Posted on 01/10/2012 10:34:33 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
The GOP has chosen. The destruction of the TEA Party is almost complete.
The Weekly Standard, National Review, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, & all the establishment Republicans have driven the TEA Party out of the picture.
Now we are told that taking Federal bailouts = capitalism & that anybody who disagrees should just shut up. Why did they TEA Party start in the first place?
Without ethics capitalism is doomed to corruption.
I expect every Romney voter would support Solyndra or GE... because "it's just capitalism"
I wish I knew what was up with that, but it’s my take that at least in part we’re being gamed with these polls. Romney may not have won Iowa, and here he is winning New Hampshire and all of a sudden we’re supposed to think he has the big mo. I call B.S.
We’ll see how he does in South Carolina.
I will not support Romney. Anything that can legitimately deny him the nomination is fine with me.
I think that people are going to have to decide quickly to unite behind someone.
Newt should be the palatable candidate for conservative leaners and many here on FR, but one cannot deny that Ron Paul has been on the side of limited government and constitutional liberty.
Paul has to deal with the foreign policy doubts about him and the feelings that he is some sort of leftist anti-war kook if he is to have any breakthrough.
Rush’s position can most likely be explained by the fact that he has been slammed by Media Matters and others regarding the Bain Capital buyout of Clear Channel.
From 2009: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200905050007
I’m not defending Rush; I’m very irritated at him, actually, especially after today’s comments. But if you’ll read that article, it makes perfect sense. Newt and Perry are bringing up crony capitalism vs. ethical capitalism, which is virtually the same discussion a few years ago regarding Bain Capital/Clear Channel/Rush Limbaugh.
From the article:
“Would cutting back Limbaugh’s salary completely solve Clear Channel’s financial woes? No. But there is something bizarre about Clear Channel going out of its way to so dramatically overpay the host while the rest of the company suffers through the throes of a depression. It would be like the bankrupt Tribune Co. paying its Chicago Tribune editor millions annually while the newsroom got decimated by wave after wave of layoffs.”
Does it matter? No.
The republican party has thrown its lot in with the democrats.
They have decided they are comfortable being just another division of the Big Government party.
Once again they are counting on patriots and conservatives to vote republican as the lesser of two evils.
They would rather help Barry drive conservatives out the door than stand up for America.
I agree. You’ll probably want to read my reply to another FReeper just above this post. It pretty well explains things as I see it.
It matters if you're Rush Limbaugh, which was my point. And my only point.
The country changed drastically when the failed Mercantilist Whigs became the crappy Repubs and denied the States right to succession. Followed by 600,000 deaths and 10 years of military occupation. It is past time for the end of the GOP!
Time to get your meds adjusted.
GOP in NH is now DEFINED as the party of LIARS,
BACKSTABBERS, anti-CONSTITUTIONALISTS
and VULTURE CAPITALISM.
“We are screwed. The Tea Party did not take over the Republican Party....they destroyed us.”
I think the poll results of last spring that indicated the TEA party did not support Medicare cuts doomed the TEA party.
When 70% of TEA party members cannot fathom that cuts to medicare are not only necessary, but are inevitable, then the TEA party is not in a good spot.
You're living in a different universe if you think Neut and Santorum are "real conservatives" They are anti-gun bigger government Republicans kind of like Romney, but without as much support from the GOP "leadership." Bachmann and Palin actually were conservative, and Cain was a big business country club republican with one really bad idea (adding a national sales tax WITHOUT FIRST getting rid of the income tax.)
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media vet the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This election will be a non-election...featuring the state approved candidates-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
IMHO...FWIW...psyops are being used against flyover country....and the Tea Party...
What has Rush ever said that disparages the T.E.A. Party?
Rush was never in favor of TARP or other forms of government bailouts, or the manipulation of free-market enterprises.
“Why did you include Rush in your GOP Establishment, bailouts = capitalism, did you not listen to the show yesterday?
What has Rush ever said that disparages the T.E.A. Party?”
Nothing, but because some have declared Newt, of all people, as Tea Party, Rush disparaged the Tea Party.
Dats how it verks. LOL
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