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Conservatives target their own fringe
politico ^ | February 27, 2010 | Kenneth P. Vogel

Posted on 02/27/2010 8:38:14 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 02/27/2010 8:38:14 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

This is crap. Who is this guy?


2 posted on 02/27/2010 8:42:57 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: neverdem

Tea Party needs to flank the Republicans to the far right. This positions Republicans in the center of American politics and Dems to the far left.


3 posted on 02/27/2010 8:43:30 PM PST by TigerBait
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To: neverdem

I say SCREW YOU to those who want to “marginalize the “far-right”” in media terms that is anyone who holds to a constitutional view, and Christian beliefs of morality.

That’s including these fake conservative (establishment) ‘leaders’ quoted in this article. You will never purge the TRUTH (those who hold a constitutional view of govt. even on Obc, and the proper role of arms)..


4 posted on 02/27/2010 8:44:32 PM PST by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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To: TigerBait

yeah but we can’t have the kooks. We already have the Stupid Party. We don’t need 2.


5 posted on 02/27/2010 8:44:56 PM PST by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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To: neverdem

The extremists nowadays are all stationed in the White House anyways.


6 posted on 02/27/2010 8:46:27 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: neverdem
I've said it before; I'll say it again.

The Tea Party remained it's most influential when they did not have folks stepping out as "leaders" to speak on it's behalf. As long as it remained an undefined, agitated, incalculable group of citizens capable of huge, unexpected groundswells, it kept both sides of the aisle on their toes.

Get organized, get defined, get marginalized, get ignored.

Tea Partiers don't need anyone to speak for them. We've had enough of that crap from Washington. We can speak for OURSELVES.

7 posted on 02/27/2010 8:48:33 PM PST by TheWriterTX (-)
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To: neverdem
Again, this guy turns what could have been a decent piece of analysis, or even news, into soft porn political propaganda.

No, the crowd didn't "boo" the speaker after he spoke, but BEFORE.

It was something typical of the homosexual fascist movement that seeks to shout down anyone who might conceivably criticize their lifestyle choices.

Seems to me any writer who purports to be Conservative, or who claims to be able to divine Conservative intent, might want to keep his pro-homosexual proclivities out of his piece if he wants to be listened to.

8 posted on 02/27/2010 8:49:44 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: neverdem
But inflammatory rhetoric such as former congressman Tom Tancredo’s racially tinged speech ...

Oh, I get it. The RINOs are defining fringe as anyone who has a problem with illegal aliens, the border, thinks there is a right to keep and bear arms, is Pro-Life, doesn't believe in Glowbull Warming blah blah blah. Bring it!

9 posted on 02/27/2010 8:49:48 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: neverdem

But never anything about NAACP, ACLU, CAIR, LULAC, The Race . . . leftist profs hiding behind tenure.


10 posted on 02/27/2010 8:51:42 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: ari-freedom
Are you saying running Brady Bill Bob Dole was "smart"? Or "Amnesty, but don't call it amnesty" McCain?

Run "moderates" again. It still won't work.

11 posted on 02/27/2010 8:52:46 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: neverdem

So let me get this straight... The people from various backgrounds rally in the absence of any direction or impetus from the “conservatives” in the republican party, and now the mainstream “conservative republicans (if there is such a thing)” are going to now set the rules for the tea party?

I think not... Sure there are crazies in the tea party movement. I say so what! Look at the crazy (McCrazy) republican the RNC gave us in 2008 to vote for. I haven’t seen anyone in the tea party who can match that.

The tea party will be just fine unless they are co-opted by the republican or democrat party.


12 posted on 02/27/2010 8:53:48 PM PST by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: neverdem
“A similar effort will be required today of conservative political and intellectual leaders,” former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote in his column in The Washington Post. “It will not be easy. Sometimes it takes courage to stand before a large crowd and proclaim that two plus two equals four.”

Uh, I don't know you, Mike, but you sound like a liberal. Just what do you think telling us that “two plus two equals four” is going to accomplish, you idiot?

13 posted on 02/27/2010 8:54:38 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: ari-freedom

It’s spin doctoring...oath keepers isnt a militia gruop at all....it’s a group who has declared they will ignore unconstitutional orders to disarm the populus should such an order be given...

Ofcorse this is viewed as a threat by those who would gladly issue such orders....


14 posted on 02/27/2010 8:55:03 PM PST by Crim
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To: Dead Corpse

No moderates! And moderate Perot was also a kooky nut.


15 posted on 02/27/2010 8:55:25 PM PST by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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To: TheWriterTX

Agreed.


16 posted on 02/27/2010 8:56:19 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Sometimes it takes courage to stand before a large crowd and proclaim that two plus two equals four

Especially after this.
17 posted on 02/27/2010 8:56:59 PM PST by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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To: neverdem

Politico diversionary propaganda.

As we speak, democrat party operatives are trying to set up fake 3rd parties to steal the 2010 elections.

There is a fake Tea Party Senate Candidate in Nevada, set up to help Harry Reid get re-elected.


18 posted on 02/27/2010 8:57:33 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: ari-freedom
No Third parties. At least, none that are viable in their current make-up. Agreed.

Running RNIO's will get the GOP slaughtered at the polls. We need opposition in ideology, not just meaningless sloganeering.

19 posted on 02/27/2010 8:57:42 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: neverdem

Just the country clubbers at it again.If we follow the constitution we are called extreme by the elite of both sides.Screw them all.


20 posted on 02/27/2010 8:58:48 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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