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Massachusetts Gov. Patrick picks ex-aide as interim senator
Fox News -Breaking News ^ | 01/30/13 | AP

Posted on 01/30/2013 9:48:25 AM PST by Wisconsinlady

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has selected his former chief-of-staff William "Mo" Cowan to serve as interim U.S. senator until a special election to fill the seat left vacant by Secretary of State designate John Kerry.

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To: Lexinom

We need GOP majorities to control committees, rules, etc. If it takes RINOs to do that then we need to win wherever we can. If you can show how to cobble together a majority of pure (undefined) conservative Senators, then show me.


41 posted on 02/01/2013 5:39:48 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

“Pure” is a red herring; you’re better than that. No one’s pure. GOP senators in IA, MO, AS, LA, PA, VA to name a few would help. I’d like to focus on turning purple states red and let MA, NY, CT, RI, and VT stew in their own socialist effluent. A regionally-polarized nation brings us to our goal more quickly IHMO because of the contrasts it sets up.


42 posted on 02/01/2013 11:16:24 AM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
“Pure” is a red herring; you’re better than that.

You're right, I am better than that. Hence my parenthesis noting that pure is undefined.

That said I'll take a sixty seat majority GOP Senate with Brown and a Kirk-clone. You'll never get to sixty with just conservatives. We're going to have to use the RINOs to get our country back.

We can win on budget, spending and tax issues with RINOs. We can also win on immigration, abortion and gun control if we operate out of reality. That means compromise in the right direction, over and over again, incrementally moving toward our goals by holding the Congress for a generation or two. Just like liberals/Democrats did.

43 posted on 02/02/2013 1:43:43 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
Your points have merit. Force the liberals (for example) to justify why abortion must be available through all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states - regardless of each state's demographic leanings. Paste them as the rigid, recalcitrant extremists. There's something to be said for that.

I keep coming back, though, to the stark ideological contrast and how we can use that. California is bankrupt. Illinois is our "Greece". I think that is movement in the right direction because it demonstrates, for the world to see, the consequences. It inclines families in the purple states to consider whether they - in Iowa and Missouri - should be forced to bail out their deep blue counterparts.

To that end, our message ought to be not one of weakness, not one of compromise, but one of extolling the failure of socialist ideology by lifting up the failing states as real-world examples for all to see. Hence, "let them fail."

44 posted on 02/02/2013 4:12:28 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom

At some point Illinois goes into play for the GOP. The Republicans who will win are likely to be considered RINOs by FReepers. I hope for a Scott or a Walker or a Snyder, but I don’t see somebody that aggressive on the horizon and at least right now the electorate isn’t fed up enough to elect conservatives to the State House.


45 posted on 02/02/2013 4:28:46 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Old Sarge

Sadly, Aids are very common with governors. Moreover, this particular governor is friends with Barney Frank.


46 posted on 02/04/2013 6:30:50 PM PST by Lexinom
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