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Midnight Writer

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4. I saw an interview a while back with a retired Republican Congressman from Texas.

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2019, 03:03 PM

Oct 2019

He said all politicians have to deal with cranks from time to time. You try not to alienate them, you be polite, you do represent them just like others in your district, you want their vote, but you don't cater to them.

But now his Republican Party seeks out the cranks, encourages them, and has been taken over by the cranks, even electing cranks to office and then to leadership.

He called the GOP the Party of Cranks.

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Republicans have devolved into a party of thugs [View all] dlk Oct 2019 OP

Thugs, criminals, low lifes, scumbags, and conspiracy theorists. Initech Oct 2019 #1

This ass was in the closed door meeting & he doesn't even mention that there were other Repubs there dustyscamp Oct 2019 #2

I think they always have been that way, generally. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #3

I saw an interview a while back with a retired Republican Congressman from Texas. Midnight Writer Oct 2019 #4

They were always thugs. Baitball Blogger Oct 2019 #5

ALWAYS were bluestarone Oct 2019 #6

We've been calling them ReTHUGs on DU malaise Oct 2019 #7

With Trump in the WH, it's official dlk Oct 2019 #8

Well it was official from Bush stole the Presidency malaise Oct 2019 #9

That was definitely criminal but had a thin veneer of civility dlk Oct 2019 #10