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Baitball Blogger

(46,709 posts) Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:51 PM Apr 2018

With all these resignations, and people leaving politics are we witnessing

the fall of a House of Cards?

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With all these resignations, and people leaving politics are we witnessing (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Apr 2018 OP

Leaving REPUBLICAN politics, you mean. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1

trump is doing what we never could NightWatcher Apr 2018 #2

LOL! Baitball Blogger Apr 2018 #3

Not so sure. Many thought W had destroyed the republican brand Va Lefty Apr 2018 #4

And before that ... GeorgeGist Apr 2018 #6

With all these resignations, and people leaving politics are we witnessing.... marble falls Apr 2018 #5

More like the GOP lurches even further right. Adrahil Apr 2018 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. Leaving REPUBLICAN politics, you mean.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:52 PM

Apr 2018

It depends on how much power Putin actually has over our elections.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

2. trump is doing what we never could

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:52 PM

Apr 2018

He's destroying the GOP in a two year period.

Baitball Blogger

(46,709 posts)

3. LOL!

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:53 PM

Apr 2018

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)

4. Not so sure. Many thought W had destroyed the republican brand

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:59 PM

Apr 2018

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)

6. And before that ...

Reply to Va Lefty (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 03:22 PM

Apr 2018

Many thought Nixon had destroyed the brand. Six years later, Reagan™ was elected.

marble falls

(57,083 posts)

5. With all these resignations, and people leaving politics are we witnessing....

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 03:20 PM

Apr 2018

the graduation class for the next round of new lobbyists??? The money is always pretty fat for the GOP and 1% even if when they are out of power.

Ryan's campaign has around $10,000,000 in it. How many jobs in the civilian world allow you to work for $174,000 (base Rep's pay, speaker gets $223,500, majority and minority leaders get $193,500) for 18 years with a $10,000,000 gold watch?

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)

7. More like the GOP lurches even further right.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 03:30 PM

Apr 2018

In the long term, I think it means the GOP slides into irrelevance if they do not have a reckoning. IN the short term, it makes them extremely dangerous, IMO, and we'll see more states suffer the fate of Kansas and Oklahoma.

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