GOP Self Destructing?

[JackLuis]

GOP Self Destructing?

Georgia governor censured at regional GOP convention for vetoing anti-LGBT ‘religious liberty’ law

In a case of conservatives eating their own, Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal was slapped down at a state GOP convention with a censure vote for vetoing an anti-LGBT bill in March that would have had a devastating impact on the state’s economy.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, delegates from the Third District — which covers a large swath of west Georgia — voted overwhelmingly for the censure on Saturday at their convention.

Announcing that he would not sign the so-called “religious freedom” bill, Deal explained that it could “lead to discrimination — even though it may be completely unintentional.”

He also noted that he saw little evidence that the law was needed.

“While most people would agree that these are things that government should not interfere with, I am not aware of a single instance of any of those things occurring in the state of Georgia,” Deal said. “If they have, nobody has called them to my attention.”

Despite the fact that the state was threatened with massive boycotts — much like North Carolina is currently experiencing after passing an anti-transgender bill — GOP delegates were unforgiving of the governor who was also pressed by businesses to not sign the bill.

 

[Hypoxia]

GOP Self Destructing?

Georgia governor censured at regional GOP convention for vetoing anti-LGBT ‘religious liberty’ law

We see factions within GOP struggling for the control levers. Baghead / fundy jeezoid factions would have little power if they weren't safely inside gerrymandered districts, where 40% of popular votes gain them 60% of seats statewide. That's a clear violation of one-person-one-vote. One little SCOTUS decision could bring down that gimmick.

GOP already self-destructed by proving themselves unwilling and unable to govern, by building their fact-free hate-fear-lies info-bubble, by being entirely in the negative, by excluding growing demographics. Who killed the GOP? Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes pulled the trigger.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Let's have a countdown and stop it at 1 second like the movies. That is more interesting.

 

[phrodeau]

Let's have a countdown and stop it at 1 second like the movies. That is more interesting.

Or get them all into the convention hall in mid-July and then turn off the A/C.

 

[Hypoxia]

Or get them all into the convention hall in mid-July and then turn off the A/C.

I recommend pepper spray. Or at least itching powder.

 

[1sickbastard]

I recommend pepper spray. Or at least itching powder.

I recommend a hoard of hot transvestites/transgenders, mostly because it would be funnier.

 

[phrodeau]

Maybe they can hire this guy to take care of Trump's rioters.

http://www.policestateusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/JohnPikeUCDavis2.jpg

 

[Hypoxia]

Maybe they can hire this guy to take care of Trump's rioters.

http://www.policestateusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/JohnPikeUCDavis2.jpg

Exactly the image I thought of, except we need to shoop-in Cleveland. BTW I'll be in Davis tomorrow (where the pic was taken) but I won't spend money there, not even at the cheap vegan Indian eatery.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Exactly the image I thought of, except we need to shoop-in Cleveland. BTW I'll be in Davis tomorrow (where the pic was taken) but I won't spend money there, not even at the cheap vegan Indian eatery.

That guy epitomizes a day late and dollar short. He really should have his mask down. Why does everyone forget "safety first"?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Fifteen years, ago, the Fundamentals and all the rest of the Extreme Religious Right made the push to insert themselves into any place that concerned control, and the law.

2016 , and there is a network of support for anything the Koch brothers demand.
There is a network of support that locks states up, against Democrat's efforts.
States with very few Planned Parenthood clinics are proof of their influence.
The lunacy of religious based home schooling and tax funded private religious schools
are proof of influence.

As a nation, Democrats can battle with the G.O.P. and influence the vote for president. President Obama's success is a proof of that influence.

Considering that the Extreme Religious Right is a small amount of people, it is frightening to see how much change for the worse, they have accomplished.
It is sickening, to see how much push back it takes to resist the awful policies the ERR wants to put in place.

They have provoked themselves to be relentless, in their malice.

They are not to be disreguarded.

They cause real harm.

 

[JackLuis]

Virgin Islands GOP Delegate Meeting Escalates Quickly

A meeting of U.S. Virgin Islands Republicans went a little nutso Saturday, complete with shouting matches, screams for points of order, and at least one delegate getting shoved to the ground, allegedly. While the clusterfuck was due to political infighting, we’d also like to congratulate the USVI GOP for its spirited attempt to dispel stereotypes of islanders as laid back and relaxed.

The foofaraw over the Virgin Islands delegation to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland has been building for a while; Rachel Maddow even covered it in March, after personality clashes between the chair and vice chair erupted into name-calling. Maddow reported that Virgin Islands GOP Chairman John Canegata called Vice Chairman Herb Schoenbohm a “convicted felon, a moron, a compulsive liar and a Nazi sympathizer.” He also reportedly said, “I want nothing to do with that Nazi.” Schoenbaum acknowledged having a felony conviction for long-distance phone service fraud, but emphatically denies being a Nazi, saying the charge was “rubbish, total rubbish” — just so you know. The fight was mostly over whether to send a delegation of Republicans who have only recently moved to the islands, in order to influence a contested convention.

This clusterfuck was held at a gun range too!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Hightower Report examines the GOP

April 15, 2016

"Can the GOP establishment get any more out of touch?"

Exciting news, people! The Republican Party's establishment has a secret plan to stop its blue-collar voters from supporting Donnie Trump. Their plan is code-named: "Operation Paul Ryan."

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news...t-how-clueless-can-the-gop-establishment-get/

He's (Trump) is reaching out to longtime Republican voters who've finally realized that it's the party's own Wall Street elites who knocked them down economically and the party's insider cadre of K Street influence peddlers who've shut them out politically.

The (GOP) party powers are insisting that the Donald is winning only because he's drawing voters who're ignorant, racist, xenophobic, and misogynist.

In fact, he's drawing huge numbers of disaffected Republicans who're mainly anti the party's own power-players. Far from being Koch-headed, laissez-faire ideologues – these voters like Trump's opposition to job-busting trade scams, his mocking of big-money campaign donations, his call to hike taxes on Wall Street's pampered hedge-funders, his support for Social Security, etc.

gsgs comment-
The disaffected voters drawn to Trump, do not understand that Trump is using all of the advantages the GOP has given to the rich. Are the dissatisfied voters nformed about the scamming techniques that Trump uses against the people he contracts with, and the creditors he steals from ?
/end gsgs comment

"For these voters, "Operation Paul Ryan" is a dud, a farce ... and an insult. Rep. Ryan has long been the kept-darling of the Wall Street/K Street crowd. The obtuse establishment snootily calls him "serious" presidential material – only because he champions such plutocratic policies as privatizing Social Security, cutting taxes on the superrich, deregulating Wall Street, and turning Medicare into a voucher system. The only thing serious about Ryan's agenda is that it's a dead-serious loser with the great majority of Americans."

"Trying to knock off Trump for Ryan is a sign of the GOP's irreversible decline into cluelessness and political irrelevance."


http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/paul-ryan-not-running-for-president

Ted Cruz is the GOP's only weapon against Trump, now that Paul Ryan dropped out of the race ?

APRIL 12, 2016 4

Speaker Paul Ryan, reluctant Republican savior, put an end to his Hamlet-on-the-Potomac drama during a brief press conference Tuesday, denying no less than seven times in seven minutes that he wanted to be the Republican presidential nominee, and stating definitively that he would not accept the nomination even if state delegates at a contested convention handed it to him.

“I do not want nor will I accept the nomination for this party,” he said.

“Count me out,” he continued, instructing delegates not to vote for him and reaffirming his belief that only people participating in the party’s primary should be up for the nomination.


gsgs comment- Paul Ryan may have repelled and disgusted me, because of what he stood for, but I will give him credit for being able to do his job. He made the effort to be knowledgeable and informed. He had the drive to be able to back up his words with facts. If he was valuable to the GOP cause, why did the GOP neglect to arm him with assistance and resources ?
/end gsgs comment

 

[The_Trouvere]

As the electorate has moved to the left on social and economic issues the Republican Party moves to the right on both.

Polls indicate that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are ahead of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

 

[PoisonedChalice]

As the electorate has moved to the left on social and economic issues the Republican Party moves to the right on both.

Polls indicate that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are ahead of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

The electorate is becoming more partisan. It is moving in both directions - I am not surprised to see people say they'd never marry someone who identified with the other party anymore. It has got that bad. To me, the main difference is that while some Democratic party elites are happy to work with their base, the Republican party elites loathe theirs and Trump's candidacy has brought this out into the open.

The break issue for the GOP was always going to be immigration, because the truth is that demographics is destiny. Anyone who wants to live in a majority-minority society is bat shit crazy. I am convinced that America will break apart violently unless Trump is elected. You are playing with fire.

 

[Tigersman]

During the 1964 election I was 17 years old who campaigned for Barry Goldwater. The Republican party that I grew up to know is long gone. It was taken over by the group who changed their name but was known as the Moral Majority.

Since the GOP senate is refusing to interview Merrick Garland for SCOTUS, I plan on changing from Republican to Democrat then vote a straight Democratic ticket form now on. To me it seems like the GOP has had a total frontal lobotomy.

 

[renard_ruse]

It wasn't "anti-LGBT" it was an affirmation of our existing freedom and Constitutional and human rights.

Stop the lies.

Oh, and it should be illegal for companies to "boycott" states or localities over political issues. Its illegal for US companies to boycott certain foreign countries, so why don't we have the same law for internal "boycotts" that harm our domestic economy?

Time to stand up to companies that discriminate against states over political disagreements just like it is for them to do so against certain foreign countries.

 

[renard_ruse]

Expanding liberty is now "anti" somebody or some group. Do people ever stop to even think how perverse that idea is?