As the strangest Republican primary season of modern times enters its final weeks, it seems that each candidate vying for the covenant title of “Washington Outsider” must prove their commitment to an uneducated (and often delusional) voter base by trying to out-crazy the candidate standing next to them. Front runners like Ben Carson and Donald Trump proudly wave their banners of “zero experience in politics, zero qualifications to hold the office of the Presidency and zero tolerance towards anyone who does not fit into their narrow definition of True Blue American”, as they try to beat back the so-called establishment candidates. Candidates who may be just a few shades less crazy than they are and gaining in the polls.
You know your party is in trouble when your most reasonable candidates are Jeb Bush- nitwit brother of George W. who suffers from a chronic case of POTUS envy, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie- a man who went to charm school at “The Michael Grimm Academy for Wayward Assholes” and disgruntled optometrist Rand Paul- whose political career is in such shambles I predict by this time next year the closest he’ll be able to get to politics is filling Rick Perry’s eyeglass prescription.
Now, while this Republican primary season may be full of hateful rhetoric, endless fear mongering and enough ferociously stupid talking points to make you want to face palm yourself into unconsciousness, many political analysts predict the likes of Donald Trump and his supporters are actually driving in the final nails of a party that has been dead 20 years and is just too dumb to realize it. Tea Party Insurgents, Freedom Caucus Obstructionists, and a new breed of uninformed Right Wing Extremists who claim to love their country while simultaneously hating everything about it, have divided what use to be the Grand Old Party into oblivion.
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Like any herpes, the (C)onservative disease will always come back. The GOP is not dead, it is just an animated putrid corpse of a once vital body.
Wish it would just die already. It’s been years hanging there in its final throes of death.
It is actually a very sad thing to view a once viable political party destroyed by fools while idiots stood by and watched it happen
If the most polarizing politician in American history (aside of Barack Obama), Hillary’s elected, the GOP will emerge stronger in 2018 than any remotely sane one of them ever predicted was possible.
I would say nuttier, not stronger.
So you have a thesis and you have an intro, but you have no argument to support your thesis. Why is this the end? It’s not even that different from 2012.
You need a proofreader. Among other mistakes, the word you’re looking for is coveted, not covenant.
They live in a nunnery.
I don’t know…every time I read one of these “the Republican party is doomed” articles, I then watch them take more governorships, statehouses, and federal positions in the the next election. Are they rigging elections? Do these opinion pieces feed democrat/progressive apathy? I wish I could take solace in these words but through years of correlation, they actually create more anxiety that the opposite will manifest.
Foe whatever reason Democrats only come out to vote in national elections and if thy came out in the numbers thy do for the national elections you wouldn’t see Republicans win those other elections.
My sentiments exactly. I’ve been reading about the imminent demise of the Republican party since 1974, when Nixon resigned.