GOP - it was easier to choose death

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Never mind the demographic issue that Trump will face with woman and Latino’s, he also will need to do a lot of work to not lose too many Republican who just may not vote, or even vote to Clinton as a few voices have already declared. I enjoyed Meghan McCain’s comment, so I borrowed from her for the thread title. I’ve also seen a few whac-o-nut preacher’s that had endorsed Cruz appear to be giving up on the GOP (at least for this race). Trump did get David Duke celebrating, though I’m not sure if that will help much….
http://time.com/4317643/republican-party-donald-trump-ted-cruz-hillary-clinton-indiana/

“You all should do that,” conservative fireband radio host Steve Deace responded to GOP Chairman Reince Priebus’ call for party unity behind Trump. “But I won’t be one of you all.” He later also posted a photo of a signed registration form with a check mark next to “no party.”

“I registered Republican when I was 18 because I thought free markets and liberty were important,” pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tweeted that night. “Not sure what ‘Republican’ means today.”

Meghan McCain, daughter of 2008 Republican nominee John McCain, summed it up in what sounds like the disheartened epitaph for the Grand Old Party: “I guess when I said in 2012 that my party was going to evolve or it was going to die – it was easier to choose death.”

Now the infamous Glen Beck hasn’t said, what he will do now that God’s anointed candidate slithered free of the anointment oil. But Beck is hardly known for holding to any consistency, so he will probably be touched by God in a month or two in a wet dream, and decide to support Trump.

 

[untermensche]

These Republicans are ignorant liars.

Trump is the embodiment of all they have been running on for decades.

He just does it better, and he is appealing to a constituency that Republicans have been winking at since Reagan.

 

[Rhea]

These Republicans are ignorant liars.

Trump is the embodiment of all they have been running on for decades.

He just does it better, and he is appealing to a constituency that Republicans have been winking at since Reagan.

Yup. Exactly that.

 

[BH]

I used to vote Republican all the time back when I was Church of Christ. The abortion thing pretty much ade up my mind for me. A few years after becoming atheist/agnostic I read an article about how the Republicans plus enough pro-life Democrats controlled enough state legislatures over the then past twenty years since Roe v. Wade (this was around 1995 when I found this out) that they could have overturned the Roe decision through constitutional amendment at least twice, or at least ban them for other than rape or incest- as if rape or incest made the fetus less human anyway. After I found this out I never voted Republican again. I felt used and pimped. They took my morals and used them for immoral things.

My views on abortion have changed somewhat since then but it still irks me that they played politics with what their supporters considered to be actual human lives and did not care.

 

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I used to vote Republican all the time back when I was Church of Christ. The abortion thing pretty much ade up my mind for me. A few years after becoming atheist/agnostic I read an article about how the Republicans plus enough pro-life Democrats controlled enough state legislatures over the then past twenty years since Roe v. Wade (this was around 1995 when I found this out) that they could have overturned the Roe decision through constitutional amendment at least twice, or at least ban them for other than rape or incest- as if rape or incest made the fetus less human anyway. After I found this out I never voted Republican again. I felt used and pimped. They took my morals and used them for immoral things.

My views on abortion have changed somewhat since then but it still irks me that they played politics with what their supporters considered to be actual human lives and did not care.

I'm sure many Repugs and blue dog Dums have played games regarding the abortion issue. Personally, I think Reagan was simply shinning them on, as I don't think he really cared that much. However, I don't really see where the math would work for ramrodding a constitutional amendment thru. It could have never worked with Bill Clinton as Pres. Under the Shrub, they never had a 2/3's voting block necessary to get it thru the House and Senate. The states on their own, would have to call for a Constitutional convention, where the rules get murky, making people nervous about calling for unleashing something they may not be able to control.