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Has Trump Killed the GOP?
Politico Magazine ^ | 1/29/2016 | Various

Posted on 01/29/2016 1:01:52 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet

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To: truth_seeker

The GOP also nominated some of the worst candidates in recent memory in those elections.


61 posted on 01/29/2016 1:35:18 PM PST by Alberta's Child (My mama said: "To get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.")
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To: 20yearsofinternet
Politico knows:

As he defies his own party on tax orthodoxy, on healthcare

It looks like Trump supporters will be the last to know.

62 posted on 01/29/2016 1:35:19 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: hal ogen
One can hope so.

May it rest in agony.

63 posted on 01/29/2016 1:35:26 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: vette6387

Haha!

Well, personal philosophies are created from attractive movements, not the other way around.


64 posted on 01/29/2016 1:35:54 PM PST by anton
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Hmmmm, back in the day, these sorts of remarks are pretty much the same thing they were saying about Ronald Reagan! With one huge exception, however, they did not call him a blow-dried celebrity. They called him a celebrity who dyed his hair.


65 posted on 01/29/2016 1:36:55 PM PST by erkelly
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To: dainbramaged
I just had the radio on and Michael Medved is being savaged by his listeners for his nonstop anti-Trump garbage. It was enjoyable.

Thanks for the tip, he comes on at 5 Central in Dallas.

66 posted on 01/29/2016 1:36:59 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: mongrel
The GOP unfortunately will survive. It’s the conservative movement that he’s killing right now.

Exactly.

67 posted on 01/29/2016 1:37:47 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

His goal is a hostile takeover using people indifferent to his recent Liberal positions, people more angry than skeptical of him. It’s a sound strategy.


68 posted on 01/29/2016 1:40:43 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

GOP has diminished themselves. Trump has done nothing but run a SUPERIOR campaign.


69 posted on 01/29/2016 1:42:08 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: 20yearsofinternet

I remember during the Clinton years the IRS was audited. Billions was unaccounted for. I have not heard of them being audited since. Someone tell me I am wrong. Please.


70 posted on 01/29/2016 1:42:10 PM PST by IC Ken
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To: truth_seeker

^^^

Superb post above.
We have been losing, and losing, and losing again.
Putting up "friendly" candidates like Mitt Romney or "old schoolers" like John McCain or Bob Dole...has yielded us a big, fat, N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
Conservatives needed a whole new and fresh approach.


71 posted on 01/29/2016 1:42:45 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Somebody needs to put it out of its misery...and soon.


72 posted on 01/29/2016 1:53:49 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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The way I see it, there are two parties, The Snowflake Party, which is essentially Communist, and wants to control everything we say and do, or the Crony Party, which isn’t totalitarian, but is most concerned with maintaining Big Government, and making sure that their friends get the Big Contracts.

We’ve been voting Crony, to avoid the leftist nonsense that the other side promotes. Trump represents the hope of something better, a redefinition of “Republican” as something other than a source of no-bid contracts.


73 posted on 01/29/2016 1:54:19 PM PST by Gunpowder green
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To: 20yearsofinternet

The GOPe is what Trump is after.


74 posted on 01/29/2016 2:06:23 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: dragnet2

They will be know as the GOP democrates


75 posted on 01/29/2016 2:07:23 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: central_va

I agree with you, the ‘experts’ who wrote there don’t get it at all. I quit reading after 5 or 6.

Life is too short to throw it away by reading more.


76 posted on 01/29/2016 2:09:44 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
He's redefined conservatism, which now means "statism that works for people."

How is that a redefinition? Whatever politicians campaign on, if they win they run a government and have to run it in ways voters approve of. Whatever the expressed ideology there are limits to what politicians deliver.

Trump won't kill the Establishment, and neither will Cruz. They'll change the Establishment. Then the conditions that created the Establishment will change them. And then people will wonder what they whole anti-Establishment thing was all about.

Trump won't kill conservatism either. No more than Nixon or Bush 41 did.

77 posted on 01/29/2016 2:11:34 PM PST by x
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Trump could be the secular and Republican version of William Jennings Bryan.


78 posted on 01/29/2016 2:12:16 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: ronnie raygun

They are already known as DEMS!!!! So what is your point???


79 posted on 01/29/2016 2:13:50 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Alberta's Child

Also pitiful congressional candidates for many decades


80 posted on 01/29/2016 2:16:44 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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