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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Did he mean resurrected?
And so do I. However, Donald Trump didn’t kill it, there’s a long list of credits for that honor: George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Haley Barbour, Karl Rove, John McCain, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Trent Lott, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, etc.
“And, for their current contributions to the death of the loyal opposition, top honors go to Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Reince Priebus.” As a muslim might say, “Piss be unto them!”
RIP GOPe
The GOP started gay marriage, RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE,
pushed ObamaTRADE, and through McCain started ISIS,
the IRS attacks, and of course, the Benghazi coverup
by Issa and Gowdy.
The GOP is nothing but scum.
Even the DNC and ISIS are more honest.
I sure hope the Rep party of F N RINOs are destroyed forever! After that budget they laid at the feet of emperor obummer most in the rep party can all go to hell and I hope they do!
If Trump becomes president he needs to spell out to the Republican cowards who survive their primaries that Bhoener, McConnel, Ryan, Graham, and any other Republicans who abetted the Demonrat Party are stripped of leadership positions, are not to be invited to GOP events, are not to be donated to by other pols, and as consultants are not to be talked to.
This should be true of their staff members as well If these traitors have been primaries out or they have quit the be veryone on their staffs need to be let go of and never rehired.
yea I bet Trump will bring up even recent accusations of Bill Clinton hanging out with the millionaire or billionaire pedophile..
One of Obama’s key stooges at WP tells us about the GOP.
Jeb might fall for it
and we will celebrate it every day!!
Let’s hope the Republican Party “can never be the same”.
I’m countin’ on it!
Hey, that's personal!!
Not a 'liberal' bone in bassmanEr's body! :-)
Eugene Robinson cries me a river of crocodile tears ...
His crocodile tears are more amusing than alarming.
“2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump”
Like that’s a bad thing. Actually, he destroyed the GOPe, along with Ted.
I’m with you, but what makes you think the American people aren’t with Mr. Bill and Mrs. Bill?
All that list has been killing us for a long time, and there are many more names we could include, but the American people would be too uninformed to know them.
Fixed it.
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