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Tea Party Loses Key Battles, But Is Winning The War
thedailybeast.com ^
| 5/21/14
| Ben Jacobs
Posted on 05/21/2014 7:40:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: princess leah
We have to be careful not to cut off our nose to spite our own face...People, our countrys future is as stake..Yes, we need to move towards more conservative values like our founding fathers created, but we also have to look at where our moralty and people are currently at in this country. Frankly, its lousy for those of us who are Christian conservatives, but Ill tell you one thing...we HAVE TO START by TAKING BACK the SENATE! If this means we back a few middle of the road RINOS iT IS A NECESSARY EVIL to GET RID of the BIGGER EVIL in HARRY REID! Ben Carson said it best, we cannot attack ourselves, so we need unity at the base levels if we are to make progress in the overall big picture... Totally so, it makes you wonder about some people's motivations.
To: bigtoona
I'd have a hard time doing that, but it gets to the point where you have to ask yourself if prolonging the inevitable worth the prolonged misery? If six years of Communism at the hands of the Obammunist isn't enough to wake this country the f**k up, what's it gonna take? Might as well put the Commies fully in power, and let the nightmare commence. If we survive, maybe the lesson will last 50 years or so.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:26:40 AM PDT
by
wku man
(We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
To: Kennard
Well, if we think about it from the viewpoint of the Daily Beast, perhaps the Tea Party HAS changed the Republican Party for the worse. In the opinion of the DB, more conservative is bad - therefore, they don't like the change.
I don't agree with the DB assessment, but we have to try to understand what progressives think so we know how to counter their arguments with the LIV.
Just a thought....
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:27:59 AM PDT
by
Prov3456
To: wku man
If George Washington had quit because he lost battles, lots of them, who knows?
To: cotton1706
I agree with the assessment that the success of the TEA Party movement is measured in terms of a war and not battles. In politics, getting your ideas implemented is really more important than getting your people elected (although getting both is best). As long as our ideas are getting traction, we are winning.
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:36:47 AM PDT
by
CommerceComet
(Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
To: CommerceComet
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:38:37 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: cotton1706
Congratulations, GOP. You just lost Kentucky.
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:47:09 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
I guess Kingston is the better of the remaining choices.
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:49:24 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
No, they *claimed* to be more conservative. The McCain trick. Run to the right in the primary to fend off your conservative challenger, then tack right back to the mythical "center" after you've taken the conservatives down.
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:53:12 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Lorianne
Just because they say things on the campaign trail and show up at CPAC toting a rifle means nothing.Exactly what I was thinking. Rush pointed out back in the Clinton years that liberals win elections by sounding like conservatives. This is nothing new and nothing will change.
To: Jane Long; Finny; Colonel_Flagg; RKBA Democrat; Norm Lenhart; who knows what evil?; TADSLOS; ...
We were outspent by the corporatist uni-party. Its hard to compete with Amnesty $$. Well Said Jane.
The Communist and Socialist parties have combined.
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posted on
05/21/2014 9:59:40 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: cotton1706
“...but they did so by becoming increasingly conservative.”
I think it would be more accurate to say “they did so by pretending to be increasingly conservative.”
Campaign talk is always conservative. It’s what they do when they get to Washington that matters. And on that count, the GOP-E has a sorry record.
So I’m sorry, the article is a bit like all the articles after the John Roberts Obamacare decision, trying to spin it as anything other than a crushing defeat for America.
The ongoing lock of the GOP-E on our party is a crushing defeat for America.
To: cotton1706
The convulsions are ebbing but the patient has become comfortably numb?
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:05:07 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
To: cripplecreek
and is to the right of John McCainThat's not hard. Mittens is a bit to the right of McCain. McCain is Soros's favorite Republican.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:11:22 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: bigtoona
I would love it if Tea Party wins increased the Republican numbers, even taking the Senate, but McConnell and Boner went down. How delicious would that be?
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:12:35 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: ModelBreaker
We get all the rhetoric; they get all the action.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:16:55 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: staytrue
“I am GOPe..”
Glad to see you admit it. But we already knew. :D
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:21:25 AM PDT
by
Luke21
To: cotton1706
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posted on
05/21/2014 1:31:19 PM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(Two parties, one agenda. It's the uniparty.)
To: TBP
Yes at least Kingston votes the right way. He’s no warrior but at least he has a voting record to look at.
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posted on
05/21/2014 3:27:44 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: RinaseaofDs
If Washington had lost every battle over a 26-year period except for two, largely because his generals were inept and his soldiers were gutless, he'd have thrown in the towel.
26 years, of course, being a reference to the time that's elapsed since President Reagan left office, and the two victories were in the 1995 and 2010 mid-terms. Other than those, our Republic has "progressively" lost ground since Ronaldus Magnus folded his tents and went home. Inept and gutless are our so-called "leaders" and us...because we keep sending them back to do the same inept job they always have.
All this, despite 12 of those years having been under Pubbie administrations, and at least two years of united Pubbie control in Washington. When is it time to quit filling sandbags, face the fact that the flood waters are going to destroy your home, and resolve to rebuild on higher ground after the insurance check comes in?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
05/21/2014 4:38:47 PM PDT
by
wku man
(We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
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