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What Republicans Used to Believe

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by philnotfil, Jan 19, 2024.

  1. obgator

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    That’s just woke.
     
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    Simply because he didn't want to repeal Obamacare without having a replacement plan ready? Seems to me he was one of the few people with integrity who didn't want to throw people's lives into chaos simply to check a political box saying "we repealed Obamacare" (and damn the consequences)
     
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  3. philnotfil

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    Especially when they could have just waited a couple of weeks to vote on Trump's healthcare plan.
     
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    This GOP bends the knee for Putin and wants to murder illegal immigrants.

    Reagan is spinning in his grave like a draedel.
     
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    He liberated Ukraine kind of like the way Hilter "liberated" the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and later Ukraine in 1941 because there were ethnic Germans in both areas.
     
  7. duggers_dad

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    We liberate countries where we don’t have kissing cousins …
     

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  8. AgingGator

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    While the OPs posts are almost always well thought out and reasonably centric(thank you Phil), it is an absolute hoot to listen to a bunch of angry, pompous libs post about what the Republican Party is and used to be.

    Both parties have receded into opposite ideologies for the same reason. We no longer have Bill Clintons and Newt Gingrichs who will negotiate in good faith with each other personally and not through the media.

    Even though they are older than Trump and Biden, I would take both of them back in a heartbeat next year.
     
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  9. mikemcd810

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    Do you believe that McCain and Romney are RINOs or do you think they're being labeled unfairly by Trump and his supporters?
     
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  10. slayerxing

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    The revisionist bull shut by the Putin worshiper in a thread about former conservatives is hilarious.
     
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    classic both parties defense. Try something else.
     
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  12. okeechobee

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    He seems to be working pretty good with Xi and Modi.
     
  13. G8tas

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    You know he is not going to answer that
     
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  14. AgingGator

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    First, I’m not a republican. Have not been for over 30 years. No, they are not RINOs. It I’m not fans of either but each for a different reason.
     
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  15. okeechobee

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    Is that what I listed as the only reason? If you need me to explain it to you any further than that, try Wikipedia or various other methods. You must have missed the entire maverick routine.
     
  16. AgingGator

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    I’m waiting.
     
  17. G8tas

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    surprise, surprise
     
  18. duggers_dad

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    Good! Let the hate flow through you!

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