I think we need to see which way the wind is blowing for the 2018 midterms. I realize that Rump won’t be on the ticket but the GOP establishment has to be able to marshall what we call the GOP base at the Federal level (i.e. Senators).
If the base doesn’t think they’re sufficiently pro Rump (since it’s now his Party) and won’t vote for their candidates OR they can’t get enough of what were euphemistically called Republican moderates, we’ll see the final manifestation of the GOP’s demise.
Oh pffffffffffffft! C’mon Mikey! The Donald is just finishing, just fulfilling, what you and your fellow Repukes started and nourished for so long.
He’s your dance master now. Get in line!
Republicans only defend 8 seats in 2018, whereas Dems defend 25. The DSCC, along with those 25 Senators, are going to have to do nothing for the next 2 years but constantly dial for dollars and campaign furiously to defend what will amount to roughly half their caucus. Republicans will have the benefit of imploring their voters to go all out to stop Clinton’s agenda and essentially render her a half-term lame duck. You better believe if Republicans prevail not one damned judge at any level, including SCOTUS, gets confirmed in her final 2 years in office. And if she wins in 2020 yet the Senate remains in Republican control that situation will not change. As far as the GOP will be concerned she’s a lame duck starting on inauguration day, 2021.
With the reputation of the Republican Party on the line these days you would think they would AT THE VERY LEAST try and get their people VOTING. Make it a positive message. But no…‘if we can’t win we’re gonna take our toys and stay home…’ Wow.
Sorry, Michael, but what you’re seeing is not “America’s racist underbelly” but the Republican Party’s racist underbelly. Actually it’s not so much its underbelly as its backbone. This is the natural outcome of the “Southern Strategy”. When you invite all the racists and bigots to join your party, you end up with a party of racist bigots.
There used to be a lot of racist Democrats – had been since Reconstruction days in the south. But they all jumped ship to the Republican Party in the wake of the Civil Rights Act. There may be a few who remained Democrats in name, but what does a racist have to gain from being a Democrat? The old Confederacy has been solid Republican for the past 50 years. Trump has just given the racists in the party a voice that they didn’t have before. Before Trump, it was all dog whistles – “welfare queens”, “food stamps”, “inner-city ghettos”, etc.). Trump has just replaced the dog whistles with a bullhorn and the racists are responding to his call.
It seems America’s “racist underbelly” aligns itself with the political party Mr. Steele led. He was either to dumb to see that at the time or slimy enough to OK with it. I know what I think.
Michael Steele like every Republican have watched Trump and his Trumpanzees disgrace our Democratic process, insult minorities and women, and turn his back on our allies and they refused to pull their support or even give legitimate criticism. As long as Trump looked like he could win Steele and the rest of the GOP were willing to excuse his behavior enough to keep supporting him. Now that it looks like Trump will lose these people all of a sudden find the back bone to stand up to Trump.
Well I for one am not going to be fooled by it. The Trumpanzees are the face of the GOP. You guys built this “racist” underbelly with decades of a “Southern Strategy”. A strategy even Steele admitted the GOP uses. They get to wear the scarlet T with all the rest of the deplorables.
If you want to find out where Steele is coming from, I would recommend David Axelrod’s interview with him on the Axe Files. People are always more complex than not. It is too easy to be reductive and make people to be cartoons.
And by “racist underbelly”, he means white penis, which hangs under the GOP/Teatroll’s racist white beer belly, and that Trump, white nationalist fluffer that he is, brought it to a throbbing chubby.
Yeah. Not gonna vote for Trump, but cannot absolutely bring myself to vote for Clinton. At this late date, after groping and assault claims have been made by 10 women, with the underage rape case pending in NJ federal court, with Trump U case just waiting for the elections to be over, after Pam Bondi and Greg Abbot PAYOFFS have been reported by the previously asleep at the switch media, after the whole string of statements indicating no interest or grasp of policy or of common human decency. I am not voting for Trump, but I cannot vote for HRC. Lets form a team called The Non-Profiles in Courage. We could do a Dave Chapelle style draft. Jeff Flake and Michael Steele can be draft choices #1 and #2.
