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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDon't usually like Tom Friedman but...
he nails the GOP in today's column:
Todays G.O.P. is to governing what Trump University is to education an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public.
It is just an empty shell, selling pieces of itself to the highest bidders, policy by policy a little to the Tea Party over here, a little to Big Oil over there, a little to the gun lobby, to antitax zealots, to climate-change deniers.
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Et tu, John McCain? You didnt break under torture from the North Vietnamese, but your hunger for re-election is so great that you dont dare raise your voice against Trump? I hope you lose. You deserve to. Marco Rubio? You called Trump a con man, he insults your very being and you still endorse him? Good riddance.
Chris Christie, have you not an ounce of self-respect? Youre serving as the valet to a man who claimed, falsely, that on 9/11, in Jersey City, home to many Arab-Americans, thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Christie is backing a man who made up a baldfaced lie about residents of his own state so that maybe he can be his vice president. Contemptible.
It is just an empty shell, selling pieces of itself to the highest bidders, policy by policy a little to the Tea Party over here, a little to Big Oil over there, a little to the gun lobby, to antitax zealots, to climate-change deniers.
...
Et tu, John McCain? You didnt break under torture from the North Vietnamese, but your hunger for re-election is so great that you dont dare raise your voice against Trump? I hope you lose. You deserve to. Marco Rubio? You called Trump a con man, he insults your very being and you still endorse him? Good riddance.
Chris Christie, have you not an ounce of self-respect? Youre serving as the valet to a man who claimed, falsely, that on 9/11, in Jersey City, home to many Arab-Americans, thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Christie is backing a man who made up a baldfaced lie about residents of his own state so that maybe he can be his vice president. Contemptible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/opinion/dump-the-gop-for-a-grand-new-party.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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Don't usually like Tom Friedman but... (Original Post)
One of the 99
Jun 2016
OP
nruthie
(466 posts)1. Spineless worms.
They are disgusting. The same people who pushed Palin into prominence are behind this Trump thing. They will proudly endorse the devil. Just as long as he's white, that is. The party of Lincoln is now the party of the KKK. They are no longer credible.
6chars
(3,967 posts)2. what you got against Tom Friedman?
he can analyze and synthesize at the national and global level on political, economic and personal issues. as a writer, he is basically without peer.
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)3. He usually leans to the right
and was a huge proponent of the Iraq wars.