[don-o]

Maybe, but did they really need to steal the elections when our choices were McCain and Romney?

I have heard alcoholics say that alcohol robbed me of everything. A wiser one, farther into recovery corrects that with "I gave all my stuff away."

Big difference.

It has been hard for me to accept what some propose...that the Repubs do not want to win. But, I am coming around.

[MrB]

They would rather lose to the democRats than win with a conservative candidate.

In other words, they oppose conservatives more than they oppose democRats.

[lentulusgracchus]

It has been hard for me to accept what some propose...that the Repubs do not want to win.

They get what they want from their having won office, by running what amounts to an extortion or "protection" business in Washington, where they hire out as "in-office" lobbyists carrying briefs for this one and that one. They protect, say, the National Association of Manufacturers, they work on their issues, and they take their money. Lots and lots of money, with (in the old days) millions left over in campaign funds that they could take with them.

Now they have to give it to the parties, but they still get to roll in it while they're in office and jetting out to Samoa to look at urgent social problems (yeah, right).