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| R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party; Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history. Next victim? The entire Republican Party | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 18 2016, 04:44 PM (602 Views) | |
| Member013 | May 18 2016, 04:44 PM Post #1 |
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Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3rd, 2016, a little before 8:30 p.m. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz strode onstage beneath a gorgeous stained-glass relief in the city's Union Station. The hall was doubling as a swanky bar for an upscale local hotel, and much of the assembled press was both lubricated and impatient. The primary had been called for Donald Trump more than an hour before. What was the holdup? "God bless the Hoosier State!" Cruz said to whoops and cheers after he finally emerged. He was surrounded by a phalanx of American flags, family members and his gimmick running mate of six and a half days, Carly Fiorina, who stared out at the crowd with her trademark alien-abducted smile. Cruz glanced back and forth across the room with that odd, neckless, monitor-lizard posture of his. He had to know the import of this moment. Nothing less than the future of the Republican Party had been at stake in the Indiana primary. A Cruz loss effectively meant ceding control of the once-mighty organization to Trump, a seemingly unrepentant non-Republican more likely to read Penthouse than the National Review. Before the vote, Cruz put it this way: "We are at the edge of a cliff, staring downward." Now, Cruz was over that cliff, having been trounced 53 to 36 percent in his last-gasp effort to keep Trump from the nomination. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/r-i-p-gop-how-trump-is-killing-the-republican-party-20160518#ixzz492fspqQG |
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| clone | May 18 2016, 04:49 PM Post #2 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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Meh...amateurs compared to this guy... Since Obama took office Democrats have lost: ** 14 Senate seats ** 69 House seats ** 12 governorships ** 910 state legislature seats That’s over 1,000 seats lost! Nice job, Barack. |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| George Aligator | May 18 2016, 04:51 PM Post #3 |
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Trump isn't destroying the GOP, the Liberty Caucus and the TEA Party did that, but he may manage to save it by effecting a coalition between centrist members of the Republican establishment and the party's Reagan Democrats. Even if he loses as presidential candidate, he may prevent mass defections to the Dems. Praise God for the Donald! |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| 70-101 | May 18 2016, 05:07 PM Post #4 |
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You can't kill what's already dead, and by that, I mean GOP leadership - not GOP voters. What Trump has done is inspire the disenfranchised Republican voter - that's suffered through eight long years of political isolation. I can just about promise you GOP voters will go to the polls in record numbers on election day, not only to vote for Trump - but more importantly - too vote against Hillary. With the scary part being: Bernie Sanders now controls the outcome of the general election, he knows this, and he will use this fact to his advantage. How? That depends on what Hillary and the DNC have to offer him. |
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| Dem4life | May 18 2016, 05:32 PM Post #5 |
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It will always be about race: The GOP has finally collapsed beneath its own bigotry http://www.salon.com/2016/05/18/driven_mad_by_race_partner/ Republicans stand a decent chance of losing in a landslide this November. They'll have only themselves to blame |
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| clone | May 18 2016, 06:16 PM Post #6 |
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^^^If Salon is your barometer....well...um...bless your heart... |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Robertr2000 | May 18 2016, 06:20 PM Post #7 |
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The Republican Party is killing the Republican Party. |
| "if that **** wins we'll all hang from nooses" | |
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| Robert Stout | May 19 2016, 01:38 AM Post #8 |
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Killing both party's is an act of kindness................
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| mysysail | May 19 2016, 04:23 AM Post #9 |
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REPs will destroy each other; they do not really need the Donald for that. |
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