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2016 Postmortem

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DonViejo

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Sat Jul 30, 2016, 08:58 AM Jul 2016

The GOP is becoming the party of exclusion. Who wants to be a part of that? By Kathleen Parker [View all]

PHILADELPHIA

A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: “I’m sorry,” she said, “I’m a Democrat.” Another Republican friend called after President Obama spoke Wednesday night: “I’m sorry,” he said, “I’m a Democrat.”

No apologies necessary. But thanks surely go to Donald Trump and his spineless Republican enablers. The party of Lincoln, a sometimes laughable bragging point for diehards whose racial attitudes survived the Civil War intact, is long gone. Its dissolution began at least with Richard Nixon, who embraced a Southern strategy that pandered to racists and set the course for today’s GOP.

The party of angry men and patient women tried to add a little sugar and spice, plunging itself ever lower on the curve when it embraced a cute little winkin’, blinkin’ and noddin’ gal-gov from Alaska as vice-presidential running mate to John McCain — and a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Next came the tea party movement, to which Sarah Palin briefly attached her Winnebago, followed by the government shutdown, and culminating with the glittering, twittering Tower of Trump.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conservative-but-not-republican/2016/07/29/a8941a8c-55cf-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html

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Kathleen Parker too? greatauntoftriplets Jul 2016 #1
The list of conservative columnists abandoning the GOP's Presidential candidate.... DonViejo Jul 2016 #3
David Brooks and George Will don't surprise me. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2016 #4
ikr? mopinko Jul 2016 #6
They're showing signs of intelligence! greatauntoftriplets Jul 2016 #7
a tiny flicker of a conscience? mopinko Jul 2016 #8
Sadly, it probably won't. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2016 #9
See how important our DNC was/is in actually being heard.. Cha Jul 2016 #2
Wasn't she a speech writer lillypaddle Jul 2016 #5
I wonder if house/senate repubs have even considered duncang Jul 2016 #10
The first half was great Wednesdays Jul 2016 #11
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2016 #12
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