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GOP presidential contenders drift to the right
http://www.ktul.com/story/14748896/gop-presidential-contenders-drift-to-the-right ^

Posted on 05/30/2011 8:48:45 AM PDT by LouAvul

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To: LouAvul

The term used “ More centrist” AKA lefty. The democrats/rino’s and MSM are so far left, they cannot even see the right..


21 posted on 05/30/2011 9:40:08 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: LouAvul

Oh, yeah... like we didn’t learn anything from McCain who “drifted right” during campaigns, then made a mad dash back to the left after re-elections.

Thank you very much, but unless a candidate has been extremely conservative, consistently, for at least two decades, he/she is not an option. How stupid do they think we are?


22 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: LouAvul

This entire article is just another case of the media warning us that, if we want to defeat the Dems, we MUST pick a “centrist” candidate. Yeah, we saw what happened in 2008. The “independents” may have gone for Obama (something I’m not convinced of since it seems the libs always like to claim they are “independent, free thinkers,etc., and seem to like to twist the polls by claiming NOT to be a partisan hack) but it didn’t help that many disillusioned and disappointed conservatives simply stayed home. Funny how the press likes to play down that little fact.


23 posted on 05/30/2011 9:55:17 AM PDT by onevoter
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To: Sacajaweau
You are correct on Reagan......but that was in the 60's early 70s NOT in 1980 (like Romney did some time around 2000, after about 40 million aborted "shocked his senses") when Reagen decided he wanted to be President and realized that the GOP had a vast number of pro-life members!

Reagan was also a dimocRAT until he realized that their "principles" were no longer anti-Communist, pro-US defense and lots of other pluses and minuses. GOP to Reagan was the "party of the rich;" the party of "little guy," the donkeys drifted so far left, Reagan no longer recognized it and split.

24 posted on 05/30/2011 10:10:34 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: LouAvul

Drifting to the right.

Like cheap prostitutes dressing modestly for a day.


25 posted on 05/30/2011 10:20:47 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Sacajaweau; zerosix

Are you a friend of lying Mitt Romney? Reagan was pro life all his life. You can search for the rest of your life trying to prove he was pro choice, but you won’t be able to do it. The dems took Reagan’s no abortions except for the health of mother law and twisted it to mean anything they wanted it to mean.

Now loonies like the Mittbots have been spreading lies about Reagan being pro-choice since the last election. Reagan’s no abortions at all with an exception for the health of the mother is not a pro choice stand. Mitt’s protecting a woman’s right to choose to murder her baby is a pro-choice stand. Mitt Romney is a lying POS. I suggest you leave Mitts back pocket and stop spreading lies.


26 posted on 05/30/2011 10:46:44 AM PDT by Waryone (RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
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To: LouAvul
Like the swallows coming back to Capistrano, every 4 or 6 years almost ALL politicians drift right -- both Democrats and Republicans.

The voters usually fall for it.


27 posted on 05/30/2011 10:51:17 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: LouAvul

Romney and Skerry should hold a flip-flopping contest.

Would be close.


28 posted on 05/30/2011 11:05:32 AM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Waryone
Not on your life, am I supporting Mitt!

I told many of my "friends" who jumped on his "corporate 'experience'" last time.

Some of these folk are nearly as pro-life as I am (only exception - save mother) and they accepted Mitt's "Road to Damascus" bs last time.

I told them then that a man well over 40, who'd known of the millions of innocent babies lost to "convenience" and greed, was no one I'd ever accept as a Presidential candidate!

Glad he "finally saw the light" but I believe that it was merely expedience to gain the nomination.

As to Mitt's "corporate 'experience'" it's somewhat akin to the Kennedy's "management of the family millions" and calling that success.

Never fear, we're on the same team friend.

29 posted on 05/30/2011 12:04:36 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: LouAvul
GOP presidential contenders drift to the right

Has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.

30 posted on 05/30/2011 1:24:05 PM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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To: basil

It’s like comparing apples to wingnuts.


31 posted on 05/30/2011 1:25:48 PM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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To: zerosix

I’m glad we’re on the same side. Here is something to put to rest all the ridiculous talk about Reagan being pro-choice. A little bit of history for you.

http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/adamantly_pro_choice_ronald_reagan_and_abortion_in_1967

Here’s proof that Reagan was always pro-life not pro choice. Now you know the truth don’t get fooled again and do Romney’s work for him.

Hopefully this will help all the RINOs who try to paint Reagan as a liberal/moderate realize that we know the Rockefeller wing of the republican party and Reagan was never one of them.


32 posted on 05/30/2011 2:33:25 PM PDT by Waryone (RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
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To: hattend

LOL! Good analogy!


33 posted on 05/30/2011 5:13:43 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Waryone

Many thanks for your post, friend.


34 posted on 05/30/2011 10:23:34 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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