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The Tea Party and the GOP
WSJ ^ | 9/8/2010 | Editorial

Posted on 09/07/2010 6:47:14 PM PDT by PAR

...On the other hand, sometimes you need a few "wets" to gain a majority and advance your own ideas. Ask Nancy Pelosi, who rode the victories of Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked Blue Dog Democrats to the House Speakership in 2006 and then used them to pass 40 years of liberal dreams in this Congress...

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: castle; christineodonnell; gop; hoffman; pragmatism; teaparty
... But tea partiers who want to restore proper Constitutional limits, rather than merely pad the ratings of talk radio, might recall William F. Buckley Jr.'s counsel that his policy was to vote for the most conservative candidate who could win.

Read it. Learn it. Live it.

1 posted on 09/07/2010 6:47:15 PM PDT by PAR
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To: 506Lake; AdvisorB; afraidfortherepublic; antivenom; angry elephant; Bernard; Blonde; ...


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2 posted on 09/07/2010 6:50:55 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: PAR

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1473341276&v=wall&story_fbid=133195300059582&ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply#!/TheOther98?ref=ts

Facebook: The Other 98%

It isn’t as disgusting as DU, but sure isn’t what I thought Americans believed.


3 posted on 09/07/2010 6:52:18 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: PAR
, might recall William F. Buckley Jr.'s counsel that his policy was to vote for the most conservative candidate who could win.

And of course Buckley himself led the successful charge to replace liberal Republican Lowell Weicker with not as liberal Democrat Joe Lieberman. Except that Weicker accelerated the decay of CT when he became governor in retaliation, it was a worthwhile move.
4 posted on 09/07/2010 6:54:06 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: PAR
... But tea partiers who want to restore proper Constitutional limits, rather than merely pad the ratings of talk radio, might recall William F. Buckley Jr.'s counsel that his policy was to vote for the most conservative candidate who could win.

Read it. Learn it. Live it.

Yep.


Runaway Slave

Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats

5 posted on 09/07/2010 6:54:13 PM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: PAR
Voting for a pro-abortion, pro-cap and trade, pro-non repeal of Obamacare who has been in government for 40 years isn't "pragmatic."
6 posted on 09/07/2010 7:09:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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To: rdb3

What happened to the prayer post?
I think its a great idea for all to meditate or pray that hussain resigns every night at 8pm,,for 5 min.

Good Idea.


7 posted on 09/07/2010 7:18:25 PM PDT by Therapsid (Communism has killed 50-60 Million people in only 50 yrs.)
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To: Therapsid
I think its a great idea for all to meditate or pray that hussain resigns every night at 8pm,,for 5 min.

I think he can only resign once.
8 posted on 09/07/2010 7:28:42 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Eagle Eye

Feel The Love! :-)


9 posted on 09/07/2010 8:05:49 PM PDT by Valin
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To: rdb3; Extremely Extreme Extremist

I agree.


10 posted on 09/07/2010 8:59:38 PM PDT by JSDude1
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