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  • kevin

    Pairs nicely with the attack ad they’re running against Raese.
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    Good, but it would’ve been nice to include his idiotic comment about how “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I inherited it.”

  • newfreedomblog

    Beware West Virginia, the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.
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  • newfreedomblog

    Getting rid of Nancy Pelosi the old fashioned way, more water please!!
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  • allthingsinaname

    He looks and acts and votes like a hick to me.

  • liberalmeltdown

    Thanks for the Nancy Pelosi meltdown, new. It made my day.
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    The ad with a Democrat firing a rifle would have caused liberals to use comparisons to extremists if that was a Republican ad. Imagine Sarah Palin…leftists would be on the rant for weeks.
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    Looks to me like he is threatening to shoot an environmentalist.
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  • textee

    If a Republican had run an ad identical to the Manchin ad but with a Republican in the place of Manchin, you’d have every leftist political activist at ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, A-Mess-NBC, the Washington Post-Democrat, the New York Times-Democrat, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, NPR, al Reuters, al Jazeera, al McClatchy, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, et al., denouncing the ad as “a call for the assassination of Obama!”

  • apr2563

    Agreed, the ad was in horrible taste.

  • liberalmeltdown

    Interesting. Why do you think it was in horrible taste?

  • apr2563

    You wont agree but I feel anyone who implies using violence in reaction to a policy they disagree with is treading on dangerous ground.
    I understand Manchin’s motives for the ad but question its morality.

  • shepherdwong

    You wont agree but I feel anyone who implies using violence in reaction to a policy they disagree with is treading on dangerous ground.”
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    And here I thought you were talking about the dumbsh!t “conservative” rhetoric about “getting the federal government off our backs and out of our pockets.” West Virginians had better hope he’s just another lying sack of “conservative” politician, half the state is on federal aid of one sort or another.

  • liberalmeltdown

    I just find it fascinating that a particular world view reacts differently to the ad. Which can be interpreted as target practice, which I don’t find violent. If you punch a punching bag are you implying using violence? Dig a hole in your yard, implying that you want to bury someone? Karate is a martial art that can kill, if you practice Karate are you advocating violence?
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    On the other hand the video of a teacher blowing children to bloody bits to promote a environmental policy is not only imply, but a graphic terrorist video, that many tried to play off as funny.
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    If half the state is on federal aid, what’s that say about the success of the stimulus? The federal government wants to implement more regulations and laws to help, help put millions more out of work. And speaking of dumbsh!t rhetoric, look in the mirror.

  • shepherdwong

    “If half the state is on federal aid, what’s that say about the success of the stimulus?”
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    Not much. It’s mostly about sh!t-kicking, hypocritical, hicky “conservatives” who like to b!tch and moan about being left alone by the godam govmint while having their very lives made whole by the constant transfer of tax dollars from relatively liberal, urban elites to their unemployment benefits, food stamps and other forms of federal welfare that keep perpetually poor, rural, extractive-industry-based states like West Virginia afloat. You know, like your cousin, Mrs. liberalmeltdown.

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