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GOP is 'disintegrating,' Grayson says
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Posted on 11/05/2009 10:28:23 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver
I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my Democrats bah-rain-damaged.
61 posted on 11/05/2009 11:53:48 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Sub-Driver

He knows he is a 1-term turkey. How better to endear himself to the super-ultra-looney-left (as opposed to just the simply-looney-left)? Dennis Kucinich can’t last forever, and they are gonna need a new hero.


62 posted on 11/05/2009 12:01:56 PM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey dumb@$$ peak out the frotn windows and tell us this again?


63 posted on 11/05/2009 12:08:02 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: aruanan

Graysons got a bigger head than Cavuto.


64 posted on 11/05/2009 12:26:24 PM PST by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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To: Deb

I love it... I’d rather be a tea bagger than a douche bagger any day..!!!


65 posted on 11/05/2009 1:05:15 PM PST by willyd (Reducing Taxes Reduces our Carbon Footprint)
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To: Sub-Driver

So this hulking, hideous ape is calling me a tea-bagger, huh?


66 posted on 11/05/2009 2:21:53 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: manic4organic
I’m guessing he didn’t venture out to the Capitol steps this morning. He would have witnessed how absurd his statement is.

Grayson hid in his office 'cause he was scared of cute little Griff from Fox. He'd wet his pants to see a crowd of Gadsden flags.

So he and Behar were having a fat-and-ugly contest today? Who won?

67 posted on 11/05/2009 2:23:58 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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Yeah, he wishes...History is repeating itself. The events of late are like deja-vu all over again....

This is from Conservapedia

Rise of the right

Barry Goldwater crusaded against the Rockefeller Republicans, beating Rockefeller narrowly in the California primary of 1964. That set the stage for a conservative resurgence, based in the South and West, in opposition to the Northeast. Brennan (1995) stresses that conservatives in the late 1950s and early 1960s had many internal problems to overcome before they could mount an effective challenge to the hegemony of the distrusted Eastern Establishment, typified by Nelson A. Rockefeller. The conservative movement had some newspapers and magazines (especially William F. Buckley's National Review) and one charismatic national leader, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. The movement gained momentum once they had established a unity out of diverse elements on the Right with a common commitment to a militant anticommunism, and once they had succeeded in mobilizing a grassroots base inside a number of state and local organizations in the Sun Belt on behalf of a draft Goldwater campaign in 1960. Although Nixon was acceptable to the conservatives, they worried that he compromised with Rockefeller in 1960. His defeat in 1960 removed a major obstacle and also gave ammunition to those who wanted "a choice, not an echo" (to echo a Goldwater slogan). After 1960 liberals and moderates in the Republican party failed to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge they faced on the grass-roots level. They too readily equated their conservative opponents in the party with the "lunatic fringe" and did not take them seriously until they found themselves deposed by a grass roots insurgency of the sort unknown in the party since 1912.[15] Goldwater's landslide defeat opened the way to a liberal Democratic resurgence, but did little to help the liberal wing of the GOP. The failues of the Great Society, especially a wave of major urban riots and a surge in violent crime, led to major gains in 1966, and to Nixon's election in the chaotic 1968 election. The Democrats became deeply divided on the Vietnam war (which did not divide the GOP), and on issues of race, when Alabamian George C. Wallace set up a third party that carried much of the deep South. As Goldwater faded to a lesser role after 1964, a new conservative hero emerged: in the largest and most trendy state film star Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966 and reelected in 1970. With the rise of conservatism the national Republican Party became more ideologically homogeneous. This change occurred as conservative politicians and voters joined the party and their liberal counterparts abandoned the GOP. Events in New York State during the 1960s and 1970s facilitated this transformation. Here, ideological conservatives formed a third party for the express purpose of changing a state GOP that both symbolized and contributed to the national GOP's liberal viewpoint. The Conservative Party relied on the state's unique election law to crash the New York GOP, either by forcing its way in or by imposing a lethal electoral price. The GOP-Conservative Party relationship began in 1962 at sword's point but achieved a high degree of harmony in 1980. Initially, New York Republicans, led by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, successfully marginalized the new party. As the conservative movement matured, however, the balance of power began to shift. When Nixon was elected president in 1968, the Conservative Party gained an external ally who proved invaluable. The third party achieved partial acceptance in 1970 with the election of James Buckley to the Senate. For much of the ensuing decade, however, Conservatives struggled with success suffering a series of damaging setbacks. Only in the late 1970s, did the party recover when it embraced a more modest agenda. Finally, the 1980 election settled the overall contours of the relationship between the two parties. Conservatives formed their party to force the state GOP to the right, to drive liberal Republicans from office, and allow ideologically conservative national Republicans to succeed in the state. By 1980, it had achieved these goals changing the nature of politics in the state. This resolution affected politics beyond the state by diminishing the importance of ideological liberals in the national GOP, thus freeing a more ideologically consistent national Republican Party to promote the rise of conservatism.[16]
68 posted on 11/05/2009 2:50:50 PM PST by domeika
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