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The Optimistic GOP Story Everyone Is Missing
Townhall.com ^ | October 25, 2014 | Larry Kudlow

Posted on 10/25/2014 9:03:01 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Paulie

That ‘somebody’ is the GOPe methinks.


Not the way he’s been criticizing the GOPe.


41 posted on 10/25/2014 10:02:00 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Lazamataz

Should all of us who are skeptical of this be banned too?


42 posted on 10/25/2014 10:03:46 AM PDT by GunsareOK
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To: Signalman
The Republicans are going to recapture the Senate, picking up more seats than most any forecaster expects. And the House GOP is going to add to its majority.

I've always been an optimist. I would love to believe that Kudlow knows something that the rest of us don't. I really would.

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It still will take 67 or more and even that wouldn't occur until 2015. In the meantime Obola can do pretty much as he pleases without fear of consequence. The SCOTUS nominees are the concern.

43 posted on 10/25/2014 10:10:47 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin

Lol. Where did you get that idea? I want the GOP to win every election. However I’m not optimistic much will be accomplished should they win the senate and increase their margin in the house. Honestly I hope Larry’s right but I don’t think you’ll see much in the way of bold moves from the RINOs


44 posted on 10/25/2014 10:14:14 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Lazamataz

Reality troll should make an appearance. If we stay the course with this GOP, absolutely abandon hope. This election should be a slam dunk and not even close. It isn’t. Demographics. This is a VERY different America and not one I like.

No. The results of Nov 4 will not matter regardless of what they are. Some GOP conservative renaissance is a joke. Only remaking the GOP will MAYBE accomplish that.


45 posted on 10/25/2014 10:16:22 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Yogafist

Mitch McConnell: I stand with Obama on Ebola

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219479/posts


46 posted on 10/25/2014 10:16:34 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance; All

” What do you think the chances are, under a GOP majority in both Houses, that they will defund Obamacare?”

0% chance. They already said so, and they are talking up amnesty too!


47 posted on 10/25/2014 10:19:22 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Kaslin
My favorite lines were these:

"More energy supply means lower energy prices and more overall economic growth. Everybody benefits. Who loses? Our enemy Vladimir Putin and his client state Iran. And if Obama kowtows again to the left-wing enviros, so be it. It's a 2016 GOP agenda item." -----------------------------------------------------------

Leaving aside and ignoring the nut jobs who value Putin's rebuilding the Soviet Empire over America and the West, Kudlow's observation is also a great point about how the weak economic policies, especially on energy production, empower and embolden America's enemies. That's got to stop and if it doesn't stop those who cause that weakness must be identified for all to see. They make America weaker and poorer while making the US government and Democrat party bigger. That's anti-American and morally wrong.

48 posted on 10/25/2014 10:19:36 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: be-baw
It sure doesn't look like as if you do. As a matter of fact you are falling into the rats trap which is to divide us.

We must do what the rats do and this is be united against them

49 posted on 10/25/2014 10:24:20 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
These Republicans will finally be able to get Comprehensive Immigration Reform passed and jack 30 million or so new Democrats into the system to guarantee that 2014 will be the last Republican victory at the national level. If the Democrat Gope coalition had not been quite so successful squashing conservatives in the Republican primaries then maybe the election would do some good. this will not be a conservative Congress, no matter how the vote goes.

Consider Haley Barbour: he owes his seat now to Negro Democrats not to Conservatives.

50 posted on 10/25/2014 10:24:22 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: RIghtwardHo; Old Sarge; TheOldLady; e-gadfly; 50mm; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952; Darksheare; ...
Reality troll should make an appearance. If we stay the course with this GOP, absolutely abandon hope. This election should be a slam dunk and not even close. It isn’t. Demographics. This is a VERY different America and not one I like. No. The results of Nov 4 will not matter regardless of what they are. Some GOP conservative renaissance is a joke. Only remaking the GOP will MAYBE accomplish that.

Then go to a forum where all the already-defeated can rend their shirts and gnash their teeth. You've already quit -- but I don't believe your goals align with FR's. I believe you are a Concern Troll.

If, on the 2% chance I am wrong, why don't you offer solutions, as I have (my sarcastic 'caving' downthread, aside), instead of staying mired in the problem?

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. -- Sun Tsu

51 posted on 10/25/2014 10:25:19 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: oldbrowser

The leadership will complain because they are not used to being told what to do

The libs have been telling them what to do for years now.
I still see gridlock with Obama vetoing everything, doing everything by executive order and republicans sitting on their butt doing nothing.

I do understand that some Texans wrote in Cruz, I too detest Cornyn and still can’t believe they put up a weak Stockman. I will hold my nose and against my wishes vote Cornyn ONLY because I want a majority due to SCOTUS.


52 posted on 10/25/2014 10:25:38 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, all will be great. If Ebola doesn’t bring the country to it’s knees.


53 posted on 10/25/2014 10:26:14 AM PDT by jetson (we got a bog fcking problem her)
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To: Kaslin; EternalVigilance

As long as the Ruling Class Establishment is in power and leadership, they will render Conservatism politically irrelevant.

What did we think McConnell meant by declaring war on Conservatives, stating we needed to be punched in the nose for daring to challenge him; vowing to crush Conservatives wherever they are found and asserting Conservatives will never again be able to field a Conservative candidate on the ballot anywhere, ever again?

The GOP establishment hates and loathes Conservatives as much as the Democrat MarxoFascists do.

I have absolutely no reason to be optimistic. The fruits of the party are exactly as Mark Levin has been stating: it is a party that is dying and of no difference than the Democrat party. As he also says, fixing Washington IS NOT going to happen by electing Republicans, because Washington will not allow itself to be reformed. Fixing this Fascist Oligarchy will have to come from OUTSIDE the system they have corrupted for themselves.


54 posted on 10/25/2014 10:28:07 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

Right on.


55 posted on 10/25/2014 10:29:16 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Kaslin

Nothing like a optimistic post to bring out the wet blankets on FR...LOL


56 posted on 10/25/2014 10:46:42 AM PDT by Blackirish
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To: laplata

Just because Rush ‘criticizes’ the GOPe doesn’t mean he’s not on board with them in general.

In his position to maintain credibility he has to find some fault (legitimately) with his own, just as he pretty much has to praise some people who think quite differently than him (or I or you probably). For example, I’ve heard him praise James Carville for his success and political acumen; people constantly seek him out for advice and comment.

A man like Rush is not easily influenced by anyone or any organization. He’s lived too long and seen too much of his own success. But he’s just as tired of a fundamentally transformed America as we are and Rush sees a huge Republican sweep as the first step. It is for this reason he’s on board with the GOPe, not because they’re pushing him around.

Just my opinion - I could be wrong.


57 posted on 10/25/2014 10:49:36 AM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: Paulie

Good points.


58 posted on 10/25/2014 10:52:46 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Blackirish

The OP wasn’t optimism, it was cognitive dissonance with a fatal dose of Normalcy Bias thrown in.

Some of us still remember when the GOP had total control of both Houses and the Executive not that long ago.

“Optimism” while completely ignoring reality used to be called fantasy.

Now, fantasy governs all, and those whom rule us demand we believe in their fantasies or we will be blamed and punished when reality comes knocking.


59 posted on 10/25/2014 10:57:03 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Undecided 2012

I wrote-in Stockman. I pulled for Stovall in the primary because he had a better chance, but I preferred Stockman.

I bet that plunged my vote into a black hole somewhere :)


60 posted on 10/25/2014 10:57:37 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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