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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
The hilarious thing to me about the Pence pick were the reports that Donald was up at midnight trying to figure out a way to take it back, just hours after he offered and it was accepted. Of NeverTrump folk, not a single one is placated by the pick. Some pro-life people are happy, and he didn't earn a floor fight over picking a Democrat. I guess that's a win.
I love how he ripped off the Think Progress logo too. That was inspired. And that whole thing about putting down Tim Tebow as a speaker at the convention without actually asking him about it. Trump runs a top organization there.
ETA, I forgot the best part of Pence is how soft he is on immigration. Trump surrogates, like Ann Coulter, are shocked! that he would betray them. Sad!
The GOP isn't worth saving from itself. I am now going long in what to do long term after Trump loses 40 states in November. I am even planning on reading Jeb!'s plan for reconstruction. I yearn for the days when I thought Jeb Bush would be the worst thing to the GOP in 2012.
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Snark aside, what is the basis for a national right or center/right party in the US today? Where is there a political platform that will have demographic appeal outside of the increasingly smaller group of deep red states?
There is a lot in the Republican platform that annoys me, but more interesting is what there is in it that annoys key constituencies. The two big things seem to me how the Republicans relate to their traditional business communities and how they relate to their cultural warriors. These folks don't seem to get along any more.
With the abandonment of free trade in the platform and presidential candidate for the R's, we're left with neither party formally supporting one of our defining business and foreign policy positions worldwide, as an advocate of free-trade capitalism. This is a massive abandonment of the big business/chamber of commerce types in the Republican party.
There's a significant part of the party that is just not on board with the anti-gay stuff, but you aren't going to keep the CINO evangelical crowd on board without hating on gays. Same on choice issues.
Race is a whole separate issue, and a problem that's not new for the R's. They just keep digging that hole that Nixon started to win over the Wallace/Thurmond types.
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