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CrispyQ

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9. I mostly agree with the exception that they've been courting the racists, zealots, & loons

Reply to fightforfreedom (Original post)

Sun Feb 19, 2023, 11:49 AM

Feb 2023

for decades & at the same time, drifted to the right with every election as they all tried to out-conservative each other. They lost control to the extremists when they let Sarah Palin bring her racist rhetoric to the national stage & give the tea party a national voice. They can't win without the losers & now the genie is out of the bottle.

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The GOP have a structural problem. It became chronic with the rise of Tea Party. [View all] fightforfreedom Feb 2023 OP

it was the days of st ronnie that they embraced lying as a strategy. mopinko Feb 2023 #1

You have to admit, The combination of the Tea Party, Fox News, Internet. made it much worse. fightforfreedom Feb 2023 #2

i find the lying more important than what the lies are about. mopinko Feb 2023 #3

I put the turning point as the tag-team of Newt & Rush JHB Feb 2023 #6

While he was awful, I think the real shift happened because of Gingrich tinrobot Feb 2023 #13

If Democrats vote we will win. We must mobilize every voter in OrlandoDem2 Feb 2023 #4

They praised the GOP court letting dark money into elections Johonny Feb 2023 #5

And that explains why they need to suppress the vote, gerrymander, then claim stolen elections when OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2023 #7

I believe extremism is their strategy right now. Pobeka Feb 2023 #8

I know I wouldn't move to a red state. CrispyQ Feb 2023 #10

Thanks. Pobeka Feb 2023 #12

I mostly agree with the exception that they've been courting the racists, zealots, & loons CrispyQ Feb 2023 #9

This is not necessarily good news for Democrats DFW Feb 2023 #11

Mitt Romney has the distinction of being the first presidential candidate... old as dirt Feb 2023 #14

GOP lies go back much further than the Tea Party or even Reagan, thucythucy Feb 2023 #15