# Prediction: what Republicans will be saying Nov. 9, 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 15, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945 "2015-08-15T21:27:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/1 "2015-08-15T21:27:08Z")
“We woulda won if it wasn’t for @%#! Trump.” That won’t be true, but it will at least give them a convenient excuse and allow them to continue to evade the real truth: namely, that the predilections of old white Southern men are not shared by a majority of Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/2 "2015-08-15T21:33:19Z")
“Hillary Clinton was very successful because I went to bat for her. All the candidates were coming to me asking for my help, but Hillary, she was offering more money than you could believe. She wouldn’t have won if I hadn’t been in her corner, but people all around the country respect my opinion. I’m a very intelligent man, and when I say this is the right woman for the job, people listen.” -Donald Trump ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/3 "2015-08-15T21:48:25Z")
“Whatever we did, we’ll do even better next time if we just do more of it!” (Or “if we’re even more conservative”.) ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/4 "2015-08-15T21:52:51Z")
That too! Gotta love it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/5 "2015-08-15T22:10:47Z")
Jeb lost because he wasn’t conservative enough. Next time we’ll nominate a true believer, I swear! We’ll have a secret meeting on Jan 20, 2017 and pledge to not support an single thing that Hillary wants to do. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/6 "2015-08-15T22:13:44Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > “We woulda won if it wasn’t for @%#! Trump.” … “We woulda won if those @%#! hadn’t torpedoed Trump’s candidacy.” ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/7 "2015-08-15T22:15:26Z")
Ha, that one might well be an alternate possibility. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/8 "2015-08-15T22:16:26Z")
“Tea Party, you had your chance with Trump. You did not lead, we will.” or “We must move this party to the center on hot button issues now that our record from 1992-2016 is worse than the Dems from 1968-1988.” ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/9 "2015-08-15T22:30:33Z")
That one is not happening except for a tiny number of think tankers and center right pundits. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/10 "2015-08-15T23:46:02Z")
“If only Mitt would have run a third time.” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/11 "2015-08-15T23:57:40Z")
“We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that Hillary Clinton will be a one-term President.” ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/12 "2015-08-16T00:35:54Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that Hillary Clinton will be a one-term President.” This is a very good possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/13 "2015-08-16T00:37:34Z")
“Well, it’s still a conservative nation.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/14 "2015-08-16T00:44:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that Hillary Clinton will be a one-term President.” Most likely indeed. Although if Trump was the nominee that will be said by the Republicans about any Democrat that is the new president. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/15 "2015-08-16T01:44:15Z")
Why only if he was the nominee? (To clarify, my implicit supposition in the OP is that he will run as another Perot in the general.) ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/16 "2015-08-16T03:56:04Z")
“We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that Obama will NOT have a fourth term as President.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/17 "2015-08-16T04:04:45Z")
Gawd damn, we couldn’t even buy a win. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/18 "2015-08-16T04:25:14Z")
^ Good one! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/19 "2015-08-16T04:50:52Z")
One thing they’ll be saying is the same thing they’ve been saying after every election they’ve lost that I can remember: “They paid the niggers, spics, and bums to vote”. Please excuse my language but it is an actual quote. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945/20 "2015-08-16T05:09:08Z")
In seriousness, it will publicly be “we lost to the biggest political machine in America.” In private, the moderates will come back with force. In reality, I think it will be the death of the Tea Party. I think the Tea Party exists in part because some feel Republicans don’t listen to their more conservative views. If Trump or Cruz gets the nod and loses, the Tea Party guys will have a tough time claiming to be unlistened to. I think Trump or Cruz will run hard against illegal immigration, which is almost the common thread among all TP factions. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-what-republicans-will-be-saying-nov-9-2016/727945.md?page=2)