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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
1. Has any republican actually defended Trump against Hillary's alt.Right speech?
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 08:55 AM
Aug 2016

I'm not defending them,I'm just noting that they've been very,very quiet lately. I think they would rather write off this presidency that let Trump win in their name.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
9. They're planning on letting Hillary finish off Trump--then destroy her...
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:53 AM
Aug 2016

...once she's in the White House. Endless BS "investigations", an impeachment...doesn't matter if it succeeds, as long as they can destroy her adminintration in the cradle. These fuckers don't have a patriotic bone in their bodies...

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
2. I wonder if they look back and think: What could we have done differently?
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:23 AM
Aug 2016

I think that would be a hard question to answer in retrospect and going forward too....

PatSeg

(46,791 posts)
5. They were too afraid of
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:20 AM
Aug 2016

pissing off the base. They created this situation by catering to extremists for too long and now they are stuck with them. What goes around, comes around.

PatSeg

(46,791 posts)
7. Yeah
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:46 AM
Aug 2016

I guess that is a positive aspect to all this insanity. For a while I thought we might just have to wait until they all died off and I didn't know if I could live THAT long!

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
8. Call him out? Blatant racism is how you get votes in that party.
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:50 AM
Aug 2016

Remember when Ted The Zodiac Killer cruz tried to one up him with his community policing idea?

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
10. Counter-example: John McCain
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:41 PM
Aug 2016

McCain spoke out against Trump and now he's fighting for his Senate seat. Republican voters are now too dumb to hide behind the veil of propriety. Trump recognized it, encouraged them to drop the charade by dropping it himself, and now everyone else is going to pay for it.

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