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========== Unfortunately, a black candidate would encourage the white supremacists to stay home on election day, and the GOP needs every one of their votes, along with all the other single-issue constituencies they court to defend minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/opinion/tim-scott-scorecard.html But it's moot; if GOP nominates anybody else, Trump will run against him as a third party - even if he's broke and in jail. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Unfortunately, a black candidate would encourage the topic gop wordrate 0 words 63 epoch Lifetime ID 1937881516556358 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/23/2023 23:05" reach 6 title "Opinion | ‘A Tim Scott Nomination Would Be a Nightmare for Joe Biden’: Our Columnists Weigh In on the G.O.P. Candidate" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1937881516556358 ========== The mistake every other campaign is making is that they see their path to the nomination through Trump, when our path is alongside Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-election-2024-republican-nomination.html ??? None of the voters he's talking to could explain what he means. Maybe he's just angling for a cabinet position. Trump isn't worried - he knows his voters. #PS1gop ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-23 ratio 7 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title The mistake every other campaign is making is that they topic gop wordrate 0 words 54 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1937878776556632 impress 9 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/23/2023 23:05" reach 7 title "Opinion | There’s Another Businessman Who Wants to Run America" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1937878776556632 ========== the perennial primary to become the conservative icon of NPR listeners and humanities professors everywhere https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/23/gop-nomination-president-moderate-sununu-hutchinson/ Sorry guys. If you don't want a Trumpist to be president, you have to tell people to vote Democratic. If you don't want a Democratic president, you have to tell people to vote for Trump. There is no credible third way this time. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title the perennial primary to become the conservative icon of topic gop wordrate 0 words 59 epoch Lifetime ID 1937867486557761 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/23/2023 22:05" reach 7 title "Opinion | The quiet race to be the GOP’s biggest loser in 2024 begins" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1937867486557761 ========== NRCC Every Member Canvas 18 questions in 2008 - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/18-questions-from-the-nrc_b_100889 It's up to 29 questions now. It's got some great questions! But everything they attribute to Democrats - is actually about GOP policy. Do you favor Republican efforts to make the Federal Tax Code simpler and fairer and make it less complicated and cumbersome to individuals and corporations? You mean like the GOP 2017 billionaire tax relief? https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ How concerned are you that Biden's 87,000 new IRS agents will be unleashed on fixed-income, middle-class, and lower-income individuals rather than the ultra-wealthy Democrat donor class? Most of them are replacing retirees, most of which were not involved with enforcement. It's the LACK of enforcement against the ultra-wealthy GOP megadonor class that owns GOP politicians that should concern everybody. And more of the same, ending the same way - asking for more money to take the burden off those hard-working job creator megadonors. #PS1gop https://www.huffpost.com/entry/18-questions-from-the-nrc_b_100889 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title NRCC Every Member Canvas topic gop wordrate 0 words 150 epoch Lifetime ID 1937125733298603 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/22/2023 19:05" reach 11 title "18 Questions *From* Congressional Republicans" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1937125733298603 ========== An exercise in futility. No doubt Tim Scott would be a better president than Trump or DeSantis. But that's such a low bar. But if Trump is not the GOP nominee, he'll surely run as a third party, even if broke and in jail. No GOP is magnetic enough to draw enough independents and swing voters to replace the Trump base. https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-2024-presidential-race-4a73e00db2295afbc4b07d1c6bb64811 Trump obviously doesn't consider Scott a threat - Trump must have concluded that Scott was angling for a cabinet post in the next Trump administration - Trump nonetheless struck a conciliatory tone Monday, welcoming Scott to the race and noting that the pair worked together on his administration’s signature tax cuts. Scott worked on the 2017 billionaire tax relief - which was McConnell's masterpiece, not Trumps? That makes Scott just another defender of minority rule after all. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title An exercise in futility. No doubt Tim Scott would be topic gop wordrate 0 words 139 epoch Lifetime ID 1937039983307178 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/22/2023 15:05" reach 7 title "Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential bid seeking optimistic contrast with other top rivals" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1937039983307178 ========== It's not that hard to figure out the GOP program - it's to defend minority rule by the ruling class. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Very feudal, as befits a Dixiecrat party - laws are for the ruling class to apply to the masses. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/republican-legislatures-abortion-trangender-education.html Because they still have to win elections in some states, they have to pretend to be interested in something else - something that attracts single-issue voters that will vote to protect minority rule candidates who protect their single issue. The megadonors fund candidates who can successfully manage to say three different things at once, to the Trump base, to the independent/swing voters, and above all, to the megadonors. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-19 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title It's not that hard to figure out the GOP program - it's topic gop wordrate 0 words 108 epoch Lifetime ID 1935152113495965 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/19/2023 21:05" reach 9 title "Opinion | The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1935152113495965 ========== To understand the GOP in 2023, you have to look at the Whigs in 1855 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Collapse,_1853%E2%80%931856 They eventually discovered that pro-slavery pro-minority rule could not co-exist with anti-slavery pro-democracy. The fragments of the Whigs eventually became anti-slavery pro-democracy Republicans or pro-slavery pro-minority-rule Democrats. Amazingly, within 115 years, these parties had swapped roles and ideologies. Just as amazingly, the Republicans seem to have locked in the same course as the Whigs. In 2023, the pro-minority-rule cult-of-personality GOP can't coexist with the rule-of-law GOP. Trump doesn't care about the latter and neither does his base - https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-president-cnn-2024-69921c48683f26c02eb799513e8e5754 The rule-of-law GOP has a bitter choice - nominate Trump for president and alienate swing voters and risk losing power in Congress - or nominate somebody else so Trump will run as a third party and take his base with him - guaranteeing a historic Democratic victory. That's just another reason why GOP legislators go to such great lengths to avoid giving a straight answer to any straight question. They'd rather talk about Hunter Biden's laptop! The GOP megadonors seem to have made up their minds - any kind of Trumpist in office is a distraction that benefits them and their program. They'll be happy to provide the GOP winner with all the $upport he needs to keep the focus ON Hunter Biden's laptop, and OFF their actual agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, entitlement reform, and reactionary judiciary, all to benefit the megadonor class #PS1gop ===== impact 24 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-11 ratio 13 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title To understand the GOP in 2023, you have to look at the topic gop wordrate 0 words 239 epoch Lifetime ID 1930152913995885 impress 19 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/11/2023 17:05" rcs 1 reach 13 sharesimpress 1 title "Trump's defiance at the CNN town hall may scare off many voters — but not the GOP base" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1930152913995885 ========== Nobody is too corrupt to be a part of McCarthy's five-vote majority! McCarthy can't afford to lose a single vote. Santos can't afford to resign. https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-federal-charges-updates-33667a0900271e5002459ab748d8fdc8 #PS1gop ===== impact 3 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-05-11 ratio 5 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Nobody is too corrupt to be a part of McCarthy's five-vote topic gop wordrate 0 words 26 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1929893920688451 impress 8 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/11/2023 06:05" reach 5 title "George Santos pleads not guilty to federal indictment and says he won't resign" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1929893920688451 ========== It's the Golden Rule! He who has the gold, makes the rules. many, perhaps most, Republicans in Congress aren't culture-war zealots. Instead, they're careerists who depend, both for campaign contributions and for post-Congress career prospects, on the same billionaires who have supported right-wing economic ideology for decades. They won't stand up to the crazies and conspiracy theorists, but their own agenda is still tax cuts for the rich and benefit cuts for the poor and middle class https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/jan/15/opinion-why-republican-politicians-hate-medicare-tfp/ #PS1gop ===== impact 16 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-01-15 ratio 5 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title It's the Golden Rule! He who has the gold, makes topic gop wordrate 0 words 78 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1853005438377300 impress 13 matchedlinkclicks 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/15/2023 21:01" reach 10 title "Opinion: Why Republican politicians still hate Medicare | Chattanooga Times Free Press" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1853005438377300 ========== Remember Benghazi! https://msnbc.com/msnbc/kevin-mccarthy-credits-benghazi-committee-clinton-damage-msna693201 You cannot overstate the importance of spectacle to the MAGA right’s political project. Much of what this new committee does will be designed to create mere impressions of coverups, of wrongdoings https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/09/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-trump-investigations-mar-a-lago-jan-6/ #PS1gop ===== impact 3 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-01-09 ratio 11 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Remember Benghazi! topic gop wordrate 0 words 34 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1848550632156114 impress 13 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/09/2023 16:01" reach 11 title "Opinion | Kevin McCarthy reveals how the MAGA House will protect Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1848550632156114 ========== a supermajority of 3/5 to sign off on any tax increases - to protect the megadonors via legislative paralysis - https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/politics/new-challenges-what-matters/index.html the predictable outcome of handing power to the unhinged” https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/opinions/kevin-mccarthy-chaotic-victory-opinion-column-galant/index.html This is the moment for rational House Republicans to make their stand https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/07/opinions/mccarthy-speaker-vote-house-republicans-dent #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-01-08 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title a supermajority of 3/5 to sign off on any tax increases - topic gop wordrate 0 words 42 epoch Lifetime ID 1847837648894079 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/08/2023 15:01" reach 9 title "Opinion: The deal McCarthy struck was an inexplicable act of self-destruction | CNN" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1847837648894079 ========== McCarthy WON - the right to confront Gaetz and all the bomb throwers. Over and over until they vote him out. He also won the right to meekly obey them until the saner GOP members vote him out. https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-government-e986c620149b72030bb418bd5fadb4a2 As Franklin might have said - A Speakership - if you can keep it! https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-mike-rogers-lunged-at-rep-matt-gaetz-after-kevin-mccarthy-failed-to-win-a-14th-vote-for-house-speaker/ar-AA163YJT To the Freischütze-macht-Freiheit caucus, floor fights is not a metaphor but democracy in action. Or at least mob rule in action. If not lynch mob insurrection in action. This drama is just beginning! As in debt limit and funding the government. At least all the GOP members can agree on protecting their vital megadonors by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting IRS enforcement on the wealthy and endless investigations of the Biden administration. But it took McCarthy four days to win the speakership - can he hold on to it for four days after Congress tackles anything else? Or do we go through this whole process every month? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html The first test comes tomorrow - is a majority in favor of ceding superpowers to a radical minority? https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-kevin-mccarthy-house-of-representatives-4922d22689eb79d5d05c1b49ca733123 Appeasement, or ransoming hostages, seldom work. They just encourage the crazies to ask for even more. == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1gop ===== comments 201 impact 84159 impactrate 9 negative 0 posted 2023-01-08 ratio 2 react 4187 reactrate 0 shares 13 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3973 title McCarthy WON - the right to confront Gaetz and all the topic gop wordrate 0 words 201 audclicks 3973 commentsimpress 201 epoch Lifetime ID 1847596632251514 impress 13718 matchedlinkclicks 1050 matchedotherclicks 2923 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/08/2023 07:01" rcs 284 reach 10106 reactions 70 sharesimpress 13 title "Rep. Mike Rogers lunged at Rep. Matt Gaetz after Kevin McCarthy failed to win a 14th vote for House speaker" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1847596632251514 ========== Still no Speaker in the House - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html But more people are taking another look at coalition bipartisanship and de-politicizing the Speaker office. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/politics/mccarthy-speaker-vote-stalemate-what-matters/index.html Eventually everybody will realize that the Republicans did not win a majority in 2022. Neither did the Democrats. A tiny extreme faction is trying to control the whole show, just as in European parliaments. The 200 unfringe GOP members need to realize that to accomplish whatever they intend, they need to decouple from the fringe members and find a candidate that 20 Democrats can accept for the good of the country - and the free world. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/politics/mccarthy-desperation-speaker-analysis/index.html Then the current crisis will turn into a healthy turning point for the country. #PS1gop ===== impact 23 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-01-05 ratio 3 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Still no Speaker in the House - topic gop wordrate 0 words 113 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1845792095765301 impress 10 matchedlinkclicks 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/05/2023 16:01" reach 7 title "The most obvious speaker solution is also the most radical | CNN Politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1845792095765301 ========== TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/04/trump-mccarthy-republicans-speaker/ Trump managed to accidentally hit the nail right on the head! The Dixiecrats who started moving to the GOP in the 1960's and began to take control with Newt Gingrich in the 1990's, have completed their acquisition and now have total control and power - because Trump and Murdoch and all the other merry pranksters gave it to them by doing whatever they wanted to keep them in the GOP. Now they think it's their turn to clean house of the members they don't like. Boebert said Trump called the defectors to tell them “they need to knock this off.” Boebert, among 20 Republicans who voted for Republican Byron Donalds (Fla.), said Trump should do the opposite — call McCarthy and tell him he lacks the votes and should withdraw What could be clearer? The only way out is for the tiny minority of 200 other GOP House members to boldly attack the 20 titans and throw THEM out of the GOP conference, with the help of 20 Democrats who might well be available for this righteous cause. Offer those Democrats the committee chairmanships that McCarthy wanted to give the wackos. You don't cure cancer by cultivating it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/04/mccarthy-may-not-have-votes-become-speaker-does-any-republican/ Appeasing the Dixiecrats didn't work for Boehner, it didn't work for Ryan, and it's not working for McCarthy. So just keep at it and let the GOP Whig itself into oblivion? The better part of the Whigs became the nucleus of a radical new party in 1854, and maybe that history needs to repeat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)#19th_century When all was said and done, the Whigs were an incompatible conglomerate of anti-slavery vs pro-slavery factions - majority vs minority rule. The modern GOP is pretty much for minority rule, because that's where the unlimited dark campaign money comes from, https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law But it's now become another incompatible conglomerate - of fact-based vs fantasy-based epistemology, and rule-of-law vs cult-of-personality. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist The fact-based rule-of-law conservatives need to realize that the fantasy-based cult-of-personality fringe is never going to lead them to accomplish anything remotely related to traditional conservative principles - they are even more opposed to traditional conservatives than they are to Democrats. https://apnews.com/article/house-speaker-vote-updates-669e23dc963da9579ab10e4b3da78911 It should soon be even clearer who really believes what. == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1gop ===== comments 86 hide 1 impact 119961 impactrate 12 negative 1 posted 2023-01-04 ratio 2 react 3182 reactrate 0 shares 13 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3082 title TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT topic gop wordrate 0 words 377 audclicks 3082 commentsimpress 86 epoch Lifetime hideclicksusers 1 ID 1845081635836347 impress 12502 matchedlinkclicks 729 matchedotherclicks 2353 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/04/2023 15:01" rcs 201 reach 7829 reactions 102 sharesimpress 13 title "Trump urges support for McCarthy, warns GOP about embarrassment" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1845081635836347 ========== Yes, we have no Speaker in the House. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html Thus - Mission Accomplished! The lunatic fringe promised to honor their Dixiecrat and Tea Party heritage by bringing things to a complete halt until they got their way in every detail on every issue. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/republican-speaker-chaos-analysis/index.html Freischütze-macht-Freiheit Caucus election deniers still have six magic bullets. Will they use every last one? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/03/mccarthy-defectors-election-deniers/ Not Scalise either? https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/02/politics/mccarthy-floor-fight-steve-scalise/index.html The other 200 GOP members could get more than the 20 votes they need if they nominated a GOP problem solver for GOP Speaker! Fox weighs in, seemingly surprised by the damage they did so much to wreak - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-falls-short-second-house-speaker-vote-19-republican-defectors-back-jordan https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/looking-like-idiots-multiple-fox-news-meltdowns-amid-mccarthy-turmoil/ar-AA15WBAA You should not take this job if it’s about your ego and your own personal agenda,” Kilmeade emphasized. “The whole thing should be service for the country Where has he been the last 6 years? Cult of personality is ALL ego! https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-friends-nails-republicans-not-193301063.html More - https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/politics/house-speaker-vote-mccarthy/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/politics/mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-what-matters/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/opinions/gop-battle-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-filipovic/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/03/kevin-mccarthy-faces-open-gop-revolt-house-fails-elect-speaker/ McCarthy says Trump still backs him, but Trump hates to be associated with losers, especially losers that turned on him, if every so briefly after the insurrection. https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-669e23dc963da9579ab10e4b3da78911 #PS1gop ===== comments 1 impact 51 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-01-03 ratio 4 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Yes, we have no Speaker in the House. topic gop wordrate 0 words 170 audclicks 1 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1844607612550416 impress 17 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/03/2023 23:01" rcs 2 reach 14 sharesimpress 1 title "McCarthy's bid for speaker to continue, Trump urges support" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1844607612550416 ========== Is there a Speaker in the House? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html A suspenseful day today! https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-us-republican-party-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-8b1d6cdf0d75dfc95b195c301f9ae344 McCarthy can perhaps win if he agrees to let the Freischütze-macht-Freiheit Caucus hold a cocked gun to his head with a magic bullet - the motion to vacate - that they can fire if he ever fails to follow their orders. Of course a do-nothing Congress is fine with them and their megadonors - the more talk on Fox and the less legislating, the better. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-01-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Is there a Speaker in the House? topic gop wordrate 0 words 77 epoch Lifetime ID 1844073269270517 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/03/2023 05:01" reach 11 title "New Congress to convene, but will McCarthy be House speaker?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1844073269270517 ========== Johnson is trying but not succeeding very much. https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-speaker-johnson-government-shutdown-afb4c4602375383a7dc1c649eeb4e5aa He seems destined to follow McCarthy, Ryan, and Boehner into retirement. But he did get a continuing resolution passed, which just kicks the can a very short distance down the road, but that's more than McCarthy could do. And it looks very possible that George Santos will be expelled with some GOP votes, even though he has been reliably voting Trumpist in hopes of keeping out of jail. So a couple of dim lights glowing in the Stygian darkness of the House. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-11-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Johnson is trying but not succeeding very much. topic gop wordrate 0 words 91 epoch Lifetime ID 730062372501707 impress 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/18/2023 11:11" reach 2 title "Tempers flare and bills languish as Speaker Johnson confronts the same problems that vexed McCarthy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/730062372501707 ========== The golden rule of politics, again - he who has the gold, makes the rules. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/israel-the-i-r-s-and-the-big-grift/ In this case, every GOP legislator knows that job #1 is protecting the megadonors. Talk about Israel, or deficits, is just a smoke screen. Tax enforcement actually pays for itself - unlike the usual GOP budget cutting, which does not generate enough economic activity to offset the cuts. But it does generate enough megadonor activity to offset the next primary. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-11-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The golden rule of politics, again - he who has the gold, topic gop wordrate 0 words 76 epoch Lifetime ID 723528473155097 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/06/2023 16:11" reach 5 title "Israel, the IRS and the Big Grift | Paul Krugman" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/723528473155097 ========== The Golden Rule of politics - he who has the gold, makes the rules. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-11-02/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-california-republicans-biden In their blood lust, the Freischütz Caucus seems to have forgotten that.. The Democrats are hoping to pick up all the California swing districts in the House next year, and so far there's no indication that Johnson has McCarthy's golden touch. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-11-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The Golden Rule of politics - he who has the gold, makes topic gop wordrate 0 words 56 epoch Lifetime ID 723316293176315 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/06/2023 07:11" reach 5 title "Why the fall of Kevin McCarthy leaves California Republicans in a tough spot" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/723316293176315 ========== Will Johnson ever give a straight answer to a straight question? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/25/johnson-speaker-republicans/ Probably not in public! Will House GOP choose him anyway? No Democratic votes. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-26 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Will Johnson ever give a straight answer to a straight topic gop wordrate 0 words 25 epoch Lifetime ID 717519273756017 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/26/2023 17:10" reach 3 title "Analysis | Shouting down an election-denial question embodies the Republicans’ problem" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/717519273756017 ========== We don’t deserve the majority if we give the Democrats control over the House of Representatives https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/24/government-shutdown-house-speaker/ GOP doesn't HAVE a majority - neither Freischütz Caucus nor the duck-and-cover GOP. Will they realize before the next election moderate Democrats costs less than Freischütz? #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-24 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title We don’t deserve the majority if we give the Democrats topic gop wordrate 0 words 43 epoch Lifetime ID 716133147227963 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/24/2023 07:10" reach 9 title "Republicans can’t open the House, which could shut down the government" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716133147227963 ========== Look out candidates! Arthur Bremer is out, and he had no ideological quarrel with George Wallace - he just wanted to be famous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bremer It's no wonder the modern GOP is so Dixiecrat - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/19/republican-civil-war-house-gop-jim-jordan-speaker-fight/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/20/threats-havent-saved-jordan-trump-era-intimidation-has-had-an-impact/ Because that's where it reinvented itself - Thurmond-Wallace-Nixon-Gingrich-Trump- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/20/george-wallace-presaged-donald-trump-republicans/ #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-20 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Look out candidates! Arthur Bremer is out, and he had no topic gop wordrate 0 words 42 epoch Lifetime ID 713983377442940 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/20/2023 13:10" reach 9 title "Opinion | Trump and today’s repulsive politics echo George Wallace in 1968" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/713983377442940 ========== it’s not a normal majority It's not a majority at all! It's two irreconcilable, radically different, ideas of government. Maybe the seventh try will be the charm! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz Like Trump, despite all rational evidence, Jordan is convinced that the people are with him, and the few holdouts can be bullied into line. https://apnews.com/article/jim-jordan-house-speaker-mccarthy-trump-f2b2bf9dc834742bde93d5fc918d9940 #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-20 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title it’s not a normal majority topic gop wordrate 0 words 52 epoch Lifetime ID 713935080781103 impress 26 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/20/2023 11:10" reach 8 title "Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on a first ballot, signaling more turmoil ahead" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/713935080781103 ========== The best way to elect Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/11/mitt-romney-gop-challenger-trump/ One good way is to get an almost-viable GOP nominee instead of Trump - so Trump runs as a third party or write-in. Another is to get an almost-viable third-party nominee to run against Trump and Biden. Either way, the non-Trump draws votes from Biden, not from the Trump base, and increases the odds of an outright Trump victory or a corrupt bargain in the House. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The best way to elect Trump? topic gop wordrate 0 words 73 epoch Lifetime ID 712686274239317 impress 17 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/18/2023 07:10" reach 7 title "Mitt Romney urges his donors to coalesce behind one challenger to Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/712686274239317 ========== Freischütz Caucus Founder Jordan for Speaker? https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-scalise-jordan-mccarthy-trump-ced017e71de967a7e327cba7e502926a That's definitely crossing the Rubicon, not the Jordan, toward a reactionary Grab-Of-Power GOP that doesn't even pretend to be interested in anything except defending minority rule by shutting down the Federal government, lowering taxes for the megadonors, lowering benefits for the masses, deregulation for the megadonors, limiting democracy to old white male megadonors, and ignoring the rest of the world. Government of the megadonors, by the megadonors, for the megadonors! Are there five House Republicans that won't go along with that? That's about all it takes. It's better for them to find their consciences, and remember why they opted for public service, sooner rather than later. But if Jordan can inherit McCarthy's access to the megadonors... he who has the gold, makes the rules. #PS1gop ===== comments 1 impact 13 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-13 ratio 18 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Freischütz Caucus Founder Jordan for Speaker? topic gop wordrate 0 words 131 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 709903171184294 impress 23 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/13/2023 17:10" rcs 2 reach 18 reactions 1 title "Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally's reach" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/709903171184294 ========== Tom Emmer for Speaker? Can he get ANY Democratic votes? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/12/steve-scalise-house-speaker-race/ #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-13 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Tom Emmer for Speaker? Can he get ANY Democratic topic gop wordrate 0 words 11 epoch Lifetime ID 709804261194185 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/13/2023 14:10" reach 3 title "Steve Scalise drops speaker bid as House devolves into further turmoil" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/709804261194185 ========== A lucky day for Steve Scalise! https://apnews.com/article/kevin-mccarthy-ousted-speaker-jordan-scalise-1492ca6b58604c51186015c23f7efccd Better to be rejected quickly behind closed doors rather than slowly over 15 ballots. There is no way out except to find a few Democratic moderates who will vote for a GOP candidate who renounces the Freischütz Caucus once and for all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz The fundamental problem is that nobody has a majority in the House - not the GOP, not the Freischütz Caucus, not the Democrats. So somebody has to find a coalition. Maybe that will change in 2025, but the Dixiecrat Freischütz Caucus still won't have a majority. They have nothing in common with the GOP of the Bushes, Reagan, or Eisenhower. And Trump would dump them in a New York minute if he got a better offer elsewhere - unlikely though that be. #PS1gop ===== impact 13 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-12 ratio 10 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title A lucky day for Steve Scalise! topic gop wordrate 0 words 131 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 709281567913121 impress 13 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/12/2023 19:10" reach 10 title "Freischütz - Wikipedia" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/709281567913121 ========== You can't compromise with fanatics - they take it as weakness and ask for even more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz House Democrats - and moderate GOP - should vote against any speaker candidate who wants to include the Freischütz Caucus in his coalition. Let them find some moderate Democrats instead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-jim-jordan-house-speaker/ #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title You can't compromise with fanatics - they take it as topic gop wordrate 0 words 47 epoch Lifetime ID 707967964711148 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/10/2023 16:10" reach 3 title "Analysis | McCarthy, Jordan and Scalise’s long history seeps into speaker fight" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/707967964711148 ========== The Freischütz Caucus hits its mark again! They aimed their rifles in January and pulled their triggers today, and immediately began bragging about it in fund-raising appeals, teaching a lesson to the third speaker in a row and getting ready whoever wants to be next. Nothing pleases their megadonors more than a paralyzed impotent Federal government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz But was this their seventh bullet? Time will tell. https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555 The rest of the House GOP need to realize that they are next, unless they excommunicate the personality cultists and burn-it-downers among them once and for all. Trump's comment takes the prize - “Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves? Vendettas and purges are hallmarks of Trumpism of course - and cults of personality in general. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The Freischütz Caucus hits its mark again! They aimed topic gop wordrate 0 words 125 epoch Lifetime ID 703830118458266 impress 16 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/03/2023 16:10" reach 7 title "McCarthy becomes the first speaker ever to be ousted from the job in a House vote" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/703830118458266 ========== McCarthy doesn't have a majority, just a plurality. The only way to avoid a Federal shutdown constitutional crisis is to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution - followed by the Freischütz Caucus firing McCarthy, followed by a different kind of constitutional crisis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/22/government-shutdown-deal/ House Democrats should consider voting to retain McCarthy if he were to renounce the Freischütz Caucus forever, in favor of bipartisan problem solving. But with a shutdown victory so close, his megadonors might not go for that. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title McCarthy doesn't have a majority, just a plurality. topic gop wordrate 0 words 79 epoch Lifetime ID 697564145751530 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/22/2023 16:09" reach 10 title "House Republicans eye long-term funding without deal yet to avert shutdown" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697564145751530 ========== Shutting down the Federal government is not a policy failure! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/22/us-braces-calamitous-costly-government-shutdown-eight-days/ It's the long-sought dream of the Freischütz Caucus and their anonymous megadonors, who find that it's cheaper and easier to manage state governments than Federal. And although they like to say mean things about McCarthy in public, to keep him in line, they know that he is their dream Speaker, who will make any concession to appease them and keep his job, just so he can be remembered as the weakest Speaker in generations. But when will they shoot their seventh bullet? #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Shutting down the Federal government is not a policy topic gop wordrate 0 words 93 epoch Lifetime ID 697412132433398 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/22/2023 09:09" reach 6 title "U.S. braces for costly government shutdown in eight days" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697412132433398 ========== I got the job done Wrong! Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell and their anonymous GOP megadonors got the job done. The most Trump can claim is that he didn't get in the way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/20/trump-abortion-republicans-presidential/ there’s nothing ‘terrible’ about standing up for life But those anonymous GOP megadonors only stand up for UNBORN life that doesn't cost them anything, and keeps the single-issue constituencies voting GOP, to defend minority rule. For the actual BORN - especially poor Democrats - they will have to make do for themselves. Job-creator megadonors standing up for the children of the shiftless improvident poor - that would be 'terrible'! #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title I got the job done topic gop wordrate 0 words 103 epoch Lifetime ID 697093945798550 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/21/2023 18:09" reach 7 title "Trump, who paved way for Roe repeal, faces abortion blowback from right" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697093945798550 ========== He did nothing to support organized labor except lip service” Of course! Trump is a SALESMAN. Salesmen take your money. Delivering your goods is somebody else's problem, and Trump gets bored by negotiations that don't produce a quick win photo-op. https://apnews.com/article/labor-union-auto-workers-trump-strike-dfcb805fd4e749b13aaf827e1463da73 But in every way he's a stalwart defender of minority rule, like most of the GOP candidates. Say one thing in public, the opposite in private, and do what the megadonors say. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title He did nothing to support organized labor except lip topic gop wordrate 0 words 73 epoch Lifetime ID 697063182468293 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/21/2023 17:09" rcs 1 reach 9 reactions 1 title "Trump says he always had autoworkers' backs. Union leaders say his first-term record shows otherwise" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697063182468293 ========== Where have you been the last 30 years, Mr Speaker? “This is a whole new concept of individuals who just want to burn the whole place down” It's the whole old concept of the Newt Gingrich Contract on America and the Tea Partyers and the Freischütz Caucus. McCarthy’s strategy of repeatedly giving in to the conservatives is seemingly only emboldening them As anybody who ever heard of Neville Chamberlain would surely understand! https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-mccarthy-house-republicans-spending-cuts-deff84c0e2ff7d3bd076b8c38e14cca4 They're all doing what they can to defend minority rule by wrecking the train and blaming it on the Democrats and RINOs, so they can take over in 2025. Putin is thrilled, and probably supporting them in many ways, just as Hitler supported the original America Firsters. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Where have you been the last 30 years, Mr Speaker? topic gop wordrate 0 words 120 epoch Lifetime ID 697057745802170 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/21/2023 16:09" reach 5 title "Government shutdown risk spikes as House Republicans leave town in disarray amid hard-right revolt" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697057745802170 ========== Benghazi II !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_2012_Benghazi_attack Nobody has any evidence that would hold up in court - but that's not the point. The point is to keep a Biden investigation going through the election AS IF there were serious crimes comparable to those of Trump - whose trials will also likely be ongoing through the election - by Trump's choice - to dominate fundraising and air time to squelch any GOP challengers. https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-congress-oversight-republicans-impeachment-57c5b1b40d19ede4ecf7fde08c027cee The other important point is to save McCarthy's speakership which the Freischütz Caucus has threatened if he didn't deliver on impeachment. Of course, gaining that, they will move on to their next non-negotiable demands about the budget. The House GOP Benghazi investigations abruptly ended when Trump was elected president. #PS1gop ===== comments 1 impact 12 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-12 ratio 10 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Benghazi II !! topic gop wordrate 0 words 119 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 691860382988573 impress 20 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/12/2023 13:09" rcs 2 reach 10 reactions 1 title "What's ahead now that Republicans are opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/691860382988573 ========== The Republican Party was born in 1854 as a radical progressive movement against minority rule, reborn in 1877 as the conservative defender of minority rule, and reborn again in 1968 as the reactionary defender of minority rule. So it should come as no surprise that it was reborn again in 2015 as a cult-of-personality defender of minority rule. And just as in previous reincarnations, by the time the old guard realized the new guard had taken over, it was too late to do anything about it. Now there's hardly any prominent Republican left who even knows who Edmund Burke was. https://www.nps.gov/nama/planyourvisit/burke.htm So it's pretty silly for a Republican-III era Pence to call out a Republican-IV era Trump. Pence was part of the transformation, whether or not he knew it at the time, and whether or not he regrets it now. Pence should not blame Trump for being what he's always been - Pence should consider some mea culpas for enabling Trump - and for not becoming the man he should have been, before it was forced upon him on Jan 6. https://apnews.com/article/pence-conservatism-populism-trump-2024-republican-primary-90b437952693ec00e378411be8393499 #PS1gop ===== comments 2 impact 72 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-07 ratio 3 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title The Republican Party was born in 1854 as a radical topic gop wordrate 0 words 181 audclicks 2 commentsimpress 2 epoch Lifetime ID 688941966613748 impress 34 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/07/2023 07:09" rcs 2 reach 15 title "Pence rails against Trump's 'siren song of populism' as he tries to energize his 2024 campaign" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/688941966613748 ========== He is not a candidate. He is the leader of a mass movement https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/02/trump-republicans-dominates-campaign/ The GOP embraced a personality cult when they thought they would benefit. Now they can't escape it. That tar baby sticks! But they KNEW what he was when they embraced him. Trump commands a majority of GOP voters but a minority of all voters, and that seems unlikely to change. GOP can go down to defeat by nominating Trump, or go down to defeat by nominating somebody else - so that Trump runs as a third party, independent, or write-in. Trump sees running as a way to delay trial and judgment, and being in contention as a way to get a corrupt bargain if he can't win outright. For the GOP money machine, the only question is which path minimizes the losses in Congress and the states, and thus jeopardizes minority rule the least. That's what the megadonors are trying to figure out. This showdown has been impending ever since Strom Thurmond jumped ship in the 1960's. Newt Gingrich came very close but was ultimately contained. Thurmond's spiritual successor Dixiecrats in the Freischütz Caucus and the Trump base are determined to define the GOP once and for all - their way. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-09-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title He is not a candidate. He is the leader of a mass movement topic gop wordrate 0 words 205 epoch Lifetime ID 687077633466848 impress 19 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/03/2023 15:09" reach 10 title "Republican race remains stuck as Trump dominates heading into fall" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/687077633466848 ========== Some were hoping for vice-president or at least a cabinet office, so said nothing bad about Trump. DeSantis proudly pointed that while Trump sometimes TALKS fascist, DeSantis already DOES fascist, unilaterally removing elected Democratic officials that don't meet his standards of political correctness - and plans to do more, unilaterally invading Mexico on his first day in office - https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ron-desantis-eyes-possible-us-military-offensive-mexico-rcna101590 Maybe while the special forces are across the border, they can collect the money to pay for Trump's wall - Trump said Mexico will pay. They can hire the cartels to act as technical advisers on collection methods - they've that down stone cold. == Haley pointed out that Trump has no support outside his base, and can't win. And the rest of the BUNCH have no hope of getting the Trump base, and so no hope of winning either. https://apnews.com/article/debate-republican-takeaways-president-gop-trump-ramaswamy-christie-f38e0aa189ad85f347f97b1b6bea4c53 Trump was right to skip the pointless exercise. But he'll still lose, unless he can get some third-party candidates to draw support from Biden. Like Joe Manchin. Then maybe the election will go to the House and Trump can cut a corrupt bargain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_bargain #PS1gop Not so long ago, rest of the BUNCH meant Burroughs-Univac-NCR-CDC-Honeywell. Who remembers any of them now? We're almost there - Burgum-UNKNOWN-Nikki-Christie-Hutchinson. U is a challenge. Maybe Utahan if Romney gets involved somehow. Or sUnUnU reconsiders. ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-08-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Some were hoping for vice-president or at least a cabinet topic gop wordrate 0 words 218 epoch Lifetime ID 681399547367990 impress 19 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "08/23/2023 23:08" reach 8 title "Vivek Ramaswamy takes center stage, plus other key moments from the first Republican debate" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/681399547367990 ========== GOP is in a bad spot. It doesn't matter who they nominate for president. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/desantis-campaign-republican-alternative/ If Trump, only the Trump base will vote GOP; that's 1/3 at best. If not Trump, he will run as a third party (he has to be a candidate to defer justice) and take the Trump base with him, leaving the GOP candidate with less than 1/3. If third-party Trump can get enough electoral votes to send the election to the House, he can forge a corrupt bargain to avoid justice. The White House might well be beyond GOP's grasp in 2024. Their puzzle to solve - which course of action will preserve their House majority and obtain a Senate majority? #PS1gop ===== comments 1 impact 23 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-07-19 ratio 3 react 2 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title GOP is in a bad spot. It doesn't matter who they topic gop wordrate 0 words 116 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 662425725932039 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "07/19/2023 08:07" rcs 2 reach 7 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | DeSantis’s failures can help the GOP find a real alternative" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/662425725932039 ========== It's Trump by a mile - except among the educated. The uneducated like Trump because he survived college unchanged and is still like them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/23/different-way-visualizing-2024-republican-race/ Trump's indictment might have sealed DeSantis' fate. And the realization that Trump won't endorse any other GOP candidate and might run on his own, and that would be even worse for the GOP. So they might as well nominate Trump. Then the interesting question will be who among GOP is really a rule-of-law conservative willing to hold his nose and vote Democratic. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-06-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title It's Trump by a mile - except among the educated. topic gop wordrate 0 words 87 epoch Lifetime ID 647417794099499 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/23/2023 09:06" reach 7 title "Analysis | A different way of visualizing the 2024 Republican race" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/647417794099499