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NanceGreggs

(27,835 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 05:46 AM Jul 2022

Good Luck With That, Republicans

You have to keep selling the Big Lie, even though you all know it IS a big lie.

You have to keep embracing the crazies - MTG, Boebert, et al - despite knowing that they make your party look like a collection of lunatics.

You have to convince your voters that a ten-year-old child being forced to give birth to her rapist's baby is actually a good thing.

You have to promote the idea that children being massacred in their classrooms is a small price to pay for upholding the rights of "law-abiding citizens" who turn out to be not-so-law-abiding after-the-fact.

You have to explain how making it more difficult to vote is more in keeping with democracy than allowing all voices to be heard.

You have to explain why your fellow Republicans refuse to testify before the J-6 Committee if, as they claim, they did nothing illegal.

And now you have to explain why a man who attempted to overthrow the government he swore to protect should be re-elected in order to keep him from going to prison for deliberately failing to protect the government he attempted to overthrow.

Good luck with that - good luck with all of that.

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aggiesal

(10,801 posts)
3. Republicans don't care ...
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 06:21 AM
Jul 2022

They will do all that when they campaign because they're
speaking to those that believe everything you listed.

They only care about 2 things
1) Owning the libs
2) POWER!

NanceGreggs

(27,835 posts)
5. Not everyone 'believes' ...
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 06:32 AM
Jul 2022

... what Republican politicians want them to believe.

Not all GOP voters are Trump-humping MAGAts - and those who aren't won't be impressed with the inane/insane rhetoric the GOP is now being forced to spew.

Arkansas Granny

(32,265 posts)
8. They may not believe, but they will still vote for Republicans over Democrats.
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 06:54 AM
Jul 2022

The best we can hope for is that some won't vote at all and that Democrats turn out in droves.

aggiesal

(10,801 posts)
21. But they would still vote for Pendejo45 ...
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 11:18 AM
Jul 2022

if he's the (R) candidate for President in 2024 and the (R)'s in congress would fall in lockstep behind Pendejo45.

rainy

(6,321 posts)
4. They Gerrymandered districts so tight that there is no
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 06:28 AM
Jul 2022

competition leaving the crazies, the mega MAGA’S being elected, or in the past; tea party members. They created this hell congress and now we are all stuck with what that have done. So many things are so wrong with our rules of congress.

MiHale

(13,032 posts)
6. The office of president should not ...
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 06:46 AM
Jul 2022

be treated as sanctuary. That is lunacy, it must be stopped.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
10. Nance, voters want a reason to vote against Republicans, they only need to look at recent polls.
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 07:24 AM
Jul 2022

Most poll show that 80-90% of Republicans still support Trump and Trump policies at all levels, local, state, and national.
It is horrifying that in battleground states these monsters will be elected to positions of power over our lives.

LET THAT SINK IN, PEOPLE WHO VOTE! Burning books more in favor than reading.

Ferrets are Cool

(22,956 posts)
11. But, in most cases, they don't have to do any of these things...
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 07:32 AM
Jul 2022

ALL they must do is have an R behind their names.
At least that is the truth down here in the deep south.

Novara

(6,115 posts)
13. What they need is one really good viable challenger
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 07:49 AM
Jul 2022

And then let's see how many of them support the orange fuck over a "rational" republican. I firmly believe that a majority of republicans want their party back but will go along and vote for the crazies because that's all the party offers.

They're all too cowardly to challenge the fuck. Are they ALL legally compromised? Why the hell are they so afraid of him? I understand fear or revenge but is there no one who would brave that? Or are they all criminally corrupt and afraid he'd expose them?

IronLionZion

(51,267 posts)
15. It's unfortunately working for them in too many elections
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 08:43 AM
Jul 2022

their voters are dumb and deplorable. They don't care about any of that. They're convinced Dems are causing high prices for gas and groceries.

kentuck

(115,406 posts)
16. Bravo!
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 08:47 AM
Jul 2022

The Republicans are obstructing the truth, obstructing the law, and deceiving the American people on everything you mentioned in your post.

They are criminal.

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
17. Quoting, aggiesal #3: "..republicans don't care"..Stuart quote, "They only care about themselves."
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 08:48 AM
Jul 2022

...Proof: 1. Who proposed and passed "Social Security"?
.............2. Who proposed and passed ."medicare?
.............3. Who proposed and passed "Affordable Care Act"?

..more proof, "Who proposed and passed: tax cuts for the rich? (some used to pay 90% now it's far less
another:........ "Who reduced taxes on corporations?


...........end of discussion

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