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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Nicole Wallace: "The Party died in this room tonight" [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)59. This election cycle appears to be a crucible for the GOP with two possible choices.
This election cycle appears to be a crucible for the GOP with two possible choices. Denounce and deny their extremist ideologies as the Democrats did with the Dixiecrats, or embrace them and become something other than the GOP.
The voter suppression, gerrymandering and radio branding has given them only so much wiggle room over the past 20 years in the face of changing demographics. They've played that hand (and played it effectively), and it worked in the short term, but now the time has come for the GOP to adapt and change dramatically, or simply wither on the vine as we watch the end of the Republicans and the birth of something new to take its place.
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The party may have died, but the biofilth left behind is still viable enough to win elections.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2016
#33
In the reddest of the red and the bluest of the blue states - your vote is important!
Salviati
Jul 2016
#47
Actually, to be fair, Wallace was so horrified by Palin that she didn't vote in 2008.
catbyte
Jul 2016
#52
I definitely agree with you. Way too many people here in the mindset 'it can't happen here'
RAFisher
Jul 2016
#48
I've been having the feeling she's been looking for a chance to exit the GOP ...
eppur_se_muova
Jul 2016
#10
Oddly enough, Rush Limbaugh singled her out for criticism on his show TODAY
Midnight Writer
Jul 2016
#45
Check it out. He said to audience "God bless you all" and "I love you" but NADA about USA.
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#44
Oh MAN, 63splitwindow! Anybody remember the middle-aged woman, during the Obama campaign,
calimary
Jul 2016
#56
This election cycle appears to be a crucible for the GOP with two possible choices.
LanternWaste
Jul 2016
#59