To be Grand again, Republicans must rediscover honor

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg Opinion

The Jan. 6 committee report promises to be a monument that will outlast every Confederate statue still standing in an American square. The Republican Party remains ill-equipped, morally or politically, to rebuild itself from the ruins depicted by the report, which was released last week. But the building blocks are there if only Republicans can muster the honesty to see them.

In June, at the committee’s first public hearing detailing Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent his democratically elected successor from taking office, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming labeled Trump a menace. But she also condemned her fellow Republicans who had enabled Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, democracy and the republic itself.

“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible,” she said. “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.”

The concept of honor is central to self-government. Without honor and justice informing power, there can be no democratic legitimacy. Political parties, more than most institutions, advertise their devotion to such values. That’s why the GOP calls itself the “Party of Lincoln.” It seeks to bask in the reflected glory of the Great Emancipator, who was both a wartime leader and national healer. That’s why the Democratic Party harks back to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, which elevated everyday Americans, and to John Kennedy, who set out to achieve great things not because they were easy, but because they were hard.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-to-be-grand-again-republicans-must-rediscover-honor/

[Walleye]

1. I remember when Mike Pompeo was asking if he still follow the honor code he pledged at West Point

He said something like, you can’t expect me to still follow that shit, hell I was head of the CIA. I knew then the Republican party was really headed for destruction.

[2naSalit]

2. Never gonna happen in this century.

[lambchopp59]

3. Good luck with that, GOP. More like good riddance.

Just exactly how high can a political platform stack pernicious, anti-scientific, self serving confabulations before completely losing all credibility and respect?
We're watching that real life experiment. They're resorting to lower and lower denominator tactics that's only fooling the lowest IQ base.

[Skittles]

4. they have been GRAND ASSHOLES as long as I can remember

FUCK THEM

[niyad]

5. That assumes, or at least implies, that they had any to begin with.

[Uncle Joe]

6. I believe the GOP can't unless it spontaneously rises from their grassroots.

That party's power structure is an almost straight up vertical column, meaning their leaders are greatly limited in straying outside an extremely narrow foundation.

Ronald Reagan; still considered respectable by many Republicans and yet even he proclaimed "government to be the problem," that spermatozoon was the first public shot across the bow of simple mindedly demeaning all American institutions combined with the ovum of his "11 Commandment" "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" became the fetus of a fascistic party which in time spawned *rump and his war against the U.S. government.

By comparison, the Democratic Party power structure is closer to a pyramid.

Thanks for the thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

[lambchopp59]

7. Honor. Scoff.

I'm going to share something with you that's bothered the crap outta me all my life. Picture it: late 60's, my 9 year old ears able to prick up to anything intriguing: Dallas, Texas, my family went out to their favorite steakhouse restaurant for dinner weekly. I couldn't help, but also listened with piqued curiosity, the corrosively corrupt conversation going on between stuff-suited men in the booth to my back. It served up a fresh, hot plate of political reality to my 9 year old innocence.
The conversation centered around tactics to get elected, and money, money, money and how to best disguise it in political rhetoric. One particular bit of advice this assumed political candidate was given:
"Whenever you're asked an uncomfortable question at one of your events, just ignore it and say "because Jesus and God approves of... whatever..." and they'll be clapping so loud they'll forget the question." This was followed by raucous laughter.
I sort of lost my appetite.
I'm relatively certain since it had to be Republicans.
They've become so practiced at making corruption sound patriotic, religious, pious, upstanding... oh hell any hour of Fox News demonstrates that.
Every republican administration plays on that shit that allows them the same raucous laughter behind the backs of the pious curmudgeons they fool.
It's just the bumbling idiocy of the Trump administration finally bared the worst of this ilk of corruption due to sheer inability of that narcissist to shut his blathering trap.

[marmar]

8. "Grand" Again? When was the before?