This Is Embarrassing For The G O P

[AB Editor]

I mean, it's already bad, but it's literally a bunch of old chaps arguing about who has the bigger dongle.

You can find the video here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/winners-and-losers-from-the-11th-republican-presidential-debate/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_winners-losers-1130pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

If you don't know what the whole Trump U thing is, it's another one of his dubiously grand named pocket fillers. You can find more about that here:

http://www.theawl.com/2016/03/an-education-in-trumping

Anyway. I suppose I need a question. How about:

Can you see a way of moving the focus of the Republican primary towards something more substantial than Trump?

[Hypognosis]

@Jackdaw33

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In the 19 and early 20C the Republicans were the progressives and the Democrats reactionaries. Now it's the other way round.
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Does that explain why their red/blue colour coding is the other way around or is that (a) a recent thing (b) arbitrary assignment (they wouldn't have cared how we did it)?


@Ab Editor

Thanks.

Policy platform, eh? Dunno. What little I understand (hard to sift policies from out of the platitudes and bloviation) leads me to think they should re-brand as the Libertarian party: low taxes; small government. However, that kind of voter is, I think, already in the fold, so their would be no added vote-haul, possibly even loss of more moderate voters, who know who the real winners would be under Libertarianism - those rich enough to own the privatised replacements of former public services.


fwiw, I only started to see GOP a few years ago and that was via shared news stories, on Facebook. I reckon I noticed the point where Newsnight began using the term (audience expected to know/use wiki) and that was later - maybe the last election cycle.

[Hypognosis]

@mikey4444

Missing the right hand quote mark. But that would ruin [no spoilers]

:o)

[Jackdaw33]

@hypo

I wouldn't know about the colours. I know that until the mid 70s party colours in the UK varied from area to area. In my area Tories were red and Labour were green.

[AB Editor]

Hypo - I agree, and believe the tea party movement steered them towards that libertarian angle. As you suggest, the only winners under that system would be the incumbent...

[Bathsheba]

Thank you very glad, Ed x x

[Bathsheba]

Well that's a pleasant surprise. Mine wasn't the last post on this thread last night,if I remember correctly, there was a *** post criticising me. I still remember what it said and more importantly, who said it.
Many thanks to the Ed, or a Moderator who threw it out like the rubbish it was.

Baths
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