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firebrand80

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12. Wow, great article and spot on.

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 11:27 AM

Dec 2015

I was just discussing this with my wife a week ago. Republicans welcomed and fomented this paranoid, racist, extremist rhetoric for years. The current GOP majority in Congress is largely built on it. They used this energy to turn out their voters in midterm elections.

Now these same folks they whipped into an anti-Obama frenzy want Trump, or Cruz (who, in the bizzaro political world we live in, looks kinda moderate compared to Trump). The GOP establishment is freaking out because they know damn well either candidate would lose in an electoral college wipe-out, as well as a down-ticket disaster. They would lose every minority group in the country for a generation.

The GOP is left with the top candidates in their primary race being completely unelectable. They can't bring those candidates down without risking a rank-and-file revolt.

Sorry GOP. You created this monster, now you have to live with it.

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Trump Is Devouring The GOP, And Fox News Fed It To Him [View all] Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 OP

No sympathy here malaise Dec 2015 #1

Was thinking of this earlier ... dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 #2

Trump is their worst nightmare come to life--a Godzilla risen from the fetid swamp of RW ideology... Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #3

So if Trump is the face of the New Republican Party does that mean the others are too liberal? jalan48 Dec 2015 #4

A majority of the 30 to 40% of the American electorate that would vote Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #14

IMO, Tweetie is then a Faux Snooze affiliate Hepburn Dec 2015 #5

Not to mention Morning Scar...40 frigging minutes they had him Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #16

Oh, man, the Joe Scum tRump daily puke festival! Hepburn Dec 2015 #17

rw radio is the root of the problem certainot Dec 2015 #6

Amen...Fox by itself can only do so much to get the bigotry ball rolling... Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #24

i think of fox as the visual icing on the talk radio lie turd pie certainot Dec 2015 #34

Yep and that landslide carries with it down-ticket losses as well Volaris Dec 2015 #7

Spot on. safeinOhio Dec 2015 #9

Yeah. Eventually Republican Rule will get so bad that even the idiots will see it for what it is Volaris Dec 2015 #28

I love to ask Trump supporters safeinOhio Dec 2015 #29

It's not that American wages are too high, it's that the wages of the developing world are too low Volaris Dec 2015 #31

An opportunistic infection .. DemoTex Dec 2015 #8

An auto-immune cancer that will consume them from the inside out. Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #19

I just subscribed to a TV service for the first time in Le Taz Hot Dec 2015 #10

Yes, the mainstream media is aiding and abetting tRrump's insane bigotry just as surely Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #11

Wow, great article and spot on. firebrand80 Dec 2015 #12

I still think T-rump is working for the Democratic party mitch96 Dec 2015 #13

Megalomaniac, self-delusional glory. Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #15

Too late... Helen Borg Dec 2015 #18

Don't see how anybody can catch him now...they're going Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #21

Trump pushes the political agenda further to the right. jalan48 Dec 2015 #20

Bingo. Atman Dec 2015 #26

If tRump's assigned secret agenda is to prepare the terrain for a JEB ! victory, Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #27

The election is nearly a year away. Atman Dec 2015 #32

Fox News brought this, it should be forced to eat it. Initech Dec 2015 #22

It is possible we are missing something here? pangaia Dec 2015 #23

The explosion/implosion may prove to be catastrophic when it comes. Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #25

You ask good quesitons. pangaia Dec 2015 #33

It took a while 2naSalit Dec 2015 #30

They built the Monster. hifiguy Dec 2015 #35