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What the new Republican party can't understand

Posted: Oct 30, 2015

I was talking to a Republican this week who, to paraphrase him, said that the Republicans have offered the country what it wants, a woman presidental candidate and one of color.

NO! That is not what we want. We want candidates who are intelligent and capable. What you've offered us is incompetence and labels. It isn't important to have a woman president unless she knows the issues, as Hillary Clinton does. It most certainly doesn't help to have a person of color unless they actually know the issues, and last year's '999' and this year's crazy-statement-of-the-day candidate just don't cut it.

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Your "republican friend" does not represent all in the party. - It's about ideas. The "new" republi

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party must be the new meme now.

What new party? They all agree with the Democrats save Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.

Did you hear Joy Behar making fun of Carly Fiorina's - face? Party of diversity liberals?

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Only if you are a leftist. Otherwise, regardless of color or gender, they make fun of you.

Meanwhile, TV networks lobbyist are fundraising for Hillary. So much for objectivity.

Joy Behar is just a liberal hack. - Ignore her.

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Joy Behar... ugh.. used to think she was funny, - but she is one mean liberal!! nm

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Yes it is about ideas - bad ideas but no facts or common sense - Agree

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They have some very bad ideas and none of them based on fact or common sense. Just lots of drama. Personally I've had enough of all the drama. I'm now an Independent. I will never again vote Republican until they regain sanity again, and I really don't think they ever will. I believe the Republican party will be history either by this election or the next one.

Dream on! The Republican party is here to stay.. - I used to be a Dem... until Obama

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and Hillary is as bad or worse... phonies acting as if they care about "the people" when in reality, they don't care at all about us. They just care about their legacy, whether it requires lies and cover-ups, they will do whatever it takes. I actually see a LOT of good ideas coming from the Republicans, but between the biased media and people like you, it is difficult to get those ideas out there. ...and DRAMA you say? Drama is on the liberal side,, ie the debate the other night, with all their snarky and disrespectful and off-topic ridiculous questions. They LOVE to create the drama... that was a sickening display of garbage from some petty liberal moderators.

I've been watching some top GOP officials say it is about to dissolve and disband - Okay with me and here is why

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The moderate Republicans can put together a new party and leave the extremists behind. It will take quite a few years to get it going, but it will sure be better than what we have now with all the weirdness.

That would be the T-Party, but the Republicans - tried to keep them in the party

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The media cartel calls Republicans who try to stop - Obama's agenda "extremist"

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and it's so predictable.

American people, not 'media' call GOP who bypass the will of the people extremists - American Citizen Against Extremists

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President Obama was elected---twice---and could be elected again. The Republican extremists want to bypass the will of the American people. That is horribly, horribly wrong. They do not behave as patriotic American citizens. They are bullies, and the American people are tired of it.

It sounds as though your friend doesn't think that Ben Carson - and Carly Fiorina are actually

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real republican candidates, but rather were somehow "chosen."

Look how the media characterizes blacks and women who aren't liberal. They are made fun of and mocked.

That is NOT how the media characterizes them - it is how normal everyday people characterize them

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How anyone can think that the Republican candidates represent diversity just because they are different colors and sexes is bizarre. They all espouse the same policies.

Terrible policies for the likes of us, such as raising the retirement age, NOT dealing with immigration reform except with bizarre ideas like Trump's wall, getting their grubby hands on our Social Security and Medicare, cutting taxes for billionaires and corporations, denying climate change and not embracing new forms of energy, etc., etc., etc.

Name one policy that they truly differ on. Nada. That's why their debates descend into name calling and yelling at each other, each trying to be more outrageous than the next, a means of deflecting attention from their necessary unwillingness to have a real discussion about policy and the direction of this country. If they did they would be exposed as the corporate shill Koch puppets they are.

There are no issues they want to talk about because there are no issues where they differ.

There are no new ideas in the Republican party, certainly nothing to help us middle/lower class people out of this rut we have been put in with offshoring and deregulation of the workplace in terms of having very few rights as employees.

The only place for the likes of us in their plan is having to retire later and them taking away the few things that remain, such as Social Security, Medicare, and even minimum wage they want to do away with. How anyone thinks they have answers to anything is beyond me.

Not made fun of or mocked. The fact is, they are not presidential material - nm

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And so it goes-RNC cancels Feb debate on NBC - sm

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If they can't cut it in a debate setting, how can any of them be considered for president? Fine with me.

They just can't take it - Taking their ball and going home!

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Typical

NO ! They are standing up against the bias and hatred - and complete unfairness

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coming from a liberal media. But, then, you don't care about fairness, do you? nah...

Of course they are, even though one moderator formed the T-party and others are Republicans - They are just standing up for justice against thei

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Poor things. Their own party members and leaders turned against them. What ever will happen to them now. They've been rejected, mocked, and spurned.

Only one thing can be done: WHINE!

I loved to see Hillary with Rush as a moderator. She couldn't - cut it. That's what it's like for

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Republicans, hostile moderators trying to pit each candidate against each other. They don't do that to Democrats. It's so obvious.

Except the real reason is that you have to - ask actual questions

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You have to be based in reality and ask questions about policies and ideas.

Since Limbaugh has never demonstrated any willingness to ask anyone anything - he much prefers telling everyone everything (everyone who proudly is a dittohead, that is, because no free thought allowed in that environment), it's all Limbaugh's ideas all the time and nothing else allowed.

Yeah, that wouldn't work at all. Rush Limbaugh is the biggest blowhard on the right, and that's saying something, plus he wouldn't agree to it because he wouldn't be allowed to tell them to shut up which would probably be after every question, he just could not handle the truthful answers and his ears would bleed.

I am embarrassed for Missouri, who actually erected a statue to this pompous jerk in their state capitol! Hey, Missouri, minorities and women live there too, did you ask them if that want that before you idolized such a nasty piece of garbage?

Pitting each candidate against each other by asking them genuine questions, is that what you think that Republican debate was?

The Republican debates are only jokes because all the candidates would rather do smoke and mirrors than answer questions truthfully. They have nothing to offer I'm afraid, and they know it, and they all have the same dumb policy goals which they don't want us to realize.

Rush is comfortable in his skin and is used to comments like - this. He just wants someone to

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be the next president who knows we are losing the country. I think it's already lost.

What is this love for 'comfortable in his own skin' GOPers keep using - Used when people are otherwise inappropriate

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Jeb seems like a nice guy, but he is a terrible candidate. He says all the wrong things. He means what he is saying, but he has been a disaster. So now I read from the GOP that he is 'comfortable in his own skin' for whatever that means.

Rush Limbaugh is 'comfortable in his own skin.' What on earth is causing GOPers to describe their own in that particularly disturbing manner. It's a little disturbing to even think about.

It appears that whenever you typically do things that are otherwise inappropriate and unacceptable, you are being 'comfortable' in your own skin. Yuck! I think I'd find another descriptor if I were a GOPer.

LOL! Hillary is either incompetent or a liar - Both are bad.. and she is horrible..nm

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