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The Line: A Resurgent Republican Party (WaPosts Top 10 Influential GOPers)
Wash Post ^ | 9/18/09 | Chris Cinzilla

Posted on 09/18/2009 7:47:43 AM PDT by pissant

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To: pissant

Hey!! Why isn’t Rudy Giuliani on their list? < /sarc>


21 posted on 09/18/2009 7:54:27 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO [the LIAR] has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: pissant

The MSM and the national GOP is trying so hard to direct us. They still don’t get it.


22 posted on 09/18/2009 7:54:43 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: pissant
I laugh when I picture Haley in the WH.

Don't get me wrong. I would love to have him there.

I just laugh at the picture.

23 posted on 09/18/2009 7:55:19 AM PDT by what's up
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To: pissant

I don’t see any way that Mitt Romney is the most influential person in the Republican party. He might be the most well-known, but I don’t really see him impacting ANYTHING that is happening right now.

What issue has he driven? What minds has he changed? Where has his hand shaped the debate?

I think this is because on the biggest issue right now, Health Care, he is on the wrong side, or at least not on the right side.

I don’t think Palin is the most influential, but she clearly has had a lot more input into the debate, and has had a lot more impact. She is making statements that are changing how the democrats act, and they are responding to her, meaning she is a force in the party.


24 posted on 09/18/2009 7:55:44 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: pissant

Conservatism is resurgent, not Republicans. Republicans are just there to hitch themselves to the leaderless masses who are tired of the same old Bravo Sierra.


25 posted on 09/18/2009 7:56:26 AM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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To: Tarpon
1. Mitt Romney: No one in the Republican party at the moment can match Romney's motor. The guy is simply everywhere... Couple that packed calendar with the favorable reviews Massachusetts residents are giving to the health care plan Romney signed into law as governor and you see why Romney continues to hold the top slot on the Line. (Previous ranking: 1)

LOL

26 posted on 09/18/2009 7:56:47 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: pissant

The biggest missing name I’d put on the list is Eric Cantor.

The other name that is missing is Fred Thompson. Maybe because he making news, but he is out there, he sends out messages every few days, and those messages are strong and clear ones, that I think are making an impact.

Who knows, maybe he is even influencing Sarah Palin — they are certainly on the same page.


27 posted on 09/18/2009 7:57:09 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: pissant

Well, at least they didn’t add Rudy911 to the list.


28 posted on 09/18/2009 7:57:14 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: pissant

Who is Mitch Daniels?


29 posted on 09/18/2009 7:57:17 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Idiotcracy has arrived 400 years early.)
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To: pissant

With a few exceptions, that list would be more accurate if it were inverted.


30 posted on 09/18/2009 7:58:20 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
on the biggest issue right now, Health Care, he is on the wrong side

That's exactly why the Dems are pushing him!

31 posted on 09/18/2009 7:58:26 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: pissant

Mike Pence and Jim DeMint


32 posted on 09/18/2009 7:58:44 AM PDT by almcbean
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To: RaiderRose

OK, I thought about it, but I haven’t really seen Jindal saying anything recently, or driving the debate. Maybe he is, but he doesn’t seem that influential at the moment.


33 posted on 09/18/2009 7:59:21 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: pissant

This is the reason that we must get new people to run as independents. Every incumbant needs to be removed. We must clean house, (and Senate too!). All of these have sold us out, either directly, or by being too passive against the democrats.

We need regular people in the legislature, who truly represent US. Some of us must run, locally and nationally. We cannot take our government back from professional politicians unless we are willing to participate, by putting ourselves and our “fortunes” on the line like our forefathers did.


34 posted on 09/18/2009 7:59:24 AM PDT by tuckrdout ("Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pissant

SARAH PALIN SHOULD BE #1 ON THAT LIST!!!!!!

UGH! I am sick and tired of the RINOs and liberals trying to paint Sarah as insignificant.

Well, I’ve got news for them: SARAH ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE!!!!!!!! SHE WILL NOT BACK DOWN AND NEITHER WILL WE!!!!!!

SARAH PALIN WILL BE THE PARTY’S NOMINEE IN 2012; WE DON’T CARE HOW MUCH THE RINOS SQUIRM, WHINE AND SCREAM!!!!!!!

PURGE THE PARTY OF THE RINOS AND HERD THEM OUT!!!!!! THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A CONSERVATIVE PARTY!!!!!!!

SARAH SCARES THE DAYLIGHTS OUT THE RINOS AND LIBS; THAT IS EXACTLY WHY WE NEED HER IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!

SARAH CAN RAISE MORE MONEY AND DRAW LARGER CROWDS THAN ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THAT LIST COMBINED!!!!!!! IT IS ASTONISHING THAT THEY TRY TO REDUCE HER TO INSIGNIFICANCE!

WE WANT SARAH!
WE WANT SARAH!
WE WANT SARAH!!!

SARAH PALIN / MICHELE BACHMANN, 2012!!!!!!


35 posted on 09/18/2009 7:59:45 AM PDT by wk4bush2004 (PALIN-BACHMANN, 2012!!!!!)
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To: pissant

When Coburn makes the list, call me. Until then, lose my numbers-— phone and credit card.


36 posted on 09/18/2009 7:59:50 AM PDT by metalcor
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To: wk4bush2004

Hunter/DeMint. No chick ticket


37 posted on 09/18/2009 8:00:27 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Romney, most influential? Among Democrats, perhaps.


38 posted on 09/18/2009 8:00:39 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: depressed in 06
here you go
39 posted on 09/18/2009 8:01:44 AM PDT by nitzy (Only a liberal could believe that one becomes a human at birth AND one becomes gay at conception.)
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To: Bitsy
Your criticism of the substance of the policies of the current President are racist; however, The Post's exclusion of Governor Jindal because he doesn't conform to their preconceived ethnic expectations is not.

Just keep that in mind.

40 posted on 09/18/2009 8:03:10 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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