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And then HJ takes the lead 3-2 three minutes into the second half

2-2 at the half

Hamshire Fannett won 2-0

they could play a game of tax cut, gun, bible. best out of three, maybe?

If i were going to affiliate with a political party, the Libertarian party would 100% be the party i'd choose. It's socially liberal. It's fiscally conservative. It's perfect for me! Except it sure seems like the libertarian party has trouble coming up with candidates that aren't nut jobs. it seems like most of the libertarians who actually have enough desire to run for office are really only doing so to try and get marijuana legalized. Oh well.

I think she'd be a better president than Obama, not that that's saying much

I'm with libertarians on about 10.5 of them

hudson is reasonably solid. I'll say Silsbee 84, Hudson 66

That's more like it

As an impartial observer I like games where a local team is guaranteed to advance. Good luck to both teams

Both coaches are great. English has a long history of doing more with less. Saveat has shown he can can get the best out of talented teams. Both are admirable traits in a coach, and both deserve all the credit they get

I'll take big sandy 83-60

A lot more die hard Nederland fans on here than ozen. Based on his posts in the BISD thread, that's not what OF is trying to insinuate.

I didn't know that was debatable. I'm on record on this site many times against it.

And if you watch the video, although he obviously hates trump, there is a LOT of truth in what he says.

I pretty much agree with you here, but as you said, it's not how it is.

I think Rubio has the best shot. Trump has made it this far with vague allusions to "plans", and by insulting his opponents. When it comes to winning voters in the swing states, it's going to take a lot more than that

they took over from the backlash over obamacare, but that's not going to be enough to win the presidency because of the large amount of electoral college votes awarded to Cali and NY, combined with the GOP's inability to win the swing states for the better part of 25 years. We'll see what happens. I really wish the presidency was done by popular vote. A democrat in Texas or a republican in California might as well stay home on Election Day. Their votes essentially don't matter.

so let me tell you how it is (again)... if conservatives continue to refuse to adopt moderate social policies, and continue down the road that ultra conservatives want, they'll never get a chance to get in a place of leadership to change fiscal policy. The fact that the right can't get back into the White House, but blames the left for it instead of looking at and adjusting their ideologies is exactly why the right is going to continue to struggle to get back into the white house. I agree with you that we need fiscal conservative policies, by the way. I just disagree that the whole country should be expected to conform to conservative social policy to get them, and it's not going to happen. So republicans can either keep losing the presidential election and use it as a reason to complain about the other side and the moderates, or they can wake up and make themselves a party that's appealing to people other than the 50+ white american demographic.

On this, you and i can agree.

There are just as many, if not more, reasons to criticize and/or not vote for Trump as there are for Hillary, which is impressive considering he's never held any type of political office (which in itself is a very good reason not to vote for him). As for your "middle of the road" comments.. You like to gripe because we "vote for whoever makes us feel good." i have a problem with people who'll vote for someone simply because of their party affiliation, no matter what kind of person they've proven to be. You can gripe all you want about us, but voters such as myself actually taking the time to choose a candidate based on merit, standing, and stances is a good thing for our country, even if isn't a good thing for the ultra conservative in the GOP who'd like things to go back to the way they were 40 years ago. As tough as it is to stomach, this isn't the same country it was 40 years ago, and even though you, and people like you, think that everyone who doesn't believe in strict conservatism is bad for the country, the fact of the matter is that your viewpoints are no longer held in the majority. Moderates are not going to overlook those conservative (and, in some cases, discriminatory) views and vote for a guy like Ted Cruz or Donald Trump, even if they want a candidate who will curb spending. You can continue to believe that others should change and conform to your beliefs, but it's simply not going to happen. Ultraconservative GOP ideologies will always have strongholds, but those strongholds are dwindling, and younger generations are less and less conservative. Strict moral beliefs are no longer powerful enough to carry a presidency, and that's not really that recent a development. Hell, if Jeb hadn't given his brother the presidency in 2000 we wouldn't have seen a republican in the oval office in the last 25 years, and i highly doubt that this will change this election cycle. Because as ineffective as Obama has been, and even though he's been hell on our deficit and bad for our economy, things aren't nearly as bad as all of you guys predicted they would be by now. In a sense, by predicting that he'd run our country completely into the ground and bring about an armageddon, Republicans have made Obama's presidency a success of sorts because he hasn't done that. When he was supposed to bring about the end of our country, it doesn't really seem like a big deal that we had a slow economic recovery after the recession he inherited. So, pairing Obama's failure to bring about the rapture like many conservatives predicted, combined with the fact neither Trump nor Cruz is appealing to anyone outside of the far right, and the fact that Hillary will carry the liberal, african american, and female vote, means we're likely in for 8 more years of democratic leadership. The republican party MUST adjust their ideologies towards more centric stances, and provide a palatable candidate for the presidency if they want to win it back anytime soon. That's just the way it is.

Because he's a bombastic jackass, and there's no way that he's going to win among the middle of the road voters who decide every election. Even many voters who want a republican in office are going to have a hard time voting for him.

Is (insert whichever of the hundreds of conservative pundits you'd like)'s opinion of Hillary Clinton less valid because he's conservative?

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gonna be quiet in there. i know both teams will travel well, but you're still talking about small communities.