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In reply to the discussion: You're not going to like me for saying this, but I am going to say it anyway [View all]wandy
(3,539 posts)Somehow they fended off most of the take over attempted by the John Birch Society and managed to maintain most of their dignity.
Even suffering the disgrace of Joseph McCarthy they could still proudly call themselves Republicans.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's they fell pray to the unsavory characters of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
It was in this era that this party could no longer spell their name with a capital R. Forever after they were forced to use the name republicans in lower case.
Amazingly the rein of Ronald Reagan, mostly by luck and the time needed to see the damage, they did not need to change the name to The Despoiler Party.
During the dark years, the George W. Bush administration they willing change the party name to Fu**ing Neocons, commonly refereed to as the Fools War Party.
Although always retaining some of the paranoid elements of the Birchers and the blood lust of the Fools War Party, it was in 2010 that considerable investment by Charles and David Koch bought about a new astroturf aspect. The Tea Party was born. Conceived in hate and fooled by greed the Tea Party quickly executed a hostel takeover on the tattered remnants of the republican party.
The vial GOP tool now known as Teapublicans.
Yes I know, but thats their name. It is more polite than Koch Suckers or The Black Plague Party.