>I don't understand the mentality of ultra-right wing Republicans (any
>more than I do the bat-shite crazies on the left).

You're quite right in divining that I don't want to go there, but I will just note that in Governor LePage's case, it rather transcends "politics" as such. Paulie is... sort of his own deal. The thing with him is that he hates poor people, because he used to be one, and clever people, because he can never be one.

The worst part is, thanks to the Constitution of the Great State of Maine, he'll probably be re-elected this fall. The way the election is shaping up, it looks very much like we'll have a repeat of what happened to put him in office in the first place. There'll be the Democratic candidate, and then there'll be the yoyo who didn't get the Democratic nomination and declared himself an independent candidate instead of bowing out, and there might even be a more moderate Republican who does likewise, and between the two or three of them they'll soak enough of the Not Fuckstick vote that Fuckstick will get back in with a plurality no greater than 40 percent, thanks to the imbecilic way gubernatorial elections work in this state. (He pulled 37 percent in 2010.)

Sigh.

Let's talk about something fun. Anybody else see the Australian Grand Prix? (New thread for that, if you did.)

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