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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Somber Republicans in sack cloth and ashes on my TV this morning [View all]Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)7. Nope, nothing like that. They could have been a threat with a little effort.
Say, in the throws of birtherism, a joint presser -McConnell, Ryan, Boehner, McCain, along with ANY more right leaners they could bribe- denouncing the whole conspiracy as anti-American, even racist.
Or what if they'd recruited some cops -and publicized the hell out of it- to plan community policing policies that were genuinely community friendly?
Neither of those issues could have been construed as anti-conservative.
I'm glad they were too stupid, too.
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Did they mention that they failed to take the advice of their own 2012 "autopsy report",
Tanuki
Oct 2016
#4
Nope, nothing like that. They could have been a threat with a little effort.
Rose Siding
Oct 2016
#7
GOP built the base & tRump. They will schism: either mainline leaves or Ts are ejected. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2016
#15
This is what happens when you become the #1 consumer of your own propaganda.
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2016
#19