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Dems’ best friend: The GOP base (More "great advice" from the Left)
Salon ^ | May 16, 2012 | Steve Kornacki

Posted on 05/17/2012 12:58:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/17/2012 12:58:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Elizabeth Warren? Whats the writer smoking?


2 posted on 05/17/2012 1:29:06 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we should vote for the safe establishment politicians even though they oppose us on most issues that matter to us? That doesn’t sound like winning to me. Before anyone calls me a purist, this isn’t about voting for 80% “friends.” It’s about electing people who are 80% hostile to conservatism. What do you call someone who doesn’t agree with you 80% of the time? An enemy.

The Democrat Party is at best a European socialist party, and the RINO faction is pretty much the Democrat/liberal party of 20 years ago. What does that leave for the 50% of Americans on the right who don’t buy into gay marriage, abortion, massive entitlement programs, etc?


3 posted on 05/17/2012 1:35:22 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even if, in the albeit highly unlikely possibility Fischer turns out to be a political fumbler, the GOP had better be ready to support her nonetheless.

All along, the race for this seat has been a near-slam dunk for the Repubs, so I hope it wasn`t put into unnecessary jeopardy by the nomination of an unvetted, untested candidate.

Nebraska FReepers, WSY?


4 posted on 05/17/2012 1:35:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: wiggen

Warren and Brown are in a near deadlock in a race Brown should be winning by double-digits.


5 posted on 05/17/2012 1:42:29 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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Why should Brown be winning by double digits?


6 posted on 05/17/2012 2:07:57 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the author....(snicker)

7 posted on 05/17/2012 2:36:33 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ScottinVA
Fischer will win easy. Brunning and Stenberg beat each other up in the press and basically ran dirty campaigns. Dumb in NE. Fischer talked about what she would do and not about what her opponent allegedly did. Fischer is a solid candidate. She easily will capture all of the state to offset the Omaha liberal vote. Kerry and his carpet bagging aren't playing well. Remember he was in then out after he saw internal poll numbers and then got back in with DNC support/pressure. Fischer has been in the state legislature working NE issues. Where's Kerry been? That's her campaign in a nutshell.
8 posted on 05/17/2012 3:05:29 AM PDT by lp boonie (Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America to Conservatives, lay down and die.


9 posted on 05/17/2012 3:08:55 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wiggen
Elizabeth Warren? Whats the writer smoking?

A peace pipe.

10 posted on 05/17/2012 3:16:13 AM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: central_va

She is up double digits over Kerry right now.


11 posted on 05/17/2012 3:16:14 AM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Talk about delusional thinking. When you are a Communist, everything normal looks extreme.


12 posted on 05/17/2012 3:22:54 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: wiggen; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Clintonfatigued; randita; BillyBoy
LOL, Salon, just where I'd go to read about Republican primaries. None of the writers for them have ever met a Republican.

Elizabeth Warren? Whats the writer smoking?

The same "organic" reefer that all elitists use? Only they think Warren is a good candidate or ever did.

As for Fischer I would inform these idiots that Fischer is not Ken Buck, Sharron Angle, or Christine O'Donnell and Republican Nebraska is not a swing state or rat state like Delaware.

Fischer is a competent Republican in a heavily Republican state. Gay marriage loving blast from the past Bob Kerrey has NO CHANCE. Neither does Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota no matter how Scandinavian her name sounds. Donnelly isn't gonna win either, he'd have had a better chance against the old man Lugar, Mourdock is a twice elected state Treasuer, not some schlub. He got 62% in 2010 while Donnelly won reelection by an eyelash in a seat that went for Obama. And Arizona? Please. Warren can still win only cause it's MA but she's not in good shape right now. It's like the MA dems gave Brown a gift. The other GOP seat they could win is NV but that looks good for Heller right now.

The rats need to focus on races they can win. MA is the only one mentioned in the article that they can. (And Maine were the indie King is the defacto rat but there will still be a real rat on the ballot taking votes from him). They have an outside shot of keeping 50 or 51 Senators but Nebraska ain't be gonna be one of their seats and they know it.

I think the rhetoric is to get donors to give to the DSCC.

13 posted on 05/17/2012 3:23:39 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The same mistakes that derailed Angle in Nevada...
Yes, her "mistakes". Mainly her inability to do anything about the Massive Harry Reid Voter Fraud takeover of Nevada elections.
14 posted on 05/17/2012 3:28:01 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: wiggen
Elizabeth Warren? Whats the writer smoking?
This is Salon, after all. Part of the bizarro world of the left where Elizabeth Warren is credible and Christine O'Donnell is a kook.
15 posted on 05/17/2012 3:36:22 AM PDT by samtheman
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The writer is correct. Republicans are their own worst enemy. They don’t call us the stupid party for nothing. She is wrong when it comes to some of the particulars though. The stupidity is on full display here every day. Idealogical purists would rather lose than accept half a loaf. Obama or Romney? He’ll, there’s no difference or Romney is worse! The left understands that they may not get their true progressive,but they’ll unite behind their candidate with the understanding that he may not get them as far down the road as what they want, but any movement in what they see as the right direction is in their best interest. Republicans, especially here at FR want the perfect candidate. They don’t care if the less than perfect candidate can advance their goals and get them a little bit down the road. No, they have to get to their destination right away and if the candidate can’t do that, well, he’s no better than the democrat, so why vote for him, in fact, let’s vote against him!

I am frustrated with the short sightedness of many freepers. I see trols here all the time planting the seeds of defeatism and folks here just buy into it. We are our worst enemy and the Dems best friend.


16 posted on 05/17/2012 3:44:05 AM PDT by RayBob (If guns kill people, can I blame misspelled words on my keyboard?)
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I am frustrated with the short sightedness of many freepers. I see trols here all the time planting the seeds of defeatism and folks here just buy into it. We are our worst enemy and the Dems best friend.

I'll be voting for Virgil Goode and most of my Tea Party friends will be doing the same. So go blow a fuse.

17 posted on 05/17/2012 3:49:23 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RayBob

Your a lawyer, ‘nuff said.


18 posted on 05/17/2012 3:50:23 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ScottinVA

Swung Browns way late last election. I can’t agree with the double digits statement in that state.


19 posted on 05/17/2012 4:15:17 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Nervous Tick

“Why should Brown be winning by double digits?”

1. Brown has voted center-left in the two years in office.
2. He hasn’t been embroiled in any real controversies or scandals.
3. Elizabeth Warren is a near-certifiable nutcase with a penchant for lying about her background.


20 posted on 05/17/2012 5:09:02 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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