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The GOP apparently has learned little from Eric Cantor being replaced by a Tea Party candidate in his own primary. Boehner was able to survive a Tea Party challenge due to a disorganized effort and big corporate donations, but he's still a liberal RINO. He is so complicit with the Democrats that one wonders if they are controlling him through blackmail.

The GOP can spare one House seat in 2014 election, and what better seat to lose than Boehner's? This would send a message to the RINOs that they are unwanted in leadership positions and that just because they survive their primaries due to big piles of money, that the Tea Party can still reach out and touch them in the general election and bump them out of leadership roles if they won't resign them.

This of course means that Republicans in Ohio's 8th Congressional District would have to vote for the Democrat (Tom Poetter). The 2014 election is looking like it will be a Republican blow out, and if Boehner is defeated, it will be obvious that this was done by conservatives and the Tea Party and it will send a message.

This is something we can do and should do. Defeat Boehner in the general election and send a message to the GOP that we want the border closed to illegal aliens and ebola and that we want Obama impeached.

1 posted on 10/14/2014 12:20:51 AM PDT by GeneralSmedleyButler
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Boehner should be voted out because he is spineless.


2 posted on 10/14/2014 12:27:30 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk
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Unfortunately, I fear that the majority of voters in his district are too proud of the fact that their rep is the speaker.

That is the mentality that is destroying our nation.


3 posted on 10/14/2014 12:27:42 AM PDT by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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Octoberfest!


4 posted on 10/14/2014 12:28:58 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Comrade obama may need Boehner to protect him from demRats.


6 posted on 10/14/2014 12:47:07 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: GeneralSmedleyButler

Welcome to FR.


7 posted on 10/14/2014 12:56:15 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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ABSOLUTELY ! ! !

9 posted on 10/14/2014 2:01:00 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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No.

Boehner should be voted out because Boehner is bad for America. Failure to impeach a lawless dictator is only one reason.


10 posted on 10/14/2014 2:44:38 AM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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No ones’s going to impeach President Teflon.


11 posted on 10/14/2014 2:58:35 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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“Impeached” as in removed from office, or as voted on as a political statement by the House? The GOP doesn’t even have control of the Senate, much less 2/3 majority who would remove him from office. Removal from office is not going to happen, no matter how much we might wish it so.


12 posted on 10/14/2014 3:07:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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The whole “leadership” of Both parties are like bile.
They just keep coming back up and won’t just go the hell away.
Worthless dirtbags all.


14 posted on 10/14/2014 3:21:09 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
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A lot depends on what happens with Ebola, terrorism, healthcare, and other wild card events in the US and how Bone-head responds. Public outrage is getting close to critical mass. This is Bone-head’s chance, and the campaign trail might revitalize him.

[But I doubt it. I suspect that President Ebola has goods on him as well as Justice Roberts. They are acting the way other GOP members did when the Clintons raided 900 FBI files.]


15 posted on 10/14/2014 3:30:55 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Collapse the system." -- Cloward, Piven, and President Ebola.)
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Yes


16 posted on 10/14/2014 4:07:25 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$)
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You seem to think that Boehner has total, absolute control of the house...Not so....get over it.

And impeachment...get over it...it will never happen.

17 posted on 10/14/2014 4:10:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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He’s incompetent.


18 posted on 10/14/2014 4:50:57 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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If McCockle loses his election, momentum would build to ditch Boner.

That would be a hat-trick for the TEA party. Cantor, McCockle and Boner.

19 posted on 10/14/2014 5:35:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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Boehner should be voted out because he no longer represents the citizens of the United States, but the Corporations.

He supports Amnesty at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce over the wishes of the Citizens of the United States.

In short, he is a Traitor and should be treated as such.


22 posted on 10/14/2014 6:22:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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He is so complicit with the Democrats that one wonders if they are controlling him through blackmail

Glad to see I'm not alone in wondering that. Though not just with him. There is a disturbing pattern of 'lack of candidates' succeeding to rise to the occasion, as well as those seemingly 'disgraced'...in addition to those that act like Boner.

23 posted on 10/14/2014 7:21:08 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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This is typical of the inchoate reasoning of so many conservative absolutists.

(I define absolutists as anyone who thinks someone is a RINO if they don’t agree with the absolutist position 100%. And of course every absolutist has their own standards for setting the bar on what is a ‘true’ conservative)

The same people who would vote Boehner out would also prefer that non-absolutists candidates for the Senate lose(example: Senators like McConnell, Cornyn, and Pat Roberts)Of course that would only extend the Dems power in the Senate on appointments.

This would insure that the impeachment would never approach the requirement for 66% of the Senate vote for conviction.

And another failed impeachment would destroy any chance that the country would turn more conservative before the Democrats have a chance to further, and perhaps irrevocably, destroy the country in the future.

It’s all well and good to stir up anger with arguments like “he only supported conservative issues 85% of the time,” but actually taking over control of the levers of power by elections is more difficult than rabble rousing.


24 posted on 10/14/2014 8:28:00 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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If I had enough influence, I would recommend the following:

If we are confident we will have ample majorities in both houses, vote against Boehner and McConnell. Let the dems have those two seats in trade for blocking the GOPe’s puppets from controlling legislation. The houses could still install yet another GOPe puppet -or- they could vote for a more conservative majority leader. I’ll take that coin flip as we can’t do much worse than another Boehner/McConnell and we could do *much* better.

If we are **NOT** confident we will have ample majorities in both houses, then re-elect Boehner and McConnell and pray that enough tea-party/conservatives are also elected to thwart the GOPe string-pulling.


26 posted on 10/14/2014 8:41:21 AM PDT by jaydee770
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FYI, Smedley Butler was a far left socialist.


27 posted on 10/14/2014 9:26:25 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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