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Frustrated by recent losses, Senate Republicans plan bigger role in primaries
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Posted on 11/18/2012 5:13:08 AM PST by vmivol00
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To: Antoninus
Luger was undermining Mourdock behind the scenes from the moment the primary polls closed. The GOP-e was happy to leave him dangling in the wind to satisfy their "good friend" Dick.
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posted on
11/18/2012 8:27:05 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: Antoninus
Akin and Mourdock lost because they’re both jackhole idiots who let their big mouths prove it to everyone else.
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posted on
11/18/2012 8:33:22 AM PST
by
EricT.
(The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
To: vmivol00
The Republicans need to go with true Conservatives or die.
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posted on
11/18/2012 8:34:59 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Women reelected Obama)
To: Bratch
Even an amateur like myself knew in JANUARY that journ0list Stephanopolus signalled that the “war on women” was the campaign theme for Dems.
I can’t believe Mourdock wasn’t prepped for that.
All you have to say is “so you’re in favor of keeping convicted murderers alive and killing innocent pre-born children?”
We traded an 80% Republican for a 97% Baraqqi for 6 years.
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posted on
11/18/2012 8:39:05 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's bankruptcy: 2016)
To: cripplecreek
As far as Michele Bachmann is concerned, she is one seriously tough and brilliant woman who didnt deserve some of the treatment she got from FReepers. Some of the crap we saw spouted about her here at FR would have made the most rabid leftist Palin hater proud. They attacked her for stupid comments on foreign policy yet they studiously avoided mentioning the fact that shes a member of the permanent select committee on intelligence and actually knows what shes talking about. FReepers happily attacked her for her stupid comments about drilling in the everglades yet none of them had the stones to acknowledge the fact that there are already oil and gas wells in the everglades. I would like to see her become governor.
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posted on
11/18/2012 8:39:42 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
To: napscoordinator
Let me get this straight. Akin and Murdock were ahead ...on the five yard line. ....all they had to do was run out the clock. Then they make misogynistic...Boneheaded...Factually untrue statements..make incacuable damage to the pro life movement....scare and dismay woman..LOSE the seats... and your solution is to Put them front and center?
To: Jim Noble
“There are more rightists than Leftists in the country.”
Jim, this is where you go off the track.
The “empirical evidence” (in this case, votes) ought to illustrate that that is no longer the case.
There’s gettin’ to be more folks IN the wagon than pullin’ it!
To: Antoninus
We've done that in the last two elections and still lost, genius. Thanks for reiterating the narrative of the pro-death/pro-homo media for us. The correct answer is to find an articulate candidate who truly believes the conservative position on these issues and then double-down and trust his/her ability to convince people of the inherent correctness of that position. That's what Reagan did and he won two landslide victories. It's fine if the candidate is pro-life and not in favor of gay marriage. But if he makes his campaign revolve around abortion, to the exclusion of the economy, he will lose.
Romney lost, to a large extent, because he was a squishy moderate who the so-cons were unwilling to support.
Akin lost because he was perceived as somebody who was predominantly interested in the abortion issue.
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posted on
11/18/2012 9:10:28 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
To: nascarnation
“Even an amateur like myself knew in JANUARY that journ0list Stephanopolus signalled that the war on women was the campaign theme for Dems.”
Wrong.
It was “the economy, stupid!”
Or didn’t you realize that?
/s
PS: Not sure of what the -new- theme should be, but it ain’t gonna be just the economy no mo’. Not if we wish to win, anyway...
To: Blackirish
Let me get this straight. Akin and Murdock were ahead ...on the five yard line. ....all they had to do was run out the clock. Then they make misogynistic... Boneheaded... Factually untrue statements.. make incacuable damage to the pro life movement....scare and dismay woman..LOSE the seats... and your solution is to Put them front and center? The problem is that if a candidate makes a statement in opposition to abortion, then that is ALL the public will hear about that candidate, 24/7. That one remark will be the only subject of conversation in the MSM for the entire campaign.
Repub candidates need to be VERY careful in answering questions about abortion. They need to have a standard response that cannot be turned into an adverse sound bite, and stay with it.
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posted on
11/18/2012 9:21:57 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
To: Texas Fossil
If you read up on him, you’ll understand why.
He fought for states rights and never owned a slave.
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posted on
11/18/2012 10:23:32 AM PST
by
JCBreckenridge
(They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
To: 9YearLurker
I’ll go for SOP.The damn shoe looks as though it is a fit for the SOPs.
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posted on
11/18/2012 10:38:39 AM PST
by
peteyd
(A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
To: peteyd
To: vmivol00
Do they really think that we are going to vote next time when they are doing nothing to prove to us that vote stealing,election stealing will be prosecuted and cleaned up. How can anyone go and vote on one of those default dem machines and all the other cheating that has been witnessed?
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