Posted on 03/18/2016 9:39:45 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
For years now, the party has cultivated an almost completely white, paranoid, extremist right wing base. It's a detriment in presidential elections -- the demographic math is against Republican candidates for president, and it's getting worse.
But it's great for midterms.
And that's where the GOP has had the most success of late, using those elections to rev up the base and gain majorities in Congress. It's poetic justice, of course, that the very tactics of whipping up hysteria used in those midterms has produced a party base willing to elect Trump and kill the Republican Party, but that's another story.
With control over Congress, the GOP has outsized political power and can use that power to gerrymander districts to retain it. The GOP can use that power to constrain the kind of legislation a Democratic president sends it and affect judicial nominees. It's a strategy that has seen the Republican Party dominate U.S. politics in an eight-year period where the first black president was elected, gay marriage was legalized and a new civil rights movement was born.
There's another side to this, too. Electoral defeat does not necessarily mean the GOP won't capture the White House. A three way race between Clinton, Trump as third party, and a more moderate GOP candidate will most likely mean no one candidate reaches 270 votes.
There are many reasons for this -- Trump will sweep the Deep South, Clinton will win the Upper Midwest and Northeast, but it's quite possible the GOP could win enough states to deny the Democrats an absolute majority. There is still a moderate right wing in presidential politics.
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you do that. you kick trump out of the gop and see what happens when he, palin and a few others set up their own party. and the gop will die like a ship sinking next to it’s lifeboats
“Are we men or Muppets?”
We are DEVO.
Oh that is a great idea...for Hillary
“you do that. you kick trump out of the gop and see what happens when he, palin and a few others set up their own party. and the gop will die like a ship sinking next to it’s lifeboats”
And the problem is?
Source: Huff Pukes
Reporter Puke: Eoin Higgins
Subject: Kick Trump Out Of GOP
Action: Round File
huffpo just throwin’ out idea’s to get rid of DT ‘cause they’re buggin’, they’re buggin’ I tell ya!
Kick me too. It’ll take five minutes to devise a new party, a new name, and then proceed on.
-—The GOP can use that power to constrain the kind of legislation a Democratic president sends it and affect judicial nominees-—
I see the communist rag known as the HuffPost hasn’t payed attention to the past seven years. The Republican controlled Congress has the Constitutional power for sure, but THEY DON’T USE IT. They’ve given in to every single thing you communists want, whether it’s money, or rubber stamping appointment, or looking the other way when harming our culture and economy.
They’re not referred to as the ‘wet noodle’ Congress for nothing.
HP Huffington and puffington and hoping to blow Trump down:-)
Thank heavens for the Huffington Post, an invaluable source of guidance and strategy for the Republican party.
I only wish the Huffington Post also offered personal and financial advice to individuals so that all of us could enhance our lives through their great wisdom.
They just can’t stand that Trump is bringing in a lot of voters that will cut into the democrat base. Republicans are just scared they are losing control. Apparently, republicans never wanted to bring in more voters, they just wanted to shut up the voters they had so they could continue to suck the American people dry for themselves and their pals the democrats. Run on sentence, I know.
Question: Exactly how does one kick someone out of the GOP?
Another question: You don’t have to be a member of a party to run for that parties nomination, do you Bernie?
So millions in the republican party want trump but the elite establishment doesn’t, so kick him out?? Kicking Trump out kicks out all the rest.
Good bye and good riddance eGOP!
I am good with that.
Who the hell is Eoin Higgins and why should I care what he thinks?
“Who the hell is Eoin Higgins and why should I care what he thinks?”
Dittos to that.
I guess he’s not paying attention to the fact that an independent is running for the Dem nod. In or out of the party he’s winning the votes.
How can they kick him out when he’s not in? Why don’t the Demo kick him out?
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