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RINOs behind defeat of Tea Party candidates (Vanity)

Posted on 11/04/2010 9:18:47 AM PDT by JimWayne

Don't blame the Democrats for the defeat of Christine O'Doneell and Sharon Angle. The RINOs have worked hard and worked WITH the Dims to make sure that the Tea Party candidates would not win.

In Delaware, it was Karl Rove who opposed O'Donnell. In Nevada, it was a state level RINO who supported the Democrat. In Alaska, RINOs have done everything to prevent Joe Miller from winning. You can be sure that Ken Buck must have been done in by RINOs like Karl Rove.

A suggestion to hit back at them - deny RINOs the right to post on FR. If anyone brings up the claim that it is better to support a "winnable" anti-life and pro-spending candidate instead of a Tea Party candidate, how about showing zero tolerance and kicking them out instantly even if they have been around for 10 years. Surely, GOP officials use FR to their benefit. Why not pay back in their own coin? If they don't support us, why should we support them?


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To: JimWayne

RINOs are always wallowing in the jackass crap like the pouting little pigs they are. Two years from now there will be fewer of them, and a new group of conservatives will be the Senate majority. The RINO elites are frightened because they see the end coming. The old power brokers are going to get retired. They had their chances, and managed to squander away everything. Conservatives are taking over.


41 posted on 11/04/2010 9:42:59 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Ken H

Not only that, he’s worse than Barack Obama himself!

I think he should be kicked off Free republic without a trial...

;-)


42 posted on 11/04/2010 9:43:06 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: JimWayne

But we must include in that definition the supporters of amnesty and pro-global warming cap and tax fools. Right Jim?

“A” for attitude, agreed.

What about states that have a Scott Brown? It really is hard to bite the bullet and settle for glass half full type candidates, because they will eventually be the incumbent that is almost impossible to remove.

Connie Morella is one I used to have to put up with.


43 posted on 11/04/2010 9:43:13 AM PDT by Herbster
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To: JimWayne

maybe we’ll just get lucky and they will run off again

many RINOs here are fairly fluid

some who were Giuliani supporters or major Bots are now Palin folks...one thing consistent...they do not like criticism of whomever they support...no sireee

now either they’ve changed or they just do the cult of personality gig

I supported Bush large but Palin is far more to my liking socially and I support her.

then there are the “what culture war?” folks....but to be fair...values did not really carry this wave...Obama and the Dems leftist steerage and failure to help the economy did

so culture righties like myself cannot take credit I admit

what’s happening right now is multi facted and complicated and while it looks like victory...given demographics it still feels to me like a Dutch Boy finger in the dyke moment


44 posted on 11/04/2010 9:43:44 AM PDT by wardaddy (the redress over anything minority is a cancer in our country...stage 4)
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To: paul51
"the best way to debunk poor ideas is to air them out."
Exactly. If you're looking for a group-think echo chamber, check out DU.
How's that working out for them? ;)
45 posted on 11/04/2010 9:44:06 AM PDT by astyanax (Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
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To: JimWayne

Heading the list is none other than “TOKYO ROVE”.


46 posted on 11/04/2010 9:44:22 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SevenMinusOne
That hillbilly ad they put out killed us. We were winning until the DEMs made hay of it...

Which ad was that? I'm video-denied at my present location so I can't watch it, but what was the ad about?

47 posted on 11/04/2010 9:44:31 AM PDT by meyer (Hey Obama - It's the end of the world as you know it.... ..... and I feel fine!)
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To: meyer

” but what was the ad about? “

About 30 seconds??

(sorry - couldn’t resist... ;))


48 posted on 11/04/2010 9:46:27 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: JimWayne

I’ve posted this a number of times and do so again inasmuch as THIS is a constantly recurring problem and some may not grasp how widespread it us.

Over the years – when, to steal a line from Billy Joel, I wore a younger man’s clothes – I was involved with several pretty solid conservative candidates for Congress. One was a Democrat (Lawrence Patton McDonald) – because that was the only way he could win in that district. Those old-timers who know Larry’s record will tell you that he was a solid an anti-communist America Firster and more Republican than the Pubbies in nearby districts at the time. (His mother’s cousin was General George Patton from whom he got the middle name – and his incredible resolve and love of this country.)

Those other candidates ran as Republicans. Because I was a rabid Bircher back then (still am philosophically!), those candidates had to pass my rigid litmus test or I went looking for someone who did. For that reason, I hooked up with what the TRADITIONAL country club Pubbie establishment types believed were too radical for their refined tastes.

As those campaigns began to unfold and it became clear to the country clubbers that these guys 1) had a shot and 2) were pretty independent thinkers who would be hard to keep on the reservation once they got sworn in, the local Pubbies communicated that information to the Republican National HQ types who rather quickly sent in campaign “professionals” ostensibly to lock up the impending victory.

Instead, in nearly every case to which I was privy, these “professionals” proceeded to TORPEDO our guy’s campaign in subtle but effective ways.

From that experience I can tell you that the Pubbies at the HQ in D.C. would rather have a Democrat win a given district than have a pubbie up there who would embarrass them by refusing to follow the party line.

If YOU become involved in campaigns for solidly conservative, America and Constitution loving, hard-nosed, independent thinking candidates in 2010 and 2012 and beyond – and I pray many of you do — please DO NOT trust any of those folks from GOP HQ in Washington. If they want to send you no-strings cash for your campaign, take it. If, however, they “suggest” sending in one of their “professionals,” tell them to fuggetaboutit.

They ARE WHO GOT US INTO THIS MESS AND THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND!!!!

“The common and continual mischief of the spirit of Party is
sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to
discourage and restrain it.” G. Washington


49 posted on 11/04/2010 9:47:10 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: JimWayne

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50 posted on 11/04/2010 9:50:06 AM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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To: A.Hun

Nice and accurate post!


51 posted on 11/04/2010 9:51:07 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Artemis Webb

I’ll agree that FR isn’t a political powerhouse. However, there were a lot of RINOs causing trouble here attacking the Conservative candidates. And some RINOs did get banned for attacking the Conservatives.

I just don’t enjoy the RINOs here. It makes my experience here worse. If I want to argue about whether a Conservative candidate sucks, I’ll go somewhere that isn’t a Conservative site. FR is a Conservative site, right, not a Republican site?


52 posted on 11/04/2010 9:54:57 AM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: SevenMinusOne

Rush is answering your criticism at the very moment 10:40 Mountain time.

He reflect my view, and I disagree with you.


53 posted on 11/04/2010 9:55:32 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years)
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To: JimWayne
Romney and Rove and Cornyn did to the GOP what they
did in the LAST election.


54 posted on 11/04/2010 9:56:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: A.Hun
You have been a Democrat..... appeared with, worked on legislation with, or agreed with any Democrat on any Dem sponsored issue, at any time.

This discounts the possibilty of conversion. It also expels Ronald Reagan.

55 posted on 11/04/2010 9:57:00 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Spread the work ethic; the wealth will follow.)
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To: BuffaloJack

A Conservative believes the purpose of government is to secure citizen’s unalienable rights. A RINO just want to steal less of your property than a liberal.


56 posted on 11/04/2010 9:57:37 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: whattajoke

Christine O’Donnell’s campaign was flawed and could have been run more smoothly, I’ll grant you that.

But saying her issues are “platitudes” are nothing but your opinion, and we know what they say about those :).

As far as half a brain? Again, just your opinion stated as fact, but not based in reality.

Let me speak for myself - I question what’s wrong with you as to why you feel the need to put someone down that way. And, again speaking for myself, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

From several interviews I saw, with Greta and others, she didn’t offer platitudes, but she answered questions on some pretty involved and serious issues, and did so in such a thorough way that I have not seen very many seasoned politicians be able to do.

No platitudes and very intelligent.


57 posted on 11/04/2010 9:57:46 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Democrat's theme song: Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves)
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To: JimWayne
An interesting and ironic lesson of history: Sulla the Dictator devised a tool to identify and eliminate his Roman enemies, the proscription (Essentially, this new concept was an open publication listing names of people he deemed to be undesirable).

The instability and political in-fighting that followed led, eventually, to the rise of Gaius Julius Caesar, and the end of the Free Republic.

58 posted on 11/04/2010 9:59:15 AM PDT by TonyInOhio ( Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.)
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To: A.Hun
enjoyed a homosexual's music

And this expels me*.

So KMA.

*(see "Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich")

59 posted on 11/04/2010 10:00:19 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Spread the work ethic; the wealth will follow.)
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To: JimWayne

There are really two separate questions:

1. Should Rove (and other Republicans) have been so critical of O’Donnell after she won the primary? To that I will answer NO, they (we) should not have been.

2. Did O’Donnell ever have a chance of winning the general election, regardless of what Rove (or I) said about her? NO, she had no such chance. The blame for Coons’ victory lies with nominating O’Donnell as the candidate. If you are more happy with Coons than you would have been with Castle, as some profess they are, then fine, but O’Donnell was unelectable for any office higher than pep-squad vice president.


60 posted on 11/04/2010 10:00:51 AM PDT by babble-on
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