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A new GOP comes out swinging
« on: October 04, 2019, 01:05:17 pm »
October 4, 2019
A new GOP comes out swinging
By J.R. Dunn

One way the Democrats could fulfill their dream of crippling President Trump (as opposed to simply running him out of office) would be to stampede the Republicans, to send them running wild-eyed for shelter from shouted accusations and piercing rays of adverse publicity. There is no shortage of weak-spined GOP officeholders, and it has happened many times before. The Dems had no reason to doubt that it would happen again.

But it’s not happening. Apart from the usual suspects such as Mitt Romney (Romney as Massachusetts governor was the sole politician to hold out against the Bulger brothers, but that was a long time ago), the GOP wall is holding firm with no defector or weak sister of any significance.

One example can be found in the confrontation between Indiana congressman Jim Banks and NPR’s Michel Martin this past Wednesday. Martin was fulfilling NPR’s unwritten charter of putting the wildest fringe leftist thinking into comfortable terms to make them acceptable to the denizens of the suburbs. Banks, a freshman representative who saw service in Afghanistan, wasn’t having any.

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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2019, 01:14:58 pm »
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For generations, the GOP has accepted the role of the battered wife of American politics, cheated, beaten, and manipulated repeatedly with no response whatsoever.

Yep.  Nice guys finish last*
- Leo the Lip.

*The original quote was “The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.”
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2019, 01:19:28 pm »
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A new GOP comes out swinging

If true, that is most definitely new!  Past tendencies have been to roll over and play dead.  Too many instances to cite.
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2019, 01:26:42 pm »
This is a good example, but it is only one.

Deficits still run too high, and immigration issues are being glossed over by most of the GOP.
Obamacare being ripped out root and branch?
Hasn't happened yet.
The GOP, by-and-large, thinks we still need a "better" version of it.
Cultural issues? No, the GOP will allow the campuses to get away with groupthink, no diversity at all, not in thought, anyway, only superficial diversity in colleges, like skin color and gender.
The majority is still afraid the be labeled as an ___ist or a ______phobe if they speak up.

We need more examples like this Mr. Banks before I will be convinced that a wholesale change has taken place.
I hope there are more like him in the wings.
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2019, 01:30:52 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on October 04, 2019, 01:26:42 pm
This is a good example, but it is only one.

Deficits still run too high, and immigration issues are being glossed over by most of the GOP.
Obamacare being ripped out root and branch?
Hasn't happened yet.
The GOP, by-and-large, thinks we still need a "better" version of it.
Cultural issues? No, the GOP will allow the campuses to get away with groupthink, no diversity at all, not in thought, anyway, only superficial diversity in colleges, like skin color and gender.
The majority is still afraid the be labeled as an ___ist or a ______phobe if they speak up.

We need more examples like this Mr. Banks before I will be convinced that a wholesale change has taken place.
I hope there are more like him in the wings.

You are on a roll today @goatprairie!  Keep up the good work!

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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2019, 01:49:23 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on October 04, 2019, 01:26:42 pm
This is a good example, but it is only one.

Deficits still run too high, and immigration issues are being glossed over by most of the GOP.
Obamacare being ripped out root and branch?
Hasn't happened yet.
The GOP, by-and-large, thinks we still need a "better" version of it.
Cultural issues? No, the GOP will allow the campuses to get away with groupthink, no diversity at all, not in thought, anyway, only superficial diversity in colleges, like skin color and gender.
The majority is still afraid the be labeled as an ___ist or a ______phobe if they speak up.

We need more examples like this Mr. Banks before I will be convinced that a wholesale change has taken place.
I hope there are more like him in the wings.

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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2019, 05:11:44 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on October 04, 2019, 01:14:58 pm
Yep.  Nice guys finish last*
- Leo the Lip.

*The original quote was “The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.”
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The actual original quote was this: Nice guys! Look over there. Do you know a nicer guy than [then-Giants manager] Mel Ott? Or any of the other Giants? Why, they’re the nicest guys in the world! And where are they? In seventh place! Nice guys! I’m not a nice guy – and I’m in first place.

It originated in a column by New York Journal-American writer Franklin Graham, who cited Durocher's answer to a question from legendary Dodgers broadcaster Red Barber as to why Durocher couldn't (wouldn't?) be a nice guy for a change. The original headline on the column was, "Leo Doesn't Like Nice Guys."

In the book The Quote Verifier, Ralph Keyes wrote of it, "When Graham’s original column was reprinted in Baseball Digest that fall, Durocher’s reference to nice guys finishing in ‘seventh place’ had been changed to ‘last place’ . . . Before long Leo’s credo was bumper-stickered into ‘Nice guys finish last’.”

The Lip himself didn't help matters any: typical of him, Durocher embraced the "nice guys finish last" mistransposition. Including the title of his eventual memoir and his recollection of the original Graham column. And, in due course, Durocher really proved what a nice guy he wasn't, in the 1951 pennant race. (Hint: The Giants stole the pennant! The Giants stole the pennant!)
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2019, 05:45:25 pm »
1. John McCain cast the deciding vote, retaining Obamacare. A #nevertrumper.

2. Romney (with his proxies McMuffin, Flake etc) lead the #nevertrump pack


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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2019, 07:52:11 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on October 04, 2019, 01:14:58 pm
Yep.  Nice guys finish last*
- Leo the Lip.

*The original quote was “The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.”
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Reagan was a nice guy....where did he finish?
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2019, 08:06:44 pm »
GOP swinging, eh??? Be nice if they hit something once in awhile !!!
More importantly, the GOP leadership and their supporters are light
years apart, over many issues; perhaps the most important being
centralized and intrusive government versus states rights which is
the driver behind the vast majority of the matters that infest DC.
If the GOP is transforming itself, it's both eons overdue and welcome.
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2019, 08:10:46 pm »
Quote from: Absalom on October 04, 2019, 08:06:44 pm
If the GOP is transforming itself, it's both eons overdue and welcome.

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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2019, 08:16:37 pm »
Quote from: Absalom on October 04, 2019, 08:06:44 pm
GOP swinging, eh??? Be nice if they hit something once in awhile !!!
More importantly, the GOP leadership and their supporters are light
years apart, over many issues; perhaps the most important being
centralized and intrusive government versus states rights which is
the driver behind the vast majority of the matters that infest DC.
If the GOP is transforming itself, it's both eons overdue and welcome.

An astute summary, but don't hold your breath.
Until someone forcibly pries the congressional levers of power out of the hands of the Republican Moderates, nothing at all is going to change in the GOP.

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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2019, 08:40:38 pm »
I think the GOP in the House has some backbone.  The senate, not so much.
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Re: A new GOP comes out swinging
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2019, 12:16:48 am »
Without Mr. Trump "showing the way" as to how to fight back against the democrat-communists at a partisan level, NONE of this would be happening.

Anyone else?
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