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Conservative-GOP marriage over?
politico ^ | Monday May 7, 2012 | Craig Shirley

Posted on 05/07/2012 8:59:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

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To: nathanbedford

Conservatives sent the RNC a message during the 2010 interim elections and also with Lugar, Hatch and in Wisconsin. The RNC did not listen.
There was considerable shifting of primary dates during this years process and that was done to benefit Romney.
I know many republicans that will NOT support Mitt Romney and are no longer giving a dime to the RNC.


21 posted on 05/07/2012 9:54:15 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: Bigtigermike

To the headline: if it’s not it should be.


22 posted on 05/07/2012 9:54:35 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Houghton M.

Sorry, but it is the GOPE who have handed us the devil by force feed. I can’t swallow this time.

These other candidates were not serious, but entered unfunded, hoping and waiting for funding. The GOPE was funded BY Romney, which indebted them to him far in advance of the contest, as you know, and then THEY funded him.

We have to find our candidate NOW and begin funding him, and also our best conservatives in office, and on the farm team.

Who’s it gonna be?


23 posted on 05/07/2012 9:58:00 PM PDT by RitaOK (Nevermind, Newt. Forget the convention. I'm trusting God for the rest.)
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To: Houghton M.
we bickered among ourselves and handed it to Romney.

Bull. The only thing "we" did wrong was tolerate the GOPE passivity during the Palin crucifixion.

24 posted on 05/07/2012 9:59:23 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: nathanbedford

>”The harsh reality is nothing other than Conservatives failed to sell their message to the bulk of the Republican electorate.”<

Though you don’t seem to be getting much support in this thread, I agree with you. The Republican Party isn’t far enough to the right to suit me either, but Republican primary voters obviously make up the more conservative half of the country’s electorate (or least leftist). If a conservative can’t win there, how the hell is he going to be able to win the general election?

Let’s face it. We lost again. I didn’t like McCain last time, and I don’t like Romney this time. That’s no reason to let Obama win, though. The writer cites Reagan, but if I recall correctly, Reagan continued to work within the Republican party while his supporters were still in a minority, until he finally had enough support to win the nomination. He didn’t attempt to start an independent party. If he had, I don’t think he would have been President.


25 posted on 05/07/2012 10:03:24 PM PDT by GJones2 (Republican or 3rd party?)
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To: RIghtwardHo

F^&*(K them....


26 posted on 05/07/2012 10:04:59 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: jimpick

Word!


27 posted on 05/07/2012 10:05:24 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Bigtigermike

I am assuming that by "The Rest of Us" they mean whomever they can pander to while causing their base to balk...

28 posted on 05/07/2012 10:06:31 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GJones2

There are many taboos that have been cast aside in the pursuit of “winning” since Reagan’s time.


29 posted on 05/07/2012 10:08:13 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: Vendome
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30 posted on 05/07/2012 10:08:20 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: jimpick

Well, it might as well be a fellow FReeper:

http://www.tomhoefling.com/index.html


31 posted on 05/07/2012 10:10:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Romney Republicanism: The blind leading the blind, over a cliff, into the political abyss.)
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To: jimpick; onyx; GJones2; katiedidit1; Bigtigermike
We have a process for determining what the Republican Party stands for. Conservatives were never denied an opportunity to compete for control of that process. For heavens sake, Ron Paul is still permitted access to the process.

To somehow argue that the process over the last several months has been unfair or unrepresentative of the will of the Republican electorate is absurd.

As a foaming at the mouth flopping on the floor conservative, I am bitterly disappointed that the party has chosen a certifiable Rino as its standard bearer but I will not deceive myself that I have somehow been defrauded. I supported Newt from the very beginning, before Jim Robinson came out in his support and for he explicitly endorsed views I expressed in a vanity. I caught a great deal of flak for doing so and I caught that flak from equally committed conservatives here on Free Republic.

I lost because I could not persuade enough people to see things my way.

Guess what, that is not the fault of the establishment of the GOP. That is my fault.

I will not compounded my error and my own failure by ensuring the election of Barack Obama and the diminishment of the only political party which has a chance of acting as the vehicle for true conservatism.


32 posted on 05/07/2012 10:12:32 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Bigtigermike

The Romney/Rockefeller wing of the GOP was fighting hardball for the 2012 nomination when they started working to stop, and to discredit, Governor Palin back in September of 2008.


33 posted on 05/07/2012 10:13:50 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Bigtigermike
Nonsense. We should stay with the Republican party and continue to fight the good fight against the loyal opposition. If we just meet them half-way, and be civil and tolerant, avoid any confrontation, even the media will start to come around.
34 posted on 05/07/2012 10:21:47 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Houghton M.
We shall far more easily take over the GOP when Robozombie is memorably disposed of, when the next POTUS election will be in 2016 instead of 2020, when conservatives figure out how to unite around ONE CANDIDATE while keeping a few others stashed strictly in reserve just in case of GOP-E and Axelrod, when ONE of the reserve candidates fully qualifies as a third party candidate for the ballot in each and every state and promises to withdraw everywhere ONLY if the GOP nominee is acceptably conservative and, otherwise, to remain in as a spoiler everywhere.

No more cringing, cowardly, unprincipled greedhead RINO elitists MEANS no more cringing, cowardly, unprincipled greedhead RINO elitists. It is as simple as that.

Robozombie is EVERY BIT the devil that Obozo is. top kidding yourself.

35 posted on 05/07/2012 10:22:03 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society. Broil 'em now!!!)
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To: papertyger

Agreed!! The GOPE openly attacked Sarah and conservative joined in by saying that she was so beat up by them and the media that she was a lost cause and so they claim that they loved her but had to throw her overboard for the sake of conservatism


36 posted on 05/07/2012 10:22:10 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: nathanbedford
Brilliantly stated, sir. Bravo!
37 posted on 05/07/2012 10:23:06 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most time a man'll tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear"--Open Range)
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To: GraceG

I wish but, we are closer.


38 posted on 05/07/2012 10:25:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: BlackElk

By 2016 SCOTUS will be packed with Obama stooges for the next 20 years.

You won’t even recognize America then.

Live in denial if you wish. The rest of us will fight to the bitter end, no thanks to you.


39 posted on 05/07/2012 10:25:44 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: nathanbedford
Conservatives were never denied an opportunity to compete for control of that process.

Sure they were.

That the denial is rather Byzantine in character doesn't make it any less dishonest, nor any less efficacious.

40 posted on 05/07/2012 10:29:19 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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