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Tea Party will destroy GOP in 2014, as Palin destroyed McCain in 2008 (Hahaha!)
The Hill ^ | May 24, 2013 | Brent Budowsky

Posted on 05/24/2013 3:33:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For the far right, dreams die hard and delusions never end. As Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who represents a congressional GOP with unpopularity of 75 percent, prepares to summon former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with popularity above 60 percent, to testify, the overreach of House Republicans now threatens Republican control of the House. The triumph of the Tea Party within Republican politics is a gift to Democrats in 2014, as the disastrous vice presidential nomination of Sarah Palin in 2008 helped propelled Barack Obama to a two-term presidency.

In the latest poll I've seen about 2014, a generic poll by Washington Post/ABC, Democrats led Republicans by 48 percent to 40 percent — a huge margin. Of course, polls will vary. But the idea of a House GOP that is stunningly unpopular running inquisitions against President Obama, whose popularity towers above the GOP, and Clinton, whose popularity towers above the GOP even more, is a political disaster in the making.

The prime directive for the Tea Party is tax breaks for the rich and tax breaks for themselves — hardly a winning position in a nation that wants more equity and fairness for all. The Tea Party projects a politics and negativity, which is why it is so highly unpopular with voters. Palin represents a negativity and eccentricity and out-of-the-mainstream rightism, which is why she was such as disaster for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), why she left the governorship after half of one term and why she has held no public office in recent years.....

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: hillary; mccain; obama; palin; sarahpalin; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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1 posted on 05/24/2013 3:33:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then let it be destroyed.


2 posted on 05/24/2013 3:34:24 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

America is toast.

Illiterate electorate.


3 posted on 05/24/2013 3:34:49 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (0bama is a POS, with all due respect to excrement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My head hurts?


4 posted on 05/24/2013 3:35:14 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is probably true unless some Republicans grow a big pair !!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 05/24/2013 3:35:26 PM PDT by District13 (I miss my country!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like 2010?


6 posted on 05/24/2013 3:35:30 PM PDT by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

GOOD.


7 posted on 05/24/2013 3:35:30 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Romney/Ryan got a million more votes than McCain/Palin. Is Paul Ryan more popular in the GOP than Sarah Palin?


8 posted on 05/24/2013 3:36:20 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well look at McCain’s candidacy in the cold light of day five years later. A very old man with an unpleasant personality who isn’t even articulate and also had about him an air of psycho real or imagined. Palin probably gained him votes.


9 posted on 05/24/2013 3:37:10 PM PDT by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From Rasmussen Reports:

Monday, May 20, 2013

Republicans have edged ahead of Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending May 19.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while 39% would choose the Democrat instead. . .

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot


10 posted on 05/24/2013 3:37:44 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: vladimir998

I agree. The RINOlib-Republican Party is not for conservatives anymore. With idiots like McScream and McRomney as candidates and leaders of the party, what chance do we have? No, we are screwed. These RINOsliberals now run the party.


11 posted on 05/24/2013 3:38:15 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the “tea party” is the end of the GOP, then it needed to end.

A party that can’t articulate what it stands for doesn’t stand for anything.


12 posted on 05/24/2013 3:38:15 PM PDT by marron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The triumph of the Tea Party within Republican politics is a gift to Democrats in 2014"

Well, the taxes paid to the Feds by the TEA Party "members" IS an ongoing gift to the 'rats, that's fur sure. Don't count on it in the long run though.

13 posted on 05/24/2013 3:38:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nice try. They know Obama is in trouble and are trying to discourage weak and wimpy republicans (rinos) from going after their messiah.


14 posted on 05/24/2013 3:38:58 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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15 posted on 05/24/2013 3:39:27 PM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: toddausauras
"Palin probably gained him votes."

Do ya think? It could explain the millions of votes missing from the Romney total in '12.

16 posted on 05/24/2013 3:40:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bicyclerepair

Bingo.


17 posted on 05/24/2013 3:41:02 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOP means nothing to me. The “moderates” are just rat-lite. And the rats just can’t let go of bashing Gov. Palin - my recollection was that after her speech at the convention in 08 the party was energized and polls were turning McLame - until McLame suspended his campaign to support the Bush stimulus, and until the media performed their hit on her. I do not doubt that she still scares the willies out of them.


18 posted on 05/24/2013 3:41:05 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin frightens many people but especially liberal males.
19 posted on 05/24/2013 3:41:55 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s nice of them to try and help the GOP like this.

You’d think they’d be quite about this.

Like their use of the IRS to steal elections.

Or thier use of the DOJ to monitor Reporters.


20 posted on 05/24/2013 3:42:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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