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Conservatives roar; Republicans tremble
Politico ^ | 10/22/2009 | JIM VANDEHEI & MIKE ALLEN

Posted on 10/22/2009 3:20:36 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: markomalley
...are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists...

All they have to do is REPRESENT THEIR CONSTITUENTS, and their worries would be over.

101 posted on 10/22/2009 6:45:27 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: timetostand

I stopped contributing to the Gutless Old Party when they dissed Sarah last fall. All junk mail from them goes in the trash unopened.


102 posted on 10/22/2009 6:46:33 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: All

Beck’s 9 principles should be the start point, and updated from there.

1. America is good place, not perfect, but good.

2. I believe in God and He is the center of my life.

3. I must try to be a better, more honest person than I was yesterday.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and not a guarantee of equal results.

7. I work hard for what I have. I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree or share my personal opinion.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them. They answer to me.


103 posted on 10/22/2009 6:52:06 AM PDT by Tarpon (To destroy the people's liberties, you poison their morals ...)
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To: Liz

Do not the leadership of the GOP and their media mouthpieces have the appearance of holding the coats of LIBERALS while liberals destroy US?


104 posted on 10/22/2009 6:53:16 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Boiling Pots
I found this in Politico when I thought an article had a typo. It's about Michael Steel, the spokesman for Minority Leader:

By day, he’s a stern spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner with an affinity for cashmere. By night, he’s a fun-loving guy who’s always up for sprinkling his dry sense of humor on a good cocktail party. Steel knew he was D.C.-bound after he graduated from the University of North Carolina and obtained a degree in journalism from Columbia University. “I always loved it,” he told POLITICO about his calling for politics and the nation’s capital. Although he’s the chief mouthpiece for the House’s Republican leader, the 32-year-old Steel is socially bipartisan. Along with his roommate — a Democrat who worked for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign — Steel has hosted memorable parties in his old Dupont Circle apartment for Washington’s young up-and-comers, regardless of political affiliation.

105 posted on 10/22/2009 7:07:13 AM PDT by paudio (Road to hell is paved by unintended consequences of good intentions)
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To: markomalley
“Without a good slice of the independents, we are doomed,” said former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.).

This guy could write the book about doom.

106 posted on 10/22/2009 7:15:12 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Joe Wilson!)
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To: albie

My tagline - and George Orwell - agree with you


107 posted on 10/22/2009 7:15:28 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: backhoe
I still say what I said after the 2006 election debacle:

"Once nominally in power, the Republicans spent & taxed & regulated like a bunch of Democrats- is it any wonder that the voters decided to elect The Real Thing?"

We aren't going to compete with the Evil Party by being ( "We can get you the goodies at a cheaper price" ) Democrat Lite.


AMEN, BROTHER!!! The GOP had a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to rein in spending and change the entire political landscape for good. Instead it threw money down the rabbit hole as badly as Dimocrats. It had 6 **YEARS** to clean up this country, and they BLEW it. They did it by abandoning their core principles, and now they want us to put our core principles in the shredder so we can "win"?

Not only are they unprincipled hacks, the GOP are STUPID. Yeah, I said it. The only winning formula for them now is to return to conservative values, yet wimps like McCain and Romney are running away, clutching their skirts.

Screw them!
108 posted on 10/22/2009 7:56:44 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: RockinRight

“....the ‘big L’ libertarian party has a VERY wrong position on a few issues, the primary one being the WOT.”

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Amen to that.

To put it bluntly, insane, muderous barbarians need to be exterminated-on their OWN turf.


109 posted on 10/22/2009 8:02:41 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Liz

> COMMENTS The 2008 political entrail readings showed the crucial conservative base stayed home. Too bad the pukes “forget” to tell McC that would be one outcome of the punkneo-RINO bi-partisanship.

Can you imagine the blowout Zer0 would have scored had the conservative Palin (who the GOP now HATE and SCORN) not been on the ticket?

YOU SUCK, GOP! You better get your noses out of your country-club drinks, and your lips off Zer0’s butt if you want OUR vote!


110 posted on 10/22/2009 8:02:53 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: paudio

They are the new elites, part of the Government Class. They don’t work for us, we work for them.


111 posted on 10/22/2009 8:07:49 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The Final Turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: ConservativeMind

> Screw the GOP. Give directly to the best candidate.

BOOM! Exactly.

I tell the RNC to stick their fundraising letters up their keister, that I’m giving to Hoffman and folks that are running with an agenda that can save America, not destroy it. How am I helping if I give to a candidate that’s against everything I hold dear, just because they have a magical R after their name? No, and HELL NO.


112 posted on 10/22/2009 8:08:31 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: markomalley
Pawlenty said in a phone interview. “The party needs to be about addition, not subtraction — but not at the expense of watering down its principles.”

Tim, that's the trick. If you guys even pretended to BE conservatives, then conservative voters WOULD be there, in numbers to push you over the top.

Instead you will pander to the mushy rotten middle, not taking a stand and BEING someone of principles, rather you'll talk about how to "work around" those of us who have them in order to garner more votes.

I don't know a lot about you Tim, but there's not a whole lot out there with the (R) brand worth buying at any price these days.
113 posted on 10/22/2009 8:14:21 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: markomalley
“Without a good slice of the independents, we are doomed,” said former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.).

Bob Michel!!??

Isn't Michel the totally ineffective but affable comrade to the Democrats when the GOP wandered leaderless in the wilderness for decades?

Is it that ineffective and Democrat fellow-traveler Bob Michel, whose vision of political victory consisted of arranging the same tee times with Tip O'Neill every afternoon??

114 posted on 10/22/2009 8:23:05 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama and Geithner have done nothing but vaporize your wealth and your children's future-Mark Steyn)
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To: markomalley
"“Without a good slice of the independents, we are doomed,” said former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.)."


Anyone remember this old queen? He couldn't boot lick, coat hold, grovel enough for the Democrats. A human doormat. What a pathetic puke Nancy boy he was/is.

115 posted on 10/22/2009 8:40:53 AM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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To: markomalley
I'm pretty much sick of "conservatives" in general.

LIBERTY means I have a God given right to live my life as I see fit!

LIBERTY DOES NOT MEAN I get to live my life as YOU see fit!


116 posted on 10/22/2009 8:48:47 AM PDT by djf (Grasshopper: The game is rigged. Patience takes forever to learn. You're so screwed!!)
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To: VictoryGal; maggief; Grampa Dave; stephenjohnbanker; GOPJ; hoosiermama; ...
YOU SUCK, GOP! You better get your noses out of your country-club drinks, and your lips off Zer0’s butt if you want OUR vote.............

We gotta get that on a tee shirt.

117 posted on 10/22/2009 10:21:58 AM PDT by Liz (ALL FOX---ALL THE TIME---24/7)
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To: Liz
*** YOU SUCK, GOP! You better get your noses out of your country-club drinks, and your lips off Zer0’s butt if you want OUR vote.............***

'We gotta get that on a tee shirt'.

I don't know if it would all fit :-)

I 'kind of' said the same to a girl from the RNCC(1) this past Tuesday. But she was young so I was polite - until the end when I raised my voice because she didn't understand it when I kept saying, 'NO'.

I got so frustrated I kind of 'yelled':

'I wouldn't give you a nickel. The people running aren't Republicans. They're Democrats who call themselves Republicans!
Then I hung up.
I miss the old days when you could slam the phone down and the other person could hear the 'slam'. They knew you were really ticked. Now it's just a stinking 'click'.

(1) Republican National Congressional Committee.

118 posted on 10/22/2009 10:41:13 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: markomalley

The GOP eliminated primaries in the NY congressional race and now a Conservative is primed to beat the RINO in the general. The GOP is destroying itself.


119 posted on 10/22/2009 10:44:32 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Condor51
If Eric Holder wants to start investigating and indicting people in Dubya's Admin he should start with the punkneo maggots. I'd have a party the day they were convicted.

Great idea----but Rahm will protect his pukeneo buddies. Rahm will not give Holder "permission" to nail the pukes.

120 posted on 10/22/2009 10:44:48 AM PDT by Liz (ALL FOX---ALL THE TIME---24/7)
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