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    norbiznessHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:42am

    I was in college at the same time (early 90s); each campus seemed to have its little cadre of raised-under-Reagan reactionary frothers. This was the first generation of Dinesh D’Souza-trained anti-p.c. warriors who were just starting to hear 3-4 hours of Rush Limbaugh on AM radio every day, commonly referred to today as “total assholes.”

    This demographic, of course, includes Jindal/Cruz/Rubio; good to see that despite being reprehensible jitbags they’re still finding work into their 40s.

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      Cam/ronnorbizness
      3/08/16 9:46am

      My college newspaper had a right-wing columnist who actually scored an interview with Gingrich back in the late 90's. To Newt’s credit, he kept his cool and disagreed with the reporter whenever the Dollar Tree douchebag referred to Newt’s Democratic colleagues as “communists.” I agree about the generation of college kids who grew up listening to Rush on their parents’ car radios.

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      Kenhe Loginnorbizness
      3/08/16 9:46am

      I’m pretty sure the editorial was in the Marquette Free Press (reactionary student newspaper) and not the Marquette Tribune, so definite connection to D’Souza. So many RW talkers on AM radio in MKE.

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    MilyorkeeHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:39am

    Goddamit Wisconsin. You’re better than this.

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      WoodDuck2Milyorkee
      3/08/16 9:45am

      We are. It makes it hurt more knowing that the majority of voters in this state have been had by the con man Scott Walker and his gang of goons in the state legislature and high court.

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      Dank UncleMilyorkee
      3/08/16 9:46am

      Wisconsin really isn’t better than this, though.

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    KaidogHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 10:04am

    I think I wrote a letter to our campus paper when I was in college, late 80s, that had something to do with kegs on campus. I believe I took the ‘pro’ position.

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      curiousKaidog
      3/08/16 10:08am

      I would support your pro keg platform now, if you chose to run for high office.

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      Kaidogcurious
      3/08/16 10:10am

      There's a place for you in my administration.

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    Kenhe LoginHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:56am

    If you live in Wisconsin get out and vote for JoAnne Kloppenburg for Supreme Court Justice or will be stuck with this Walker stooge for 10 years.

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      KumichoKenhe Login
      3/08/16 10:01am

      And don't forget to drag all of your friends and neighbors. Voting in the spring election is tragically low...

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      Kenhe LoginKumicho
      3/08/16 10:07am

      We actually have some good friends who are non-voters and yes we will try. I’ve also got three kids who live here, plus my Dad (used to be a Republican, can’t stand Walker) and my brother.

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    VtDkDudeHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:44am

    It was 1992. Hillary was anti gay marriage in the early 1990s. She is pro gay marriage now. Maybe this lady, from the conservative midwest, was anti gay stuff. Maybe this lady, who is now an older more worldly person, has changed. Maybe we should be happy she isn’t Kim Fucking Davis. Perhaps people can change. (I haven’t had that much coffee yet so I am apparently being forgiving.)

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      Cherith CutestoryVtDkDude
      3/08/16 10:01am

      Well, she isn’t exactly saying she was wrong or totally disavowing that now. She is saying they have nothing to do with her job and basically “I’m sorry you are offended.”

      But I do think it’s wrong to just assume people believe the same things they did in college over twenty years ago. Evolving is a thing. Especially for people raised in sheltered or straight up bigoted families.

      What’s the incentive for anyone to ever grow and become more enlightened if we’ll just knock them over the head? This new progressive idea that it’s not enough to come around to the right side but that you always had to be completely pure is dangerous and basically taking GOP talking points. I’m sick of it.

      The idea that no matter how society changes or how exposed we become to new people and new ideas we can’t and shouldn’t change is typical right wing nonsense. This is a quote from Bobby Jindal that typifies it. We DON’T want to encourage this kind of thinking.

      “There are a lot of politicians that have so called ‘evolved’ on this issue — remember when President Obama first ran for office, he was for traditional marriage,” Mr. Jindal said on CNN’s “New Day.” “Saw the polls change; he changed his position. I’m not one of those politicians.

      http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/…

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      speteVtDkDude
      3/08/16 10:23am

      I am not much of a Clinton supporter, at all, but you are out of your goddamned mind if you think she’s ever expressed any sentiments towards gay people even 1/1000th as deranged and hateful as this Yeehadist nutbag.

      There’s a difference in ‘evolving’ from “marriage should be between a man and a woman” to “equal rights for all” versus “I hope they all get AIDS and die” to “sorrynotsorry if you were offended.”

      Do I think both reversals were politically motivated? Obviously. Hillary Clinton isn’t exactly dripping with sincerity. But the position she pivoted from was exponentially less horrible than the one you’re trying to compare it to here.

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    Dave Hamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:44am

    In 1992 I might have said something similar. I got better. Somehow, I suspect Judge Bradley has not.

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      Chamomiles DavisDave
      3/08/16 10:16am

      Ditto. Some of my thoughts and utterances from my olde college days are downright embarrassing. Not quite “the last Pope used to be a Hitler Youth” kind of embarrassing, but definitely less enlightened than (I hope) I’ve become today.

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      Dave Chamomiles Davis
      3/08/16 10:38am

      I was big into the Sam Kinison/Eddie Murphy/Dice Clay comedy of the day, none of whom were “enlightened” toward women or gays—I shudder to think of the things I said, not to mention DID because I thought that it was cool and “funny”.

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    Ed SpockHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 10:13am

    “Wisconsin sure seems like a great place and I can’t wait to vacation or move there.”

    -No person since 2010

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      Kenhe LoginEd Spock
      3/08/16 10:26am

      You obviously don’t live in Wisconsin. It’s a beautiful state going through some very ugly politics.

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      Ed SpockKenhe Login
      3/08/16 11:12am

      Don’t live there, but have visited several times.

      If I want the kind of things Wisconsin has to offer I’ll go to Minnesota and take joy in the fact that none of the money I spend is going to support the hate filled agenda of Governor, and all around disgusting piece of filth, Scott Walker.

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    Cherith CutestoryHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:45am

    A United States Supreme Court Justice once wrote:

    “Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home,” he goes onto say “They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.”(Lawrence v. Texas 2003)

    Law banning homosexual acts “undeniably seeks to further the belief of its citizens that certain forms of sexual behavior are ‘immoral and unacceptable,’” you know just like laws against “fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity.” (Lawrence)

    “But I had thought that one could consider certain conduct reprehensible—murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals—and could exhibit even ‘animus’ toward such conduct. Surely that is the only sort of ‘animus’ at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual conduct[.]” (Romer v. Evans, 1996)

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      Masshole JamesCherith Cutestory
      3/08/16 10:17am

      Yeah, but on the bright side, he’s dead.

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      jezbannedCherith Cutestory
      3/08/16 10:22am

      Yeah, but Ginsberg’s always been kind of an asshole.

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    AsomughatoMouthHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:44am

    “Bradley wrote these things in 1992. In astatement this week, she apologized and said that “those statements are not reflective of my worldview.””

    Aka “I’ll say anything to get this gig, and hoping the gullible electorate will buy my line of bullshit."

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      Mok, the Magic ManAsomughatoMouth
      3/08/16 9:55am

      “I’ll still fuck over women, unions, the poor, and people of color, but I’m O.K. with the queers as long as they’re doing my wedding planning, or designing shoes, or some shit like that. Just don’t make me touch them...ew.”

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      opiumsmabytchAsomughatoMouth
      3/08/16 10:18am

      I said a lot of stupid shit in college, but I didn’t believe in it enough or deeply enough to publish it in the school newspaper to influence others.

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    Cam/ronHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 9:41am

    “You may even have had a friend who held dumb views similar to Rebecca Bradley in college.”

    In college? Nah, she reminds me of a 7th grade woodshop classmate who called me a “faaa-GIT lover” after I told him I liked Clinton.

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      gingerhammeredCam/ron
      3/08/16 9:46am

      For some reason I imagine your classmate saying that as he’s not paying attention to the tablesaw as he leans right into cutting off his thumbs.

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      the johngingerhammered
      3/08/16 10:00am

      And I read your comment the first time as “cutting off his limbs,” Black Knight Style.

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