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tgards79

(1,415 posts) Mon May 23, 2016, 03:33 PM May 2016

Grand Old Patty Hearst Syndrome

On the tortured acceptance of Donald Trump by the mainstream GOP...
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2016/05/grand-old-patty-hearst-syndrome.html

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Grand Old Patty Hearst Syndrome (Original Post) tgards79 May 2016 OP

You don't think that's going to happen with the dems? zalinda May 2016 #1

I don't think anything about the Dems... tgards79 May 2016 #2

zalinda

(5,621 posts)

1. You don't think that's going to happen with the dems?

Reply to tgards79 (Original post)

Mon May 23, 2016, 04:17 PM

May 2016

At least with the GOP, there is no one who is beating you over the head with if we lose, it's your fault.

Z

tgards79

(1,415 posts)

2. I don't think anything about the Dems...

Reply to zalinda (Reply #1)

Mon May 23, 2016, 05:03 PM

May 2016

...resembles anything that is going on in the GOP. The Dems are doing Gore/Bradley and Obama/Clinton all over again, albeit with more controversial figures. The GOP is doing something completely unprecedented.

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