racism and the racist policies of the left so that Democrats can see that “progressives” and “liberals” are NOT the people they want to be hanging around with!

…so he can occasionally rattle them at the world. Can’t you hear the “ping, pingety-ping” in the background of his statement? It would be nice if he decided to put them in a leather sack and carry them around all the time, then people would know he has them by his actions rather than having to wait to hear the sound of a beggar’s cup rattling to draw your attention.

That would be amazing.

But they’d also have to supply him with body bags for the RINOs he’d take out in the process.

Their idea of “expanding the base” is to hire Democrats with the thought that giving them money will make them like Republicans. I’m only kidding a little. If you do or say anything that interferes with that rosy view of the World that Republican officeholders insist on everyone around them having, you are banished to outer darkness.

At least here, but I know from experience somewhat at least in other places, most of them come from a sales or entrepreneurship background. Politics ain’t sales. All that stuff about customers is simply irrelevant or counterindicative in government. And all those “Getting to Yes” books are useless when you don’t have a willing buyer and a willing seller. You can’t buy your wastewater permit at Sak’s or Bloomingdales; you have to get it at the Department of Environmental Quality.

The small-business and entrepreneurial background of Republican officeholders makes them superbly able to develop policies that resonate with the res publica. It also makes them almost completely inept in actually governing with those policies.