How Boehner, McDonnell, Ryan and the GOPe destroyed the Republican party.
No!!! Because if they admit that, then it's a small step to admitting [gasp!] that the loss of the last two Presidential elections wasn't the conservatives' fault.
Posted on 12/29/2015 11:16:25 AM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
History will remember 2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump. An entity called the GOP will survive — but can never be the same.
Am I overstating Trump's impact, given that not a single vote has been cast? Hardly. I'm not sure it's possible to exaggerate how the Trump phenomenon has torn the party apart, revealing a chasm between establishment and base that is far too wide to bridge with stale Reagan-era rhetoric. Can you picture the Trump legions meekly falling in line behind Jeb Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.)? I can't either.
Trump didn't blow up the party on his own. He had help from a field of presidential contenders that was touted as deep and talented but proved shallow and wanting. Bush raised shock-and-awe money but turns out to lack his father and brother's skill at performing on the national stage; he seems to want to be crowned, not elected. Rubio is like the teacher's pet who speaks eloquently in class but doesn't do his homework. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was slow off the mark, perhaps having been stuck in traffic on the George Washington Bridge.
Who else would be acceptable to the GOP establishment?...
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Exactly! Trump is going where no RINO would dare go. Bring it on Clintoons, no more bowing to your sorry asses.
Most of the low info & millennial voters have no idea what a sleaze Bubba is..not that it would matter much but it’s good thing Trump is shining a light on the corrupt drifters.
What Trump has done is call out the establishment on years of dishonest rhetoric. Progressives often asked why so many working-class whites went against their own economic interests by supporting the GOP. The answer is that Republicans appealed to these voters on cultural grounds, subtly exploiting their resentments and fears.
BS
Not on cultural grounds, but a promise to restore the Republic and Rule of Law. Not so subtle Race Card being played here.
The nation`s demographics are changing, with a rapidly growing Latino population, and an African American in the White House.
BS
What does a half black half white in the White House have to do with demographics. A Guiness record string of demonstrable lies put him there.
The Republican Party promised, with nods, winks and dog-whistle toots, to change all of this and make everything the way it used to be. In practice, however, party leaders were compelled to deal with the world as it actually is.
BS
No party leaders sold out voters and joined Democrats in the Washington Cartel to enrich themselves and their donors over the health and wellbeing of the citizenry.
Similarly, many leading Republicans were careful not to offend the `birthers` who denied Obama`s legitimacy as president. An unabashed birther long before he was a candidate, Trump still refuses to say whether he accepts the proven fact that Obama was born in the United States.
BS
Hillery called into question Obama`s birth during 2008 campaign before Trump ever mentioned it. There is no proof Obama was born in the US.
Don`t let the big words fool you (`Pax` really?). Eugene Robinson is nothing more than a take down artist with a strong willingness to lie with the best of them looking for a round table chair on a major news network.
“FK the GOP establishment. After the Ryan defection I will NEVER vote or contribute to an establishment member again. I’ll spend the money on guns and ammo”
Welcome.
I wonder if there’s critical mass for a second party yet.
The republican majority that we worked so hard to create in the house and senate has stabbed us in the back over and over again and has yet to pass a single bill that did not have 90% or greater democrat support and was not enthusiastically signed by obunghole, and now they are pulling out all the stops to sink Cruz and Trump to push Yebbie. I say Fuqum to Hell!!!
Bingo!
You got THAT right!
Washington Compost.
“An entity called the GOP will survive but can never be the same.”
It will be a fringe minority party that will be supported by the relatively small number of people who are 100% onboard with the Chamber of (Crony) Commerce program.
Trump didn’t create the rift, he simply revealed it.
Trump did not destroy or tear apart the GOP. The GOP-e tore the party apart by deciding to join with the DemocRATS.
These lying DemocRATS will say anything to smear Trump.
In either event, the GOP we once knew is irredeemably a thing of the past.....And this is bad, how?
Eugene, You missed the boat when it sailed. Trump has only pointed out what a bunch of dufuses the rinos are, they destroyed themselves long before Trump started to campaign. In fact, my wife and I “dumped” the reps since they no longer represent conservative Americans, they only represent themselves.
E. Robinson like any other Tom, Dick, or Harry in the DC zoo. When the public at last solves the puzzle of what GOP winos are attempting to do, Eugene will be out of a job just like the rest of the DC criminals. Even the ‘Robinson’ name will be of no help to him. Chances are she, too, would be incarcerated along with her mate. EB, behind bars, still making his magic with his magical finger.
WaPo whine.
The eGOP has imploded of its own weight .. riddled by corruption, indifference, bait&switch, bleat and squawk..
Good riddance.. Let a new party and leaders arise from its ashes.. before the eGOP torches us all by its own incompetence.
Yep. You're counting chickens before they're hatched.
2016 will be the telling year.
How Boehner, McDonnell, Ryan and the GOPe destroyed the Republican party.
Isn't that sensitive of them?
“Eugene Robinson is a dickwad!”
Eugene Robinson is a BLACK dickwad! I’m sure he’s worried to death about the prospect.
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