Rob Rogers for July 30, 2018

Guess which one had gone extinct already.

Still waiting for the statesmen of the GOP to either stand up or acknowledge they no longer exist. Times up.

Funny. The Dem with a soul is on the list with the Dodo and the Great Auk.

The Republicans with a soul died off DECADES ago, sometime around 1972…

What? The party of Jesus ain’t got no soul? Say it ain’t so!

The ones in charge of the Republicans now are really extremist Libertarians.

Republicans with a soul are yet another endangered species which was sacrificed to the oil and gas industry. Trump has taken aim at the endangered species an ousted any Republicans who defined the party with a soul. The fate of future conservatives with a soul hinges on a single election, which could reunite the Conservative with a soul with their party, or take down our democracy for Russia

Once the GOP committed themselves to a scorched-Earth policy insisting that any Democratic win was a loss, including a compromise, under Newt Gingrich, its collective soul began draining away.

Once they started refusing to accept scientific fact in order to pander to voters or get campaign funding — e.g., being anti-evolution/pro-creationism, rejecting global warming — the remnants had drained away.

Now that they support an active traitor, sometimes becoming a little restless but never taking appropriate action, because they fear they MIGHT lose their jobs to the voters they deceived previously, there is obviously nothing left but a soulless husk, inhabited only by the evil spirit they have embraced.

Oh, look. Andylit was clever enough to say a bunch of words that boil down to “I know you are, but what am I?” Well done, you clever, clever man! Let us know if you’re able to come up with an actual counter argument. Though to be fair, I do kind of agree with him that the Democratic Party’s soul is close to being placed on that list. But then I also think the GOP’s soul went extinct 50 years ago.

I honestly wonder if things would be different if John McCain were healthy enough to (in his daughter’s words) rage on the Senate floor about our contemptible “president.” (She specifically meant Trump’s disgraceful behavior in Helsinki, of course, but there is so MUCH to choose from………) McCain did have terrible taste in running mates (be fair, so did Eisenhower), but if he could rage today, I think he would get some more “running mates”, or at least some other Republicans could use him for cover. And maybe even find their souls!

I think the cartoon is SLIGHTLY off, though I do understand the reference. In my opinion, Republicans started losing their “soul” when Richard Milhous Nixon developed his “so-called” Southern Strategy! (for those among you that don’t ‘recognize’ Tricky’s Southern Strategy; it was basically inviting all the racists and bigots that were then infesting the Democratic Party to come join the Republicans in fighting “Civil Rights”)

By the time the “Salamander” took over the House of Representatives in the 90s, their “soul” was pretty much extinguished, and under the new “Rules of Incivility” introduced by the Republicans, it was well and truly extinguished!

There was a brief “flicker” of life under Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism”, but it quickly died, aborning, under the massive deceit of the false narrative of the “weapons of mass destruction” plus the support for the leaders of the torture and interment of political prisoners at “black sites”, Abu Ghraib Prison, and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

So, do Republicans have a “soul”? Not that you can find even with a “Scanning Electron Microscope”! They’ve finally admitted that their political "philosophy is “Whatever Works!” – no morals need apply! They appear to be quite happy with the lack of needing to hiding their true “light beneath a bushel” and their “candor” is quite refreshing. They’ve finally decided they needn’t continue to refer to a spade as a spade, and, under Donnie’s tutelage, can now refer to spades as “fuc…”, but we won’t go there will we? (at least until internet moral standards catch up (actually it’s in a DOWNWARD direction) to Republican “standards”!

It’s getting there, though – news casts already have to “bleep” a lot of the Presidential Pronouncements and I’m quite sure that thoroughly irritates a lot of pious Republicans!

Mind you, the existence of a soul cannot be proven. So, while I appreciate the metaphor, the comparison is moot.

Funny cartoon, though.

if you want to be elected from any party the first thing you must give up is you moral principals, even in small local elections. the people who donate to any campaign consider it an investment for which they expect a return on that investment. there is no such thing as a politician with a soul.

The Republican with a lot of soul, who was responsible for many good conservation programs under Presidents and Governors of both parties, was Nathaniel Reed of Florida, who just passed away. Read up on him. He was the real thing. Those who call themselves ‘Republicans’ today are really just ‘MyWalletans’…

I think that there are Republicans who oppose Trump, but not all that many. I also have no love for the Democrats in power who can’t seem to get their act together to actually offer an alternative to Trump. I think that the political idiots in Washington are there for the power, for themselves, rather than for the people. There are good people, but few in Washington.

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.”O’Brien“1984” by George Orwell

Nope. Sorry, Andylit. You don’t get to throw stones from your glass house or talk about how dark anyone else’s crockery might be.