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Malcolm wrote:"Purge them".

Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump who plans to skip the convention, said more bluntly that the party should be prepared to break with Mr. Trump and the voters who have cheered his pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the country.

“You’ve got to hope that, if this race keeps going the way it looks to be going, that it’s enough of a jolt to wake people up and say we don’t want to be relegated to second place in every future presidential campaign,” Mr. Flake said.

He suggested a purge of racists from the party that would recall the expulsion of the John Birch Society, a fringe nationalist group, from Republican ranks a half-century ago.

“Those who want a Muslim ban, those who will disparage individuals or groups — yes, we ought to, we need to,” Mr. Flake said.

You're in the wrong party, Jeff.

Responding to writer Charlie Pierce’s MSNBC panel comments about “old white people” running the Republican Party, King preached his own race’s supremacy.

“I would ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about. Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?” the Republican said.
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“Than white people?” moderator Chris Hayes interjected.

“Than Western civilization itself that's rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where Christianity settled the world," King replied.

The congressman has made a name for himself this summer with racial remarks and symbols, saying in June that putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is racist, presumably against white people.

Social media users blasted the conservative for his apparent white supremacy Monday night, pointing out that he was sitting in front of Arabic numerals.

GORDON wrote:The Tea Party was going to fix things, but they got killed by the media. "Hey look these KKK guys showed up, there's the Tea Party!"

“That was just in-my-face racism,” she said, adding that America was built off of the labor of black slaves.

Vince wrote:Alaska Delegate Spills The Beans On How The RNC Denied The Roll Call Petition

More on why I don't think the Republican party can be reformed.

It has been reported that Alaska did not turn in its required signatures to contribute toward the rules committee roll call vote.
As a rules committee member, I had secured more than enough signatures from Alaska delegates, but the convention secretary was not at the designated location where I was told to submit them.
Some said she was hiding. Others said she was protected by guards. Regardless, I was told I could also present the signatures from the floor.
Nevertheless, when the vote occurred, my mic was not turned on. When I attempted to present these signatures at the stage, my effort was ignored by the chair, and the security guard turned me away.
The effort was made even more difficult by Alaska's late-arriving bus and slow security lines at the entrance.
Overall, this was not a good demonstration of delegate accommodation, nor of full, open, honest debate of the rules as was promised during the rules committee orientation.
Fred Brown
Rules Committee
Member, Alaska

Malcolm wrote:Someone remind me again how Democrats are the only ones that stuff ballot boxes and skew voting results.

Leisher wrote:

Malcolm wrote:Someone remind me again how Democrats are the only ones that stuff ballot boxes and skew voting results.

Who made that statement?

GORDON wrote:There was an entire thread about it when I started posting news articles actually highlighting all the many occasions of democratic voter fraud. I don't think I ever found any stories from the republican side.

Well Malcolm, Hillary's personal attack dog, just gave you one.

Leisher wrote:Republicans are clearly steering their own convention to nominate Trump, even though they all hate him, don't want him, and didn't show up.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are running a brilliant smear campaign making it so every right wing label from Conservative to Republican to Tea Party, etc. are considered bad words and shameful to declare yourself as one.

Leisher wrote:I'm actually seeing articles and opinion pieces by high ranking Republicans or their mouthpieces saying that they need to leave the Trump supporters behind and kick them out of the party.

Who the fuck do they think would be left?