Posted on 08/27/2015 2:06:41 PM PDT by maine44
Lindsay Graham, as part of the taunt-war he’s having with Donald Trump, says that if Trump wins the GOP nomination, it will mean the end of the Republican Party. He’s right, but Trump means the end of the Republican Party even if he doesn’t get the nomination. I wrote a few weeks ago that Trump represents the Jump the Shark moment of the party. The GOP has been a rickety, unsustainable contraption of policy prescriptions that don’t add up, don’t really represent the coalition’s actual members, and is based on a backward-looking set of views appealing to an ever-shrinking demographic....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Exactly.
Elections alone cannot save us.
No reform or restoration of liberty can come from the Uniparty.
I we do nothing, we'll continue to swirl into the abyss of despotism.
Article V now, a state amendments convention before it is too late is our only hope.
I am sure the Washington Post wants nothing but the best for the Republican Party! LOL!
If so, it was a suicide.
Trump means the end of the GOPe...Trump means the beginning of the REAL GOP (conservative, American loving) party.....
...tom toles is an uber-liberal cartoonist...
,,, RNC trailer for sale or rent,
Room to let for fitty tents.
“... if Trump wins the GOP nomination, it will mean the end of the Republican Party.”
And this is a bad thing because....?
The Whig party died because it could not sufficiently differentiate itself from the Democrat party of the time. The Republican party was a truly radical party for its time, and it had staked out many positions diverging from the Whigs, but primarily having to do with something called “Free-Soilers”..
Whigs supported the Second Bank of the United States, a high tariff, distribution of land revenues to the states, relief legislation to mitigate the effects of the great depression that followed the financial panics of 1837 and 1839, and federal reapportionment of House seats.
The controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill tore Whig party apart. The Whig party refused to take a stand for or against the Bill, and its members fled the party. Since the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was a Democratic-sponsored measure and it passed a Democratic congress and was signed by Democratic president, citizens viewed it as a pro-slavery bill. Northern free soilers, with no party to represent their anti-slavery views, formed the new Republican Party in 1854, a party determined to stop the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and end the geographic spread of slavery. The Republican Party opposed the extension of slavery into new territories. Most Republicans were not abolitionists. The party believed that Abolitionism was too radical. The Republicans favored the northern economic policies of protective tariffs, a strong national government, and the use of federal funds for internal improvements. Many Americans supported the Know-Nothing Party, concerned that the Know-Nothings might represent the only truly national party possible, largely united by a general fear of Catholic immigrants. But in the end, the issue over slavery proved stronger than fears over non-protestant immigrants, and southerners lined up behind the Democratic party and northerners behind the Republican party.
I’m sorry if I posted incorrectly, it’s my first time. I have followed Free Republic for years, but never joined the conversation. I made the jump now because I’m as frustratrated as I’ve ever been!.. I’ll try to do better.
You heard it here first: Donald Trump is the enema the Republican Party needs! And, to a lesser degree, Democrats as well.
He is shaking them up, and rousing the American “Silent Majority” like no other prominent politician has done in my lifetime.
This is exciting! Please pass the popcorn! I am thoroughly enjoying the HUGE discomfort Trump is causing the “Inside the Evil Beltway Establishment Poobahs!”
Bravo Zulu, Donald! Keep up the GREAT work!
Re:
USE OF THE PHRASE “TAUNT-WAR”
Gaygaygaygaygaygaygaygaygay.
Lindsay Graham is so psyched to be linked to that term.
Funny how the media SUDDENLY cares about the GOP.
“Or it may be a lurch into the rank nativism that is gaining strength in Europe.”
In other words.... it will be successful? This is all over the place. You can’t say that nativism will be end of the party and then reference a place where it has led to a huge electoral windfall.
The end of the GOP? Not a moment too soon to suit me. :=)
From your lips to G_Ds ears.
Good effing riddance.
Not speaking for 5th MEB, but I believe his post meant much the same as mine. It was a snark against the author and the sentiment of the article “ like that is a bad thing” is just sort of an ironic meme or something I don’t know the origin, but it is pretty commonly used..
You did fine in posting your article.
Nativism..hahah, another politically correct term? NO ...it is time to stand up and be counted... We voted for GOP Representatives to “represent” us and they failed. We are responsible for reelecting them.... but I hope that we won’t be swayed by now by bombastic performance. We have a great opportunity, a fine bench of candidates. It’s still early, lets give them all a fair hearing.
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