So was the GOP convention successful in unifying the party?

They couldn’t even unify their scheduled speakers.

@stanleybmanly – from that point of view, the answer is a resounding NO. You need only look at ‘Lyin’ Ted’ Cruz and the earthquake that he caused. The next four years will be fun.

I was reading some of the editorials today – not just in the liberal press, but also in the conservative web sites, and they’re calling yesterday’s speech a debacle and an embarrassment. I have to agree.

I have to wonder how many republicans will bail on the party between now and November.

No, but it surely unified us Trump deniers.

As if we needed further unifying.

I’m with the elephant. ^^ That one – not the other one.

It was 1928 the last time the GOP won without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket. Americans have always elected the sleaziest candidate they could find. It seems the GOP has a hard time finding somebody sleazy enough. But we have a bumper crop this time around.

And, since some nitwit always challenges that, here is the list:
Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933 NO BUSH, NO NIXON
Ike January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 VP Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 VP George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993
George W. Bush January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009

I like what David Brooks had to say about it:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-death-of-the-republican-party/ar-BBuEeLZ

@SmartAZ I’m going to be a nit wit :) what about Ford?

@Lightlyseared, Ford was not elected president. He completed Nixon’s term after Nixon’s resignation.

“Becoming president upon Richard Nixon’s departure on August 9, 1974, he claimed the distinction as the first and to date the only person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to either office.”
—Wikipedia

I think the Republican convention showed the huge cracks and divisions of a crumbling party structure.

@Jeruba Yes, I thought the David Brooks piece was great too.

@Jeruba Thank you for the Brooks commentary. Those astute observations I agree are right on point regarding the catastrophe confronting the conservative movement in the country. And for those Republicans of any intellectual depth, the stark reality in the assured destruction of the party is undeniable. Trump presents such people with an impossible choice, for there is no credible way to reconcile an endorsement of Trump with a functioning intellect. And ALL of them know it. The ones who know yet ignore it, Christie and Gingrich for example irretrievably reveal themselves for what they are, because I repeat, from an intellectual standpoint, there’s absolutely no wiggle room in an assessment of Trump.

@Jeruba: Count me in, also, as an appreciator of Brooks. I come from a family of blindly-follow-the-party-no-matter-what Republicans, who will probably, without a twitch be voting that way in November. My timing in divorcing myself from this group was serendipitous (a year ago) and makes the decision to do so much easier, now. I can only hope that at some point these educated intelligent people will read/will have read this piece.