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Zorro

(16,470 posts) Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:34 PM Nov 3

The GOP Obituary

The Republican Party is Dead.

Take my word for it, as a lifetime conservative and registered Republican until 2016 when I left the party and registered instead as an Independent.

The old GOP is dead.

The real RINOs are all of these pretend Republicans today who have hijacked my former party where lies, fraud and immorality is not only tolerated but celebrated; lifted up to be candidate for the highest office in the nation. Someone who literally stole from a charity for children's cancer.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/3/2282324/-The-GOP-Obituary

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The GOP Obituary (Original Post) Zorro Nov 3 OP

Are thoughts and prayers appropriate? Or should we just get over it? jls4561 Nov 3 #1

Thoughts and prayers, exactly. usonian Nov 4 #5

I kind of like Tots and Pears mchill Nov 4 #6

We all figured this out in 2000, OAITW r.2.0 Nov 3 #2

newsflash Skittles Nov 3 #3

To be honest Missmellyminx Nov 4 #4

Exactly. It has been a party of lies since Eisenhower. SunSeeker Nov 4 #7

In 2015 markodochartaigh Nov 4 #8

Maybe there's enough democracy in the Democratic Party Frasier Balzov Nov 4 #9

we're not just one party short Skittles Nov 4 #10

jls4561

(1,600 posts)

1. Are thoughts and prayers appropriate? Or should we just get over it?

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:35 PM

Nov 3

usonian

(14,600 posts)

5. Thoughts and prayers, exactly.

Reply to jls4561 (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 01:03 AM

Nov 4

Guess who?

mchill

(1,099 posts)

6. I kind of like Tots and Pears

Reply to usonian (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 02:00 AM

Nov 4

OAITW r.2.0

(28,656 posts)

2. We all figured this out in 2000,

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:36 PM

Nov 3

The gangrene was already apparent then.

Skittles

(160,304 posts)

3. newsflash

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:42 PM

Nov 3

THE "OLD GOP" SUCKED TOO

Missmellyminx

(13 posts)

4. To be honest

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 12:58 AM

Nov 4

That party hasn't been worth a damn since Eisenhower

SunSeeker

(54,061 posts)

7. Exactly. It has been a party of lies since Eisenhower.

Reply to Missmellyminx (Reply #4)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 02:15 AM

Nov 4

Some Republicans have finally confessed, like former consultant for Bush and Romney, Stuart Stevens, did in his book, It Was All a Lie. “All of these immutable truths turned out to be marketing slogans. None of it meant anything. I was the guy working for Bernie Madoff who actually thought we were really smart and just crushing the market.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/02/it-was-all-a-lie-review-trump-republican-party

markodochartaigh

(2,221 posts)

8. In 2015

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 02:35 AM

Nov 4

the Republicans put party before country and chose an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy to head their party because they realized that they could not win without him. They understood what they were doing. They were considering having a brokered convention to choose another candidate. Some of the senior Republican politicians refused to support Trump. For a democracy to be viable there must be at least two viable parties committed to democracy. The US is one party short. Unless the corporate 20% of Republicans can take control from the authoritarian 80%, or develop a viable new party committed to democracy, democracy in the US will be one election away from failure.

Frasier Balzov

(3,571 posts)

9. Maybe there's enough democracy in the Democratic Party

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 03:03 AM

Nov 4

to cover the shortfall.

Skittles

(160,304 posts)

10. we're not just one party short

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 06:28 AM

Nov 4

the antiquated Electoral College has given that party two nitwit presidents in recent history, and they have turned the Supreme Court into an extension of the GOP - so we are ALREADY failing

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