Posted on 01/16/2017 8:47:12 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Is the party—the Republican party, that is—over? That's what Joe Scarborough is predicting. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough surmised that "Donald Trump, by the end, will blow apart the Republican party" and that people are "going to look at George W. Bush as the last Republican president."
Scarborough depicted Trump as "in a sense, the first independent president." Joe also suggested that Bernie Sanders might have the same party-demolishing impact on the Democrats.
View the video here.
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As evil as many in the GOP are, they’re not stupid. They know they better hitch their ride with the winner or they’ll be out of a job.
Trump has formed a new coalition of Conservatives, working class whites, small business, Evangelical Christians, and Orthodox and Conservative Israel supporting Jews. If he is able to get policies passed that stimulate economic growth the business class and chamber of commerce crowd will come around. Not guaranteed, but the result might be a ruling party that fills the vacuum left by the Democrats as they hurtle off a hard(er) core Socialist and Muslim sympathizing cliff.
End the RNC and GOP and replace them with accountable, short-term, responsive, and patriotic Americans who put the nation’s needs ahead of their own, and espouse the principles of limited government and lower taxation, and we will all be better off... and plenty of Democrat voters will come over, as well.
+1 on that. Joe might have backed into a good point here, although I doubt if he meant it the way most of us around here would understand it.
Blow it up real good!
Does the idiot Scarborough understand that this was a big part of the reason Trump was elected?
Both Bushes were terrible presidents and democrats. They started the demise of the US. Now we are saving it from those scoundrels.
Any Republican Party that wouldn’t vote to keep the likes of Eric Holder out of power does not deserve to live.
If that's so (and I hope it is) then the blame ought to be attributed to Bush, not Trump. His second term in particular was one big government / globalist agenda item after another. He lost the support of almost everyone in the country because ... surprise! ... nobody wants that crap. And when they followed up by giving us McCain, Romney and then offering another Bush everyone's patience was over. They are not with us, they see us merely as a means to an end and we are tired of being used by them.
The irony is that Trump will likely carry out more of the “GOP platform” than any Republican since Reagan. The disconnect between what the party says is the platform and the milquetoast globalist “go along to get along” policies of Republicrats is stark. It has been for a long time.
Consider the incredible howling we are being treated to at the moment from the about-to-be disenfranchised: the media, the mega-donors, the culture warriors, the race pimps, the lock-step control of government unions, and the comfortable, moneyed class of internationalist politicians in the EU, the UN - I could go on, we know who these people are by the shrieking and the angst. Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet. Consider that.
And consider that Joe may be onto something here:
Joe also suggested that Bernie Sanders might have the same party-demolishing impact on the Democrats.
In my personal acquaintance are a handful of crossover Dem voters whose common complaint was "This sh*t can't go on." That is as far from partisan as you can get. None were actually that enamored of Bernie's programs - what they were shocked by was the fact that despite the vote he had no chance at all, the party hacks had spoken, and everybody knew it and announced it smugly as if it were the way things ought to be. How much that was taken for granted accounts for the utter astonishment on the faces of the Hillary faithful at that convention center. It was as if the sun were rising in the west. This just can't be!
But nobody has broken anything yet, although the fat cats took a major hit in their pride. The machinery is still there, the money is still there if its owners might be just a little circumspect in the donation now that pay-for-play is no longer a sure bet. The media are still there. The corrupt academics and the race hustlers and the social justice warriors are still there. They'll be pushing back hard over the next four years against the notion that they're no longer calling the shots. And the ruling class is still there - when we see a gormless creature such as Chelsea Clinton accorded a seat in the highest chamber of debate in the country as if it were a birthright, we know the rot is still deep. I wish Trump the best of luck and I'll back him to the hilt, but he's one man in a sea of corruption.
The irony is that Trump will likely carry out more of the “GOP platform” than any Republican since Reagan. The disconnect between what the party says is the platform and the milquetoast globalist “go along to get along” policies of Republicrats is stark. It has been for a long time.
BUsh will be regarded as the last of the elitist Republican Presidents. THe Party has evolved. The Midwest blue collar & middle class whites will move to the new Republican Party. THe elites will move from the Republican to the Democratic Party. As more Muslims and blacks move into the northeast overwhelmingly white states they too will shift Allegiance.
TRump, to totally transform the party, has to continue to push economic and Nationalism ideas that show blacks and Hispanics their success does not depend on handouts from Democrats.
He received 29% of the )ispanic vote. If we can get that to 32 by 2018 & 35 by 2020 will will stay on track. Trump received 9% of the black vote and we need 15% by 2020.
More like the Republican Party getting a chance to emulate the phoenix and rise from the ashes.
I’ve said for a long time that it would be good for the country if the two major parties imploded.
“Dems should know. Obama screwed them but good.”
And the Republicans should know that the Booshes, the GOPe, and the US Chamber of Communists (and their financial backers) screwed them as well.
I see only two choices:
1). the GOP goes out of business during the next 8 years trying to take back “their country” from Trump and the People.
2). Trump’s policies form the basis for a complete overhaul of the GOP to morph it into a Populist Party of The People.
The one thing that is certain is that the Republican Party that was created by the Booshes after RR left office, is dead. And the Booshes, like the Clintons, S/B dead meat to all of us.
There are currently EIGHT sitting US Senators who were born before 1940!
Collectively, they have 239 years of “servicing us” as Senators. That’s 25% of the total years of service for the entire body, AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS A DEMOCRAT (FINESWINE)! They are: Grassley, Hatch, Shelby, Inhofe, Roberts, McLame and Cochran. And all but three of them have been in the Senate for at least 30 years, with Hatch topping the list at 40years!
the whole political system needed a shakeup....its beyond corrupt...its beyond immoral....its beyond sanity....
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