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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

 

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

 

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

 

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

 

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

 


1 posted on 09/01/2014 9:14:05 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; C. Edmund Wright

Ping!


2 posted on 09/01/2014 9:14:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Rove token opposition, has always been on the side of the destruction of the US. Only now with the divide so wide, his actions have become more obvious.


3 posted on 09/01/2014 9:18:39 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: SoConPubbie

Interesting insights:

“[Rove] has never directed a campaign with a compelling big picture, all encompassing message. In the direct mail world, you find one hot button and run a sale on that item in that zip code. In politics, it means you think of every voter as a single issue voter, and you try and niche your way to 271 electoral votes or 51 Senate seats with a little abortion over here and some social security over there — and maybe some trade protectionism some other place. When you run a television campaign the way you run a direct mail message, you actually damage your party’s ability to put together a coherent message.

“Another tell is Rove’s reliance on focus group data, which was certainly true in his failed 2012 efforts. Focus groups by their very definition — they last a couple hours — cannot possibly judge the effectiveness of a campaign message over a period of weeks or months. And yet, this is precisely what Rove and Frank Luntz and Haley Barbour rely on them to do.”


6 posted on 09/01/2014 9:21:57 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Found the ads in question:

http://youtu.be/1TBEkH3lKn0

http://youtu.be/N4WHfhL_6bQ?list=UUZtZuLHzPSeodii1DhtQzWA

The one from Arkansas is close to matching the description in the article, but not the one from NC - SS issue is one of a ...and don’t see how the ads could be described as “almost identical”.

It looks like this article is written about the liberal publications’ commentary on the ads vs. having actually seen the ads themselves...but then the next line says that they should be talking about Obamacare, which not only appears in both ads, but is also mentioned in the articles - one of them calling them the GOP’s “dishonest attacks” on Obamacare.


7 posted on 09/01/2014 9:27:33 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: SoConPubbie

In that case, what’s teh point of electing Republicans?


12 posted on 09/01/2014 9:40:41 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Are the ads accurate descriptions of what the Demon Rats want to do?

If so, then let the ads run without griping.


15 posted on 09/01/2014 9:55:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoConPubbie

Karl please campaign in North Korea... you are a micron...


16 posted on 09/01/2014 9:57:29 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SoConPubbie

To quote this article: “When you consider that incrementally and gradually raising the benefit age is a common sense conservative idea”

I DISSAGREE, No it is not a common sense conservative idea- what would be a common sense conservative idea is to continue to offer SS (unchanged), but to ALLOW those who are currently working to opt out of their future payroll taxes instead to be directed to personal (private) retirement accounts directed by the individual, not the Federal Government.

Gradually you’d get the government out of SS by attrition (because over time who’d want to stay in a stagnant system that doesn’t give ANY return on investment..)?


20 posted on 09/01/2014 11:27:12 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: SoConPubbie

I saw a Rove ad and it didn’t impress. Thought a lib put it together.


22 posted on 09/01/2014 11:29:58 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Rove ... you STUPID BASTARD!


23 posted on 09/02/2014 5:27:30 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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