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GOP is officially a horror film: Welcome to a world where Trump & Cruz are last men standing
Salon ^ | February 10, 2016 | Heather Digby Parton

Posted on 02/11/2016 5:12:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Trump won in dominant fashion and Cruz met expectations as Rubio fell completely apart. This is scary stuff.

I've been writing about the Donald Trump phenomenon several times a week for seven months now. As his candidacy evolved from a bizarre spectacle to a serious campaign, it's become clear that this is a pivotal moment in American politics. It's not just that we have a shocking demagogue or a profane performer topping the polls in the Republican presidential race. It's the alarming notion that a crude authoritarian white nationalist is appealing to a very large section of the American people. Even worse is the realization that there is a path for him to actually win the presidency.

Last night he won the New Hampshire primary and he won decisively. His effect on the GOP electorate is already profound:

Meet the Press

NH EXIT POLL: 66% of GOP primary voters support banning Muslims from entering the U.S. #Decision2016

Only 40 percent of New Hampshire Republicans support deporting millions of Latinos, so that's what passes for good news in all this. They didn't ask about summary execution or torture or killing terrorist suspects' families, but it stands to reason that at least the 35 percent who voted for Trump are for it. Those aren't the kind of issues people easily overlook when they vote for someone....

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: New Hampshire; New York; South Carolina; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; demagogicparty; election2016; heatherdigbyparton; memebuilding; newhampshire; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; salon; southcarolina; tedcruz; texas; trump
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Digby is the pseudonym of liberal political blogger Heather Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo. She has been called one of the "leading and most admired commentators" of the progressive blogosphere. Wikipedia

41 posted on 02/11/2016 5:38:25 PM PST by disndat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If it’s Digby, it’s Dingbat.


42 posted on 02/11/2016 5:39:31 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

this is one seriously fractured country.


43 posted on 02/11/2016 5:39:35 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL. Right. We would be way ahead if we only had a felon and an over-the-hill Marxist/Communist fighting it out in the race for the GOP nomination.


44 posted on 02/11/2016 5:43:10 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Heather, dear, you don't have to worry one bit about either Cruz or Trump. They'll do just fine.

You have to worry about us. Because payback's coming.

45 posted on 02/11/2016 5:46:54 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

DISLIKED
Alumni, roommates, law clerks, former staffers in the George W. Bush campaign and White House (and the president himself), members of Congress and others who have known Cruz — lots and lots of people — consider him socially awkward, nasty, dishonest
httpest, a blatant apple-polisher and all-around creepy guy. You can write off a few of these critics as jealous of his success, or liberal antagonists, but all of them? There is something badly amiss here. Cruz, who so obviously lacks emotional intelligence, cannot recognize it, but those closest to him surely must see that something is awry...

NO SHOW CRUZ
Ted Cruz the senator: Heard but not seen
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes.
Ted Cruz came to Washington two-and-a-half years ago pledging to be the anti-senator. But he’s been more like the no-show senator.
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes in what has been a Senate career long on rhetoric and short on Senate business.
He’s skipped the vast majority of Armed Services Committee hearings, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call votes on the Senate floor. ... -Read more: Ted Cruz the senator: Heard but not seen

And then there’s this- CRUZ WANTS TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/31/this-presidential-candidate-wants-to-cut-social-se.aspx


46 posted on 02/11/2016 5:57:12 PM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: G Larry

Silly you. Hill & Bern are centrist, mainstream, everyday normal Americans who love apple pie, Mom, and Uncle Sam.


47 posted on 02/11/2016 5:58:28 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mr. Mojo

If there had to be an order:
(1) illegal Muslims have to go- a no brained.
(2) all other illegals- because, well, they’re illegal!
(3) legal muslim’s - hey guys, they’re okay, they don’t want to kill us. They just want to impose their own laws and upend the Constitution.....

Uh, doesn’t DC want to do this as well?
Yet, I digress.......


48 posted on 02/11/2016 5:58:35 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've been writing about the Donald Trump phenomenon several times a week for seven months now.

Mr. Trump is not a phenomenon. Mr. Trump is the next president of the United States.

Show some respect.

49 posted on 02/11/2016 6:02:01 PM PST by upchuck (Killary is the poster girl for everything wrong with our government. h/t Mister Da)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Brained=Brainer
I hate IPhones sometimes


50 posted on 02/11/2016 6:04:04 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This from Salon .... pimping the Progressive battle between Stalin and Trotsky!


51 posted on 02/11/2016 6:05:47 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Racism will disappear when AfroAmericans, HispanicAmericans, AsianAmericans, etc. become Americans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Haha. Welcome to my world of horror when Obama was re.elected.
Sweat, have nightmares, and by all means keep whining so I can laugh at you.


52 posted on 02/11/2016 6:06:41 PM PST by MarMema
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53 posted on 02/11/2016 6:11:38 PM PST by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just for You "Digby":

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54 posted on 02/11/2016 6:14:06 PM PST by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Target/flak theorem in action...


55 posted on 02/11/2016 6:14:32 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: patriot08

Thank you.


56 posted on 02/11/2016 6:15:11 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema

‘welcome.


57 posted on 02/11/2016 6:16:26 PM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: BlueNgold

Long live Hillary( in prison)!
Long live Bernie (in North Korea)!


58 posted on 02/11/2016 6:17:57 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Digby is the pseudonym of liberal political blogger Heather Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo. She has been called one of the "leading and most admired commentators" of the progressive blogosphere.

59 posted on 02/11/2016 6:19:36 PM PST by kcvl
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“24. Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”


60 posted on 02/11/2016 6:22:38 PM PST by Clay Moore (JRandomFreeper RIP)
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