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Oh, the Futility! Establishment GOP Draws All the Wrong Lessons from Election Results
rushlimbaugh.com ^ | November 8, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 11/08/2012 12:55:44 PM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 11/08/2012 12:55:56 PM PST by NYer
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To: NYer

The GOP-E, Rove and Company care mostly about them selfs. The GOP needs to stick to what they know, the Economy, Defence and Debt and stay out of people’s bedrooms. Bedroom and social issues should stay at the State level!


2 posted on 11/08/2012 1:03:01 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: NYer

Well it looks like the establishment GOP is all set to win the next election. /sarc


3 posted on 11/08/2012 1:03:17 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: NYer

I saw a calculation yesterday— sorry, I didn’t bookmark it so I can’t link it— that said that if current demographic changes continue and Hispanics continue to vote Democratic at the same rate, Texas will be a purple state by 2020 and a blue state by 2024.


4 posted on 11/08/2012 1:06:05 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: WellyP
Bedroom and social issues should stay at the State level!

Mourdock and Akin lost handily in states that Romney carried easily. That has to tell you something.

5 posted on 11/08/2012 1:08:38 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Jyotishi; bevperl; flat; unkus; gonzo; libertyhoundusnr; mazda77; vette6387; bitt; onyx; Kaslin; ...

How about the morons in the GOP expose and prosecute the massive voter fraud that took place on Tuesday!! Hello, anyone have a brain cell functioning?

How about investigating and demanding prosecution of the political hacks all over DC and elsewhere? Hello, anyone have a brain cell functioning?

How about demanding that our troops, fighting for our freedom, get a chance to vote? Hello, anyone have a brain cell functioning?


6 posted on 11/08/2012 1:09:03 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: NYer

They havn’t drawn the wrong conclusions. They’ve drawn the same conclusions they always draw:

It’s the conservative’s fault.We must be more moderate. We must pass comprehensive immigration reform. We must stop talking at all about moral issues. We must raise taxes. We must never cut spending. We must stop a conservative nominee at all costs because they never win (those three landslides in the 80’s were just outliers). We must always nominate a moderate because they always win (Ford, Dole, Bush Sr., McCain and Romney were just outliers). etc.


7 posted on 11/08/2012 1:10:07 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Those are the very questions they are trying to avoid answering.


8 posted on 11/08/2012 1:13:22 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: NYer

The northeastern establishment liberal GOP have sold their souls to the NYC banking oligarchs and the globalist multinationals. They care only about mammon, but they have the blasphemous audacity to wrap themselves up in evangelical Christian terminology, dragging the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ through the sewer in order to satisfy their avaricious objectives.

Jesus Christ is not mocked. No man can stand against Him and long prosper. No man can misuse His name and whore His Holy Christian church out to the money-grubbing desires of the elites without coming under His severe wrath. Christians should no longer support the GOP establishment, holding our noses every four years to vote for the lesser of two blasphemous Neros.

Even so, come Lord Jesus.


9 posted on 11/08/2012 1:19:36 PM PST by Thane_Banquo
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we're gonna get economic depression. We're going to get all kinds of slowdowns.

For libtards, since they are clueless and stuck on stupid,when there is a crisis caused by big government and an assault on freedom, the solution is even bigger government and less freedom.

10 posted on 11/08/2012 1:21:42 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: WellyP

Agreed, but even on the economy they haven’t a clue, they are as much big government as the Democrats are.


11 posted on 11/08/2012 1:23:06 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: NYer

Their excuses are always the same


12 posted on 11/08/2012 1:24:45 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Two-point-eight million votes is the number of votes Romney lost in the popular vote to Obama. But get this. Mitt Romney got three million fewer Republican votes than McCain. Do you realize what that means? Did anybody think that Romney would underperform McCain in Republican turnout? Nobody did....

.... If the Republicans who didn't vote had voted, Mitt Romney would have won the popular vote by 180,000. I don't know yet what it might have been in the Electoral College, and no, I'm not crying over spilt milk. This is crucial to understand in terms of what the Republican Party's doing and how they're analyzing why they lost. They did not lose because of demographics. Three million of their voters stayed home. Now, who are they? We don't know yet. But let's play. Let's say three million white voters didn't vote. Let's say that of the three million who didn't vote, half of them are evangelicals. Let's say some of them are the wrong poll group. Let's say some of them are just fed up with Republicans nominating moderates. Who knows. We don't know yet. But it is significant, and it is a mistake -- the Republican Party didn't turn out its base, is what happened....

.... My point is that there is a whole bunch of erroneous analysis taking place by the Republican Party with the aid and comfort of the Democrats and the media who would love for the Republican Party to give up on its ideologically principled positions....

....Where'd I get these numbers? I first got the election numbers yesterday from a Wall Street buddy and then last night Jeff Lord at the American Spectator sent me a blurb and a guy named Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics has analyzed this. These numbers are pretty consistent no matter where you go to find them, the turnout numbers and so forth. I don't know that anybody is disputing them....

See related threads:
Low turnout--evangelicals sat it out?
The Church Re Elected President Obama
Evangelicals plunge America into darkness – mislead polls and stay home on Election Day
The Religious Right is Dead
Obama wins with the Catholic vote

13 posted on 11/08/2012 1:25:45 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
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Curious; Romney lost but - barring lousy candidates for the Senate, which lost us only 2 seats - we kept the same number of House seats.


14 posted on 11/08/2012 1:27:06 PM PST by celmak
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To: WellyP

“I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
- Mitt Romney, 1994, former Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board member

Can’t vote for this no matter what you say.

You’re right, the stuff should stay at state level, so what was the GOP-E’s plan to return the issues to the states?


15 posted on 11/08/2012 1:41:51 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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we're gonna get economic depression. We're going to get all kinds of slowdowns.

If you want to get a bit of a handle on what to expect in the next few years read "The Manchurian President" by Aaron Klein. Its available on Kindle for free at Amazon.com. It is SCARY!!! Van Jones was only the very tip of a Titanic size iceberg.

16 posted on 11/08/2012 1:42:23 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Thane_Banquo

Even so, come Lord Jesus.


17 posted on 11/08/2012 1:44:09 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: NYer

“I just can’t stop laughing at the futility of it all!”

Yep. Futility. God stacked the deck against His own at the dawn of time and wants us to bear it in His name ‘till He returns. Watch how fast Evil rises now...in two short years today will seem like Valhalla...


18 posted on 11/08/2012 2:09:19 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: WellyP
Karl Rove is not the genius claimed. He skates by purely by rote (memory). He is utterly clueless how to change people's perceptions--that is, utterly devoid of real leadership ability. That makes him rather dangerous as a "pundit."

See Karl Rove Revisited.

William Flax

19 posted on 11/08/2012 2:19:06 PM PST by Ohioan
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Exactly right, I think. If Pubbies go for amnesty, they will be relegated to minority party status.

How long depends on when the economy implodes, and financial meltdown occurs (ie we are Greece with the riots).


20 posted on 11/08/2012 2:25:14 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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