I can’t really agree with you on the decline of the Republican Party: just to focus on bellweather members, Trumpism traces a pretty straight line of decent through Dick Cheney and allies like Don Rumsfeld to uncle Newt Gingrich and associates. Their roots were certainly in the so-called Raygun Revolution: although my mind gets rusty on the particulars, some of the same principals (e.g., Billy Barr, Atwater and associates Stone and Manafort) were active then. (ed.)
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That was Gov. Larry Hogan, and I see his move as a lack of leadership. He just threw his vote away. He could have said nothing, or by stating he voted for any of the other candidates from small parties could of spun this as “Trump is not capable of running our country”, instead he proclaimed that party solidarity was more important.
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Yeah, that was a real chickenshit move and lowered whatever respect I had for him, that’s for damned sure.
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KKK? QAnon? Proud Boys? Just a few that drifted through my head…
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I’m so old I remember when the GOP named this guy its Chairman because they thought having a black guy of their own would cure everything.
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Hogan of Maryland … who fantasizes that he can rise like a Phoenix from the ashes of hate and bigotry… what Hogan stupidly overlooks is that the Republican terrain will be generally uninhabitable - for ages … like Chernobyl
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I’m thinking this could be a late-day campaign commercial for Joe:
Who’s endorsing Joe, vs. who’s endorsing Trump?
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“seeking to build on the legacy of the Republican Party’s founders”
Trump has kept to the SECRET legacy of the Republican Party founders.
Michael just doesn’t like that Trump said it out loud: Rich, white, heterosexual, Christian men are first-class citizens. All the rest can pound salt.
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Betcha Lincoln Project is on it… They don’t let much like that slip by.
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Reminder: “Supporting the President” is literally the sum total of the Republican platform now.
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He had gained some respect for how he handled Trump and COVID in Maryland, and now I think he loses some of the respect he gained. By doing and announcing what he did he hasn’t shown that the GOP is not the GOP anymore. And once Trump is gone, by what ever means, the GOP is still in deep shit hurt.
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Maybe Steele can’t support THIS candidate, but he’s still just another lousy republican who is against everything that would make this government serve THE PEOPLE rather than wealthy corporatists. He’s against at least the following: EPA regs, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, student debt relief, banking reform, prison reform, expanding abortion access, and a host of other humane policies/programs.
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Not big on African-American voices and/or apostates and/or traitors.
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“Consequently, America has watched as the Republican Party stopped pursuing its animating principles of freedom and opportunity”
spit take
Which of those principles animated Mitch to deny Merrick Garland a vote?
The republican party has two actual prinicples: Triggering teh libs and Clinging to Power. Trump embodies both and will continue to. Steele’s vote for the good guys is welcome, but with the likely non-jailed ex-president trump on Fox every day for hours beating the drum for himself or family members, and with his followers likely engaging in acts of post election terrorism, you’ll have to forgive me if I am dubious that this wholesome freedom-opportunity party Steele imagines fails to emerge.
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Steele’s grandmother used to bake pies for the annual union hall Thanksgiving dinner. Obviously Michael Steele is a Mao inspired Marxist Leninist Communist. And he makes pizza in his basement, if you know what I mean.
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And I think GOP usage of the N-word in relation to Mr. Steele is about to increase many times over.
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Cue the faux outrage from conservatives particularly the Black conservatives who constantly gripe about some kind of “liberal plantation”.
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Steele will peel off a few voters.
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Steele comes across as a pretty nice guy. I can afford him my sympathies because of the collapsed credibility his party suffers. This is a bold move and I applaud him for it.
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I’m betting there’s no more than 2-3% of the electorate that is genuinely undecided or that can be swayed to switch their vote. Trump or Biden will lose more votes among their loyalists from those failing to vote than they will from those deserting them midstream. If I was a Super Pac wanting to influence the vote there might be more gold to mine in messaging “They’re all a bunch of crooks, neither one deserves the office, STAY HOME!!” And cross your fingers it hits home more with GOPers than Dems.
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