. If I didn't know better, I'd say this issue was concocted by Fox to fire up the traditional conservative base. Oh.

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 9:12 PM. Reason : ]

11/3/2010 9:01:11 PM

I'm in District 4 so I didn't really pay much attention to this race, but WOW I am shocked that she won. AC tore her up, she is clueless but she will make a decent politician because she BS'ed her way around all of his questions. I just hope that the left and moderates realize what a screw up this election was in a couple years and clean house of the loonies like her that slipped through the cracks this time around.

11/3/2010 10:16:21 PM

There's still going to be a recount...

11/3/2010 11:22:23 PM

No experience:

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"Ellmers runs the clinic of her physician husband. She became politically active in 2009 when she joined Americans for Prosperity on a bus tour across the state to protest the health care law. She was endorsed by conservative activist Sarah Palin."

And question about this...

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"She led Etheridge by 49.6 percent to 48.5 percent - 2,099 votes - in unofficial results with all counties reportings. Libertarian Tom Rose had 1.85 percent."

If no one broke 50%, then there should be a runoff, right? Rose would be off the ballot and a runoff should be held between Etheridge and Ellmers with no write-in options. Am I off on that assumption?

11/3/2010 11:54:21 PM

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"and democrats wonder why they got their asses kicked when they are so denigrating to large swaths of the American population"

Are you disputing that Ellmers is borderline autistic?

Besides, "large swaths of the American population" have blood dripping from their hands and are too apathetic, brainwashed, and stupid to see it. Pointing it out has the strange effect of emboldening them. What would you expect a reasonable person to do save throw his hands up in the air at this point? What's going to change?

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"Ellmers is an idiot, but I don't see why you assume that Etherige is any smarter. I've met the guy, and he's a goddamn slack-jawed yokel in a suit."

lol get the fuck out of here. Gotta love the whole "the (R) is borderline retarded BUT I BET THE (D) IS 'just as bad' !!!"

Yeah, LOL. Democrats are pretty fucking corrupt, stupid, misguided, corporate-controlled, whatever; let's vote in Republicans who will strip people of equality wherever possible. woot

[Edited on November 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM. Reason : .]

11/4/2010 10:37:01 AM

She'll be gone in 2 years. What is she really gonna fuck up? She'll be a sideshow for two years and vote with the rest of the Rs. Big deal. At least she'll provide some entertainment.

11/4/2010 12:00:46 PM

I live in District 2.

I met both Etheridge and Ellmers within 30 minutes of one another at a local fair Labor Day weekend. I did fairly extensive research on both candidates. I am registered Independent and I takes stances on either side of the political spectrum dependent on issue.

Etheridge's Pro's
- Pro Choice
- Socially favorable in my eyes

Etheridge's Con's
- Pro "Tax and Spend" and "Big Government"
- voted for HCR
- Incumbent
- Fiscally unfavorable to me.

Ellmer's Pro's
- Pro "Fair Tax"
- Pro Medicare, Medicaid, and SS reform.

Ellmer's Con's
- Socially unfavorable to me

Considering the issues that I was voting for this election, #1 being the economy, I voted for the sake of the economy as to how I would like to see it progress. If Ellmers doesn't vote how I want to see her vote (specifically supporting a FairTax bill), I will vote for her opponent in 2 years.

With every election you have to pick the least unfavorable, not the perfect candidate. I seriously doubt there are 435 people in the entire country that I would find to be the perfect congressman. This race is no different.

[Edited on November 4, 2010 at 12:31 PM. Reason : I guess I am just weird for wanting to have to pay a little tax as possible.]

11/4/2010 12:18:13 PM

No, that's pretty normal. I'd wager that even most lefties here don't want to pay more taxes. They want someone else to have to pay more taxes.

11/4/2010 12:48:00 PM

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"Bob Etheridge has beaten republican opponants in this district 7 times already, but this is the one he loses to."

Maybe he shouldn't have voted in favor of HCR and the Waxman energy bill then.

11/4/2010 12:50:55 PM

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"No, that's pretty normal. I'd wager that even most lefties here don't want to pay more taxes. They want someone else to have to pay more taxes."

God forbid people with practically infinite marginal utility lose a bit of it

Let's go hog-wild and continue to let people with practically infinite marginal utility skim it from us

11/4/2010 12:55:23 PM

So you support ending the Federal Reserve, right? Do you realize how we've been paying for these record deficits?

11/4/2010 1:03:17 PM

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"I'm not portraying republicans or tea partyers as anything."

I wasn't particularly talking about you, I was referring to the current and most popular DNC tactic. To be honest, the DNC has always come across as condescending and holier-than-thou (hence why they fail miserably at talk radio), it's just become much more recent and prominent in the last 10 years or so, case in point:

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"This ain't about healthcare or the stimulus or jobs. It's about the Kenyan-Hawaiian socialist Muslim terrorist that Democrats put in office. And, oh yeah, he's black, too...that's probably the trait that put him over the top in terms of setting off the racists among us. ... How do conservatives manage to be so self-assured in their own stupidity, but the liberals so timid when they are right? ... "large swaths of the American population" have blood dripping from their hands and are too apathetic, brainwashed, and stupid to see it. Pointing it out has the strange effect of emboldening them. What would you expect a reasonable person to do save throw his hands up in the air at this point? What's going to change?"

And that's just in this thread alone. Unsurprisingly, hurling personal insults at people is a bad way to get them to listen to your message. Combine this with a strong anti-incumbent feeling among moderates, an ever pervasive message that voting third party is throwing away your vote, and a growing perception that politics is just a game and it doesn't matter who is in office, they're going to fuck you over anyway and you have the conditions necessary for electing someone unqualified and incompetent. When the government stops representing the people, why should the people care who they elect?

Incidentally, this is also a perfect example of why government power should be limited. Because at any given time, you might find your worst nightmare is the one holding the levers of power.

11/4/2010 1:03:46 PM

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"And that's just in this thread alone. Unsurprisingly, hurling personal insults at people is a bad way to get them to listen to your message. Combine this with a strong anti-incumbent feeling among moderates, an ever pervasive message that voting third party is throwing away your vote, and a growing perception that politics is just a game and it doesn't matter who is in office, they're going to fuck you over anyway and you have the conditions necessary for electing someone unqualified and incompetent. When the government stops representing the people, why should the people care who they elect?"

(1) Telling people the truth is a bad campaign strategy, in general, because people are ridiculously complicit in atrocity
(2) I am not a democrat; confusing my own attitudes for strategic/political failings in the democratic party is ridiculous

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"How do conservatives manage to be so self-assured in their own stupidity, but the liberals so timid when they are right?"

Get off of your high horse. Liberals, even when "right", are impotent slaves of the same system. The past 2 years are proof enough of that; hell, the past 10 years are excellent proof that both conservatives and liberals are serving precisely the same interests.

[Edited on November 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM. Reason : .]

11/4/2010 1:08:09 PM

Go read the wral comments on the recount article and you'll get a better idea of exactly what kind of idiots you're dealing with.

Sometimes I look at wral comments just for the lols.

11/4/2010 1:27:13 PM

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"Get off of your high horse. Liberals, even when "right", are impotent slaves of the same system. The past 2 years are proof enough of that; hell, the past 10 years are excellent proof that both conservatives and liberals are serving precisely the same interests. "

I don't get how Ellmers, Palin, Beck, Hanity, or Limbaugh can say ridiculously stupid things without hesitation, but Ethridge or even Obama can't stand up and say he thinks a religious group can build a worship building without having to dance around his words.

They are slaves to the same system, but the peanut butter always seems nuttier for one side.

11/4/2010 1:30:33 PM

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"I don't get how Ellmers, Palin, Beck, Hanity, or Limbaugh can say ridiculously stupid things without hesitation, but Ethridge or even Obama can't stand up and say he thinks a religious group can build a worship building without having to dance around his words. They are slaves to the same system, but the peanut butter always seems nuttier for one side."

The other side, which is complicit to and follows the nutty peanut butter, is somehow NOT nutty?

What's worse, murdering or sitting on your hands and receiving a check while others murder?

11/4/2010 1:32:10 PM

i like peanut butter. put the nuts in my mouth.

11/4/2010 2:09:19 PM

McDanger takes on the world ITT

11/4/2010 2:19:57 PM

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"What's worse, murdering or sitting on your hands and receiving a check while others murder? "

in the eyes of the first law they are equal.

11/4/2010 2:22:00 PM

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"What's worse, murdering or sitting on your hands and receiving a check while others murder?"

Murdering.

11/4/2010 2:22:04 PM

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"Murdering."

Are the people whose apathy make the murders possible not complicit? Especially when their incentive not to rock the boat is money?

It's disgusting.

11/4/2010 2:34:24 PM

Between her and Foxx NC is not looking too good. Here in district 6 we sent back Howard Corpse for a 14th time. That is pretty sad also.

11/4/2010 2:36:49 PM

How anybody could be happy to send this incompetent criminal to office eludes me

11/4/2010 2:39:21 PM

I might not be happy, but I'm happier than sending back that asshat Etheridge to DC where I know he won't respresent my interests.

11/4/2010 2:43:31 PM

Neither will this woman. The only difference is that this one is actually willing to use xenophobia to get elected

11/4/2010 2:45:47 PM

Holy shit, both parties aren't working in the interests of the people they claim to represent? Hold the fucking train, this is a major political insight.

[Edited on November 4, 2010 at 2:51 PM. Reason : ]

11/4/2010 2:50:34 PM

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"Are the people whose apathy make the murders possible not complicit? Especially when their incentive not to rock the boat is money? It's disgusting."

My response was a joke. Of course they're complicit. As complicit? Arguable.

11/4/2010 3:09:13 PM

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"My response was a joke. Of course they're complicit. As complicit? Arguable."

The apathy is the precondition

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"Holy shit, both parties aren't working in the interests of the people they claim to represent? Hold the fucking train, this is a major political insight."

Can't we just agree about some things without you being a monstrous douchebag?

[Edited on November 4, 2010 at 3:16 PM. Reason : .]

11/4/2010 3:16:13 PM

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"Hold the fucking train, this is a major political insight."

Then why do you repeat it over and over in every thread?

11/4/2010 3:21:28 PM

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"Neither will this woman. The only difference is that this one is actually willing to use xenophobia to get elected"

Well I'm pretty sure she doesn't favor expansion of government in any of its forms. And since fiscal concerns are a higher priority to me than social concerns I don't care if she bitches about some mosque being built in lower manhattan, even if it does make me

11/4/2010 3:27:37 PM

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"Well I'm pretty sure she doesn't favor expansion of government in any of its forms."

Oh really? I wonder how she feels about farm subsidies and military spending

11/4/2010 3:28:36 PM