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For Republicans, Mounting Fears of Lasting Split
The New York Times ^ | January 9th, 2016 | By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTIN

Posted on 01/09/2016 12:39:15 PM PST by Mariner

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The party is in realignment and even Conservative Orthodoxy is being redefined.

Of course that's painful for the losers because it also causes uncertainty and pain in the Aristocracy and Media elite.

1 posted on 01/09/2016 12:39:15 PM PST by Mariner
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I have no fear of the change coming to the GOPee.

Let Yheb! try existing without a Base.

2 posted on 01/09/2016 12:41:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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My only fear is that they survive as a party. Lets hope they don’t.


3 posted on 01/09/2016 12:43:53 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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On just one issue alone, the realignment took place decades ago.

Not since Ronald Reagan has anyone stood up for the working man as much as he did. Same for the middle-class.

At the current time there’s only one candidate who talks about bringing jobs back. He is roundly ridiculed for it.

Donald Trump is redefining the party alright, but he’s defining it back toward’s it’s traditions, a supporter of a robust economy and ACTUAL (no smoke and mirrors) full employment.

Trump wants the middle-class to survive. Glad someone does.


4 posted on 01/09/2016 12:44:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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It doesn’t HAVE to be a lasting split IF the party
will support whoever is the nominee.

If they won’t, THEN they have split from the
base and will deserve what ever happens to them.


5 posted on 01/09/2016 12:46:32 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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“If Trump or Cruz wins the White House, then my side of the party has to re-evaluate who we are, what we stand for, and I’d be willing to do that,” Mr. Graham said. “But if Trump or Cruz loses the presidency, would their supporters re-evaluate their views on immigration and other issues that would grow the party? If they do that, we can come back together. If they don’t, the party probably splits in a permanent way.”


6 posted on 01/09/2016 12:47:04 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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GOP fearing something that has already happened. Just completely out of touch.

 

7 posted on 01/09/2016 12:47:13 PM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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I’m glad the NY Times is concerned about the Republican Party!


8 posted on 01/09/2016 12:47:54 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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Just like the socialists,communists and America haters that took over the Democrat party , us right wingers who love this country and respect the Constitution are better off trying to take over the Republican party rather then trying to establish a new 3rd political party. -tom


9 posted on 01/09/2016 12:47:55 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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The good news re the upcoming demise of the GOPe, continues to roll in.

Reminds us of reading and Le Mis about what preceded the French Revolution.

The criminals in control of the DNC and GOPe have to be having nightmares and daytime terrors.


10 posted on 01/09/2016 12:48:32 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe/RINOs/the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass!!!)
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...mistrust among working-class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests.

How DARE they!

11 posted on 01/09/2016 12:48:51 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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“Republicans are expressing a growing fear that the coming election could be shattering for the party, or reshape it in ways that leave it unrecognizable.”

We can only hope!!! I guess the author regards the GOPe as “Republicans.”


12 posted on 01/09/2016 12:49:30 PM PST by vette6387
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"My only fear is that they survive as a party. Lets hope they don’t."

First, the GOP must die.

Everything else comes after that.

13 posted on 01/09/2016 12:53:48 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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I’m glad the NY Times is concerned about the Republican Party!

Whenever, the NYSlimes/LA Slimes, Compost, Newsweak, Slime, ABCNNBCBS and other liberal controlled mediots say they are concerned, we know that they are really scared of what is happening to their dark/evil world.

14 posted on 01/09/2016 12:54:31 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe/RINOs/the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass!!!)
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If people would have listened to that simple logic 6 years ago once we all had our noses rubbed in it good and hard, we would not be in this mess today.


15 posted on 01/09/2016 12:55:49 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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nyt = left-wing disinformation


16 posted on 01/09/2016 12:56:21 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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Well, the GOPe could end it all by just signing a loyalty oath saying they will support whoever wins the Primary....

Just like they told us to do for years.


17 posted on 01/09/2016 12:56:26 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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Who cares if the dishonest wing (gop-e) withers and dissolves? They are a major problem.


18 posted on 01/09/2016 12:56:34 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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After the death of the GOP, we can choose to build a new party from the ashes, or we can form a new party from whole cloth.

But any notion this "faction" will get with the program of the GOPe should one of them win, is delusional. While they talk about coming over to our way of thinking (spineless bastards, still), if we win the White House, we don't waste our energy thinking about how to accommodate them.

And never will.

19 posted on 01/09/2016 12:58:37 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: T Ruth

Did you read the article?


20 posted on 01/09/2016 12:59:37 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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