What's Next for the Republican Party?

[trish]

My sense is that Tea-Baggers first appeared (sometimes openly armed) at the town meeting discussions of "Obamacare" during the first two years of his term. It's the Tea-Partying NASCAR republicans that are against everything "that Nigger in the White House" proposes. [That's a quote from the tea-bagging lady that lives two blocks down the street from me]. Cantor went down because he was almost in some sort of alignment with Obama on immigration reform. I gotta say, there's no part of the present day republican party that's less despicable than the other parts.

[buttslinger]

I'm waiting for the day the most despicable trailer trash racist wakes up and realizes that he'd be better off voting Democrat.
Obama would never let Sasha and Malia go to a DC Public School, that doesn't make him a racist or a Republican. That makes him practical.

If anybody has a right to complain about their quality of life in the US since 1950, it's the White Man!!!

In a Two-Party System, let the Rednecks keep their racism, guns, and Religion. GIVE them Healthcare, Education, and a higher minimum wage. A closed Mind is what Republican Suits want. Let the silent majority talk.
Watching the Party of No trying to convince their followers to vote Yes on immigrants in 7-11s is great.

[Ben]

How A Pornstar & A Dick Pic Brought Down A Republican:

[Prospero]

The Ted Cruz phenomenon. An insightful iece from the new Yorker this week.

Beware the potential of cruz Control.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all

[broncofan]

The Ted Cruz phenomenon. An insightful iece from the new Yorker this week.

Beware the potential of cruz Control.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all

Good article. He is an extremist, but he's articulate and intelligent. It will be interesting to see what he does in the Republican primaries in 2016 and then the general election if he's successful there. I wouldn't count him out, but he seems like such an asshole to me.

But if he gets through the primaries by playing to the base, Hillary could be vulnerable...she seems to be so transparent in her attempts to always say the right thing. She's always been a little contrived...even thinking back to her attacks on Obama in 08 for being an elitist and not understanding why people love guns.

[danthepoetman]

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[danthepoetman]

Expect more of the same stupidity. The extreme is making it easy.

[Stavros]

So far 16 candidates have now come forward from the Republican Party. I am not going to repeat the statements made by Donald Trump, but I do wonder if there is any sign that the GOP has learned from its past failures how to connect with the American people...any thoughts?

[trish]

Their strategy is to put forward few insensitive, ignorant jerks together with a bushel of completely clownish assholes. That way, by contrast, the jerks look pretty good.

[buttslinger]

There is a GOP that is millions of voters and there is a GOP that is a few guys in some smoky back room in New York or Switzerland where all the real decisions are made. I have a hunch the real decision makers have made the decision that 2016 is not the year to go all in on the presidential election, better off keeping their money in the stock market. Hilary will take their calls.
Jeb Bush has the blessing of the big wheels, and he won't be an embarrassment, but he won't win either. Trump speaks for a large section of GOP voters, but the big wheels see him as a Hee Haw character. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole Trump campaign is more a move to become a MADE MAN in that smoky back room more than being President, I might be announcing my candidacy next week. Send your donations now. For a one hundred dollar donation I will send you a bumper sticker and a pair of Nikka's soiled knickers.

PS.....Can you imagine the stock tips you would get being in that smoky back room?