Trump Spells End of Republican Party And Beginning Of Long-Overdue Realignment

Sure. They want to get people used to the idea. Treat it as legitimate and normal procedure. After all, it happened once 150 years ago and look how well that turned out. Civil war that still is the largest casualty count in American history, but hey Lincoln is the icon of the republican party so it has to be a good idea.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
Sure. They want to get people used to the idea. Treat it as legitimate and normal procedure. After all, it happened once 150 years ago and look how well that turned out. Civil war that still is the largest casualty count in American history, but hey Lincoln is the icon of the republican party so it has to be a good idea.
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Is this how the Republic ends?
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
Convention chairman and amnesty backer Paul Ryan has confirmed the likelihood of a "contested convention, ie an organized attempt to steal the nomination from Trump. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/273417-ryan-contested-convention-looking-more-likely

The leftwing media are signaling to the republicans that they will have their backs when they try to steal it from Trump. Consider this editorial from the Amazon Post, oops I mean Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...4399d4-eb9c-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html

Here is an excerpt to give you an idea what passes for rational thinking these days among liberals:

"No, Mr. Trump must be stopped because he presents a threat to American democracy. Mr. Trump resembles other strongmen throughout history who have achieved power by manipulating democratic processes. Their playbook includes a casual embrace of violence; a willingness to wield government powers against personal enemies; contempt for a free press; demonization of anyone who is not white and Christian; intimations of dark conspiracies; and the propagation of sweeping, ugly lies. Mr. Trump has championed torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists. He has flirted with the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists. He has libeled and stereotyped wide swaths of humanity, including Mexicans and Muslims. He considers himself exempt from the norms of democratic contests, such as the release of tax returns, policy papers, lists of advisers and other information that voters have a right to expect."

Trump has "flirted" with the KKK and other white supremacists? Seriously? Actually change white to black and this denunciation would be a fair summary of Obama's presidency.

After sliming Trump with a series of lies, they get to the meat of it:

"Does a respect for democracy require the Republican Party to anoint its leading vote-getter? Hardly. We are not advocating that rules be broken but that they be employed to maximum effect — to force a brokered convention and nominate a conservative candidate who respects the Constitution, or to defeat Mr. Trump in some other way. If Mr. Trump is attracting 40 percent of Republicans, who in turn represent about one-quarter of the country, that is a 10 percent slice of the population — hardly a mantle of legitimacy."

The title of this editorial says it all "To defend out democracy against Trump, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention." So democracy has to be defended against the guy who got by far the most votes? Interesting approach. Further on in the editorial they allude to their real concern, as unthinkable as it is, Trump might just win, thus confirming Obama's dismal opinion of the American public. So it's better that the republican party destroy itself, but do it to defend democracy that will be threatened if Trump gets the most votes. Make sense to you?
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Oh, no. The enemedia has judged us guilty of islamofauxbia.

We must be stopped!
 
These guys have signed their John Hancock on the top of The List.

If we sit here and take it while these low-life nobodys steal our democracy from us and give it to Goldman-Sachs and Monsanto, we deserve exactly the kind of raping we get. Check out the other side. Bernie got robbed in more then a few states. This is Corporate America taking over representative Democracy in our faces, and us sitting here like bitches and saying gee okay.

Trump supporters won't back down. If they rob him, then Trump goes third-party and all the shitheads on the list never win an election again.
 
I wouldn't say "we deserve it". If everybody understood and still bent over, that would be different. The ones of us who "get it" are small in number. The powers against us are large.
 
Trump isn't going to go third party. He's most likely going to win the primary through delegates. I wish it weren't so, but that's the way it's likely to happen.

That means I'm going to have to hold my nose and vote Trump in the general election.
 
Tsing Tao said:
Trump isn't going to go third party. He's most likely going to win the primary through delegates. I wish it weren't so, but that's the way it's likely to happen.

That means I'm going to have to hold my nose and vote Trump in the general election.
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or you could vote a straight libertarian ticket. We have a government run by nose holders. Short term thinkers. They don't want to do the lifetime work, they just want the least of the two worse options every 4 years. Republicans and democrats are just pawns in our game and they both must be sacrificed to make progress (or in my case to prevent progress.)
 
ETcallhome said:
or you could vote a straight libertarian ticket. We have a government run by nose holders. Short term thinkers. They don't want to do the lifetime work, they just want the least of the two worse options every 4 years. Republicans and democrats are just pawns in our game and they both must be sacrificed to make progress (or in my case to prevent progress.)
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Voting Libertarian ticket, as much as I would love to do it, would be the same as not voting in terms of impact. Just my opinion, of course. If Trump were slated to beat Hillary hands down, I'd do it.
 
Tsing Tao said:
Voting Libertarian ticket, as much as I would love to do it, would be the same as not voting in terms of impact. Just my opinion, of course. If Trump were slated to beat Hillary hands down, I'd do it.
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it's not voting this year, or probably your lifetime, but if enough keep doing it, it at least sends a message and slowly turns the country. No free lunch.
 
ETcallhome said:
it's not voting this year, or probably your lifetime, but if enough keep doing it, it at least sends a message and slowly turns the country. No free lunch.
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I agree, it does send a message if enough do it. But it also sends a powerful message if Trump wins.
 
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