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Requiem for a Republican Autopsy (Trump Blows It Up)
Daily Beast ^ | February 24, 2016 | Betsy Woodruff

Posted on 2/24/2016, 2:53:43 PM by C19fan

It’s time for the autopsy of an autopsy. In early 2013—which now seems about as long ago as 1913—the Republican National Committee brought together a brain trust of party elders to figure out what had gone wrong. Barack Obama had just throttled Mitt Romney, the party lost ground in the Senate, and voters who weren’t in the Old Christian White Man demographic seemed increasingly uninterested in buying what the GOP was selling.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; potus; trump
I remember that so called 2012 Autopsy. It reeked of Inside the Beltway thinking. Trump has adopted the George Constanza approach, do the exact opposite of the report, and he has won primaries in the NE, SE and West.
1 posted on 2/24/2016, 2:53:43 PM by C19fan
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To: C19fan
The report also tsk-tsk’d over the perception that some Republican voters have issues with people of color.

“We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too,” the report continued.

Who knew gay was a color? I must have had a different set of colored crayons in my Crayola box growing up.

2 posted on 2/24/2016, 2:59:18 PM by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: C19fan

-Obama had just throttled Mitt Romney-

Romney took his foot off the gas in the last 2 debates after throttling Obama in the 1st one. Why he did that is the question.


3 posted on 2/24/2016, 2:59:48 PM by V_TWIN
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To: C19fan

Rush went over this. What it shows is that the majority of Americans reject homosexual marriage, open borders, Muslim immigrants.


4 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:00:12 PM by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: C19fan

From an article in The Weekly Standard.

Donald Trump has yet to win an outright majority in a primary or caucus - though he’s getting closer, pulling in 46 percent of the vote in Nevada. But he’s winning massive numbers of votes.

Mitt Romney won Nevada’s caucus in 2012 with about 50 percent of the vote. He did so by pulling in roughly 16,000 total votes - roughly the same number that second-place finisher Marco Rubio pulled in this year. Donald Trump, by contrast, more than doubled Romney’s total, garnering 34,500 votes.

That pattern has played out across all of the early states, which are seeing huge Trump-inspired (and, at some level, anti-Trump-inspired) turnout.

All told, Trump has now won approximately 420,000 votes. After the first four states had voted in 2012, Mitt Romney had won about 311,000 votes. Back in 2008, meanwhile, eventual nominee John McCain had won a little more than 250,000 votes after Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada had voted.

Read the rest

http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-has-won-more-votes-than-romney-had-at-this-point-in-2012/article/2001230


5 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:03:04 PM by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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To: Trumpinator

You didn’t know that gays are the color of rainbows? They just hide it under lots and lots of makeup.


6 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:03:40 PM by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: V_TWIN
No one has told you yet? The Mittster threw the election just like John McCain threw the election. They wanted to lose, that's why they did it.

Now, if you ax why they wanted to lose there are theories around for it, but the answer for why The Mittster took his foot off the gas is that he was there to look like he was running a campaign but to lose in the end like only a losing Republican loser can lose.

7 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:05:08 PM by OKSooner (Burn it down and punish the guilty.)
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“We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too,”

If I were Hispanic, black or Asian, I would be grossly offended at being grouped in with perverts.
8 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:15:13 PM by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Weekly Standard?

I hear Steve Hayes is on suicide watch but they won/t let Krauthammer be the attending psychiatrist b/c Dr K advocates mercy killing.

Dr K was overheard begging Fox to let him put Steve out of his misery.

But W/S editor Billy Kristol said no....not until Jeb-You/re-Next gets his.

Billy thinks Jeb deserves it more for running an asinine campaign that cost GOPe millions.


9 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:21:47 PM by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: C19fan

Above DrudgeReport headline currently...

“Trump Has Won More Votes Than Romney At This Point ‘12...
And many more than McCain ‘08...”


10 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:24:46 PM by r_barton (Ted Cruz - The charm of Barry Goldwater and the ethics of Richard Nixon. - GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: Liz
A Photo Is Circulating On Social Media Saying KKK Members Rallied For Trump Last Night In Nevada

At first glance, this seems legit. Or that it could be right?

h/t

http://www.weaselzippers.us/

LOL!!!

11 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:26:36 PM by KeyLargo
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Once upon a time,the RNC brought together a brain trust of party elders to figure out what had gone wrong. Obama had just throttled Romney, the party lost ground in the Senate, and voters just weren/t into the Old Christian White Man demographic. So the Big Tent was resurrected.....and conservatives were placed on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.

HOLY HEDGE FUND! Jeb-You/re-Next spent over $125 million on his failed campaign? The GOPe must be choking on the chilled Cristal, Oestra caviar, and stuffed lobster in the country club Grill Room.

==========================================

IMHO, the ignominious collapse of Jeb-You/re-Next drove a huge stake into the heart of the establishment GOPe. Forget erectile dysfunction. The fallout of being politically castrated is devastating to a powermonger.

The GOPe/s de-b***ing began when candidate Jeb said he didn't need the Republican base .... and proceeded to carry on, business as usual, as his numbers sunk into oblivion.

Jeb telling a key bloc of Republican voters to take a hike is the consequence of the country club GOPe demeaning and dismissing conservatives as not being worthy of their elite party.

The entitled Jeb-You/re-Next took it as Gospel when he heard the Bush elders condescending attitude towards conservatives....people to whom the aristocratic Bush/s feel socially superior.

But the GOPe should know this: they will get no pity from conservatives for their woes......
and we aim to stick their noses in the mess they made every frickin' chance we get.

12 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:30:18 PM by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: KeyLargo

I think that/s Cruz under the sheet...ROTFLOL.


13 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:32:40 PM by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: C19fan

14 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:34:26 PM by TigerClaws
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To: KeyLargo

Look at the color of their hands, they are black


15 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:36:30 PM by Despot of the Delta (It's time for Trump to become Vlad the Impaler. I want Progressive/Globalist/Establishment heads)
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To: TigerClaws

RE: The Testing phase:

This country has had a LOT of Presidents in it’s history who were worse than Trump would be. A LOT.


16 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:44:08 PM by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Despot of the Delta

“Look at the color of their hands, they are black”

Duh.

Apparently, you don’t get the humor of exposing the black protesters wearing costumes posing as KKK members. sheesh.


17 posted on 2/24/2016, 3:48:20 PM by KeyLargo
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To: C19fan

In 2012 Romney choked. Trump was right he just disappeared the last couple of weeks.


18 posted on 2/24/2016, 4:00:29 PM by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: KeyLargo

Next time, hire white guys to put on the Klan robes. Or tell the Negroes to wear gloves.


19 posted on 2/24/2016, 4:18:56 PM by PAR35
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To: Liz

Just knowing how painful it must have been for them to have to write that article makes it all the sweeter.

After lying to us for so many years, I truly hope they live in misery watching all their attempts to thwart the wishes of the American people go down in flames.

Like I’ve said in several previous posts,

“All they can see is that they and so many of their fellow “conservatives” are losing many of their constituents to Donald Trump. They’re frightened and confused, unsure about their future.

Now they know what we’ve been feeling the last few years.


20 posted on 2/24/2016, 5:04:47 PM by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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