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2016-10-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2016-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Is this where we're supposed to be surprised?

Posted by Crusader 2016-10-18 00:20|| 2016-10-18 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Well i am not Establishment Peggy but i don't trust Trump.

Posted by Crolunter Wittlesbach4284 2016-10-18 02:07|| 2016-10-18 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Well i am not Establishment Peggy but i don't trust Trump.

No one should

Posted by badanov 2016-10-18 02:25|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-10-18 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 No one should trust any politician.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-18 04:57|| 2016-10-18 04:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually I trust Hillary.
I trust her to drive the last nail into the coffin of civic liberties and human dignity in USA - and hence the rest of the world (because everybody "western" imitates the USA).
I trust her, to support "Palestinians" most egregious demands.
I trust her to heat up the "New Cold War", which her husband created by attacking Serbia.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-18 05:02|| 2016-10-18 05:02|| Front Page Top

#6 The biggest difference between most Republicans and most Democrats is Republicans have scruples and won't support a candidate they don't like. Democrats will support their candidate o matter what she's done.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-10-18 08:10|| 2016-10-18 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 won't support a candidate they don't like

"I don't wanna!" sort of thing?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-18 08:37|| 2016-10-18 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 DB- you're absolutely correct. And that goes a long way in explaining why the Republicans haven't won a presidential election since 2004 and-- given the way things are going and barring some unforeseen turn of events-- probably won't win another one in this lifetime; because the Democrats have no scruples and the deck has been stacked against Republicans.

Posted by Eltoroverde 2016-10-18 09:01|| 2016-10-18 09:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps the pubs no longer desire the presidency. A close examination of pub nominees over the past ten years or so, might indicate as much.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-18 09:09|| 2016-10-18 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Republicans are content to play the part of the Washington Generals: Forever destined to lose while putting on a good show for the crowd.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2016-10-18 13:59|| 2016-10-18 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 The Republican party has always been an uneasy alliance between fratricidal twins. On the one hand you have the Rockefeller / Establishment / RINO types. On the other you have conservatives, constitutionalists and the religious right.

In the past, when the establishment types won a primary the conservative types would fall in line to support the candidate. What's happened in the last decade is that the conservative types have realized that the establishment types were taking their support for granted. They used to throw us the occasional bone. No longer.

The obvious, and probably belated, result is that conservatives types have stopped automatically supporting establishment type candidates, and without our support they generally can't win.

Now, the establishment types have never felt obligated to support conservative candidates, but there has been change here as well. Now the establishment types are actively working with Democrats and the Left to defeat conservative candidates.

Obviously, this can't continue if the Republican party is to remain viable.

Posted by Iblis 2016-10-18 14:40|| 2016-10-18 14:40|| Front Page Top

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