I typed this up for another thread, but decided to start a new thread. I know we don't need more threads, but this one I think is different.

From my perspective and what I was seeing bore out last night and even most of the talking heads started saying things I have been posting. (and I've only been posting the last few weeks on this stuff)

You heard it here first. The Republican party of Reagan died last night. The party of the moral majority no longer exists the way it used to. Even Huckabee knew it. You can call them RINOs  if you want, but it is dead. There was a changing of the guard. It was either going to be this or the Republicans were going to become the equivalent to the Green party in the near future.

There is just not enough people who believe in all the planks of the Republican party. The social issues planks are doomed. Hopefully we can get taxes and spending under control under Trump. If not, he will be a one term guy. The vast majority of Americans know that we have to fix the government first. We can't use a broken government to fix a broken society.

Before you freak out, the demos are doomed too. They are way more fractured than we are.

You will see it in the election. A lot of democrats are going to vote for Trump. Working class demos are not going to vote for the current demo contenders. A lot of fiscally conservative gays are going to jump on the Trump bandwagon. A lot of demo working women are going to vote for Trump.

The way the country has been fractured with hard line right wingers on one side and ultra libs on the other has left a huge chasm in the center and Trump filled that vacuum with an explosion of thunder that has rolled for months now.

Ignore what you think you know. Most Americans are not like you. A lot of them still like obama. Most of those don't like hillary. Those people are going to vote for Trump.

This is from my eyes that were formerly held shut by my belief system. Eyes that were so closed I could not believe obama got elected. I really couldn't believe he got elected twice. That second election opened my eyes. It should have opened yours too. Forget the term RINO. You will never get what you think you want as a candidate. No "true" conservative champion is waiting in the wings to lead us. They would have no chance.

The best we can hope for is personal liberty and support it for everyone, low taxes, secure borders, strong military and smaller less intrusive government. If you want more than that out of your government, you are creating the problem that got us to where we are.

The GOP stopped being Reaganesque a decade ago.  What last night showed is that voters have finally figured it out.

Not that Trump is Reagan, but that the sham is over

you think you will have a defender of liberty from a man who likes and regularly uses eminent domain?




no really

No. Unfortunately I don't think that. I just see what a lot of ARF refuses to see.

People still like obama. Think about that. He is still popular with voters. That is why hillary is saying the things she is saying. It is just people don't like her. obama can say "I'm going to kill the coal industry" and get elected. Hillary is getting torn apart over it. People don't like her.

People like Trump in the same vein they like obama. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't, but I can't ignore it.

That might just be it.