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Future for Republicans is not so bad [4 reasons for optimism]
Washington Post ^ | 11/18/12 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 11/18/2012 1:14:38 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

It’s not a good time to be a Republican. The circular firing squad — it was Mitt Romney’s fault! Demographics did it! Conservatives messed everything up! — has begun in earnest even though the 2012 election is less than two weeks gone....

That said, things aren’t that bad for Republicans. Here are four reasons for optimism.

1. The party’s superstars are coming of age...

2. There are an historic number of Republican governors...

3. The electoral map is bad, but not that bad. We’ve written extensively on how where Republicans currently find themselves in terms of the electoral map is similar to where Democrats found themselves in the 1980s. That’s broadly true, but things for Republicans today aren’t nearly as dire as they looked for Democrats three decades ago...

4. History is on their side. Presidential politics in the post World War II era tends to be defined by the pendulum effect. The pendulum swings one way for eight (or so) years and then has a tendency to swing back the other way — almost no matter what...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; 2016
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To: SoFloFreeper

The GOP needs to support American companies.

Now.

American companies, hiring Americans.


41 posted on 11/18/2012 4:27:25 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: 2nd Amendment

We need to get on the right side.

America.


42 posted on 11/18/2012 4:28:21 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Mortrey

If the Republicans did agree not to investigate voter fraud 30 years ago, can’t they get out of it now?


43 posted on 11/18/2012 4:52:38 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Darren McCarty
Thank You for fighting. This is our power, not trying over and over to get the establishment in DC to change their ways. That is a waste of time.
44 posted on 11/18/2012 5:26:42 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I suspect deep down, Rove didn’t want Romney elected. If he’d been elected Rove couldn’t make money “grooming” another E-GOP RINO and SCREWING US AGAIN!


45 posted on 11/18/2012 6:02:20 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I suspect deep down, Rove didn’t want Romney elected. If he’d been elected Rove couldn’t make money “grooming” another E-GOP RINO and SCREWING US AGAIN!


46 posted on 11/18/2012 6:02:34 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bankruptcy creates opportunities. That is when hard choices are made, the strong take hold, and the weak conform or simply fall by the wayside.

It is inconceivable that the United States will have a viable future as long as we cede the entire Pacific coast to the Left. We need for bankruptcy to take its course there in order for the hard decisions to be made. As a whole, we all are California, just a few years behind. We need bankruptcy to force the needed changes. It will be likely violent and revolutionary, change will swing the ruling ideology back.

The American culture is still very strong and alive among the productive class. The key is that we can survive very well without socialism, but parasitic left cannot survive without the producers. We are in the minority politically but the Left needs us and they know it. Their ideology must be destroyed, and the weak either conform or they will fall. The Twinkie fallout is just the start.


47 posted on 11/18/2012 6:28:36 PM PST by untwist
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

MANY conservatives still subscribe to rag newspapers which keeps their bad media afloat. Give up you subscriptions now and let them know we are serious about news being fair and balanced.


48 posted on 11/18/2012 8:10:14 PM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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