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   ConserveGov said, 7 months ago

   Ok kiddo lets not get too excited. Republicans kept the house easily, are almost even in the Senate and own 30 governorships. It’s called an election cycle.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

   @ConserveGov

   I think this is more about the Neanderthal mentality in the GOP and that it hopefully is dead now…
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   zoidknight said, 7 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Have you liberals and democrats even paid any attention to your own behavior and attitudes?
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   Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

   Ever smell a dead donkey?
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   moderateisntleft said, 7 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   I don’t know. That neanderthal mentality is pretty well entrenched. I don’t see the Republican party ‘evolving’ any time soon.
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   ODon said, 7 months ago

   @ConserveGov

   “Republicans kept the house easily…”
   Not that easily, look at the total votes cast for each parties nominee for the House and think about trends. Our friend Gerry is your savior.
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   taratus said, 7 months ago

   It is less about the eternal competition betweenred and blue than it is about the electorate. If the reds keep courting the same lunatics they will go extinct. That GOP is dead. The only question is how soon a really new second party emerges and whether there is anyone capable of doing that in this generation.
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   iamthelorax said, 7 months ago

   Instead of mocking the GOP, Democrats should be kissing their behinds for choosing a candidate as un-electable as Mitt Romney. Obama signed the NDAA, attacked a foreign country without asking congress and has a kill list of American citizens. He deserves a re-election like he deserved a Nobel peace prize.
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   ruff said, 7 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Read the three comments following yours, then hope again.
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    I Play One On TV said, 7 months ago

    @the lorax:

    Well put. Many of us would have been happy to vote against Obama, if only the Rs would have put up a viable candidate.

    The Republican party, though, is mired in past thinking (and wishing to return to a past that never was). It is paternalistic, inflexible, and convinced of infallibility. This, coincidentally, happens to be the features that describe modern western religion, and this helps to explain a lot of their parallels, including the whole “do it my way or end up in hell” mentality.

    Regardless, as the Republican party becomes more and more cantakerous and ideologically pure (therefore necessarily more and more exclusive), there will be fewer people who meet the entrance requirements. There are two possible futures for the party: one is to devolve into unimportance, and the other is for the tea-party/religious right to splinter into its own party, while the rest of the party becomes rational and viable once more. I hope for the latter: one-party rule is almost never pretty.
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    Stipple said, 7 months ago

    So true, the current liberal party is less than ideal, and the current repulbican party cannot compete against it.
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    Any further comment is useless, note head in sand replies posted above.
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    Robert Landers said, 7 months ago

    @iamthelorax

    The Republican candidate was NOT chosen by Democrats, but by the ultra conservative wing of the Republican party.

    And therefore, they (not the Democrats) have nobody to blame but themselves!!
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    dapperdan61 said, 7 months ago

    Watch the Republicans repudiate moderates in their own party. In 2016 they’ll field candidates that only have the blessing from the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh & Grover Norquist. Please do so we can keep the WH in the hands of the Dems for the next generation.
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    dtroutma said, 7 months ago

    The sad part is that a few “old guard” Republicans do still exist, while the party of “republicans” (deliberate lower case) are in command of a mob with little in common with past folks looking out for the good of ALL America, and not a minor population of near or total psychotics in their midst.

    
    Eisenhower definitely would be burned at the stake by this current pack, and it’s reaching the point where their titular “god” Reagan, would be suspected of Marxist leanings. After all, he WAS a Democrat when he led SAG, cheated on his wife, and leaned right when he did testify against friends for McCarthy.
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    bobwinners said, 7 months ago

    Could be….
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