Posted on 03/18/2016 9:39:45 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
For years now, the party has cultivated an almost completely white, paranoid, extremist right wing base. It's a detriment in presidential elections -- the demographic math is against Republican candidates for president, and it's getting worse.
But it's great for midterms.
And that's where the GOP has had the most success of late, using those elections to rev up the base and gain majorities in Congress. It's poetic justice, of course, that the very tactics of whipping up hysteria used in those midterms has produced a party base willing to elect Trump and kill the Republican Party, but that's another story.
With control over Congress, the GOP has outsized political power and can use that power to gerrymander districts to retain it. The GOP can use that power to constrain the kind of legislation a Democratic president sends it and affect judicial nominees. It's a strategy that has seen the Republican Party dominate U.S. politics in an eight-year period where the first black president was elected, gay marriage was legalized and a new civil rights movement was born.
There's another side to this, too. Electoral defeat does not necessarily mean the GOP won't capture the White House. A three way race between Clinton, Trump as third party, and a more moderate GOP candidate will most likely mean no one candidate reaches 270 votes.
There are many reasons for this -- Trump will sweep the Deep South, Clinton will win the Upper Midwest and Northeast, but it's quite possible the GOP could win enough states to deny the Democrats an absolute majority. There is still a moderate right wing in presidential politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
It’s okay, I speak Huff Post.
Here’s the translation: “Ahh! Ahh! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
Because liberals always know what’s best for conservatives.
Really, the republican elite can dump Trump if they are
bent on suicide. Many of us have had it with them.
Talk is cheap, we want action.
It’s a good thing that Huffpo is looking out for us bless their little hearts.
Oh they have paid attention, they want more of the same...
Since when are we at the mercy of the people who control the party bureaucracy?
I am sick of “Reince” Prebus deciding who we get to vote for.
The PARTY should be shuffled EVERY election to put people in charge who do NOT exist for the benefit of the party bureaucracy, but who reflect Republican ideals for THE COUNTRY
If the Huffington was published on news print, I would buy it for my birds.
5.56mm
Both parties have existential challenges. The dems have a despicable human being and a career criminal in the lead and her number 2 is a die hard socialist. The republican establishment hates Trump, but if they conspire to deny him the nomination and are successful, he may run third party and it will take more votes away from them than the democrats. The republicans should chill, accept the results and tough it out, just like conservatives did when Romney was elected.
Hillary will spin it as a "mandate" from the people, and will work with the newly Democrat Congress to further entrench Obamacare and a host of "progressive" giveaways.
No, huffers. We’ll keep Trump. You just keep up you huffing and mind your own business.
Hillary will spin it as a "mandate" from the people, and will work with the newly Democrat Congress to further entrench Obamacare and a host of "progressive" giveaways.
Go ahead! I dare you!
“Thank heavens for the Huffington Post, an invaluable source of guidance and strategy for the Republican party.”
HAHAHA!!!
awesome post.
Says the Huffington Post. Why, I ask, are the folks at HP so concerned for the state of the Republican Party? (Lol!)
Extreme GOP right wing base? Where?
If that were true, the GOP controlled Congress would not be giving Obama EVERYTHING he wants, and then some.
That’s some powerful dope they’re smoking at the Huffy Post.
This idea proposed by Eoin Higgins is, IMHO, asinine.
It would simply advance the time table for what the GOPe wants in a brokered convention. And the result of both would be a completely fractured GOP and a loss to Hillary.
Seriously, when I see people making such proposals, includintg the brokered convention, and the GOPe even threatening a 3rd Party run...it is cler to me that such people either:
1) Completely ignorant about what is happening in this election and why,
or,
2) Want to see Hillary to win.
IMHO, it is clear that the GOPe is throwing off its covers and revealing itself to be a bunch of people so drunk on power and their elitists positions that they do not care what damage they do the nation so long as they retain the trappings of that power. We have suspected s much for years...but now there is little or no doubt about it.
So, when you have an individual like Trump who has joined the GOP, has made it clear that he will run on the GOP ticket, and who now is drawing a record turnout towards that end...people like this want to kick him out?
Look, I have my reservations about Trump and his disposition.
But if you examine the policy statements and plans he has made, they are good, and they will result in a massive turnaround in this nation.
...and the people agree with it.
We have no doubt about Hillary’s plans and where they will lead...none whatsoever. She has promised a continuation of Obama’s policies and doubling down on them.
The people do not want that...and they are choosing Trump over that...and over the GOPe as well.
The GOPe has, for the last 15 or more years, promised all sorts of good things, and then gotten elected to do them...but then not done them. And not only not done them, but then looked down their noses at the very people who elected them based on the promises they made.
That’s not Trump’s fault...that’s the GOPe’s fault.
read my:
The Donald trump Phenomenon
http://www.jeffhead.com/Trump-Phenom.htm
I personally hope that Ted Cruz, who himself is an anti-establishment Senator with a record to prove it, will throw in with Trump and that the two of them together will stomp on the GOPe and then go forward and build the wall, change the income tax, rip up the Iranian deal, rescind Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders, decisively defeat ISIS, negotiate internationally from a position of strength, entice corporations who have gone off shore to bring all of that work back to the US with much reduced Corporate income taxes, etc., etc.
If they do those things, we will have a turn around like we have not seen since after the 1980 trouncing od Jimmy Carter.
To kick someone out, don't vote for them and hope they go away in shame.
-PJ
A left wing crazy cousin of mine said the republicans might have won in 2012 if they hadn’t nominated the right wing Romney. I swear. He actually said that.
I’m so mistrusting of the political parties that I question if Todd’s “accident” was really an accident. Or was it a message to Palin. She sure has been quiet since it happened.
Trump pledged to run as a Republican at the party’s behest, and now they want to throw him out.
Such honor, is it?
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