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Republicans do conservatism a disservice by running on nothing
Washington Examiner ^ | 09/29/2014 | Philip Klein

Posted on 09/29/2014 7:54:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Republicans do conservatism a disservice by running on nothing

This headline is a false premise. The implication is that Republicans (i.e., the GOP-e) care one iota about conservatism. They don't. They want it burned at the stake as badly as Democrats -- who, while garbage, are at least open about their affiliation.

21 posted on 09/29/2014 8:24:40 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: EagleUSA

Their strategy is to fight us and any genuine conservatives in the primaries, then to pretend there is no reason for an election. Their ads don’t criticize Obama, his scandals, the economy, prices, nothing...They act like they want to be re-elected, but that’s it.


22 posted on 09/29/2014 8:26:01 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: SeekAndFind
“I think you gotta give people a reason to vote for you.”

Compassionate conservatism! That's the ticket! Oh, did I forget amnesty? How racist! But then, I'm just a Republican, so you can't expect much from me.

23 posted on 09/29/2014 8:27:03 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The arm of flesh will fail.

Not sure I get your point.

24 posted on 09/29/2014 8:30:28 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: jjotto

Like someone said, this is the Seinfeld party, it stands for nothing. It is a dead man walking.

“The Rove-Romney crowd wants us to believe that this is politics as usual. This is war, and RINOs are on the wrong side.”

But we all lose. Divide the vote and lose the election. Not enough time to build a successful new party without losing to the communists and becoming sure that the destruction is final, total and fatal.

All we are doing is fighting a delaying action now. The probability of an orderly recovery is very small but not non-existent. It is zero without trying though.


25 posted on 09/29/2014 8:32:53 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Adversity does not build character so much as expose it.)
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To: rockinqsranch

One of the problems, besides the redefining, is that you can legitimately use it to refer to keeping the status quo.


26 posted on 09/29/2014 8:33:35 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: SeekAndFind

The GOP message: “We’re not them.”


27 posted on 09/29/2014 8:35:00 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Republicans, by standing for nothing, will lose many races they should have won and are effectively deferring to Democrat policies and ideology because they will let the Democrats set the agenda as they tend to do even when they are the Congressional majority.


28 posted on 09/29/2014 9:30:39 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: HiTech RedNeck

They don’t really envy him, they don’t want his job. They desire to be apparatchiks in a Total Government. To them that is Job Security and loads of opportunity for the proceeds of corruption.


29 posted on 09/29/2014 9:32:33 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: SeekAndFind

Laughable.

The GOP has NEVER been conservative!!!!!!!

Never.

Sorry, kids. Conservatives are the “Republicans In Name Only”.

Time to accept it.


30 posted on 09/29/2014 10:38:24 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are just laying in wait so they can pass amnesty.


31 posted on 09/30/2014 1:19:38 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind
It has always been easier to politically organize people against something than for something.

This is especially true in the GOP today because of the many splits in the GOP.

This is why many democrats want the GOP to capture the Senate next Nov.. They think that a GOP controlled senate will descend into chaos similar to the GOP House.

Which will pave the way for a stronger dem party in 2016

32 posted on 09/30/2014 5:58:07 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Graewoulf

But if the Republicans control the House and next year the Senate then we can begin to deal with the RINO issue and root out the problems of the Party. Oh, wait we already controlled them and the White House at the same time in the Bush presidency and we didn’t root out the RINO problem then.

But I am really-really assured by the RINO’s, GOPE and their “conservative” apologist if we can just support the Party this time and take the senate they will begin work right away on the RINO issue and they way conservatives are treated like dirt by the RINO’s and GOPE.


33 posted on 09/30/2014 11:20:17 AM PDT by sarge83
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