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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Strategist:'I am standing at my kitchen counter sobbing because of messages being driven at DNC'
Richard A. "Rich" Galen is a columnist and Republican strategist and former press-secretary to Vice President Dan Quayle and Speaker of the House Newt GingrichHow can it be that I am standing at my kitchen counter sobbing because of the messages being driven at the DNC? Where has the GOP gone?
https://twitter.com/richgalen/status/758839042829983744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-agree-dnc-was-disaster-for-gop
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Or at least consider an entirely different line of work.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)His party is dead after experiencing a long terminal illness. Perhaps he will reach acceptance during that process.
Warpy
(111,261 posts)when they threw all the rule books out during Nixon's campaign and then started to make deals with devils to grab power.
Don't tell me you're surprised by what happened when you decided not to play by accepted rules for 40 years and then courted the absolute worst people in this country as useful idiots.
You got just what you always wanted, doofus, now enjoy the result.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)thinking that they can court The Crazies, and they'll fall I live.
NEWS FLASH: The Enemy of your Enemy doesn't like you either; they're just willing to use you to get what they want, but you're next.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)An inevitable breakdown in their cognitive dissonance, recognizing who their party serves vs. hurts, combined with the awful realization they've put party ahead of priciple.
Here's the Boehner breakdown-
Raster
(20,998 posts)...reading a fast-food menu, the electric bill, a dog food commercial on television. It didn't take much.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)n/w
Wednesdays
(17,374 posts)He never resigned over a dog food commercial.
deminks
(11,014 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Because Faux or the likes of Limpballs didn't TELL them to see it coming. You obviously overlook the fact that we're talking about people who don't/can't think for themselves, and favor being TOLD what to think.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)that insulted women, minorities, LGBTQ, differently-abled, anyone of a religion not their own (or those having none at all), those who are poor despite trying to get ahead, who are being blocked every step of the way by GOP policies, and any non-European descended immigrants, notably those who were POC. And rather than calling out the Glenn BecKKKs or Rushbo the Hutts, or Savage Wieners for trying to "Make America White Again", they double-down defended the vomitous spew, helping the hate to grow and fester among their followers, and leading to the hulking wreck of a candidate and RNC convention that we saw.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)or at least the repugs from the past.
What horse shit.
No repug has stood for people in any way before or since Eisenhower, a man whose name must not be spoken.
Man they live in a fantasy world.
Wednesdays
(17,374 posts)Although the mainstream GOP never really accepted TR as one of theirs, and possibly vice-versa, too.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)And fRump is making some wake up to that fact.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Wave enough flags, cheer USA, tell them that they're the greatest people on the planet & throw in some "Jesus" meat. But we do it the Dem-way when we put an emigrant Medal Of Honor winner to speak for us.
This is how we win.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)We are the only remaining party that still thinks America is great.
The dumb ass republicans are just now figuring out that saying you will make America great again is pretty much the same as saying America sucks. It took Democrats to make them realize it.
Trumps ultimate con.
Hillary and company will spend the next 4 months reminding Americans that the republicans hate America!!
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)where they felt more than welcomed.
Rex
(65,616 posts)the party of the KKK and the NRA.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)you get up with fleas.
No offense to dogs.
JHB
(37,160 posts)...and you don't know what happened to your party, you've blinded and deluded yourself for your entire adult life.
Where did it go? Precisely where you sent it.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Lie down with tRump, wake up with bedbug bites!
phylny
(8,380 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Nobody should be surprised that the GOP went from bad to worse.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)The left behinds will have a few last disgusting howls but most will look away in horror at their last sick grips on the country
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Now go cry some more. You are clueless to how many have cried been denied rights starved and died due to GOP hate and greed, or you knew and thought it would only increase to your benefit
Boohoo
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Where have all the Gopers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Gopers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the Gopers gone?
Gone to fascists every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Thank you. (takes bow)
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)When you look at even the most insane conspiracy-fueled nonsense, even if you swallow it 100%, Trump still comes out looking orders of magnitude times worse.
Of horrors, she MIGHT be as bad as Bill. Don't we remember what it was like in 1999? All that peace and prosperity really must have sucked for Republicans.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Not that anything would compel me not to vote Democratic. But it's really weird. Really weird.