Posted on 07/31/2017 7:06:29 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
A Republican congressman from Colorado on Monday declared that the Republican Party is “dead,” arguing it “no longer has a vision for a better America.”
In an op-ed for The Denver Post, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said the party that once had “the blood of the people” coursing “through its veins” is not pursing conservative policies.
“After eight years of assuring that unified Republican government would allow for conservative policy, our Republican Congress has accomplished little, except for passing a spending bill that shackles the aspirations of future generations with crippling debt,” Buck wrote.
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As Socialists took over the Democrat Party, Democrats moved into the Republican Party offices. Quite a few “former” Democrats and then there are the RINOs like McCain who love the Democrats in Congress far more than the Republicans.
Maverick? He’s a party loyalist.
Took a dive in 2008. Why is he still in office after that debacle?
Can’t say I disagree.
Had McCain not win the GOP nomination in March 2008, who’d have won? Huckabee? Romney?
Compare Buck’s frank analysis of the failures in Congress to idiot Flake in AZ tearing down the party’s elected leader who actually is delivering. Flake is a fraud. AZ needs to dump him in the primary or the general if he makes it that far.
The only republican that I see doing anything conservative is president Trump, who is the candidate the Colorado GOP didn’t want.
If the refuse to honor their word to “REPEAL” only I’m done.
Europe is falling to the Islamist’s, we are falling to the communitsts in both parties.
Romney might have had a short with the economic collapse. He could have articulated a reasonable vision beyond McCain’s earmark discussion. Most likely after that crash, the opposition party was going to win, but a solid case could be made that the country would have selected an economic expert over a neophyte back-bencher if given two legitimate alternatives. I am no Romney fan, but he’s better than McCain and much more articulate.
True. I don’t think though any Republican would have won in 2008.
GOP nominated McCain because it was “his turn” and “he served his country honorably” and because at that time, foreign policy and Iraq was the biggest issure before the economy came back and front.
We finally have two parties in this nation
TRUMP.......v........the government
We’re only holding the majority everywhere.
It’s the Dems who are dead.
“...only republican that I see doing anything conservative is president Trump...”
Unfortunately, Trump is not very conservative either when it comes to fed level entitlements.
Assuming the word ‘conservative’ means anything close to a person who respects individual freedom and limited/enumerated central powers.
Also, if the party is dead does that means we can stop paying taxes? But still keep voting in Chicago?
The Colorado eGOP is dead to me. Dead.
They arrogantly backed Ted Cruz by refusing to seat electors voting for Trump.
They’ve placed corrupt education candidates in our county, and have backed seriously defective idiots for county government.
Romney wasn’t in it to win it either.
Jeb felt he deserved it in 2016.
McVain wanted to get the run he didn’t get in 2000 when “everyone” in the media “loved” him. They “loved” him in 2008 until he got the nomination then the hate fest began.
Rick Perry is one of those former Dems.
I find it funny when people who were Democrats in the Reagan era suddenly slap an R behind their name. I wonder, was it Bush in 1988 that made them switch to Republican? Or Clinton? Or Bush Redux? Or Obama?
Willard is as much a Democrat and Deep State Agent as McQueeg.
No it is not dead it just has to deal with corpratists and traitors like McCain. It is just a matter of the powerful getting more powerful(and out of touch) until they collapse. and the weak (us) get weaker until we rebel. The grim reaper renews the ages.
Republicans hold the majority because they are the NotDemocrat Party. They are not preferred, they are really the lesser of two evils. If headlining RINO’s could be purged, the Republican Party would be much stronger.
Yes, in 2008 the Democrat opposition candidate was so clean and articulate.
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