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UCmeNdc

(9,601 posts)
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:20 AM Oct 2016

Republican Party had not just a political crisis but a moral crisis,” Wehner explained.

Conservative says GOP’s obsession with ‘monstrous’ crazies like Trump and Palin is an illness


While Wehner expects Trump will lose, he’s most concerned about the impending fight the GOP will have about their future. “One of the questions, is this an anomaly or a trajectory. As you were asking earlier, Willie [Geist], how much of this is Trump and how much is the phenomenon we call Trumpism? I think, there’s no question that if and when Trump leaves the scene, that’s going to make things better. But will he leave the scene or become a political irritant and will Trumpism continue and how does the Republican Party rid itself of it?”

He goes on to say that the plague of the right-wing and religious right is like a “fever” that the GOP has and was further exacerbated by people like Sarah Palin.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/conservative-says-gops-obsession-with-monstrous-crazies-like-trump-and-palin-is-an-illness/
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Republican Party had not just a political crisis but a moral crisis,” Wehner explained. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2016 OP
a question of morality vlyons Oct 2016 #1
"Where there's one mutant (Palin), there's another (Trump) and another (?), a whole nest of them." randome Oct 2016 #2
A conservative who understands what is happening to the GOP.... Jade Fox Oct 2016 #3
Even Goldwater tried to tell them radical noodle Oct 2016 #4

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
1. a question of morality
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:24 AM
Oct 2016

Could not agree more. The Republican party has lost its moral compass. If they don't wake up and start working for the benefit of all Americans, rather than their own greedy selfish interests, it will be a long long time before they regain the white house - if ever again.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
2. "Where there's one mutant (Palin), there's another (Trump) and another (?), a whole nest of them."
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:34 AM
Oct 2016

Apologies to Dr. Zaius but the point holds, I think: they didn't learn their lesson from Palin and they don't seem to be learning from Trump so it's open season on the GOP admitting any and all bogus candidacies in the foreseeable future.
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Jade Fox

(10,030 posts)
3. A conservative who understands what is happening to the GOP....
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:34 AM
Oct 2016

Republicans had better pay attention to this guy, or they are done as a Party.

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