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In reply to the discussion: Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P. [View all]Afromania
(2,809 posts)11. The party had no intentions of being saved. They have been doing what they do for too long.
The gop didnt need saving, the country did, from them. From the people they sided with right up to and past the jumping off point for sane people. This isnt about party but what is right and proper and right and proper hasn't been on the gop blueprint for longer than I have been alive. So talking this talk now is disingenuous at best and a move toa synical atteempt at cover butts at the worst. You say they don't vote for trump; that was the easy part but did they actively move against him and the GOP that permitted him to continue unabated? Did they vote for Hillary?
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I've always regarded Ford as simply a growth on the Nixon administration
struggle4progress
Jun 2018
#27
comforting sentiment, but last time i looked, they're not the party that's out of power.
KG
Jun 2018
#5
For each of these people quitting NOW. Where have you been for the last half century?
Afromania
Jun 2018
#7
The party had no intentions of being saved. They have been doing what they do for too long.
Afromania
Jun 2018
#11
It's easy to tell someone now that their efforts were a waste of time, and DUers know
Pacifist Patriot
Jun 2018
#14
There was enough of something to keep the in the republican party. The republican party that has mad
Afromania
Jun 2018
#25