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sofa king

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20. I should also add....
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 09:34 AM
Mar 2016

That this election may be our one-and-only chance to kill the Republican party forever.

Senator Obama overcame Republican election-theft plans in '08 by building an overwhelming base of support, and he has brilliantly made himself relevant again by effectively putting himself in the running against every GOP Class III Senator up for election this year, as a mandate in favor of his Supreme Court nominee.

But we need something that keeps the knuckle-draggers at home while informed voters become aware of the fact that nothing changes if the House of Representatives is not flipped.

Trump could help us greatly by seeing the writing on the wall, accepting the theft of his nomination, and running instead as a write-in candidate for the House. That's sure to shave a couple percent off of every Republican Congressman's advantage, because Trump's voters are unlikely to understand that Trump is only running in one of 435 districts, and they'll write him in for their district, too.

That's the only thing I can think of that would still appeal to Trump's narcissistic personality disorder while preventing him from damaging Democratic Presidential chances. It also pads his resume for a future run and, once he realized that being a politician entails actual work, he is likely to lose interest in future runs against us.

There is another outside possibility, which is to attack Trump psychologically in hopes of triggering a self-esteem crash just before the election, to get him to meekly apologize for his evil ways just before the election and ask that the people do the right thing for once. That's actually highly possible. Consider the fact that GW Bush, who is also a narcissist, had to spend two years on vacation because self-realization incapacitated him for nearly one-quarter of his Presidency. Trump has an indentifiable and exploitable character flaw and we'd be fools not to turn it to our advantage, before Vladimir Putin turns it to his.

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