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Trump throws the GOP into an identity crisis
Washington Post ^ | March 4, 2016 | Karen Tumulty

Posted on 03/05/2016 10:01:31 AM PST by detective

Only a year ago, Republicans were congratulating themselves on having the strongest field of presidential candidates in a generation — diverse, highly credentialed conservatives who might be the salvation of a party that had lost the popular vote in five of the past six elections.

But now, the question is how close the Grand Old Party will come to annihilating itself and what it stands for.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: republicanparty; trump
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To: Starstruck

Quote:

“So, should GOPe go ahead and run another candidate to totally dissolve the Republican party? “

Many GOPe and so-called “conservatives” are calling for just that.


21 posted on 03/05/2016 10:15:10 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: chris37
The Hell he did. The GOP has no identity and already annihilated itself by being a bunch of lying whores.

Please do not debase the whores. At least they are working to make a living, not scumming the voters.

22 posted on 03/05/2016 10:15:38 AM PST by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: ProudFossil

I apologize!


23 posted on 03/05/2016 10:16:48 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37

“The GOP has no identity and already annihilated itself by being a bunch of lying whores.”

That’s a fact.

I’m still a registered Republican, mainly so I can vote in the primaries against whichever GOPe slug(s) is(are) on the ballot.


24 posted on 03/05/2016 10:18:53 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: detective

Donald Trump did not steal your money;

Washington D.C. did that...

Donald Trump did not raise your taxes;

Washington D.C. did that...

Donald Trump did not quadruple the price of food;

Washington D.C. did that...

Donald Trump is not stirring a race war;

Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not leave any US soldiers in Benghazi to be slaughtered and desecrated by Muslims;

Hillary Clinton and Obama did that..

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Donald Trump did not send the US Navy to fight for Al-Qaeda/ISIS in Syria and Iraq;

Hillary Clinton and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not arm ISIS and systematically exterminate Christians throughout the Middle East;

Hillary Clinton and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not betray Israel;

Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not provide financing and technology to Iran’s nuclear weapons program;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not give our military secrets to China;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not remove our nuclear missile shield in Poland;

Obama and Clinton did that...

Donald Trump did not shrivel our military, and betray our veterans;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not cripple our economy;

Washington D.C. did that...

Donald Trump did not increase our debt to 20 trillion dollars;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that..

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Donald Trump did not ruin our credit, twice;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not double African American unemployment;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not increase welfare to a record level for eight years; Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not sign a law making it legal to execute, and imprison Americans;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not set free all of terrorists in Guantanamo bay;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump did not steal your rights, violate US Constitutional law, or commit treason, hundreds of times;

Washington D.C. and Obama did that...

Donald Trump is being ripped apart in the news, non stop.

Barrack Hussein, Hillary Clinton and the criminals occupying our government, are protected and glorified by the same media.

The media is the (NeoCon Republican and) Democratic Party.

Save your culture. Stop listening to them.

He has said NOTHING derogatory about MEXICANS …. He has said what American citizens KNOW….. This country has to close its borders to ILLEGAL Immigration!

*Without sound borders you don’t have a nation.*

Finally, someone who tells the truth! It’s what this country needs!

Donald Trump 2016 Make America Great AGAIN………


25 posted on 03/05/2016 10:19:17 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: detective

The “Crisis” has existed for decades.


26 posted on 03/05/2016 10:19:53 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: detective

“...the strongest field of presidential candidates in a generation — diverse, highly credentialed conservatives...”

While I agree that our bench is stellar in comparison to the Dems’, I don’t agree that it’s all that conservative.


27 posted on 03/05/2016 10:20:49 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
They should not try back door shenanigans to deny a candidate the nomination.

I wasn't talking about denying the nomination. I was talking about a new third GOPe party. If they are so totally different than the rest of us shouldn't they split away?

28 posted on 03/05/2016 10:30:44 AM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: HarleyLady27
Nice job.

Copy and paste that on every thread...including the Cruz rally threads

29 posted on 03/05/2016 10:33:45 AM PST by lewislynn (Ted Cruz: " I'll never have 'a plane with my name" (or a Presidential seal))
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To: detective
"The MSM says Trump is causing the Republican Party to be "annihilating itself."

Propaganda pure and simple....the GOP has been divided by those who believe in the Constitution and those who bend it to enrich themselves. Trump had nothing to do with splintering the Grand Old Party other than to partake of favors on the left and on the right. This is certainly one of the reasons the GOPe and Washington/national elite are so terrified....Trump will run a very tight ship.

Many Americans, and especially Trump supporters, have had it with:

Anyone named Bush --- Anyone named Clinton --- Anyone who's held political office--- Political correctness--- Illegal immigration--- Massive unemployment--- Phony "official" unemployment and inflation figures--- Welfare waste and fraud--- People faking disabilities to go on the dole--- VA waiting lists--- TSA airport groping--- ObamaCare--- The Federal Reserve's money-printing schemes--- Wall Street crooks like Jon Corzine--- Michelle Obama's vacations--- Michelle Obama's food police--- Barack Obama's golf--- Barack Obama's arrogant and condescending--- lectures--- Barack Obama's criticism/hatred of America--- Valerie Jarrett--- "Holiday trees"--- Hollywood hypocrites--- Global warming nonsense--- Cop killers--- Gun confiscation threats--- Stagnant wages--- Chevy Volts--- Clock boy--- Pajama boy--- Mattress girl--- Boys in girls' bathrooms--- Whiny, spoiled college students who can't even place the Civil War in the correct century . . .and that's just the short list.

(exerpted from)

I might add: Obama’s abuse of the US Constitution--- Politicians abuse of the US Constitution---The SCOTUS abuse of the US Constitution.

30 posted on 03/05/2016 10:34:15 AM PST by yoe
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To: lewislynn

Now we do not want to disrupt rally threads!!! They are our sacred grounds!!!


31 posted on 03/05/2016 10:35:34 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

My descriptive would be LYING BASTARDS!!!


32 posted on 03/05/2016 10:37:38 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: chris37

The GOP has no identity and already annihilated itself by being a bunch of lying whores.


truth bump


33 posted on 03/05/2016 10:39:51 AM PST by chasio649 (Trump=140-character missiles on Twitter!)
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To: cotton1706

“The people have attempted to be represented in the legislative, and have been thwarted by the Powers That Be, so they are saying that they WILL be represented in the executive!”

Precisely!

The Geriatric Old Plotters are going to spark a full scale rebellion if they attempt to deny the people their choice of president at the convention. They’ll push this country into total societal meltdown if they don’t back off and come to grips with reality. They do NOT own us, or our votes.

The DC political establishment of both sides has become so entrenched in their corrupted style of ‘government’, they simply cannot see how far they’ve departed from the form of government laid down by the Framers, and that The People are demanding a return to the mutually held agreements of our nation’s founding compact.

They’d better get a grip before they tie the noose around their own necks.


34 posted on 03/05/2016 10:41:03 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: HarleyLady27

GREAT JOB HarleyLady !!!!!!


35 posted on 03/05/2016 10:41:56 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: All

Once upon a time,the RNC brought together a brain trust of GOPe party elders to figure out what had gone wrong. Obama had just throttled Romney, the party lost ground in the Senate, and voters just weren/t into the Old Christian White Man demographic.

So the Big Tent of gays, abortionists, secularists, feminists, was resurrected.....and conservatives were herded onto an ice floe set adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

IMHO, the ignominious collapse of Jeb-You/re-Next drove a huge stake into the heart of the establishment GOPe. Forget erectile dysfunction. The fallout of being politically castrated is devastating to a Big Buck power broker.

The GOPe de-b***ing began when candidate Jeb said he didn’t need the Republican base .... and proceeded to carry on, business as usual, as his numbers sunk into oblivion.

Jeb telling a key bloc of Republican voters to take a hike is the consequence of the country club GOPe demeaning and dismissing conservatives as not being worthy of their elite party.

The entitled Jeb-You/re-Next took it as Gospel when he heard the Bush elders condescending attitude towards conservatives....people to whom the aristocratic Bush/s feel socially superior.

But the GOPe should know this: they will get no pity from conservatives for their woes.....and we aim to stick their noses in the mess they made every frickin’ chance we get.


HOLY HEDGE FUND! Jeb-You/re-Next spent over $125 million on his failed campaign. The GOPe power brokers must be choking on the chilled Cristal, Oestra caviar, and stuffed lobster in the country club Grill Room. Jeb left the presidential race after two humiliating out-of-the-running finishes in NH and SC.


36 posted on 03/05/2016 10:43:57 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: detective

Yeah, Compost, Slimes, and other lapdog lackey leftist propaganda organs, just keep ignoring that practically the same civil war is brewing on the left.


37 posted on 03/05/2016 10:55:12 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: detective
The MSM says Trump is causing the Republican Party to be "annihilating itself."

In the article it describes the GOP history as "...a party that had lost the popular vote in five of the past six elections."

Looks like they have done a pretty good job without Trump's help.

38 posted on 03/05/2016 10:59:35 AM PST by pfflier
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To: detective

No Trump exposes the Republicans’ self generated identity crisis.


39 posted on 03/05/2016 11:02:14 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: detective
Basically there was no real GOP. It was hijacked by the communists wing of the Republican Party. We call the the GOPe and RINOs. The Party is in self destruct and may never recover.

The only hope is to make Trump President and rebuild. The names of the RINOs and the elite core of filth must be removed from office as their reelection comes up.

40 posted on 03/05/2016 11:08:39 AM PST by Logical me
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