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The last stand of tolerance in the Republican Party: What Trump vs. Rubio would reveal about GOP
Salon ^ | Feb 22, 2016 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 02/22/2016 7:56:14 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

The reports of the Bush dynasty’s collapse are greatly exaggerated; but now that Jeb’s disastrous campaign has finally reached its finale, it admittedly does feel like a distinct era of Republican Party politics is leaving the stage with him.

(SNIP)

The stump speech was for Rush Limbaugh; the budget was for the Chamber of Commerce. It worked for Poppy in ’88, and Dubya pulled it off twice.

(SNIP)

A sizable chunk of rank-and-file Republicans are wise to the bait and switch now; pandering to the Birchite wing of the Republican Party with dog-whistles won’t cut it. If you want to win now, you have to speak in the Manichean language of talk radio. You have to be not just willing, but eager, to divide the world into “us” vs. “them.”

(SNIP)

For Trump, on the other hand, it’s not a psychological or intellectual question. It’s the soil, the genes, the blood.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New York; US: South Carolina; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bencarson; birch; concerntroll; concerntrolls; election2016; eliasisquith; enoughalready; florida; ibtz; jebbush; lindseygraham; marcorubio; newyork; rubio; salon; southcarolina; trump
LOL.
1 posted on 02/22/2016 7:56:14 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Articles like this are a target rich environment ... don’t even know where to begin ...


2 posted on 02/22/2016 7:58:11 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (It's now or never , Trump now more than ever)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

If those are my choices, no thanks. I’ll write in a candidate, again.


3 posted on 02/22/2016 7:58:29 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Neu Pragmatist
a target rich environment ... don't even know where to begin ...

...like a mosquito in a nudist colony

4 posted on 02/22/2016 8:04:51 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

LOL... nice


5 posted on 02/22/2016 8:10:24 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (It's now or never , Trump now more than ever)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

So, Salon loves the lying P.O.S Rubio, hey? That alone is almost enough to tell you everything you need to know about Rubio.


6 posted on 02/22/2016 8:37:54 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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7 posted on 02/22/2016 8:42:35 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Ironic that Trump is much less conservative than Cruz or Rubio on economic issues, but Salon is totally in the tank for globalism so they don’t care. Borders must stay open at all costs. The GOPe might prefer Trump to Cruz but the left would rather suffer through two Cruz terms than allow an American patriot access to the Oval Office.


8 posted on 02/22/2016 10:50:45 PM PST by MaxFlint
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Trump is a repudiation of Clinton and Bush and Obama.

It’s an admission that NAFTA, Iraq, and 7 years of Obama were all a mistake and we need to undo damage.

Trump isn’t running as a conservative.

He’s running as a reaction populist revolutionary.


9 posted on 02/22/2016 10:50:57 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: MaxFlint

And for “bombing brown people”


10 posted on 02/22/2016 10:51:14 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (And Trump could win it all My rightful place from birth Dad ive let you down Dub ive made you hurt)
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