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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 07:17 PM Dec 2017

Target the GOP vote.

We all know that the GOP is great at mobilizing their voters. This is how they stay in power. They motivate them with fear. Trump will almost certainly try to start a war complete with manufactured Gulf of Tonkin this year. This will do for the GOP what 9/11 and the rush to Iraq war did for Bush in 2002–or so they are promising their donors.

However, this year we have a chance to make those loyal foot soldiers, the lifelong Republicans stay home in protest. We will do this by reminding them of the ways Trump fails to live up to Soccer Mom values. And Veterans values. And old folks values.

Trump has the crazies in his pocket. No matter what he does they will cheer him the way they would cheer an over the top wrestler.

However, people who have voted Republican out of self interest may be less than thrilled at the Treason, the Deficit, the cuts to their Medicare and Social Security and most of all their creeping sense that the GOP no longer listens to them or cares about them.

Staying home as a protest vote is not something the lifelong Republican does often. However, I think we could see it happen next fall.

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Target the GOP vote. (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Dec 2017 OP
they don't care. ONLY IF A DEMOCRAT TRIES TO REVERSE CLASS WARFARE. pansypoo53219 Dec 2017 #1
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