Republican idiocy

Is the polite facade crumbling?

“There are winners and losers in every election, but just because you don’t like the results or how the results were achieved doesn’t warrant what’s going on right now,” said Jeanette Doran, the executive director of the conservative N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law. “There used to be this measure of Southern gentility. ... But when things get hardball, it sort of shocks the gentility.”

And very often that Southern gentility masked a deep undercurrent of bigotry, injustice, and undue influence being wielded by shadowy business interests that were anything but genteel. I'd rather have a public brawl, which just may reveal deeper motives, than a backroom deal that goes virtually unnoticed, any day of the week.

More on the Dix kerfluffle:

ElevatorQueen 11:55am via Web Y'all I didn't want the Dix Park. I'd have rather had an elevator land. #morefun

See, now this is the proper way to deploy a faux Twitter account. It's all funny, and there's no way even an 83IQ GOP staffer would mistake this for our labor-unfriendly Labor Commissioner.

This makes way too much sense to be part of a nonsensical issue:

But a U.S. courthouse? Named for the man who made a sport of blocking qualified nominees from serving on the federal courts? Say it isn’t so. For the last decade or so of his Senate career, Helms blocked every single nominee from North Carolina to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, as well as many slated for the U.S. district bench.

What makes even less sense is why Renee Ellmers would reanimate this embarassing and divisive issue now, when there are a lot more important fish to fry. She's either trying to build cred with the wrong crowd, or she's being manipulated by elements who want to divide us even more. Whatever the case, here's a few words from the "for" camp:

And North Carolina is a likely battleground:

The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change science, has joined with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council to write model legislation aimed at reversing state renewable energy mandates across the country. The Electricity Freedom Act, adopted by the council’s board of directors in October, would repeal state standards requiring utilities to get a portion of their electricity from renewable power

Here's a copy of the model (cookie-cutter) Legislation, which is riddled with misleading information and outright lies, such as:

Grasping at ideological straws:

"I have a bias toward wanting to do it in the state, having a state-run program," McCrory said. "I'm not willing to accept a program that's state-run in name only and it's really being controlled by the federal government. If the federal government has got our hands tied on a state-run program, then we might as well hand it over to the federal government and not create our own bureaucracy in the state."

Dude, don't make me go back and grab quotes from when you were brown-nosing Congress over transportation funding. And before you wash your hands of the entire, bloody affair, read the Milliken Report:

We'll start out with another field-grade officer gone wrong:

HendersonGOP 12:44pm via Twitter for Android
RT @NCCivitas: Civitas President: NC Election Chief Lying. bit.ly/UPEgB7 #NCPol #ConsNC

Francis, many of your readers may fall for the "voter integrity" bullshit you claim is behind this attack, but you and I both know better. Your real goal is to get rid of early voting, and the goal behind that is to have fewer people take part in our Democratic process. I put on my uniform and served for exactly the opposite reason: to defend the rights of my fellow citizens to take part in that process. Why did you put on your uniform?