2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFormer (R) Senator Gordon Humphrey says he's calling on the RNC to meet about withdrawing Trump.
On Chris Hayes now.
HOLY CRAP.
Kber
(5,043 posts)While I'd applaud their admission that they well and truly screwed the pooch, (admitting you have a problem is a first step) they can't be trusted with the keys to the castle until they demonstrate some ability to actually govern before they are allowed to do so.
Chasstev365
(8,129 posts)The question becomes does keeping Trump cost them v the House and Senate? YES! But will they have the guts to do it? NO!
stopbush
(24,852 posts)a number of times since Cleveland, but he decided to stay an R and try to effect change from within.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)Chasstev365
(8,129 posts)because that is how many in the party already speak.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)be stuck with him for the duration.
kysrsoze
(6,454 posts)in all 50 states. They're damned anyway, and deservedly so.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)by way of a 16 member RNC committee.
Let Trump fight it out in lawsuits if he wants.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)dubyadiprecession
(7,520 posts)I would like their defeat to be set in concrete.
demosincebirth
(12,833 posts)lindysalsagal
(22,997 posts)It already happened.
Now, if they're serious. they'll meet, re-write some rules, toss fRump, and promote mcmullen.
But they aren't able to organize anything.
Mitt, mccain, this is the new normal. It's a circus sideshow. Viable candidates aren't getting votes in primaries. GOP voters are like nascar/ hockey fans, just waiting for the crash, the bloodletting. GOP voters don't want or deserve real leaders. The spoiled brats want professional wrestling: entertaining pretend leaders.
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