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The GOP will only need Trump to stump around to the confederate states, county fairs, farm shows, bass tournaments, NASCAR and Rodeo's to help local candidates. It will give him his fix for rallies and keep him out of sight in the national spotlight.. If he has to spend his own money he certainly won't be running. He wasted over a billion dollars. Trump burned through campaign money on useless things like campaign merchandise and thousands of dollars spent on his own son's books to give to donors. I can't see the big donors giving the GOP any more money without a guarantee that Trump won't run.
I don't think any self-styled "conservative" who voted for a Biden/Harris ticket should be calling anyone else an uneducated idiot.
Such a person should read the Democrat platform and educate herself as to what she just voted for. Once she does that, she should repent or never call herself a conservative again.
Convicted felons will not be eligible to run. The party needs to look to the next generation of leadership, Trump is history and not a viable future candidate.
Could lend me you crystal ball...I need it to pick a few stocks.
I disagree. The republican party is largely conservative and would not elect Trump as their candidate. They're tired of a liberal candidate running on the republican ticket.
Republican voters, not to be confused with the Republican party, are first and foremost American patriots who believe in and support our nation as a unique country founded on the ideals of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Republican voters support and defend our constitution, certainly and especially including the bill of rights.
Trump is not a doctrinaire conservative in all matters, but then neither was George W. Bush, and neither is any other Republican leader who might plausibly ever be nominated by the party as their presidential candidate. Clearly neither the Republican party or Republican voters are nearly as obsessed with being "conservative" as an end-all, be-all as you apparently are.
The political parties exist for the purpose of accumulating political power. That is it. As a result, they change over time. They are not consistently aligned with a fixed set of principles, aside for their focus on the accumulation of political power.
Your fixation on the Republican party as being rigidly "conservative" is misguided and wrong. It suggests an incorrect understanding of what political parties actually are and the role that they fulfill in any society, certainly including our own.
I am a conservative. But before that, I am an American, and right now the issue is whether our nation will continue to survive in any sort of traditionally identifiable sense, not how rigidly conservative the next nominee for the Republican party ought to be.
Bush was a horrendous President in almost every respect including his major contribution to the severe recession, but Clinton also pushed the policies that led to the crash. As did Obama in the Senate.
Bush pushed the polices that led to the 2009 crash, wasn't Bush president from 2002 to 2009 and republicans controlled the senate from 2003 to 2006, Clinton was long gone.
I'd rather see the party choose a different candidate. I most likely won't vote for Trump in the primaries, but if he wins the nomination I'll probably hold my nose and vote for him Nov. 2024.
If he gets the nomination, yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if a "true believer" like Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, or Mike Huckabee gives him a run for his money.
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