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Krauthammer: If GOP can’t win Senate, ‘the party ought to look for another country’
BizPac Review ^ | October 29, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 10/29/2014 2:48:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer projected a big win for the Republicans in November, giving them a 70 percent chance of winning the Senate.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

“If the GOP can’t win back the Senate in a climate like this, maybe the party ought to look for another country,” he told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly Tuesday.

Krauthammer explained why he thinks the climate is ripe for the win:

"The reason is this is essentially a referendum on Obama. In 2010 it was a referendum on his ideology. The overreach with Obamacare, the stimulus, cap and trade, and now, six years in, it’s referendum on ideology, but now added on to that, it’s on shear competence.

When you are not only the party in government, you are the party of government, and you preach about the glories of government and in fact you get Hillary saying the other day, you know, it’s not corporations that create jobs. The implication being it’s government, then if you are incompetent and lose the confidence of the people you are in trouble. You have every scandal there is. Everything from the VA, to the Obamacare rollout to the Secret Service and now with Ebola. Where they are running around, have no idea what to do and they change the protocols every other day.

So, given the climate, I think it would be, you know, if the GOP can’t win back the Senate in a climate like this, maybe the party ought to look for another country."


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; Polls; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014; democrats; ebola; gop; krauthammer; obama; polls; republicans
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reagan wins 49 states running as a conservative and the GOP-e thinks it can do better?


21 posted on 10/29/2014 3:07:38 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: the anti-mahdi
The outrage if the RINOs backstab our support will be enormous.

They will.
They're already talking about pushing amnesty, and have conceded that they will not oppose ObamaCare.

This may—2014 to 2016—spell the end of the Republican party if they screw us again.

Again, see the above.

They better not.

What incentive do they have not to? Especially if they can get the Senate by essentially screaming the other guy's worse! and not doing anything.

22 posted on 10/29/2014 3:09:30 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: backwoods-engineer
No matter who wins, the American people LOSE: the size and scope of government NEVER get smaller.

You got that right:

IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT.
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23 posted on 10/29/2014 3:10:33 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: the anti-mahdi
The outrage if the RINOs backstab our support will be enormous.

This has been happening for a long time, the "outrage" always seems to cool down before election day

24 posted on 10/29/2014 3:10:43 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha ha. The Commie pink fag enablers.


25 posted on 10/29/2014 3:11:12 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Mitch McConnell has prematurely capitulated on 0bamacare before the win is in the bag.

You don't get it. It was a con all along. Read (former NYT editor) Howell Raines's article in the October, 2008 issue of Conde' Nast's Portfolio, a short-lived business-personality newspaper (think of is as "Us for Billionaires"), that described the backroom haggle that led to a black-handed, slimy political deal on "healthcare".

Look, the GOP and their Chamber/NAM/Business Roundtable bagmen and taskmasters want the same thing the Democrats do .... sort of.

Business wanted to dump trillions of dollars' worth (that's with a "T") of employee healthcare plans and obligations to current and former employees, and shift them onto the public sector (where they'll get God knows what kind of care -- but who cares?!), where they'll be thrown on their own (disguised as "public") resources.

Business dumps a huge cost, and the savings flow very bonusably to the corporate bottom line. Same trick Henry Clay Frick pulled on his steelworkers in 1892, dumping strikers and halving the pay of those who stayed on, and oh by the way, breaking his union with the help of 300 armed Pinkerton men. (A famous radical tried to assassinate him the same year, but his employees saved him; and in 1912, his wife sprained her ankle in Italy, causing him to return their tickets for their return to New York on the maiden voyage of R.M.S. Titanic.)

26 posted on 10/29/2014 3:14:23 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This same Kraut was on TV before the first election of Obama, telling us how great his ideas sound and I would be willing to bet he voted for him then too.


27 posted on 10/29/2014 3:15:50 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: GeronL
This has been happening for a long time

Bump. Double bump. If only people would get it.

28 posted on 10/29/2014 3:15:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Anybody remember "power sharing" and "Jumpin' Jim Jeffords"? Well, we're about to go back to that if the Republicans win.

I recall it distinctly, that was back in the days of daschole (remember tiny time and his ilk holding up mufflers because Bush was pushing for the tax cut?). They're all f'ing parasites (minus a very few select few). I have said elsewhere and I will say again here; take names, keep a list. When (not if, when) our society comes crashing to an end, never let these parasites breathe another breathe on our land (hell, if we can keep it seeing what the dem's have done to our country and military)

29 posted on 10/29/2014 3:16:10 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: GeronL; the anti-mahdi
>> The outrage if the RINOs backstab our support will be enormous.
>
> This has been happening for a long time, the "outrage" always seems to cool down before election day

You shouldn't:

The Parable of the Talents
(Matt 25:14-30)
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[a] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[c] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
We gave them the House, and before that the Presidency, and they — the Republican party — have done nothing to further our goals.
Take even that which they have away.
30 posted on 10/29/2014 3:17:00 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The party ought to look for another country, and the country ought to look for another party. It’s way overdue at this point.


31 posted on 10/29/2014 3:17:21 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: y'all

Click the pic.


32 posted on 10/29/2014 3:18:51 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: eyeamok

yea, ole Mitch just wrote his campaign a check for $1.8 million out of his personal account. Heck of a big bank account for someone who only earns $180,000/yr. TARP $ went everywhere except for where it was supposed to go.


33 posted on 10/29/2014 3:19:43 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: OneWingedShark
They're already talking about pushing amnesty ...

Sure are. Dan Patrick, a former conservative radio host and sports announcer in Houston, has already said that he's on board for work visas and credentialing, including drivers' licenses, for illegals.

He said this last week on a local Houston TV interview show carried, ironically, on PBS.

He's running for lieutenant governor of Texas, the most powerful office in the State. Let me repeat that: The most powerful office in the State.

34 posted on 10/29/2014 3:20:03 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Hattie

Most Democrats did. Dr. Krauthammer is a Democrat.

In 1978, Krauthammer moved to Washington, D.C., to direct planning in psychiatric research under the Carter administration.[1] He began contributing articles about politics to The New Republic and in 1980 served as a speech writer to vice president Walter Mondale.[1] In January 1981, Krauthammer joined The New Republic as both a writer and editor.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer


35 posted on 10/29/2014 3:20:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I prefer the King James. The language is better.


36 posted on 10/29/2014 3:21:04 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: lentulusgracchus

I do like the King James, but NRSV is pretty decent.


37 posted on 10/29/2014 3:26:43 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe he used to be. More recently, according to people quoted in Wiki:

In 2006, the Financial Times named Krauthammer the most influential commentator in America,[10] saying "Krauthammer has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades. He coined and developed 'The Reagan Doctrine' in 1985 and he defined the US role as sole superpower in his essay 'The Unipolar Moment,' published shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Krauthammer's 2004 speech 'Democratic Realism', which was delivered to the American Enterprise Institute when Krauthammer won the Irving Kristol Award, set out a framework for tackling the post-9/11 world, focusing on the promotion of democracy in the Middle East." In 2009, Politico columnist Ben Smith wrote that Krauthammer had "emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservative voice," a "kind of leader of the opposition...a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president." The New York Times columnist David Brooks says that today "he's the most important conservative columnist."[13] Former congressman and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called Krauthammer "without a doubt the most powerful force in American conservatism. He has [been] for two, three, four years."[14]

Sounds pretty conservative to me .... compared to some, e.g. Peggy Noonan or the aforementioned "Brooksie", the Old Grey Whore's house "Republican".

Of course, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, and David and Rush Limbaugh, he's not.

38 posted on 10/29/2014 3:26:59 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: GeronL

We have a host of GOPe RINO Romney Cheerleaders here on FR who make me puke daily.

We hate each other’s guts, deservedly so. They are LIBERALS.


39 posted on 10/29/2014 3:29:51 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

40 posted on 10/29/2014 3:36:33 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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