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(20,219 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)eom
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)K&R
Kath2
(3,089 posts)Devolving in the worst possible way.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)hay rick
(7,643 posts)Oh wait, we already got that with DJT. He must have cut in line.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)spoken of running for the WH. So, another nude first lady will not be out of the question, eh?
KT2000
(20,588 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)All my life GOP has been the war loving hawk party.
When LBJ passed civil rights in the sixties, the devolved to use the Southern Strategy. Anti civil rights. Pro prejudice politics.
Nixon continued the policy of war and dirty tricks. Eisenhower oversaw the coup of Mosaddeq (the elected leader of Iraq). Nixon blocked ending the Vietnam war to get elected. Then he went continued his evil and deceitful tactics.
Ford pardoned Nixon, setting a precedent that the president would not be accountable to the law.
Reagan probably attempted to delay the release of American Hostages in order to get elected. He ignored AIDS for nearly two years because he thought it was a "gay disease". He committed crimes via the Iran Contra affair. He was warlike, pro-military, and prejudiced. And like Nixon, his crimes went unprosecuted.
Bush Sr. was relatively OK, but was pro-military and used dishonesty against political rivals.
Bush Jr. began the tradition of stupidity in the GOP. Sarah Palin, etc. He ignored intelligence indicating a terrorist attack was imminent around 9/11. He started a war with Iraq to deflect from his inability to find Bin Laden. He also used dishonest campaign tactics to get elected.
On consideration, Reagan was also a founder of GOP stupidity.
Enter Clusterfuck Trump.
The GOP has "learned" that lies and hatred are effective campaign tools. Just like the Nazi's, they know that selling hatred does not require honesty or intelligence. It just requires repeating lies continually (Ben Ghazi) and blaming anyone convenient for the problems they create.
The GOP has devolved into a party of criminals.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)bush senior "relatively OK"? he was the engineer of the hostage release delay as well as the cocaine/latin america connection, and lied us into the first iraq war withe the "incubator babies" stories.
that's just one problem with the "summation."
another big problem is that it ignores Democratic Party involvement in much of the same history. The dems have seldom seen a war or a military funding bill they didn't like.
also bill clinton (with the help of Hillary) directly took up the right's policies on "law and order" and mass incarceration of minorities (among other things).
it also ignores that Johnson and Kennedy were known to have manipulated election results. Who knows about others?
generally, quite a shallow summation of the period.
shanny
(6,709 posts)With Kennedy are you referring to Illinois or is there more? What about Johnson--never heard that.
Btw, Kennedy would've won without Illinois.
sandensea
(21,674 posts)The GOP has repeated that tall tale about Kennedy "stealing the election" so often that even a lot of good Democrats believe it.
It's common knowledge that there was at least as much ballot stuffing in the (heavily Republican) southern IL counties as there was in Chicago. Johnson may have stolen his first Senate race - but that was in 1948, and hardly unique in Texas.
sandensea
(21,674 posts)When old man Bush passes away we'll need people with good memories to remind us that this man - as accomplished and genteel as he was - had a pronounced dark side. His "evil twin," as he once referred to it.
calimary
(81,514 posts)WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)Paka
(2,760 posts)Kinda mind boggling, but spot on.
malaise
(269,191 posts)for truth
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,200 posts)President George Zimmerman had America pining for the relative calm days of Donald Trump.
mdbl
(4,976 posts)Being a musician hasn't done anything to elevate him. He chooses to be down in the sewer with Ted Nugent.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't really believe in god, but there has to be some benevolent force in the universe that would save us from that fate.
SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)that Ted Nugent is not yet a Senator.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Smart and Funny - works for me.
Skittles
(153,202 posts)both witty and dead on
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)Than hours of tv pundits. He's worth the Sirius sobscription, alone.