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Conservative Purists Could Cost the GOP the White House in 2016
National Review ^ | 09/01/2015 | Bernard Goldberg

Posted on 09/01/2015 6:17:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

How predictable is this whine by Bernie?

If the GOPe candidate or a Dem wins in 2016, the GOPe get to go to all the same parties, they just don’t get to plan the menu.

If a Cruz, Trump, Fiorina or Carson win, they might not get invited anymore.


41 posted on 09/01/2015 6:43:20 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: Michael.SF.

So what? They earned it.


42 posted on 09/01/2015 6:43:38 AM PDT by Ray76 (When a gov't leads it's people down a path of destruction resistance is not only a right but a duty.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "They are repelled by his personal behavior."

"He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle," he added.

"He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a 'revolution,' riding the crest into power," Blumenthal continued as he described Boehner, R-Ohio. "He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody's enduring loyalty."

He also said Boehner "twitches" if the conservative base makes "gestures that might undermine his position."

SO WE CAN VOTE FOR PEOPLE LIKE THIS?

43 posted on 09/01/2015 6:45:47 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

So you’re saying there would be no difference between a President Cruz, Republican and a President Biden, Democrat?


44 posted on 09/01/2015 6:46:41 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Michael.SF.
>> RINO or not, his final point is correct <<

But you wouldn't know that unless you actually read the full article.

And surely you must be aware that reading the articles is seriously frowned upon around here, even if not directly verboten.

45 posted on 09/01/2015 6:50:17 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: SeekAndFind

Sick of these whiny babies. Who care if GOP is destroyed? Not me.


46 posted on 09/01/2015 6:51:23 AM PDT by libbylu
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To: SeekAndFind
While 26 percent of Republicans say they would never vote for Trump, only 11 percent of Democrats say they would never vote for Clinton. Democrats don’t have the same kind of ideologically pure wing that has hurt GOP presidential candidates in the past. Democrats, it seems, are more practical. They may prefer Bernie Sanders, or one of the others, but when push comes to shove, almost all of them will vote for Clinton. Why? They want to win.

Blah blah blah. He's basing all his fears on a poll that's only different by 15%....more than a year out from the election. I'm willing to bet that if Trump IS the nominee that by next year these number will be reversed for both.

47 posted on 09/01/2015 6:51:54 AM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: bigbob

Haven’t you heard ? Cruz is now a RINO

Due to potential violent FR reaction (both pro and con) the above has been deemed sarcasm


48 posted on 09/01/2015 6:55:04 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Arm_Bears
Nobody got to Bernie Goldbert.

He rides more fences than a lizard.

He's a rhetorical pendulum.

He's the vinyl record of political punditry.

He's the saloon door of intellectual discussion.

49 posted on 09/01/2015 6:55:18 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind
So if Republicans hope to win in 2016, they will have to unite and support the GOP candidate whoever he or she is. Republicans, who today are vowing to never support Donald Trump, will have to reconsider, should he win the nomination. And the conservative purists, who swear they will never vote for a moderate, will have to abandon their ideological purity — or abandon all hope of a GOP victory.

Who care about a GOP victory if the relentless march toward the left continues?

50 posted on 09/01/2015 6:56:52 AM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernie, you are an idiot. Your solution, just keep doing over and over again what has failed for years, but this time the results will be different. You are not only an idiot, you are stupid.


51 posted on 09/01/2015 6:58:18 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Hawthorn

you noticed that too? the correct approach here is to read the headline only and then produce a violent outburst based on preconceived notions


52 posted on 09/01/2015 6:59:28 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
sticking it the GOP-e almost seems worth it.

How about: sticking it the GOP-e almost seems IS worth it.

Anything less is nothing short of traitorous at this point.

53 posted on 09/01/2015 7:00:30 AM PDT by dware (Trump/Cruz 2016, or get ready for 8 more dummycrat years)
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To: originalbuckeye

Right now they have Obama, who is a big Leftist but is, in many ways, still in the front pocket of Wall Street.

And Boehner/McConnell running the Congress.

I think a Democrat Congress with President Liz Warren will cause the Chamber types to soil their undies and come running to us to save them.


54 posted on 09/01/2015 7:00:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Hawthorn
LOL.

Good point!

55 posted on 09/01/2015 7:01:10 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: blackdog

Quote:

“”Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference,” Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. “They are repelled by his personal behavior.”
“He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle,” he added.

“He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a ‘revolution,’ riding the crest into power,” Blumenthal continued as he described Boehner, R-Ohio. “He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody’s enduring loyalty.”

He also said Boehner “twitches” if the conservative base makes “gestures that might undermine his position.”

SO WE CAN VOTE FOR PEOPLE LIKE THIS?”

No more. Never again. If America wants to be ruled by the likes of John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Jeb Bush then America deserves what’s coming.

As for me.....


56 posted on 09/01/2015 7:02:23 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. If the Nat Rev is not flaming away on Trump, they are blasting purists.

Libertarian rag. I swear they would love it if Hillary won.


57 posted on 09/01/2015 7:04:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: SeekAndFind

My brother-in-law used the terms “arrogant and blowhard” when describing what he liked about Trump.


58 posted on 09/01/2015 7:04:08 AM PDT by duffee (No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe nosef is chairman)
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To: SeekAndFind
I have heard this before. Sort of like a broken record (ie one that skips)


59 posted on 09/01/2015 7:04:12 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Michael.SF.; Hawthorn

Thoughtful serious commentary is antithetical to irate shouting....it should be curtailed if possible.


60 posted on 09/01/2015 7:05:04 AM PDT by woofie
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