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WaPo columnist pleads with GOP to admit Dems were right about Trump, ditch him to avoid ‘party suicide’
Fox News ^ | Sept 2, 2022 | Gabriel Hays

Posted on 09/03/2022 7:40:49 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle pleaded with Republicans on Friday to have a "Dr. Phil moment" and get themselves out of their "dangerous" relationship with former President Donald Trump unless they want to commit "party suicide."

The column insisted that Trump has been "wrecking" the GOP for years with his "scandals" and "ego," and claimed that if the party continues to embrace him, the idea of a red wave in upcoming elections will end up "more like a ripple."

McArdle began her column with the premise that sensible Republicans have been secretly hoping Trump could have been kicked to the curb in 2016 but were unwilling to do the job themselves. "By mid-February 2016, it was clear that some kind of collective Republican action would be needed to keep Donald Trump from winning the nomination. Instead, everyone stood around hoping that someone else would do the job for them," she wrote.

Over the past six years, that same scenario has played out time and time again. She added, "This was an error they repeated many times in the ensuing years, keeping quiet about outrage after outrage, passing up two separate chances to remove him from power and ensure he could never run again."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; districtofcolumbia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2022; election2024; gop; jeffbezos; maga; mediawingofthednc; meganmcardle; panicporn; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rinos; ronklain; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Pweese, pweese, pweese help my daddy so I can keep taking showers with him like I did when I was...15.

What IS this THING? Buck teeth and all. Oh.. a “journalist”
from the paedo supply ring?


41 posted on 09/03/2022 8:12:33 AM PDT by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

More proof the RATS are scared as hell.


42 posted on 09/03/2022 8:13:02 AM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Is that a woman (sure looks like a man)?


43 posted on 09/03/2022 8:28:56 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a waholdingrning to all antisemites)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Darlin, your desperation is showing. Do you need to spend some time in a safe place?


44 posted on 09/03/2022 8:29:21 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Dear Megan,

Phook U

Have a nice day


45 posted on 09/03/2022 8:29:39 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: oblomov

Meghan could purchase some ‘equipment’ and go ‘do’ herself.


46 posted on 09/03/2022 8:34:38 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So they wanted to get rid of him in Feb, 2016, despite the fact he won the election.

Who else on that podium during those primaries would’ve beaten hillary in Nov 2016?


47 posted on 09/03/2022 8:35:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I heard Dr. Phil had a nice gun collection.


48 posted on 09/03/2022 8:40:53 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I’d rather be forced to gaze at Hellen Thomas.


49 posted on 09/03/2022 8:41:10 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

50 posted on 09/03/2022 8:43:01 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
She isn't really a leftist, but neither she nor the leftists understand that their concerted attacks on Trump, including media manipulation, have led many Republicans who aren't really fans of Trump to rally to his defense anyway.

I like his policies, but have never been a fan of the guy himself. But their concerted attempts to sabotage his Presidency before it began, the Russia crap, and all the rest of it makes it more important to defy them than to abandon him.

51 posted on 09/03/2022 8:44:31 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Scared much?


52 posted on 09/03/2022 8:49:02 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

A fry short of a “Happy meal”.


53 posted on 09/03/2022 8:50:57 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: katie didit

“Some things are really pretty simple.

The Washington Post is an outlet for CIA propaganda.

I was far better off when the Trump administration was running things and the world was too.

I want Trump back. MAGA is here to stay.”

I could not agree more with that.


54 posted on 09/03/2022 8:52:34 AM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

” sensible Republicans have been secretly hoping Trump could have been kicked to the curb in 2016 but were unwilling to do the job themselves.”

Republicans that don’t do their job are “sensible”? Author must mean RINO’s.


55 posted on 09/03/2022 9:02:15 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yes because WAPO is so deeply concerned for Republicans’ well being.


56 posted on 09/03/2022 9:07:24 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

McCardle’s article appears to be short on facts and long on beltway sentiment.

The MSN story cites no examples of malfeasance, only unproven inferences—aside from ego. Doubtful the original WAPO story does either.

Shove it up your _ _ _, Meg.


57 posted on 09/03/2022 9:08:33 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“That’s a man, baby!”


58 posted on 09/03/2022 9:16:50 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It is time to bring it.

I am willing to die for this country. Are they?


59 posted on 09/03/2022 9:19:54 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: gundog

She looks happy...............


60 posted on 09/03/2022 9:24:10 AM PDT by heshtesh
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