I like it, John M; it has a very nice "ring" to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6ChsP_uD0&t=460

The "weed" issue alone would definitely move multiple groups of otherwise apathetic voters to the polls.

The three R's slogan was, as you say, a GOP attempt at slander, to remind their own voters of the Democrats' dreadfully sinful politics. And it didn't work, at least not in that particular election year.

But I was thinking how, without actually claiming to be for Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, the Democratic Party was effectively crippled in the post-Civil War era by its refusal to agree that Prohibition was a moral necessity; its embrace of Catholic Irish immigrants as an urban voter base in the North; and its indelible association with the defeated and traitorous Confederacy.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the Dems today could actually mobilize some popular enthusiasm for their inherently positive but so far not particularly poll-beating positions, with something as simple, humorous, and slightly self-mocking (puff, puff) as 'Workers, Wages, and Weed'?

And by c- word I mean 'cookie' of course...

What? How does 'c- word' not mean cake -- pie's closest and most bitter rival?

Too many Johns. ;)

"Workers, Wages, and Weed"

Nice.

and so finally redeem themselves from the their repeated losses after the Civil War, running on a similarly alliterative platform of

"Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion"?

If I recall correctly, wasn't that the charge levelled against them by the Republicans, and didn't the Democrats actually win that particular election, John M?

Grover Cleveland: The only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms (let's keep it that way) and the reason Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States but the 45th person to hold the office. :)

"Workers, Wages, and Weed"

and so finally redeem themselves from the their repeated losses after the Civil War, running on a similarly alliterative platform of

"Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion"?

if marijuana is legalized, it would be an excellent ingredient in pie.

It is an excellent ingredient in pie even when it isn't legal too! ;)

You are either not understanding the difference or purposely not understanding the difference.

You are unsuitable for CW's comments section if suffer from the ridiculous delusion that any other commenter here has any trouble whatsoever understanding your simple repetitive bullshit. Also (not surprisingly), you missed the point entirely.

It's not the size of the contributions that matter, it's the total contributions from any one donor that matters.

You seem to need serious help with your own simple bullshit. Allow me. If one citizen contributed two $1,000 donations, it would definitely be "the size of the contributions that matter." We all get it. You? Not so much, and it's not exactly rocket science and simple damn math not the least bit confusing to anyone here with the possible exception of you.

A donor could give 100 dollars a week or a month and give a total of well over 200 dollars even though each contribution was only 100 dollars.

Not to the same candidate (according to your bullshit) idiot. Do you not understand your own simple purity test?

It's not purity test, it's an adequacy test.

Ta-may-toe... ta-ma-toe... bullshit semantics. If one must take a pledge not to vote for a candidate that doesn't meet your stupid standard, then it's a purity test. I don't vote for child traffickers; yes, it is damn purity test of mine.

You will have to do better than your misinterpretation and mis-characterization on small contribution candidates as small donor candidates to make a rational argument against small donor candidates.

She sure blew your shit out of the water... even if the point was too hard for you to grasp.

Your shit is certified Orwellian and always has been. To characterize casting a write-in vote for an unregistered and unqualified candidate as "voting" is just outright propagandizing bullshit. Not voting isn't the equivalent of voting. It's disenfranchisement of citizens... some that might not realize they're casting a vote that by law won't be counted. That's why your shit will never be anything but a giant stinking pile of disenfranchising bullshit.

Big money corrupting our political process is wrong, is counterproductive and not only ruined but ended a lot more lives than marijuana prohibition.

Your characterization that money always equals evil is childish and asinine, and your disenfranchising shit where you encourage people to de facto burn their vote or not vote for a legal or viable candidate is illegal in multiple states.

At least 80% of citizens want the big money out of politics, including a majority of Republicans.

You keep repeating this as if it's the equivalent of 80% of citizens agreeing with your purity test ignorance. It isn't.

It is time to put this whole sorry relic into the ashcan of history.

I agree that you and your bullshit mountain belongs in a burning trashcan.

People can use One Demand to lead on this issue as the politicians have no intention of catching up on this as long as citizens keep voting for them when they don't.

People can tell you to eff off also. So eff off.

This is pure joy; I could not love it more than I do right now, but I expect to anyway because I won't be able to help myself as time passes by.

… something, something, something.

Heh.

Who's our man? Wait for it...
Florida Man Oh, MG

I see what you did there.

We must keep an eye on this Master Gaetz.

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Nice column, CW. I would be straight-out lying if I said that this column wasn't totally expected and delivered as if on cue. My response should be no less expected... and there you have it:

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I can also report from firsthand experience that it's fabulous in pie. :)

Two funerals and no one noticed how you are brain dead?

I'm guessing you thought this bullshit of yours that I quoted from a prior commentary would be some kind of snappy intelligent retort; however, my critical thinking skills would like to hear your explanation to everyone else here in Weigantia how it is that you believe you know what occurred at two funerals you didn't attend.

If you're genuinely concerned about a brain that's demonstrably defective, it would behoove you and most definitely be in your best interests to focus what little intellect you possess and concentrate on improving your own giant honking mental deficiencies. Connecting the dots has never been your strong suit. *laughs*

Who's our man? Wait for it...
Florida Man Oh, MG

I don't understand it.

It's called reefer madness.