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Game Changer [1890]
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Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 1:55 AM
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I’m baffled how sensible Republicans, if there are any that haven’t been primaried out or ran out, can sit back and this circus go on. Congress has been neutered to the point that congressmen are not doing town halls, in fear of having to answer up for doing nothing. How is it they can happily hand over ALL control to the executive branch … and a big dummy at that?
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 5:53 AM
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Establishment types are teetering on the brink.
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110%er [3872]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 12, 2025, 7:20 AM
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Close. Thomas Massie seems to be staying the course. At least he voted against the continuing resolution spending bill.
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Ultimate Tiger [34746]
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There aren't many elected ones, that's for sure....
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Mar 12, 2025, 7:22 AM
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I don't know what's going to have to happen to have them stand up. Jan 6 got a few to....for about 2 days.
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Orange Blooded [2404]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 7:52 AM
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IDK, but at minimum most of them have been hiding since 2016.
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Tiger Titan [48417]
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I'm sure there are, but the elected ones are spineless
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Mar 12, 2025, 8:16 AM
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Except for Liz Cheney, and you saw what they did to her.
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110%er [3872]
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Re: I'm sure there are, but the elected ones are spineless
Mar 12, 2025, 9:17 AM
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Liz Cheney and her father are warmongers. Lol
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Re: I'm sure there are, but the elected ones are spineless
Mar 12, 2025, 12:26 PM
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That’s a hallmark of a real Republican.
The new age republicans who are afraid to fight but want to act tough are what we are talking about as the replacement for the warmongers.
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Tiger Titan [48417]
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They are, but at least she had the courage...
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Mar 12, 2025, 2:18 PM
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To stand up against Trump and the MAGA mob over Jan. 6, something her fellow Republicans were too cowardly to do. And something that ANY MAGA citizen defended, excused, or downplayed therefore lacked too much integrity to denounce.
Every. Single. Person. Who. Defended. It. Or even acted like it wasn't a big deal.
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110%er [3835]
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Re: I'm sure there are, but the elected ones are spineless
Mar 12, 2025, 8:06 PM
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And my man Adam Kinzinger. I just read his book. He had no compliments for Trump. Or Ted Cruz. Or Jim Jordan. Or Kevin McCarthy
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Ultimate Tiger [38060]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 8:20 AM
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I can promise you that conservatives exist, we’re still here. Many have gone along with the flow and been absorbed by the current bullshittery, but not everyone.
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Paw Master [16161]
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100% agree
Mar 12, 2025, 8:31 AM
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That’s what’s so dismaying. There are indeed some things I absolutely agree with Trump on, but a host of other issues that I absolutely disagree with and a fair amount that is pure ########.
However, where does that leave one. The Dems have moved as a party to the left. Moderate Dems are likewise virtually extinct. I have virtually nothing in common with Kamala Harris, Liz Warren, Gavin Newsom, etc.
It’s pathetic how silent the Pubs have been. Power is apparently all that’s important to them and if things don’t turn around soon, come 2026 and 2028 that will be stripped away.
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Orange Elite [5400]
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Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:31 PM
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Just speaks volumes of how insane and out of touch the Republican Party has become.
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Paw Master [16161]
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Re: Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:37 PM
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Check her voting record out as a Senator and explain how she’s a moderate. She’s not.
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Orange Elite [5400]
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Re: Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:49 PM
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Why don’t you tell us which votes you consider far left so we can see how you consider things like healthcare and education to be radical ideas.
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Clemson Icon [24690]
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They refuse to take responsibility for the guy they voted for.
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:41 PM
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Just like the guy they voted for. And they still pretend they were right to do it as if they had no choice in the matter.
They are the reason we are in this mess.
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Ultimate Tiger [38060]
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Dynasty Maker [3224]
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She's more moderate than Trump.****
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:51 PM
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Clemson Icon [24690]
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By a mile.***
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:56 PM
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Paw Master [16161]
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Re: Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
Mar 12, 2025, 2:23 PM
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The Hill Aug 8,2024 has a nice piece analyzing Kamala’s voting record.
If Kamala is a moderate, which Dem Senator would you consider as a lefty.
Objectively, she does not have a moderate voting record when compared to Obama, Biden and most others.
If Kamala is a moderate then all the Dems are moderate in the Senate?
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Orange Elite [5400]
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So you're not willing to state a single vote
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Mar 12, 2025, 2:56 PM
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that you would consider a far left vote?
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Re: Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
Mar 12, 2025, 2:28 PM
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Had she ran on how many 18-32 year old black men she locked up as a DA of CA, she would have won in a landslide, which of course is the calling card of a far leftist.
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Re: Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
Mar 12, 2025, 1:49 PM
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Kamala "moderate"
That's an outrageously absurd statement. Maybe it is a wish to where you want the commie party to go.
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Paw Master [17798]
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Re: Calling Kamala anything but a moderate
Mar 13, 2025, 10:40 AM
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If you believe Kamala is/was moderate, I guess you believe Bernie is conservative? That shows why the Democrat party is on it's last breath. The majority of Americans don't want what the Dems are selling. The far left Progressives are not aligned with most Americans values.
Just finished watching a DeBlasio interview and he's just like the rest of the Dem politicians. He can't commit to wiping his a$$ after taking a sh!+
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Orange Elite [5400]
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Can you be the first person to give us a reason why Kamala
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Mar 13, 2025, 10:56 AM
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is an extremist?
So far, not a single poster has been able to provide one.
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National Champion [7562]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 8:37 AM
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I don't love everything about Trump by a long shot but the dems have gone so far off the deep end there's not really anything I agree with them about these days. So I'm happy we've managed to stem the flow of illegals and are making institutionalized theft of taxpayers money made public (as should any Republican of any era) while I cringe at some of the other antics. Having said that when the board kooks thought DeSantis might be the nominee we got a dozen threads a day about what a nazi he was and how he was gonna destroy the country, blah, blah blah so I suspect the board trolls would be having this exact same convo regardless of which Republican was in charge. They can pretend its just a Trump thing but none of us believe you.
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Clemson Icon [24690]
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There may be a few frozen in the ice. Perhaps, one day, they can be dug up and
Mar 12, 2025, 11:56 AM
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re-animated.
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Ring of Honor [23389]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 11:57 AM
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Because they want to have careers. There are tons of them. They will come out of the woodwork if Trump melts down or when he is gone.
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Ultimate Tiger [38060]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:44 PM
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Bingo
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Clemson Icon [24690]
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That would suggest they lack courage and are tacitly approving.
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:59 PM
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I doubt they find their courage to come out of the woodwork until there is a Democrat in the White House.
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Ring of Honor [23389]
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Re: That would suggest they lack courage and are tacitly approving.
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Mar 12, 2025, 2:37 PM
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If the country, aside from the absolute nuttiest of cult members, turned on Trump they would.
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Tiger Spirit [9787]
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Not extinct
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Mar 12, 2025, 12:22 PM
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But they lost pretty badly in the primary
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Dynasty Maker [3224]
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The old GOP is dead. I used to be one of them...
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Mar 12, 2025, 1:05 PM
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I voted for both Bushes, Dole, and Romney. In '08, I did a protest vote for Bob Barr. In Georgia elections, I voted for Republicans for senate, house, and governorship.
I think the Republican base didn't really want small government. It ended up that they wanted someone to attack "the other", whomever that was. It could be immigrants, muslims, gays, transgender, media people, Democrats in the congress, librarians, Euro-socialists....Trump made it OK to hate people openly, and the GOP primary voter base went all in on it.
The old Republican party is dead.
There needs to be a third party, because MAGA is extremist, and there are probably millions of centrist and center-right people who don't feel like they're being represented.
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Orange Elite [5400]
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"I think the Republican base didn't really want small government."
Mar 12, 2025, 1:40 PM
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I think that really sums up the Reagan on Republican Party. It wasn't a party built on any real principles other than to prevent progress.
Reagan started the hatred, but just used coded language like "welfare queens" which we all knew was an attack on african-american women. Trump just started openly saying what everyone used to say in private.
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^^ ufcking cook ^^
Mar 12, 2025, 1:50 PM
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What type of mental disability card do you hold?
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Orange Elite [5400]
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I have a brain
Mar 12, 2025, 1:57 PM
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and the IQ above a potato. I know you guys consider that to be a disability.
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Dynasty Maker [3224]
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Well....
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Mar 12, 2025, 1:51 PM
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When I voted for them, I thought the GOP stood for pro-democracy, free markets, free trade, lower regulations, and stronger military. I wasn't a huge fan of the social safety net. But I was good with keeping it intact and making sure it helped people.
I think alot of that turned out to be bunk.
I have since moved to the left on safety net issues. I think we need a stronger one. But on the items I listed in my first sentence, the GOP has mostly abandoned all of it.
I think a real argument could be made that the Dems are actually more conservative than republicans in aggregate at this point. Maybe not on every single issue, but on most of them.
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Orange Elite [5400]
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I actually agree with you
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Mar 12, 2025, 1:56 PM
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You see with Manchin and Sinema. I'm surprised we haven't seen a split where the conservative half of the democrats have joined with the socially liberal side of the Republican Party to form the modern Conservative Party and just let the nut jobs on the far right flounder.
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Tiger Spirit [9787]
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Fiscally conservative
Mar 12, 2025, 8:40 PM
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And socially liberal?
Should call that the Common Sense Party
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Paw Master [16161]
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Re: "I think the Republican base didn't really want small government."
Mar 12, 2025, 2:35 PM
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Yeah, it’s just a shame that we missed out on 4 more years of Carter. Good times!!!
Fortunately we had the unifying spirit of Biden claiming that racist Mitt Romney would “put y’all back in chains” and telling blacks they weren’t black if they didn’t vote for him.
I only wish Reagan were in charge now. If Reagan had the House and Senate, I do believe the government would have been trimmed back.
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 12, 2025, 8:48 PM
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Where are the real Democrats? Are they shaking, scared and hiding from the lunatic liberals and progressives afraid to speak out for fear of being canceled?
That's the ones you should be worried about.
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Ring of Honor [23389]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 12, 2025, 11:53 PM
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Speaking out against what? Be more precise.
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Orange Blooded [2404]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 12, 2025, 11:37 PM
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I haven’t heard from a real Republican in about eight years
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 13, 2025, 12:15 AM
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the old GOP is gone
are there any sane democrats alive?
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Ring of Honor [23389]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 13, 2025, 12:20 AM
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Wes Moore. There is one. He might be your next president. There are a bunch of them actually, but they get buried by some in of the nutty ones. Kind of like regular Repubs who are buried by MAGA.
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Valley Legend [12477]
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Re: Are real Republicans extinct?
Mar 13, 2025, 8:50 AM
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not extinct, just hiking on the apalachian trail
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