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Originally Posted by Solecismic
I think I'm more-or-less behind Christie at this point.
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Thus ending any "conservative" credentials you'd ever have.
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What we lost when Jon Huntsman's campaign was a non-starter four years ago seems enormous.
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Oh wait, suddenly the support of Christie seems downright palatable.
I'm not actually bashing you here, I'm intentionally picking on your comments
to make a point, a point that is extremely relevant for this election & every election going forward: those two statements I just picked on, using your comments to do so, they are a clear indication that you & I have no business whatsoever being under the same political party. Neither of those candidates is fit to be dogcatcher in Dogpatch afaic, the latter candidate being a particularly disgusting SOB. (I like Huntsman about as well as I like Sanders, and respect Sanders slightly more). That the candidacy JH was dismissed with all the respect & interest it deserved, his candidacy being so thoroughly repudiated has actually been one of the brighter political moments I can think of over the past decade, proving that we may suck at picking candidates but we don't lack THAT much judgement.
It's past time for a practical split of the GOP, not just one on paper or at the polls. At this point association with the other elements of "the party" does little except make the other side feel dirty and discourage political activity at all. There simply isn't a tent big enough, trying to tolerate the other elements is merely tainting the brand (no matter what you think the brand
is).
Your comments got picked on/picked out because they're as perfect an illustration of the situation I've seen in a while, it wasn't even a topic on my mind until I read the post. I don't care one bit who gets custody of the letterhead or the office space, but the wings of the party need to just share the mailing lists & databases and get the divorce moving already.