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EarlG

(21,942 posts)
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 11:07 AM Oct 2016

Pic Of The Moment: If The GOP Establishment Thinks Their Nightmare Is Over On Election Day...



Don't worry everyone, Trump is just an aberration within the GOP!

He’s With Her: Inside Paul Ryan’s Months-Long Campaign to Elect Hillary Clinton President (Warning: Breitbart)


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Pic Of The Moment: If The GOP Establishment Thinks Their Nightmare Is Over On Election Day... (Original Post) EarlG Oct 2016 OP
Trump is their voice after all. forest444 Oct 2016 #1
If they want to keep Trump around better fund him. gordianot Oct 2016 #2
K&R Gothmog Oct 2016 #3
Yeah, this dumpster fire will keep burning after Nov 8th. progressoid Oct 2016 #4
this is so.... irisblue Oct 2016 #5
Both are just as yuiyoshida Oct 2016 #6
True, but it's still scary Bradical79 Oct 2016 #13
Here's a case where "They're the Same" IS basically true. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2016 #7
This is the monster they created, and now he's runninng loose DFW Oct 2016 #8
A thing of beauty lame54 Oct 2016 #11
Trump is not an aberration. Still In Wisconsin Oct 2016 #12
the irony? The Establishment GOP will look to Hillary to save them. nt msanthrope Oct 2016 #15
Ultimate... czarjak Oct 2016 #17
I do believe they've reached Critical Mass ... GeorgeGist Oct 2016 #18
Let me be clear about my reaction: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! blm Oct 2016 #19
That made me literally laugh out loud nt ProfessorPlum Oct 2016 #22
Refresh my memory. Littlered9560 Oct 2016 #20
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gordianot

(15,237 posts)
2. If they want to keep Trump around better fund him.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 11:23 AM
Oct 2016

Go to his expensive hotels, play at his golf courses, get rich. Also they can help out Trump by being willing to eat costs for his fabulous buildings donate labor, materials, and goods. On Mayday they could celebrate the rites of Spring in Pagan orgies.

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
13. True, but it's still scary
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 01:30 PM
Oct 2016

I'd feel a bit better if they'd choose the guy who much less likely to be a child rapist, and hasn't bragged about sexual assault. I'm bothered how many people on the other side are totally okay with that.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
7. Here's a case where "They're the Same" IS basically true.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 12:16 PM
Oct 2016

Paul Ayn Rand, Jr. is just a graduate of Miss Manners' School of Republican Pretense.

DFW

(54,330 posts)
8. This is the monster they created, and now he's runninng loose
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 12:39 PM
Oct 2016

Boris Karloff couldn't have played the role better.

Nixon brought Roger Ailes on board, and gave him his (im-)moral compass, and, two decades later, Rupert Murdoch gave him unlimited funds with which to accomplish the goal. Twenty years after the creation of Fox "News" and the surging proliferation of National Hate Radio, the Republican Party is no longer the party epitomized by Dwight Eisenhower, Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockefeller, Jake Javits or even Gerry Ford. Now, it is the party of Louie Gohmert, Paul LePage, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, Joni Ernst, Tom Cotton, and, yes, Donald Trump.

Dimwitted demagogues, oafs and crooks, with considerable overlapping--that is what they have become, and apparently two thirds of their rank and file thinks it's wonderful.

Maybe twenty years of a damage control channel called "Fox Remorse" could repair some of the mental rabies with which they have infected their masses, but not only do I doubt it, I can't imagine why anyone left in that party would be in the slightest interested. If an extremist like Paul Ryan can seem "reasonable" by comparison to the rest of his party, he's probably thinking he'll be on top of things if he survives, and will leave behind nothing but an unenviable, worthless political wasteland if he doesn't.

If that's how he sees it, he won't hear any contradiction from me.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
12. Trump is not an aberration.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 01:29 PM
Oct 2016

Trump is simply the outward manifestation of what the Republican base believes in their hearts.

 

Littlered9560

(72 posts)
20. Refresh my memory.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:31 PM
Oct 2016

Wasn't he the far right wing favorite that replaced the less far right leader? Who is next?

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