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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 12:52 AM Oct 2016

Looks Like Trump Really Cooked His Goose This Time - & The Gooses Of A Lot Of Republican Candidates

I hope Trump really did cook his own goose. In fact I hope burned it to a crisp along with a lot of Republicans.

The refusal to commit to accept election results looks like it was the fatal self inflicted wound. Of course the rest of his performance made matters worse.

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Looks Like Trump Really Cooked His Goose This Time - & The Gooses Of A Lot Of Republican Candidates (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Oct 2016 OP
He cast chain-lightning on his own party. forgotmylogin Oct 2016 #1
LOL Volaris Oct 2016 #2
He is Leroy Jenkins. forgotmylogin Oct 2016 #3
LOL ProfessorPlum Oct 2016 #10
LoL denbot Oct 2016 #4
Dem candidates everywhere can exploit his refusal to accept the election results. Mister Ed Oct 2016 #5
'Tis merely a flesh wound pinboy3niner Oct 2016 #6
Electoral college close to 370 instead of 270. Goldwater style A$$ kicking. sarcasmo Oct 2016 #7
I see this party getting WORSE over time, not better. HughBeaumont Oct 2016 #8
This is the important thing, hand tRump around their necks ... make them disavow him now uponit7771 Oct 2016 #9

Mister Ed

(5,943 posts)
5. Dem candidates everywhere can exploit his refusal to accept the election results.
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 04:53 AM
Oct 2016

They should publicly ask their Republican opponent: "Are you going to accept the results of the presidential election?"

Their opponents will be damned if they do, damned if they don't. If they say that of course they'll accept the results, they'll anger the passionate Trump supporters whose votes they need. If they say they won't necessarily accept the election results, they'll risk losing the votes of (relatively) sane Republicans.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
8. I see this party getting WORSE over time, not better.
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 08:58 AM
Oct 2016

Even their younger candidates suffer the same problem as the older ones do -

Since SarUH Palin came on the scene, the Grand Oil Politburo has made a sharp right turn into a corner, and are trying unsuccessfully to rev themselves out of it. Even their younger candidates . . . the fact is, they just plain and simple GO TOO FAR.

No one wants to live in a world that's economically rigged against the middle/working/poor or where overall human rights get taken away, not improved or added. No one wants to live in a nation under the constant fear of someone or something.

They refuse to get this because they simply aren't wired TO get it.

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