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GOP Convention: Will it be an Ailes/Rove Production?

Posted on 05/27/2012 6:15:56 PM PDT by easyrighter

If it weren't for Sarah Palin, the last convention would have been the most uninspiring that I can recall going all the way back to Goldwater. Fox News has invested heavily in Obama's defeat. Can Rove and the Republican estblishment deliver or will Romeney insist on calling the shots given what happened in 2008. Any thoughts?


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2012rncconvention; vanity
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To: Texas Fossil
The "Establishment Republicans" can go to HELL!
We lose every time they pick our candidate!
21 posted on 05/27/2012 8:03:52 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: Yosemitest

The TX Republican Party is not run by the DC Establishment Republicans.

We shall see how they react to the grass roots from here.

They are not going to like anything I have to offer. I will be at the TX GOP Convention....


22 posted on 05/27/2012 8:07:22 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil
I recommend the following poem be read at the convention.

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23 posted on 05/27/2012 8:16:38 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: carcraft; altura; mickie; flaglady47; oswegodeee
There's a whole subset here on this forum of folks who don't like anybody or anything. They are perpetually unhappy. The primary didn't turn out the way they'd hoped and now they'll bitch and whine at every chance and about every political happening right up till election day and beyond. I really feel sorry for them.

I for one will be watching the convention, maybe have a few local freepers over to my pad to nosh, drink, kibbitz, freeptalk and make merry with me.

The gloom-and-doomers posting here can keep their TVs dark and go to bed at 9:30 for all I care. They wouldn't even watch the Chicago Bears play the Twelve Apostles if Romney and Rove were the coaches.

As for me and my freeper friends, we'll kick back, have a ball, maybe some pizza and Arizona Watermelon Tea.....and enjoy life as the GOP personality-parade flashes across the screen......while we smile, laugh, nod, applaud, boo, hiss and tear apart what they're wearing.

Leni

24 posted on 05/27/2012 8:17:15 PM PDT by MinuteGal (OMG !!!.....Obama Must Go !!!)
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To: altura

Well, you can fill me in, altura..er, maybe not.


25 posted on 05/27/2012 8:28:24 PM PDT by Mountain Mary (One Nation Under God..."There I said it" ... Great One...)
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To: Psalm 144

I agree, Psalm.

The Bushes will be dancin’ on Convention Eve..and pattin’ themselves on the back for a JOB WELL DONE.

Rove: guest of honor at the event.


26 posted on 05/27/2012 8:30:50 PM PDT by Mountain Mary (One Nation Under God..."There I said it" ... Great One...)
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To: easyrighter
I think the gop wants to lose. They must have done some polling and seen that romney will not get a lot of social conservatives. They had to know this BEFORE the primary started. They don't care about social conservatives, and yet expect us to vote for their chosen candidate. They helped him cheat, lie and steal & we are suppose to vote for him? Had it been a fair primary, people would accept it; but people don't like to see obama style tactics. Many of us see romney and obama as one and the same-lacking character, values and heart.
27 posted on 05/27/2012 8:58:06 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: steve86

with comments like yours conservatives are going to boycott this place.
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Never happen. Where would they go?


28 posted on 05/27/2012 9:36:11 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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To: steve86

with comments like yours conservatives are going to boycott this place.
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Never happen. Where would we go?


29 posted on 05/27/2012 9:36:42 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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To: easyrighter

The convention in 2008 was fantastic as far as its logistics and production...even with McCain being the final act (most watched convention speech in history - higher than Obama’s) and the ticket was riding very high after that convention - even our standing in congressional races was dramatically improved...all of that fizzled out with the outbreak of the financial crisis.


30 posted on 05/27/2012 9:46:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Psalm 144

Mourdock overwhelmingly defeated Lugar in Indiana - the same exact voters also overwhelmingly voted for Romney. That is not the only place that has happened with similar circumstances. Our voters have chosen Romney...as strange as it seems, it is true...and if they were just following the establishment lead, then Lugar would have also been the overwhelming victor...but he not only lost, he lost in a landslide.


31 posted on 05/27/2012 9:51:33 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
...all of that fizzled out with the outbreak of the financial crisis.

Which is exactly why the Democrat leadership waited until after the conventions to pull the plug on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

You realize they were in a position to control the timing...???

32 posted on 05/27/2012 10:03:28 PM PDT by okie01
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To: steve86
I told Jim he should allow suitable ads on the site. Now I REALLY think he should, because with comments like yours conservatives are going to boycott this place.

LOL! carcraft was just trying to exhibit "hep-ness" by parroting an earlier article. Still plent of conservatives left here, but a number seem to be flipping out and developing a fatal case of tunnel vision with a field of vision that doesn't allow them to see/focus on Obama.

33 posted on 05/28/2012 3:30:06 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Mountain Mary

I’d take the dog for the walk. Of all your options, the lab makes the best company.


34 posted on 05/28/2012 5:34:14 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: easyrighter
Oh yeah, the GOP convention. It will be worth watching! > : p

We wanted a true leader, but we got...


35 posted on 05/28/2012 5:43:46 AM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: Caipirabob

No Mitt is not timid when attacking his right flank. He is Milquetoast when going on the attack to the left however.


36 posted on 05/28/2012 5:56:02 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: steve86

An odd reaction to a very mild and sensible comment.

Personally I think ads would be better than the constant space and time consuming pledge drives, but conservatives have already left the site because of abuse from fanatics such as you seem to be.

Mitt DID do a good job with the Olympics and he did do a good job in business and he did do a good job running a campaign for the nomination.

I think he’ll do a decent job as president and find it hard to understand people who allow their hatred of Mitt Romney to destroy their reason and cause them to ... in effect ... support Obama.


37 posted on 05/28/2012 7:45:21 AM PDT by altura
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To: MinuteGal

Amen, Leni. Sit back and pout or join in and celebrate our great country and the possibilities ahead.

I’ll admit I won’t have quite the feeling I did when George W. Bush was nominated... Texas, black tie and boots, Laura and the twins and all that jazz, but I think it will be great.


38 posted on 05/28/2012 7:51:33 AM PDT by altura
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To: altura
"Fanatics"

Yes, some of us still have Bible-derived principles. Very few, I guess. Even the proprietor has muffled his criticism of the abortionist homosexual enabler. Got to keep the donations from the center left flowing in.

39 posted on 05/28/2012 9:11:24 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: steve86

Congrats!

You insulted God, me and Jim all in one post.

I hope he reads it, but I won’t ping him like the sniveling cowards do.


40 posted on 05/28/2012 9:35:07 AM PDT by altura
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