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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

After a month without Lines -- on Friday or any other day -- Fixistas need their, um, Fix.

And, of course, we aim to please. So this week we are doing two Lines -- one today looking at the ten most influential Republican leaders in the party and then one tomorrow ranking the ten Senate races most likely to switch parties in 2010.

Republicans have seen something of a reversal of fortune since we last penned a Line looking at their relatively meager list of leaders.

(snip)

10. John Cornyn

9. Sarah Palin

8. Mitch Daniels

7. Mike Huckabee

6. John Boehner/Mitch Mcconell

5. Michael Steele

4. Newt

3. Haley Barbour

2. Tim Pawlenty

1. Mitt Romney

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


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To: nitzy

Neat graphic.


41 posted on 09/18/2009 8:04:42 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: pissant
Influential with who? Is the order supposed to be significant? Palin is far and away more influential with voters than anybody else on the list. I like how they totally discount Palin running in 2012 in the article. I hope they continue to believe that.
42 posted on 09/18/2009 8:04:46 AM PDT by throwback
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To: pissant

Goes from decent to gag me. Their top 5 pretty much sucks, with the exception of Pawlenty. I am not quite ready to throw him into the complete suckage category. But he needs to decide where his base lies.


43 posted on 09/18/2009 8:04:57 AM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: iowamark

I think you got to look at Canter and I think ihis name is Steve King from Iowa, they seem to have the right ideas


44 posted on 09/18/2009 8:05:21 AM PDT by keckkw
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To: depressed in 06

Mittens? Teh Mittens? Of Mittcare Mittens?

The most influential Republican?

Once again, the MSM tries to pick the guy they think will lose to Obama in a walk.

Remember, conservatives, when thinking about Teh Mittens, it's best to remember this warning.....

....Don't drink the water!

Best,

Chris

45 posted on 09/18/2009 8:05:44 AM PDT by section9
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To: pissant
They still don't get it, but the mere fact that Palin is on the list means they are beginning to.
46 posted on 09/18/2009 8:07:16 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: pissant

Michelle Bachmann & Sarah Palin & Jim DeMint are the most influential CONSERVATIVE Republicans today. Most of the list is RINO or semi-RINO, being pushed once again by Washington DC beltway so-called experts. Whatever these experts suggest or recommend.....do the exact opposite and we will win back our country and defeat 0bozo’s socialist-fascist-commie band of thugs, including the usurper pig himself, 0bozo.


47 posted on 09/18/2009 8:08:07 AM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: mnehring
Strike about 2/3rds of that list.

Strike about 2/3rds of that list AND THEN RE-RANK.

48 posted on 09/18/2009 8:14:22 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: pissant; All
I don't trust anything the MSM tries to sell & I sure as hell don't think 3/4's of this list even comes close. They figured it worked in 2008 so they will just try to tell us who should run the party again. Mitt Romney...WTF, another Rhino and Palin is at the bottom...actually, I am surprised the WaPo even put her on the list....but I digress, and Pawlenty, after he supported Obama's stimulus and got up a played all nice with him....not this time!
49 posted on 09/18/2009 8:14:39 AM PDT by zimfam007 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: pissant

I see that the post is trying to pick GOP leaders again, with predictable results.


50 posted on 09/18/2009 8:16:14 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (`)
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To: pissant

There goes the MSM, trying to nudge the GOP into “leaders” the MSM wants.


51 posted on 09/18/2009 8:17:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (This Revolution will be peaceful if possible; other than peaceful if necessary.)
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To: keckkw
Yes, Steve King from western Iowa has been a great spokesman for conservatism. He is always prepared to speak on C-Span. However, he is not really a nationally known figure. Probably because of his consistent conservatism, the media ignores him.
52 posted on 09/18/2009 8:18:07 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: pissant

10. John Cornyn

9. Sarah Palin

8. Mitch Daniels

7. Mike Huckabee

6. John Boehner/Mitch Mcconell

5. Michael Steele

4. Newt

3. Haley Barbour

2. Tim Pawlenty

1. Mitt Romney


Real list using the same people;

8. Mitch Daniels

7. Mike Huckabee

6. Haley Barbour

5. Michael Steele

4. John Boehner

3. Mitt Romney

2. Tim Pawlenty

1. Sarah Palin


53 posted on 09/18/2009 8:20:32 AM PDT by Grunthor (Gun toting, Bible thumping Flag waver. According to the left, I am a racist.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

In a few years, it will really pain Chris Cinzilla to put Bob McDonnell on the top 10 list.


54 posted on 09/18/2009 8:21:00 AM PDT by DanZanRyu
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To: throwback
Palin is far and away more influential with voters than anybody else on the list”

Yup.
Their list is worthless.
Next!

55 posted on 09/18/2009 8:22:13 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Dick Bachert
Oh, I agree that we must replace our local representatives! You are on the right track. IMO every single incumbent needs to go. Even my congressman, who I like; but who has been in Washington for 11 years, and is now a multimillionaire. He says all the right things; but also takes advantage of the “perks”, by traveling all over the world on our dime. People who live in trailer houses and who will NEVER be able to afford to travel anywhere beyond our state, pay for him and his staff to travel to exotic places around the world! It is wrong. He also has been very ineffective in blocking any action by the dems. He has been against the TARP and other spending bills, but he has offered nothing to counter them. There is no fight, and no alternatives.

I am tired of having DEFENSIVE representation; instead of OFFENSIVE representation. The Republicans only react to the dems they do not have any ideas or alternative plans. They just go to parties and comment to the press!

Yes, this is the right thing. We must get involved locally. We must recruit successful business people of every ethnicity. We must recruit intelligent SAHM’s and coaches, and military leaders. And these new leaders must bring to Washington, their own local staff. Because THAT is who really runs the government, “staffers”, who go from one pol to another across political lines; as political mercenaries. These “staffers” are overwhelmingly liberal college students and recent graduates. Even cleaning out the candidates, it will be harder to cull out these “knowlegable” staffers. And one more thing...one thing we must do this election cycle--we must find a way for the American people to wrest contol of congressional salaries away from congress. The American people whould be voting on all salary increases; and have the option of cutting their salary. WE are the employers, we should set the payscale and benefit packages. This is the biggest way to take back control of our own representatives!

56 posted on 09/18/2009 8:25:13 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

Good lordalmighty. Mitt as most influential? BWHAHAHAHAA!


57 posted on 09/18/2009 8:27:40 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: tuckrdout
Roger to everything you said. And was pleased to see that another grasps the problem of the HILL RATS.

AND

N O

M O R E

L A W Y E R S

IN

CONGRESS!!

Most of them don’t know enough to come in out of the rain but they sure as hell know how to construct rules and regs for all the rest of us.

Tupper Saussy traced the word “attorney” back to the Sanskrit word “torwa.” And what does torwa mean?

TO TWIST!!!!

How about we elect some regular folks with common sense, limit their terms to 4 or 6 years and NO FAT, LIFETIME, FULL-SALARY PENSIONS.

BUT, HOUSTON, WE STILL HAVE A PROBLEM!

What is to be done about the HILL RATS? These are the allegedly “professional” staffers who are so named because after the election their current boss loses, they scurry like rats to a new member – ANY MEMBER (his politics frequently don’t matter) – just to remain close to the power. Most are flaming liberals and, after the “experienced” staffer shows the new guy where the john is, because they have been up there for decades, far too many of these new members rely on them for how to vote and get along in the thoroughly corrupt system of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” that has caused the mess in which we now find ourselves.

IT GETS WORSE!

Let’s say the new guy needs an “expert” on tax policy. Well, son-of-a-gun, the professional staffer JUST HAPPENS to have a college chum who works at the IRS! Need an “expert” on education policy. Darned if that secretary he just hired doesn’t just have an old teacher friend who works over at the Department of Education!

NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME – ESPECIALLY IN MALFUNCTION JUNCTION. Looks like we will also need TENURE LIMITS on the Hill Rats with stiff penalties for breaking the rules!

58 posted on 09/18/2009 8:29:36 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: CharlesWayneCT
The biggest missing name I’d put on the list is Eric Cantor.

And Joe Wilson. At least he put into words what the rest of us were thinking.

59 posted on 09/18/2009 8:34:51 AM PDT by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: pissant
This is a wp list of gaylords, leftists, communists, radical ecologists, elf members and a faxed in list from binny... mitt is the most reviled pos we have amongst Conservatives... huckster is nothing more than a pulpit abusing socialist.

LLS

60 posted on 09/18/2009 8:37:00 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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