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Originally Posted by Guest
You are describing the tea party to a tee, a small but very loud group that is in the process of destroying the republican party. In years past, how many senate seats did they cost the GOP with the likes of Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Ken Buck, Todd Akin, and many more?
And 2016 will be no different with candidates such as Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, etc. Even the chairman of the RNC, Reince Preibus, stated that the republican party, as we know it, will cease to exist with another loss in 2016.
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I think the Tea Party does not carry the weight you think they do at all.
BUT...I will most certainly agree that the political climate because of the last 6 1/2 years is totally screwed up.
Trump is grabbing all the headlines from serious candidates on the GOP side.
Clinton's campaign seems to have drawn to a halt and if the reports are accurate the desperation in the Democratic party has them looking at Joe Biden and Al Gore even. More talk of criminal activity than issues on the left.
I still maintain it all could have been different had President Obama handled his first year in office more like a statesman than someone who just won a trophy.
BUT.....the climate has been changed for sure. As has the world.....we have more enemies, less friends, more violence in the Mid East and on our own streets.
It is a shame and I keep hoping for some optimistic news somewhere on something.
ISIS is now using chemical weapons, Iran is going to get rich and armed, Russia is getting stronger, we just opened diplomatic relations with one of the worst human rights countries in the world (Cuba).
We have a civil rights movement based on a lie, we make hero's of criminals, we continually hear of multiple shootings everywhere and crime in the poverty areas has never ever been higher or more violent.
Not a positive time for our country at all.