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Trump throws the GOP into an identity crisis
Washington Post ^ | March 4, 2016 | Karen Tumulty

Posted on 03/05/2016 10:01:31 AM PST by detective

Only a year ago, Republicans were congratulating themselves on having the strongest field of presidential candidates in a generation — diverse, highly credentialed conservatives who might be the salvation of a party that had lost the popular vote in five of the past six elections.

But now, the question is how close the Grand Old Party will come to annihilating itself and what it stands for.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: republicanparty; trump
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The MSM says Trump is causing the Republican Party to be "annihilating itself."
1 posted on 03/05/2016 10:01:31 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

The Hell he did.

The GOP has no identity and already annihilated itself by being a bunch of lying whores.


2 posted on 03/05/2016 10:03:28 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: detective

Trumps is ripping of the faux masks of the Gope thugs, aka the open border thugs.

Each day he rips off a mask of a GOPe traitor to Americans who work, pay taxes and has enabled the Gope Thugs to gut us with their pro open border policies.


3 posted on 03/05/2016 10:06:16 AM PST by Grampa Dave (, Voting to elect Trump as president is the only known cure for chronic TDS!)
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To: detective

Trump will kick Hillary’s arse up one side of the U.S. and down the other.


4 posted on 03/05/2016 10:06:16 AM PST by Graybeard58
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To: chris37

If the Republican party were to dissolve, as the Whigs did in the 1850s, I would not shed any tears.

While we have had two major parties for most of our history, those two parties have not always been today’s Democrat and Republican parties.

There’s no reason the two major parties have to be Republican and Democrat.

I would welcome the dissolution of the Republican party, to be replaced by a strong conservative oriented party as the 2nd major party to the Democrats.

If the Republicans want to split, not support Trump if he’s the nominee, etc. and considering that the GOP has tended to be a liberal/lite party, rather than a strong conservative party anyway, then what’s the point of the existence of such a political party????


5 posted on 03/05/2016 10:06:37 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: detective

Their identity has been EXPOSED!!! Which is why they’re all in fits of apoplexy.

The people outright rejected THEIR choice for the people.

The people have attempted to be represented in the legislative, and have been thwarted by the Powers That Be, so they are saying that they WILL be represented in the executive!


6 posted on 03/05/2016 10:07:10 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: Grampa Dave

BUMP!


7 posted on 03/05/2016 10:07:54 AM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: detective

They created a vacuum. Trump simply filled it.


8 posted on 03/05/2016 10:08:24 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: chris37; vette6387; HarleyLady27; mazda77; Jet Jaguar; unkus; Forty-Niner

GOPee identity, IMO, would be amoral, self-serving, gutless, spineless vermin bordering on treason. I’m sure I left off other appropriate descriptive words. Have a go at other appropriate words.

At least, they’re slithering out from under their rocks for We The People to see who they are.


9 posted on 03/05/2016 10:09:27 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: detective

Trump coming out strongly on the side of the citizens and the rule of law has caused all kinds of masks to be dropped.
The Cheap Labor Express stooges in media and politics have all exposed themselves as the propagandists and shysters that they are.
We have been waiting 30 years for the enforcement we were promised would make another amnesty unnecesary. Instead all we get are attempts at another amnesty.
The RNC/GOP sold its soul to the Cheap Labor Express years ago and has been actively working against the citizens.
They have corrupted most of the people we have sent to Washington to represent us.
They do not intend to allow us to keep the rule of law or our country.

People are waking up to the treason and they are not happy.


10 posted on 03/05/2016 10:10:34 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

The GOPe has outed itself as being as liberal as the democrats. If they’d had put half as much energy into opposing Obama as they have opposing Trump the country wouldn’t be in near as bad a shape as it is.


11 posted on 03/05/2016 10:10:41 AM PST by Rebelbase (Best election ever. Sick of it already, but best election ever.)
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To: detective

You mean adding the crap Romney personal attack speech devoid of any interest in policy substance on top of vomit GoPe congress did not improve the way things smell?


12 posted on 03/05/2016 10:11:34 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If the Republican party were to dissolve, as the Whigs did in the 1850s, I would not shed any tears.

So, should GOPe go ahead and run another candidate to totally dissolve the Republican party?

13 posted on 03/05/2016 10:11:55 AM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: detective

Annihilate Itself,

Hostile Takeover,

To Die,

Alone,

In the rain.

Burn,
Baby Burn!


14 posted on 03/05/2016 10:11:56 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Rebelbase

They have zero substance. Rubio tried to put substance but, too late. His idiot narcissistic psychopath buddies and GOPe handlers have done him horrible damage in their personal attacks. They only have themselves and their illiterate strategists to blame


15 posted on 03/05/2016 10:13:29 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The only point of the GOP is to fool Americans into thinking that there is some alternative to the government agenda, and that their vote somehow matters.

There is no alternative. There is only the government agenda, and American’s vote does not matter in terms of stopping that agenda.

As far as the GOP dissolving, I would shed no tears either. But the problem is those people will still exist, and they would infiltrate and destroy any new party the same way they infiltrated and destroyed the GOP.


16 posted on 03/05/2016 10:13:40 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: detective
I would love to see the GOP “annihilated” for what it stands for.

The GOP stands for:

1. Open borders
2. Hating Reagan and conservatives
3. Rubber-stamping massive Democrat budgets because they like them
4. Corruption
5. LGBT agenda
6. Massive job loss to other countries
7. Lack of a backbone on fighting wrong, but they show they can fight when they have a winning front-runner.
8. Anti-family values
9. In favor of bankrupting this country to fatten themselves.
10. Add grow list, here...

Really, there appears to be no end to what I hate about the lying GOP.

17 posted on 03/05/2016 10:13:40 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Jane Long; xzins; stephenjohnbanker; mkjessup; RitaOK
And thank God he did!
18 posted on 03/05/2016 10:14:05 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: detective

What the GOP stands for? That is good for a laugh. The GOP has not stood for anything for decades. They run the same old rhetoric speeches and promises they have run for years.

The only thing they have done with their current majority Congress is give Obama everything he wants. They are showing some backbone on a Supreme Court replacement, but many are already hedging even on that.

Open borders and open checkbooks. That is what the GOP has become.


19 posted on 03/05/2016 10:14:06 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Starstruck

No I wouldn’t want to see GOP-E run another candidate. If they do that would be the final nail in the coffin. The GOP-E should accept the will of the voters as expressed in these primaries and caucuses. They should not try back door shenanigans to deny a candidate the nomination.

Ideally the Republican party should be a strong conservative party. But if it’s not going to be, I would be happy to see it dissolve and go away.


20 posted on 03/05/2016 10:14:32 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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