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Trump Will Bring Down the GOP with Him
May 12, 2020 at 6:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 204 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/12/trump-will-bring-down-the-gop-with-him/
"SNIP.....
Joe Scarborough: Republican incumbent senators in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Maine and North Carolina face serious threats from their Democratic opponents in recent polls. Once-safe states such as Kansas and Georgia are in play, and Trump himself is losing head-to-head matchups with presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida. Recent polls show the two are even tied in traditionally Republican strongholds like Georgia and Texas.
With the prospects of a historic Democratic landslide building with every Trump news conference, every deranged tweet, every racist remark, wouldnt now be the time for Republican candidates to stand up, speak out and finally stop following a man so ill-equipped for the presidency?
To quote Trump himself, with control of Congress and the White House slipping away: What the hell do they have to lose?'
.....SNIP"
jls4561
(1,263 posts)Oh, goody!!!
I do wish I thought Scarborough credible, because I'd like to believe this. Of course, hope springs eternal...
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)to the curb when polls predict his demise. Meanwhile, this is an excellent opportunity for Democrats. imo
Rorey
(8,445 posts)They could have removed him with the 25th Amendment. They blew it.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)after he was impeached.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)CanonRay
(14,121 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Its really still the same party. They have been forced to re-brand a couple of times. Thats all.
-Laelth
Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)our economy and killed 80,000+ Americans. They will go down in November.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)0rganism
(23,975 posts)until then i'll just be over here in the corner freaking out
yonder
(9,682 posts)0rganism
(23,975 posts)so yeah, c'mon over
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)They endorsed him. The onus is on every one of them.
Stuart G
(38,453 posts).I remember because I worked for McGovern. Went door to door, passed out literature,
talked to lots of people. Yes, the end of the Democratic Party..no doubt. McGovern won one state. Mass.
Nixon 570 electoral votes.....McGovern...17 electoral votes... 1972..electoral vote...
The rest of the electoral votes went to Nixon....end of our party?..no..I don't think so..
.
...Very next election..1976?...Jimmy Carter, Democratic Party
.................................then....Ronald Regan??...end of the Democratic Party??
NO........up comes after Regan,... Bush Sr....Then who???....oh, no....??
...................Bill Clinton isn't that sweat...?(2 terms)
...................then Bush Jr.........a Puke...........then Who??? Barack Obama, An Afro-American Democrat..
And they said it about that run of FDR and Truman...? no more Pukes..but there were more, and more...
It is kinda political history..ain't it?
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Trumps performance in November will far better than McGoverns in 1972. McGovern led to the rise of Raegan who fundamentally changed GOP and it lasts through present times. Trump doesnt have anywhere near as destructive impact on GOP as McGovern did on Dem Party.
Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)Oh how I want to be there with a big evil grin on my face as the flaming wreckage is reflected in my sunglasses...
OAITW r.2.0
(24,679 posts)Having the balls to stand up to wannabe dictators was bred out of this Party a long time ago.
DinahMoeHum
(21,815 posts)Let's all make this so.
#newrostrong
spanone
(135,900 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I don't take responsibility at all."
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)And these people will vote for Republicans, even is that means they'll be dying of whiteness because of it.
applegrove
(118,844 posts)scle·ro·sis
/skləˈrōsəs/
noun
1.
MEDICINE
abnormal hardening of body tissue.
2.
excessive resistance to change.
"the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis"
Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)NBachers
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struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)GOP:
More religious fanaticism, more division by race and culture, more wealth for the wealthy, more erosion of education, more pollution for profit, more human sacrifices.
Democrats:
Protection of rights, protection of health care, protection of diversity, protection of education, protection of the planet.
Celerity
(43,589 posts)IA, AZ, NC, CO, MT, and ME
It should have been EIGHT (KS and TN)
Sibelius refusing to run in Kansas and Tim McGraw in TN (both open seats as well) hurts our chances to gain 8, as does both Yates and Abrams (possible VP pick, so there's that) refusing to run in either of the 2 Georgia races. I have hope one of our top 3 can knock off the weak perdue in the regular GA seat race. Unfortunately, it look like the fuckstick doug Collins will cruise to victory in the special GA Senate race. One of the top 3 Dems (Ossoff, Riggs-Amico, Tomlinson) in the other should have slid over to have a go at him (or Yates should have, in a perfect world.)
Maybe we get lucky and Barbara Bollier (more likely) in KS and James Mackler in TN (less likely) can pull upsets.
Alaska is toast, we do not even have a candidate after Begich refused to run, KY and Texas are reaches, especially TX. I would love, love, LOVE McTurtle to do down in KY.
We had 16 major possibilities all refuse to run in various flippable states (some came from the same state, especially IA).
some will not matter, the ones who do (5 seats, ffs) I put into bold
TN Tim McGraw (probably the one who pisses me off the most, as he swore for years he would run for Senate when he was 50, he is now 53, and this is a great chance to win, as the seat is open, and Trump is a drag. He sure as fuck better run against the insane RWNJ CT-pusher, white nationalist fuckstick Trump mushroom-sucking Marsha Blackburn in 2024. McGraw would have CRUSHED her in 2018, but we trotted out the washed-up conservadem flip-flopping Bredesen, who said he would have confirmed Rapey Kavanaugh, then flopped back, which destroyed any chance right there, as the base stayed home in drives, even in a Blue Wave and with a KKK-friendly nutcase slag for an opponent, argggg)
AK Begich I have no idea why he is not taking a shot at Sullivan (who is easier to defeat than Murkowski by far), Begich WAS a Dem Senator before, and now we have no candidate at all. Al Gross, an indie, is it, and he will more than likely get defeated easily, but who knows, Alaska is weird, lol. Murkowski won in 2010 as a WRITE-IN.
KS Sibelius << If Bollier wins, all is forgiven, if we lose the Senate by one seat, and Bollier loses in a close race, I will never forgive her and McGraw, especially IF Trump wins re-election, as then odds are high those 2, by refusing to run, will enable the Rethugs to take the SCOTUS to 7-2 hard RW, and replace Thomas with a younger model of RW thug.
IA Cindy Axne, Chet Culver, Abby Finkenauer, Tom Vilsack (I don't think it will matter, Theresa Greengfield should beat that POS Ernst)
TX Beto and Julian Castro, but I do not think either could have beaten that shitfuck Cornyn, he is far more popular than Cruz. Damn shame Amanda Edwards did not win the Dem Primary, she is fucking great!! I watched like 5 of her interviews, she had The Breakfast Club in the palm of her hand (which is hard to do.)
KY (the strangest one as Andy Beshear would have been our best shot, BUT he ran and WON governor, so it not a terrible outcome) I so hope wins Amy McGrath. Ashley Judd would have been interesting, but she is probably too librul (gag) due to slag-off framing for the hillwilliams there. I will leave this as we have the best we can get.
ME Susan Rice (doesn't matter I think. Gideon should beat the POS Collins)
GA Yates and Abrams
NC Foxx and Stein (doesn't matter, I think Cal Cunningham beats the weak Tillis)