How Garbage of a Party is the GOP That Donald Trump is Going to Get Their Nomination

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[bardegaulois]

If he does, then it's a party which respects its popular vote, unlike the Democrats with their superdelegates.

[Ark]

Unstoppable 

[Ash Wednesday]

Your threads are garbage.

[Didacus]

I can't wait to give Trump my vote to be president!!!

 

Whootttt!

[Peace]

Well. Whatever problems the GOP may have, at least it does not think that it is OK to kill unborn children. That is a lot more than the Dems have going for them.

IMHO Trump could have won the Democratic nomination just as easily had he chose to run there, and if you had 17 other Dems running with nobody willing to get out of the race to stop him. I think Trump's rise is illustrative of the extremely poor management and party discipline within the GOP, and speaks to the fact that the GOP is much more fractured than the Democratic party.

But the Dems are still "garbage" because of their failure with respect to various moral issues.

[Nihil Obstat]

10 hours ago, Peace said:

Well. Whatever problems the GOP may have, at least it does not think that it is OK to kill unborn children. That is a lot more than the Dems have going for them.

IMHO Trump could have won the Democratic nomination just as easily had he chose to run there, and if you had 17 other Dems running with nobody willing to get out of the race to stop him. I think Trump's rise is illustrative of the extremely poor management and party discipline within the GOP, and speaks to the fact that the GOP is much more fractured than the Democratic party.

But the Dems are still "garbage" because of their failure with respect to various moral issues.

I wonder if the anti-establishment streak that runs through the current Republican party sort of leads to a situation where they even want to sabotage themselves in order to stick it to 'big government.'

[Papist]

[4588686]

On 3/17/2016, 11:36:42, Nihil Obstat said:

I wonder if the anti-establishment streak that runs through the current Republican party sort of leads to a situation where they even want to sabotage themselves in order to stick it to 'big government.'

I'm sure that's a part of it. Not as much as all the fundraising you can do off of it. But sure. 

On 3/17/2016, 1:07:23, Peace said:

IMHO Trump could have won the Democratic nomination just as easily had he chose to run there, and if you had 17 other Dems running with nobody willing to get out of the race to stop him.

That's ridiculous on a number of levels. 

1-The Democratic electorate is highly hostile to Trump

2-Superdelegates

On 3/16/2016, 12:27:35, bardegaulois said:

If he does, then it's a party which respects its popular vote, unlike the Democrats with their superdelegates.

True. The modern Democratic Party has a lot less institutional tolerance and support for racists. 

[Peace]

20 hours ago, Hasan said:

That's ridiculous on a number of levels. 

1-The Democratic electorate is highly hostile to Trump

So is the Republican electorate.

Many of Trump's ideas (anti-free trade, etc.) are right up the Dems alley. Trump was literally a Dem 5 years ago. And his base is poor, uneducated, working class whites, labor union types who traditionally vote Dem. If you had multiple candidates to split the rest of the votes, which is what happened with the GOP primary, you could have seen Trump squeak out a plurality had he run as a Dem.

We will never know, of course.

[4588686]

On 3/22/2016, 4:14:31, Peace said:

So is the Republican electorate.

Many of Trump's ideas (anti-free trade, etc.) are right up the Dems alley. Trump was literally a Dem 5 years ago. And his base is poor, uneducated, working class whites, labor union types who traditionally vote Dem. If you had multiple candidates to split the rest of the votes, which is what happened with the GOP primary, you could have seen Trump squeak out a plurality had he run as a Dem.

We will never know, of course.

You're just wrong. Your median democratic voter is more favorable on free trade than th median Republican voter. working class, labor unions whites haven't been a reliable Democratic block in years. You're relying on old cliches

 

Trump identified as a Democrat for a time. When he actually wanted to run on a racist campaign. That says something about the Party

Edited March 24, 2016 by Hasan

[Peace]

26 minutes ago, Hasan said:

You're just wrong. Your median democratic voter is more favorable on free trade than th median Republican voter. working class, labor unions whites haven't been a reliable Democratic block in years. You're relying on old cliches

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155138/majority-union-members-favor-obama-third-back-romney.aspx

26 minutes ago, Hasan said:

 

Trump identified as a Democrat for a time. When he actually wanted to run on a racist campaign. That says something about the Party

So if Trump decides to run Democrat next time that makes the Dems racist? How about if he runs on the Green Party ticket? Does that make the Green party racist? I fail to see the logic.

Obviously, the GOP has more of a racism problem than the Dems do. But the fact that Trump run as a Republican than a Democrat does not do much to help prove that point at all.