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kpete

(71,982 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:30 PM Mar 2016

Charles Pierce on what SUPERTUESDAY means for the Republican Party:

The Republican Party's Implosion Has Been a Long Time Coming. Today Is the Day.
I love the smell of reckoning in the morning.


"On Tuesday night, Donald J. Trump is odds-on to win at least seven of the 11 contested Republican presidential primaries. If he does so, he is better than odds-on to be the Republican presidential nominee. The facts are as stark as the slopes of Lookout Mountain in the early morning light. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished, especially by those of us who see the Republicans as having been cruising for this particular bruising ever since it so greedily ate the monkeybrains in the 1980s. But, from the people who make their living at being Republicans, we are seeing the kind of existential panic that you only see once or twice in a century. It's Watership Down, with Super PACs and Mitch McConnell."


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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42569/super-tuesday/
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Charles Pierce on what SUPERTUESDAY means for the Republican Party: (Original Post) kpete Mar 2016 OP
I love Charlie Pierce! Faux pas Mar 2016 #1
"ever since it so greedily ate the monkeybrains in the 1980s" longship Mar 2016 #2
BTW, his intro paragraphs are about the Whigs. longship Mar 2016 #3

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. "ever since it so greedily ate the monkeybrains in the 1980s"
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:55 PM
Mar 2016

Don't you just love a great turn of phrase?


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