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1 posted on 11/14/2012 8:01:01 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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What say you about what Rush said a couple days ago?


2 posted on 11/14/2012 8:01:44 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Is Vannity still going to continue having the same ol same ol on his show?

"And now, to help us understand all this we go to 'The Architect', Karl Rove..."

'nuff said.

3 posted on 11/14/2012 8:06:41 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The GOP-e said "Beat a Marxist with a Liberal!" What a colossal blunder.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Compare the voting with 2004 ~ you'll find that McCain got less than "W". Then, you'll notice that Goober this year didn't get as many as "W" that year.

Whah?

That was my RACE TO THE BOTTOM for two unpopular candidates.

4 posted on 11/14/2012 8:07:35 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I’ve started watching CNN about 40% of the time. I’ve lost a good bit of trust in Fox. Their credibility is way down for me.


8 posted on 11/14/2012 8:09:30 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia, riding unicorns & sniffing pixy dust.)
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The GOP-e will try its hardest to shift the blame elsewhere, but they just can't help putting up Ford's Doles, George "read my lips" Bushs, McLames and now RINOldus Mittnus. The GOP-e loves RINOS/CINOS.

But RINOS/CINOS lose.....

"Once upon a time, a pet food company created a new variety of dog food, and rolled out a massive marketing campaign to introduce the product.

"Despite hiring a first-rate advertising agency, initial sales were very, very disappointing. The agency was fired, and a new agency (with an expensive new campaign) was launched. Sales, however, stubbornly continued to crater. (If anything, in fact, they fell even further than they had before.)

"In desperation, the CEO called in all of his top executives for a brainstorming session to analyze what had gone wrong with the two campaigns, and how a new campaign might revive sales.

"The meeting went on for hours. Sophisticated statistical analysis was brought to bear on the problem. One VP argued that the mix of TV and print ads had been hopelessly bollixed. Another argued that the previous campaigns had been too subtle, and had failed to feature the product with sufficient prominence. Still another argued that the TV ad campaign had focused too much on spots during sporting events, and not enough on regular programming with a broader demographic. And yet another argued the exact opposite: not enough sports programming had been targeted!

"After the debate had raged for hour after fruitless hour, the CEO felt they had accomplished damned little. He asked if anyone else had any theories -- any at all -- that might conceivably explain the failure of their new product. Finally, one newly hired employee raised her hand and was recognized.

"'Maybe the dogs simply don’t like it,' she offered."

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Damned shame that the highly touted brain trust of the (putatively) more "conservative" party of The Big Two doesn't even learn as well or readily as a simple dog food manufacturer, huh...?

9 posted on 11/14/2012 8:09:47 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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Mitt Romney got fewer votes than McCain did.

This is false. He'll end up with quite a few votes more than McCain. They're still being counted.

And even based on counted votes so far, Romney got more votes in the "Bible Belt" (OK, TX, MO, AR, LA, KY, TN, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC) than McCain.

If the base didn't turn out then it would have been impossible for Romney to get more votes in the Bible Belt.

So, in sum, this is one of the dumbest, most ill-informed things Rush has ever said.

11 posted on 11/14/2012 8:11:25 AM PST by Strategerist
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He was right in December when he warned that the GOP would squander its base by pandering to the moderates.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren December 15, 2011

Here's the big problem, Greta, for the Republicans. And I am a lone wolf on this. The rule of thumb in elections, both parties, 40 percent are going to vote Democrat automatically, whatever you do, 40 percent are going to vote Republican, automatic, no matter what you do. And in the middle, who do we have? The precious, God love them, independents and the moderates. And they are the targets. They are the focus of every election. And our brilliant campaign consultants tell our candidates they are the ones that know how to go get a majority of those independents. And we have, as Republicans, put ourselves in prison to this whole silly notion that you only win elections by moving to the center and getting great independents. Fine and dandy, but if you squander your base in the process, you haven't a prayer.

He was right again in March when he warned that Romney was winning primaries like a liberal. He was concentrating on urban areas that weren't going to vote for him in the general election while ignoring the rural areas he would need in the general.

Rush: Romney is winning like a liberal
12 posted on 11/14/2012 8:12:13 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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I know in my case, being a Christian and true Conservative, I wrote in George Washington for president.

I would not sell my soul and vote for a gun grabbing, draft dodging, gay marriage law signing, O'Romneycare creating, liberal judge appointing cult leader. This shouldn't have surprised any of GOP elite, we told them for 5 years we wouldn't vote for Romney.

So called conservatives who voted for someone who legislated to the left of Bill Clinton feel free to blast away, my conscience is clean. I don't feel like a two dollar whore today.

Conservatives DID stay home.

15 posted on 11/14/2012 8:19:08 AM PST by SENTINEL (Election 2012....One more false prophecy by FLDS/LDS "prophet" Joseph Smith)
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Election Fraud caused the loss - call your governor and SoS and demand a recount.


18 posted on 11/14/2012 8:22:41 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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The lesson that the GOP-e has not learned is that there is so little “middle ground” and “independents” left in the political market place, that it is not worth pissing off the base to gain a point or two. When the base is not enthusiastic, and when they don’t turn out to support RINO candidates, the cost as a percentage of the vote is far to high.

In short, a moderate GOP candidate does not gain enough independent voters to offset the loss both motivation, donations and votes from the base.


19 posted on 11/14/2012 8:24:47 AM PST by taxcontrol
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If you’re not going to show up, then you’re not going to be there to take a seat at the table. Tough toenails.


24 posted on 11/14/2012 8:33:44 AM PST by Cousin Eddie
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Akin lost MO by 15%, whereas Romney won it by 10%. I hate to say it, but I think - in conjunction with Mourdock’s and Akin’s gaffes - not having a rape or incest exception in the GOP abortion plank was what cost us the election. While we had it in prior elections, nobody paid much attention to it. Until 2012, when Akin and Mourdock finally put the plank up in neon lights. While everyone’s talking about immigration, I think the lack of a rape or incest exception may have elicited a much more visceral response from women voters.


26 posted on 11/14/2012 8:41:43 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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Up next on PPV: Cat fight between Limbaugh and Hannity.


27 posted on 11/14/2012 8:41:58 AM PST by ShadowDancer ("Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.")
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Obama is what you get when you don’t vote enjoy it for the rest of your life.


41 posted on 11/14/2012 9:45:25 AM PST by Vaduz
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.... the mistrust of his past record.

There it is for all the RINO/CINO's to see. Their pig-in-a-poke lackey was a known commodity. A persons past is usually a very good indicator of just what to expect in the future as in a leopard can't change his spots. In essence, once a liberal always a liberal.



۞ "Since the bygone days of Ronald Reagan the present day Republican Party has taken on the appearance and all the demeanor of the corrupted liberal Democrat Party and has now become the party of appeasers, apologists, liberalism and an ever bigger government with all of the welfare largesse that emanates from it."

44 posted on 11/14/2012 11:17:19 AM PST by Ron H. (Democrats and Republicans - birds of a feather that are now flocking together.)
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the purest conservative of all? All who did not vote or voted third party are spoiled little children who in their tantrum, gave our country to the enemy. You purists are our enemy ever bit as much as the Dems.


46 posted on 11/14/2012 11:31:38 AM PST by Sarabaracuda (Comprehensive Immigration Reform NOW!)
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They did not. But it is probaly just as well. The crash is coming and nothing will be done at this point in time to stop it. The only question is when it will happen.

The reason nothing will be done is that the gimmes are now in the majority and should the politicians take the necessary steps to prevent the crash or collapse, whichever term one choses to use, the gimmies will take his/her gravytra\in away[vote them out ofoffice and replace them with one who will continue the gimmes] Until there are no more. then the collapse.

62 posted on 11/15/2012 11:35:00 AM PST by sport
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and Obama would have been defeated.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Obama would still have won. He would have manufactured, out of thin air, the votes needed.

We will never again have an reasonably honest election in this nation.

66 posted on 11/16/2012 9:05:31 PM PST by wintertime
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