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kentuck

(111,103 posts) Sat Jul 29, 2017, 07:06 PM Jul 2017

Republicans have stood for nothing since they turned the keys to the asylum over to the Tea Party

The Trump White House is just a culmination of that capitulation in 2010.

Whatever the Tea Party wanted, they got. So long as they stayed with the Republican Party. It didn't matter what they stood for.

We remember them marching against Obama with their automatic weapons strapped on their backs. We remember the posters with nooses and slanderous remarks. But it didn't matter to the Republicans because they were willing to vote with the Republican Party. A new breed of Republican voters was created.

Now they have taken over the Republican Party and they support Donald Trump. He could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and they would still support him. It doesn't matter what he says or what he does, they are right there by his side.

The Republicans are up shit creek without a paddle. They created this monster and they will reap the whirlwind. They are stuck inside the asylum and there is no way to escape.

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Republicans have stood for nothing since they turned the keys to the asylum over to the Tea Party (Original Post) kentuck Jul 2017 OP

I can't understand why the republican party is taking its marching orders no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #1

In fairness, didn't Speaker Boehner loathe delisen Jul 2017 #2

and, by proxy, the Koch brothers VMA131Marine Jul 2017 #3

I think that the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made the NCjack Jul 2017 #4

I would say since they began worshipping POS Raygun. kairos12 Jul 2017 #5

The only thing the GOP stands for now is demonizing the other side. Initech Jul 2017 #6

no_hypocrisy

(46,122 posts)

1. I can't understand why the republican party is taking its marching orders

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jul 29, 2017, 07:17 PM

Jul 2017

from a minority faction. It should be the other way around.

The only explanations I can come up with are:

1) Tea Party donors are generous to non-Tea Party republicans,
2) Threats of primaries from donors of Tea Party republicans, and/or
3) Both

delisen

(6,044 posts)

2. In fairness, didn't Speaker Boehner loathe

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jul 29, 2017, 07:21 PM

Jul 2017

many of the Tea Partiers and try to keep them muzzled? --until he decided that looking into the heart of darkness every day in the House was destroying his soul, and he quit.

Of course he had also acted as mentor to the Senator McCarthy-like, pit bull Nunes and elevated him to a committee chairmanship which Nunes used to batter his "enemies."

But you are right --they are roasting in their own hell, with No Exit in sight.