The GOP purge starts.

[kpete]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/us/politics/trump-gop.html?_r=0

[Renew Deal]

1. Makes sense

[safeinOhio]

2. Remember the Reagan Democrats of the 1980s?

Now it'll be the Clinton Repubs, or better yet the Bernie Repubs.

[JHB]

20. More likely they'll park themselves at the No Labels clubhouse...

... with John Huntsman, Joe Lieberman, and other Republicans who don't want to use that name for a while.

[Chellee]

29. Jon Huntsman... not so much.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/huntsman-i-could-support-trump-219660

Moderate, thoughtful Republicans aren't exactly thick on the ground.

[Nitram]

3. Fair enough. They should leave en masse if they have any self-respect.

[redwitch]

4. Sadly none of them have any self respect.

I will be stunned if any of them leave.

[Nitram]

5. You're probably right.

They are, after all, Republicans.

[redwitch]

34. They are there for the benefits, not us.

Great retirement package! Great healthcare! Lobbyist gig after!

[Turbineguy]

26. And look for a real job?

OK well, there is Fox News and Hate Radio,

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

10. Sorry. If they had any self-respect

They wouldn't have been goopers to begin with.

[Hugin]

6. What's going to be amusing is watching them try to appoint a woman to any real position of power.

With Trump at the helm-ish.

That's when the real meltdown starts. Misogynistic Fools.

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. ReThugs will almost all fall into line and

Republican women voters will vote for him in November - it's simply who they are

[LibDemAlways]

8. Rachel was interviewing a Repuke woman who

was in some sort of an anti-Trump group and asked her if she had any advice for Hillary. I guess Rachel assumed that if she was no fan of Trump, she might be persuaded to vote Clinton. The woman's response was basically, no, she had no intention of helping the enemy and after all she is a Republican. When push comes to shove, they are Republicans first and will hold their noses and vote R.

[Soxfan58]

9. There husbands decide who they should vote for.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Most Republican women will vote for Trump

But, I bet he will get a lower percentage of Republican women than Bush, McCain or Romney. Even a few percent can make a difference in a swing state.

[lark]

33. My friend whose family have been Repug pols for generations in GA,

says she won't vote for Trump, no way. She also won't vote for Hillary or Bernie so is sitting this one out. I'm OK with that.

[NewJeffCT]

35. I will say

that it's still a long ways till the election. I've posted on here a lot, but I used to work with a guy who was a vocal Republican, and in the summer of 2004, he was answering his phone at work with "Vote for Kerry" and then would rant on about how terrible Bush was and so on and so forth. And, this is a guy who was on the phone a lot for work...

But, the day after election day, he confessed that he ended up voting for Bush because what he found out about Kerry made him too scared of Kerry. I'm sure it was something he heard off of Fox News, or Rush (he was a big reader of the Drudge Report, if I recall, as well)

[lark]

36. I hear you.

I really don't think she will vote for Trump though. She didn't vote for Rick Scott either time, so she's not the teapublican batshit crazy person that so many rwingers are.

[Hekate]

31. My belief is that a small but significant percentage will vote for Hillary....

....and that a larger percentage of GOP women will leave that spot blank and refuse to vote for Trump.

[Orrex]

11. If Texas swings blue in the wake of all this, then the GOP is dead.

And not soon enough!

[NewJeffCT]

14. The last Texas poll I saw

had Trump leading Clinton 39-37. If she picks somebody like Julian Castro for VP, does that make TX a swing state for this election?

[Botany]

17. Trump has pissed off both women and hispanics and that might put Texas into play.

n/t

[Orrex]

18. Yeah, that's how I've been thinking about it.

Time will tell...

[Botany]

19. Republicans cheat but you can't rig a landslide.

And the top of the Texas GOP food chain "the bush family" has already
said they are out of this election.


Just by pure demographics TX will turn blue soon.

[elljay]

28. Only if they vote

Latinos generally don't show up in large numbers. In the 2012 election, less than 50% of eligible Latinos voted. I'm not Latino so I can't speak for their motivations, but if Trump is not enough to persuade this community to vote......

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/06/03/inside-the-2012-latino-electorate/


http://www.pewhispanic.org/2014/10/16/latino-voters-and-the-2014-midterm-elections/

[AgadorSparticus]

38. This year is very different. Latinos will show up enmasse

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/trumps-rise-spurs-latino-immigrants-to-naturalize-to-vote-against-him.html?referer=

[Jim Beard]

39. I hope it will be different but it has difficult to get Hispanics to vote for years.

[AgadorSparticus]

40. Yes it had. But no one has ever threatened to round then up and deport them.

Even Asians are taking notice and will quietly vote in response to the racism. Can thank Jeb for including Asians to the discrimination festivities. So you can bet your bottom dollar, latinos woke up and are paying attention. Illegal immigrants who have been here for decades are worried about losing their homes and their lives. When you start using words like "rounding up. .." people listen. Those are strong words that hit home. Unlike emails and cartels and coups in Honduras. No one gives a shit about that because it is over there. It is harder to see the personal threat in that. So while DU is in a tizzy over Hillary, a lot of nonwhite people are freaking out over trump. That is why they are showing up enmasse to get their citizenship to vote. That's not just waiting in line at the dmv to get their voter ID card. That is a commitment to DOING something.

[Marr]

12. How is that different from what we're going to see right here? /nt

[bullsnarfle]

15. Will the last sane Republican to leave the party

please turn out the lights, thank you.

[Lucky Luciano]

16. I guess the light will remain on. nt

[PeoViejo]

21. Do the adults finally get to take back the GOP?

Jus' askin'.

[Hydra]

37. Which ones? The ones in diapers, or the ones molesting the pages? n/t

[ffr]

22. The idiot male Drumpf supporter I know is full on Drumpf

Would never vote for a woman. Don't think he has ever voted for a woman -- traditional values perhaps. Just divorced his wife, whose side of the family, just so happens to be liberal. Hillary is out of the question. The previous Clinton WH made him too wealthy I suppose.

Would never vote for a socialist. Faux Entertainment says that's a bad word. Heaven forbid he think for himself. So Bernie's out. Although, if Faux told him to vote for either before the election, I'd put money on it that he would.

He's just programmably bat shit crazy. I don't think he's thinking rationally much anymore.

[Fast Walker 52]

23. *sad trombone*

[Dawgs]

24. Sounds like a Hillary supporter on DU telling Bernie supporters to go away. n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Debbie Wasserman's crew should get the same message.

Anyone who can't support the eventual nominee should seek other employment.

It'll be a non-issue if Clinton is the nominee, since Wasserman's organization has been fully behind her.

[vlyons]

27. I'll bet a lot of GOP staffers will keep their jobs until they land another job

Either in the private sector, or work on a Senate, congressional, or state office campaign.

[SDJay]

30. The Only Person I Know

Who has come out in support of Drumpf is a close friend from our growing-up days. He's an alcoholic who won't get himself any help and he's a fake tough guy, just like Drumpf. I see Drumpf supporters through that prism, and it's not a pretty sight. Fake tough white guys just who are incredibly entitled and not even knowing why they are yelling about things.

[rocktivity]

32. That's what happens when your litter consists entirely of runts

and you pick the runt of the litter as your pick of the litter anyhow.


rocktivity