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Chris Matthews: Tea Party "Un-American" For Not Compromising
RealClearPolitics ^ | November 30, 2011 | NA

Posted on 12/01/2011 11:38:48 AM PST by neverdem

In an appearance Tuesday at Washington, D.C.'s Politics & Prose bookstore, MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews told a standing room-only audience that his new book "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" was important because it taught "leadership," and that's something many people today don't know about - especially under President Barack Obama, Jeff Poor at The Daily Caller reported.

Chris Matthews on the Tea Party: "This crowd doesn't want to deal because they believe the word 'deal' is bad," Matthews said...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; teaparty; teapartyexpress; teapartymovement; teapartyrebellion
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To: neverdem

JFK taught us quite a bit about leadership. In a battle with the Japanese Navy, JFK fell asleep at the wheel and got his boat run over by a Japanese destroyer.
Reminds me of Henry V at the battle of Agincourt.
“Good King! The French knights are verily approaching! What shall we do?”
“Zzzzzzz......Zzzzzzzz”
JFK....the stuff of legends. Chris Matthews.....the stuff found in dirty diapers.


41 posted on 12/01/2011 1:28:25 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: neverdem

But that is the narrative. The GOP is going to loose as long as they let the other side define the narrative.

But since the old Blue Bloods want to be invited to the cocktail parties inside the beltway, they will keep doing the same thing.


42 posted on 12/01/2011 1:35:29 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

They only thing we know is the Democrats and Obama want to raise taxes and cut defense. I never heard of any real cuts the democrats agree to cut.


43 posted on 12/01/2011 1:46:58 PM PST by scooby321
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To: MrB
When pure compromises with the impure, what do you get?

Compromise is not possible on some issues, can your daughter be just a little bit pregnant? Can you have a heart attack and be slightly dead?

If I put a liter of wine in a barrel of sewage, I have a barrel of sewage. If I put a liter of sewage in a barrel of wine, I have a barrel of sewage.

Regards,
GtG

44 posted on 12/01/2011 1:49:47 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: neverdem

The Malaria Man took a sh!tton of grief from Bobo’s cadre for telling it like it is two weeks ago — that Bobo couldn’t run & win re-election for yellow dog-catcher. No less than 3 interviews where he had the brief lick of courage to throw Bobo under the bus. In total CYA mode now.


45 posted on 12/01/2011 2:03:14 PM PST by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: neverdem

Chris Matthews: Tea Party “Un-American” For Not Compromising

Matthews is an idiot. He has no clue about America.
America was never about compromise. It was founded by folks that refused to compromise.
We had a Civil War because we refused to compromise.
We WON World War 1 and World War 2 because we refused to compromise.
We won the Space Race because we refused to compromise.
The we started compromising. We lost the Vietnam War. Our Space program is effectively ended and we ended up with an Idiot that doesn’t even like America as President.
So no Matthews America is not supposed to be about COMPROMISE..............


46 posted on 12/01/2011 2:08:50 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: neverdem

Matthews is a typical, insane, knee-pad wearing, left wing nut job.

It’s 2011 Chris...you can quit praying for JFK’s return now.

Oh, btw Chris, you moron, JFK’s policies would garner Tea Party support and your loony left Dems today would throw him out of the party for being too conservative.

And while I’m at it Chris, you sorry excuse for a human being, why is it only conservatives have to “compromise” and always agree with you retarded left wingers? Especially when history proves you brain dead morons are NEVER right.


47 posted on 12/01/2011 2:14:23 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll vote for Mitt Romney when Hell freezes over. He's as bad or worse than Zero.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

I think that Chrissy is referring to the Tea Party members who were elected to Congress in 2010. They are holding the line against most things the dems want to inflict on us.


48 posted on 12/01/2011 2:23:30 PM PST by WVNan (!)
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To: neverdem

Hey, Chrissy, compromising with bad policy is like adding just a little sewage to your drinking water.


49 posted on 12/01/2011 3:14:32 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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Reagan compromised and look what happened. If it wasn’t for his cult-level status in the GOP, he would be heavily criticized by honest Conservatives. I’m not bashing him, I think he sincerely believed that he was doing the right thing at the time, but its time to stop these compromises and make serious spending cuts. The SHTF scenario is going to happen eventually, we should take the hit now. Kicking the can further down the road only exponentially increases how bad things are going to get when it collapses.


50 posted on 12/01/2011 4:54:46 PM PST by Voluntary Mike
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To: neverdem
"AND FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS DECLARATION,
WITH A FIRM RELIANCE UPON DIVINE PROVIDENCE,
WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES AND OUR SACRED HONOR
 
 
 
 
 
 
Written in stone precisely so Useful Idiots like you can't unexist the American ideals articulated therein, Chrissy.
 
Get used to it.

51 posted on 12/01/2011 8:15:06 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: neverdem

Sure, the Tea Partiers should “compromise”, exactly as the Founders did with the British...


52 posted on 12/02/2011 4:58:26 AM PST by PreciousLiberty (Cain '12 - Take Back America!!!)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I'm pretty certain that Newt is going to become the POTUS and I think you're going to be pretty pleasantly surprised at how he runs the country. If not, then I guess I'll be surprisingly unpleasantly surprised.
53 posted on 12/02/2011 10:15:49 AM PST by ExSoldier ("Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: It has no point.")
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To: MayflowerMadam
I'm pretty certain that Newt is going to become the POTUS and I think you're going to be pretty pleasantly surprised at how he runs the country. If not, then I guess I'll be surprisingly unpleasantly surprised.
54 posted on 12/02/2011 10:16:20 AM PST by ExSoldier ("Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: It has no point.")
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To: neverdem

Chris (whoever you might be),

Compromise is for wimps (”liberals”) - we do not compromise with them. Period.


55 posted on 12/30/2011 6:44:35 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: neverdem

And OWS compromised?


56 posted on 12/30/2011 6:52:53 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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