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(32,086 posts)The GOP are a party of cowards and turncoats.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I've found him to be a self-promoter more than anything.
I think he, and a few others, tend to put too much of a positive spin on things. I appreciate his efforts overall, but I take his information with a grain of salt.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Dworkin tips the balance between objectivity and subjectivity. His passion against Trumpy pushes his reporting into the realm of shaping opinion. Reading some of his tweets is something like an overindulgence.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)...spineless, gutless cowards.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The Republican Party is the party of stupid, cowardly, losers.
Top to bottom.
Except for the billionaires that run the party. Theyre smart. But thats only about 10 people. The rest of the party is stupid and cowardly.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)about the yuge blubbery fat orange babymonster,
with shitty diapers and shitty tiny li'l hands,
who comes out at night to grope disloyal staffers that don't doublethink fast enough.
Also, when it gets really mad, it falls down and froths on the floor, and chews on all the antique rugs in their congressional chambers.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are under his spell, but once they are out from under they will realize how brainwashed they have been. Unless they are seriously compromised, their is no reason for their cowardice.
Even if they are, they should just take their lumps and come out as patriots for their country because they are going down anyway and everything will come out sooner or later.
Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)The Republican base is a Trump cult at this point. Anyone who doesn't bow down to Trump is a RINO.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)dignity and be seen as patriots. I am assuming their skills are transferable to other positions in the private sector.
If they stay, they risk going down in infamy and being seen as loyal idiots. Trump will never reward them or back them up for their obsequiousness. They are fools if they think that sticking with him is going to somehow lead to bigger and better things. They will go down in disgrace.
calimary
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Where they belong.
In later years that will be a kind of Sorting Hat. What side were YOU on when the monster cheated his way in and was allowed to take over and run amok?
And what will likely happen then may well be that NOBODY will admit to having supported him. After Watergate, you couldnt pay somebody to say theyd voted for Nixon. Suddenly, all that staunch support was nowhere to be found.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)up on DWTS.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)tblue37
(65,408 posts)Rebl2
(13,523 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)If they want a job in politics, they'd be a pariah in DC for a while. Unless they already have tons of street cred. Then they might find a shady lobbying job.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Plenty of corporations are looking for shady characters with no morals.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)I have very little faith that they'll be held accountable overall and that's even assuming we win next year.
Most of them probably will be able to keep winning their same seat for the next two decades. There's a reason why these people stay in the job til their 70's and 80's, it is a good gig if you can get it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)a soul left to salvage. A lot of people in politics have made easy transitions to the corporate world and they have the potential to make a lot more money without having to lie and cheat for a living.
Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)and please do not take this as some kind of defense of them, I just understand them.
The underpinning to all of this is the evil liberal boogyman, and that was the case LONG before the idiot came down the escalator.
"Conservatives" spent the last three decades screaming about the evil liberal, have 40%+ of the country, and came to believe this twisted alternative reality themselves.
SO ... Whatever all else, the default is always us. Everything they do and say is fully justfied because we are evil incarnate.
They could give a fuck less about how they will look, or being patriotiotic or whatever, because all of that is some false liberal construct they reject out of hand.
We sit here today with these would be christians and patriots having nominated, elected, fully supported and enablig a complete immoral (literally the least christian human being imaginable) full on russian asset openly selling out the countries interest to countless foreign powers for his own interests because ... to them a decent, highly competent public servant was the devil embodied.
They are NEVER going to what we know to be right, or decent, cause they fully drank their own kool aid to the point where they live in reality that stands in complete contrast to actual reality.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are like addicts who can't quit.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)And their selfishness.
He plays them like the fools and suckers they are.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)People who know they are playing a rigged system fear not keeping the comfortable position they landed on, which has others kissing their ass.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)deprogramming camps.
Just like dumps buddy Kim.
That or prison as an accessory to treason.
Everyone was so in your face in the beginning. Payback time for traitors!
PatrickforO
(14,578 posts)All Republicans who are so afraid of getting voted out in the next election that they stand still for this blatant attack on our democracy are nothing but cowards.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Individual 1 - theres always been neo facists and tyrant wanna-bes. The problem is the ENABLERS of the Repub party that have inflicted this problem on the rest of us. And continue to do so, apparently.
dlk
(11,569 posts)Accountability is coming and it wont be pretty.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)They don't deserve sympathy.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Trump's base is a subset of Republicans, not every last one of them. They are also die hard Rs who wouldn't vote for a Democrat if you put a gun to their head. When push comes to shove, if there is someone on the ballot with an R after their name, that's who they'll vote for. What are these GOP jellyfish so damned afraid of?
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)because he is unhinged.
Its all about the optics for them. Reagan had policies that were just as racist, but he didnt seem batshit insane like Trump does. He looked good on TV.
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awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)So 50-50, 60-40 it actually happened. If it did happen, 90-10 hes exaggerating.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t