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The #1 Winning Economic Issue for the GOP (if they're smart)
Gasprices.com ^ | 5-30-2008

Posted on 05/31/2008 10:41:48 AM PDT by paul in cape

If the GOP wants to win the election and maybe even the House and Senate this year, here's one sure fire issue which would guarantee it. Let's see if they're smart enough to use it!


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008; energy; gasprices; gop; issues
The Price of Gas Since November 2006, when the Dem's won both houses of Congress, and January 2007, when the Dems actually started governing.

It was at a 3 year low just before election day, moved little until inauguration day for the new Congress, and then all hell broke loose.

Every candidate should bring this chart with him or her to every campaign event. The Democrat leadership as been the most ineffectual and incompetent in my lifetime (and I'm 54!)

Please, GOP, get your act together...run against the Dems, who have no plan, and Obama, who has no GRAVITAS!

1 posted on 05/31/2008 10:41:48 AM PDT by paul in cape
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To: paul in cape
In order to run effectively on this issue, the GOP will have to find some way to affect the foreign currency exchange rate, as well as run against the environmentalists.

Don't think they can affect the former (not in the short run) and believe they lack the stones to do the latter.

2 posted on 05/31/2008 10:47:55 AM PDT by skeeter
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Are you kidding?

The GOP and RNC are too stooopid to understand the graph. Even if they did understand it, they wouldn't know what to do with it.

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3 posted on 05/31/2008 10:49:07 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: paul in cape

Er, doesn’t that graph prove that the governing body of a country has little to no effect on the price of gas?

Unless Congress has control over Canadian prices too...


4 posted on 05/31/2008 10:55:09 AM PDT by Adammon
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To: paul in cape
Related article, a good one:

GOP is indeed stupid for its timidity

"If the stupid party cannot pin the tag on Democrats for the price of gasoline at the pump, let alone any of these
other issues, they will deserve the defeat which seems certain this November."

5 posted on 05/31/2008 11:46:05 AM PDT by calcowgirl (Schwarzenegger and McCain are trying to castrate the elephant)
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To: paul in cape

We already know that nobody at the RNC is smart.


6 posted on 05/31/2008 11:48:14 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: editor-surveyor

No this group, These guys have been in Washington too long. Time for a major flush


7 posted on 05/31/2008 12:15:25 PM PDT by reefdiver (Had Enough? Drill 4 OIL)
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To: paul in cape

A few short years ago Republicans had control of the House, Senate, and Presidency.
They spent like drunk sailors. Trie to push amnesty for illegals. Did absolutely nothing to support the conservatives that put them in that position and became Dem. lite.
I have no confidence in the G.O.P. at all.
They put a p.o.s. like Mel Martinez in as leader and I wouldn’t give that turd a penny.
Sooooo what now?
Other then come with hat in hand begging for contributions?
Pound sand Dem lite.


8 posted on 05/31/2008 1:58:16 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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It’s time to drill in Alaska and build more refineries.

Sign the petition here: http://www.gaspriceprotest.com/?g=1


9 posted on 06/02/2008 1:10:58 PM PDT by bstein80 (Freedom Works)
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