Judging Today's Republicans vs. those 10 Years Ago

[Harry Dresden]

No I don't! I'm not a mind-reader/clairvoyant.
About thirty years of experience on message boards/forums has underscored the value of taking what is posted(said) literally and don't make assumptions.

"good little leftie" is how I would peg you since you are slithering around and engaging CYA and word mincing rather than being honest and forthright.
FWIW, I, and many others whom have dealt with me, would find I'm a "good little rightie".

you and the "good little lefties" here will get along nicely...

 

[Dadoalex]

Yea, remember what was considered nutty 10 years ago? Well, today's Republicans almost make those folks sound sane. Maher breaks it down for you:

To actually make the comparison you'd need to go back to the 80s.
The GOP drive toward insanity really started to take hold with Gingrich but was started in the 70s under Nixon.

 

[Failzero]

To actually make the comparison you'd need to go back to the 80s.
The GOP drive toward insanity really started to take hold with Gingrich but was started in the 70s under Nixon.

George Wallace ( D) Won the 1972 Michigan & Florida Democrat POTUS Primaries ( among others ) and was well on his way to defeating Tricky Dick Nixon ( Wallace was on cover of Time Magazine As “ Our Next President “) until a crazed Republican in a black turtleneck shot him ( ending his political career )

 

[konradv]

We'll see in November and in 2024 how voters judge Republicans vs Democrats.

You really think they’re going to favor 1/6 traitors and Putin-lovers?!?!

 

[kyzr]

You really think they’re going to favor 1/6 traitors and Putin-lovers?!?!

LOL!! 1/6 traitors? You mean the FBI? You haven't seen the results of the court cases?
There were about 400 guys arrested for "trespassing" not "insurrection, duh.

Glad you brought up "Putin Lovers", aka the Biden Crime Family:
Everything Xiden, aka “poopy pants” touches turns to shit
The Brits hold him in CONTEMPT for abandoning AFG
The French pulled their ambassador for abandoning AFG
He pissed off the Canadians by killing the KeystoneXL pipeline, that’s 500,000 bbls a day he killed, Putin loved it.
Xiden sold us out by approving the Nord Stream 2 pipeline giving Putin cash to modernize his military and invade Ukraine, and his “war on energy” keeps fuel costs high. That's why Xiden is "Putin's Whore".
Hope he enjoys the $3,500,000 the Moscow Mayor's wife sent Hunter from Putin.
Hope he enjoys the $1,500,000,000 that China gave Hunter to "invest"
Open borders is a catastrophe. Trump had it SOLVED. Now its infected migrants & fentanyl sent all over
Runaway inflation would get worse if the dems pass their "BBB" bill. That will be Solyndra on steroids, not to mention the $200,000,000 for Nancy’s park in San Francisco.
Xiden is ruining the US energy sector with his stupid EOs, he wants Russia to pump more oil?? Putin is happy! WTF?
Xiden is so dumb he can't even do fake press conferences to answer "ice cream" questions.
Xiden is a gaffe machine, his brain is defective, and he has the nuclear football, WTF???
Xiden surrendered AFG leaving Americans, $billions of equipment, and interpreters to be slaughtered
Xiden’s DOJ sent the FBI after parents (aka domestic terrorists) who dare to ask questions at school board meetings.
China just passed the US out with their new hypersonic missile.
Stupid Joe wants to pay MIGRANTS $450,000 for breaking US immigration LAWS??????
After promising we would have more than enough Covid testing kits, Joe LIED and FAILED.
Xiden killed Israel’s EastMed gas pipeline to sell gas to the EU, Putin’s whore strikes again.
Xiden’s “war on energy” is pushing gas and diesel to unaffordable levels, causing “runaway inflation”, Putin's happy!
Xiden is letting RUSSIA negotiate the new IRAN agreement???? WTF!!!!!! Putin controlling US policy?!
I could go on and on, but you see Trump was at least 1,000,000x better as president than stupid Joe

 

[Stryder50]

I'm glad I don't agree with either party's ideals yet they MUST allow me to live here since I was born here.

Generally speaking, the Conservative~Right~Republicans are about Wealth Creation and increasing related prosperity, with rewards proportionate to investment-efforts-results (profits).

The Pseudo-Liberal~Left~Democrats are about Wealth Redistribution, taking from the productive to give to the less productive, destroying incentive and profit, and increasing the socialist misery to all.

If you can not agree with and side with either "pole" than you will get what you deserve for being a non-committal, wishy-washy, pseudo-citizen.

 

[Stryder50]

To actually make the comparison you'd need to go back to the 80s.
The GOP drive toward insanity really started to take hold with Gingrich but was started in the 70s under Nixon.

And the Democrat drive toward treason and insurrection began in 1968 in Chicago.

 

[The_Lyrical_Miracle]

10 years ago we had:

Michelle Bachman (batshit)
Sarah Palin (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
John Boehner (garbage)
Paul Ryan (garbage)

Current Day we have:

Marjorie Taylor Green (bathshit)
Lauren Boebert (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
Kevin McCarthy (garbage)
Ted Cruz (garbage)

Seems about even to me, honestly.

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders was a communist crazed old man. Today, he is a moderate, valued, respected member of the democrat party.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

10 years ago we had:

Michelle Bachman (batshit)
Sarah Palin (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
John Boehner (garbage)
Paul Ryan (garbage)

Current Day we have:

Marjorie Taylor Green (bathshit)
Lauren Boebert (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
Kevin McCarthy (garbage)
Ted Cruz (garbage)

Seems about even to me, honestly.

November is going to be really painful for you.

 

[basquebromance]

Ohio Republican David Pepper BEFORE 2016 wrote a novel about Russia interfering in American elections, called "The People's House"

 

[lennypartiv]

both sides have some of the worst politicians we have ever seen....

Yes but give us credit for trying to get rid of the RINOs.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yes but give us credit for trying to get rid of the RINOs.

lots of the die hard righties are pretty shitty too....

 

[Failzero]

Todays Republicans tend to be GTG with (Pathway/Amnesty) ( Turbocharged LGBTQPN Rights/Gay Marriage) (Socialized Medicine ) ( Legalized Drugs) ( Sensible Firearms Restrictions ) ...

 

[Dadoalex]

George Wallace ( D) Won the 1972 Michigan & Florida Democrat POTUS Primaries ( among others ) and was well on his way to defeating Tricky Dick Nixon ( Wallace was on cover of Time Magazine As “ Our Next President “) until a crazed Republican in a black turtleneck shot him ( ending his political career )

Your point?

 

[BluesLegend]

We'll see in November and in 2024 how voters judge Republicans vs Democrats.

The radical left Dem minority is going to get ***** slapped by voters.

 

[Dadoalex]

And the Democrat drive toward treason and insurrection began in 1968 in Chicago.

If your knowledge of history is so limited perhaps you'd look a little less stupid by not commenting on it.

 

[BluesLegend]

This thread reflects the elitist master race mentality of Dem politicians, and their loathing of average Americans who are their boss.

 

[Failzero]

Your point?

That was the last gasp of any semblence
Of “ Far Right” on the
American Political Landscape.

 

[Stryder50]

Yes but give us credit for trying to get rid of the RINOs.

If one were to consider the current USA political/ideology spectrum as a circular "pie", the Democrat Party (DNC) has shifted so far to the extreme Left in the past 50+ years as to exclude many whom would have been "Democrats" "back then". It's highly doubtful that either FDR or JFK would gather $upport and endorsement from current DNC were those 'political persons' here today.

The Democrats/DNC fill a slightly less than one quarter "slice of the pie" so to speak. That means that as the only other viable and major political party in the USA, the Republicans (RNC) have their quarter slice of the pie in form of stanch Conservatives and the other half(two quarters plus) of the "pie"; the "others", whom can only be considered RINO/CINO*, would have to be in the assorted "third parties" which have little resources or membership to be viable contenders, or squeeze into the GOP somehow.

RINO/CINO is essentially just those whom aren't "Radical Leftist" enough to get $upport and backing from the extreme socialist/communist Democrat Party, nor strongly Conservative enough to be considered "real" Republicans.

Since RINO/CINO are near automatically rejected by the Democrats, their only place for acceptance would/could be in the Republican tent, which is more expansive and encompassing.

Many of us in the GOP aren't trying to get rid of the "RINOs(CINOs)" but rather trying to find ways to fit them in.

* RINO/CINO = Republican In Name Only/Conservative In Name Only.

 

[struth]

He got more than his first term as well. That is what population growth will do

wow a lot of people turned 18 in between those two elections