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Across the Great Divide: Can any Republican unify the party in the 2016 primaries?
National Journal ^ | February 18, 2015 | Ronald Brownstein

Posted on 02/19/2015 1:47:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Yes, let's go to Bob Dole and Sweater Vest's campaign managers for the secrets on how to win.
1 posted on 02/19/2015 1:47:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How’s this for “unifying”:

Big government GOPe types? Back of the bus. Shut up and sit down.


2 posted on 02/19/2015 1:49:01 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Theres no reason that a candidate cannot appeal to both "populist" and "managerial" sides, as long as both can compromise a bit.

But from what I see, the populists (conservatives), while receiving lip service early in campaigns, are the only ones ever asked to compromise when it counts these.

I'm sick and tired of it and will not abide anymore.

3 posted on 02/19/2015 1:53:52 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The vast majority of the rank and file of the Republican party are *already* unified. It is the leadership that are in dissent, trying to force their ideas on everyone else.

The rank and file want to fight the Democrats and everything they stand for. The leadership are comfortable with what the Democrats want, and do not want to “rock the boat” of a bloated, inefficient, failure of the federal government spending our nation into poverty for *nothing*.


4 posted on 02/19/2015 2:01:20 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The candidate that can unite the Republican party is Hillary Clinton.


5 posted on 02/19/2015 2:19:01 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOPe denial is just stunning.


6 posted on 02/19/2015 2:22:56 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not to be trusted the way they reversed themselves in the mid-term’s ....


7 posted on 02/19/2015 2:33:38 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No.
Irreconcilable differences.
For the simple reason that GOPe won't ever support conservatives.
Look what happened in the VA Guv race. We had a great candidate who was undermined at every turn by elements of the VAGOP. Funding was pulled by the RNC when it looked like he might win. Some of the VAGOP would rather the Clinton's Bag Man be Guv than a conservative.

In the Senate race we were told to get in line and vote for their amnesty candidate. He lost. It's not working anymore.

Conservatives are waking up to the fact that the GOP is working against them and are no longer supporting just any R.

Regrettably, for the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.

8 posted on 02/19/2015 2:45:46 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TigersEye

Not going to work this time, just like it didn’t work against Obama.
Just being “not the democrat” doesn’t win.


9 posted on 02/19/2015 2:48:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go with Cruz, and you won’t lose.


10 posted on 02/19/2015 2:49:19 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Being Hillary Clinton is many steps beyond just being a Democrat. Or should be to anyone who knows more than a little about who/what she really is.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 2:52:22 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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Strange that he makes the divide more about Evangelicals vs. non-Evangelicals than anything else.

That divide was peripheral or irrelevant in most of the political debates I've ever heard or read.

Comments?

12 posted on 02/19/2015 2:56:20 PM PST by x
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They won’t. The GOPe loving FReepers have been quiet lately but they’ll be back pushing Jeb or Christie or Rubio with their “only one’s that can win” and “if you don’t vote for them you want Hillary to win” memes.

This time around I hope Jim bans them.


13 posted on 02/19/2015 2:59:28 PM PST by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I think there is a lot of truth to that. Most people I talk to are Tea Party even if they don’t know it or deny it because the label has been tainted by The Ministry of Propaganda.
They want spending to be reduced.
They want the debt managed responsibly, which means reducing that as well.
They want the borders secured and the laws enforced.
The GOP/RNC don’t want any of that and have done whatever it takes to prevent it from happening.

I forget which Communist Goal from 1963 it was but one of them was capture one or both political parties. I think they’ve done it.
Middle America has NO representation.


14 posted on 02/19/2015 3:00:49 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TigersEye

She’s an Alinskite like the current _resident.
How did trying to scare people into voting for candidates they disliked work out?


15 posted on 02/19/2015 3:03:03 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

There is no comparison between the unknown charismatic 0bama and the shopworn unlikeable Hillary.


16 posted on 02/19/2015 3:09:05 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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Ronald Brownstein ..... isn't this the same leftist jackwagon that spewed his anti-conservative venom at the Los Angeles Times in the past?
17 posted on 02/19/2015 3:10:42 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: TigersEye

I still won’t vote for Jebster


18 posted on 02/19/2015 3:11:19 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Well hello, Newbie. Welcome, I think.


19 posted on 02/19/2015 3:56:42 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Thank you, I think.

Conservative, not necessarily Republican.
I vote for them when they deserve it. Helped throw Eric Cantor out and elect Dave Brat. Would like to see Ted Cruz elected President.
Will not vote for any amnesty candidate no matter how much castigation and beration is dished out.
I have always thought that was a very ineffective way to win elections.
I’m prepared for the attempts at threats and intimidation because Jebbie will be the nominee and I will not vote for him even against Hildabeest.


20 posted on 02/19/2015 4:08:53 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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