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Open Letter to Reince Priebus and the GOP
A Time For Choosing ^ | November 9, 2012 | Isabel Matos

Posted on 11/10/2012 4:45:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: muawiyah

You just keep living there in “purity” land while the rest of us live here in realville.
This is my last response to you.


61 posted on 11/11/2012 7:59:37 AM PST by Bainbridge
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To: Bainbridge

You have a vivid imagination if you think Romney can win.


62 posted on 11/11/2012 8:07:45 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I actually worked every precinct in that district. And the fact is, there is no Republican Party there.

Not too hard for Dems to win overwhelming victories, that being the case.


63 posted on 11/11/2012 8:11:20 AM PST by EternalVigilance (The only wasted vote is one that doesn't represent you.)
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To: EternalVigilance
I've had a couple of Freepers always johnny on the spot to attack me on that woman in that district every time I bring up Mike Steele by full name.

I"ve tried talking around the issue without naming him and they never show up, but whenever I name him, they start with the argument that the Republican candidate in America's most thoroughly Democrat district was ignored.

So, we don't even have a party organization there?

Could very well 'splain how she got ignored ~ A LOT!!!!!!

64 posted on 11/11/2012 8:19:13 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL. We will lose the house again in 2014.


65 posted on 11/11/2012 8:49:27 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: Ouderkirk

It is impossible for the general public to have a favorable opinion of an individual who has undergone the kind of media eviseration and battering the Palin family - all of them - have endured in the last 4-1/2 years.

I distinctly remember the Reagan family going through the same thing. Nancy Reagan was smeared by a front page article of the New York Times about a “love affair” with Frank Sinatra!

When Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter the negative press was just awful, calling him a grade Z actor, but his speeches were what won over the public so that he won the 1980 election.

Still, the negative belief that RR was slow and stupid has hung on until today. Research has proven he was neither.


66 posted on 11/11/2012 10:24:00 AM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: SatinDoll
What you’re saying about Palin being unelectable, is exactly the same argument used against Ronald Reagan

It is Palin's job to convince the electorate that she is electable.

So far she hasn't done it.

67 posted on 11/11/2012 12:41:06 PM PST by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand

Hey, genius! She hasn’t been running for office yet has been a target of both Romney, the GOPe, and the Democratic Party.

They are scared shitless of that woman. Take a message from that fact. It speaks volumes!


68 posted on 11/11/2012 12:55:04 PM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: muawiyah

Again, we had more recently won in that district than the Dems in Hastert’s. If we continue to concede, we shouldn’t be surprised at the outcome. The irony that a “minority” GOP chairman who would ostensibly be preaching “minority outreach” ignores such a race is very telling. The establishment was backing a White RINO, but when their candidate is beaten by precisely the kind of person we need to be touting, they pretend they don’t exist. Steele was not only a RINO, but incompetent. If we had had to have a Black Chairman for the 2009-2011 period, we should’ve put up Kenneth Blackwell, an actual Conservative of accomplishment.


69 posted on 11/11/2012 1:04:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: muawiyah

I didn’t attack you. I was simply making a statement about the facts on the ground in districts like that one. There is no Republican Party. This is true in most of the urban areas of the country.


70 posted on 11/11/2012 1:58:38 PM PST by EternalVigilance (The only wasted vote is one that doesn't represent you.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Blackwell didn’t make it ~ but the Illinois 5th district history is right here at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois’s_5th_congressional_district After Rostenkowski was caught stealing stamps and furniture at the Capitol they put a Republican in this district for one term. An anomaly. Anyone can see in the history that it’s been overwhelmingly Democrat since 1899 ~ truly the Holy of Holies of mind-numbed knee-jerk robot-like leftwingtardism in America!


71 posted on 11/11/2012 2:07:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: EternalVigilance

Didn’t say you did ~ couple of other Freepers who are still tearing up over the fact a Republican who sought to campaign in that district was rather ignored.


72 posted on 11/11/2012 2:09:21 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: fieldmarshaldj
1898 ~ long dry spell there littered a few times with the bodies of a Republican congresscritter ~ but this is the holy of holies for the Left.

If you need to run in such a district raise your own funds, or just hire somebody to take out the opposition ~ like the mob does.

73 posted on 11/11/2012 2:11:42 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand

None who went all in for Romney have no idea what ‘electable’ means.


74 posted on 11/11/2012 2:13:23 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Those Wikipedia CD histories aren’t entirely helpful because of redistricting and renumbering of seats. The 5th has only been the 5th since 1992, it was the 8th before that. The GOP previously won it in 1930, though the member was unseated. The 5th listed on the chart (from 1949-1993) is the current 3rd, and was the 4th pre-1949. The 5th pre-1949 became the 7th (1949-1973) and then the 11th (1973-1993) until it was dismantled.

I made and keep my own records to track CD histories. Regardless of their histories, we must not hesistate to aggressively contest them, especially when they come open. If the Democrats behaved as we did, Hastert’s seat would’ve stayed GOP after his resignation (indeed, not until 2010 did we reclaim the seat — and now the Dem winner of Hastert’s seat, who lost in 2010, aggressively ran against a GOP incumbent, Biggert, and beat her on Tuesday. That district, btw, hasn’t elected a Democrat since the 19th century. To use your phrase, a GOP “holy of holies”, so how did the Dems manage to win ?).

All again proves Steele’s prior management to be the epitome of incompetence and failure. Just imagine having a GOP Chair who understands the import of challenging EVERY seat regardless !


75 posted on 11/11/2012 2:52:03 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SatinDoll

Then let her show how much power she has.

So far she has proven herself to be the paper tiger who didn’t roar.


76 posted on 11/11/2012 3:01:06 PM PST by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: SatinDoll

..... and I don’t get the “scared shitless” statement.

Imagine if John Edwards and his children were doing reality TV shows..... how serious would you think he was about becoming president?

Or Dan Qyayle? Walter Mondale????


77 posted on 11/11/2012 3:04:14 PM PST by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: fieldmarshaldj
you do know there's an RNC Senate Campaign Committee and an RNC House Campaign Committee.

They are supposed to take care of these matters ~ in fact, when Preibus took away money slated for Akin he violated the rules ~ should be flensed for that alone!

Save me a big toe for my collection.

78 posted on 11/11/2012 3:20:22 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand

Hey, Edwards was doing ‘True The Man’s Magazine’ bits, and got caught ~ I think he thought he was appearing in another reprise of ‘Nazi Sex Slaves’


79 posted on 11/11/2012 3:22:08 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand

Are you prejudiced against people making money? The Clintons and Obamas went on all kinds of shows, some really tacky: so what! It is not like any of the Palins have property in other people’s names or multiple social security numbers.

And how would you feel if the lives of your small children had been threatened, as has happened to the Palins?

She is biding her time. I have no problem with that.


80 posted on 11/11/2012 5:52:19 PM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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