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Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?
The Atlantic ^ | August 24, 2015 | Molly Ball

Posted on 08/24/2015 8:19:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: cherry

Last month called, they want their meme back.


21 posted on 08/24/2015 9:28:08 PM PDT by Company Man (America's existential crisis won't be resolved playing by the old rules.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The more the RINOs scream, the more I like Trump.


22 posted on 08/24/2015 9:30:09 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: cherry
Trump is merely in the game to elect Hitlery....this is a rat ploy and it always works...

No matter how many times you post that silly statement it isn't going to make it true.

Trump is in it to win. He has said that Hillary belongs in the big house, not the white house. That's a pretty stupid thing for a stalking horse to say about his favorite candidate.

Don't be stupid. If you don't like Trump, then vote for someone else. Lindsey Graham needs your support. Vote for her.

23 posted on 08/24/2015 9:30:34 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Trump - because sometimes you need a big @$$hole to eliminate all the cr@p.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Republican Party will survive. The conservative part of it may not survive Trump.


24 posted on 08/24/2015 9:34:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PC lib concern trolls about the GOP?

That’s like southern baptist convention wishing NAMBLA the best and heartfelt advice on pedobuggery


25 posted on 08/24/2015 9:34:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (My ears are bleeding....FOX ..all I hear are shrill high pitched whiney women taking over each other)
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To: cherry

If Hillary gets out of the race then Trump will have no reason to continue his bid?


26 posted on 08/24/2015 9:37:03 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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27 posted on 08/24/2015 9:49:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Homer1; All

If Trump’s only success is destroying the republican party then I’m all for him.


28 posted on 08/24/2015 9:49:24 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
soul-searching and agony among party elites

If only. I remember a possibly apocryphal story from the 64 republican convention: One Republican grandee to another Rockefeller supporter, "Who are these people?" He was talking about the Goldwater supporters.

I think too many of these fools do not understand that their "autopsy" of the 2012 campaign was rejected by voters, because several of its conclusions were viewed as a rejection of those voter.

29 posted on 08/25/2015 2:08:56 AM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: cherry

I really wish you would stop spewing leftist lies. Trump is 69 years old. Let’s assume he has been voting since he was 18. He was a registered Democrat for only 8 years out of the 51 years of voting. He has been Republican, Independent and a member of the Reform Party. Which is the party of Ross Perot, who at one time wanted him to run as president on that ticket. Get your facts straight! People on the right aren’t any smarter than the LIVs on the left.


30 posted on 08/25/2015 2:32:31 AM PDT by Catsrus (The Great Wall of Trump - coming to a southern border near you.)
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To: cherry

Yep. Saying Clinton “should be in prison” might not sound like something a supporter would say. But if you put your tinfoil hat on it is decoded to Hillary “has my vote.”


31 posted on 08/25/2015 4:40:13 AM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Cruz 2016 - Blow Up The GOP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whose idea was it for the GOP to declare war on the Republican baae? Trump is saving the party just like Reagan did by bringing in a new generation of voters.


32 posted on 08/25/2015 4:56:35 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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“Well, the front-runner is crazy,” Graham said.

Snide remarks from one so politically impotent don't mean a thing.

33 posted on 08/25/2015 6:39:49 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school)
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To: cherry
Trump is merely in the game to elect Hitlery....this is a rat ploy and it always works...

And the GOP is your great shining hope? If they weren't lying and backstabbing, what exactly would they be good at?

What if someone said, "cherry just in it to shill for Bush?"

34 posted on 08/25/2015 4:44:06 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The question I’m surprised nobody has asked...

Can Trump survive the Republican Party?

I’m not worried about the Republican party surviving, any more than I’m worried about the Democrat party surviving, I’d love to see both abolished and nothing more than footnotes in the history books.

They have done everything they can to push Trump out of the race, trying right now to force him to sign onto a “pact” I think they call it to run only as a Republican, since they still fear he will run 3rd party, and I still think they will do anything, including cheat, to make sure he is not nominated.

So can Trump survive the Republican party?


35 posted on 08/28/2015 6:01:29 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I'm with the bomb squad. If you see me running, CATCH UP!)
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