Facing dismal poll numbers at home and something close to an insurrection from both purists and pragmatists in the Senate, Mr. McConnell has seemingly made the calculation that he can't risk angering his base by dismissing Mr. Benton.
These groups, comprised of older, white, non-college independents and weak partisans, represent some of the most conservative swing voters in the electorate and they demonstrated a wholly different worldview from Republican base voters by dismissing the fear of "socialism" and evaluating Obama in very different terms.
Therefore if your exponent is over a matching base, you can dismiss the bases on each side of the equation.
In an interview in Salt Lake City, where he is based, Mr. Crane dismissed those groups as simply mistaken.
Infineon Technologies, a computer chip manufacturer also based here, dismissed at least 250 people this summer who had been hired only a few months earlier.
Last September, the chief of the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine and two high ranking officials in the city of Shijiazhuang, where Sanlu was based, were dismissed or stepped down.
The Irish data protection authority, the country where Facebook's European headquarters are based, quickly dismissed the EvF complaint — citing Safe Harbor as the justification for any data-sharing under PRISM.
Meanwhile, employers use an incredibly sophisticated screening process, and have apparently taken to dismissing candidates based on 'inappropriate' sexual online behaviour.
Eric Adams, a police lieutenant and co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, charged that there was "a hidden undertone of racism" behind the layoffs, saying that dismissing people based on the union rules of "last hired, first fired," would erode the gains in diversity the city's work force has made in recent years.
No, the purpose of these talking points is to specifically avoid such discussions by dismissing racially based discrimination and hate as the imaginary rantings of politically correct crybabies.
