Their backs are against the wall, they have only one chance of winning, and they refuse to take it. What a gang of jerks!
I’m waiting to see how this plays out, and in particular what course Sarah Palin takes. But it’s looking more and more as if the Republican Party simply cannot be salvaged. It’s had its run of 150 years, and it’s morally and intellectually exhausted.
No principles, no common sense, no political savvy. The great majority of them, and seemingly all of the leadership, are losers.
The Republican Party was born when the Whigs had degenerated into a similar condition. Now, I think the Republican Party is dying.
No, I have never advocated voting third party in earlier elections—with the sole exception of when I was living in NY and occasionally voted for the Conservative candidate when, as in this instance, the Republican candidate was simply insupportable. That did generally teach them to consult with the Conservative Party, which they evidently didn’t bother to do again this time around.
But there are historic occasions when a new party is born. And I think this may be the time. We’ll see. But I sure don’t see any signs of life in the Republican leadership. Steele, Sessions, and the rest of those stupid, incompetent, unprincipled losers.
Nah ... take a long-term perspective ... The Republican party was in much greater disrepair in the mid 1930s - zero ideas, zero charisma, zero influence - and in the mid 1970s.
The outcome for the country in both cases wasnt good - bad economic policies that extended economic malaise. But the GOP did eventually come back on the strength of leaders with ideas.
So it will happen here as well. The pendulum will swing back, and the pace of it depends on how fast or slow principled leaders are in stepping forward.
‘No, I have never advocated voting third party in earlier elections—with the sole exception of when I was living in NY and occasionally voted for the Conservative candidate when, as in this instance, the Republican candidate was simply insupportable.”
This happened in NY in the 1960s and 1970s. Buckley running against Republican Lindsay for mayor in 1965, and his borther winning the NY Senate seat as a conservative (!!!!) in 1970.
“That did generally teach them to consult with the Conservative Party, which they evidently didn’t bother to do again this time around.”
we will need to MAKE them learn that lesson again.