Republican Senate candidate in Nevada is literally a bastard

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Adam Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada, the son of Pete Domenici, a Republican U.S. Senator from New Mexico, and Michelle Laxalt. He is the grandson of former Republican Nevada Governor and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt. Laxalt's mother raised him as a single parent. Laxalt's parents did not publicly acknowledge his paternity until 2013.[2][3] At that time, Domenici acknowledged that Laxalt was his son and was born as a result of an extramarital affair.[3]

Domenici was married and 22 years older than Michelle Laxalt when he got the 24 yo pregnant. The party of family values!!

The circumstances of Adam Laxalt’s birth are unique. His mother’s father, Paul Laxalt, founded a prominent law firm in Nevada before becoming our state’s governor. In 1974, he became a United States senator and moved to Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter, Michelle. When she was 24, Michelle was impregnated in 1977 by a colleague of her father’s, Senator Pete Domenici. At that time, Senator Domenici was 46 years old, a staunch Catholic and the married father of eight children.
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It's a shame Democrats won't be able to restore the Royal Bloodlines this November.
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Oh horrors. A politician has an impure lineage! He is unworthy of office!

I don't know much about Adam Laxalt, but this is an incredibly lazy and irrelevant criticism. No one can control the circumstances of their own birth.
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No one can control the circumstances of their own birth.
To an anti-MLK nut, your DNA is just as important as the color of your skin.
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I don't know much about Adam Laxalt, but this is an incredibly lazy and irrelevant criticism. No one can control the circumstances of their own birth.
This isn’t a criticism of Laxalt genius. It’s a criticism of the hypocrisy of his father, the Republican Party, piety, and Republican voters. Lying, cheating, and hypocrisy are cardinal virtues of the Republican Party.

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How is Laxalt's father's hypocrisy relevant to Laxalt's campaign? He is not his father. It's quite irrelevant.

How does voting for the son of a hypocrite demonstrate hypocrisy among the voters? It doesn't. They are voting for the son, not the father.

How does one example of a Republican politician who is a hypocrite demonstrate that an entire party is hypocritical? It doesn't. This is a textbook case of anecdotal evidence.

There are plenty of valid cases of Republican hypocrisy (Herschel Walker, Trump, Roy Moore, etc.). This isn't one of them.
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Additionally, you can't even accuse the voters who elected Laxalt's father of hypocrisy, because his affair wasn't known until after he'd retired from the Senate.
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How is Laxalt's father's hypocrisy relevant to Laxalt's campaign? He is not his father. It's quite irrelevant.
It’s Republicans in general who are a disgrace, the Party and the people who are voting for Laxalt. Domenici’s behavior was reprehensible and is typical of the type of behavior you get with the Republican Party. But people keep supporting the Republican Party. They are all hypocrites, the voters, the party, and the politicians, because they claim to be the Party of family values. We all know that’s a lie. This is just one example. Strom Thurman was another that easily comes to mind who had a  secret child with a mistress.

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Down with Republicans. Long live the Tea Party.
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It’s Republicans in general who are a disgrace, the Party and the people who are voting for Laxalt.
How so? Laxalt can't control the circumstances of his own birth. How is it hypocritical or disgraceful for people to vote for Laxalt? If his father was alive and running, then it would be hypocritical and disgraceful to vote for him. But Laxalt is not his father. So how is any of this relevant to him?
Domenici’s behavior was reprehensible and is typical of the type of behavior you get with the Republican Party.
Domenici is one person. There are tens of millions of Republicans. Again, this is anecdotal evidence.
But people keep supporting the Republican Party. They are all hypocrites, the voters, the party, and the politicians, because they claim to be the Party of family values.
But how does any of this do anything to demonstrate that point? Domenici's affair wasn't known until after he retired, so it wasn't hypocritical for people to vote for him. Laxalt is not the one who had an affair, so it isn't hypocritical for people to vote for him. How is any of this relevant to anything?
We all know that’s a lie.
Who's we? People who already agree with you?
This is just one example. Strom Thurman was another that easily comes to mind who had a  secret child with a mistress.
Again, that's more anecdotal evidence. Furthermore, Strom Thurmond's affair was in 1925. He was a Democrat until 1964. So if one example is evidence that an entire party is hypocritical and disgraceful, then Strom Thurmond alone proves that of both the Republican and the Democrat party. However, one example can't prove that, because that is textbook anecdotal evidence.
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How so? Laxalt can't control the circumstances of his own birth. How is it hypocritical or disgraceful for people to vote for Laxalt? If his father was alive and running, then it would be hypocritical and disgraceful to vote for him. But Laxalt is not his father. So how is any of this relevant to him?
immigrants brought to this country as children (the dreamers) couldn’t control that circumstance either but Republicans have no problem blaming them for being here and trying to penalize them and deport them.

Republicans are hypocrites because they claim to be the party of family values knowing full well that their behavior is immoral. The voters continue to support the Party even with the benefit of hindsight. They see how Dominici and others (Trump) have behaved, yet they stick with the Party, the party of hypocrites. Let’s not forget that the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, molested teenaged boys. At some point people have to realize this Party attracts the worst people in America. Racists, white supremacists, hypocrites, cheaters, avarice, liars, etc…
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Domenici is one person.
The list of Republican lawmakers caught with their dick in the cookie jar is extensive and long-lasting. Then these millions of Republicans vote for them in spite of their bad behavior. That makes those voters hypocrites. This includes criminal conduct as well, not just immoral behavior and blatant hypocrisy. And these are the people who claim to be religious and defenders of family values. Herschel Walker is a current example of this hypocrisy of the Republican Party and voters.


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I think the little words are sad today.
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Who's we? People who already agree with you?
Americans who are paying attention, live in reality, and don’t get their news from the Gateway Pundit

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Strom Thurmond's affair was in 1925. He was a Democrat until 1964
He was a 22 yo racist farmer when he raped that black girl, It wasn’t an “affair” as you say. She was 16 years old so unless South Carolina had some kind of warped laws on the age of consent then she was raped by her employers son, even if it was consensual sex.

He wasn’t a politician at the time and it isn’t clear if he was a registered Democrat yet. His political career began in 1946 after WWII. The point is he became a Republican because if you are an immoral person, as time goes on you will find a place in the Republican Party. 

The Democratic Party included the racist and segregated south in the 1920s but when LBJ and the Democratic Party turned away from racism and embraced civil rights for blacks we lost all the southern racist to the Republican Party and they’ve been there ever since.
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live in reality...
This thread reeks of desperate deflection from the incoming redwave.

Better get ready for cheap gas and no wars for another 2 years. Not sure how anyone will be able to deal with that.
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Builds a good case to reinstate abortion so we have less bastards in American politics.
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immigrants brought to this country as children (the dreamers) couldn’t control that circumstance either but Republicans have no problem blaming them for being here and trying to penalize them and deport them.
Firstly, that's not remotely the same thing. Secondly, you paint with too broad a brush. Not all Republicans are in favor of penalizing and deporting dreamers, and most Republicans blame the parents, not the kids (and no, that one random whack job you may find who says otherwise does not speak for the entire party).
They see how Dominici and others (Trump) have behaved
No, they did not see how Domenici behaved. The affair wasn't known until after he left the Senate.
The list of Republican lawmakers caught with their dick in the cookie jar is extensive and long-lasting. Then these millions of Republicans vote for them in spite of their bad behavior. That makes those voters hypocrites. This includes criminal conduct as well, not just immoral behavior and blatant hypocrisy. And these are the people who claim to be religious and defenders of family values. Herschel Walker is a current example of this hypocrisy of the Republican Party and voters.
For the sake of argument, I will grant that this is the case. Now, would you please answer a few questions?

1. How does voting for Laxalt, who has not had an affair, demonstrate hypocrisy on behalf of the voters?
2. How does voting for Domenici, whose affair was unknown until after he retired, demonstrate hypocrisy on behalf of the voters?
Americans who are paying attention, live in reality, and don’t get their news from the Gateway Pundit
And how is this group of people different from people who already agree with you?
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Not necessarily his fault.
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Firstly, that's not remotely the same thing. Secondly, you paint with too broad a brush. Not all Republicans are in favor of penalizing and deporting dreamers, and most Republicans blame the parents, not the kids (and no, that one random whack job you may find who says otherwise does not speak for the entire party).
The Party, the Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can to punish the Dreamers. The courts have not allowed them to do it. It’s not some random wack job, it’s the party leaders who speak for their caucus.

No, they did not see how Domenici behaved. The affair wasn't known until after he left the Senate.
They know it now but they still remain faithful to the Party, the Party that Domenici belonged to and other Republicans no doubt helped him cover up the scandal.

1. How does voting for Laxalt, who has not had an affair, demonstrate hypocrisy on behalf of the voters?
2. How does voting for Domenici, whose affair was unknown until after he retired, demonstrate hypocrisy on behalf of the voters
Voting for any Republican just encourages the bad behavior. Republican politicians pay no political price for their bad behavior, the lying , cheating, impeachable offenses, so why would they stop behaving this way? People know now that Republicans behave badly, but they keep supporting them, and then they are surprised they continue to behave badly, unethically, criminally. They need to abandon the party, not just Laxalt. Laxalt is simply a living, breathing example of Republicans’ bad behavior, who supports this party of hypocrites. The Republican Party is morally bankrupt and has zero integrity.

And how is this group of people different from people who already agree with you?
Sounds like you admit the people who agree with me are sane, reasonable people and the ones who don’t - don’t pay attention,  live in an alternative reality,  and get their news from quacks.

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The Party, the Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can to punish the Dreamers. The courts have not allowed them to do it. It’s not some random wack job, it’s the party leaders who speak for their caucus.
I believe you misinterpreted my meaning. The random whack jobs are the ones blaming the Dreamers for being here rather than their parents. Deporting the dreamers is a more common position, but not universal among Republicans.
They know it now but they still remain faithful to the Party, the Party that Domenici belonged to and other Republicans no doubt helped him cover up the scandal.
Perhaps they remain faithful to the party in spite of Domenici because they recognize that Domenici is one man out of tens of millions of Republicans? It is still anecdotal evidence.
Voting for any Republican just encourages the bad behavior.
Voting for any Republican encourages the bad behavior? So if Mr. Rogers were alive today and he ran as a Republican, voting for Mr. Rogers would encourage marital unfaithfulness among Republicans? Sorry, but that is absurd in every way. No, voting for Laxalt, who has not had an affair, does not in any way encourage, excuse, or endorse affairs. No, voting for someone whose affair is unknown does not in any way encourage, excuse, or endorse affairs (because how can you encourage something you don't know about?). That is utter rubbish.
Sounds like you admit the people who agree with me are sane, reasonable people and the ones who don’t - don’t pay attention,  live in an alternative reality,  and get their news from quacks.
No. My point is that you don't see any difference between people who agree with you and people who are sane and reasonable. Or, phrased another way, you don't think it is possible for anyone who is sane and reasonable to pay attention and not agree with you. Or, phrased a third way, you think people who disagree with you must not be sane, reasonable, or paying attention. Am I correct, or have I misunderstood you?
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 Voting for any Republican encourages the bad behavior?
Yes,  the Republican Party is the party of hypocrisy and lying. By voting for anyone in the Party you are endorsing hypocrisy and lying. The candidate is choosing his values when he chooses this party.
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I don't think our conversation is making any progress, so I won't take any more of your time. Thanks for the discussion!
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It’s a criticism of the hypocrisy of his father, the Republican Party, piety, and Republican voters. Lying, cheating, and hypocrisy are cardinal virtues of the Republican Party.
And I suppose all the abortions happening among democrats have absolutely nothing to do with low moral character?
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And I suppose all the abortions happening among democrats have absolutely nothing to do with low moral character?
Are you saying any woman who gets an abortion is of low moral character? Do you think only Democrat women get abortions?

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I noticed you kind of dropped the ball on your assertions about Strom Thurmond. Will you be more careful with your facts going forward?
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What a STUPID thread. Typical from the resident TROLL!!!
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I will endeavor to do so. I was previously unaware of Thurmond's behavior (though not of his racism). I actually got my information that it was an affair from you when you said this.
Strom Thurman was another that easily comes to mind who had a  secret child with a mistress.
When you said "mistress," I assumed that was an affair, since that is how the term is normally used. Evidently I was mistaken.
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Are you saying any woman who gets an abortion is of low moral character?
No. I'm saying it's outright hypocritical and bigoted to say that a Republican cheats and has a bastard child is a horrible person when Democrats go around making bastard children all the time and then killing them.
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No. I'm saying it's outright hypocritical and bigoted to say that a Republican cheats and has a bastard child is a horrible person when Democrats go around making bastard children all the time and then killing them.
Name a Democrat who had their mistress get an abortion.