You gotta admit the GOP has a set of balls that the Democratic Party could only dream of.
The Dems have an election stolen from them through hacking of DNC files by a foreign adversary, the GOP presidential nominee calling on a foreign adversary to hack his opponents files, and the FBI Director explicitly violating the Hatch Act, by re-opening an investigation he had previously closed out, 11 days before an election knowing it could very likely influence the outcome of that election. As a result, the Democratic Candidate lost the election in spite of Exit Polling data (which is normally considered extremely accurate) showing that she had won, and post election data showed anomalies between the exit sampling and the actual reported final data which is usually considered as fraud indicators in election we supervise in other countries. As a consequence, the Democratic Candidate loses the race and the Party turns its circular firing squad inward upon itself and its candidate and spends the next 6 weeks and counting blaming itself and its members for the loss, concluding that what the Party needs is a complete housecleaning by getting rid of the party faithful in support of young millennials, who were Johnnie-come-late-lies to the DNC Party, many of whom refused to register as Democrats, instead choosing to forego joining the Party and registering as Independents like the Svengali they were being led by, while publicly admitting in emails and on other websites to a plan of action which strategically included a hostile takeover of the Party from within.
After accusing the Party of trying to rig the state primary elections in favor of the Party's 'anointed leader', blaming the Party for their own failure to familiarize themselves with the rules for their individual Primary states prior to the cutoff deadlines, and wreaking havoc on the Primary nominee at her nominating Convention after she'd given into their many demands and threats, they either failed to show up at the polls on Election Day, voted for a 3rd Party or a write-in Candidate, or just slept-in figuring that their vote would not be missed. Now 6 weeks from the election, the only thing we as a Party can agree on is NOTHING and it's our Nominee's fault for not knowing how to excite her base. FTR, the last time I got really excited over another person was 38 years ago, and that excitement ended prematurely, if you get my drift. I don't need a candidate to excite me. I'm a pragmatist. I need a candidate who has a vision for where he/she wants to take this country and for whom I share at least 75% of that vision. I don't need a candidate to get me excited. If it happens, it's a bonus, but it's not a requirement.
Contrast Hillary's plight with the Governor's race in North Carolina. The Democratic candidate won, and the GOP candidate finally conceded the election to him approximately 10 days later. Then the GOP led State Legislature preceded to strip the pending office of the Governor-elect of 80% of its power. Call them crazy. Call them a bunch of Deplorables. But so far they are winning, and they continue to win while the recently elected Democratic candidates are already discussing how they are willing to work with their constituents across the aisle. Something you never hear the other party say. The other party says that they are willing to work with us if we are willing to accept 100% of their ideas. The other party has made it an art of scheming, colluding, changing the rules in the middle of the game, and taking no prisoners. Until the Democrats learn to fight fire with fire, instead of each other, we will continue to be the minority party. The GOP doesn't trust their party to know what they want. They give them what they want to give them. I'm not saying that we should do likewise, but rebuilding a party around the consensus of a bunch of 20 somethings because THEY are the parties' future is ludicrous. When they show that they can be responsible, by joining the party and working together with the Party Leadership they can have a larger voice and larger role in the party. But to choose them over the party leadership without them having proven anything except that they know how to throw a temper tantrum is ludicrous.
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This is not a case of 'we should be like them to win'! We can NEVER be like them and continue being human beings.
