tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5533824243435145035..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: NO, FOX IS NOT REALLY HURTING THE REPUBLICAN PARTYSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-62214780308172453532015-05-18T09:50:59.752-04:002015-05-18T09:50:59.752-04:00Beth,
Yes the GOP is committing suicide.
But it&#...Beth,<br />Yes the GOP is committing suicide.<br /><br />But it'll be a murder-suicide.<br /><br />They're determined to kill the rest of America in their efforts.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-66977626843044803402015-05-18T08:16:40.698-04:002015-05-18T08:16:40.698-04:00Look at it from the larger perspectives:
Yep, the...Look at it from the larger perspectives:<br /><br />Yep, the GOP is unlikely to win the White House again for the foreseeable future. That's the brass ring, right? And voters are rejecting them on that front by large margins.<br /><br />The president appoints Supreme Court justices and we have, possibly, four whose seats will be filled by the next president. The shapes the nation for decades to come.<br /><br />Yes, Republicans are winning governorships and state legislatures of late, but in large part because of gerrymandering. Once that's widely ruled to be illegal or when 2020 rolls around, that advantage goes away.<br /><br />And in the meantime, when they <i>do</i> get state control, look at what they're doing to their states. Moral Mondays in North Carolina. People are pissed off. Brownback's near-total desttruction of his state economically? Yes, people, idiotically, voted him back into office but he stands as as example to the nation of just what <i>not</i> to do, of what happens when the GOP's in control.<br /><br />I see more and more stories about Joe Average Republicans waking up and realizing that their party is doing <i>nothing</i> for them. They're waking up to the fact that they've been sold a bill of goods. Like the man who was able to retire because he's able to afford health insurance under Obamacare. He sees that his party has no alternative. He sees that if the GOP gets its way and repeals it, he'll have to go back to work, because the GOP has no alternative. He's really thinking about voting for Hillary.<br /><br />And most Republican voters are older. Which means the base is literally dying off.<br /><br />In the shorter term, yes, the GOP still has some control. But whether it realizes it, it's committing suicide.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629186602501399976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-45048098218765507582015-05-18T00:36:20.851-04:002015-05-18T00:36:20.851-04:00That point does not look like it's coming at a...That point does not look like it's coming at all. What instead I think we're seeing is a long-term political regionalization.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-35917249414322836652015-05-17T23:22:29.506-04:002015-05-17T23:22:29.506-04:00Good for most Republicans, bad for the few who get...Good for most Republicans, bad for the few who get positioned as RINOs by challengers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02887003896455906490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75004051564336510082015-05-17T23:00:26.239-04:002015-05-17T23:00:26.239-04:00It sometimes seems that Democrats are too polite t...It sometimes seems that Democrats are too polite to come out and tell plain truths about the conservative agenda, or maybe they're scared it will backfire because Americans will actually like what they hear.<br /><br />For me, THE issue for 2016 is whether the US continues to barge its way into one foreign conflict after another, bankrupting the nation in the process and progressively discrediting it in the eyes of the world, or whether it returns to the more sensible, less interventionist positions between Vietnam and PNAC-9/11. Democrats ought to be warning the American public, at every opportunity, that Republicans are Hell-bent on taking the nation into new wars that will make Iraq and Afghanistan look like tame preliminaries.<br /><br />But perhaps they believe Hillary will do much the same thing. There is that grim possibility.Ken_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709548046018362581noreply@blogger.com