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“I think I know what they want to accomplish, and I agree with most of it,” [Vin Weber] said. “But if they want to accomplish it, they need to ‘rise to the level of politics.’ I mean, you can’t just stand there and take a stand and say, ‘I’m not going to compromise on my position.’ Because you won’t achieve anything.”
1 posted on 10/13/2011 5:38:02 PM PDT by Mozilla
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GOP establishment trying to co-opt the tea party.


2 posted on 10/13/2011 5:41:33 PM PDT by Mozilla
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It's a trap! (graphic needed)

Really a lot of scoundrels out there in public life with nary a concern for what is good for the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Disgusting.

3 posted on 10/13/2011 5:42:42 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (To all good FRiends who supported Gov. Palin. I never badmouthed her. Please now join us w/ MR. CAIN)
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If the Republican Party cannot learn from its mistakes, there is always an option for the Tea Party to become a third party with a President candidate to run to rip Republican Party into pieces. The Tea Party might not win, but at least it can whip the Republican Rinos until its Rinos learn a lesson and stop admiring leftist values.


5 posted on 10/13/2011 5:45:06 PM PDT by Wiz
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"You can't get away with wearing a bow tie if you're not part of the Republican establishment."



No Tea for me ... I'm part of the Republican establishment.
7 posted on 10/13/2011 5:45:44 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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I mean, you can’t just stand there and take a stand and say, ‘I’m not going to compromise on my position.’ Because you won’t achieve anything.”

Of course you compromise. Like this: "I want to cut the budget by $4 trillion, and you don't want to cut it at all. So we'll cut it $2 trillion."

That's a compromise.

The kind of compromise we don't need is: "You want to raise government spending by $4 trillion, and I don't want to raise it at all. So we'll compromise and only raise it $2 trillion.

See the difference there, Vin? Do I have to explain EVERYTHING?

9 posted on 10/13/2011 5:48:23 PM PDT by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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There is a lot of wet dreaming going on out there. The Tea Party has not even started to throw it’s weight around in this election cycle. The establishment has not a clue at the might that has been built back up, replenished, and the precinct gains we’ve made since the 2010 elections.


10 posted on 10/13/2011 5:49:15 PM PDT by RowdyFFC
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As Kristol says, either Romney or Perry is establishment enough to please the GOP elites. They got rid or Palin and Bachmann. Now Cain is the only one standing in their way.
11 posted on 10/13/2011 5:53:00 PM PDT by bwc2221
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In an interview Friday, U.S. Army private Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s wife Elspeth Reeve, a former reporter-researcher at The New Republic, told the Observer that she was excited when someone at the magazine assigned her to fact-check one of her husband’s dispatches from Iraq.

“I was like, ‘Sweet! I can talk to Scott on TNR’s dime!’” Ms. Reeve said.

Ms. Reeve was working at TNR when Mr. Beauchamp–whose articles described soldiers killing dogs and mocking wounded civilians–was accused by critics of fabricating some of his material.

Mr. Foer has since written and published a 7,000-word piece retracting Mr. Beauchamp’s articles for TNR, noting that assigning Ms. Reeve to fact-check her husband’s work was a mistake.


12 posted on 10/13/2011 5:54:15 PM PDT by TAP ONLINE ( Democrats are Scorpions, you get the ride you deserve)
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Pathetic repeat of 1980 in trying to sideline Ronald Reagan (the Ford/Rockefeller wing). Fine. Fine and dandy.....Therefore, FReepers, let us SWAMP THEM, and overtake THEM and COOPT THEM. THEY for once will be the ones getting marching orders from the Base (Tea Party/Conservatives), NOT VICE VERSA--they will be told to sit in the back seat and shut up until we get tot he destination, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and an across the board Reagan Revolution type shake up of the entire Federal D.C. Government structure.

OVERRUN THEIR BASE AT THE COUNTRY CLUB AND THE COCTAIL LOUNGE IN LOBBY OF FIVE STAR D.C. HOTELS AND QUAINT, BIPARTISAN COLLUSIVE GEORGETOWN DINNER PARTIES Get out the pitchforks like 2009 and 2010, and let's get in their face and tell them that 2012 is no ordinary year and this will NOT be "business as usual" (No McCain type rigged lost election and all that crap)


15 posted on 10/13/2011 6:02:50 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (To all good FRiends who supported Gov. Palin. I never badmouthed her. Please now join us w/ MR. CAIN)
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Pete Townshend has always had serious issues. But WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN should play anytime we sign on to FR. He nailed it.

Picking up my guitar to play ...

17 posted on 10/13/2011 6:05:32 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Days .... Weeks ..... Months .....)
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The only thing the GOP can defeat is itself.

It is run by and contains some of the most ineffective, useless, annoying people I’ve ever seen.

They are crumb feeders.


18 posted on 10/13/2011 6:05:57 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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