Could have been 46 and 45.9........i would not care. I'd thank the people who voted for change

Did they really vote for change? Have you looked at who won? The winner was saying that King is useless because he can't help trump build the wall faster.

In my best Hawk Harrelson voice " He gone".

https://www.reuters.com/...rimary-idUSKBN2391A8

Yep. He is a Trump fan unfortunately. And the GOP in Iowa said they weren't backing King because they knew he would likely lose in the general in November. This makes it much harder for the D running against him.

That's still a preferable outcome to me.

I can't do the mental gymnastics to hope that King wins a primary in order promote him as a weaker candidate in the general.

He just needs to be gone. I'll take the general election battle against a ballwasher who's at least not overtly racist.

Yep. He is a Trump fan unfortunately. And the GOP in Iowa said they weren't backing King because they knew he would likely lose in the general in November. This makes it much harder for the D running against him.

No he just likely keeps his racism private.

My response is actually to both of you:

Is there a conservative platform that can be had without bigotry? I don't know the answer to that, but feel/hope there is one. I also sort of remember those folks, sort of a Jack Kemp kind of feel on the right. But maybe I am just reminiscing.

The problem as I see it is that folks have been turning a blind eye to bigotry for so long in response to their desire to gain power or because they agree with it. It slowly crept further and further into the mix until it became a central tenet of the ideology.

I can see someone being super nationalistic and wanting to ban everyone from coming in or heavily regulate it without specifying that Nigeria and Mexico are dumps and their citizens blocked, while citizens from Russia and Norway should be able to come freely.

Would be interested in both of your thoughts.

To be fair, once he pointed out that if you were voting for his opponent, "You ain't white", that got him a good 30 points.

Is there a conservative platform that can be had without bigotry.

Steve King continues to honor the Confederacy by getting just destroyed on his home turf

joe scarborough, george will, david jolly, george conway, steve schmidt, jennifer rubin, michael gerson, david brooks, max boot, jeff flake, mitt romney, russ douthat, bill kristol, nicolle wallace, michael steele, s.e. cupp, david gergen. off the top of my head.

racism isn't part of the platform. it's part of the coalition. it was part of the democratic coalition until 1965.

In the spirit of awesome tweets on his defeat:




https://twitter.com/.../1268007868919246848