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DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:03 PM Sep 2012

I think Mitt Romney will be a national hero one day.

Not for being the first Mormon to be nominated for President, but for being the guy who so miserably fucked everything up that the Republican Party was swept out of office nationwide and the Tea Party was crushed.

Think of all those down-ticket votes.

Yes, for 47% of us he just might be a national hero someday.

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DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
2. I truly think he may be doing deep deep damage to the brand!
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:17 PM
Sep 2012

This may take a few elections to fix...he is alienating so many people...and on any given day, the tea party is timesing it by ten!

Laxman

(2,419 posts)
3. I would like to believe that...
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:30 PM
Sep 2012

but racism, xenophobia and the power of wealth will not go quietly into the night no matter how much he diminishes the republican brand. They will just pop up somewhere else. It won't take long for the rich to find a new way to manipulate their minions into voting against their own interests.

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
4. Agreed, but they are now busy throwing their knives at each other instead of at us
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:41 PM
Sep 2012

and those kind of wounds don't heal very well sometimes.

A party can splinter.

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
5. I just want to see the Republican party shrunk to the size where it fits in a bath tub and
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:43 PM
Sep 2012

then drowned in the bath tub!!

If Mittens helps that happen faster, all the better!!

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