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 ...
Look at all the republican senators saying Hillary might appoint someone to the SC who’s more liberal. They admit they won’t use their power to stop anyone who’s nominated.
Just how do you kick someone out the GOP anyway?
A leftist reporter in a leftist rag giving helpful advice to the GOP. How magnanimous of them.
We’re Through Being Cool!
And we’re tired of Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth!
We’re looking for Freedom of Choice!
Who knew Devo was so prescient?
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking that!
LOL
Do it...
” If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” Obi-wan Kenobi
I said last cycle, with Romeny, that the GOP needed to the way of the Whigs. This may be it.
I guess they are not calling on the Dems to kick Bernie out of the Democrat Party. Oh, that’s right, Bernie is NOT a registered Democrat. He is a registered Independent. So, how can Bernie be running for the Dem Party nomination? Just maybe HuffPo should be asking that Florida Congresswoman nutcase head of the Dem Party that question.
HuffPo getting frantic. I love it.
I come from a land down under.
Huffpo tells GOPe what to do.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ~Shakespeare~
The good news is that Trump will be switching parties to Democrat again. Probably two years at the most.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.