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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Everything else comes after that.
Would the end of the GOP be a bad thing?
I’m sure that if some of these people had been around in the 1850s, they’d be bemoaning the end of the Whigs.
As far as I can tell, it died after Reagan.
I’m not sure it much matters what follows in the wake of the GOP. The country itself is really lost. I wonder what will follow in its wake.
The Establishment leadership got so arrogant, that they precipitated their own demise.
The 2 deadlies....
They only care about money
They hated conservatives.
My thoughts too . . . and that is suppose to be a BAD thing?
RNC has not represented me in a LONG TIME.
RINO’s have taken over the party.
He's the man with a gas can and matches.
The GOPe should go the way of the dinosaurs.
GOPe... RIP
And good riddance!
In other words its all good.
Why is this so hard for the 'panties in wad' crowd to understand? The GOP is worse than worthless. Its a cortisone shot to a torn meniscus - its only purpose is to relieve pain and in doing so make even greater damage possible.
Best News I've heard in a long time.
Most of us true conservatives have come to hate the GOP
And Hillary does mean the end of the Demoncraps.
If the Post truly believes this, then why isn’t it cheering him on?
The Post would endorse Jeffery Dalmer as the Dem candidate over any Republican. If he’s going to destroy the GOP, they should be ecstatic.
The WaPo composters would like to see the end of the GOP but for different reasons than we conservatives who would like to take it back where it belongs. Out with the old, in with the bold.
Quite a nice summary of today's Democrat Party, as well. :)
That i can agree with.
If the GOP is being lead by the likes of George Will, it’s well past time to kill it.
Good!
Yes, GOP, hurry up and DIE!
What are you FOR..?
DIE, you dirty, mandible-clicking cockroach....
What ever it is will be Nativist and Nationalist.
Let's hope it ALSO nurtures the Constitution.
Clearly, this writer wants the GOP to continue in its present form, right down to following the left’s suggestion of nominating jeb bush to be the latest mediocrity to usher in eight more years of democrat rule.
Conservatives didn’t believe the Wall Street banks and hedge funds were too big to fail, nor do we believe the GOP, this establishment of ancient elitists, is too big to die. The disempowerment of wheezing geriatric geeze-bags like mccain, graham, hatch and their peers can only be a good thing.
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