Posted on 08/31/2015 2:00:11 PM PDT by detective
In 1854, confronted by the moral evil of slavery and the inability of the Whigs to provide clarity against it, the Republican Party formed. Whig Party leaders either shifted their party allegiances or quit politics altogether. Even Abraham Lincoln got out of politics for a time.
By 1858, the Republican Party had majorities in almost all Northern States even without a Southern presence. The party won the Presidency for the first time in 1860 and commanded the White House throughout the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. With the rise of Soviet evil after World War II, the Republicans again commanded the White House repeatedly until the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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But they have declared war on Donald Trump. The current Republican establishment will go all out against Donald Trump personally
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Just like it did to the Tea Party. Stabbed them in the back. The further Trump distances himself from the treacherous GOP the better.
Maybe Donald can start a new party: the Wigs. Yes, I know it is his hair.
I think that the evaluation of the republican party is accurate....I am strongly thinking of dumping my republican membership and vote as an independent....I have lost faith in the leadership of the party and believe that the party has become corrupt by crony capitalism. we need a new political party but it cant be based on a personality.
The party has to be based on shared ideals that are broad enough to attract at least 30 percent of the population. I believe that the tea party is the beginning seeds of this happening. I don’t think it is going to form the new party but the dissatisfaction American politics that caused it to form are the same motivations for a totally new party.
Unfortunately its not just their failure on the immigration problem. The party really doesn’t stand for anything. It is soulless and devoid of any convictions.
The original Republican Party did not so much replace the Whigs as fill a need to prevent America from becoming a backward slavery based economy in 1960.
The Whigs were already gone when the Republican Party began. The Whigs were replaced temporarily by the American(Know Nothing) Party. The Whigs declined rapidly in the early 1850’s because they would not stand for any principles.
The American Party absorbed most of the former Whig Party in 1854, and by 1855 it had established itself as the chief opposition party to the Democrats. In the 82 races for the House of Representatives in 1854, the American Party ran 76 candidates, 35 of whom won. None of the six Independents or Whigs who ran in these races was elected. The party then succeeded in electing Nathaniel P. Banks as Speaker of the House in the 34th Congress. In 1856, Millard Fillmore, a Whig ex-president, ran as the candidate of the American Party.
The Republican Party led America through its greatest period of economic growth from 1865 through the late 1920's.
The Republican Party almost died out in the late 1970's as America was in decline. But Ronald Reagan rescued the both the Republican Party and the country.
All of them? Surely not all.
“So Eric Erickson, who is a big establishment guy, is crying about the death of the GOP?”
Yeah, go figure. After years of being their lackey he’s just now figured out that they are as vile as the Democrats they collaborate with.
“Unfortunately its not just their failure on the immigration problem. The party really doesn’t stand for anything. It is soulless and devoid of any convictions.”
C’mon- they stand for enriching the party establishment and their donors at the expense of Middle America.
Looks like Erik the Red is covering his bases. Perhaps Trump making him bleed out of his whatever was a wakeup call for the schmuck.
Exactly. Erickson is an a$$hole. Banning Trump was the last straw.
The Republicans lied in the last elections. They promised they would repeal Obamacare and that they would take on Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility.
They have done neither. In addition, they have refused to take action on illegal immigration and have given away the Treaty Power to Obama.
I’m done with them.
If only they fought Dems with half the ferocity they fight Conservatives.
Pray America is waking
Go away, Lil’ Erick. Go cuddle with your idol Jebsie.
Eric Erickson LOVES the RINO GOPe like a cheap James Carville whore ...
The exception, Newt Gingrich, only proved the rule. He was very active and reformist for a year or two, and then he forgot about change and sank back into talking about keeping his party in power forever.
Are the Democrats any different? Not usually, but I notice that Ted Kennedy had a leadership position (before Chappaquiddick) as did Hubert Humphrey when he was considered a very liberal. Nancy Pelosi, of San Francisco, doesn't come from Middle America. Aside from Trent Lott, most of the Republican leaders came from the Midwest, rather than more conservative states.
But abolish the GOP, replace with some new-named party and would anything really change?
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Its taken a very long time but conservatives have finally figured out that the GOP only wants their money and their votes, but not their convictions and principles.
Boehner and McConnell have at least done something good: they opened people’s eyes to the double dealing, backstabbing, and lying that the GOP establishment has been doing for too many years. The veil is off the party now.
My prediction: If Trump wins, the US has a chance at the DC sewer being cleaned up. If Trump is denied the nomination by Cochranesque trickery, the nation as we know it is over, and the US could descend into chaos.
I don't think that's an exaggeration. The 2016 conventions could be worse than it was in 1968, given that with better communication and more people having more weapons, I worry that if it gets bad it'll spill over.
JMHO
Does anybody really care what this guy erikkson has to say? He is suffering a severe case of butt hurt.
“Let’s have a going away party for the GOP!
The pretend party for conservatives and lawful law.”
And their media as well. Whenever I see an article from National Review, Weekly Standard, Politico and others, it is suspect as a lick=spittle to the GOPe.
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