- Are the Last Rational Republicans in Denial? The current GOP is beyond rescue. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/are-the-last-rational-republicans-in-denial/661503/ 2100 comments politics
- Democrats: Biden must drop the word ‘rational’ when talking about Republicans https://thehill.com/news/administration/3520441-democrats-biden-must-drop-the-word-rational-when-talking-about-republicans/ 616 comments politics
- Joe Biden says Mitch McConnell is a 'rational Republican.' Is he right? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/politics/biden-mcconnell-guns-rational-republican/index.html 71 comments politics
- Biden insists McConnell is a 'rational Republican' who may come around on gun control, even as the GOP blocks legislation https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-insists-mcconnell-is-a-rational-republican-gun-control-2022-5 58 comments politics
- Biden believes "rational Republicans" could move on gun control https://www.axios.com/2022/05/30/biden-republicans-uvalde-gun-control 121 comments politics
- The Republican establishment’s rationalization of Trump’s fraud claims is also wrong https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/12/republican-establishment-trump-fraud-claims/ 17 comments politics
- Opinion: Republicans aren’t rational about covid-19. So stop reasoning with them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/13/republicans-arent-rational-about-covid-19-so-stop-reasoning-with-them/ 576 comments politics
- 'Rationals' vs. 'radicals': Anti-Trump Republicans threaten third party https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-republicans-third-party-iduskbn2cs2r3 34 comments politics
- 'Rationals' vs. 'radicals': Anti-Trump Republicans threaten third party — Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-republicans-third-party-iduskbn2cs2r3 9 comments politics
- 'Rationals' vs. 'radicals': Anti-Trump Republicans threaten third party https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rationals-vs-radicals-anti-trump-republicans-threaten-third-party-2021-05-11/ 123 comments politics
- Why bother? Trump's lawyers don't even offer an impeachment defense because Republicans don't care. Trump's lawyers know they're not there to persuade — just to give GOP senators cheap rationalizations to acquit https://www.salon.com/2021/02/12/why-bother-trumps-lawyers-dont-even-offer-an-impeachment-defense-because-republicans-dont-care/ 279 comments politics
- Worse Than Treason | No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/what-republicans-are-doing-worse-treason/617538/ 4068 comments politics
- Republicans try desperately to rationalize their coverup https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/03/republicans-try-desperately-rationalize-their-coverup/ 99 comments politics
- The Cowardly Republicans; Republicans are afraid to criticize the president. That fear is rational—but there is a way to overcome it. https://thebulwark.com/the-cowardly-republicans/ 22 comments politics
- Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/18/trump-is-getting-worse-republicans-rationalizations-are-getting-weaker/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.03251b14237e 6 comments politics
- Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/18/trump-is-getting-worse-republicans-rationalizations-are-getting-weaker/?utm_term=.ad968b271da3 3 comments politics
- Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/18/trump-is-getting-worse-republicans-rationalizations-are-getting-weaker/?utm_term=.c74245461560 5 comments politics
- Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/18/trump-is-getting-worse-republicans-rationalizations-are-getting-weaker/?utm_term=.f00d7e13320b 489 comments politics
- Republican leaders are (still) doing all they can to rationalize Justice Brett Kavanaugh https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-kavanaugh-celebrations-734061/ 4 comments politics
- Kasich sounds peculiarly rational because Republicans are so irrational these days https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/06/04/kasich-sounds-peculiarly-rational-because-republicans-are-so-irrational-these-days/?utm_term=.6cfee4a90e11 47 comments politics
- The Republican rationalization of Roy Moore is now complete http://us.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/roy-moore-trump-analysis/index.html 4 comments politics
- The Republican rationalization of Roy Moore is now complete http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/roy-moore-trump-analysis/index.html 7 comments politics
- What stops Republicans from behaving rationally https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/13/what-stops-republicans-from-behaving-rationally/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.00df51ec9b02 21 comments politics
- How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/how-republicans-plan-to-ration-health-care.html?_r=0 9 comments politics
- Jason Chaffetz’s passivity on Trump exemplifies Republican rationalizations https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/14/jason-chaffetzs-passivity-on-trump-exemplifies-republican-rationalizations/ 84 comments politics
- The fear-mongering political ads are coming "Fear is powerful, whether it has any rational basis or not, and Republicans know that the more afraid voters are, the more likely they are to gravitate toward the party whose candidates spend their time puffing out their chests ..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/12/02/the-fear-mongering-political-ads-are-coming/ 337 comments politics
- Inside the GOP’s hallucinatory dogma: How the politics of paranoia & disorientation conquered the Republican mind Last week, Dem candidates presented a rational view of America, at odds with the deformed worldview of Republicans http://www.salon.com/2015/10/18/inside_the_gops_hallucinatory_dogma_how_the_politics_of_paranoia_disorientation_conquered_the_republican_mind/ 80 comments politics
- Help Republicans Rescue Their Party From Itself - The options for Republicans are simple. They can do nothing and allow the Santorums and Inhofes to hijack the party. Or they can move past the post-election rationalizations and create what might be called a “Real Republican” movement. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2012/12/help_republicans_rescue_their041644.php 15 comments politics
- Karl Rove Just Can't Let Go - How the Republican strategist rationalizes the failure of big money to sway the presidential election http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/karl-rove-just-cant-let-go/265163/ 6 comments politics
- Mitt Romney is too rational for a deluded Republican base. More than 1 in 4 Republicans in Mississippi and 1 in 5 in Alabama still believe interracial marriage should be illegal while closer to 2/3 do not believe in evolution. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/23/romney-us-presidential-elections-republicans 4 comments politics
- "The Democratic party has an obligation to beat the Republican party so badly, over and over again, that rationality once again becomes a quality to be desired." http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/republican-party-0512 1543 comments politics
- Robert Scheer: Obama By Default - "The Republicans are a sick joke, and their narrow ideological stupidity has left rational voters no choice in the coming presidential election but Barack Obama." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/obama-by-default_b_1404833.html 154 comments politics
- Republicans, can you please explain to me why this man (who I view to be the most rational and sane candidate on your field) is not leading as your party’s top choice for republican nominee? http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110621&t=2&i=443484091&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2011-06-21t143532z_01_btre75k14ja00_rtroptp_0_usa-polotics-huntsman 19 comments politics
- Republicans in Arizona use death panels for health care rationing http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131215308/arizona-budget-cuts-put-organ-transplants-at-risk 29 comments politics
- True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors? It will slash Medicare payments to doctors? It will ration health care? The answer to all 3 is false, but surprise surprise, months of Republican lies means most people answered true. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8932261 22 comments politics
- "The 13 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee get one faintly rational Republican to join them in a meaningless stab at health care reform and it throws the media into a titillated frenzy about what it all means. It means very little." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/14 3 comments politics
- Meghan McCain on The View (and elsewhere) talks as a rational person with respect for the political process and the good of the country. How long until she abandons the Republican Party? http://www.hulu.com/watch/94944/the-view-thu-sep-10-2009 8 comments politics
- The Republican strategy is not about health care or pulling the plug on grandma. It is not about spending or taxes. This is about power, and they are using lies to gain power, not to win any aspect of rational debate. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-dorlester/health-care-its-not-about_b_278290.html 19 comments politics
- 197 House Republicans Reject Impeachment Of Trump, Blaming Democrats For The Chaos. In a torrent of lies, gaslighting, rationalization and minimization, GOP lawmakers rejected accountability for Trump’s incitement of insurrection. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/republicans-impeachment-trump_n_5fff8fb5c5b6c77d85ecabe7?ri18n=true 40 comments politics
- When asked to respond to Republican Eric Cantor's refusal to reject birther talk, WH Press Secretary responds that "rational people" don't question the President's citizenship and pointed to Obama's own record regarding his opponent's status. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/robert-gibbs-responds-to-eric-cantors-refusal-to-reject-birther-crazy-talk/ 5 comments politics