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Chris Matthews: Democrats 'Coming Apart,' It's 'Every Man for Himself'
Newsmax ^ | April 22, 2015 | Greg Richter

Posted on 04/22/2015 7:41:56 PM PDT by re_tail20

The Democratic Party is not unified and is "devolving" as various interest groups seek their own ends, MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Wednesday.

Appearing on "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Matthews said the party is not unified.

"It’s coming apart. You can see it, it’s devolving," he said. "And so it’s every man for himself, every politician for themselves right now."

"Every issue that comes up now, they're not looking to the leadership at the White House. They're thinking, how do they save their butts politically?" Matthews said...

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To: re_tail20
"It’s coming apart. You can see it, it’s devolving," he said. "And so it’s every man for himself,

"every man for himself....."

How sexist, and what about the LGBTQQIP2SAAHGC – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Hermaphrodite and Gravitationally Challenged communities....

21 posted on 04/22/2015 8:35:15 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: angry elephant

Hell look at their leader. The man is the worst president in U.S. history by a very wide margin. Everyone knows he’s a Muslim traitor sent to destroy the U.S. by now. Even the stupidest people eventually catch on to the con after they’ve been played one too many times....


22 posted on 04/22/2015 8:35:24 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai
But I thought that President Obama was doing a smashing job as President, moreover, saved the country from ruin.

What would they be running from? Why aren't they saying "Four more years of the same"?

23 posted on 04/22/2015 8:36:46 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: sickoflibs

Where are the “oh noes” teletubbies?


24 posted on 04/22/2015 10:12:49 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: re_tail20

Let’s hope so..


25 posted on 04/22/2015 10:17:11 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: OneWingedShark

Agreed. I personally think the damage is done and this nation is past the tipping point. Never ever did i think what im seeing would ever happen...in such a short time too. If you didn’t know anything about this country and just arrived here, you’d think its 80% black and gay. Its all you hear and see from the media. I’m so glad im not in my 20’s...sad.


26 posted on 04/22/2015 10:23:03 PM PDT by basalt
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To: re_tail20
Democrats 'Coming Apart,' It's 'Every Man for Himself'

This would be good news, were it not for the fact that the GOPe votes Democrat.

Dumbocraps + GOPe will always be a super-majority. They will shift sides and play games with cloture to hide their evil and fool voters. In the end, they vote liberal.

Cruz called out the Senate Republicans on their "vote yes on cloture and no on the legislation" trick and the establishment hates him for it.

Palin said: We are a country going bankrupt to fund a bloated, distant, and often corrupt federal government led by venal politicians...

Anyone care to dispute this?


27 posted on 04/22/2015 10:37:53 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: redangus
But come election day they will all vote together for whoever the party puts in front of them.

Unfortunately, the same is true of too many Republicans, if history is any guide.


28 posted on 04/22/2015 11:06:15 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: JSDude1

I wonder if some of the psychotic ideasnbeing put forward by the hard left have anything to do with this? The whole “micro-agression” baboonery is a good example. Even a lot of left leaning type see the idiocy of that


29 posted on 04/22/2015 11:35:47 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Don Corleone

Who is on the “other side” of this alleged aisle?


30 posted on 04/23/2015 12:28:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Impy; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
RE:"Where are the “oh noes” teletubbies?

Lib Democrats questioning Obama's word on HIS trade deal??

Like we do on HIS Israel deal?
Is that racism?

Saw Liz Warren on MSNBC Maddow tonight calling for Obama to stop hiding details of HIS trade deal from us. Sound familiar???

31 posted on 04/23/2015 12:52:24 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: re_tail20

All this time I thought the one unifying issue was the Fundamental Transformation Of the United States Of America,in other words the Total destruction of the country.
That seems to be progressing at a rapid pace,so Chris what is your problem?


32 posted on 04/23/2015 4:30:54 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: ballplayer

Obama may well see 50 years of Republican control and a shattering of the Democrats into old school (Union) Dems and Progressive Socialists.


33 posted on 04/23/2015 5:56:14 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Maceman

If that were the case we would now have President Romney in the WH. O’bama won because millions of republicans stayed home. Whether that was piqué or principle can be discussed forever, but the results are undeniable.


34 posted on 04/23/2015 7:31:08 AM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus
If that were the case we would now have President Romney in the WH. O’bama won because millions of republicans stayed home. Whether that was piqué or principle can be discussed forever, but the results are undeniable.

Well I guess it depends how you look at it. I see that millions of Republicans stayed home because they won't vote for RINOs. The Republican Party should have learned that lesson in past elections.

Hopefully, they finally have after the disgraceful behavior of the majority Republican house and Senate since 2014.

The Republicans need to understand that they cannot win without the conservative base. Let them just try to run Jeb Bush and see what happens.

35 posted on 04/23/2015 8:18:01 AM PDT by Maceman
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36 posted on 04/23/2015 8:23:05 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Maceman

That’s my point. The dems will fight amongst themselves until election day when they will coalesce behind the party’s candidate because they understand principle is nice, but power and control is better.

Republicans on the other hand stand on principle and then after losing bemoan the fact they can’t win the WH.

We can debate principle versus cutting off your nose to spite you face all day, but the facts are the winning party dictates national policy and nominates judges not principled losers.


37 posted on 04/23/2015 9:29:54 AM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. The following is a lengthy statement that I posted on the subject during the run-up to the 2014 mid-term elections. I still stand by every word, and I think the behavior of the RINO majority since winning that election proves my point.

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No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.

In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.

Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of Constitutional law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.

As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the above-stated core principles, it will never make the necessary change of direction.

Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?

Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?

Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?

You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?

The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.

A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.

Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.

Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.

Many argue that we must continue to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.

If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.

And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.

If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.

To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.

And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.

The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.

Yes, having Harry Reid continue as majority leader is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.

And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame for the horrific damage that they have unleashed on our country in the last five years.

America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?

You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obama’s left wing Supreme Court nominations?

America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.

Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.

But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to last night's panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.

So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.

Think about it.

38 posted on 04/23/2015 10:10:09 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: sickoflibs

One of my favorite graphics!!!!!!!!


39 posted on 04/23/2015 7:27:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Impy
RE:”One of my favorite graphics!!!!!!!!”

A special request from our good Friend Impy :)

40 posted on 04/23/2015 8:47:42 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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