Fmr. McCain staffer: Republican Party 'worth saving' from Trump - The Last Word - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Paul Hickman, former State Director for Senator John McCain, joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss why he and other Republican leaders in Arizona have joined Republicans for Harris to help mobilize Republican voters to put “country over party” in defeating Donald Trump and how he thinks Republicans can reclaim their party from Trump. - Aired on 08/12/2024.

[RobertDevereaux]

1. That party suicided long ago.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. They could go back and take on the name of "The Know Nothing Party" of 1856

[Blue Owl]

2. Nah.... Let it die instead

Bury it with Donny’s corpse at Bedminster

[ColinC]

3. They can only do that if a substantial amount of the party abandons the current one entirely

And supports the democrats. Otherwise they are goners.

[Skittles]

5. the GOP stunk it up long before Trump arrived on the scene

I cannot even remember a time when they put "country over party", and I am a certified geezer.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. It's said that the downfall began with Reagan and I clearly was not a fan after his sabotage of President Carter

Even so, his acts don't even begin to compare with the criminal acts of TFG - Reagan supported immigration, was extremely tough on Gorbachev and Russia (the former USSR) and joined all the other living former presidents (Carter and Ford) in supporting President Clinton's 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.

[Skittles]

8. alas, Reagan made greed and ignorance fashionable

America has never been the same, his 'trickle down" bullshit was just the 1% pissing on the real workers

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Agreed, it's just that Reagan wasn't as obviously anti-American as TFG, but he did damage that still exists today

[burrowowl]

17. Exactly greed became a virtue instead of a vice

under his rule. And Iran-contra where he and bush let 200,000 to 250,000 Guatemalan indigenous people be killed.

[czarjak]

7. THAT political party owes us all.

Unless you're rich. They're always covered.

[Warpy]

10. They made too many deals with too many devils to survive, there is no going back

once the devils have taken over so completely.

It really needs to burn itself down because trying to purge the crooks, the white power bigots, and all those fundagelicals destroy it even faster, not that they'd be willing to write the votes off, devils or not.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. The Republican party is no longer the party of John McCain, let alone Lincoln

It's full of the criminals who support TFG over our Democratic Republic and the American people. It's now the criminal party of TFG - until they decide they don't need him anymore.

[angrychair]

11. The Republican Party was shit

Way before Trump.

[Tansy_Gold]

12. The only part of the GQP that's worth saving

is the RINO part -- the tiny sliver that calls themselves "Republican" out of habit or political necessity but are really closer to centrist Democrats on some/many policy issues.

Today's GQP needs to die and be buried, never to be resurrected.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Agreed, the actual Republicans are leaving or gone, John McCain is gone, Mitt Romney is leaving along with many others

Leaving few Republicans left to vote for, it's said that it's now "a cult of personality," who happens to be a convicted felon who attempted to overthrow the government. When he's gone, there are only fellow criminals left.

[Demobrat]

15. So you hitched your wagon to the star.

But he turned out to be the corpse on the drawing room floor. So now you’re backpedaling like crazy. I suspect we’re going to be seeing a lot of that in the near future.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. We have a really good chance to retake the House since so many Republican Reps. have "retired."