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The Republican Party Is a Threat to the Constitutional Order
Topic Started: Feb 5 2018, 09:31 AM (106 Views)
RaiderNation
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If conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees.

I would have voted for them if they were a Democrat,” he said. “I might do more analyses in other years. But in this case, no. No one else gets any consideration because what’s going on with the Republicans—I’m talking about Trump and his cast of characters—is stupid, stupid, stupid. I can’t say stupid enough times.”
From Our March 2018 Issue

Count us in, Mr. Beasley. We’re with you, though we tend to go with dangerous rather than stupid. And no one could be more surprised that we’re saying this than we are.

We have both spent our professional careers strenuously avoiding partisanship in our writing and thinking. We have both done work that is, in different ways, ideologically eclectic, and that has—over a long period of time—cast us as not merely nonpartisans but antipartisans. Temperamentally, we agree with the late Christopher Hitchens: Partisanship makes you stupid. We are the kind of voters who political scientists say barely exist—true independents who scour candidates’ records in order to base our votes on individual merit, not party brand.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/
Will Munny: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it..."
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RaiderNation
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So why have we come to regard the GOP as an institutional danger? In a nutshell, it has proved unable or unwilling (mostly unwilling) to block assaults by Trump and his base on the rule of law. Those assaults, were they to be normalized, would pose existential, not incidental, threats to American democracy.
Will Munny: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it..."
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grannyhawkins
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I say that big talk's worth doodly-squat
Stupid stupid stupid is right and downright ignorant writing when you consider the current events an the weaponization of the alphabets against our Constitutional Federal Republic!!!

Good thang you were on a real tiny mental pedestal thar wilmy, the fall prolly didn't hurt anythang cept the floor!!!
Endeavor to Persevere!!!
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Right-Wing
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"One more nonreason for our stance: that we are horrified by the president. To be sure, we are horrified by much that Trump has said and done. But many members of his party are likewise horrified. Republicans such as Senators John McCain and Bob Corker and Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse, as well as former Governors Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, have spoken out and conducted themselves with integrity. Abandoning an entire party means abandoning many brave and honorable people. We would not do that based simply on rot at the top."


This is where I stopped reading, the guys who wrote this article and the pols they mention above are all bought and paid for globalist RINO's...f*ck em!!

Build the wall, rebuild the military, renegotiate our trade deals, return law and order....MAGA!!
Donald Trump is Barack Obama's President!
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Feb 5 2018, 09:31 AM
If conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees.

I would have voted for them if they were a Democrat,” he said. “I might do more analyses in other years. But in this case, no. No one else gets any consideration because what’s going on with the Republicans—I’m talking about Trump and his cast of characters—is stupid, stupid, stupid. I can’t say stupid enough times.”
From Our March 2018 Issue

Count us in, Mr. Beasley. We’re with you, though we tend to go with dangerous rather than stupid. And no one could be more surprised that we’re saying this than we are.

We have both spent our professional careers strenuously avoiding partisanship in our writing and thinking. We have both done work that is, in different ways, ideologically eclectic, and that has—over a long period of time—cast us as not merely nonpartisans but antipartisans. Temperamentally, we agree with the late Christopher Hitchens: Partisanship makes you stupid. We are the kind of voters who political scientists say barely exist—true independents who scour candidates’ records in order to base our votes on individual merit, not party brand.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/
I was thinking today that if the Dems get too much weaker the Repubs could well eradicate them. A one party system would not be good.
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Robert Stout
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I was thinking today that the Democratic Party destroyed itself by being unable to adapt to the will of the people and keep up with fundamental changes in our society.....This is not the 1930s....Hillary was no FDR....People expect the chicken in their pot not to be stolen to give to pet hamsters...Folks don't have a right to whatever they want............... :oyvey
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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RaiderNation
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I find that first four words tough to believe. There's been no evidence of that apparent here as long as I've been around.
Will Munny: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it..."
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Alt Right PEPE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sY6aJHdGQ8
Edited by Alt Right PEPE, Feb 7 2018, 12:39 PM.
"Be polite, be friendly. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet." Gen Mattis
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