Glenn "WTO BLACK HELICOPTERS NEW WORLD ORDER" Beck
... jesus christ. are we actually seeing the crumbling of the GOP? I don't think I believe it.
To be fair he's been badmouthing Trump since he was on the campaign trail with Cruz, but more than anything I'm surprised that he used such soft language about Clinton - "not the end of the world". considering his normal way of speech that's like a ringing endorsement.
- ... jesus christ. are we actually seeing the crumbling of the GOP? I don't think I believe it.
Hmm. I dunno if I'd say that, if only because people can easily claim Trump wasn't a good politician, a true Repiblican, or anything else they can to dismiss him as a blip on the radar. I have two Republican friends that are voting for Trump begrudgingly only because they don't want Hillary have a supreme court choice. I have another Republican friend who is voting for Hillary just because they don't like Trump. I think all three will find any Republican nominee four years from now a breath of fresh air compared to Trump and will vote for them readily and willingly. I think this can probably be said for a lot of Republicans.
The argument is that the GOP pretty much lost control of the situation several months ago and are now attempting to staunch the bleeding. Whereas before it was a "maybe we'll lose the Senate but the House is secure for a decade or more" it's now "Oh fuck protect the Senate and divert resources so that we don't lose a lot of the House". So yeah - "any Republican nominee" but the Republicans wanted Bush, Rubio, Fiorina or one of the other safe choices and what they ended up with "a suicide bomber for their nominee".
Whatever policies and party planks the GOP wanted to run this year, they didn't really get a say. In order to keep the tail from wagging the dog in 2020 they're going to have to exercise some soul-searching followed by some fresh thinking followed by some discipline.
Party discipline against the Democrats' scrambling to hold a coalition together was the Republicans' advantage for a long time, but they've been loosing it since the Tea Party kicked off and it doesn't seem likely they'll get it back that quickly if at all.
How much you wanna bet that Paul Ryan comes out on top of the pile of bodies, dusting rubble off his shoulders, and looking suspiciously like John Boehner?
Paul Ryan is, sadly, the moderate voice of the Republican Party, and his loyalty to the party, and repudiation of Trump will teflon-coat him for the next 20 years, I bet.
And that sucks. Because he's an asshole.
I'm sure he wants that to happen. However, I think anyone who thinks they can predict which way the hurricane blows is as likely to be blown over twice as hard as they are to bend with the wind.
I firmly believe that if anyone had any control or precognition over this cataclysm, it wouldn't be a cataclysm. I suspect that the reason all the adults are staying mum and ducking and covering is they know that the best place to be in a tornado is in the basement.
I wrote #boehnerdodgedabullet the other day as a community tag for another thread. It got overwritten. Some people are humorless.
Make no mistake, the blame for the totally non-functional relationship between the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch lays solidly at the feet of Boehner, and history will not be nice to him.
But yeah... he dodged a Trump-shaped bullet!
And I think John Boehner Jr (aka - Paul Ryan) is made out of pure Teflon. Or maybe we should call it "Clintonium" after Bill Clinton's stint in the White House...
y'all need reform worse than we do. a 2 party system is real bad.
Although we let a third party in, and it turned out to be UKIP :(
While I'm all for the collapse of the GOP, I find it pathetic that Beck is casting aside the very people he's been preaching bullshit to for years. He and his League of Doom created this gollem and he should have to suffer it for all eternity.
Meh. When Trump was locking up the nomination I was sitting in a Popeye's chicken watching CNN and Glenn Beck said if he was put in a room with Trump he'd stab him to death. He said it more colorfully than that but I can't remember the exact phrasing. I'm actually happy the guy has some balls and stuck to convictions instead of rolling over like every other Republican.
I did see on Twitter that Hugh Hewitt called for Trump to step down which was surprising even though it was made known that Trump is an admitted sex criminal. I was also surprised by that.