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Joe Nation

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11. It solves all the problems

Reply to Joe Nation (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 11:05 AM

Oct 2015

The Tea Party dies a well-deserved death, the Republicans learn to compromise, and we all get a government that functions again. Win-win-win. It's not the moderate Republicans I hate, it is the extreme Right-wing Tea Party types that need to be cleansed out of politics.

This is just being pragmatic and not simply emotional.

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The way forward for the GOP.....and the entire country [View all] Joe Nation Oct 2015 OP

Uh no! leftofcool Oct 2015 #1

Let them crash and burn first and maybe upaloopa Oct 2015 #2

Sad commentary on the current state of the Democratic party then, eh? villager Oct 2015 #3

If 50 or so of them want to convert to Dems, we'll take it for the next two years NightWatcher Oct 2015 #4

thanks, but no thanks 0rganism Oct 2015 #5

Yup. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #6

hell no, F*** NO Skittles Oct 2015 #7

I don't know about that. It hasn't been 1958 for a while now. DFW Oct 2015 #8

Mhm. Shandris Oct 2015 #9

Oh fuck no. Warren Stupidity Oct 2015 #10

It solves all the problems Joe Nation Oct 2015 #11

I think eventually we'll see some defections. The GOP is finished as a national party. randome Oct 2015 #12

That's called third way, isn't it? Betty Karlson Oct 2015 #13