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The impact of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant broadsides appears to have veered dangerously far off the presidential campaign trail.

Police in Boston say that one of two brothers who allegedly beat a homeless Hispanic man cited Trump’s message on immigration as a motivation for their attack. “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported,” Scott Leader, 38, told officers, according to a police report cited by The Boston Globe.

Leader and his brother, Steve, were arrested and charged with multiple assault charges after police said they urinated on and then assaulted a 58-year-old homeless man they found sleeping outside a T-station as they walked home from a Red Sox game. They allegedly beat him with a metal pole, breaking his nose and causing other injuries. According to the Globe, Scott Leader told police it was OK to assault the man because he was Hispanic and homeless. Both men, who have extensive criminal records, pleaded not guilty and said the homeless man started the confrontation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/0...

...even though molesting your sisters and having extramarital affairs are just as sinful as gay sex according to the religion those bakers espouse?

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A man guarding a small-town Oklahoma gun range and survivalist shop that declared itself a "Muslim-free" business dropped his weapon and accidentally shot himself.

Authorities said a bullet struck the unidentified man in his arm after he dropped his gun Tuesday. He was among several armed residents in front of the Save Yourself Survival Gun Shop, in a town of 390 residents about 65 miles southeast of Tulsa.

The Oklahoma store — which boasts carrying "all your tactical, survival, and off grid living needs to take care of your family in a time of natural and manmade disaster" — also says it reserves "the right to refuse service to anyone."

The armed locals said they began guarding the shop after the owners claimed they received death threats over the sign. The store owners didn't immediately return a message to The Associated Press seeking comment about the alleged threats.

According to the local sheriff, "The way they were holding their weapons, with the fingers on the triggers, you can tell a couple of these gentlemen have no idea about weapons safety. It's like the Clampetts have come to town," Pearson told the online news outlet muskogeenow.com, comparing the armed men to the family in the TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies."

http://fox11online.com/news/offbeat/guard-at-musli...

Calling women fat pigs and complaining about Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle seems to line up pretty well with the misogynist element of the GOP. That's great. And Trump's hatred of illegal immigrants seems to qualify him as a good Republican.

But I haven't heard enough hatred from Trump just yet to convince me he can really be the standard bearer of the Republican Party. What about hatred of blacks? How is Trump going to win over the base of the party if he won't directly express his commitment to the fundamental idea that African Americans are lazy welfare cheats who commit all commit voter fraud and who are responsible for all crime in the United States? How can Trump seal the nomination without a clear expression of the GOP platform on that issue? Isn't it about time we hear something appropriately hateful from Trump in race in America?

Then women will no longer have abortions? Please explain.

...When will rank-and-file Republicans start demanding to see their long-form birth certificates?

I understood from the 2008 election that it was important for EVERY Presidential candidate, regardless of race, to provide to the public a copy of a birth certificate establishing eligibility to serve as President.

The current leader among the 17 candidates, Donald Trump, even sent some of his people to Kenya to show that Obama was unfit for office because he believed Obama might not have a valid birth certificate.

So unless the GOP was lying about birth certificates in 2008, I have to assume all of them have proffered birth certificates anyone can see.

Where can I find them ? If none have been provided yet, why haven't they? Or specifically what plans for providing them have been made?

And if showing a birth certificate was so important in 2008, shouldn't Republicans have the same fervor about it now?

Look at how popular Ron Paul is!

He's ahead in Iowa!

He expresses true conservative anger at establishment politics!

He's raised more money on the Internet than any other candidate!

Every twenty-something overgrown boy who lives in his parents' basement loves him!

And then it was time to vote...

At this time in 2007, Rudy Giuliani had a commanding lead for the GOP nomination.

At this time in 2003, Joe Lieberman led among Democrats.

Other early GOP front runners: Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Sarah Palin (even though she never even ran for the nomination).

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/donald-trump-is...

Sure, Trump is rude and mean. But has he really proven his true loyalty to the GOP by saying things that are truly all that hateful? Why simply claim in a Presidential debate that Rosie O' Donnell, a celebrity, is a "fat pig" or that all of your opponents are stupid? Shouldn't a truly Republican candidate be insulting everyone in stronger terms than that? What about four-letter words, the c-word for Hillary, and stuff like that? If you really want to impress Republicans, using the c-word for Hillary ought to be a prerequisite, don't you think?

"We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that's crazy. It's time we stopped it."

Bonus question, Republicans:

What happened to the values of your party in the last 32 years?

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=38734

Abortion snuffs out a potential human life. But then every time a fertile couple decides not to have sex, they are doing the same thing.

Not only should we outlaw abortion, we should also outlaw all forms of birth control. What's more, we need to monitor all fertile couples for any evidence that they're doing anything at all to avoid pregnancy, like simply deciding not to have sex.

Think of the millions of lives lost simply because men and women just don't do it enough. I mean, what if YOUR parents had decided to watch TV instead of having sex the night you were conceived? Would you have wanted that? Of course not.

Stop the killing. Promote sex NOW.

If we really want to prevent the illegal poaching of lions shouldn't we let them have guns so that they can properly defend themselves?

Another right winger goes nuts.

Another group of innocents gunned down in cold blood.

Another investigation reveals right wing ties on social media.

When does it end? When do we finally say, "we need to keep a terrorist watch list for right wing crazies?"

John Russel Houser's personal tea party nation homepage, created 2013:

http://www.teapartynation.com/profile/JohnRussellH...

We've never had a true as$hole for a President--not one who was out of the closet, anyway.

It's about time we give the a__hole-Americans the same chance to be President as anyone else. That way, little a__hole children can dream of being President just like all the other kids.

But the liberals just don't seem to get that. They try to hold the fact that Trump is an a__hole against him for some reason. Why are the liberals so unfair?

Oh, wait. That was Reagan. I guess it was a good thing.

Never mind.

Further evidence of our failed immigration policies!

Trump '16!

https://fortune.com/2015/07/07/donald-trump-hotel-...

By GOP leadership style I mean:

1. Exploit voters' fears by demonizing a group of people.

2. Exploit the same group of people you demonize.

I'm asking this question because Smilin' Jim, who asked the question about whether it would be racist to point out that most crime is committed by black males, has blocked me, in typical cowardly conservative fashion.

Now to my point: As a matter of fact, race is not a determinant of crime in itself. Poverty is. If you're white and poor you're just as likely to commit a crime as if you're black and poor. But Smilin' Jim won't let me say so because, being a conservative coward, he blocked me.