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Aussie105

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11. The GQP has a tradition of seeking power above all else.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 04:57 PM

Feb 2021

They cannot let go of it, the pursuit of personal power, a feeling that they have an entitlement to the best the USA has to offer, and damn those not in their sphere of influence.

Power. Real or perceived, it is their one reason for existence.

Their one reason for clinging onto their poster boy, DJT, Failed#45.

Instead of it being a political party, it is a club where members give each other permission to seek personal power over everything else.

It is an Evil Church, a Cult, in other words. Not a political party.

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Stop trying to save the GOP. It's hopeless. - by Jennifer Rubin [View all] DonViejo Feb 2021 OP

It's all the GOP , every one of them. Pantagruel Feb 2021 #1

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Clearly, instigating a riot that results in the death and injury.... TheRealNorth Feb 2021 #3

There is nothing worth saving with today's GOP dlk Feb 2021 #4

I cannot name a good Republican president since Eisenhower. Lonestarblue Feb 2021 #5

"Stir up hatred, take rights away from women, minorities robbob Feb 2021 #13

GQP. Greedy Qooqy Party. RepubliQons. Qonservatives. Let them keep tRump. He is a spent force Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #6

She doesn't realize it raising2moredems Feb 2021 #14

January exception? I call BS WestMichRad Feb 2021 #7

KnR Hekate Feb 2021 #8

Someday bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #9

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2021 #10

The GQP has a tradition of seeking power above all else. Aussie105 Feb 2021 #11

Trump has no soul and they are Zombies looking to make more Zombies. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #12

I don't want to "save" the GOP I just fear that, like the cockroach, they will survive any crisis to Nitram Feb 2021 #15

Putin smiles. badboy67 Feb 2021 #16

"...immune to facts and bereft of decency... " is a wonderful turn of phrase. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #17

It's a Qult durablend Feb 2021 #18