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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (278200)	9/10/2015 12:33:07 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540752

Here is what I think about that wharf; I agree with you that Trump is a moron - a buffoon. I think at some point he gets tired of the whole thing and slinks back into the lizard cave he came out of. ............BUT, what democrats seem to completely miss is that the fantasy of Trump is a message of getting rid of politics as usual. Democrats instead try to fine some reason for his success (he is drawing from racist - beyond weird!) and end up only confused that anyone would ever support him. It is the very same reason that Bernie Sanders is slightly ahead of Clinton in Iowa in a new poll!!!! What!! That's right, not only New Hampshire bit now Iowa! Even I didn't think I would see that. Bernie is not going to win because he doesn't have the machine to beat Clinton - but that machine is EXACTLY what people on both parties hate. The democrats and the republican machine refuse to acknowledge that. If Bush and Clinton are the nominations there will be a total of about 100 people voting (that's hyperbole). I will want to vomit...............'

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (278200)	9/10/2015 1:01:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 540752

" He's gonna destroy the Republican Party, at least for the next election, and that's a very good thing. They need to start over." America, you're watching the beginning of the end of the Republican Party By Erick Erickson Published August 31, 2015 FoxNews.com The beginning of the end of the Republican Party has started. On Friday, I told you the Republican Party is dying. Then, yesterday, Ross Douthat in the New York Times echoed my key point. Mine was that the Republican leaders in Washington would see the decline of Donald Trump as proof that they need do nothing to change. Like the Bourbons of France, they’d forget nothing and learn nothing. On Sunday, Douthat wrote, “In an unhealthy system, the kind I suspect we inhabit, the Republicans will find a way to crush Trump without adapting to his message. In which case the pressure the Donald has tapped will continue to build — and when it bursts, the G.O.P. as we know it may go with it.” Yes, exactly. The Republican Party is dying because the GOP in DC has gone corporate and K Street. They attack any Republicans who dare hold them to their promises. They’ve gone to war against Heritage Action for America, Club For Growth, the Madison Project, etc. They’ve blackballed any political consultant who does work for outsiders. The GOP has become so incestuous it continues to hemorrhage and will die. It cannot adapt because the key consultants it has shaping its future are wedded to the capital that comes from not changing. But even more importantly, the GOP protects their failed consultants who keep bringing in the bacon. The Project ORCA guys are doing quite well. The guys who collapsed Voter Vault are doing well. The idiots who run outreach for the GOP go out and form consultancy groups, then get embedded within the NRCC, NRSC, or RNC itself and hand contracts back to themselves. In short, the GOP has become so incestuous it continues to hemorrhage and will die. It cannot adapt because the key consultants it has shaping its future are wedded to the capital that comes from not changing. It should be eye opening to the Republican leaders in Washinton that Ross Douthat and I have come to the same conclusion — they will not recognize the need to change and will therefore die. foxnews.com