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GOP Consultants Seek to Regain Control (From Tea Party, Conservatives)
Roll Call ^ | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | Abby Livingston

Posted on 12/19/2012 4:56:58 PM PST by kristinn

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1 posted on 12/19/2012 4:57:07 PM PST by kristinn
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See, only Tea Party candidates can be “flawed.”

Moderate pubbies like Romney win . . .

2 posted on 12/19/2012 5:01:34 PM PST by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)
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To: kristinn

The “GOP consultants” can guarantee the GOP that they’ll continue to lose these popularity contests every four years if they only listen to them. Can the conservative or TEA Party do that?! Heck no.


3 posted on 12/19/2012 5:02:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Gun control is not about laws. It's about confiscation.)
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To: kristinn

Like the last campaign they won?


4 posted on 12/19/2012 5:02:24 PM PST by Tony O (hibobbi!)
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Without names your article isn’t worth a damn.


5 posted on 12/19/2012 5:02:35 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Jacquerie

Don’t forget Juan McCain.


6 posted on 12/19/2012 5:06:21 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Gun control is not about laws. It's about confiscation.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Look how great the GOP did in California once the “moderate” GOP consultants took over the party establishment there. Maybe they can do the same thing across the entire nation!


7 posted on 12/19/2012 5:06:38 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: kristinn

“pragmatic party strategists “
Translation: liars, thieves, opportunists, and commies.

“a Republican will always be more conservative than a Democrat “
Nope. The NE Republicans are scarcely more conservative than Britain’s Labour party.


8 posted on 12/19/2012 5:06:38 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Unfortunately, it appears they are winning.
Most of the new conservative house members 2010 class will join
Bonehead and Cantor in voting for taxes tomorrow.
We keep sending them, and DC keeps turning them.


9 posted on 12/19/2012 5:12:48 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: kristinn
Mark Levin's quote from a day or two after the election.

We conservatives, we do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We will not negotiate the terms of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to the legacy we inherited from every single future generation in this country. We will not accept social engineering by politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats, rather than self-sufficient human beings. There are those in this country who choose tyranny over liberty. They do not speak for us, 57 million of us who voted against this yesterday, and they do not get to dictate to us under our Constitution.

We are the alternative. We will resist. We're not going to surrender to this. We will not be passive, we will not be compliant in our demise. We're not good losers, you better believe we're sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever. Now I hear we're called 'purists.' Conservatives are called purists. The very people who keep nominating moderates, now call us purists the way the left calls us purists. Yeah, things like liberty, and property rights, individual sovereignty, and the Constitution, and capitalism. We're purists now. And we have to hear this crap from conservatives, or pseudo-conservatives, Republicans.

10 posted on 12/19/2012 5:14:04 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: GenXteacher
The NE Republicans are scarcely more conservative than Britain’s Labour party.

It's hard to believe that Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee was once a Republican in the Senate.

-PJ

11 posted on 12/19/2012 5:14:22 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Regain control of what, Boehner’s crying towel?


12 posted on 12/19/2012 5:15:52 PM PST by TADSLOS (I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)
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To: kristinn

I have a solution for these morons trying to keep their social club: go away voluntarily or get fired.


13 posted on 12/19/2012 5:17:15 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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0-3 since 2006 enough said right there!


14 posted on 12/19/2012 5:20:35 PM PST by Trueblackman (I would rather lose on Conservative principles than vote for a RINO candidate.)
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I have a solution for these morons trying to keep their social club: go away voluntarily or get fired.

Better yet, go work for the democrats.
15 posted on 12/19/2012 5:21:57 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: skeeter

Someone needs to tell these nameless wonders the jig is up.


16 posted on 12/19/2012 5:31:12 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: kristinn
This developing conflict comes in the aftermath of consecutive election cycles that saw Republicans blow as many as five Senate races because the party nominated flawed candidates over those who were better suited to compete in the general election.

Are they talking about candidates like Berg in ND, Rehberg in MT, Scott Brown in MA, Connie Mack in FL, and Tommy Thompson in WI, you know, outsider Tea Party radicals who lost in elections that could have been won?

17 posted on 12/19/2012 5:33:36 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to Repeal and Replace the Republican Party)
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We have had a bellyful of GOP consultant losers, Certainly they seek control, but it’s too late.

They have two choices, Bring the GOP together behind Conservatives and the Tea party or do what they have done in the last 2 losing campaigns, Split the party and lose.

Me? I am ready to move on. If nothing else I will go independent.


18 posted on 12/19/2012 5:39:07 PM PST by Venturer
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The GOP-E can go to hell and take its crooked consultants with it.


19 posted on 12/19/2012 5:44:21 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Jacquerie

These consultants would rather have President Obama and the Democrats control Washington than have genuine conservatives in power.

It is time to SMASH the GOP and start a new political party.


20 posted on 12/19/2012 5:44:57 PM PST by Perkalong (GOP 2012 = Whigs 1856)
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