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Young free-market activist says GOP blowing it with young voters
Billings Gazette ^ | June 9, 2013 | Mike Dennison

Posted on 06/15/2013 10:03:57 AM PDT by 1rudeboy

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To: 1rudeboy

During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama’s reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina, on the finer points of leading a large organization.

“On election night he was in our boiler room in Chicago,” says David Plouffe, then a senior White House adviser. Schmidt had a particular affinity for a group of engineers and statisticians tucked away beneath a disco ball in a darkened corner of the office known as “the Cave.” The data analytics team, led by 30-year-old Dan Wagner, is credited with producing Obama’s surprising 5 million-vote margin of victory.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-30/googles-eric-schmidt-invests-in-obamas-big-data-brains


61 posted on 06/15/2013 1:46:21 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: 1rudeboy

Ah ha ha ha ha...

Isn’t it a real downer that others can actually come to a thread and express what the term “Free Market Capitalism” means to them, despite the fact it will cause you to wet yourself?

Yawn...


62 posted on 06/15/2013 1:53:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: 1rudeboy

Oh I see the problem. You can only remember back one year.

Well, I’m sorry about your case.

Poor guy. That’s all you could come up with. Kindof pathetic actually.

I almost feel sorry for you


63 posted on 06/15/2013 1:55:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: DoughtyOne
Doesn't bother me one bit--you flatter yourself. Why should I care if you understand nothing of free market capitalism?

I simply enjoy pointing-out boneheaded comments.

64 posted on 06/15/2013 3:37:49 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I simply enjoy pointing-out boneheaded comments.

Well here, I’m always here to help...

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:1rudeboy/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change


65 posted on 06/15/2013 3:41:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: DoughtyOne

Now, you are grasping at straws. Figures.


66 posted on 06/15/2013 3:44:22 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

LOL


67 posted on 06/15/2013 3:45:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: 1rudeboy
...GOP blowing it with young voters

The GOP is nothing more than a branch of the DNC. Voters are blowing it by keeping the GOP in existence at all... we need a true Conservative party to go up against the DNC/GOP merged party.

68 posted on 06/15/2013 3:47:53 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: DoughtyOne

Help me! A free-market capitalist told me that another free-market capitalist (and economist) understands basic human behavior! LOL, indeed.


69 posted on 06/15/2013 3:49:08 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

LOL


70 posted on 06/15/2013 3:49:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: Cementjungle
Now that is true. Just try to avoid "conservatives" who think that more government is the solution to whatever problem they feel like whining about on a particular day.
71 posted on 06/15/2013 3:51:18 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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You should be leery of people hawking crony capitalism as free-market capitalism. That is the “code” to which you refer . . . you should direct your attention at them, and not the “free-market capitalists.”

Thank you, lrudeboy. I was searching for the proper response. Yours was better than mine would have.

72 posted on 06/15/2013 3:53:31 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Don't try to explain yourself to liberals; you're not the jackass-whisperer.)
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To: BfloGuy

Again, not a revolutionary concept—Friedman sums it up even better in the quote I provided in comment #52.


73 posted on 06/15/2013 3:57:41 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: darkangel82

Yeah, we could act like them - but who wants to act like a lowlife liberal? It’ll be more fun to expose them - lift up the rock - let everyone see what’s under it.. soon..


74 posted on 06/15/2013 7:38:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (Why don't Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners? - Coulter)
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To: GeronL

Neither do I, but we have to try and persuade these kids the conservative way is the best way just like their “cool” peers brainwash them with emotional liberal traps; we cannot, cannot stop trying to spread the word.

Even kids in my own family got wobbly for awhile after leaving home and needed an occasional conservative bootcamp refresher from time to time. Until they start working full time, most have no clue what the progressive ideals cost them, we have to keep talking to these kids.


75 posted on 06/15/2013 10:33:43 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: 1rudeboy
You should be leery of people hawking crony capitalism as free-market capitalism. That is the “code” to which you refer . . . you should direct your attention at them, and not the “free-market capitalists.”

I teed off on you the other day for saying this. I shouldn't have. I think you've got a point in there somewhere, but as I said the other day, the Free Market Capitalism of today isn't quite the same as it was 25-30 years ago.

This kid is doing something good, and I should have acknowledged that more than I did.

I thought back on this today while I was out, and wanted to mention it to you.

76 posted on 06/19/2013 9:30:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Speaker John Boehner (R) no (D) no (R)... has more waffles than IHOP.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Stop it. You may make me believe you have a conscience. :)

As for me, I'm involved in capitalist/"anti"-capitalist flamewars nearly every day, it seems. Some of it probably spilled-over from another thread where you were not involved. That, and I'm brusque by nature . . . .

77 posted on 06/20/2013 12:14:50 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Globalist!


78 posted on 06/20/2013 12:24:10 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: 1rudeboy
Stop it. You may make me believe you have a conscience. :)
I don't know if I'd go that far... :^)

As for me, I'm involved in capitalist/"anti"-capitalist flamewars nearly every day, it seems.
I believe in some form of moderation for just about everything I experience in life, some things more than others.

Some of it probably spilled-over from another thread where you were not involved. That, and I'm brusque by nature...

I'm somewhat brusque by nature too.

I looked back on it and gave more thought to the use of the term crony-capitalism.  I believe it's acurate to say I don't agree with crony-capitalism.  I don't always agree with everything that is hawked under the banner capitalism, and this may cover more than I initially thought it did.  I thought I should come back and mention it to you.  I apologize for reacting so negatively, and labeling you as I did.

I do try to have a goal of treating people fairly.  I don't believe I did treat you fairly in total this time.


79 posted on 06/20/2013 2:28:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Speaker John Boehner (R) no (D) no (R)... has more waffles than IHOP.)
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To: superloser

“Reagan was also able to articulate Conservative Principles in a manner that connected and registered with the Average Person. Reagan sold the benefits of Conservative Principles and painted a picture of an America that was proud to get up in the morning, go out, and win.

Find a candidate who can do that and you win.”

Reagan would have been crushed today. Sorry, completely different era back then even though it seems not too long ago.

Voted for the man in ‘84 but current culture, education, media, values are so polar opposite today there is no way a true, God fearing, moral conservative will win the job as President.

It will take a violent turn of events to go back to some semblance of decency in this Country and very few want the remedy or could stomach it.


80 posted on 06/20/2013 2:45:04 PM PDT by roofgoat
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