Posted on 08/27/2015 9:25:05 AM PDT by Mariner
Lindsay Graham, as part of the taunt-war he’s having with Donald Trump, says that if Trump wins the GOP nomination, it will mean the end of the Republican Party. He’s right, but Trump means the end of the Republican Party even if he doesn’t get the nomination.
I wrote a few weeks ago that Trump represents the Jump the Shark moment of the party. The GOP has been a rickety, unsustainable contraption of policy prescriptions that don’t add up, don’t really represent the coalition’s actual members, and is based on a backward-looking set of views appealing to an ever-shrinking demographic. It has been held together this long with an ever-more-obfuscatory confabulation of misdirection, packaged in buzzwords and amped with anger. It was overdue to come unglued.
Trump is a disruptor of the most lethal sort. His blunt language is shattering the brittle framework of GOP nostrums that forever promise things they don’t deliver. He is revealing the basic discordance between party leaders and rank and file. He is like the rogue catalyst that breaks one bond, then moves on to break the next and the next. There’s no easy way to stop this, though the party establishment is frantically trying to think of one.
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Actually, I was serious. It is much closer than most think. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are flooding into Europe. Daniel 11:40-42.
The one thing that Bush did well, was to illustrate how impossible it is to preserve a people, while trying to be always "politically correct." Your rules of engagement rule out the possibility of success.
Well put my FRiend. We are good.
I have no desire to get rid of the Republican Party, I would just like to see new leadership in that party, for instance, Ted Cruz.
The problem that American politics has is career politicians. Our system of government was not designed to have career politicians instead we were supposed to have people who would volunteer to take a little time away from their work and lead the government.
I would rather see a new, revitalized, conservative Republican Party with term limits than I would see a third-party. I realize that the Republican Party came about as a third-party but I have no desire for us to go through that again. The last time we did that we had a civil war.
Funny, a lib from the Compost telling us what we need to do to win. Br’er rabbit moment!!
there ... fixed it
We could consider trying to fool these dirt bag invaders and just state that the whole border is mined.
Because CRUZ is the Only one that will OR can FIX America...
Running for President this cycle..
TED CRUZ is what Donald Trump is imitating... but WON’T or can’t do what he says he will.. that is (( IF )) he will not do the complete OPPOSITE of what he says while in Office ... NO ONE and I mean NO ONE knows..
Donald Trump is a humongous leap into BLUE..
A tooth under a pillow for conservatives..
A wish made throwing a quarter into the Wishing Well..
Catholics crossing themselves to be saved from Vampires..
Protestants buying prayer cloths..
Buddists writing prayers on paper to a robot God..
Literally NO ONE KNOWS what Donald Trump Will actually DO...
Ted Cruz we do know what he DOES, and is Doing, and Has Done..
DONALD TRUMP is one earth shaking GAMBLE...
Like trying to WIN at Roulette.. when everyone knows the HOUSE ALWAYS WINS...
Donald TRUMP.... is the ultimate LOTTERY TICKET...
Ted Cruz is NOT... pretty much a sure thing..
Hence, any intelligent Conservative, who is still willing to talk to one.
I have lately been pointing out, how the Left has employed the most obvious "bait & switch" tactic, with respect to the use of the term "racist." It started out, being applied not to people who wanted to preserve their heritage, but to those who did nasty, cruel or mean-spirited things to others, solely based on their race. Naturally, most people accepted that usage as a legitimate term of opprobrium.
But then the morphing started, and rapidly accelerated. Today, it is being systematically applied to anyone who honors his lineage, his kith & kin, and their struggles and achievements through many, purpose driven generations. In short, it has become a bludgeon against actual virtue, against people who honor the Fifth Commandment--and understand its functional purpose, in the upward pursuits of decent people.
We elected the GOPe in two major Congressional wins and what did we get?
Was ObamaCare repealed? No.
Was Amnesty stopped? No.
We gave them big wins and they gave us nothing.
Destroy the Republican party and rebuild it from the ground up.
Get rid of whoever gave money to Democrat operatives in Mississippi to defeat the conservative in that Senate race first of all.
Stop giving money to Log Cabin Republicans like Lindsey Graham.
Boot McCain into retirement.
Clean house. Clear the deck.
Be a REAL second party.
Ya gotta love it!
Unfortunately, the Repub party has many former democrats who were quite liberal but unable to stomach the stench and insanity of the Rats. We’re kind of stuck with them. That’s why the two party system is broken. We can’t achieve representation of our views.
I don’t give a damn about the GOP or the Rats, I care about working and middle class Americans and neither the GOP or the Rats give a damn about us. Both parties lie, steal and cheat. FU GOP, FU Rats. Go Trummp!
Post 35. Excellent.
Again, we cannot allow those who think it is "sophisticated" or "enlightened," to be "politically correct," to continue to define the Party. Trump & Cruz get it. The modern equivalent of Hans Christian Andersen's courtiers in the "Emperor's New Clothes," simply do not.
Trump is a symptom of the demise of the GOP, not the cause. What all the million dollar consultants fail to see, but the lowly bloggers get perfectly is that the base despises the leadership to the point it is willing to accept a candidate of questionable ideology as long as he is willing to destroy the powers that be.
...and that’s a bad thing because?
Rather, the GOPe must die.
God I hope so!
If the Post truly believes this, then why isn’t it cheering him on?*
Because a conservative party would take its place?
Tom Toles is a left-wing cartoonist. He never wishes the Republican Party well.
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