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The Republican Party Killed Itself
American Thinker ^ | 01/14/2021 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 01/14/2021 7:04:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Republican Party killed itself. The particular poison it swallowed is the hatred it harbors for its own voters. Sooner or later, all that hatred was going to burn it up. When Republican lawmakers turned their backs on Republican voters protesting for free and fair elections and endorsed election fraud by ignoring it, they blew up any remaining illusion that the Red-Blue divide in D.C. is real.

Republican voters struggled for over a decade to give the Republican Party all the power it needed to fight for the Constitution and American liberty and against the quickening assault of totalitarian state control. Republican voters repeatedly urged Republican lawmakers to stomp out Big Tech's censorship and strangling of free speech before it was too late. Republicans in office have done nothing.

When voters turn a blind eye to their suspicions that only a UniParty exists in D.C., actively support Republican lawmakers, and find themselves inevitably betrayed by those same lawmakers nonetheless, the sting is particularly fierce. From the point of view of a Trump-supporter, the Republican Party has wasted a tremendous opportunity. The "stupid party" looks as if it's achieved peak stupidity. But from the point of view of D.C. Republicans who have worked to thwart President Trump's agenda for four years, it is a certainty that the only stupid Republicans they see are their own voters.

It didn't have to be this way. Republicans in Washington could right now be in the majority with a strong president in the White House. Instead, they spent years using Trump-supporters when their votes were needed and giving little in return. It was a betrayal that leaves deep scars.

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


TOPICS: Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: gop; politicalsuicide; republicanparty
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To: albie
"...I do! This was a last ditch chance to save our Republic and those 2 blew it listening to Rove etc. All those 2 had to do was support Trump and call for a special session. Georgians didn’t teach anybody a lesson. They displayed their own stupidity in “thinking” they’ll make up for it in 2022."

It is ludicrous to blame GOP voters when it was the Republican Party's fault. Today the only difference between the GOP and the Democrats is that the GOP lies about what it believes.

A political party that betrays its own voters is not a political party, it is just a con job.

41 posted on 01/14/2021 7:24:10 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: AnglePark

They want to be the minority party. That way they can do the “freeddom, liberty, constitution” rah rah and have an excuse to not deliver.

They are globalists. Country is destined to be sold out.


42 posted on 01/14/2021 7:24:22 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Peter W. Kessler

In California, you can do it online.


43 posted on 01/14/2021 7:26:14 AM PST by sissyjane
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To: SeekAndFind

Ronna Romney says “you can come back now
... and make my uncle your King, your god,
and kiss his feet like we do.
.... All for Delecto.”


44 posted on 01/14/2021 7:27:45 AM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: SeekAndFind

We have exhausted the peaceful revolution options provided by our Founding Fathers.

It is time for the second amendment. But know this, the 2nd is NOT about guns! It is about the local militia.

“A well regulated militia being necessary for................”

Now, some one fill in the rest of the sentence. We have to clearly know what we are fighting for.

It us time to group up, I can’t say it enough. Put some beer and meat in the garage, open the garage door and find the warriors. This is what our founding fathers did.

“Then those who feared the Lord, gathered together to talk, and God listened to what they said”


45 posted on 01/14/2021 7:28:15 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP race to oblivion began LONG AGO! Stupid GOP politicians called it bipartisanship and actually prided themselves on their many accomplishments. Republican politicians regarded it as an incontestable and final proof of personal ability, character, statesmanship, political prowess, far sightedness, and THE defining, ‘career making’ move when they succeeded in betraying constituents…

In MY life, I wish I could travel to meet each one of them and spit on the ground in front of them!!


46 posted on 01/14/2021 7:28:59 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: brownsfan

“The GOP is dead to me. I can only speak for me.”

You said it.


47 posted on 01/14/2021 7:32:26 AM PST by semaj (Death to Traitors)
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To: FormerFRLurker

The GOP is dead. I can’t wait for the creation of a MAGA party.


Dead yes, as for a new party, that will have to wait until the Democrats relinquish their nationwide control of the voting system ...


48 posted on 01/14/2021 7:34:06 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: brownsfan

The GOP is dead to me. I can only speak for me.

**************

You’re speaking for a lot of people.

The party has betrayed us for the last time.


49 posted on 01/14/2021 7:36:01 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Yo-Yo
66.2% - Dan Newhouse of Washington          [WA 4th]
68.6% - Liz Cheney of Wyoming               [WY at-large]
64.7% - Adam Kinzinger of Illinois          [IL 16th]
53.1% - John Katko of New York              [NY 24th]
55.8% - Fred Upton of Michigan              [MI 6th]
56.4% - Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington [WA 3rd]
53.0% - Peter Meijer of Michigan            [MI 3rd]
63.2% - Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio            [OH 16th]
61.8% - Tom Rice of South Carolina          [SC 7th]
50.5% - David Valadao of California         [CA 21st]

I estimate that small government conservatives are 25% of the consistent voting public [19% voted Perot in 1992, DESPITE all the Media-Uniparty-Deep State dirty tricks, which President Trump has shown us to be real things].

Wait'll these Repukes get a load of the Woke Twenty Five Percent...

50 posted on 01/14/2021 7:36:13 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Thilly Thailor

It’s Trump’s party now. Bhwahahahahahaa!!!

**************

It is not and never will be Trump’s party. Nor is it Reagan’s party. The GOP is what it is: a feckless, weak and corrupt party.

Time for a new party that actually stands for something.


51 posted on 01/14/2021 7:38:05 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

And this ridiculous RAT impeachment charade that just took place did us a big favor by flushing out 10 GOPe RINOs suffering from TDS so that we now have a faces and names to go with em.... Either primary em out or don’t allow em into the new party. Let em fade out of the vine and fall into the dustbin of history.


52 posted on 01/14/2021 7:38:10 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: dfwgator

Great Caine Mutiny reference. And spot on.


53 posted on 01/14/2021 7:38:44 AM PST by freefdny
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To: Regulator

Warnock will fit right in in the U.S. senate. The scoundrels there will welcome him into the club.


54 posted on 01/14/2021 7:40:19 AM PST by Starboard
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To: freefdny

Watched it the other day, so many parallels to what’s going on now.

Just imagine if the Republicans actually had Trump’s back, what could have accomplished. But now, they didn’t like him, so they backstabbed him.

One quote immediately comes to mind.

Ah, you’re learning, Willie! You’re learning that you don’t work with a captain because you like the way he parts his hair; you work with him because *he’s GOT* the job, or you’re no good!


55 posted on 01/14/2021 7:42:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have voted GOP since 1980, F the GOP.


56 posted on 01/14/2021 7:44:03 AM PST by jpsb
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To: SeekAndFind

The party leaves me now as an independent.

We warned them about big-tech. We can all see the obviousness of the voter fraud. Yet their inner coward compelled them to hang PDJT out to dry and go along with the establishment and status-quo, as though ‘everything will go back to normal’. Fools. Now we have an empowered leftist mob that will know no end to their goals and we will just be trampled upon.

And they think we will still vote for them. I’d rather we all not vote and allow all D’s to take over, there’s little difference than what we have now. At least they’ll be out and we send the message that we will not tolerate spineless politicians that only represent themselves and their own interests instead of ours.

They’re epidemically negligent in doing their job. What do they think will happen? What happens when masses of people are being down trodden and not represented? They’re fools, all of them.


57 posted on 01/14/2021 7:44:35 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: taxcontrol

30 million registered GOP voters
72 million Trump voters said that they would vote for Trump again.

***************

Those numbers are a nice base of support from which to establish a new party. If that should become a reality the massive exodus from the GOP would render it an empty shell, literally overnight.

A well deserved fate for a party that has consistently betrayed its voters.


58 posted on 01/14/2021 7:45:08 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind
I wonder why Dan Crenshaw didn’t vote to impeach. He was vocally critical of Trump at the House.

I replied that there was something about Crenshaw I didn't trust, and as if right on cue this was posted on FR:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3925166/posts

59 posted on 01/14/2021 7:45:45 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SeekAndFind

This last line...” many voters would rather destroy the party and start from scratch than reward the very people who seem to hate them most.”

Count me in this group! Walked away from the Republican Party (registered since 1988) last month......


60 posted on 01/14/2021 7:48:17 AM PST by freddy005
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