Turn out the Lights on Republicans

[JimH52]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

 

[Mac1958]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
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[The VOR]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

Don't short change yourself Jim. We all notice you're not sure of a lot of things

 

[gipper]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
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IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

 

[guno]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

Don't short change yourself Jim. We all notice you're not sure of a lot of things

The party was over when the republicans but up a magical underwearing freakazoid in 2012 after the disaster with palin

 

[Dale Smith]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

What needs to be done is that this country returns to being a Republic instead of a corporate entity that is owned by foreign bankers. Until that happens, political parties don't mean shit.

 

[Mac1958]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

But how do conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
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[Crixus]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

nothing yet. he will either win and everyone will hate him as president, or he will lose against Hillery and he will go back to funding the Clinton Library. Trump isn't the agent of change though. More like the catalyst.

 

[JimH52]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

Don't short change yourself Jim. We all notice you're not sure of a lot of things

I am very sure that Donald is a Lunatic!

 

[gipper]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

But how do conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

Again you are mistaken. The R party is not conservative. It is progressive light.

 

[Mac1958]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

But how do conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

Again you are mistaken. The R party is not conservative. It is progressive light.

Okay, great: How do REAL conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

 

[JimH52]

With his "Foreign Policy" speech he was trying to seem reasonable sane. That will last....ohhhh....another day or so. Then he will go back to poking fun at Florina's body parts again. I do know that they military brass are very nervous about his plans to "re-evaluate NATO" and his love affair with Poootin, the killer. I guess his Poootin love is one thing many of the RW loons on here can appreciate. Since many have 8x10 glossies of Vlad shirtless.

 

[turzovka]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

Perhaps. But it is actually the democrats who could have used a Donald Trump in their camp to single handedly change the Donkey party narrative and let the chips fall as they may. Because leftist secular "duncity" has single handedly ruined this nation, morally, financially, etc., and put us at great risk of great destruction.

 

[gipper]

Turn Out the Lights on Republicans — the Party’s Over (Guest Column)

So, maybe we can characterize Donald as a 'Republican Light?" He has single handedly changed the GOP narrative to.....well. I am not sure what he has changed it to.

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

But how do conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

Again you are mistaken. The R party is not conservative. It is progressive light.

Okay, great: How do REAL conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

Don't you think that should the R party die, another party would rise in its place? Or do you think we would become a one party state (like we are now)?

 

[Mac1958]

It sure will be interesting to see what the party looks like when the dust settles after the convention and the election.

Nothing will be settled, though, because each piece of the party is going to be pointing the finger at the others.

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

IMO the country needs to eliminate political parties altogether.

It could be the R establishment, with help from the lib MSM, DNC, and the 1% will overtly and covertly sabotage a Trump presidential campaign giving us four years of Hillary...which would be a disaster. The silver lining might be the death of the R party.

But how do conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

Again you are mistaken. The R party is not conservative. It is progressive light.

Okay, great: How do REAL conservatives win elections if there is only the Democrat party and a wide range of other ideologies with no infrastructure?
.

Don't you think that should the R party die, another party would rise in its place? Or do you think we would become a one party state (like we are now)?

Well sure, theoretically. I guess my overall question is how large that entity would be. The party is in three pieces right now - the unwanted "RINO" moderates, the Cruz hardcore conservatives, and the Trump, uh, people. What remains to make up the new party? 50%? 70%? Either way, it would be a while before it would be competitive again, no?
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[NightFox]

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
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Why just two? or why any at all ? What's wrong with candidates standing on their own merits without having to attach partisan labels to themselves? Or at the very least having a greater variety of viable parties that better represent regional and/or philosophical interests.

We've had the duopoly for a long time now and look at all the problems "party before everything else" has wrought, not to mention the legions of mindless partisan lemmings they've created that can't tie their own shoes without some partisan mouthpiece telling them how to do it.

The political parties of the duopoly are just a mechanism for voters to abdicate their critical thinking responsibilities to and they've been a scourge on the Republic and the citizenry for far too long, it's high time they go the way of the dinosaur.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." -- George Washington

 

[dannyboys]

Too many of you are looking at the Trump phenomena from the wrong end of the stick.
Start over.
Sure Trump has come along and he obviously wants to become President.
That's not the story.
The real story is a very deep level of antipathy so many Americans have been feeling against the government for especially the last eight years.
Obama and his Socialist/Communist-lite wet dream failed. He will be a footnote in US presidential history just like Jimmy Carter is.
Trump comes along and says the things that obviously many millions of very pissed off Americans have been thinking.
For these people Trump is the right man at the right time.
Trump can't elect himself. Voters are coming out in historic numbers to support Trump.
It's these voters that are the real story.
Notice last Tuesday. Trump won every fucking country in all five states in the REP primaries. He won ALL of them by over 60%! and there are two other candidates scratching around for the other 40%. That is the real story.
Dem turnout in the primaries is down something like 4.5 million from the last time the primaries were held.
That is the other part of the story.
Trump is now the nominee. Many don't like how Trump says things much more than what Trump is saying.

 

[Mac1958]

This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
.

Why just two? or why any at all ? What's wrong with candidates standing on their own merits without having to attach partisan labels to themselves? Or at the very least having a greater variety of viable parties that better represent regional and/or philosophical interests.

We've had the duopoly for a long time now and look at all the problems "party before everything else" has wrought, not to mention the legions of mindless partisan lemmings they've created that can't tie their own shoes without some partisan mouthpiece telling them how to do it.

The political parties of the duopoly are just a mechanism for voters to abdicate their critical thinking responsibilities to and they've been a scourge on the Republic and the citizenry for far too long, it's high time they go the way of the dinosaur.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." -- George Washington

Oh, additional parties would be fine with me. This binary system is a bad joke. Obviously then, we'd have to change the electoral system.

Yeah, I'm open to anything. Additional strong parties would dilute this silly "us vs. them" mess, you bet.
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[LordBrownTrout]

This happens every four years when someone says its the end of the party. Unfortunately, they just keep coming back like herpes.