Discussion for article #239016
Smell that? That’s the foul odor of the modern GOP going up in flames and kissing the White House goodbye. Rince Preibus is weeping hysterically, John Boehner is drunk, and Ted Cruz is m$sturbating an AR-15.
5 Likes
Not Ike but Ick!
4 Likes
As Mr. Bennet put it in “Pride and Predjudice”:
Are you not excessively diverted?"
3 Likes
Cue all the pundits knowingly nodding their heads and saying he hasn’t got a chance at the nomination. Go, Donald, Go. Let Trump put the final nail in the GOP coffin.
3 Likes
“Trump not only leads the Republican pack but also has received a huge boost to his favorability…”
A yoooooooooge boost to his favorability.
(A very classy, very beautiful, major favoribility.)
6 Likes
Well…So much for suffering through that debate ! –
1 Like
“Republican support for Donald Trump just continues to grow with no clear sense of who his constituency really is,”
Old angry white men. Duh!
2 Likes
So 52% of Republicans have never suffered through a single episode of the Apprentice or they think Mr. Anything4Ratings is presidential? My good God!
3 Likes
If Trump stood on a soap box and screamed “Nggr, nggr, nggr!” the GOP base would reward him with higher poll numbers. It is a sick, damaged subculture and it dismays me that it is so large.
5 Likes
What do you mean, “If”?
3 Likes
As a Democrat in the 21st Century you get used to cautious-at-best optimism, but damn, the GOP has simply gone insane, and I can’t help thinking about Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party. Going into the 1993 elections as a not terribly popular party for a number of reasons it had 156 seats in Parliament; afterward it had 2. It never recovered and eventually was absorbed by another party. The contexts are wildly different and I’m not suggesting a similar collapse is likely any time soon for the Republicans, but they’re making it as clear as they can that they’re not capable of governing, they’re in fact hostile to the very idea, and whether or not it’s likely they could simply go “poof” I think with a party as unmoored from reality as this it’s a definite possibility. They swooned for Palin, now they’re swooning for Trump; they’re crazy, they’re fucking nuts, and it becomes horrifyingly clearer every day. These are hilariously dark days for the Republic, and I’m just hoping there’s a spirit in the land of sensible people saying “Oh, hell no” and ending the madness once and for all. That will be in my bedtime prayers.
1 Like
Politico would report it as “N-word gives Trump a 4pt bump” “Can the other candidates capitalize and use the N-word”?
1 Like
Unfortunately, it’s mass hysteria. They’ve captured a good percentage of the voting public into their echo chamber through hardcore propaganda outlets and Overton window shuttling and those people now think that what they’re selling IS reality. They look at you funny when you start to talk about actual reality, because they think the real world is fantasy. It’s frightening and sad all at the same time.
2 Likes
Of course his favorables are up! Telling people what they already know and want to hear, is the simple, time honored way candidates get people to like them. There is a whole cohort of Republicans who’ve grown up and come of age politically, listening exclusively to Rush, Fox and their multiple imitators and wannabes, all the way down the media food chain. A whole cohort who know and want to hear that American businessmen make America great, and not the other way around.
i’m sure that the rise is do to his assertion that he will win the latino and black vote.